Marvel Masterworks Avengers HC (1988-Present Marvel) 1st Edition comic books 2009-2011

Volume 9 - 1st printing. Collects Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #80-88 and Incredible Hulk (1962-1999 1st series) #140.

Written by ROY THOMAS and HARLAN ELLISON. Art by JOHN BUSCEMA, SAL BUSCEMA, HERB TRIMPE, and FRANK GIACOIA. Cover by JOHN BUSCEMA.

Rascally Roy Thomas and Big John Buscema are back again with another batch of true Avengers classics! They've packed so many fantastic firsts into these pages, there's no time to delay so here we go: First you'll meet a new face in the Marvel Universe, the Native American hero, Red Wolf!

Then, it's all-out invasion when the Zodiac take over Manhattan, followed by the first appearance of the Defender-to-be, Valkyrie and the Lady Liberators. Then comes a set of other-dimensional threats that helped defined a decade: the sword-and-sorcery menace, Arkon, and the evil super-team, the Squadron Sinister. Follow that up with the origin of the Black Panther, and a crossover classic penned by Roy and the award-winning titan of speculative fiction, Harlan Ellison, that pits the Avengers with the Hulk in an adventure that changed ol' Greenskin forever.

With guest-star appearances by Peter Parker, Aunt May, the Fantastic Four, Black Widow, the Inhumans' Medusa, Professor X and Roy Thomas himself there's no denying that the entire Marvel Universe has fallen in for this one, so reserve that copy today, True Believer!

Hardcover, 224 pages, full color.

Cover price $54.99.

Volume 10 - 1st printing. Collects Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #89-100.

Written by ROY THOMAS. Art by NEAL ADAMS, SAL BUSCEMA, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH and JOHN BUSCEMA. Cover by BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH.

The Marvel Masterworks bring you the original be-all, end-all Avengers event-Kree/Skrull War-in the march up to Avengers #100! Caught in the crossfire, Earth has become the staging ground for a conflict of star-spanning proportions! For those eternal intergalactic enemies, the merciless Kree and the shape-changing Skrulls, have gone to war, and our planet is situated on the front lines! Can Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Avengers, bring about an end to the fighting before humanity becomes a casualty of war? And what good are even a dozen super-powered champions against the vast military machines of two of the great empires of the cosmos? The key to victory lies with the expatriate Kree Captain Mar-Vell and his human host, honorary Avenger Rick Jones! And because one super-saga wasn't enough, we'll wrap it up with a three-part classic that assembles every Avenger from day one against the combined threat of Ares and the Enchantress in Avengers #100.

Written by fan-favorite Roy Thomas and featuring the trend-setting artwork of Neal Adams and Barry Windsor-Smith, there's no disputing the fact they're Marvel Masterworks one and all!

Hardcover, 304 pages, full color.

Cover price $54.99.

Volume 11 - 1st printing. Collects Avengers (1963-1996 1st Series) #101-111 and Daredevil (1964-1998 1st Series) #99.

Written by ROY THOMAS, STEVE ENGLEHART, HARLAN ELLISON and STEVE GERBER. Art by RICH BUCKLER, DON HECK, GEORGE TUSKA, JOHN BUSCEMA, DAVE COCKRUM, JIM STARLIN and SAM KWESKIN. Cover by JOHN BUSCEMA.

Avengers Assemble!

Back in another beautifully restored MARVEL MASTERWORKS edition, Cap, Iron Man, Thor and the gang present another set of trendsetting adventures!

Starting off with an intriguing Harlan Ellison adaptation, there's no time wasted upping the ante when the mutant-hunting Sentinels return from the heart of the sun. Then, the order changeth! After six years as writer of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Roy Thomas passes the torch to the new scribe who would take the super-team to even loftier heights. Enter: Steve Englehart! Without skipping a beat, he descends into the time-lost Savage Land and brings back the Black Panther - all the while devising the machinations of the Grim Reaper and the Space Phantom that cruelly twist the Vision to their will. The tension peaks when Hawkeye quits, and the mutant menace Magneto takes out not just the Avengers, but the X-Men, too. Toss in Daredevil and the Black Widow, and what we've got here is an epic in the Marvel manner. So reserve that copy today, True Believer!

Hardcover, 272 pages, full color.

Cover price $54.99.