The spider is always on the hunt.
Idk if Ghost-Spider totally counts as a new character. Anyway, I think you're right. Probably any other ones adapted to the MCU will stay around. Of course, I don't think it should really take all that just to convince Marvel to actually keep these newer heroes around consistently in the comics
That's not why the Avengers came together though, just about every character in the initial line up of the Avengers were all created either that year or just a bit before, if anything the idea behind the Avengers was to give Marvel their own super team to compete with Justice League, I have no clue where people get this idea that Avengers started just give a book to B-listers, it simply doesn't match reality.
I think all the original Avengers were starring in their own books when the team was formed if I'm remembering right. I know the Hulk book had just ended, but I think the rest were still staring in other books.
Ant-Man and Wasp in Tale to Astonish
Iron Man in Tales of Suspense
Thor in Journey Into Mystery
Fair points, though from what I recall, the idea was also to see if they'd sell better together than separately, since they were all known characters in the growing Marvel fandom of that era, even if not necessarily the most popular compared to, again, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four.
Yeah, and that's pretty sad. Then again, on some level, I'd say if readers really wanted something new, or at least newer, in superhero comics, they'd be moving more towards publishers beyond the Big Two.
The spider is always on the hunt.
I question exactly how well known they could've been, since the line up were made of characters that were barely a year old by this point.
Even the Fantastic Four were only 2 years old, and Spider-Man barely just turned 1, so I still don't see where this comparison os coming from.
The spider is always on the hunt.
Honestly, both methods have worked for Marvel, if you count the Uncanny X-Men. Storm, Nightcrawler, Colossus, and Thunderbird were all new. Wolverine had only a single appearance (I don't count his appearance on the last page of Hulk #180), so we can consider him basically new, too. The holdovers were Banshee and Cyclops. And no, Banshee wasn't really all that popular back then. Basically, the X-men were just the comic book version of Star Trek, when you think about it.
New characters aren't necessarily a problem as long as they take readers on an incredible journey to a place that they never knew they wanted to go. If you can do that and tap into the occasional zeitgeist along the way, all the better.