Avengers: Stern/Buscema/Palmer Run (#255-#287) Appreciation Thread

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Avengers #255 May 1985
"The legacy of Thanos!"
Roger Stern's Avengers are, of course, awesome, but what makes them even awesomer
is when John Buscema and Tom Palmer are on art, and that starts with this issue.
Buscema and Palmer had a run together on the Avengers way back in issues #74 to #84,
but there's nothing old fashioned looking about their art in this run. It's very good.
As the cover (painted by Palmer) suggests, this issue focuses on Captain Marvel.

She arrives at Sanctuary II on the fake mission given to her by the Vision while he was trying to take over the world
and, unsurprisingly, initially finds nothing. However, while exploring Thanos' giant space ship...

...she encounters a group of aliens. Their story is that they're travelers who ran into trouble and were forced to dock here for repairs,

but they are in fact spaaaaaaaaaaace pirates.

Script by Roger Stern. Pencils by John Buscema https://13thdimension.com/13-covers-...celebration-4/. Inks by Tom Palmer.

[Anthony Shaw]

For me, the Avengers enjoyed the longest run of great stories by various creative teams going back to the 1960's. IMO, this was the last great run before Busiek & Perez.

[Steroid]

My favorite Avengers run by far.