Buscema and Palmer is a god tier penciler-inker team - Buscema looks good with just about any inker but he's worked with some of the best - Alcala, Chan, Sinnott, Janson...Also, I love the Palmer painted movie poster style covers - he did one for the last issue of Avengers Vol 1 that looks great
You hit the nail on the head. This issue was a return to greatness after almost 50 issues of lousy art. Al Milgrom, Brent Breeding, and Joe Sinnott made the book almost readable again, but this is the issue where the art levelled up to Stern's writing. Captain Marvel is another character Stern created (along with Hobgoblin) that Marvel editorial screwed over after pushing Stern out. Compare what she's doing in this issue with her revised power in the late '80s of basically being able to take a punch.
@@srpyle Mark Gruenwald wanted Captain America to be leader of the Avengers, maybe in a way that made Captain Marvel look incompetent. Stern disagreed, so he was fired. So with Walt Simonson as the writer, Monica was injured in a battle with some sort of sea-serpent that resulted in Namor's wife being killed. After a few, Monica Rambeau was brought back in a special by (I think) Christopher Priest and Mark Bright were now that she could be punched and the force of the blow would go elsewhere. I think her best outing since Stern left The Avengers was miniseries called New Wave with Machine Man and Ilsa Bloodstone.
John byrne seem to be goin through some wierd realization. Perhaps he was hasty in chiding Kirby for being disgruntled. And was planning on leaving marvel after disassembling every character and team he ran across. Not realizing the new generation of creators would make an even bigger mess
The thing that sticks in my crawl about Byrne when he was writing The Avengers was during Acts of Vengeance, Captain America didn't seem to know Tony Stark was Iron Man, completely ignoring the Molecule Man story during Shooter's second run.
Buscema and Palmer is a god tier penciler-inker team - Buscema looks good with just about any inker but he's worked with some of the best - Alcala, Chan, Sinnott, Janson...Also, I love the Palmer painted movie poster style covers - he did one for the last issue of Avengers Vol 1 that looks great
Loved the Avengers from 82 to 86 i collected 12 core titles and Avengers was one of them.Great days from childhood
@@footballking-z5m 86 seems to be the magic number
Marvel changed drastically
You hit the nail on the head. This issue was a return to greatness after almost 50 issues of lousy art. Al Milgrom, Brent Breeding, and Joe Sinnott made the book almost readable again, but this is the issue where the art levelled up to Stern's writing. Captain Marvel is another character Stern created (along with Hobgoblin) that Marvel editorial screwed over after pushing Stern out. Compare what she's doing in this issue with her revised power in the late '80s of basically being able to take a punch.
@@VonWenk Thanks! I was not aware they depowered Monica in the later 80s. When did that happen?
@@srpyle Mark Gruenwald wanted Captain America to be leader of the Avengers, maybe in a way that made Captain Marvel look incompetent. Stern disagreed, so he was fired. So with Walt Simonson as the writer, Monica was injured in a battle with some sort of sea-serpent that resulted in Namor's wife being killed. After a few, Monica Rambeau was brought back in a special by (I think) Christopher Priest and Mark Bright were now that she could be punched and the force of the blow would go elsewhere. I think her best outing since Stern left The Avengers was miniseries called New Wave with Machine Man and Ilsa Bloodstone.
John byrne seem to be goin through some wierd realization. Perhaps he was hasty in chiding Kirby for being disgruntled. And was planning on leaving marvel after disassembling every character and team he ran across. Not realizing the new generation of creators would make an even bigger mess
The thing that sticks in my crawl about Byrne when he was writing The Avengers was during Acts of Vengeance, Captain America didn't seem to know Tony Stark was Iron Man, completely ignoring the Molecule Man story during Shooter's second run.