Variants & other printings
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.