The Avengers (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963):
“The Coming of the Avengers!”
by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers

The Avengers (vol. 1) #1

Title: “The Coming of the Avengers!”

Medium: comic

Cover date: Sep. 1963

Publisher:
Written by: Stan Lee
Art by: Jack Kirby, Dick Ayers

21 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
The Hulk (Bruce Banner)	Catholic (lapsed)	Hulkbusters; Pantheon...  Secret Defenders; The Avengers; The Defenders; The Order; The Ultimates; Warbound; Weapon X (Exiles); X-Saviours		4,551
Iron Man (Tony Stark)	futurist; technophile; mostly secular; sometimes prays; Alcoholics Anonymous	Force Works; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Weapon X (Exiles)		5,673
Thor (Donald Blake)	Norse/Teutonic deity	Asgardian; Cosmic Avengers...  The Avengers; The Ultimates; Thor Corps		4,362
Ant-Man (Hank Pym)	atheist	Commission on Superhuman Activities; Secret Defenders...  The Avengers; The Defenders; The Liberators		1,543
The Wasp (Janet van Dyne)	Dutch Reformed (nominal); atheist	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Ultimates		1,339
Rick Jones		Loners (founder); The Avengers (honorary member)...  The Teen Brigade (leader)		572
Loki	Norse/Teutonic deity	Asgardian; Mighty Avengers (founder)...  The Cabal; The Liberators		696
Bill Bishop		The Teen Brigade		6
The Avengers		[1st app: The Avengers (vol. 1) #1 (Sep. 1963)]		100
The Teen Brigade		[helpful young ham radio operators]		42
Rock Trolls (5-panel cameo, pg. 16-17)	Norse/Teutonic paganism	[hidden race]		46
The Silent Ones (5-panel cameo, pg. 16-17)	Norse/Teutonic paganism	Rock Trolls [Trolls of Isle of Silence]		4
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards) (2-panel cameo, pg. 6-7)	humanist; portrayed alternatively as explicitly believing in God and as atheist	Fantastic Five; Illuminati...  The Avengers; The Fantastic Four		4,661
Invisible Girl (Susan Storm Richards) (2-panel cameo, pg. 6-7)	Episcopalian	Lady Liberators; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four		4,069
Odin (2-panel cameo, pg. 14, panels 5-6)  (also, panel 1, page 2) Loki: "It is because of the accursed Thor that I am exiled to this barren isle, ordered to remain here by Odin, king of the gods!"	Norse/Teutonic deity	Asgardian [Thor's father]		307
Jane Foster (2-panel cameo, pg. 2, panels 3-4)		Secret Avengers (staff) [nurse/girlfriend of Donald Blake (Thor)]		341
Bobby (2-panel cameo, pg. 2, panels 3-4)	indeterminate	[young boy; Donald Blake's patient; plays baseball]		1
The Thing (Ben Grimm) (1-panel cameo, pg. 6, panel 7)	Jewish	Fantastic Five; The Avengers...  The Fantastic Four; The Yancy Street Gang; U.S. Air Force; Unlimited Class Wrestling Federation		5,017
Human Torch (Johnny Storm) (1-panel cameo, pg. 7, panel 1)	Episcopalian	Fantastic Five; Fantastic Force...  Metro College; The Fantastic Four		4,393
Charlie (voice only, pg. 3-4)  other train conductor: "Charlie! Stop the train! Something smashed the trestle up ahead! We'll crash!" Charlie: "Impossible!! We're going too fast! We'll never stop in time!" [more]	indeterminate	[ran train Loki framed Hulk for trying to derail]		1
Asgardians (mentioned, pg. 1)  The Place: Asgard, home of the Norse Gods! The Time: The present! The Man: Loki, God of Evil! a prisoner on the dreaded Isle of Silence..." Asgard itself is shown on page 2 in panel 2.	Norse/Teutonic paganism (Asgardian)	[alien race]		644

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