"This Review Unleashed!"
Avengers 29 (June, 1966)
“This Power Unleashed!”
In this episode of the continuing saga by Stan Lee, Don Heck and Frank Giacoia, we start with a Doctor informing the Avengers that Goliath is stuck at ten feet tall for the foreseeable future. This causes him to storm out in a fit of self-pity. We then switch to somewhere in the Far East, where some Evil Communists have brainwashed the Black Widow into attacking the Avengers, which makes me wonder if Stan Lee was aware that various Communist countries were different powers rather than one enormous happy family. At any rate, the basic plot of this issue is that the brainwashed Black Widow recruits Power Man and the Swordsman to attack the Avengers, then attempts to recruit Hawkeye, who realises that she’s been brainwashed. Other Avengers realise that there’s something amiss and blunder in in attempts to help, but only prevail when they are all together teamed up against the trio of villains. Goliath seems to officially return to the Avengers while bemoaning the fact that he can never return to normal (I can be flippant about this as I know he gets better). Cap opines that Hank is the most tragic Avenger of all. The end.
It’s a pretty basic story, but Stan manages to handle it quite well; it would seem that he is getting the hang of the writing lark. He even manages to curb his Cap/Hawkeye squabbling most of the time. The art is what one might expect from Heck and Giacoia: mostly a mess but with the occasional glimmer of good stuff showing through. Even Kirby’s cover is not on eof his better ones - he doesn’t seem to know what to do with a ten-foot-tall character.
“This Power Unleashed!”
In this episode of the continuing saga by Stan Lee, Don Heck and Frank Giacoia, we start with a Doctor informing the Avengers that Goliath is stuck at ten feet tall for the foreseeable future. This causes him to storm out in a fit of self-pity. We then switch to somewhere in the Far East, where some Evil Communists have brainwashed the Black Widow into attacking the Avengers, which makes me wonder if Stan Lee was aware that various Communist countries were different powers rather than one enormous happy family. At any rate, the basic plot of this issue is that the brainwashed Black Widow recruits Power Man and the Swordsman to attack the Avengers, then attempts to recruit Hawkeye, who realises that she’s been brainwashed. Other Avengers realise that there’s something amiss and blunder in in attempts to help, but only prevail when they are all together teamed up against the trio of villains. Goliath seems to officially return to the Avengers while bemoaning the fact that he can never return to normal (I can be flippant about this as I know he gets better). Cap opines that Hank is the most tragic Avenger of all. The end.
It’s a pretty basic story, but Stan manages to handle it quite well; it would seem that he is getting the hang of the writing lark. He even manages to curb his Cap/Hawkeye squabbling most of the time. The art is what one might expect from Heck and Giacoia: mostly a mess but with the occasional glimmer of good stuff showing through. Even Kirby’s cover is not on eof his better ones - he doesn’t seem to know what to do with a ten-foot-tall character.