*= Iron Man or Cap appears in the story
**= Iron Man and Cap appear in
the story
***= Iron Man or Cap has a major plot OR Iron Man and Cap have
significant interaction
****= Iron Man and Cap have a major plot
*****= The plot is significant to their personal arc
******=The plot is
significant to both of their personal arcs.
#= Forgettable or actively awful
##= Decent
issue with actual Avengers content
###= A good plot OR
significant personal interaction between Avengers OR something of
great fannish interest happens
####= More than one of the above
#####= Must-read classic or significant to a major Avengers
character's arc in an important, lasting way.
Avengers vol 3 issue 1=**/#
Both Iron Man and Captain America appear in
this, but so do so many, many characters that *no* character gets much page
time.
Avengers vol 3 issue 2=***/###
Captain America and Iron Man appear. Involves
medieval personas and Captain America / Hawkeye bonding.
Avengers vol 3 issue 3=* /###
Captain America and Iron Man appear. Involves
medieval personas and Captain America / Hawkeye bonding.
Avengers vol 3 issue 4=**/#
Both appear in this issue. The new roster of
Avengers are selected. Too many Avengers, in fact, and they don't fit on the page or in the plot.
Avengers vol 3 issue 5=**/#
Both appear in this issue. Someone set the Avengers against the Squadron Supreme; they fight.
Avengers vol 3 issue 6=**/ ##
Both appear in this issue. Also, Tony
almost accidently reveals his identity to Warbird out of a deep concern for the
survival of his heirloom carpet. No, I'm not kidding. Jarvis is scandalized.
There is question, though, as to whether Warbird even noticed. The Avengers and the Squadron Supreme fight some more.
Avengers vol 3 issue 7=***/##
Both appear in this issue. Cap officially
confronts Warbird about her various issues, and his management techniques are,
perhaps, rather strict and unsympathetic. Iron Man has sympathy for Warbird's
issues. Also, they fight aliens.
Avengers vol 3 issue 8=**/#
Both appear in this issue. Also, Wanda has
issues. Two new Avengers, Triathalon and Silverclaw, are introduced.
Avengers vol 3 issue 9=**/#
Both appear in this issue. Also, Hawkeye
disappears for parts unknown.
Avengers vol 3 issue 10=**/##
Both appear. New York throws a parade in honor
of the Avengers. Then, villains happen.
Avengers vol 3 issue 11=**/###
Both appear. Iron Man fights desperately
despite terrible injuries. Wanda brings someone back from the dead.
Avengers Annual 1998=** /##
Both appear. Avengers vs. Squadron Supreme.
Avengers vol 3 issue 12 = ***/##
Cap meets the Thunderbolts, bonds with the
newbie Justice, and has a revelation about what Hawkeye has been up to. Iron Man
appears briefly without armor as Tony Stark. Also, The Vision rejoins the team
and there is a giant robot.
Avengers vol 3 issue 13= * /#
Tony Stark appears in the issue sans armor.
Cap is doing something else, elsewhere, and is not in the issue at all.
Avengers vol 3 issue 14=* /#
Captain America appears in this issue. Iron Man
does not appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 15=**
Iron Man is back in action, and everyone
fights villains.
Avengers vol 3 issue 16=** /#
Both characters appear in this story and fight
the Wrecking Crew.
Avengers vol 3 issue 17=** /#
Both characters appear in this story and fight
villains.
Avengers vol 3 issue 18=*/##
Opens with the image of Captain America chained
by a metal collar around his neck and looking defiant. Make of this what you
will. They battle and ally with barbarian-type aliens. Iron Man appears in a
cameo at the end.
Avengers vol 3 issue 19=**/##
Ultron is very bad and Cap is very mad. Iron
Man hits people too. Also, Wanda dances gypsy dances while scantily dressed for
diners at a restaurant. Why? Dunno!
Avengers vol 3 issue 20=**/##
Ultron continues to be dastardly and they all
fight him. Tony has Ultron angst.
