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Aug 16, 2017

The 40 Years of Comics Project - Day 903: Avengers v.1 #237, November 1983

https://www.comics.org/issue/37942/

Sort of a "meh" kind of ending to this set-up of super villains taking over a research facility. I suppose that considering there's over 50 issues in this run, not all of them are going to be absolutely stellar.

Spider-Man and the Avengers battle the four escaping super villains, though they only manage to capture Electro and the Rhino. Moonstone and Blackout, as I noted yesterday, will return later in the series, and to much greater effect.

The guest appearance by Spider-Man, much like the earlier Dr. Strange appearance, is in large part due to Mr. Stern's handling the scripting on the Wall Crawler's title as well, and I think it's a good thing that it's a guest appearance, and not a recruitment. Much as Spider-Man wants to join the Avengers, his semi-rogue nature means no government clearance, and thus no Avengers membership. It'll take until the team disassembles, under Brian Bendis's aegis, before Peter Parker becomes a part of the team.

More Avengers tomorrow. To be continued.

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