Object label
Marvel · Comics · Avengers: The Initiative Special · 2008
Avengers: The Initiative Special #1
One of the longest-running plotlines in Avengers: The Initiative is resolved at last! Hardball is among the Initiative's most respected and decorated graduates. He's become a celebrity hero in Las Vegas, with his true love, Komodo, serving nearby in Arizona. But all the while, he's secretly been in the pocket of the terrorist group Hydra! Now everything comes to a head as Komodo finds out the truth...Senator Woodman's evil plan comes to fruition...and Hardball must choose a side, once and for all! Also in this not-to-be-missed issue, Dan Slott returns to solo writing duties for the previously-untold origin of Trauma...and the shocking revelation of his link to a longtime Marvel character!
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Avengers: The Initiative Special #1 is a comics collectible connected to Marvel and Avengers: The Initiative Special. Useful collector signals include release year 2008, issue #1, and artist context from Tom Brevoort, Joe Caramagna, and Christos N. Gage. Avengers: The Initiative Special has 1 catalogued release on GrailHub, making this page a route into completion, variants, and nearby objects.
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Avengers: The Initiative Special #1 is a comics entry for issue #1 in Avengers: The Initiative Special from 2008. GrailHub tracks publisher, series, issue number, cover date, creators, characters, and first appearances where that data is available.
Marvel pages connect this issue back to its publisher, series, creators, and related issues. For comic collectors, those links matter because discovery often starts with a character, creative team, first appearance, or a run of issues rather than one isolated record.
Characters associated with this issue include Armory, Arthur Woodman, Cloud 9 (Marvel), Gravity, Hardball, and Hulk.
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- Release span
- 2008
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- Publisher
- Marvel
- Issue number
- #1
- Cover date
- Jan 1, 2009
- Store date
- Nov 5, 2008
- Characters
- Armory, Arthur Woodman, Cloud 9 (Marvel), Gravity, Hardball, Hulk +14 more
- Creators
- Christos N. Gage, Dan Buckley, Dan Slott, Jeanine Schaefer, Joe Caramagna, Joe Quesada +2 more
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Data source
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- Metron
- Source ID
- 132117
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