The Avengers #16

(May 1965)

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Ellbarr Novelties / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Old Order Changeth! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Avengers / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee (credited) (plot, script); Jack Kirby (sourced) (plot)

Pencils

Jack Kirby (credited) (layouts); Dick Ayers (credited) (pencils); Carl Hubbell (see notes)

Inks

Dick Ayers (credited); Carl Hubbell (see notes)

Colors

Stan Goldberg ?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

One side, Thor!

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avengers: Captain America [Steve Rogers] (featured); Giant-Man [Hank Pym] (featured) (leaves team); Hawkeye [Clint Barton] (featured) (joins team, also in flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark] (featured) (leaves team); Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff] (featured) (joins team); Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff] (featured) (joins team); Thor [Don Blake] (featured) (leaves team); Wasp [Janet Van Dyne] (featured) (leaves team)
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants: Mastermind [Jason Wyngarde] (flashback) (cameo); Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff] (flashback) (leaves team); Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff] (flashback) (leaves team); Toad [Mortimer Toynbee] (flashback) (cameo)
Masters of Evil: Black Knight [Nathan Garrett] (villain) (leaves team); Enchantress [Amora] (villain) (leaves team); The Executioner [Skurge] (villain) (leaves team); Melter [Bruno Horgan] (villain) (leaves team)
X-Men: Angel [Warren Worthington III] (flashback) (cameo); Beast [Hank McCoy] (flashback) (cameo); Iceman [Bobby Drake] (flashback) (cameo)
Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff] (flashback) (guest); Elendil; Happy Hogan (guest); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo); Immortus [Nathaniel Richards] (guest); Edwin Jarvis (supporting) (unnamed); Rick Jones (supporting); Erik Josten (villain) (unnamed, as one of Zemo's mercenaries); Kang [Nathaniel Richards] (Other Earth - Earth-6311) (guest); Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr] (flashback) (cameo); Mole Man [Harvey Elder] (guest); Namor the Sub-Mariner [Namor] (guest); Bill; communist agents (antagonist, flashback); Atlanteans [unnamed ones] (guest); Zemo's slaves [unnamed ones]; General Curtiss

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Synopsis

Most of the old Avengers line-up leaves, leaving Captain America behind to be leading the Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye and Quicksilver.

Reprints

• in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #23 (15 de agosto de 1966)
• in Terrific! (IPC, 1967 series) #21 (2 September 1967) [Pages 1-10 only. Black and white], #22 (9 September 1967)
• in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1969 series) #7 ([Marzo] 1970)
• in Il Mitico Thor (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #24 (29 Febbraio 1972)
• in Marvel Triple Action (Marvel, 1972 series) #10 (April 1973)
• in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #11 (4ème trimestre 1974) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
• in Die ruhmreichen Rächer (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #15 ([März 1975])
• in The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #150 (August 1976) [pages 7-18; 12 pp.]
which is reprinted
• in Thor e Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1978 series) #197
• in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #4 (février 1986) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
• in Avengers (Marvel, 1998 series) #27 (April 2000)
• in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #7 ([January] 2010)
• in Avengers: The Big Three (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
• in Avengers: The Private War of Dr. Doom (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
• in Marvel Gold. Los Vengadores: La Guerra Privada del Doctor Muerte (Panini España, 2013 series) (Febrero 2013)
• in Avengers Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #9 - The Final Threat (December 2013), #9 - The Final Threat (December 2013)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers (Marvel, 2003 series) #16 (2016)
• in Los Vengadores (Novedades, 1981 series) #16 (18 de junio de 1981)
• in Strange Spécial Origines (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #235 hors série (5 juillet 1989)
• in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #9 ([September] 1989)
• in Marvel Milestone Edition: The Avengers #16 (Marvel, 1993 series) (October 1993)
• in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #1 ([November] 1999) [black and white]
• in Avengers : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2006 series) #1965 (janvier 2007)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2009)
• in Avengers: I Am an Avenger (Marvel, 2010 series) #[1] ([May 2010])
• in The Avengers Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #1 (2012)
• in Avengers Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 - Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2014)
• in Marvel Gold. Los Vengadores (Panini España, 2012 series) #1 (Febrero 2015)
• in Avengers: The Vibranium Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
• in Black Widow Epic Collection (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 - Beware the Black Widow (2019) [pages 7-8]
• in The Black Widow Strikes Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019) [Pages 7-8 only]
• in Hawkeye Epic Collection (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 - The Avenging Archer (2021)
• in The Avengers (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (Penguin Random House, 2023 series) (2023)

Keywords

Amazon; dimensional space warp

Indexer Notes

Nick Caputo suspects that Carl Hubbell provided alterations on several figures throughout the story, particularly on pages 5, 10, 17 and 20, per his blog:

http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-unknown-art-of-carl-hubbell.ht…

The episode title might be inspired by A. Tennyson’s poem Idylls of the King, The Passing of Arthur (1869): "The old order changeth, yielding place to new."

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All About the Avengers / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Stan Lee

Pencils

Jack Kirby (illustrations)

Inks

Chic Stone (illustrations)

Colors

? (illustrations)

Letters

typeset

Feature Logo

All About the Avengers [All About on top]

Characters

The Avengers: Iron Man [Tony Stark]
The Avengers: Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Thor [Thor Odinson]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]

Reprints

• in Marvel Milestone Edition: The Avengers #16 (Marvel, 1993 series) (October 1993)
• in The Avengers Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #1 (2012)
• in The Avengers (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (Penguin Random House, 2023 series) (2023)

Indexer Notes

Letters from: Ted Moore, Jerry DeStefano, Nathan Zimmerman, David Szurek, John Halloran, Richard Kraus, Maurice Johnson, Jack Marchese, Carl Czaga, and Charles Taylor. Includes “The Mighty Marvel Checklist.” Illustrations are adapted from the covers of The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #10 and #11 with modifications on Giant-Man helmet.

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