Is the Roy Thomas Avengers run the greatest team book of all time?

>>90175930
>greatest team book of all time?

Fantastic Four

Not even the best Avengers run, Roger Stern for life.

>>90175930
Needs more Beast and Wonder Man.

>>90175930

The GOAT Hank Pym costume but I'm pretty sure it lasted less than 10 issues before he Yellowjacketed

Thomas deserves to be recognized for the Avengers what Kirby is to F4 or Ditko is to Spidey. Being the best or not is debatable, but he undoubtedly created the formula for the book and is the benchmark that all runs should be judged against.

The Lee / Kirby and Lee / Heck Avengers comics are shockingly bland considering the premise and how well the soap opera melodrama was working in other books. Outside of bringing back Cap and the concept for the Kooky Quartet they're garbage.

>>90176616
>are shockingly bland
Well is was something made up on the fly to fill a slot in their publishing scheduale

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>>90176616

>Don Heck drawing literally anything but a 60's pinup girl

>>90175930
It was kind of like the best "pound for pound" team book. I don't think any cape team book ever did more with so little (read: a b-list roster).

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close, maybe

Top 15 maybe.

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BusiekVengers

No matter what he was on, Thomas was always a "solid" writer. He never pushed boundaries like the best of his peers, but you could be confident that you'd get a well done superhero story picking up one of his books pre-1990.

His run, while undoubtedly important, more paved the way for better writers. It's good, but less so than Englehart, Stern, Busiek, or Remender.

Gardner Fox Justice League of America is the best IMO

Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men

>>90180890

Mah nigga

>>90175930
Roy anything is pretty great like >>90181334 said

but Englehart was a tad better even though Thomas had one of the most influential storylines with the Kree/Skrull war

>>90180741
>>90181877
>>90181926
yup and if there was some sort of list then Millar's Ultimates should be on it, that book was dope and if this isn't strictly Marvel then Wolfman's Titans too

>>90180890
nostalgia at it's best... thanks anon

Morrison's Doom Patrol

>>90180741
>>90181926
this

>>90175930
Not even in the top 10

>>90183763
Top 10 by Moore is the greatest team book of all time

>>90181334
>Thomas was always a "solid" writer. He never pushed boundaries like the best of his peers

Conan the Barbiarian. Roy brokered the deal for the rights himself, the book was completed detached form the Marvel U, had a lead with no powers, had no humor, had no morals, etc. It pretty much recreated the genre of fantasy comics in the 70's and Roy stayed on for an almost unheard of 115 issues. That's not even including the even better Savage Sword of Conan stuff.

>>90181334

Kree-Skrull War

I'd take crazy Steve Englehart and the Roger Stern stuff over Thomas and to be honest, I don't love those either. The Avengers are a constant disappointment to me as a big Marvel fan (1961-1991 only, everything else is garbage).

I also find most celebrated Justice League runs to be overrated too. Other than Earth 2 I'm not too interested in Morrison's JLA. Some of the Fox/Sekowsky stuff is fun.

For me, the best team books are Claremont's X-Men, Kirby's Fantastic Four, and the Drake/Premiani Doom Patrol.

>>90187875
>1961-1991
Dunno if I'd go as late as '91.

>>90176616
I loved Lee/Kirby Avengers.

>>90175971
>Roger Stern for life.
Muh nigga

But the Thomas run was damn good & has gotten kind of forgotten over the years...

>>90189099
Me too, it's a lot of fun- probably my favorite Kirby work of the first 5 years of the Marvel Age.
>>90187875
>Drake/Premiani Doom Patrol
You are a huge fucking hipster and also my nigga

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>>90175930
>Herc is the only one there that hasn't been in the MCU
Do you think he'll ever make it, bros? And will he be the lovable drunk gifting battle?

>>90190898
mcu a shit