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Post by berkley on Feb 11, 2022 0:23:06 GMT -5
Oh man can I relate to that! We were on summer vacation too, upstate, when I stumbled upon that Avengers Annual in a little gifts/souvenir store. In a spinner rack no less! I begged my mother to buy it for me. I'd missed several issues of the Avengers series at that point in time so I was overjoyed to finally find an Avengers comic, even if it apparent that it was continued from a story I hadn't yet read (I didn't actually get a copy of #56 until a year or so later). But even so, that Annual #2 was pure gold to me, with that cover, the Buscema Avengers pin-up inside, and an engrossing story by RT. What made the Annual great was that it explained issue #56 adequately. I too read 56 after the annual and it was a story onto itself.
Yeah, I was pretty young so my comics reading was very sporadic. It wasn't until the mid-70s really that I became a regular follower of any series. before then it was all very haphazard,
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Post by SJNeal on Feb 11, 2022 15:47:21 GMT -5
I didn't list him, but I guess I should give props to that Lee guy for creating the greatest Avenger of all - Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man!  |
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Post by dbutler69 on Feb 11, 2022 19:33:03 GMT -5
I didn't list him, but I guess I should give props to that Lee guy for creating the greatest Avenger of all - Simon Williams a.k.a. Wonder Man!  I don't know about that, but I did like his debut story. One of Stan Lee's better Avengers stories, IMHO. |
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Post by Marv-El on Feb 13, 2022 15:21:15 GMT -5
Stern was the writer when I first began following the Avengers so I'll always have a soft spot for his run (especially Trial of Hank Pym, Absolute Vision, and Under Siege).
However, after reading certain Epic Collections recently, I have to go with Thomas. While Lee may have created the book and team, Thomas laid the foundations for quite a bit of their mythos in some amazing and fun stories.
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