The Invaders is the name of two fictional superhero teams appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics .
81-716: The original team was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Sal Buscema in The Avengers #71 (December 1969). A present-day incarnation was introduced by writer Chuck Austen and artist Scott Kolins in The Avengers (vol. 3) #82 (July 2004). The prototype for the Invaders, the All-Winners Squad , created by publisher Martin Goodman and scripter Bill Finger , was a comic book feature published in
162-571: A Jimmy Olsen script "a few months before, while still living and teaching in the St. Louis area," he said in 2005. "I worked at DC for eight days in late June and very early July of 1965" before accepting a job at Marvel Comics . The Marvel " Bullpen Bulletins " in Fantastic Four #61 (April 1967) describes Thomas "admitting that he gave up a scholarship to George Washington University just to write for Marvel!" This came after his chafing under
243-610: A Conan supporting character. Comics historian Les Daniels noted that, " Conan the Barbarian was something of a gamble for Marvel. The series contained the usual elements of action and fantasy, to be sure, but it was set in a past that had no relation to the Marvel Universe, and it featured a hero who possessed no magical powers, little humor and comparatively few moral principles." In 1971, with Stan Lee , Gerry Conway and Gray Morrow , Thomas created Man-Thing and wrote
324-509: A Nazi occupation of Atlantis and the emergence of HYDRA backed by the time-travelling Baron Strucker ) and faces an emotional trauma with the apparent deaths of Captain America and Bucky in a drone aircraft 's explosion near the end of World War II, as first described in The Avengers #4 (March 1964). After the war's end, several members—including the second Bucky and Captain America (respectively, Fred Davis and William Naslund, formerly
405-475: A ceremony, he was awarded the key to the city . On March 23, 2019, the final Amazing Spider-Man newspaper comic strip was published. Thomas had been the ghost writer for Stan Lee on the strip since 2000. Thomas made a return to Marvel Comics in 2019 with the release of the Captain America and The Invaders: Bahamas Triangle one-shot drawn by Jerry Ordway , wrote a Wolverine origin page for
486-859: A childhood dream in writing the Justice Society of America (JSA). Reviving the Golden Age group in Justice League of America #193 and continuing in All-Star Squadron , he wrote retro adventures, like those of The Invaders, set in World War II . In addition to the JSA's high-profile heroes, Thomas revived such characters as Liberty Belle , Johnny Quick , Robotman , Firebrand , the Tarantula , and Neptune Perkins . He used
567-477: A collection of all the Dracula material adapted by Thomas and Giordano, originally published in the 1970s and mid-2000s. In 2011, Roy Thomas wrote the one-shot DC Retroactive: Wonder Woman – The '80s with art by Rich Buckler . In 2012, Thomas teamed with artists Mike Hawthorne and Dan Panosian on Dark Horse 's Conan: The Road of Kings , which lasted 12 issues. In 2014, he wrote 75 Years of Marvel: From
648-538: A comics adaptation of Tarzan for Marvel in June 1977. In 1981, after several years of freelancing for Marvel and a dispute with then editor-in-chief Jim Shooter , Thomas signed a three-year exclusive writing/editing contract with DC. He marked his return to that company with a two-part Green Lantern story in Green Lantern #138–139 (March–April 1981), and briefly wrote Batman , DC Comics Presents , and
729-400: A day late from a weekend comic-book convention in St. Louis , Missouri. Thomas said in 2000 that Brodsky, in the interim, had assigned Doctor Strange to the writer Archie Goodwin , newly ensconced at Marvel and writing Iron Man , but Thomas convinced Brodsky to return it to him. "I got very possessive about Doctor Strange ," Thomas recalled. "It wasn't a huge seller, but [by the time it
810-567: A frequent collaborator with Thomas; together they wrote a two-part Superman- Shazam team-up in DC Comics Presents ; a series of Atari Force and Swordquest mini-comics packaged with Atari 2600 video games; and three Justice League-Justice Society crossovers. Conway also contributed ideas to the talking animal comic Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew! , created by Thomas and Scott Shaw . Thomas and Conway were to be
