Mighty Avengers #1
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"The Mighty Avengers" is the first issue of Marvel Comics' Mighty Avengers. Published on March 7, 2007, it features the last appearance by Godzilla in Earth-616 for almost two decades, albeit unlicensed.
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Appearances
Gallery
Covers
Standard cover by Frank Cho
Cover art
Limited variant cover by Leinil Francis Yu
Second printing cover by Frank Cho
Second printing
cover art
Scans
The Mighty Avengers facing Mole Man's monsters in Manhattan
Early version of the previous, with Godzilla's dorsal fins still intact
Trivia
- Godzilla is not named in the issue and can only be spotted in one panel. The sole indication of his identity comes from 2009's Marvel Pets Handbook (later incorporated into Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #14 in 2010), which states that Godzilla once resided on Monster Island under the care of the Mole Man.[1][2] Though the handbook entry's author, Madison Carter, intended this as a reference to Mighty Avengers, he could not explicitly canonize the comic's monster as Godzilla for legal reasons.[3] A throwaway line from an earlier Marvel comic that mentioned Godzilla in connection to Monster Island was used as a loophole to include the passage.[4]
- Godzilla next appeared in the Marvel Multiverse through the one-page parody comic "Licensed Contest of Champions" from 2014's Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration, which featured censored versions of he and several other characters that Marvel no longer held the rights to. On his personal website The Appendix to the Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Marvel handbook writer Jeff Christiansen indicated that the comic's events legitimately occurred in their own universe, which he designated Earth-12318.[5]
- Godzilla last appeared in Marvel's main continuity of Earth-616 in The Thing #31 from 1986. Though he was then an unrecognizable mutant, he has somehow returned to a form closer to his original appearance by this issue, albeit lacking his iconic dorsal fins. An early version of the panel published in Marvel Previews #41 showed the fins intact,[6] but they were removed in the final printing, possibly due to legal concerns. His next appearance in the timeline was the 2025 miniseries Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe, in which he resembles the Heisei Godzilla.[7]
- Coincidentally, an image of The Thing's eponymous Thing appears in this issue, among the headshots of the 50-State Initiative. He would not meet Godzilla again until 2025's Godzilla vs. Fantastic Four.
- Superheroes Iron Man, Black Widow, and the Wasp were all previously featured in Marvel's Godzilla comic series. The mythological Ares later appeared in IDW's Godzilla: Rage Across Time #2.
- Variant cover illustrator Leinil Francis Yu would go on to create the Godzilla Variant Cover for Exceptional X-Men #1 and assorted covers for both Godzilla vs. Marvel and Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe.
- Less than a month after this issue, the comic Irredeemable Ant-Man #7 revealed that Eric O'Grady (Ant-Man) was present for the start of the Mighty Avengers' battle, secretly riding on Ms. Marvel at ant size.
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References
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