The Avengers are Earth's mightiest heroes and foremost super-team... "There came a day, a day unlike any other, when Earth's mightiest heroes found themselves united against a common threat. On that day, the Avengers were born - to fight the foes no single super hero could withstand! Heed the call, then - for now, the Avengers Assemble!"
I know the founders then cap joins and then the Kooky Quartet but between that and Busieks run i got lost and didnt start reading New Avengers till before heroic age. So does anyone feel like helping me connect the dots i'd appreciate it.
@xalidin8: up until the 80's the Avengers had mostly the classic line (Cap', Thor, Iron-man, with Wasp, Pym, Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, and Vision coming and going at pretty regular intervals), usually with one or two "new members" like Falcon, She-Hulk, or Monica Rambeau.
The biggest shift happened when Hawkeye and Mockingbird started the West Coast Avengers with Iron-man (Rhodey), Wonder-man, and Tigra. From this point on, this would be the team to feature most of the classic members like Vision, the Pyms, and the Maximovs. In fact, just about every classic Avenger ended up joining this team at one point or another except for Cap' and Thor.
So, the line-up through the "East Coast" Avengers years was basically
Cap, Thor, Hercules and Black Knight became the backbone of the team and were eventually joined by Sersi, the Vision, Black Widow, and eventually Crystal (by the early 90's).
By '93 (the Avengers 30th anniversary), the West Coast Avengers had disbanned and pretty much all of the classic Avengers returned to the team to be unsuccessfully redesigned and modernized again and again until eventually just letting Busiek write a classic style Avengers book.
Even still, damn that's a lot of Avengers. Not counting the four titles above, there's still more than 40. Thanks for putting up this list, by the way, I was actually just wondering this the other day.
I noticed two mistakes, though: 24 should be Sunfire, not Sunspot, and 45 should be Ronin, not Ronan.
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