Comics Corner: Avengers 221

   

Title: Avengers
Issue Number: 221
Release Date: July 1982

Highlights

• The Avengers are looking to bolster their team to six members
• Reference is made to Avengers 211, The Amazing Spider-Man Annual 3, and Dazzler 15
• Spider-Man is on the cover of Time magazine that Thor is reading
• Spider-Man reminds Thor he's already turned the Avengers down when last time they asked him to join
• The Mechano-Maurauder, AKA Fabian Stankowicz plays a laughable villian who stands no chance against the five female super heroes
• Dazzler, Sue Storm, Spider-Woman, and Black Widow turn the offer down to join the Avengers
• Hawkeye rejoins the team, and She-Hulk takes the sixth open slot

Low Points

• None

Oddities

• What happened to Iron Man's legs when he took off into the skies?

• Spider-Man says he'll think about Thor's offer, but then we never see nor hear from him again in the issue
• Hawkeye is at work reading Playboy?

Rating (based on a 1 through 5 Stans grading system)

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Earth's Mightiest Heroes! The Avengers (Toy Biz)

Earth's Mightiest Heroes! The Avengers
Toy Biz
1999 

Toy Biz has produced a lot of Marvel superhero action figures and I've covered quite a few of them. To the point where I honestly don't know how much more I can say on the subject.

From Iron Man, to Fantastic Four, to Spider-Man, to Alpha Flight and the entire Marvel Universe as a whole, it's pretty much been covered by Toy Biz. It seemed only natural an Avengers line would eventually come. Granted in 1999, there was obviously no Marvel cinematic universe to help peddel these to.  Still, this didn't slow down sales of Marvel fans who swooped up pretty much every figure they could get their hands on - Especially the female ones.

The Avengers line of course met this call with a nice version of Scarlet Witch. This particular line was actually noteworthy for being the first series to produce and release a Scarlet Witch and Loki figure.

Toy Biz rounded out the series with a fantastic four pack which featured the original Avengers which featured Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, Giant-Man and Wasp. The package also included six separate ants to accompany your Ant-Man figure.

I also appreciate Toy Biz's attempt at scaling the figures. Giant-Man stands about one and a half times the height of Hulk, Thor and Iron Man. Meanwhile, Ant-Man and Wasp come up only to the knees of Giant-Man. Then of course there are the ants, which are about a third of the height of Ant-Man and Wasp. Overall it's a really nice set.

These days people are practically giving away the entire line. The figures sell for only a few dollars and the Avengers set can sell for as little as $20.00 - All of this of course mint in their packages.

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