“It's the single best issue of Avengers ever done” Those are the words of former Avengers writer Kurt Busiek in the comments of Tom Brevoort’s excellent blog, The Tom Brevoort Experience regarding Giant-Size Avengers #2. He’ll have no argument from me on that assessment. It’s an outstanding comic book with everything from Hawkeye’s return to help free his teammates from Kang the Conqueror to the incredible reveal of Mantis as the Celestial Madonna to the sadly inevitable d

A Painful Crash Back to Bi-Monthly Status Bi-Monthly. Don’t ask me why I looked at the fine print below the splash page of Iron Man #65, but I did and immediately saw that it was now published “bi-monthly.” My favorite hero who I’d started collecting just as he’d crawled out of that poor sales quicksand had stumbled right back into it. Was I all that surprised as a kid? Not really. Collecting a number of Marvel comics by that time, I grimly realized the threat of Dr. Spectr