Nov. '86 - West Coast Avengers # 14

This series was just goofy fun! It had wacky villains, bad costumes and weird situations. One villain was Master Pandemonium. He had a hole in his chest that he was trying to fill by finding demons who had pieces of him (or something like that). When he was threatened his legs and arms would change into demons and leave his body to fight for him. So you'd have him floating in the sky, his costume flapping in the breeze since his arms and legs were gone!

Wonder Man had the worst costume I have ever seen on a character. It was a red and green bodysuit with the jet packs on the back and a big W on the front. It was just awful. Hank Pym hung around as their butler!?! He'd answer the phone, run errands, etc. Which was an odd situation for someone who was a founding member of the Avengers.

The comic was entirely different from the regular Avengers title which was serious super-hero adventure. But I kept buying it because you had to see what they would do next. Steve Englehart wrote this. In the 70's he was really big. His run on Justice League of America (I think it was a year long) was incredible. Real character development which was a change from most issues of that series back then. Here the feel was totally different. It was similar to his Vision and Scarlet Witch limited series which had just finished. Much more light-heartened, visits from many characters, very hopeful. You never felt like things were ever that dangerous.