891-548: A grudge-carrier in other cases. ... By 1986, Thomas wrote for Marvel's New Universe line, beginning with Spitfire and the Troubleshooters #5 (Feb. 1987), followed by a multi-issue run of Nightmask , co-scripted by his wife Dann Thomas . He scripted titles starring Doctor Strange , Thor , the Avengers West Coast , and Conan , often co-scripting with Dann Thomas or Jean-Marc Lofficier . Over
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#1732801408847972-460: A job at DC Comics as assistant to Mort Weisinger , then the editor of the Superman titles. Thomas said he had just accepted a fellowship to study foreign relations at George Washington University when he received a letter from Weisinger, "with whom I had exchanged one or two letters, tops", asking Thomas to become "his assistant editor on a several-week trial basis." Thomas had already written
1053-480: A master's degree in humanities from California State University . With Marvel's four-issue miniseries Stoker's Dracula (Oct. 2004 – May 2005), Thomas and artist Dick Giordano completed an adaptation of Bram Stoker 's novel Dracula , which the duo had begun 30 years earlier in 10- to 12-page installments, beginning with Marvel's black-and-white horror-comics magazine Dracula Lives! #5 (March 1974). They had completed 76 pages, comprising roughly one-third of
1134-561: A single Annual in 1977. Issues #5–6 of the series introduced another retroactively changed World War II team, the Liberty Legion , in a two-part story arc, "The Red Skull Strikes", interlaced with another two-part story in Marvel Premiere #29–30. In 2004, a new Invaders team was created in the four-issue story arc "Once an Invader...", beginning with The Avengers (vol. 3) #82, written by Chuck Austen . The revived team
1215-478: A solo writer, Roy Thomas wrote Wonder Woman and, with artist Gene Colan , updated the character's costume and introduced a new supervillainess , the Silver Swan . His final work on the series, issue #300 (Feb. 1983), was co-written with his wife Dann Thomas , who, as Roy Thomas noted in 1999 "became the first woman ever to receive scripting credit on the world's foremost super-heroine." Thomas realized
1296-510: A time when comics veterans such as Robert Bernstein , Ernie Hart , Leon Lazarus , and Don Rico , and fellow newcomers Steve Skeates (hired a couple of weeks earlier) and O'Neil (brought in at Thomas' recommendation a few months later) did not. His Marvel debut was the romance-comics story "Whom Can I Turn To?" in the Millie the Model spin-off Modeling with Millie #44 (Dec. 1965) – for which
1377-464: A trio of Elseworlds one-shots combining DC characters with classic cinema and literature: Superman's Metropolis (1996), Superman: War of the Worlds (1998), and JLA : The Island of Dr. Moreau (2002). In 1984, Thomas sent Jim Shooter a letter in which he hoped ... ... to let bygones be bygones, and if possible, to avoid adverse comment on Marvel and its policies. I've even long regretted
1458-520: Is an American comic book writer and editor. He was Stan Lee 's first successor as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics and possibly best known for introducing the pulp magazine hero Conan the Barbarian to American comics. Thomas is also known for his championing of Golden Age comic-book heroes – particularly the 1940s superhero team the Justice Society of America – and for lengthy writing stints on Marvel's X-Men and The Avengers , and DC Comics ' All-Star Squadron , among other titles. Among
1539-527: Is eventually replaced by Sam Wilson , Winter Soldier , the original Human Torch , and Namor the Sub-Mariner . A Japanese heroine named Radiance (the granddaughter of Golden Girl ) joins the team during the book's second arc, and the daughter of Iron Cross joins in issue # 10. In January 2019, Marvel launched a new series written by Chip Zdarsky that saw original members Captain Steve Rogers ,
1620-598: The Legion of Super-Heroes . DC gave Thomas' work a promotional push by featuring several of his series in free, 16-page insert previews . Thomas married his second wife, Danette Couto , in May 1981. Danette legally changed her first name to Dann and would become Thomas' regular writing partner. He credits her with the original idea for the Arak, Son of Thunder series drawn by Ernie Colón . Writer Gerry Conway would also be
1701-499: The Fantastic Four in the 1960s. The Invaders team first appeared in flashback stories set during World War II , and comprised existing characters from Timely Comics , the 1940s predecessor of Marvel. Originally, Captain America (Steve Rogers), his sidekick Bucky (James Barnes), the original android Human Torch ("Jim Hammond"), the Torch's sidekick Toro (Thomas Raymond) and Namor the Sub-Mariner were together as heroes opposing
