Acts of Vengeance - an introduction

"Acts of Vengeance "was originally published in late 1989 and was the first major crossover to be centred on the Avengers titles, following three years of X-Men based events. Guided by John Byrne (at the time writing both Avengers and Avengers West Coast), it saw villains swapping heroes in the hope of achieving vengeance by proxy.

This is a crossover where nobody seems able to agree on the precise order. For this blog I'll be broadly following the order from The (Almost) Complete Marvel Comics Guide as set out in this previous post; however there will be some changes as this blog doesn't have to accommodate the complications relating the New Mutants and X-Factor titles and so can put them into a more natural position.

Many other orders are in circulation.

In addition I'll take a look at each of the surprisingly high number of contemporary parodies that appeared during its run.

"Acts of Vengeance" has been collected in two Marvel Omnibus giant collected additions:

• Acts of Vengeance (main issues, 2011)
• Acts of Vengeance Crossovers (2011)