From a Golden Age: The Invaders Appreciation 2019

[Reviresco]

The Invaders were created by Roy Thomas, out of his love for the Golden Age era characters. They first appeared in Avengers 71, cover date December 1969, though they weren't called Invaders, and they only consisted of Namor the Sub-Mariner, The Original Human Torch and Captain America. But Roy did have Jim Hammond yell their battle cry "Okay Axis, Here We Come!" in this issue when they fought Yellow Jacket, Black Panther, and Vision as champions in a cosmic contest between Kang and the Grandmaster.

The Invaders sort of appeared again in Avengers 97, cover date March 1972, as heroes "summoned" by Rick Jones during the Kree-Skrull War.

They finally appeared as a team named Invaders in an origin story that appeared in Giant Sized Invaders 1, cover date June 1975, with art by Frank Robbins, inked by Vinnie Colleta. And while Churchill gives them their name in the story, according to Roy Thomas' Recollection page in Giant Sized Avengers 1:

And thus was started the Invaders first ongoing, which ran for 41 issues, an Annual and this Giant Sized issue.

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First posts were written by Rheged and are from the previous appreciation thread, which can be found here:

From a Golden Age: The Invaders Appreciation 2014-2018

[Reviresco]

RECOMMENDED READING



COLLECTED EDITIONS



Invaders Classic v1 (Collects Invaders #1-9, Giant-Size Invaders (1975) #1, and Marvel Premiere #29-30)
Invaders Classic v2 (Collects Invaders #10-21 and Annual #1)
Invaders Classic v3 (Collects Invaders #22-23 and #25-34)
Invaders Classic v4 (Collects Invaders #35-41 and Invaders 1993 #1-4)
Invaders Classic Complete Collection v1 (Collects Giant-Size Invaders #1; Invaders (1975) #1-22, Annual #1; Marvel Premiere (1972) #29-30; Avengers (1963) #71)
Invaders Classic Complete Collection v2 (Collects Invaders (1975) #23, 25-41, Invaders (1993) #1-4, Giant-Size Invaders #2, What If? (1977) #4)

Avengers v5 Once an Invader (Collects Avengers #82-84 and Invaders #0, Avengers (1963) #71 and Invaders Annual #1! )
New Invaders to End All Wars (Collects New Invaders #1-9 )
Invaders Eve of Destruction (Collects Marvel Universe #1-7)
Avengers / Invaders (Collects Avengers Invaders #1-12)
The Torch (Collects The Torch #1-8)
Invaders Now! (Collects Invaders Now #1-5)






All New Invaders v1 Gods and Soldiers (Collects All-New Invaders #1-5)
All New Invaders v2 Original Sin (Collects All-New Invaders #6-10)
All New Invaders v3 The Martians Are Coming (Collects All-New Invaders #11-15)

Secret Empire Brave New World (Collects #1-5)


Invaders v1 War Ghost (Collects #1-6)
Invaders v2 Dead In the Water (Collects #7-12)

Namor John Byrne Visionaries v2 (Collects Namor #10-18)
The Marvels Project (Collects The Marvels Project #1-8)
Captain America The Man With No Face (Collects Captain America #43-48)

[Reviresco]

LINKS

Invaders Mapping

Alan Kupperberg Interview

Secret Empire Brave New World Order interview @Marvel.com

Didja Know ... Invaders @Marvel.com

Marvel’s 80th Anniversary: Everything You Need to Know About the Invaders


@CBR
Invaders Tag Articles

From a Golden Age: The Invaders Appreciation 2014-2018

The Original Golden Age Human Torch (Jim Hammond) Appreciation

The Whizzer: Master of Speed (Golden Age version) Appreciation


Who were the OTHER Golden Age heroes?

The Invaders WHEN do you prefer them?

Invaders (2019)



The Rosters:

Captain America
Namor the Sub-Mariner
The Original Human Torch
Toro
Bucky
Union Jack
Spitfire
Arakus the Vision

Thin Man
Miss America
Whizzer
Blazing Skull
Silver Scorpion

[Reviresco]

I know these intro posts need updating, and I'll get to it as soon as I can. But if there's anything else folks wanted added, let me know.

[MajorHoy]

The Invaders were created by Roy Thomas, out of his love for the Golden Age era characters. They first appeared in Avengers 71, cover date December 1969, though they weren't called Invaders, and they only consisted of Namor the Sub-Mariner, The Original Human Torch and Captain America. But Roy did have Jim Hammond yell their battle cry "Okay Axis, Here We Come!" in this issue when they fought Yellow Jacket, Black Panther, and Vision as champions in a cosmic contest between Kang and the Grandmaster.

. . .

Back in the previous version of this appreciation thread, I did a comparison between their appearance in Avengers #71 and re-telling of that meeting that Roy Thomas later gave us in The Invaders Annual #1 (for anybody interested).

It starts with this post:

Part of the story in Invaders Annual #1 (1977) dealt with another look at events in Avengers #71 (December 1969) which was a bit of a genesis for an Invaders series a few years later.

Here's a comparison between the story in those two issues:

See: https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ciation/page49
for more (it was in two posts).

[MajorHoy]

. . . The Invaders sort of appeared again in Avengers 97, cover date March 1972, as heroes "summoned" by Rick Jones during the Kree-Skrull War . . .

That "appearance" was foreshadowed by something that happened in Avengers #92 a few issues earlier.

Here are the pages of interest, though, starting with the page from issue #92 (cover-dated September 1971).

[shooshoomanjoe]

That "appearance" was foreshadowed by something that happened in Avengers #92 a few issues earlier.

Here are the pages of interest, though, starting with the page from issue #92 (cover-dated September 1971).
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Is that the Heap on the 4th panel, on the bottom left?

[MajorHoy]

Is that the Heap on the 4th panel, on the bottom left?

I believe so.

In a different thread, I previously did my best to identify the non-Marvel characters shown in that panel from Avengers #92.

Towards the bottom left side of the panel in Avengers #92 (September 1971),


it looks like the Hillman comic character The Heap.


Though it also resembles a character created for Marvel in the early 1970's: Man-Thing

Also see posts #99 (Cat-Man), #101 (Fighting Yank), #106 (Green Lama), and #107 (Fantom of the Fair) from that same thread ("Who were the OTHER Golden Age heroes?").

[Dreaded Porcupine]

So that's the Heap? Always wondered who that was. The original Man-Thing apparently. I want to see a return of the Liberty Legion as well. I remember the classic Invaders vs Liberty Legion fight at Yankee Stadium.

[Reviresco]

Back in the previous version of this appreciation thread, I did a comparison between their appearance in Avengers #71 and re-telling of that meeting that Roy Thomas later gave us in The Invaders Annual #1 (for anybody interested).

It starts with this post:See: https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ciation/page49
for more (it was in two posts).

I remember that! Oddly, I did enjoy seeing that Invaders. I say oddly, because I didn't care for Bendis doing it in Secret Invasion. Of course, he did so many, many, many times in multiple tie-ins, that I felt I was getting ripped off. ;p

That "appearance" was foreshadowed by something that happened in Avengers #92 a few issues earlier.

Here are the pages of interest, though, starting with the page from issue #92 (cover-dated September 1971).

I need to cut out that third panel in the first page. That was me as a kid.

It is kind of funny to see Rick Jones going on about the 'gray' of characters waaaaay back then and compare it to characters of today.

I also how Roy Thomas is again distinguishing that the Golden Age comics aren't 'Realies' but stories about _some_ real characters in the MU.