Avengers #37

To Conquer a Colossus!

Featuring: Avengers
Release: December 8, 1966
Cover: February 1967
12 cents
Electrifying editing by Stan Lee
Scintillating scripting by Roy Thomas
Invigorating illustrating by Don Heck
Languishing lettering by Artie Simek
20 pages

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How must it feel to be the last of your kind– alone in a world where you don’t belong? Can it be even lonelier than to live forever behind the colorful mask of… Captain America?

Ixar’s Ultroids have defeated the Avengers and plan to absorb their powers.

We learn the Ultroid who had impersonated Scarlet Witch is named Ultrana.

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Avengers #36

The Ultroids Attack!

Featuring: Avengers
Release: November 10, 1966
Cover: January 1967
12 cents
Edited by: Stan (The Man) Lee
Scripted by: Roy (The Boy) Thomas
Drawn by: Don (The One) Heck
Lettered by: Sam (The Sham) Rosen
20 pages

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It was with a feeling of eagerness… almost of exhilaration… that I donned my crimson costume once again…

Stan the Man is by far Stan’s most common nickname at this point. I think this is our first time seeing Roy the Boy. I appreciate the rhyming scheme they have going on here, except… Don and One don’t rhyme. Maybe they do in the same way as eye and symmetry.

Who was the mystery figure who confronted Captain America at the end of last issue? It turns out to be the Scarlet Witch.

Or does it?

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X-Men #21

From Whence Comes… Dominus?

Featuring: X-Men
Release: April 5, 1966
Cover: June 1966
12 cents
Exemplary editing by: Stan Lee
Extraordinary writing by: Roy Thomas
Exceptional art by: Jay Gavin
Exhilarating inking by: Dick Ayers
Exasperating lettering by: Artie Simek
20 pages

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We are now preparing to engage the enemy in his own lair– and it is always there that he is most dangerous!

Porter Mack runs the local dude ranch and thinks there may be a reward if his men capture the X-Men.

They are outmatched.

This is an example of the anti-mutant sentiment, which would make a better focus for these stories than alien invasions.

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