Avengers #44, September 1967
The legendary John Buscema took over the regular art chores on The Avengers a few issues prior to this one, and quickly makes the series his own.
In this second part of the story that introduces the Red Guardian to the Marvel Universe, we present a terrific action page that pretty much captures the melee madness of the cover.
(Spoiler alert: Turns out the Black widow wasn’t really a widow. But, as always, we digress.)
Welcome to the 60th anniversary (!) of the Avengers, who debuted as a team in 1963.
To be continued…
