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Of course... it isn't as if there was any particular shortage of non-team affiliated super-hero types, at any given moment, who weren't happy to oblige "Earth's Mightiest Super-Team," if and when the opportunity for a rumble ever presented itself. Here we see the Native American super-hero known as Red Wolf, attacking the mighty Thor with... ummmmm...

... wellllll... with a wolf, actually.

Call me madman or fatalist, if you must... but somehow, I just don't see this particular steel cage match lasting much beyond Round One, myself.

(" ... hmmmmmmm... I'll tell you this much, Mr., ummm, 'Red Wolf,' sir in all my years as an Emergency Room physician... I've certainly never been called upon to dislodge this large an animal from a place like... THAT, before...")

Now, here's something that'll let you know -- right off the crack of the bat -- that you're reading a comic book from the 70's a special "Woman's Liberation" issue... complete with obligatory "male chauvinist pigs" reference, right smack dab on the cover...!

I wonder if writer Roy Thomas (who penned this particular issue... and many more, besides; along with Steve Englehart, he shares co-honors -- to my way of thinking, anyway -- as the "definitive" AVENGERS scribe) ever takes this one out of storage, in the privacy of his own home, and muses "... migawd... what was I thinking of, that month...?"

Moving on to something a bit more "classic" in nature here we have the cover to the very first chapter of the legendary "Kree/Skrull War" -- quite possibly still the all-time winnah and champeen amongst AVENGERS cognoscenti, in terms of "Avengers Storyline Most Likely To Knock You Back Onto Your Keister."

(A few years ago, Marvel issued a series of inexpensive reprint volumes, collecting issues #92-97 of the storyline -- admittedly, the "guts" of the tale -- but inexplicably left out the pivotal prior three issues [including this one] that only, you know, set up the entire premise, is all. Go figure.)

And people wonder why Marvel's currently (as of this writing, anyway) in bankruptcy proceedings.

Just a drop-dead gorgeous Neal Adams cover, here.

(Actually it's all a Nasty Evil Bad plot by the villainous alien shape-shifters known as the Skrulls. Yup... you got it; another installment of the aforementioned "Kree/Skrull War" saga. Just about as good as mainstream super-hero comics get, really. Hie thee hence to your nearest local comics shop, and snap up the back issues. And then come right back here and say "thank you, Mr. Cheeks, sir.")

The penultimate chapter to (... you're all way ahead of me on this one; I have a "sixth sense" for these things) the "Kree/Skrull War" storyline. Notice that our favorite emotionless android guy -- the Vision -- is having the cybernetic equivalent of a really bad hair day.

"... lousy, rotten Skrull! Call my mother a toaster, willya...?!?"

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