"Among Us Walks... a REVIEW!!"
Avengers 28
“Among Us Walks… a Goliath!”
In this episode of the continuing saga by Stan Lee, Don Heck and Frank Giacoia, the Collector turns up for the first time, eager to collect the set of Avengers for some reason, probably because his collection either lacks focus or is a collection of everything - we see a time machine, a levitation cloak and the beans from the legend of Jack and the beanstalk for starters. No, Stan doesn’t bother to explain to us precisely who the Collector is or where he came from, or, indeed, anything much at all about him, either because he forgot or because he did not have Jack Kirby collaborating with him to do it for him. At any rate, Heck does a good job of designing this new villain. The Avengers do a good job of defeating him and Stan has a deus ex machina whisk him off for re-use elsewhere. All in all, it’s a pretty decent mid-’sixties Marvel superhero comic and an important issue of this series in that it sees the first rejoining by one of the founder members, as Henry Pym and Janet ‘the Wasp’ Van Dyne sign up again, with Pym changing his name to ‘Goliath,’ his third name in as many years, and acquiring a new costume courtesy of the Scarlet Witch. I am not going to criticise Stan for having had Wanda make a new costume for Hank Pym just on the off-chance that he might reappear one day; not after that deus ex machina and his insistence on continuing to have Captain America squabble with Hawkeye.
“Among Us Walks… a Goliath!”
In this episode of the continuing saga by Stan Lee, Don Heck and Frank Giacoia, the Collector turns up for the first time, eager to collect the set of Avengers for some reason, probably because his collection either lacks focus or is a collection of everything - we see a time machine, a levitation cloak and the beans from the legend of Jack and the beanstalk for starters. No, Stan doesn’t bother to explain to us precisely who the Collector is or where he came from, or, indeed, anything much at all about him, either because he forgot or because he did not have Jack Kirby collaborating with him to do it for him. At any rate, Heck does a good job of designing this new villain. The Avengers do a good job of defeating him and Stan has a deus ex machina whisk him off for re-use elsewhere. All in all, it’s a pretty decent mid-’sixties Marvel superhero comic and an important issue of this series in that it sees the first rejoining by one of the founder members, as Henry Pym and Janet ‘the Wasp’ Van Dyne sign up again, with Pym changing his name to ‘Goliath,’ his third name in as many years, and acquiring a new costume courtesy of the Scarlet Witch. I am not going to criticise Stan for having had Wanda make a new costume for Hank Pym just on the off-chance that he might reappear one day; not after that deus ex machina and his insistence on continuing to have Captain America squabble with Hawkeye.