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Summary: Forgettable junk
Review: Ant-man defeats the Hulk by having ants tunnel under him, collapsing the ground on which he is standing. Silly."Immortus" has the power to bring historical figures into the present to fight the heroes. Why would these figures agree to fight, once they were brought here? Then the original team disbands, and decides the replace themselves with another set of heroes? Why? They were obviously a pretty loose-knit team to begin with, since Thor, Iron Man, and Giant-Man frequently undertook adventures in their own books without summoning the others. It's not like they all lived at the Avengers mansion. So to replace themselves, who do they pick? A bunch of super-villains who have just recently declared they are going to become good guys. Why believe them?
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Summary: Earth's Mightiest Heroes---in the Mighty Marvel Manner!
Review: As good as the early Fantastic Four issues were, the Avengers took the superteam concept to a whole new level. Here was a team formed for the noblest of goals, thrown together by the machinations of an evil immortal only to turn the tables and begin the legendary association which would have teenagers all over the world shouting "Avengers Assemble!" in their backyards. "Essential Avengers vol. 1" captures the first 24 issues of the classic series, scripted by Stan Lee and illustrated by Jack Kirby and Don Heck. If the first appearances of Kang the Conqueror, Immortus, and the Masters of Evil aren't enough for you, pick this collection up for Avengers # 4, the return of Captain America. This alone is enough to mark a substantial return on your investment for this book. Highly recommended to all comics fans and X-Men fanatics who need a primer in how team books used to be written.
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Summary: Companion piece for this great graphic novel
Review: As great as this graphic novel was by itself, I know of one helluva great companion piece in the form of a book entitled "The Adventures of Darkeye: Cyber Hunter" whose odd manner of having log-entries over chapters seems almost like the script for a graphic novel, even though it is in the science fiction/high-tech and cyberpunk genre along with books like "Cryptonomicon", "Snow Crash", "Prey", and "Altered Carbon". Very fast-paced and visual as well as being very exciting due to its action-packed pages.
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Summary: Avengers Vol. 1 Masterworks is a must have!
Review: Avengers Vol 1 Masterworks (Avengers#1-10) is a must have book! this amazing Hardcover features the orginal avengers team! Thor,Ant-man, the Hulk, and Ironman. later The Avengers get a new leader, Captain America! and then Namor, the Submariner is introduced! this book also has Loki the God of Evil, Enhantress, Kang the Conqueror, the Lava Men, and Wonderman! This Hardcover reprints Avengers 1-10 by Marvel comics originally published in 1963! Marvel comic greats,Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, were classic creators of this wonderful Marvel Comic book featuring Earth's Mightest Heroes, The Avengers! I Love this book! It is so good I am giving it five stars! Highest possible Recommendation! Make Mine Marvel!
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Summary: The Mighty Avengers Assemble
Review: From start to finish this is the ultimate Avengers package. Some of the greatest Avengers stories ever told. Form the return of Captain America to the joining of Hawkeye and the Scarlet Witch. These are where the Avengers started. Kurt Busiek today's writer of the Avengers wishes he could recreate the magic that Stan Lee created in this book. A must have for any true Avengers fan.
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Summary: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Review: Here we have the Marvel Comics answer to the Justice League. Except of course, unlike the JLA, the Avengers had disagreements with each other. The Hulk actually quit the group in the second issue and never rejoined. There are a lot of goofy things in here, like Avengers suddenly using powers they never had before, and never had again afterward. Overall though, these stories from a simpler era are a lot of fun. I would recommend this book to super-hero fans.
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Summary: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Review: Here we have the Marvel Comics answer to the Justice League. Except of course, unlike the JLA, the Avengers had disagreements with each other. The Hulk actually quit the group in the second issue and never rejoined. There are a lot of goofy things in here, like Avengers suddenly using powers they never had before, and never had again afterward. Overall though, these stories from a simpler era are a lot of fun. I would recommend this book to super-hero fans.
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Summary: Silver Age
Review: I enjoy the Silver Age of comics. And with the first 24 chapters it is comics when they were well written. My main dissapointment with them is that in the begining the Avenger would start a fight and Thor would have to save their butts. When these stories first came out it was pretty much Thor carrying the group. When the original team dismanted and the new guys came in, except Capt. America that is, the group each had a chance to save the day some how. Which made for a more interesting storyline.
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Summary: See where it all began. Marvel's answer to the JLA
Review: It has been said that this was Marvel's answer to the Justice League. It was much more than that. We got to see the new version of Captain America. The Sub-Mariner even comes back from his World War II roots.
We get to see much more of the weakness and failures of the most powerful super team of the 60's and 70's. To me it was like the Fantastic Four with more super powered problems. We get to see the personal glimses of their lives when they were not super beings. Cap had to deal with what it was like to be out of touch with the world while he was frozen. Iron Man had a bad heart because of the shrapnel he got back in the war.
While I don't like the black and white format it is the most affordable format. Until Marvel releases the first 500 issues on CD ROM like they will with Spider-Man this is the most economical way to see them.
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Summary: Nostalgic look back at a time of simpler comics
Review: The "essential" collections by Marvel Comics give the chance to younger generations to see how the Marvel superhero-with-everyday-problems comics that made the silver age of comics come about in the early 1960's. If you're looking for muscles that would give century old tree-trunks a run for their money, don't buy this book. Don't buy this book, either, if you're looking for non-stop fight scenes and full-page panels from end to end. The Essential Avengers reprints in black and white the first couple of dozen stories by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Don Heck of a series egged into creation by DC's team comics of the late fifties and early sixties. They are simple stories, seemingly one or two-dimensional in the light of the eighties and nineties work by people like Alan Moore and Frank Miller, but they are vital, well-balanced stories that have aged, yes (for example, they're sexist by today's standards - why is the Wasp always left out when the original Avengers are mentioned?), but the stories do show us how it all started. There would be no Miller and his ilk if there had been no Kirby, whose work here round about the time when he was co-creating the Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Thor and so many others is dynamic and alive. Heck's work is not up to Jack Kirby's, but is artistically competent and shows the artist's ability at visual story-telling. A good buy for comic nostalgia buffs.
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