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From David Wright:
Avengers #s 100, 200, 300 and 400
(1972, 1980, 1989, 1996)
Coming out soon in just a couple of weeks is the release of AVENGERS #500, with the numbering reverting back to the original reckoning in celebration of the occasion. Likewise, I thought I'd mark the occasion as well by posting all four centennial issues from AVENGERS Vol. 1. I don't know what the 500th issue has in store for us, but it has the dubious honor of trying to overcome some history. For whatever reason, AVENGERS seems to be under a curse when it comes to landmark issues as they always seem to disappoint.
The best of this quartet, most will likely agree, is the first. Issue 100 features art by Barry Windsor-Smith and it features everyone who had ever been an Avenger up to that date in the teams relatively young history. Issue 200 features some great art by George Pérez but contains one of the most controversial stories in the series history as we see Ms. Marvel leave the team. Issue 300 is widely considered a disaster as Walt Simonson gave us an all-new (and ill-considered) line-up that featured half of the Fantastic Four and a man in a cow suit (Gilgalmesh) as John Buscema's great run neared its end. Issue 400 by Mark Waid arrived under the cloud of the impending end of Volume One and immediately followed some very sub-par issues by Terry Kavanaugh and Waid himself, but if you look at this issue as a bookend with #1 to the entire series it actually works fairly well.
Barry Windsor-Smith, George Pérez, John Buscema and Mike Deodato, Jr. (cover pencils); Mike Weiringo (interior pencils for 400); Barry Smith, Joe Sinnott, Syd Shores, Ben Sean and Tom Palmer (inkers); Roy Thomas, Jim Shooter, David Michelinie, Bob Layton, George Pérez, Walt Simonson and Mark Waid (writers).
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