From a Golden Age: The Invaders Appreciation

[MajorHoy]

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Invaders Battle Cry

[MajorHoy]

Invaders Battle Cry

Unfortunately, would Marvel allow them to fight the Nazis these days?
Or could they only have Hydra as their WWII foes?

[Adset]

so i'm going through an invaders/ww2 kick at the moment. during my reading spree, i've knocked out:

avengers #71
giant size invaders #1
invaders #1-41
invaders annual #1
marvel premiere #4-5
what if? #4
invaders #1-4 (early 90s mini)
giant size invaders #2
marvel universe #1-3
captain america: sentinel of liberty #2-4
the torch #1-8
all winners squad #1 ('09, i think, a new story + some old reprints)
marvels project #1-8
captain america #253-54 (return of baron blood, union jack)
namor #11-12 (john byrne)
union jack #1-3
union jack #1-4
avengers #82-84 (introduction of the new invaders)
new invaders #0-10
avengers/invaders #1-12
spitfire #1
invaders now #1-5
all new invaders #1-15

am i missing anything blatant i need to add to the collection? any personal favorites?

[MajorHoy]

Did you ever read the four-issue Captain America: Patriot series from back in 2010?
That featured Jeff Mace, the Golden Age Patriot, who was retconned into being the second replacement for Steve Rogers as Cap back in the 1940s.

[MajorHoy]

A few other things worth considering:
* Captain America #43-48, #50 written by Ed Brubaker from +/-2009 includes Bucky's past with the Invaders
* Captain America & Bucky #620-624 (2011) written by Ed Brubaker and Marc Andreyko deal with Cap & Bucky back in WWII; Invaders also appear
* Captain America & Bucky #625-628 (2012) written by James Asmusand and plotted with Ed Brubaker feature a story where the second Captain America & Bucky (William Naslund & Fred Davis Jr.) fight the successor to the android villain Adam (who was in What If? #4)
* Black Panther #21 (2006) written by Reginald Hudlin included modern-day Black Panther (T'Challa) being told by Namor of the time in WWII when the Invaders were in Wakanda and Namor met the Black Panther of that time (Azzuri, T'Challa's grandfather)
* Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers #1-4 (2010), also written by Hudlin, featured Black Panther (Azzuri), Captain America (Steve Rogers), and the Howling Commandos fighting against Red Skull, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, Master Man, Warrior Woman, and a few others in Wakanda.

[responsarbre]

Captain America #18-21 (Twenty-First Century Blitz) with Union Jack and Spitfire is probably my favorite single story from the Brubaker years.

[MajorHoy]

Captain America #18-21 (Twenty-First Century Blitz) with Union Jack and Spitfire is probably my favorite single story from the Brubaker years.

And after this arc, you get the "Civil War" and the "Death" of Steve Rogers mess.
Though the Bucky-as-Captain-America run was enjoyable.

[Nomads1]

Did you ever read the four-issue Captain America: Patriot series from back in 2010?
That featured Jeff Mace, the Golden Age Patriot, who was retconned into being the second replacement for Steve Rogers as Cap back in the 1940s.

This is a very good read.

Peace

[MajorHoy]

well we have an invaders reunion in SE...would be very sad if they didnt follow up on it

Have they yet?

[James Hunter]

Have they yet?

No they haven't (much to my personal annoyance and I really wish they would, I miss the INVADERS series Robinson did and always want a title with the big Three Invaders in it)

[MajorHoy]

Another good read from back in 2010/2011:


Captain America: Forever Allies

[Reviresco]

Are people looking forward to the new Invaders run coming in January?

Question came up in another thread. Is the Human Torch in Zdarsky's run going to Jim Hammond or Johnny Storm? As Imperius Wrecked pointed out, Hammond is supposed to be the Human Reactor now. Has that changed somewhere recently?

[Snoop Dogg]

I am extremely hesitant towards any new Invaders projects after the brain damage All-New Invaders gave me, but the creative team looks good and it has to have a different editor, so it'll be a good book, at least.

[Reviresco]

I am extremely hesitant towards any new Invaders projects after the brain damage All-New Invaders gave me, but the creative team looks good and it has to have a different editor, so it'll be a good book, at least.

Brain damage? You mean all the jumping around or the plot thread left dangling?

I'm familiar with the artists (and like them), but not with the writer. I didn't check the editor, but I assume it isn't Mark Panicca ... wait, he's not on X-Men anymore, is he? What's he doing now?