MARK WAID’S TOP AVENGERS STORIES
The Doctor Strange and Avengers: No Surrender writer shares his must-read Avengers arcs!
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What If the Avengers Had Never Been?
In What If? (1977) #3
An out-of-continuity story, but inarguably one of the single best-looking comic books Marvel has ever published. Jim Shooter killed on the script, Gil Kane’s penciling was at its peak, and Klaus Janson’s inks and colors brought everything to life. This is on my short list of desert-island comics.
In Avengers (1963) #93
To this day, it’s hard to find anything more visually stunning in comics than Neal Adams drawing Ant-Man inside the Vision’s body.
In Avengers (1963) #129
Read through #133! There is nothing I don’t love about this arc, my favorite Marvel story of all time – a perfect mixture of continuity wrangling and forward-thinking storytelling. Follow up with Giant-Size Avengers (1974) #2-4.
In Avengers (1963) #171
The beginning of the Korvac Saga, all behind a beautiful George Pérez cover. Read through #177.