Before starting including the obligatory videos for our first Sal Buscema AVENGERS post I have decided to add a second part so that way we can cover all the issues from the period when Sal Buscema was inked by Sam Grainger and Jim Mooney and start our third Sal Buscema AVENGERS post in the period when Joe Staton was doing the inks on Sal Buscema which he also did when Sal Buscema's started his run on THE INCREDIBLE HULK.
Now when you are looking for original artwork from Marvel Comics in the 1970s you might come across a page that is half empty like this page.
That's because somebody - probably Stan Lee - had the bright idea to split pages so that you would get two pages where the bottom half or the top half was empty and you could fill that empty space with more ads. They probably also thought that this could trick the readers into believing that they got an additional page of art when in reality the art for one page was just split between two pages. Of course this didn't fool any of the readers even if the company managed to sell more ad space.
Now the reason why a lot of people who read comicbooks Today don't know anything about this is that for the collected editions they put the two halves together again which I reckon can't have been an easy task.
Continuing with our stroll down memory lane with Sal Buscema's tenure on THE AVENGERS we cover issues 86, 87, 88, 89, 90 and 91 in which the Avengers find themselves in a parallel universe where they team up with the Squadron Supreme, team up with Avengers founding member Hulk against the one eyed villainy of Psyklops ( not to be confused with X - Men member Scott Summers codename Cyclops ), and find themselves involved in what will become the Kree - Skrull War during which Neal Adams and John Buscema will take over pencilling duties on the book.
Speaking about the Avengers journey to another parallel world, there is an interesting thought writer Roy Thomas confronts the readers through the character of the Vision at the end of issue 86 : the Avengers travelled to a a different parallel world and when that world was saved they were rescued by their fellow teammates and brought back to their own world.
Or were they ? How can they be sure that they were not found by the same four Avengers from another - a third - world and brought to their home dimension were things as exactly like at home. Or maybe not.
Maybe there are some slight differences but for some reason or another they do not notice them. They may be living out their lives on a foreign world while the Avengers from this world are still somewhere out there missing and the other Avengers teammates may still be searching for them. But they will never know for sure and that's always one of those brain wrecking questions that can haunt you for the rest of your life.
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