Avengers vol 3 issue 21=** /##
Ultron - still evil. Avengers - still
fighting.
Avengers vol 3 issue 22=*** /###
Iron Man and Captain America work as a
smoothly oiled machine, as they tag team Ultron in a way that only people who
know each other very well can.
Avengers vol 3 issue 23=***/###
Cap and Iron Man have actual down time
conversation. Hank has leftover Ultron angst. Wanda/Vision/Wonder Man angst.
Includes the memorable fighting words "But you! You! YOU LIKE JAZZ!"
Avengers Annual 1999=***/###
A typical day of fighting as narrated by Jarvis,
the Avengers butler. The Avengers fight malfunctionaing giant robotic
Avengersbots programmed to protect the city if the Avengers die. Jarvis saves
the day. Iron Man is pretty much in charge during battle if Captain America
goes missing with this team lineup and dynamic. This is illustrated by a long
fight scene in this issue. It comes off to me as very much "Daddy can't come
right now, so do what Mommy says if you know what's good for you."
Avengers vol 3 issue 24=*** /##
The Avengers get protesters, talk show
offers, and nasty hate mail. Cap and Iron Man deal with it rather differently.
Avengers vol 3 issue 25=***/##
Both appear. Villains hit each other. Captain
America has press issues. Why, in his day... Also, he takes a moral stand and
internally admits it was overreacting. Then, Cap saves the day when all the
other heroes are incapacitated. Also, he speechifies. Then, he claims to decide
to leave the team.
Avengers vol 3 issue 26=*/##
Iron Man does not appear. Cap leads a secret
Avengers strike force.
Avengers vol 3 issue 27=** /##
Both appear. The Avengers deal with race
issues and press relations. Sort of. Badly. Yay? Thor's idea of press relations
is to throw a hammer at the press. The God of Thunder does not apologise.
Also, a number of back up stories set in past eras of the Avengers and drawn
in that style.
Avengers vol 3 issue 28=* /#
Cap does not appear. The plot revolves around
Silverclaw, Jarvis's young protege, as well as some Mesoamerican gods. This
somehow involves a page of random magical chainmail bikini for She-Hulk.
Avengers vol 3 issue 29=*/#
Still in the Mesoamerican god plot, no Cap.
Iron Man indulges his issues with myth and magic by enjoying his villain
smashing.
Avengers vol 3 issue 30=* /#
Still in the Mesoamerican god plot, still no
Cap.
Avengers vol 3 issue 31=* /#
They beat up villains. The Vision returns. No
Cap.
Avengers vol 3 issue 32=***/##
Iron Man vs. an Ex - Madame Masque. No Cap.
Avengers vol 3 issue 33=***/##
Avengers vs. Madame Masque! Or are they? No
Cap.
Avengers vol 3 issue 34=*** /##
Cap appears! End of Madame Masque plot.
Avengers vol 3 issue 35= 0 stars/#
No Iron Man, No Captain America, lots of
aliens. Well, okay. A one page cameo of Iron Man and Cap just standing there.
Doesn't count. Part of the Maximum Security alien invasion crossover.
Avengers Annual 2000=**/###
Truly cracktastic plot involving Hellcat, silver
age girl next door comic art, demonic possession and theme parks. Captain
America and Iron Man appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 36=*/#
They fight stuff. Cap has a cameo at the end of
the issue. So incoherent and plotless, I can only say: I dunno.
Avengers vol 3 issue 37=** /##
They fight stuff, both appear. Cap decides to
come back to the team. Hurrah!
Avengers vol 3 issue 38=**/#
Both appear, they fight stuff (separately).
Also, the Avengers have a new villain tracking system.
