The Avenging Hour

The Enchantress gets involved in two silly plots. First she tries to turn the female heroes against the team who are fighting the Masters of Evil at a Halloween Parade. Then she tries to convince Ark…

Red Wolf, the first stereotypical Native American superhero, shows up and then promptly disappears like a spirit dissolving into the ancient plains. While we all scratch our heads over that mess, the…

Hold on to your spandex, superheroes! The Man-Ape is back...and Living Laser...and Power Man...and Swordsman...and Grim Reaper too. It's the Lethal Legion! The villains kidnap the team but end up los…

Quicksilver seeks help from the Avengers after an other-dimensional warlord named Arkon kidnaps Scarlet Witch. There's some sort of plot about nuclear weapons and some bad poetry, and then it all kin…

Rick Jones returns to help the team capture Scorpio, who is actually Nick Fury, and who actually doesn't need capturing. Then Black Panther gets wrapped up in some racist shtick from the Sons of the …

This is our special blizzard-delayed episode where Jason & John recap all the wackiness of the first 71 issues (plus 2 annuals) of The Avengers. The good (a little), the bad (most of it), and the hil…

Kang kidnaps the team in order to ask them for help. See, this dude called the Grandmaster has challenged him to a cosmic game and he needs our heroes to be his pawns. So they help the guy, face off …

SHIELD invents Adamantium and Vision promptly steals it so he can rebuild Ultron. That big, bad robot still has some influence over the synthezoid he created...and we get to hear about it for three w…

The Avengers find out that Egghead has a laser-shooting satellite that can destroy entire cities, and also that Hawkeye...er...Goliath has a brother AND A NAME! Oh, and Swordsman comes back just so h…

Dr. Strange shows up and uses the team as a distraction to save the world, but leaves them stranded in Africa, so Black Panther takes them to his place where he faces off against the Man-Ape, and the…

Some guy named Yellowjacket shows up, claims to have killed Hank Pym,wants to join the team and, when refused, decides to kidnap Wasp. Things get even weirder when Yellowjacket and Wasp get married a…

As Jason and John continue to fight through their colds, The Avengers welcome a new member to their fold. Sure, the Vision tries to kill everyone first, but that's all Ultron's fault. Once that reckl…

Cap calls the team to a castle so they can time travel back and watch Bucky die again. Obviously that doesn't go well and now the team is stuck in an alternate timeline thanks to the Scarlet Centurio…

The Avengers are under attack from the Masters of Evil! Is Black Knight a good guy or a bad guy? Is the butler Jarvis a good guy or a bad guy? Is that evil robot named Ultron a good guy or a...oh, wa…

Everybody's dead! Or at least that's what the Grim Reaper wants Black Panther to think. But Panther is too good for that nonsense. He saves the team and becomes a member. Then we thankfully get some …

We apologize in advance for how awfully boring these two issues are. At least we get the end of that whole Hercules vs. Typhon thing. And Hercules officially quits the team, which leaves just three m…

So...Magneto and Toad kidnap Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch to get them back into the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Then Captain America quits. Then Hercules wanders off to Mt. Olympus in the most bori…

Hercules becomes an official team member at the Avengers Day Celebration in Central Park, Wasp blows some cash on a fancy sports car, and the team faces off with Super-Adaptoid. Then the rest of the …

Hawkeye and Hercules try to rescue Black Widow from Red Guardian and his handlers, but they end up needing to be rescued by the rest of the team instead. The Avengers do, however, save us all from th…

Sub-Mariner gets a hold of the Cosmic Cube and causes some trouble until Hercules knocks him back into the sea with a tree. Then we get a few more episodes with Scarlet Witch passing out and Wasp get…