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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 30, 2017 12:01:22 GMT -5
I definitely wouldn't put the first three or four years of The Avengers up against the same period for the FF or (especially) Spider-Man.
But overall, I'm talking about the long haul, several hundred issues with a (mostly) consistent continuity and bunches and bunches of great stories that build on each other.
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Post by Confessor on Mar 30, 2017 12:15:03 GMT -5
As an aside, does anybody know the background story of why Marvel decided to do away with the original Iron Man, Captain America, Ant-Man, Wasp and Thor line-up of the Avengers so soon after the series had began and instead go with the Cap, Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch line-up? What was the thinking behind that decision? Just something I was wondering the other night.  |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 30, 2017 12:20:09 GMT -5
As an aside, does anybody know the background story of why Marvel decided to do away with the original Iron Man, Captain America, Ant-Man, Wasp and Thor line-up of the Avengers so soon after the series had began and instead go with the Cap, Hawkeye, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch line-up? What was the thinking behind that decision? Just something I was wondering the other night. From what I've read in interviews the thinking was: Marvel could only publish a limited amount of titles in the 1960's according to an agreement with their distributor The members of The Avengers already had their own comic features To increase awareness of more characters, it was decided that The Avengers would spotlight heroes without their own features (besides Cap) Doing so could make the Marvel Brand even stronger Added: Kind of similar to what was done with DC's Justice Society in the 1940's. When a hero got his own title, he was dropped from the roster |
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Post by Hoosier X on Mar 30, 2017 12:41:59 GMT -5
I suspect Stan was having a hard time writing for so many powerful characters in one group. Especially when you look at how bad the stories are just before #15 and #16. It must have been hard to find anything for anybody else to do when Thor was one of the members! And there are a lot of issues (even among the issues I like) where Thor is taken out in a way that doesn't really make any sense.
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Post by Crimebuster on Mar 30, 2017 13:12:20 GMT -5
What I've heard is that Stan was having trouble keeping the continuity straight, since at the time continuity was both a new thing, and pretty tight. So figuring out when the stories happened, and which characters were available, was a problem since they all had their own books. So he wrote the characters out who had their own books in order to eliminate the problem (Cap technically had his own strip, but it was running stories set in WWII at the time).
I don't know for sure if this is true or not, but that's what I've read.
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Post by Batflunkie on Mar 30, 2017 15:55:15 GMT -5
So he wrote the characters out who had their own books in order to eliminate the problem (Cap technically had his own strip, but it was running stories set in WWII at the time). Makes sense because Cap had two origin stories during the span of TOS and the first handful of issues in his own volume |
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Post by Cei-U! on Mar 30, 2017 16:51:26 GMT -5
What I've heard is that Stan was having trouble keeping the continuity straight, since at the time continuity was both a new thing, and pretty tight. So figuring out when the stories happened, and which characters were available, was a problem since they all had their own books. So he wrote the characters out who had their own books in order to eliminate the problem (Cap technically had his own strip, but it was running stories set in WWII at the time). I don't know for sure if this is true or not, but that's what I've read. This is my understanding as well, and also the reason for dropping the Torch/Thing strip from Strange Tales. Stan was moving to serialized storytelling in many of the titles, and found it increasingly difficult to reconcile five or six comics' continuity simultaneously, an understandable problem when you're a tightwad publisher's editor-in-chief, head writer, and de facto art director all at the same time. Cei-U! I summon the mitigating circumstances! |
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