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Title: Essential Avengers, Volume II by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, Don Heck ISBN: 078510741X Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67
Rating: 4
Summary: The best one so far
Comment: Easily the best volume of the three Avengers Essentials to date, we now see Rascally Roy Thomas at the scripting helm, along with Awesome John Buscema doing most of the art chores. Say no more! This duo is one of the greatest in comics lore... and even demi-gods Barry [Windsor] Smith and Gene Colan show up to help out on art.
This collection contains the spectacular introduction of the Vision, the Avengers vs. the (old) X-Men, several battles with arch-foe Ultron, and the classic Avengers vs. Avengers thanks to the machinations of the time-spanning Scarlet Centurion. I'd give this compilation five stars, but the several issues featuring Hercules and the battles in god-ville are just plain dull. (Avengers #50 featured this crap? YEESH.) But don't let these few pages spoil the rest of the great fun.
Rating: 3
Summary: It's bad at worst, above average at best, mediocre overall.
Comment: This 'Essential' really doesn't have any exciting material, really. It's all just pointless, meandering filler. The characterization is nonexistent and the plots are very run of the mill. It's only worth seeing and reading as a sort of time capsule. It's not very good, but it's one example of how comics were like in the sixties.
Rating: 4
Summary: Moving towards greatness
Comment: This third volume collecting the earlier issues of the Avengers sees the title emerging from the somewhat listless period on the last volume. Roy Thomas is now the writer, and is plainly undertaking the work with enthusiasm and a desire to create something very much worth reading.
This volume sees the membership of the team in flux, with characters being added and removed, and some not even officially joining the team. The stories themselves see members departing for personal reasons, and older members, who are technically off the team, dropping by.
It also sees the introduction of some elements that continue to have impact today: the first two conflicts with Ultron, the introduction of the Vision, Hank Pym taking up the identity of Yellowjacket, the Scarlet Centurion, the conflicts of loyalty that beset the Scarlet Witch and, in particular, Quicksilver...
Art-wise, we are generally in the safe and capable hands of John Buscema, although there are a couple of issues illustrated by Barry (Windsor) Smith, who will soon go on to greater things... Also present are Don Heck, Gene Colan and Sal Buscema.
The stories still show the elements of a relatively new writer working out what works and what doesn't in this format. However, they become increasingly self-assured towards the end, and Volume 4, when it is released, will show a far more mature writer...
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Title: Stan Lee Presents the Essential Avengers: Avengers #1-24 ("Marvel Essentials" Series) by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Don Heck ISBN: 0785107010 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Essential Fantastic Four (Volume 3) by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby ISBN: 0785107827 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Essential Captain America by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Gil Kane, George Tuska, Dick Ayers, John Romita, Jack Sparling ISBN: 0785107401 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Essential Fantastic Four Volume 1 by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby ISBN: 0785106669 Publisher: Diamond Comic Dist. Star Sys. Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: ESSENTIAL THOR by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby ISBN: 0785107614 Publisher: Marvel Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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