The fourth Avengers film, Avengers: Endgame, which came out in 2019 became the highest grossing movie of all-time, unseating Avatar, which had held the record for a decade. The rest is well known superhero history! With massive global exposure through some of the biggest movies of our time, the Avengers are bigger now than they have ever been. In issue #16, the original team took a break and Cap was joined by three former villains, the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and Hawkeye. In issue #4, the Avengers famously found the long-lost Captain America floating on ice in the North Atlantic, his body preserved from aging since the end of WWII. By issue #2, Ant-Man became Giant Man and Hulk decided to leave. The original line-up consisted of Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man and the Wasp. It was the first time during the Marvel Age that the company gathered heroes from different features and made them a team. The Avengers is Marvel's core team-up book that was created by the team of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1963 in the pages of Avengers #1. In between, he's best known for his work as one of the regulars on the Julie Schwartz line of DC Comics in the from the late 1940s through the end of the Silver Age, including working as an inker over Dick Dillin's pencils on Justcie League of America. Joe Giella worked in comics for an astonishing 70 years, from his start at Fawcett in 1946 through his retirement from the Mary Worth comic strip in 2016.
#Legion of the unliving members series
What Cockrum and writers Len Wein and Chris Claremont created from a tenuous beginning grew to be biggest comic book franchise of all-time, spawning dozens of comic book spin-offs, a few hit cartoon series and several of the biggest movies of the 21st Century, with a lot more to come! He also developed the traditional costume for Wolverine and created the now iconic maskless look for the character.
Cockrum contributed his own character, Nightcrawler, and co-created Storm and Colossus. When he joined Marvel in the mid 70s, he was able to bring this same flair for creative design to what at the time was a long-shot, a revival of a canceled team book from the 60s, X-Men, this time featuring a bunch of foreign mutants, characters that were obscure at best or brand new. He first gained fame in the early 70s for his revamp of the Legion of Super-Heroes, bringing them out of the old-fashioned Silver Age and into the hip Bronze Age with dynamic new costume designs. He appeared to have died at the end of the issue, but was plucked out of the timestream by Kang and made into a member of the villains's Legion of the Unliving.ĭave Cockrum was one of the most innovative artists of his generation.
Midnight, sometimes called Midnight Sun, was introduced in the second Master of Kung Fu story, which ran in Special Marvel Edition #16 (1973). It was heady stuff for sure and the kind of mind-blowing storytelling that would turn a 12-year old boy into a lifelong fan that would end up writing about it for this entry 45 years later. The Swordsman was killed during the story, but Mantis ended up getting married (in a dual ceremony with the Vision and the Scarlet Witch) to a sentient tree that contained the spirit of the Swordsman (or at least looked like him) and the two ascended to a higher plane of existence, where she would give birth to a child that would grow up to save the universe. Unraveling details of her past, which was composed of fake memories, she became the "Celestial Madonna" (the perfect human being).
Mantis was Vietnamese prostitute/ninja (you can't make this stuff up) who first appeared in Avengers #112 (1973). In short, the Swordsman, a character introduced back in Avengers #19 (1965) had returned to the Avengers and brought Mantis with him. Written by the visionary Steve Englehart and drawn by Dave Cockrum, Sal Buscema and other artists, "The Celestial Madonna" saga was the most ambitious Marvel story up to that time. The page features the Madonna herself, Mantis, in a martial arts battle with Midnight, a character who was dead at this point in Marvel continuity but brought back as part of Kang's Legion of the Unliving.Ībout Mantis and "The Celestial Madonna" saga Dimensions: The image has an approximate image area of 10" X 15".įrom the popular "Celesstial Madonna" saga that ran through several issues of Avengers and Giant-size Avengers written by the great Steve Englehart comes this page from Giant-size Avengers with breakdowns and the beloved Dave Cockrum and finishes by long-time artist Joe Giella.
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