[Kaewin]

Ok its Avengers time. After this issue I need just 71 and I will have all of the Avengers from 1969


Avengers 70

"When Strikes the Squadron Sinister"

Writer Roy Thomas (My favorite Avengers writer) Artist Sal Buscema, Inker Sam Grainger


Ok Kang the Conqueror is mad, and talking in third person, because this being called The Grandmaster is making him wait. The Grandmaster offered Kang power and he wants it. So he sets a couple of his troops nearby in the ceiling (why?) to shoot the alien. I guess killing the guy is the best way to get him to give you power. The Grandmaster is aware of them and blows them up real good. he then threatens Kang and decided to set off in a contest. If Kang wins he gets power is Grandmaster wins earth dies. The Avengers are on Kang's side which cheeses them off being his enemies and all that. Gathered on the Earth is Captain America, Thor and Goliath while Wasp, Yellow Jacket, Vision and Black Panther waits. The team on the ground are waiting for their last team mate who turns out to be Iron Man. The funny thing is in the issue before, and what would be in their time hours earlier, Tony Stark was on death's door. Donald Blake had to do emergency surgery to save his life or he would croak kind of thing. But here he is all happy and fine (must have been Stan's suggestion) when a group calling themselves the Squadron Sinister shows up. They were given their power by the Grandmaster and were (clones of JLA charcaters) Whizzer, super fast runner (Flash), Dr Spectrum, energy weilding man (Green Lantern), the agile and acrobatic Nighthawk (Batman) and Hyperion last survivor from a dead world with powers beyond mortal men (Superman). They must travel to four places on the globe and fight each other. The Avengers must win. In New York Cap fights Nighthawk over the Statue of Liberty. Nighthawk uses his special plane with magnets on it to lift up the statue to take it away (WTF????) but Cap stops him and it's one win good guys. At the Taj Mahal Iron Man fights Dr Spectrum who has his power prism who talks to him.They battle until Dr Spectrum puts up his "Poly Chromatic Shield" to be safe from repulsors. IM evades and suddenly gets an idea and uses his nifty ultra violet beam on his chest that somehow drains the Prism's power. Thor goes to Egypt and fights Hyperion near the Sphinx using his hammer to shrink Hyperion into a crystal ball as a trap. Goliath is dispatched to England and argues with the Black Knight by Big Ben. Whizzer strikes and knocks over Goliath so Black Knight knocks out the Whizzer. Goliath gets mad and takes away the Knights sword b ut it is too late. Grandmaster is upset and snatches away both groups and taunts the Knight who after everyone is gone vows he will follow somehow.