Hawkeye Reads Comics!

I adore this single page by the incomparable John Buscema and George Klein. These two blended their talents all too briefly on the Assemblers, but they created some exciting pages between them in that tiny period of time.


For one thing I like comic book pages where characters read comics, especially recognizable comics. It's fun, and suits the personality of Hawkeye (not yet revealed to be Clint Barton yet) perfectly.


And for another thing, his page is a clever multiverse-bending ending to a story from Not Brand Echh #12. The whole story can be found here at the Diversions of the Groovy Kind Blog.

The story by Roy Thomas and Tom Sutton is pretty funny and involves these "Resemblers"...er..."Revengers" at a very particular time in their history when they were arguably at their weakest. The team consisted of Goliath, the Wasp, Hawkeye, the Black Panther and brand new member the largely untried Vision.


In fact this story had to happen in between issues #58 and #59 of the Avengers run since that is the only possible time that the assembled team pictured so elegantly by Buscema and Klein ever existed. The Vision became an Avenger in issue #58 and the erratic Hank Pym doffed his Goliath duds to become Yellowjacket in issue #59.


So it is in the pages of Not Brand Echh of all places, in this weird fusion of the of the Marvel and Marble universes where we find this Avengers team assembled for the one and only time really.


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