AVENGERS #223
Volume 1 · 1963-1996
Published
September 1982
Cover price
$0.60 USD
Edition
DIRECT EDITION
Era
Bronze
UPC
CAPTAIN1945 Contact
Key issue
No

Creators

Writer
David Michelinie 'Barry Jameson'
Penciler
Greg LaRocque
Inker
Brett Breeding, Josef Rubinstein 'Joe', Mike Esposito
Letterer
Rick Parker
Cover artist
Ed Hannigan, Klaus Janson
Editor
Jim Shooter, Mark Gruenwald, Michael Carlin 'Mike'

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Synopsis

Of Robin Hoods And Roustabouts! * Taskmaster (Tony Masters) Appearance Hawkeye answers a secret message for help from Marcella Carson, now the owner of the carnival where Clint once performed, and discovers the enterprise has been taken over by the Taskmaster as a mobile recruiting center for his training academies. The villain fights Hawkeye to a standstill, then forces his surrender by threatening Marcella. Disarmed, the archer is left to his fate in a cage with an angry lion but is saved by the arrival of Ant-Man, who had been attending the carnival in civilian guise with his daughter. The two then team up to defeat and capture the Taskmaster's men. When their foe launches an explosive-filled dummy from the cannon used in the human cannonball act, however, the heroes are forced to allow him to escape while they prevent its detonation and save the crowd.