The Avengers Omnibus, Vol. 1 Hardcover Author: Visit Amazon's Stan Lee Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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- Age Range: 9 and up
- Grade Level: 4 and up
- Hardcover: 744 pages
- Publisher: Marvel (February 29, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0785158464
- ISBN-13: 978-0785158462
- Product Dimensions: 3 x 4.4 x 0.7 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
This is another in the series of classic Marvel omnibuses that reprint issues that have already appeared in the Marvel Masterworks series. This volume reprints issues Avengers 1-30 so it can substitute for or replace the first three Avengers masterworks. If you happen to own the first editions of said masterworks, as I do, you will be getting a substantial upgrade in reproduction quality as well. The coloring of those first editions especially was very hit or miss. The introductions to those three Avengers masterworks, by Stan Lee, are also reproduced. Unfortunately, Lee's patter in these introductions don't really add much value to the book.
But fortunately the letters pages of these issues are also reproduced. Here Lee shines as he builds a community of readers and talent that eventually carried Marvel to the top of the comics world. The answers to reader's letters, next issue blurbs, M.M.M.S. membership coupons, and occasional Mighty Marvel Checklist are pure nostalgia.
The issues are classic Marvel as well. The early issues with the big three (Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America) and drawn by Kirby are the best but the later line up with Don Heck penciling also have their moments. The Avengers started out as a team book featuring first stringers but then started acquiring members without their own features, B and C listers like Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch to avoid overexposure (a concern you never hear of these days). I personally prefer the first approach.
Extras are generous. There are 29 pages of house ads, reprint and collection covers (four to a page), and original art.
The size is just about perfect at around 750 pages so manhandling isn't a chore like it is with some longer omnibuses.
As someone introduced to comics in the era reprinted in Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus - Volume 1 and Thor by Walter Simonson Omnibus (among others) I was never quite sure how the early years of the Marvel Age would read. Sure, the Lee-Kirby 'Fantastic Four' and the Lee-Ditko 'Spider-Man' were certified classics, but what of the 'lesser' titles?
The new Avengers film could be this summer's biggest blockbuster, but, yes, the 'Avengers' *was* one of Marvel's 'lesser' titles when it started. 'Spider-Man' and even 'Daredevil' had their own comics but none of the first Avengers, bar Thor, had books to themselves, just shared features in other titles.
Actually, this bunch of stories holds up quite well. (Still not quite a Lee-Kirby F.F. or a Lee-Ditko Spider-Man, but what is?) Some may find both the stories and the art "crude" or "unsophisticated". I find them bursting with raw energy, myths in the making before they were set in stone. (Mjolnir does not always return to Thor's hand! Captain America's indestructible shield is, so he fears, destructible!)
But enough of the historical perspective, here is a rundown of the thirty comics in this tome. (Warning: Some spoilers ahead.)
'Avengers' 1: 'The Coming of the Avengers!' -- Loki tries to trap Thor, but only succeeds in drawing together the Hulk, Iron Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp too. (The gist of the new film, perhaps?
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