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#17328014088471782-532: The Golden Age with only two appearances, in All Winners Comics #19 (Fall 1946) and #21 (Winter 1947; there was no issue #20). This team had much of the same membership as the Invaders, but had its adventures in the post– World War II era, the time that their adventures were published. This group was also notable as its members did not entirely get along, prefiguring the internal conflicts of
1863-529: The Human Torch I, and Toro (leaving Spitfire and a wounded Union Jack II in the past) brought to the present-day Marvel Universe by the Cosmic Cube , which had fallen into the hands of the demon D'Spayre . His use of it to draw on the grief generated by Captain America's death had unintentionally caused it to grant the wish of those who wished for his return. Upon arriving in the present day,
1944-491: The Liberty Legion , Woodgod , the 3-D Man , and the second Ant-Man (Scott Lang) . The series also featured the first comic book appearance of rock musician Alice Cooper . Though Adam Warlock , Doctor Strange , and Iron Fist were all given their own series following their tryout in Marvel Premiere , many of the later features were never meant even as potential candidates for a series. In some cases, such as
2025-639: The Marvel 1000 celebration issue and did a two-part Savage Sword of Conan story with artist Alan Davis . In 2020, Thomas wrote a 10-page story in the Marvel one-shot King-Size Conan #1. On February 23, 2021, Thomas criticized Abraham Riesman's controversial Stan Lee biography True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee . In a guest column in The Hollywood Reporter , Thomas took issue with Riesman's assessment of conflicting accounts of
2106-633: The Vision , Yellowjacket , the Black Knight , and Adam Warlock . In 1972, when Lee became Marvel's publisher, Thomas succeeded him as editor-in-chief. Thomas also continued to script mainstream titles, including Marvel's flagship, Fantastic Four . He launched such new titles as the "non-team" The Defenders , as well as What If , a title that explored fictional alternate histories of Marvel's existing characters and stories. In addition, he indulged his love of Golden Age comic-book heroes in
2187-892: The Winter Soldier , and the original Human Torch reunite to stop another original member, Namor the Sub-Mariner who has become a global threat and mentally unstable/deranged. The Invaders as a concept, hybridized with the Howling Commandos , appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film Captain America: The First Avenger . This version of the group is a hand-selected Special Forces infantry unit under Captain America 's field command, and with Bucky Barnes and James Montgomery Falsworth among its number. Roy Thomas Roy William Thomas Jr. (born November 22, 1940)
2268-415: The World War II series Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos , starting with #29 (April 1966) and continuing through #41 (April 1967) and the series' 1966 annual, Sgt. Fury Special #2. He also began writing the mutant -superteam title [Uncanny] X-Men from #20–43 (May 1966 – April 1968), and, finally, took over The Avengers , starting with #35 (Dec. 1966), and continuing until 1972. That notable run
2349-486: The World War II -set superhero series The Invaders . He was instrumental in engineering Marvel's comic-book adaptation of the 1977 film Star Wars , without which, 1980s Marvel editor Jim Shooter believed, "[W]e would have gone out of business". In 1975, Thomas wrote the first joint publishing venture between Marvel and DC Comics – a 72-page Wizard of Oz movie adaptation in an oversized "Treasury Edition" format with art by John Buscema . He and Buscema crafted
2430-562: The Barbarian in October 1970, based on Robert E. Howard 's 1930s pulp-fiction sword-and-sorcery character. Thomas, who stepped down from his editorship in August 1974, wrote hundreds of Conan stories in a host of Marvel comics and the black-and-white magazines Savage Tales and The Savage Sword of Conan . During that time, he and Smith also brought to comics Howard's little-known, sword-wielding woman-warrior Red Sonja , initially as
