American Update: Assembling the Avengers continues – High Grade #31-60, inc. Ultron & Vision debuts
*Marvel: Our ‘Assembling the Avengers’ event continues this week: a high grade complete run in sequence from #1-200. New listings this time for every issue from #31 to #60, the period during which the creative team hit some of its greatest strengths, and provided some of the series’ most memorable moments. Stan Lee, Don Heck, Roy Thomas and John Buscema bring us the debut of the Sons of the Serpent, the premier of the Living Laser, the descent of Hercules from Olympus to Avengers Mansion, the revelation of the Red Guardian, the first appearance of the heroic Black Knight, the first grim Reaper, the addition of the Black Panther to the team, memorable clashes with Magneto, Sub-Mariner and the X-Men, the wedding of the Wasp and Yellowjacket, and – of particular interest now that trailers are being released for the second Avengers movie – the first-ever appearances of the Avengers’ robotic nemesis Ultron, and of the cuddly-but-conflicted synthezoid the Vision, who became one of the most popular Avengers ever! As with previous instalments in this mammoth Avengers listing, these are high grade copies, averaging VF or better, and approximately half of them are cents copies, unmarked by any UK price stamp or overprint. High grade unslabbed copies of the Avengers are trending more expensively, and the time to buy is now. Cover scans of #55 (1st Full appearance Ultron VF/NM £225), #57 (1st Vision VF+ £275) and #58 (origin of both Ultron and the Vision VF+ £75) may be viewed below: