"Late Night of the Super-Stars!" Script by Roger Stern. Pencils by Al Milgrom. Inks by Joe Sinnott. Cover by Al Milgrom and Joe Sinnott.
Hawkeye returns to Avengers Mansion with his new bride, Mockingbird! However, the Avengers are on their way to San Francisco, so only the Vision is home to greet the ace archer. Several minutes later Wonder Man calls...in need of a big favor! He's been booked on Late Night with David Letterman and needs several other avengers to appear with him! The Beast, Black Panther, Black Widow, and Hawkeye agree to join Simon on the show! But Fabian Stankowicz decides that he's ready for a guest appearance too! With the bright lights shining and the cameras rolling, the all-out action on the Late Night set begins! It's going to take all of the reserve avengers plus David Letterman to knock out Fabian and his annoying inventions! A fun issue! Assistant Editors' Month. Cameo appearance by Paul Shaffer. Avengers Lineup: Beast, Black Panther, Black Widow, Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Wonder Man, and the Vision. (Notes: This issue includes the first meeting between Mockingbird and the Black Widow, two of Hawkeye's leading ladies.
32 pages Cover price $0.60.
Cover by Don Heck. "The Sign of the Serpent!", script by Stan Lee, pencils by Don Heck
Captain America encourages Goliath to keep looking for a solution to his height-switching ability and finds a new assistant, Bill Foster; The Sons of the Serpent attack foreign people, including General Chen, the dictator of a communist country while he visits the UN; The Black Widow provides information to Hawkeye to prove herself to him. Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch discover they will regain their full powers; Bill Foster, being African-American, gets attacked by the Sons of the Serpent; Captain America goes to Nick Fury for more information about them; The Avengers vow to defeat the Sons of the Serpent, but Captain America is kidnapped.
36 pgs., full color. $0.12. Cover price $0.12.