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Avengers Masterworks Vol. 15: The Avengers Volume 15 (Avengers (1963-1996)) Kindle & comiXology

by Steve Englehart (Author, Contributor), Tony Isabella (Author, Contributor), George Tuska (Illustrator, Artist), Format: Kindle Edition

4.5 33 ratings

Part of: Avengers (1963-1996)

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Collects Avengers (1963) #136-149 and material from Marvel Treasury Edition #7.

Earth's Mightiest Heroes have put out a call for new members — and into their ranks come the Beast, Hellcat and Moondragon! With the return of Captain America, Yellowjacket and the Wasp, it makes for one of the greatest Avengers teams of all time! And they're going to need every last one of them to overcome the challenges ahead. When the cosmic Stranger attacks and the Wasp is critically injured in battle, the Avengers must save the life of one of their own while struggling to save themselves! Then comes one of the greatest Avengers sagas of all time: In a time-traveling adventure, Earth's Mightiest must team with the Marvel heroes of the old West in a fight to overcome Kang and the Squadron Sinister!

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B073V9KK25
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Marvel (April 28, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 28, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1245849 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 264 pages

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Alex Sommers

Great addition to the Avengers series of Marvel Masterworks

Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2015

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Great addition to the Avengers series of Marvel Masterworks. The highlight has to be the debut of the Hellcat. This is pure fanboy wish-fulfillment -- tagging along with the Avengers -- finding a costume that has inherent powers (even if the original Cat costume didn't) and then becoming an Avenger-in-training. About half the volume has fantastic Perez art, but even the Tuska/Colletta and Don Heck stories aren't too bad.

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Dan Pace (feral atom)

George Perez, Hellcat, Beast, and the Squadron Supreme all in this Avengers Collection

Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2015

Collects Avengers 136-149. Extras include the cover, inside cover, and back cover for Treasury Edition 7 front and back artwork by Jack Kirby and Frank Giacoia, in-house ad for the Treasury Edition, and a page each of original art for 137 and 140 by George Tuska and Vince Colleta. Introduction is by Steve Englehart.

First appearance of Hellcat and Squadron Supreme (earlier incarnations of Marvel's take on JLA were just the main members and referred to as the Squadron Sinister). More importantly, George Perez debuts on the title that he would he would pencil more than 50 issues on-and-off over the next twenty-five years. Inbetween his stints on Avengers, Perez would also pencil ten issues of the Justice League at DC while launching the New Teen Titans. (His JLA work will be important in a few more paragraphs).

George Tuska pencils the first four issues, Don Heck does 145-146 (with help from Keith Pollard on 146). The rest are done by George Perez, his first work on the Avengers. Steve Englehart writes all but 145-146, written by Tony Isabella and Scot Edelman on 146. Tuska's art is really brought out by Vince Colletta's inking. I know he's not Marvel fans favorite Silver Age inker, but I think he matches well with Tuska on these opening issues.

137 - The Beast, Moondragon and Yellowjacket join the Avengers. Scarlet Witch and the Vision are on honeymoon. (It's so strange to see the Vision in green swim trunks). The Stranger appears. An Avenger becomes mortally wounded.

138 - Brother Orchid and the Toad?? and the Stranger while one of the Avengers lies on the brink of death.

139 - Whirlwind! If you forget that he was the Human Top, he's kinda cool (at least I thought so as a kid).

140 - Another casualty in the ranks and a mysterious woman visits Avengers' Mansion.

141 - The cover says "Sinister" but this is the Squadron Supreme, with Kang and Immortus also in the mix. Hyperion, Dr Spectrum, the Whizzer, Lady Lark, and Golden Arrow, I mean Archer, remind me of some other company's super-team…

142 - "Go West, Young Gods" - the title says it all. From Marvel/Atlas' Western titles comes Kid Colt, Two-Gun Kid, Rawhide Kid, and the original Ghost Rider/Night Rider/Phantom Rider.

143 - The big battle with Kang!

144 - "Claws". The Avengers are in trouble just before their showdown with the Squadron and they need the help of Marvel's newest heroine: Hellcat!

145-146 - Right at a cliffhanger, we get a fill-in two-parter called "the Assassin". Not one of the Avengers' brightest moments.

147-149 - The Squadron and the Serpent Crown! Issue 149 features the return of a powered-up Orca. I remember when a friend of mine got 148 and 149 back-to-back and brought them each over to read. Thor was portrayed so much more powerful than the other Avengers.

Even as kids, we knew that the Squadron were stand-ins for the Justice League. Even the name of the story, "20,000 Leagues Under Justice", made the deliberate connection. We felt like we were included in an inside joke.

There are some really good stories in this collection and a couple that don't keep up. As all the Cory-era Masterworks, the art reproduction is fantastic and very true to the original art. This is a fantastic collection.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2016

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Stephen Vincent Kempton

George Perez's debut on Avengers

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2015

The addition of George Perez to Steve Englehart's very imaginative run makes this volume an instant classic and a delight to re-read. Collected in this edition are thirteen issues of the Avengers from 1975 and 1976. Avengers #136 to #149.

