Know the classics- Avengers 263

[Nutcase65]

I didn't even know this story existed.

The Avengers
Wasp
Cap
Captain Marvel
Black Knight
Hercules
and his first complete issue as an Avenger
Namor

find a mysterious cocoon in the ocean after a plane crash. They think, at first its, another version of Him or Her.

The cocoon fights them off with a force so great that it eventually overcomes even Hercules.

Captain Marvel finds out the cocoon has nothing to do with the crash and rushes back to the site.

Mean while Wasp (she was a really great leader for the team) Wasp figures out they need to stop fighting it. The entire time they'd been hearing a voice, so she tries to talk to it. After establishing that the Avengers are there to help the cocoon lets them remove it from th ocean and take it to Avengers mansion.

They have to step away and when they do the opaque cocoon goes transparent for just a moment to reveal

Jean Grey.
I din't know the advent of X-Factor started in Avengers

There is alos a quick shot of the developing Scourge story that entered into the Cap books.

This was a good story for me because of the surprise knowing it was out there.

7 Loonies out of 10

[Bored Yesterday]

I liked the super-villains in this. The mysterious team of old men, plotting and scheming. It was kind of comical -- and when their plane crashed into the water just like that. Very fun stuff.

[dlw66]

This is a nice two-parter and leads right into X-Factor #1. That book was a nice series until they really started screwing with the characters. That (I am referring to Hank being turned back into his original form but also losing his brain power, the advent of Archangel, etc.) coupled with the Walt Simonson art that soon took over really ruined a nostalgiac trip for me.

In regard to this story in Avengers, though -- yes, this was a good period for the team. Nice line-up, good storytelling. It would not be too soon after this, however, that the Avengers would reach a low point for me, and that was the debacle called "The Cross-Time Kangs" storyline. Too long and kind of dumb. In concept OK, but delivery -- yuck.