2511-646: The Cube. His story is continued in the eight-issue limited series The Torch , which deals with the resurrection of the original Human Torch . In the series, the two Golden Age heroes battle the Mad Thinker and the Inhuman Torch. In September 2010, Marvel launched Invaders Now! , a miniseries starring Captain America (Barnes) , the original Human Torch , Namor the Sub-Mariner , Captain Steve Rogers , Spitfire , and Toro . The Invaders are all reunited by
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2592-474: The Disbursement Committee of the comic-book industry charity The Hero Initiative . Marvel Premiere Marvel Premiere is an American comic book anthology series that was published by Marvel Comics . In concept it was a tryout book, intended to determine if a character or concept could attract enough readers to justify launching their own series, though in its later years it
2673-912: The Golden Age to the Silver Screen for Taschen , a 700-page hardcover history of Marvel Comics. The following year, he compiled three volumes of World War II-era comics stories featuring Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman for Chartwell Books . Thomas had a cameo appearance as a prison inmate on the third season of Marvel's Daredevil , released in October 2018 on Netflix , and wrote a blog entry about this experience. On November 10, 2018, Thomas visited Stan Lee at Lee's home in Beverly Hills to discuss Thomas' book The Stan Lee Story . Lee told Thomas' manager, John Cimino, "Take care of my boy Roy" before Lee and Thomas were photographed together. Lee died less than 48 hours later. On February 23, 2019, Jackson, Missouri , declared Roy Thomas Day. In
2754-617: The Invaders battled the Thunderbolts and The Mighty Avengers , believing them to be Nazi agents. Eventually, the Invaders came to trust the Avengers teams (both Mighty and New versions) and agreed to go back to where they belonged. The teams collected the Cosmic Cube and an American soldier who traveled into the future with the Invaders. However, the soldier took it upon himself to steal the Cosmic Cube and save his dead friends in
2835-696: The Justice Society involved most of the JSA battling the forces of evil while merged with the Norse gods in an ever-repeating Ragnarok -like Limbo was written by Thomas, with art by David Ross . Young All-Stars replaced All-Star Squadron following the changes to DC's continuity brought about by the Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series. Thomas' last major project for DC was an adaptation of Richard Wagner 's Ring cycle drawn by Gil Kane and published in 1989–1990. Since then, Thomas has written
2916-508: The Justice Society , Jonni Thunder a.k.a. Thunderbolt , Shazam!: The New Beginning , and Crimson Avenger as well as two issues of DC Challenge . From 1986 to 1988, Thomas contributed to the Secret Origins series and wrote most of the stories involving the Golden Age characters including Superman and Batman . In 1986, DC decided to write off the JSA from active continuity . A one-shot issue titled The Last Days of
2997-534: The Skull intends to use for his own goals. The new Invaders eventually learn of the plan, however, and thwart it. The apparent "death" of the android Human Torch came as a result of the betrayal of the Skull-planted Tara. The majority of the members quit the team after this incident. The 2007 12-issue crossover series Avengers/Invaders saw the original WWII team of Captain America I, Bucky I, Namor ,
3078-639: The Spider-Man spin-off title Marvel Team-Up in March 1972. Thomas, with Marvel writers and artists, co-created many other characters, among them Ultron (including the fictional metal adamantium ), Carol Danvers , Morbius the Living Vampire , Luke Cage , Iron Fist , Ghost Rider , Doc Samson , Valkyrie , Werewolf by Night , Banshee and Killraven . Thomas also co-created several characters based on pre-existing characters, including
3159-574: The Wonder Man story in issue #55 and the Star-Lord story in #61, the writer simply wanted to do a story featuring that character and there was not a more appropriate place for it to be published. Some features, such as Seeker 3000 (issue #41), were conceived specifically for Marvel Premiere but with no real plan for a series. Later in the title's run, Marvel Premiere was used to finish stories of characters who had lost their own series, including
3240-584: The ageless android the Human Torch I joins the team, feeling an affinity for Tara, revealed as an android herself. The Invaders are also assisted by former Golden Age hero the Fin and his Atlantean wife Nia, although they did not officially join the team. They are formed by the supposed U.S. Secretary of Defense Dell Rusk—in actuality the Red Skull —who coerces the Thin Man into gathering this new team, which
