{"product_id":"marvel-comics-library-avengers-volume-1-1963-1965","title":"MARVEL COMICS LIBRARY AVENGERS Volume 1 1963-1965","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew smaller size edition of the $200 XL volume. Super-hero teams had been around since the 1940s, but Thor, Ant Man, the Wasp, Hulk, and Iron Man broke new ground when they joined forces to form the Avengers in 1963. They not only fought together, they occasionally fought each other! The first 20 stories, never before reproduced so large as in this Hulk-sized volume, include the Silver Age return of Captain America (#4), and the wild original stories of the early team with The Hulk, in and out of the team, Iron Man, Thor, Ant-Man and the Wasp! Plus lots of bonus features, from house ads to staff pictures and anecdotes.\n\nBy early 1963 the foundations of the Marvel Age had been laid. Following the introduction of the Fantastic Four in 1961 came the amazing (Spider-Man), the astonishing (Ant-Man), the strange (Doctor, that is), the incredible (Hulk), the invincible (Iron Man) and the mighty (Thor). Still, Marvel editor-in-chief \u003cstrong\u003eStan Lee\u003c\/strong\u003e realized something was missing. “I was writing these characters and I thought it would fun to put them together in a team,” he recalled. So Lee and \u003cstrong\u003eJack Kirby\u003c\/strong\u003e assembled Iron Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Thor, and the Hulk to create the Avengers.\n\nRight away it was clear this team was different. If the Fantastic Four were family, then the Avengers were the co-workers you didn’t choose. Not everyone got along -- the Hulk fought with everyone -- but working together they could defeat the baddest of Marvel’s bad guys, like Loki, Kang the Conqueror, the Masters of Evil, and Immortus. The lineup was ever changing: The Hulk departed, Captain America joined, and Ant-Man grew up to become Giant-Man. Then, remarkably, villains Hawkeye, Quicksilver, and the Scarlet Witch became heroes -- and Avengers -- and the group’s founding members shockingly departed, leaving Captain America to lead the newly-minted heroes.\n\nTaschen has attempted to create an ideal representation of these books as they were produced at the time of publication. The most pristine pedigreed comics have been cracked open and photographed for reproduction in close collaboration with Marvel and CGC, the Certified Guaranty Company. Each page has been photographed as printed more than half a century ago, then digitally remastered using modern retouching techniques to correct problems with the era’s inexpensive, imperfect printing,  as if hot off of a world-class 1960s printing press.\n\nAccompanying the stories are an original foreword by Marvel Studios President \u003cstrong\u003eKevin Feige\u003c\/strong\u003e and an in-depth history by the Eisner Award-winning writer \u003cstrong\u003eKurt Busiek\u003c\/strong\u003e that’s illustrated with original art, little-seen photographs, and rare documents. This mighty collection about Earth’s Mightiest Heroes is worthy of Tony Stark’s library -- or yours.\n\nThe XL edition of \u003cem\u003eAmazing Spider-Man \u003c\/em\u003eis sold out and the XL edition of this could soon follow. But we do have copies as I write this, as well as Volume 2, in the huge XL size. Taschen doesn’t often reprint their XL books.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taschen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59642917388574,"sku":"MARSAV01H","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0999\/0684\/7006\/files\/marsav01h-marvel-comics-library-avengers-reg-ed-book.jpg?v=1784512295","url":"https:\/\/shop.budsartbooks.com\/products\/marvel-comics-library-avengers-volume-1-1963-1965","provider":"Bud's Art Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}