From a Golden Age: The Invaders Appreciation 2023

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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
The Invaders Appreciation 2021

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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)
Invaders Omnibus May 3, 2022 (Collects Giant-Size Invaders (1975) 1-2, Invaders (1975) 1-41, Invaders Annual (1977) 1, Marvel Premiere (1972) 29-30, Avengers (1963) 71, Invaders (1993) 1-4, What If? (1977) 4, Fantastic Four Annual (1963) 11, Marvel Two-in-One Annual (1976) 1, Marvel Two-in-One (1974) 20, material from Captain America Comics (1941) 22)


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)

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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

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)



by Eric Wolfe Hanson

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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	EVENT	ISSUE	EVENT
12/22/1941		GS Invaders 1

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Reposting this from the previous thread, because this question does come up fairly often.

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).

[Anthony W]

Marvel has never really been able to take advantage of it's golden age characters the way DC has.

The Liberty Legion could be for Marvel what the JSA was for DC when Geoff Johns ran it. A natural outlet for legacy heroes
. Miss America (I have decided to start calling her that) doesn't get any guff about being a legacy hero (yes, she is a legacy hero) because she has a golden age mantle that no one really knew still existed. A Liberty Legion book also takes pressure off the Avengers which means you wouldn't need so many Avengers projects.

But you would need the personnel to make it work. You would need an editor and writer that lives and breathes that stuff...and Marvel doesn't have that right now. If I'm the editor I hand the writer the entire run of Geoff Johns JSA and tell him or her that that is what we are looking for and if the writer feels offended that we told them to do that you find a new writer.

Then you put the team in Chicago. Adding some badly needed diversity when it comes to location and showing the Midwest some love.

[Gaastra]

Don't forget the spin-off team all winners squad!

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Happy new year invaders!

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[K7P5V]

Hoping 2023 will see the return of The Original Invaders

[Bruce Wayne]

Marvel has never really been able to take advantage of it's golden age characters the way DC has.

The Liberty Legion could be for Marvel what the JSA was for DC when Geoff Johns ran it. [B][I][U]A natural outlet for legacy heroes

Johns JSA was not done in vacuum. It was done on the shoulders of Roy Thomas's stuff at DC like Infinity Inc/Young All-Stars/All-Star Squadron, but also the 90s post-Roy Thomas stuff such as Robinson's Golden Age (supposedly intended not as an Elseworlds story) and Starman as well as stuff like Ostrander's Spectre in that they built a framework of stories/backstories and demonstrated how you could use these characters in a post-Crisis DC. And this is despite powerful people at DC hating the GA characters and trying to kill them like in Zero Hour (though you had also what I would describe as an entire editorial faction within DC that tried to make them viable in the late 90s).

[Anthony W]

Johns JSA was not done in vacuum. It was done on the shoulders of Roy Thomas's stuff at DC like Infinity Inc/Young All-Stars/All-Star Squadron, but also the 90s post-Roy Thomas stuff such as Robinson's Golden Age (supposedly intended not as an Elseworlds story) and Starman as well as stuff like Ostrander's Spectre in that they built a framework of stories/backstories and demonstrated how you could use these characters in a post-Crisis DC. And this is despite powerful people at DC hating the GA characters and trying to kill them like in Zero Hour (though you had also what I would describe as an entire editorial faction within DC that tried to make them viable in the late 90s).

Three questions for you.

1.Do you think a Liberty Legion book would be a better idea than an Invaders book?

2. Is there anyone at Marvel that could pull it off?

3.Would you count Dan Didio among the powerful people at DC who hated the Golden Age characters?

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Hoping 2023 will see the return of The Original Invaders

I'm always a sucker for the original Invaders. Fortunately, Marvel Editorial actually seems to like the team. We've been fortunate to get a few 'modern' books with them.



Though, the new Steve Rogers Cap book has a New Invaders team in the upcoming issues, I believe.

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Don't forget the spin-off team all winners squad!




Happy new year invaders!

I certainly count those part of the thread. I guess I should have made it Golden Age / pre-modern Marvel groups. We've had a few retcons like Mystery Men, The Twelve, etc.

[Nomads1]

[CENTER]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.

This was an incredible forsight by Thomas. Introducing a team when there weren't plans to actually make a team. AWSOME!

by Eric Wolfe Hanson

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For me, this is THE Invaders line-up. I never liked the sidekicks on the team. And I actually think there should have been a larger adult team.

Many members to pick here. But Aarkus should also be here.

Peace

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Happy New Years to the Invaders and their fans !