Avalon (Marvel Comics)

Avalon, also known as Otherworld, is a fictional dimension appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is based on the mythical Avalon from Celtic and, more specifically, Welsh mythology.

"Otherworld (Marvel Comics)" redirects here. For the demonic dimension known as Otherplace, see Otherplace.
This article is about the home-dimension of Merlyn, Roma and the Captain Britain Corps. For Magneto's space station, see Providence (comics). For the Age of Apocalypse Avalon, see Savage Land.
Otherworld
Map of Otherworld from Thor & Hercules: Encyclopædia Mythologica #1 (July 2009). Art by Eliot R. Brown.
First appearanceFantastic Four #54 (September 1966)
Created byStan Lee
Jack Kirby
CharactersCaptain Britain
Meggan
Merlyn
Roma
Opal Luna Saturnyne
Captain Britain Corps
Leir
PublisherMarvel Comics

Avalon first appeared in Fantastic Four #54 (September 1966) by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Avalon's dimension was referred to as 'Otherworld' for the first time in Captain Britain #1 (October 1976) by Chris Claremont, Herb Trimpe, and Fred Kida.

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