American Update: Avengers Assemble! Key and early issues
*Marvel: With the popularity of Marvel’s Avengers mounting ever higher in anticipation of the Avengers/Guardians of the Galaxy movie mash-up Infinity Gauntlet, we are delighted to present three early issues previously absent from our Avengers inventory. #11 features the Avengers’ first encounter with the Amazing Spider-Man, scarcer than most issues around this period. This copy is VG cents at £60. #16, of course, featured the groundbreaking line-up change, the first time a major super-hero team had jettisoned so much of its old roster for new recruits, as Giant-Man, the Wasp, Thor and Iron Man were replaced by Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch and Hawkeye. This is a VG pence copy at £65. And finally – for now – issue #19 featured the premiere appearance of the Swordsman, who joined the Avengers only to betray them, and subsequently spent decades flipping from hero to villain (and life to death to life, but let’s not get started on that) with abandon. This VG cents copy of #19 is on sale at £23. SORRY, #11 & #16 NOW SOLD