Avengers vol 3 issue 39=**/# #
Both appear and they fight stuff together. Oh
no! It's the Hulk! In fact, an entire Greek island's population have been turned into Hulk creatures. Extra # for sheer crack
Avengers vol 3 issue 40=** /#
Hulk smash! Avengers fight! Both appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 41=**/###
Kang the Conqueror is... Kangy. Both appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 42=** /###
95% of the issue is Kang making a chilling
speech about how he wants to take over the world. Both appear, briefly, but
mostly it's all Kang, all the time.
Avengers vol 3 issue 43=** /#
Lots of villains smash lots of things. Both
appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 44=0 /#
Lots of villains smash lots of things. Both
appear only briefly, as themselves. The rest of the time they are mind
controlled radioactive wraiths.
Avengers vol 3 issue 45=* /###
Lots of talking and plotting, Iron Man does not
appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 46=** /####
Villain vs villain. Hero vs villain vs
villain. Iron Man appears as Tony Stark, inventor and engineering genius.
Avengers vol 3 issue 47=0 />#
Freaky Oedipal Warbird/Scarlet Centurion issues. Neither appear.
Avengers Annual 2001=***/##
The Hank/Hank/Jan triangle (don't ask) is
resolved. Also there's Question Time With Jarvis, who explains and resolves
questions about Iron Man's timeline and psyche and Captain America's shield in
short storylets, thus finally resolving Liefeld damage years later.
Avengers vol 3 issue 48=**/###
Both appear. Still part of the massive Kang
storyline. Also, a period-style backup story.
Avengers vol 3 issue 49=0 /###
Neither appears. The Avengers fight Kang - but
this is a 'Nuff Said issue, so there is no dialogue at all.
Avengers vol 3 issue 50=* /###
Meanwhile Captain America and some of the
Avengers fight aliens in space. Iron Man does not appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 51=0 /###
Meanwhile, while Captain America has been
fighting aliens in space, Earth has surrendered to Kang. Wanda and Wonder Man
are in a prison camp.
Avengers vol 3 issue 52=** /###
Still the Kang plot. Iron Man is back in
armor, Cap moves on from aliens to fight Kang.
Avengers vol 3 issue 53=** /###
Giant fight in space. Both appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 54=***/####
Captain America puts in the final blow in a
heroic and speechifying manner. Kang has issues.
Avengers vol 3 issue 55=** /##
Wrap up of the Kang plot. Both appear. Thor
throws a party!
Avengers vol 3 issue 56=** /####
It's accounting day! A number of Avengers are
asked to explain their expenses and legal paperwork. Captain America answers his
in a way that is particularly... him.
Avengers vol 3 issue 57=** /##
Both there and beating up villains.
Avengers vol 3 issue 58=***/##
The Avengers, particularly Cap, are asked to
"lead the world" temporarily in the Kang aftermath. Oookay.
Avengers vol 3 issue 59=** /##
The Avengers try to clean up the giant black
hole that is Washington. No, no, that's not a metaphor. Also, Namor is a
*terrible* houseguest, and Iron Man has trouble being polite around Doctor Doom.
Avengers vol 3 issue 60=** /##
They beat up villains and Washington is
returned to its rightful place.
Avengers vol 3 issue 61=** /##
Iron Man has issues with Black Panther, Namor
is... Namor.
Avengers vol 3 issue 62=** /##
Both appear. Ant Man and Jack of Hearts are
full of woe. See their woe. Lots of woe.
Avengers vol 3 issue 63=**** /##
For reasons not sufficiently explained in this comic, Thor and Iron Man are beating each other up. Cap, obviously, thinks this is a bad idea.
Includes the immortal line from Captain America to Iron Man "Shut up, Tony. Shut up and turn your brain back on."
Avengers vol 3 issue 64=0 stars /###
The Falcon spotlight issue. He confronts Gyrich and saves kidnapped children
Avengers vol 3 issue 65=* /###
The beginning of the Red Zone storyline. Iron
Man does not appear in this issue, but it is the beginning of a very Iron Man
and Captain America intensive storyline.
Avengers vol 3 issue 66=***/###
There's a plague loose at Mount Rushmore. Cap
is on the scene. Meanwhile Iron Man is trying to find a cure and having issues
with Black Panther.
