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112: The first appearance of Mantis.
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The Avengers I
105-152
This page: 105-114
| Roy Thomas made AVENGERS into, arguably, Marvel's top book - one I admired tremendously. And then he became Marvel's Editor-in-Chief and handed the title off to...me. Well, I had no doubt about maintaining his level of quality - which shows how ignorant I was.
I spent the first part of my run trying to do Roy Thomas stories, and feeling that I was missing the mark. Sales were good but I, an AVENGERS fan, felt less than happy with what I, the AVENGERS writer, was producing. Then in #112, I introduced a new character named Mantis. And very soon thereafter I was doing Steve Englehart stories, which turned out to work much better for me... |