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    Default From a Golden Age: The Invaders Appreciation 2021

    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, it was Stan Lee who inadvertently named the team and the title. Stan had intended to use Invaders for a proposed Namor and Hulk anthology or team up book, but that idea fell to the wayside due to the TV show, and Roy Thomas used it instead for this book!




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



    From a Golden Age: The Invaders Appreciation 2014-2018

    From a Golden Age: The Invaders Appreciation 2019

    The Invaders Appreciation 2020
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    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 v3 #5
    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 (Includes Marvel Universe #1-3)



    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)
    Always and Invader (Collects #1-12, Namor the Best Defense #1)

    Namor John Byrne Visionaries v2 (Includes Namor #10-18)
    Captain America Sentinel of Liberty (Includes Captain America Sentinel of Liberty 2-4)
    The Marvels Project (Collects The Marvels Project #1-8)
    Captain America The Man With No Face (Collects Captain America #43-48)
    Thunderbolts: The Great Escape (includes Thunderbolts #163–165)



    SALES FIGURES

    Invaders 2019

    # 048 Invaders 01 - 36,462 +1000 2nd printing 7 variant covers, including 2 rare
    # 086 Invaders 02 - 19,772 + 2nd printing
    # 049 Invaders 03 - 33,465 (22,422 calculated actual ordered / #117 dollar ranking) Double Shipped
    #114 Invaders 04 - 16,460
    #139 Invaders 05 - 15,430
    #138 Invaders 06 - 14,792
    #080 Invaders 07 - 28,668 (14,334 calculated actual ordered / #156 dollar ranking) Double Shipped
    #136 Invaders 08 - 14,248
    #155 Invaders 09 - 13,689
    #189 Invaders 10 - 13,246
    #156 Invaders 11 - 12,667
    #152 Invaders 12 - 12,168
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    Last edited by Reviresco; 01-05-2021 at 11:46 PM.
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    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

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    HISTORICAL TIMELINE

    DATE
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    ISSUE
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    12/22/1941 GS Invaders 1
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    Reposting this from the previous thread, because this question does come up fairly often.


    Quote Originally Posted by Electricmastro
    Interesting response in regards to how The Invaders is treated in relation to Marvel's Golden Age stories and how they may affect current Marvel continuity (The Invaders #36, January 1979).





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    Happy New Year to the Invaders !

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    My Top (3) Three Favorite covers for Invaders (1975 ongoing series):





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    Some old school, but great covers right there!

    That Union Jack one actually appears on merchandise. I have this glass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Frontier View Post
    Happy New Year to the Invaders !
    Happy New Year!

    I'm hoping to do a lot of reading with my new Marvel Unlimited subscription, including, of course, The Invaders!
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    Quote Originally Posted by K7P5V View Post
    ]My Top (3) Three Favorite covers for Invaders (1975 ongoing series):

    Cap just got shot in the leg! How did they missed that on the cover?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ken Ashcroft View Post
    Cap just got shot in the leg! How did they missed that on the cover?
    LOL! Never noticed that before. But given the size of the characters, I think those are meant to be more like anti-aircraft flak, rather than gunfire -- as well as not all that realistic.
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    Trying to update the first posts and realized I didn't have Invaders appearances in books that weren't their own. This is what I remembered, but weren't there arcs in some of the various Captain America? Or did they appear elsewhere, that might be of interest to Invaders fans? I didn't include the summaries that were in the Saga of Sub-Mariner and Saga of the Human Torch. Suggestions for additions?


    Namor John Byrne Visionaries v2 (Includes Namor #10-18)
    Captain America Sentinel of Liberty (Includes Captain America Sentinel of Liberty 2-4)
    The Marvels Project (Collects The Marvels Project #1-8)
    Captain America The Man With No Face (Collects Captain America #43-48)
    Thunderbolts: The Great Escape (includes Thunderbolts #163–165)
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    I believe this is a recreation by John Byrne of his Namor 12 issue. Okay, I found this information while looking for the comic cover.

    Quote Originally Posted by Michael One Minute Later
    Neat little story to this piece -- for several of the Namor covers, John started by doing pencils/rough inks on a standard art board. Next, he xeroxed the drawing onto duoshade paper where he added additional inks and wash effects to the duoshade board. The original published cover (1990) was duoshade and is elsewhere on CAF.

    For Namor #12, John did the pencils in 1990 and then provided finishes a few months later. This is the original actual pencils to the published cover with brand new finished inks over top by John. So, this is a prelim (since it was never published), a cover (since this does contain the actual pencils) and a recreation since the inks were done separately
    https://www.comicartfans.com/gallery...?piece=1358985
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    Hello Invaders Fans! I hope we get a good year and possibly some Invaders mentions in comics as well. I don't have much hope for a new series since we barely finish with the 2019 one but maybe Marvel will deign to grace us with a new series. A few Invaders fan arts I have wanted to post on the board, this one is from 616Toro on twitter, also posted on tumblr

    Invaders Holiday Card

    "No one should ever question where my allegiance lies." - Namor of Atlantis

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