Trivia / West Coast Avengers

• Completely Different Title: The comic book was translated in Spain as "Nuevos Vengadores". Fortunately, the New Avengers were created a pair of decades later, when both the west coast and their translation were long out of print.
• Executive Meddling: Roy Thomas admitted that his editor forced him to kill off Mockingbird in issue #100, as the book was in danger of cancellation and needed a Tonight, Someone Dies promotion to save it. Thomas regretted doing the story, especially since the book was canceled anyway two issues later and he wasn't even allowed to write the finale.
• Follow the Leader:
  • Hank Pym's run as an adventurer who went without a costume or codename in Steve Englehart's West Coast Avengers's run was inspired by Doctor Who, down to at one point sporting a coat and scarf similar to the Fourth Doctor's.
  • The comic was canceled shortly after its 100th issue and relaunched with most of the same characters as Force Works, a Darker and Edgier '90s Anti-Hero team whose mission is to be proactive and take on threats that conventional superhero teams won't touch. This was pretty much exactly what Marvel did a few years earlier when it canceled New Mutants after 100 issues and replaced it with X-Force, though the reinvention of this franchise wasn't nearly as successful.
• Lying Creator: Around the time that West Coast Avengers had been cancelled and replaced with Force Works, Wonder Man had his own solo series, with an issue listing saying he would team-up with Beast to face the Hate Monger. However, the first issue of Force Works featured Simon's death and a note in issues listings saying that his title was cancelled as a result. There's speculation on if that was a case of Poor Communication Kills or it was similar to what later happened with The Flash with Bart Allen's death and the use of fake solicitations to hide that plot point, and that likewise the listing about the issue with Beast was used to hide Simon's death.
• Real-Place Background: The original West Coast Avengers Compound address (1800 Palos Verdes Drive) maps to two possible real life locations in either Palos Verdes Estates, CA or Rancho Palos Verdes, CA, depending on whether the writers meant Palos Verdes Drive West or Palos Verdes Drive South, respectively. The South location is more likely, as that parcel is located on the shoreline (on a cliff much like the one the compound is depicted on). It is a lot that is either part of or adjacent to the Trump National Golf Course (of course, neither it, nor its immediate predecessor, the Ocean Trails Golf Club — most famous for having its entire 18th hole fall into the sea in 1999 — existed at the time, and was a nature preserve in 1987)