![]() Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, and Hawkeye-all bad guys up to that point-took over for Iron Man, Thor, and Giant-Man and the Wasp, all who had bigger fish to fry in their own titles. The big story in this run, though, is the changing of the Avengers line-up in issue #16, something that blew my 10-year-old mind when it happened back in 1965. As for Stan Lee’s stories and plots … well, let’s just say Count Nefaria isn’t going to go down in the Marvel Hall of Villainy as one of the greats. This was around the time Wood was pencilling Daredevil. Wally Wood inks one issue, #20, the final issue in this collection, and once again Stan goes out of his way to praise the artist, with a “Special Note to Art Lovers” cover blurb. Don Heck stepped in to take over the title, but he’s teamed here with some unsuitable inkers (for him, at least), including Dick Ayers and Chic Stone, both of whom did great work on Kirby. Jack Kirby had, for the most part, left this title with issue #8, and save for the covers (all uniformly great), he did layouts for only a couple of issues. This new reprinting features Avengers issues #11-20, a real mixed bag of stories. ![]()
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