Maestre Ector will be one of the contenders to defeat the Avengers in the new volume of the Marvel Heroes line published by Panini Comics.
Panini Comics has continued year after year in the history of the Avengers in the Marvel Heroes line, and with the latest edition, we are now fully immersed in the nineties, collecting issues that find ourselves at the center. All thanks to screenwriter Bob Harras and first-time young artist Steve Epting. This volume comes to us under the title of Marvel Heroes. Avengers: The Collecting Obsession.
Underground wars
It’s all but lost today (probably for good reason), but back in those years, Marvel Comics did a good job of creating stories, with chapters divided into several annual series of related issues, and here we see a new one. An example with the story Underground Wars.
Belief in a hollow earth seems to be the norm these days, where any crazy person will spread his absurd theories on social media and statistically, there will always be a group of people paying attention to him. However, in this case we have to go back at least to the 19th century, when Jules Verne wrote Journey to the Center of the Earth (although he treated it as a novel). It’s a crazy theory that suggests there’s an underground world deep inside the earth, beneath the crust, with civilizations populating it.
But what’s important here is that it’s a reality in the Marvel Universe (and authors like Neal Adams supposedly believed in us too). So, it’s no surprise that the leaders of the underworld (the Mole Man standing out) banded together to invade the surface (especially New York, what else were they going to talk about?).
But the story is more complicated than it seems, and it is soon revealed that these invaders are actually trying to survive the threat of destruction of a race created by the celestials. The Avengers will soon support the side that threatens to destroy them.
Roy Thomas and his wife Dan Thomas are the main leads in this saga, which is not particularly bright, in which heroes like practically all the coast members of the Avengers and other heroes of the Marvel Universe will join for the final battle..
Obsession with collecting
Bob Harass and Steve Epting make their creative team debut, turning a relatively sarcastic and comical criminal like the Collector into a terrifying space giant.
But the concept of the character and the obsession with collecting is still there, and this time the goal is to have the Earth’s mightiest heroes in their foam packaging, perhaps to decorate the space shelves in his space room.
To achieve this goal, the Collector uses the Brotherhood, commanded by Master Thane Ector and also created by Celestial. But not everything goes as planned, and the result brings glorious opportunities for galactic genocide and tragic redeemed heroes.
Avengers against racism
In this volume, it is worth highlighting the small arc in which Fabian Nissa co-exists with Epting in a story full of social criticism. As the main theme of racism, the reconstructed serpent and children of hate as manifestations of evil in the country. Their problem cannot be summed up in any other way by two numbers.
The New Warriors and Rabia (a member of the Avengers who ends up being peacefully expelled when it turns out he’s a minor, later accepted by the New Warriors) become the main figures in this case. In the most complex plot we’ve ever seen in a street scene with audio. Have a nice earthly rest before the coming…
Citizen Kang
Panini Comics seems to have been lucky at the time and this arc was published thanks to Kang’s character playing a bigger role than ever before in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (as long as actor Jonathan Majors’ character problems don’t go away, Kevin Feige takes the lead).
This arc mainly focuses its efforts on giving meaning and connection to characters that, over the years, have ended up being a hodgepodge of poorly fleshed out concepts. This modern Geoff Jones routine has been done by many authors, and the result is not particularly brilliant, but it is fun to follow.
The main voice in the rest of the volume is the continuous evolution of the Avengers group, which is more frequent rotation among its members than a consulting firm in the information technology market. We don’t find particularly surprising stories, but the truth is that the group is an organization with a unique internal policy, whose operation is commendable and which results in the loss of identity given by the permanent retention of untouchable members.
Published in hardcover by Panini Comics, the deluxe edition has 616 color pages with a page size of 17 x 26 cm, and the US edition of The Avengers issues #334 to #344 and Annual #20 and #21, as well as The Incredible Hulk Annual 17, Namor Material from The Sub-Mariner Annual 1, Iron Man Annual 12, West Coast Avengers Annual 6, Captain America Annual 11, Thor Annual 17 and Fantastic Four Annual 25.
The form is Julian M. Clemente includes an introduction with various examples of ancient endurance, a large section of the new, among other things. It has a recommended retail price of €53 and goes on sale in September 2023.
Amazing heroes. Avengers: Infinity War
ISBN: 9788411506823
Master Ector and his allies have defeated the Collector, and are now heading to Earth. To stop them, the Avengers must call upon all their existing members, including a new recruit.
Also, when the Serpents attack, hatred can conquer all, unless the Avengers and his new warriors can do nothing. And two important sagas are “Secret Wars” and “Citizen Kang” from the annals of the time.
Authors: Bob Harras, Geoff Isherwood, Scott Lobdell, James Fry, Paul Abrams, Roy Thomas, Ron Wagner, Dan Thomas, Tom Morgan, Larry Alexander, Kevin West, George Freeman, Andy Kubert, David Michelini, Fabian Nicezza, Herb Trimpe. Mark Gruweld and Peter David