Avengers #110 (Englehart/Heck, Mar 1973). I’ve been trying to read in six-issue chunks, but it’s getting tricky ‘cause everything’s so intertextual now! Quicksilver’s whereabouts were revealed last month in Fantastic Four, so now I’m ahead of that book. Hawkeye wanders into an issue of Daredevil. And Magneto emerges from the Savage Land to overwhelm the bookless X-Men. Phew! This world’s just not gonna stop expanding now, and I have to accept there’s no correct and fully coherent way to track it.
Avengers #109 (Englehart/Heck, Mar 1973). With Vision and Wanda finally making things official, jealous Clint puts his old purple suit back on and strikes out on his own. Kinda startling to watch him leave — he’s one of the most tenured Avengers now!
Avengers #108 (Englehart/Heck & et al, Feb 1973). The Vision and Captain America concoct a convoluted plan to defeat the Space Phantom and the Grim Reaper. There’s been an almost delirious amount of retconning lately, and it’s an interesting device for the moment — discovering new plots and relationships between the panel margins…
