tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679275871060278971.post9016988471773166310..comments2024-02-17T14:15:04.602+00:00Comments on Silver and Bronze Age Subjects: Avengers: Greatest Stories Ever ToldSimaylhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01861115402841654930noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679275871060278971.post-77037709096272496242012-08-23T15:34:26.818+01:002012-08-23T15:34:26.818+01:00Thanks for your observations. I think I read some...Thanks for your observations. I think I read somewhere that Stan was having great difficulty keeping up with continuity, at this time I don't think Roy Thomas was on hand to keep tabs on the characters, so shifting Iron Man and Thor out solved the issue for him. I think you make a very good point regarding characterisation being easier with Hawkeye, Wanda and Pietro!Simaylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01861115402841654930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679275871060278971.post-52212370712175592932012-08-22T19:54:47.515+01:002012-08-22T19:54:47.515+01:00Avengers #16 was kind of surprising in changing th...Avengers #16 was kind of surprising in changing the members. Presumably, sales were good, so you would think the publisher would say, "If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it." The most common explanation is that Stan wanted members who did not have their own solo strips in other titles. That way, he no longer had to deal with questions like, "How can Thor be in New York with the Avengers fighting Zemo when in Journey into Mystery, he's in Asgard fighting trolls?" (Cross-continuity may have been more of a problem for Marvel than DC. Most DC stories were complete in one issue. Green Lantern could have an adventure with the Justice League and a solo adventure the same month. Marvel's serials and long story arcs made things more complicated.) Another advantage with single-series characters is that you don't have to worry about characterization being consistent with other series, e.g. "Why is this character so confident in his solo strip but filled with self-doubt in the team-up series?" And the Kooky Quartet offered possibilities for internal conflict. The original Avengers (except for the Hulk, who left in #2) got along as well as the Justice League. And having, say, Thor suddenly hate Iron Man would have seemed phony and contrived.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679275871060278971.post-20893248390561187862012-08-22T11:10:22.655+01:002012-08-22T11:10:22.655+01:00Avengers King Size Special #1 was certainly a riff...Avengers King Size Special #1 was certainly a riff on the JLA/JSA team-ups wasn't it!Simaylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01861115402841654930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7679275871060278971.post-85934768221486770722012-08-22T05:11:28.286+01:002012-08-22T05:11:28.286+01:00Avengers King Size Special #1 (aka Avengers Annual...Avengers King Size Special #1 (aka Avengers Annual #1) (Sept. 1967) was a personal favorite. It was (as Commander Benson pointed out in an April 2010 blog post) a throwback to the kind of stories DC had been doing in Justice League in the early sixties. Maybe that's what I liked about it. I was more of a DC fan anyway.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com