Simon Williams was introduced as a man with nothing left to lose. His company had been outpaced by Tony Stark's, he had stolen to keep it alive, and he was serving time when Baron Zemo and the Enchantress came for him. Zemo's offer was a poisoned one: ionic power enough to trade blows with Thor, in a body that would fail within a week unless Zemo kept supplying the cure. The job was to earn the Avengers' trust and walk them into a trap. At the last moment he couldn't do it. He turned on Zemo and died for the team he'd been sent to betray.
Marvel kept circling back to him. In 1968 the Vision was revealed to think with Wonder Man's recorded brain patterns, which made a dead villain-turned-hero the ghost inside one of the Avengers' best-loved members. Williams himself returned in the 1970s, and in 2026 Yahya Abdul-Mateen II played him in his own Disney+ series.
Kirby and Chic Stone's cover sells the debut with pure Silver Age showmanship: the founding Avengers' heads floating above a new man in green and red, Zemo, the Enchantress and the Executioner below him, and a banner promising Marvel's "newest, most dynamic surprise character." Turn the slab over for a Famous Artists Schools ad in which illustrator Albert Dorne goes looking for "people who like to draw."
This copy is graded CGC 5.0 (Very Good/Fine) with off-white to white pages.
CGC certification #4788512017. Ships fully insured in a Gemini graded-comic mailer within one business day.
Simon Williams was introduced as a man with nothing left to lose. His company had been outpaced by Tony Stark's, he had stolen to keep it alive, and he was serving time when Baron Zemo and the Enchantress came for him. Zemo's offer was a poisoned one: ionic power enough to trade blows with Thor, in a body that would fail within a week unless Zemo kept supplying the cure. The job was to earn the Avengers' trust and walk them into a trap. At the last moment he couldn't do it. He turned on Zemo and died for the team he'd been sent to betray.
Marvel kept circling back to him. In 1968 the Vision was revealed to think with Wonder Man's recorded brain patterns, which made a dead villain-turned-hero the ghost inside one of the Avengers' best-loved members. Williams himself returned in the 1970s, and in 2026 Yahya Abdul-Mateen II played him in his own Disney+ series.
Kirby and Chic Stone's cover sells the debut with pure Silver Age showmanship: the founding Avengers' heads floating above a new man in green and red, Zemo, the Enchantress and the Executioner below him, and a banner promising Marvel's "newest, most dynamic surprise character." Turn the slab over for a Famous Artists Schools ad in which illustrator Albert Dorne goes looking for "people who like to draw."
This copy is graded CGC 5.0 (Very Good/Fine) with off-white to white pages.
CGC certification #4788512017. Ships fully insured in a Gemini graded-comic mailer within one business day.