The art for this collection is divided up with George Tuska penciling four issues, George Perez doing seven and Don Heck doing a two issue fill in written by Tony Isabella.

Avengers #136 is listed on the Masterwork cover but all you really get is the new Gil Kane cover since it was a reprint of the recently collected Beast solo story from Amazing Adventures #12.

Avengers #137 and #138 is the two part story that kicks off the volume. George Tuska and inker Vince Colletta are the art team. While some argue about their artistic merits , I find their art to be so Iconic that it delights me. The over all theme of the entire volume would be the "Building Of The Team " with many Avengers entering and exiting the team. This volume features the return of Janet and Hank Pym as the Wasp and the Yellowjacket. Plus Moondragon takes a more active role and The Beast debuts in his new furry form . The villain for this pair of issues appears to be the Stranger , but in reality turns out to be someone else. According to Englehart's excellent introduction he was disappointed with George Tuska's initial depiction of the Beast so he recruited Jim Starlin to redraw his first head shot .

Some of the other touches I enjoyed from this story was seeing the Vision and the Scarlet Witch on Honeymoon vacation and Hank McCoy disguising himself as Edward G. Robinson.

In Avengers # 139 Hank Pym's nemesis Whirlwind returns to battle him while his wife lays helpless in the Hospital.

Hank Pym is injured in that battle also and can not stop growing , so in Avengers #140 the returning Vision must go inside the body of Hank Pym. This is entire flip of Roy Thomas classic story (Avengers #93 ) where Hank Pym entered the body of the Vision .

George Perez makes his debut as regular penciler in Avengers #141 in a story which brings Marvel's teen romance character Patsy Walker in to the Avengers world. Engelhart had previously used her in his Beast solo stories and now continues her storyline here. This issue also reintroduces the Squadron Supreme who are all clever analogs of DC's Justice League of America. My favorite inside joke is that the Green Arrow analog the Golden Archer has a secret identity as a man named McDonald. Get it. Kang is the villain.

Englehart has a simultaneous story going on that started with Avengers #142 and #143 which follows Thor and Moondragon as they go back in time and discover that Hawkeye has joined all Marvel's Western Heroes on a team. So the Avengers meet Two Gun Kid, Ringo Kid, Rawhide Kid and Night Rider (formerly Ghost Rider ). This is a great adventure and my favorite of the collection. We do get a few pages of the present day storyline with the Squadron Supreme, but that is the "B" story.

Avengers #144 returns our focus back to the Squadron Supreme as Patsy Walker becomes an actual Super Hero, the Hellcat.

When the Western time travel story ends Two Gun Kid accompanies Hawkeye back to the future and they ride off together. Steve Englehart urges readers to follow their future adventures in the pages of Marvel Spotlight. Sadly this was never to have happened.

Next we get two fill in issues Avengers #145 and #146 which breaks the continuity of Englehart's story. Apparently Englehart is still ticked off about it because 40 years later in his introduction he refuses to comment on it other then to indicate their was a war raging for editorial control since Stan Lee left the position. That much is true when this volume started Len Wien was Editor In Chief , then Marv Wolfman and by Avengers #150 Gerry Conway would have the position and upset Englehart enough so that he leave both the Avengers and Marvel.

Anyways the two parter appears to be have done for the just canceled Giant Size Avengers. Tony Isabella writes this strange story from an idea by Scott Edelman. Don Heck does the art and Keith Pollard ads three additional pages at the beginning of Avengers # 146 to stretch it out two issues. The one shot villain or villainess The Assassin is seen at the beginning of the story with a costume which appears to be a set of chain mail with a hood that goes down past his knees golfing. This page cracked me up as imagined actually golfing in an outfit like this.

The plot has a lot of holes in it and the characters actions all seem pretty strange.

Avengers #147 to #149 returns Englehart and Perez to the book and finishes up the Squadron Supreme storyline which now highlights the Serpent Crown introduced in the Sub-Mariner book. Just a point of clarification when Roy Thomas first introduced this concept the Squadron Sinister was a group of four villains including NightHawk who went good. Later Roy introduces the Squadron Supreme as good guys , some of who have the same costumes even, but they had different identities. This apparently confused for many including the editorial staff who twice in this volume call the Squadron Supreme the Squadron Sinister on the covers of Avengers #141 and #147. Then even Englehart gets confused as he had Iron Man referring to his recent battle with Doctor Spectrum not realizing it was the other Doctor Spectrum from the Squadron Sinister.

The back matter consists of art used for Avengers Marvel Treasury edition, promotional Avengers ads, and original art reproductions. The art and color restoration are excellent and Steve Englehart's excellent introduction runs three pages so he can cover his final couple of stories from the next volume.

For 40 year old stories , I found this volume to be highly entertaining and I give it my strongest recommendation.

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