Avengers #7 is the issue where two of Marvel’s separate mythologies stop being separate. Odin banishes the Enchantress and the Executioner from Asgard; they land on Earth; they find Baron Zemo, loose since the previous issue; and the three of them form an alliance in which nobody actually shares a goal. Zemo wants Captain America. The Executioner wants the Enchantress. The Enchantress wants Thor. It is a villain team held together entirely by mutual usefulness, which is a more sophisticated piece of plotting than a 1964 twelve-cent comic had any obligation to attempt.
The Avengers, for their part, are coming apart without help. Iron Man is suspended for a week over a missed call. Captain America finds Rick Jones in Bucky’s old uniform and refuses to let it stand — a small, sharp scene that Marvel writers have been returning to for sixty years, because it is the moment Cap’s grief over Bucky becomes explicit on the page. Loki appears in cameo.
Stan Lee scripts. Jack Kirby and Chic Stone handle cover and interiors, and the cover is among the strongest of the early run: Thor mid-swing at dead center, the team scattered behind, the three villains packed into the lower frame.
CGC 7.5, Very Fine-, with cream to off-white pages. Certification number 1175960009. A solid, honestly graded mid-to-high grade copy of an early Avengers issue that tends to be overlooked next to its neighbors — and is priced accordingly.
Ships in a Gemini graded-comic mailer with honeycomb kraft void fill, fully insured, within one business day of cleared payment.
Avengers #7 is the issue where two of Marvel’s separate mythologies stop being separate. Odin banishes the Enchantress and the Executioner from Asgard; they land on Earth; they find Baron Zemo, loose since the previous issue; and the three of them form an alliance in which nobody actually shares a goal. Zemo wants Captain America. The Executioner wants the Enchantress. The Enchantress wants Thor. It is a villain team held together entirely by mutual usefulness, which is a more sophisticated piece of plotting than a 1964 twelve-cent comic had any obligation to attempt.
The Avengers, for their part, are coming apart without help. Iron Man is suspended for a week over a missed call. Captain America finds Rick Jones in Bucky’s old uniform and refuses to let it stand — a small, sharp scene that Marvel writers have been returning to for sixty years, because it is the moment Cap’s grief over Bucky becomes explicit on the page. Loki appears in cameo.
Stan Lee scripts. Jack Kirby and Chic Stone handle cover and interiors, and the cover is among the strongest of the early run: Thor mid-swing at dead center, the team scattered behind, the three villains packed into the lower frame.
CGC 7.5, Very Fine-, with cream to off-white pages. Certification number 1175960009. A solid, honestly graded mid-to-high grade copy of an early Avengers issue that tends to be overlooked next to its neighbors — and is priced accordingly.
Ships in a Gemini graded-comic mailer with honeycomb kraft void fill, fully insured, within one business day of cleared payment.
