Avengers Spotlight
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Avengers Spotlight is an American comic book, published by Marvel Comics. A spin-off from the company's popular team title The Avengers, it began life in December 1987 under the title Solo Avengers. It changed title to Avengers Spotlight in August 1989, with issue 21. It was cancelled in January 1991 with issue 40.
The format of the title was usually two stories, one featuring the character Hawkeye (a sarcastic archer who had been first introduced to the Avengers title in 1964) and a back-up strip showcasing current or former Avengers who didn't have their own title. Some issues featured one long story, and others dropped Hawkeye altogether.
Avengers Spotlight was part of a then-current trend at Marvel to expand its various "franchises" such as Spider-Man and the X-Men into as much as a dozen titles.