The West Coast Avengers Annual - Vol 1 - #2 - 1987 - Death and Texas - (VFN)

A massive, high-stakes milestone in Marvel’s late-1980s cosmic and mythological lore. West Coast Avengers Annual #2 acts as the explosive first chapter of a two-part annual crossover (concluding in Avengers Annual #16). Orchestrated by writer Steve Englehart, this oversized issue pitches the California-based Avengers into a deadly celestial tournament engineered by the Grandmaster and The Collector, forcing Whackos and East Coast Avengers alike to fight for the very fabric of life and death.

The issue kicks off with a seemingly routine but bizarre crisis: a massive, rogue alien spaceship crash-lands right in the heart of San Francisco. The West Coast team—Hawkeye, Mockingbird, Iron Man (Tony Stark), Wonder Man, Tigra, and Moon Knight—rushes to the scene to contain the fallout. They quickly realize the ship is an automated, high-tech prison transport carrying a gallery of incredibly dangerous cosmic entities.