Avengers vol 3 issue 67=***/###
Captain America, She-Hulk, Jack of Hearts and other Avengers investigate who created the bioweapon plague. Meanwhile the Secretary of Defense is evil and behin it all, with the help of AIM.
Avengers vol 3 issue 68=***/###
She-Hulk is infected and acts like regular Hulk. Meanwhile the plague Red Zone spreads across the country. Black Panther and Tony Stark (not Iron Man, Tony in his civilian scientist capacity) have an ego-measuring contest while they're trying to stop the disease. Meanwhile Gyrich was actually the Avengers' mole with the Secretary of Defense with The Falcon's help, and guess what? The Secretary of Defense is the Red Skull!
Avengers vol 3 issue 69=***/###
Tony Stark and the Black Panther are taken captive together and even that can't stop their sniping at each other. Meanwhile, Captain America goes after the Red Skull, and the Red Skull infects Cap
Avengers vol 3 issue 70=******/####
Iron Man makes an impossible decision in
order to save Captain America. Black Panther pwns the Red Skull with a little help from The Falcon's hawk Redwing. Also, the plague is stopped.
Avengers vol 3 issue 71=0/###
Jan and Hank bond and beat up supervillains.
Neither appears.
Avengers vol 3 issue 72=**/##
She-Hulk is having trouble with her powers and
losing control.
Avengers vol 3 issue 73=**/##
She-Hulk is having trouble with her powers and
losing control.
Avengers vol 3 issue 74=0/##
Hulk and She-Hulk bond. Hawkeye is astonished.
The other Avengers only appear in a cameo.
Avengers vol 3 issue 75=**/##
She-Hulk is having trouble with her powers and
losing control. The other Avengers help.
Avengers vol 3 issue 76=**/##
Spotlight on Jack of Hearts. The other
Avengers appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 77=***/####(NO IRON MAN)
Hawkeye has, apparently, been
thinking very, very hard about why Captain America can't seem to keep a girl.
Cap is... unconcerned. Also contains Cap and Hawkeye changing into their
costumes together in an alleyway. Iron Man does not appear, but if you want to
slash Cap, this issue may be of interest. Also, ends on a heroic note
Avengers vol 3 issue 78=***/####(NO IRON MAN)
A civilian is astonishingly
heroic protecting a fallen Captain America. Iron Man does not appear
Avengers vol 3 issue 79=***/####(NO IRON MAN)
Cap is left tending to the
survivors.
Note: Contains some extremely disturbing and arguably OOC scenes
with Hank and Janet.
Avengers vol 3 issue 80=*/####
Heroic, epic and depressing.
Avengers vol 3 issue 81=*/####
Heroic, epic and depressing.
Iron Man
appears in a cameo as Tony Stark.
Avengers vol 3 issue 82=***/###
They actually have a real down time
conversation. A friendly, arguably slashy one, while drinking tea.
Also,
some moron is impersonating Captain America in the Middle East.
Avengers vol 3 issue 83=*/##
Some moron is impersonating Captain America in
the Middle East. Namor is a bad, bad boy. Also, Jan/Hawkeye/Hank angst. Iron Man
does not appear.
Avengers vol 3 issue 84=**/##
Namor continues to be... Namor. Also, some
moron is impersonating Captain America in the Middle East
Avengers issue 500 aka Avenger vol 3 issue 85=****/###
Something goes
terribly wrong when Iron Man is addressing the UN as Tony Stark. And, basically,
everything is going horribly wrong for the Avengers. And someone is behind it.
Avengers issue 501=****/###
Everything is going horribly wrong for the
Avengers. Cap is the only one who believes Iron Man's story.
Avengers issue 502=****/###
Everything is going horribly wrong for the
Avengers
Avengers issue 503=****/###
Everything is going horribly wrong for the
Avengers. And someone is behind it.
The Avengers have broken up.