All Avengers Appreciation

[King_Thor13]

Could that Avenger be Jean Grey? She's got two reasons to join: Namor, and Phoenix.

I hope not. I'd rather Jean stuck with the X-Men, especially with everything going on in their corner. I suspect that it'd result in Jean having a relationship with Cap or Thor too, and that makes me uneasy as it's uncharted territory. Unfortunately, Aaron's Avengers hasn't been for me anyway, as the story has been very meh, and the treatment of She-Hulk as a character really bothers me.

I'm hoping for Scarlet Witch, Wasp, Black Widow or Spider-Woman. I suppose none of them are 'startling' though- the wording in the solicit implies it's someone we wouldn't expect. Black Bolt or Medusa maybe?

[Digifiend]

Medusa's hardly startling either, she was in A-Force, the all female Avengers team from ANAD. She-Hulk and Captain Marvel were on that team with her.

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Avengers #174 Aug 1978
The Korvac Saga: Part 7 of 10 - "Captives of the Collector!"
Finally, the Avengers come face-to-face with the Collector after teleporting to his orbiting spaceship!
However, the elder of the universe is overjoyed to see Hawkeye, Iron Man, Thor, and the Wasp; because his collection is almost complete!

The four heroes furiously attack the Collector trying to achieve a quick victory; but the crafty elder subdues the thunder god, Shell-head

and the Wasp. Leaving the Avengers' Ace Archer as the last man standing!

Can a mere mortal with a bow and arrows defeat an ancient elder of the universe? This may be Hawkeye's longest long shot ever!

Plot by Jim Shooter. Script by Bill Mantlo. Pencils by Dave Wenzel. Inks by Pablo Marcos.

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I'd love to see the comicbook character Marvel Girl become a member of the Avengers so that it hopefully results in a writer having her Avengers membership be accompanied with an all-new codename just like the comicbook character Rachel Summers recently got the all-new codename "Prestige"

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Avengers #1 Sep 1963
In this first landmark issue, Thor, Hulk, Iron Man, Ant Man and the Wasp form the Avengers in "The Coming of the Avengers!"
Loki, having been previously captured by Thor, is being held prisoner at the Isle of Silence in Asgard;
His physical form may be confined there, but by means of thought projection his disembodied self travels to Earth in search of revenge;
He spots Thor in his human identity of Dr. Don Blake, but resists defeating him as it would be a hollow victory compared to defeating him as Thor;
After hours of searching, Loki happens across the Hulk and devises a wicked plan to entice Blake to transform into Thor;
Hours later, newspapers print articles about the Hulk being on the rampage again and a manhunt begins;
The Hulk's friend, Rick Jones, reads the article with disbelief and meets with
members of the Teen Brigade in order to find help to track Hulk down to find the truth;
They attempt to contact the Fantastic Four but Loki interferes with the radio signal, diverting it to Don Blake;
He decides to transform into Thor to help the Teen Brigade;

Unknown to Loki, the radio signal is also picked up by Ant-Man, the Wasp, and Iron Man, who also travel to assist;

Loki realises that the other heroes will only interfere with his plans and lures Thor away by creating a mental image of the Hulk;
Upon catching up with this fake "Hulk", Thor attacks and realises it isn't real, and immediately suspects Loki;
He then returns to Asgard to face his brother; Meanwhile, Iron Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp track down the Hulk with the help of Ant-Man's ants;

He is working at a circus pretending to be a robot called Mechano.
They attempt to capture him by causing the ground below him to cave in, by dropping a steel cylinder onto him, and trying to catch him in a net.
Hulk manages to escape the circus. Iron Man gives chase but the Hulk cripples his battery, and escapes while Iron Man repairs it.

Back in Asgard, Thor asks permission from Odin to meet Loki on the Isle of Silence to question him. Odin accepts but warns
that he cannot interfere between the two brothers' quarrel. As Thor sets out across the Sea of Mist he is attacked by Loki's traps.
First, he narrowly escapes tangle roots that threaten to drag him down into the depths. Next, a volcano erupts releasing volcanic
gas globules capable of sapping the strength of any god. Thor manages to evade these by diving into the sea.
On the island, Loki spots Thor's empty boat and wonders with disbelief if Thor has already been defeated.
Suddenly, a giant water spout appears in front of him as Thor emerges from the sea to face him. He throws his hammer at Loki,
only to have it deflected by a hastily-made ice shield. Loki calls upon a Rock Troll, which begins to drag Thor beneath the ground.
At the last moment, Thor uses his hammer to summon lightning which dazzles the troll, causing it to relinquish his hold.
Thor angrily swings his hammer at Loki, who has created multiple mental images of himself to confuse him.
Thor counters this by spinning his hammer fast enough to blow all the figures away, revealing the true Loki.
Soaking up the magnetic flow from the earth with his hammer, he captures Loki via magnetic attraction and takes him back to Earth to clear the Hulk's name.

On Earth, Iron Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp pursue the Hulk to an auto factory in Detroit.
Thor appears with Loki to clear Hulk's name.
Suddenly Loki makes himself radioactive forcing the heroes to retreat.
Luckily, Loki stands over a trapdoor and Ant-Man's ants trigger a switch, dropping him into a lead-lined tank.
Upon celebrating their victory, Ant-Man and the Wasp point out how well they could work as a team, and that they should work together in future.

The Wasp decides they should call themselves the Avengers, and everybody agrees.

Script by Stan Lee, pencils by Jack Kirby, inks by Dick Ayers

[Digifiend]

Marvel Legacy trade dress carried over to Spain I see. Avengers No Surrender even used the standard trade dress instead of it's special one, though there is a nice touch to it...

American issue numbers! Incidentally, the following issues of Vengadores are Quicksilver No Surrender (Sin Rendición: Mercurio).

In the UK, Panini doesn't seem to be using the Legacy branding at all.

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Avengers #13 UK cover. Reprint of Avengers #16 (they started with #4). Usually the cover art was just recoloured from the US ones (despite being weekly, they were reprinting a full US issue every week! The benefits of a 10 year backlog) but sometimes they were new (and I'm confident this is as variant covers didn't exist back then).

They were already running Doctor Strange, then added Master of Kung-Fu as a second backup. This cover was the result.

Issue 82 reprinted the American issue 57 (the addition of Shang-Chi meant they were now running the stories in halves), though the cover's recolouring destroys the mood...

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Comics merger! Conan joined in issue 95.

Issue 96 has an obvious new composition including the Avengers, Doctor Strange, and Conan.

A clever mirror image two issues later.

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Another new composition involving the stars of all four stories. By this point they were probably splitting the stories into three parts, maybe even four depending how many pages were ads.

#148 was the final issue, reprinting the original #93. But the cover seems to have been partially redrawn.

[Hypestyle]

so what about Avengers #700, what is going to happen in this issue, who are the villains, who is joining the team?

[Digifiend]

We only know what's in the solicit (which has been altered - it now mentions Wasp instead of Wolverine). #701's cover didn't even offer any clues, it just shows Thor and Jennifer.

[King_Thor13]

Looks like the "next startling new Avenger" is one of these folks...

avengers 700.jpg

https://twitter.com/DoYouEvenComic/s...07645031145474

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Looks like the "next startling new Avenger" is one of these folks...

avengers 700.jpg

https://twitter.com/DoYouEvenComic/s...07645031145474

Who's the guy in the bottom left panel?

[King_Thor13]

Who's the guy in the bottom left panel?

'Tis Blade

[Frontier]

'Tis Blade

Man, they did not pick the most flattering image for him .