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Anyone remember these issues? Now this was a fun story!!!
"Hero Envy" The Blog Adventures: THE AVENGERS (vol.1) #164, 165, 166 (1977)
"Hero Envy" The Blog Adventures: THE AVENGERS (vol.1) #164, 165, 166 (1977)
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Yup. The good old days, when comics were comics, not socio-political commentaries!!!sigpic Oh then, what's this? Big flashy lighty thing, that's what brought me here! Big flashy lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually. But give me time. And a crayon. -
Miss those days.Comment
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Some good stories back then. Byrnes run is ok on it but I really think team books are best when done by Perez. (probably at dc at this point).Comment
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my favorite timeline for the AvengersLooking for Infinite Heroes Robin and Catwoman
And Super Powers BatmanComment
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The Byrne/Perez era was pure comic magic that is rarely equalled.I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she dumped me before we met.
If anyone here believes in psychokinesis, please raise my hand.Comment
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Absolutely one of the best.Comment
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Those were my first Avengers comics and I remember the well!
Up until that point I knew the Avengers through Marvel Super/Triple Action, which were reprints only I didn't know that, and then one time my mother was going to a bookstore and I couldn't go so I ask her to get me Avengers thinking it would be Marvel Triple Action and she came home with Avengers #164. That's when I realized that what I had been reading were reprints and that there was a current, running comic that was the Avengers. I was hooked and my comic collecting was about to really take off.Comment
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I had collected the Avengers back in '73-'74 starting with the outstanding Defenders fight, but had stopped when Swordsman was killed.
A few years later I started again out of curiousity around ish 150 for a while when Wonderman returned.
I wasn't a big Perez or Byrne fan initially nor did I like Hank McCoy much (his comical relief seemed out of place in the Avengers), but just knew their art was MUCH better than Tuska or Heck. I appreciate the Byrne/Perez years much more now than I did at the time, before the bad Milgrom/Hall art crept in.Last edited by david_b; Jan 3, '12, 10:37 AM.
Peace.. Through Superior Firepower. 
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I think my first Avenger comic (or at least the first one that made a major impression) was the issue when first Ant-Man and then Ultron attacked the mansion. Perez's art was just gorgeous (although I really didn't pay attention to the artists at that point) and the Scarlett Witch had the same effect (which I didn't fully understand at the time) as Princess Leia.Comment
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They were among the many Avengers issues acquired last year, so yeh. So much good stuff from that era in general I've found.Comment
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This was a great time to be a comic collectorComment
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Going through most of the seventies stuff with fresh eyes i can tell you that they are a good period for a reader.Comment
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