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Marvel’s Avengers guide: Collectible comics and stat bonuses

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Thor holding out Mjolnir in Marvel’s Avengers Image: Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix
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In Marvel’s Avengers, you can find comics by opening chests or completing missions. These comics don’t work like normal collectibles. Instead, they offer special stat bonuses, and continue to upgrade over time.

Here’s a complete list of comics in Marvel’s Avengers, how they work, and what each one does.

How comics work in Marvel’s Avengers

There are tons of in-game sources for comics in Marvel’s Avengers. You can get them from opening chests, finding them in campaign missions, or directly from weekly HARM Room challenges.

There are 10 comic sets currently in the game, each with several issues and themed after their own hero or group of heroes, like the Avengers. The comics give individual stat bonuses, like increased stun meter damage. But the more you collect a single issue, the more you’ll level it up.

For example, Ms. Marvel #2 gives a +0.5 bonus to Heroic Charge Rate the moment you find it. But when you find five duplicate issues, the stat upgrades slightly. You can continue to find comics and increase your stat bonuses this way.

There are 56 different issues currently in the game. Each week, there is a Priority HARM Room mission that guarantees a certain issue, making it a good way to round out your collection or increase that particular stat.

What does each comic do?

There are 10 different comic sets, and each individual issue offers its own stat bonus.

Thor comic set

  • Thor (2007) #1. Max Willpower bonus
  • Thor (1966) #151. Willpower Recovery Effectiveness bonus
  • Thor (1966) #380. Heroic Charge Rate bonus
  • Thor: God of Thunder (2012) #13. Perk Chance bonus
  • Thor (2007) #607. Status Resistance bonus
  • Thor (1966) #154. Stun/Status Meter Damage bonus
  • Thor (1998) #85. Critical Chance bonus
  • The Unworthy Thor (2016) #1. Max Willpower bonus
  • Thor: God of Thunder (2012) #3. Critical Chance

Captain America comic set

  • Captain America (1968) #313. Perk Chance bonus
  • Captain America (2004) #1. Status Resistance bonus
  • Captain America (2004) #25. Stun/Status Meter Damage bonus
  • Captain America (1968) #193. Critical Chance bonus
  • Captain America (2011) #19. Heroic Charge Rate bonus

Hulk comic set

  • The Incredible Hulk (1999) #25. Stun/Status Meter Damage bonus
  • The Incredible Hulk (1999) #92. Critical Chance bonus
  • Immortal Hulk (2018) #1. Max Willpower bonus
  • Incredible Hulk (1962) #344. Willpower Recovery Effectiveness bonus
  • Incredible Hulks (2010) #600. Heroic Charge Rate bonus
  • Incredible Hulk (1962) #105. Status Resistance bonus

Iron Man comic set

  • Iron Man: Director of SHIELD (2007) #21. Status Resistance bonus
  • The Invincible Iron Man (2008) #20. Stun/Status Meter Damage bonus
  • The Invincible Iron Man (2004) #1. Critical Chance bonus
  • Iron Man: Enter the Mandarin (2007) #6. Max Willpower bonus
  • Iron Man (2004) #13. Perk Chance bonus

Ms. Marvel comic set

  • Ms. Marvel (2014) #2 (Molina Variant). Heroic Charge Rate bonus
  • Ms. Marvel (2014) #4. Perk Chance bonus
  • Ms. Marvel (2014) #8. Status Resistance bonus
  • Ms. Marvel (2015) #1. Stun/Status Meter Damage bonus
  • Ms. Marvel (2014) #1. Willpower Recovery Effectiveness bonus

Black Widow comic set

  • Black Widow (2014) #13. Stun/Status Meter Damage bonus
  • Black Widow (2014) #18. Critical Chance bonus
  • Black Widow (2014) #1. Max Willpower bonus
  • Black Widow (2014) #6. Willpower Recovery Effectiveness bonus
  • Black Widow (2010) #5. Status Resistance bonus

Avengers 1 comic set

  • Avengers Assemble (2012) #2. Critical Damage bonus
  • Avengers (1963) #122. Heroic Damage and Effectiveness bonus
  • Secret Avengers (2013) #2 (Variant). Ranged Damage bonus
  • Avengers (1963) #1. Melee Damage bonus
  • Avengers (1963) #4. Armor bonus

Avengers: Legacy comic set

  • Mighty Thor (2015) #700. Heroic Charge Rate bonus
  • Ms. Marvel (2015) #25. Perk Chance bonus
  • Invincible Iron Man (2016) #593. Critical Chance bonus
  • Captain America (2017) #695. Max Willpower bonus
  • Incredible Hulk (2017) #709. Willpower Recovery Effectiveness bonus

Classics 1 comic set

  • Avengers (1963) #223. Willpower Recovery Effectiveness bonus
  • Avengers (1963) #16. Heroic Charge Rate bonus
  • Avengers (1963) #111. Perk Chance bonus
  • Avengers (1963) #70. Status Resistance bonus
  • Avengers (1963) #58. Stun/Status Meter Damage bonus
  • Journey Into Mystery (1952) #83. Max Willpower

Generations comic set

  • Generations: Hawkeye and Hawkeye (2017) #1 (Variant). Max Willpower bonus
  • Generations: Hawkeye and Hawkeye (2017) #1. Critical Chance bonus
  • Generations: Banner Hulk and The Totally Awesome Hulk (2017) #1. Willpower Recovery Effectiveness bonus
  • Generations: Banner Hulk and The Totally Awesome Hulk (2017) #1 (Variant). Heroic Charge Rate bonus
  • Generations: Sam Wilson Captain America and Steve Rogers Captain America 1 (2017) #1. Perk Chance bonus

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