COMICS: John Cassaday Pays Homage To Five Decades Of THE AVENGERS In Variant Covers

COMICS: John Cassaday Pays Homage To Five Decades Of THE AVENGERS In Variant Covers

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, John Cassaday will provide five variant covers for Uncanny Avengers #19. They feature his take on the various iterations of the team from the 60's right up until the present day. Hit the jump to check them out!

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By JoshWilding - Aug 16, 2013 01:08 PM EST
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isee
isee - 8/16/2013, 2:03 PM
Awesome stuff. When Cassaday is on, he is ON! Love the last one.
sameoldthing
sameoldthing - 8/16/2013, 2:04 PM
Never liked Wolverine in The Avengers..other mutants like Beast,Scarlet Witch,Quicksilver were okay.
The fewer mutants the better actually. Stay with X-Men.

Cool cover art.
HelaGood
HelaGood - 8/16/2013, 2:08 PM
i really dont like his art. at all. ever.
HAILHYDRA
HAILHYDRA - 8/16/2013, 2:09 PM
I'm not a fan of his art. All of his characters have fat awkward heads.
ATrueHero1987
ATrueHero1987 - 8/16/2013, 2:12 PM
Why the [frick] isn't Hulk in the first cover?
Minato
Minato - 8/16/2013, 2:17 PM
Captain America the heart of the Avengers
SnapperCarr
SnapperCarr - 8/16/2013, 2:20 PM
Where the [frick] is Hulk?
rise217
rise217 - 8/16/2013, 2:38 PM
who is the girl in black and white on the 4th cover??
pesmerga44
pesmerga44 - 8/16/2013, 2:40 PM
Because truth be told Hulk while he was a founding member in the comics he was part of the team for three issues and then quit the team he even came back and tried to kill the team with Namor in one issue. Throughout the history of the Avengers besides recently he wasn't a part of them I actually see him more a Defender being a founding member of that team and being involved in almost all of their story lines. Captain America is much more a crucial part of the heart of the Avengers hence why he is given honorary founding member status.
pesmerga44
pesmerga44 - 8/16/2013, 2:41 PM
@rise217
The Inhuman Crystal with powers over the four elements of Fire, Earth, Wind, and Water married Quicksilver and had a daughter with him.
CherryBomb
CherryBomb - 8/16/2013, 2:45 PM
@Pesmerga who's the girl in the red on that same cover, it can't be Scarlet Witch can it ?
BlindJustice
BlindJustice - 8/16/2013, 3:03 PM
Some good classic stuff here. I will agree though that I'm not a big fan of his art. I've often wondered why he is scared to draw necks. *shrug* They are nice flashbacks to my childhood, although I was more into the FF and X-Men.
BlindJustice
BlindJustice - 8/16/2013, 3:06 PM
Odd that we see Scarlet Witch, but no sign of Quicksilver on any of these covers. I never thought of him as an Avenger that much anyways. Scarlet Witch was always more with The Avengers due to her relationship with The Vision and had a longer run.
Odin
Odin - 8/16/2013, 3:32 PM
Well these are awesome.
mctrinket
mctrinket - 8/16/2013, 3:45 PM
So Cap is the common denominator, I guess.
dancingmonkey08
dancingmonkey08 - 8/16/2013, 4:21 PM
awesome covers

isnt the official 50th anniversary of the first Avengers comic on September 10th. and its the X-Men's 50th on the same day too. a truly important date in comics history
comicfan100
comicfan100 - 8/16/2013, 4:21 PM
His art style meshes so well with the classic stuff, nice!
ParisSun
ParisSun - 8/16/2013, 4:25 PM
Cap has been such a constant with the Avengers.

I'm hoping that now that we have Scarlet Witch showing up in the movies that we will get the Vision.

Sad for the people who can't see mutants interacting with other supers. Get some imagination.

Wolverine and Spider-man brought a new dynamic to a team that has always change members from gods to inhumans to street level fighters to villains.

CharlesBryant97
CharlesBryant97 - 8/16/2013, 4:48 PM
That is just...magnificent.
RexDartEskimoSpy
RexDartEskimoSpy - 8/16/2013, 5:28 PM
Oh, the '90s. How I wish I could erase you from my memory.
Minato
Minato - 8/16/2013, 5:53 PM
I understand what people say when they don’t agree with Wolverine and Spiderman being Avengers or Daredevil for that matter. DD and Parker refused membership for years. They whole point in the Avengers was for The Earths Mightiest Heroes to ban together to stop threats that neither could stop on their own. With that in mind Wolverine, Spiderman and Daredevil belong on the team way more than some of their past members.
FlixMentallo21
FlixMentallo21 - 8/16/2013, 6:10 PM
Just as Jay Sherman told his boss to get his political ad off of his review of Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse WOW!", so I say to the House of Ideas this:

GET THE WALL-CRAWLER AND LOGAN OFF OF THE AVENGERS!!!!!!
mgeoff88
mgeoff88 - 8/16/2013, 6:39 PM
These are awesome! It's easy to tell which cover is the 90's Avengers.

@CherryBomb Yah, she does look a lot like Scarlet Witch, but as 1984 already said, she is Sersi:



She looks way different now:
Ancar
Ancar - 8/16/2013, 6:49 PM
John Cassaday is awesome, but these covers lokks like made by 13 year old artist - real bad!
Liverpool4life
Liverpool4life - 8/16/2013, 7:34 PM
I especially loved the 1970s Avengers. Great members and good stories. At that time, they made the Justice League look so uninspiring.
siggisuperman
siggisuperman - 8/16/2013, 8:08 PM
Cassaday stahp with normal proportions. Im sorry bro you need to use superhero proportions or they all look like our uncle joe
GhostKILLERgx7
GhostKILLERgx7 - 8/16/2013, 8:33 PM
@ATrueHero1987 the reason why hulk isn't there because captain america becomes his replacement. the hulk leaves the avengers because loki tricked him in the first place.



read a book son.
EarOne
EarOne - 8/16/2013, 8:41 PM
yeah, there should be one with the big 4 and spidey and wolverine on the cover together.
ATrueHero1987
ATrueHero1987 - 8/16/2013, 9:21 PM
@GhostKILLERgx7 um, I know that. I asked because he was in the original line-up. I said nothing about Cap. How about you get your facts straight before being a smart ass...ok?
ATrueHero1987
ATrueHero1987 - 8/16/2013, 9:28 PM
In fact, the hulk didn't leave until the next issue or so. Not because Loki tricked him. He joined The Avengers(for a very breif time of course) and the end of the first issue. So I guess you need to read a book.
loki668
loki668 - 8/17/2013, 2:09 AM
@jimoakley666
What? You didn't like the Thunderstrike character? I thought it was an interesting little spin-off. His character arc was actually pretty nice and ended pretty heroically. "Dildo Mjolnir". That's funny. No wonder Odin put restrictions on who could use/lift the uru hammers.

"Me dammit, Frigga!! You're going to exhaust that thing if you don't quit abusing the bean!! That's IT!! I'm putting a [frick]ing spell on the thing!!"
VinzClortho
VinzClortho - 8/17/2013, 7:32 AM
I'll give them something to avenge!
PunkRockJesus
PunkRockJesus - 8/17/2013, 10:36 AM
Cassady is this generations Liefield. Look at Cap in #4! DUH FUUUUCK??
SageMode
SageMode - 8/17/2013, 10:45 AM
Never been a fan of Cassaday's work, but I'm feeling the concept.
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