That's The Call For Marvel's First Non-Family Superhero Team To Come Together!

This comic book title was from Marvel Comics of course!

The first volume ran from September of 1963 to September 1996 with 402 issues!

The first issues featured Ant-Man/Giant-Man & the Wasp, The Mighty Thor, Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man!

This was the type of superhero team that Publisher Martin Goodman wanted when he directed Stan Lee to create a superhero team to compete against National (DC) Comics' Justice League of America!

Only One Problem then... there weren't any Marvel Super-heroes around in 1961!

Captain America, the Human Torch and Sub-Mariner had been revived briefly in the mid 1950's but didn't last! 

That is why the Fantastic Four were born! Stan and Jack had to create a brand new team! 

But Stan Lee had a problem by issue #16!  Almost all of the super-heroes in the Avengers had their own comic book also, and the continuity was hard to keep track of!

So with issue #16, pictured to the top left, Captain America took over as team leader and new 'Avengers' were brought in. That was the START of seemingly hundreds of super-heroes to be Avengers in the upcoming years!! LOL!

To see what issues we have in stock, just click on the comic book cover to the top left!

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Michael