The AVENGERS #111 TRUE BELIEVERS REPRINT...

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Here's another True Believers ish, this time reprinting The Avengers #111, available from your local comicbook shop now.  And it costs only a fraction of what you'd probably pay to buy the original issue in pristine condition.

Y'know, I'm a big fan of Don Heck's artwork in general, but there's a point in his career where he went off the boil - sometime in the '70s, I'd say.  His figure-work became a bit loose and 'floaty', by which I mean that his characters didn't appear to be planted firmly on the ground, or looked as if they were just on the verge of floating upwards.  In his later days, Don himself blamed the inkers as the reason for any negative criticism of his work, but I think the blame lay closer to home.

Take a look at the splash page (below) for example.  Anyone else see that Wanda's right leg is shorter than her left?  That wasn't the inker's fault, that's the way Don drew it.  Still, his '60s Iron Man and Avengers tales were a delight, so let's hope that Marvel gets around to reprinting some more of them as TBs.

 

A MIGHTY MARVEL MIX-UP...

 

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Take a look at the first of the above two panels from page 4 of The Avengers #43.  Can you spot the mistake?  Well, it'd be hard to miss, wouldn't it?  Surely, though, the writer (Roy Thomas) who scripted the dialogue also indicated what the 'sound-effect' should be?  Wait, I've got it - it's a doorbell that chimes like a door-knock.  That's surely worth a 'No-Prize' if anything is, eh?  I'm a certified genius.  (Certified anyway - I may have imagined the 'genius' part.)