3321-586: The allegorical Messiah Adam Warlock in Marvel Premiere #1 (April 1972). Doctor Strange took over the series with issue #3 and writer Steve Englehart and artist Frank Brunner began a run on the character with issue #9. The two killed Dr. Strange's mentor, the Ancient One , and Strange became the new Sorcerer Supreme. Englehart and Brunner created a multi-issue storyline in which a sorcerer named Sise-Neg ("Genesis" spelled backward) goes back through history, collecting all magical energies, until he reaches
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3402-542: The art team of penciler Gene Colan and inker Tom Palmer . As Thomas self-evaluated in a 1981 interview, shortly after leaving Marvel for rival DC Comics , "One of the reasons Stan liked my writing ... was that after a few issues he felt he could trust me enough that he virtually never again read anything I wrote – well, at least not more than a page or two in a row, just to keep me honest." Thomas eloped in July 1968 to marry his first wife, Jean Maxey, returning to work
3483-412: The beginning of the universe, becomes all-powerful and creates it anew, leaving Strange to wonder whether this was, paradoxically , the original creation. Stan Lee, seeing the issue after publication, ordered Englehart and Brunner to print a retraction saying this was not God but "a" god, so as to avoid offending religious readers. The writer and artist concocted a letter from a fictitious minister praising
3564-560: The co-writers of the JLA/Avengers intercompany crossover but editorial disputes between DC and Marvel caused the project's cancellation. During that era, Roy Thomas and Gerry Conway collaborated on the screenplays for two movies: the animated feature Fire and Ice (1983) and Conan the Destroyer (1984). The duo also worked on a live-action X-Men film for production company Nelvana that never went into production. As
3645-428: The comics characters he co-created are Vision , Doc Samson , Carol Danvers , Luke Cage , Iron Fist , Ultron , Yellowjacket , Defenders , Man-Thing , Red Sonja , Morbius , Ghost Rider , Squadron Supreme , Invaders , Black Knight (Dane Whitman) , Nighthawk , Havok , Banshee , Sunfire , Thundra , Arkon , Killraven , Wendell Vaughn , Red Wolf , Red Guardian , Daimon Hellstrom , and Valkyrie . Thomas
3726-421: The couple of Charlton stories I'd written earlier in more of a Gardner Fox style, he wasn't too impressed," Thomas recalled. "It's probably a good thing I already had my job at Marvel at that point! I think I was the right person in the right place at the right time, but there are other people who, had they been there, might have been just as right." Thomas took on what would be his first long-term Marvel title,
3807-516: The credits and the logo were inadvertently left off due to a production glitch, resulting in this being left off most credit lists. Thomas' first Marvel superhero scripting was "My Life for Yours", the "Iron Man" feature in Tales of Suspense #73 (Jan. 1966), working from a Lee plot as well as a plot assist from secretary Steinberg. Thomas estimates that Lee rewrote approximately half of that fledgling attempt. Thomas' earliest Marvel work also included
3888-453: The dialogue. It was just black-and-white. Other people like Denny O'Neil and Gary Friedrich took it. But soon afterwards we stopped using it." The day after taking the test, Thomas was at DC, proofreading a Supergirl story, when Steinberg called asking Thomas to meet with Lee during lunch, where Thomas agreed to work for Marvel. He returned to DC to give "indefinite notice" to Weisinger, but Weisinger ordered him to leave immediately and "I
3969-543: The early 1960s. Enthusiasm for the rebirth of superhero comics during that period led Jerry Bails to found the fanzine Alter Ego , and Thomas, then a high school English teacher, took over as editor in 1964. Letters from Thomas appeared regularly in the letters pages of both DC and Marvel Comics, including Green Lantern #1 (August 1960), The Flash #116 (Nov. 1960), Fantastic Four #5 (July 1962), Fantastic Four #15 (June 1963), and Fantastic Four #22 (Jan. 1964). In 1965, Thomas moved to New York City to take
4050-511: The fact that your elevation to the position of editor-in-chief, in which you've obviously done a fine job, came at a time after I'd moved to the West Coast. Perhaps if we'd had more personal communication from 1977 to 1980, we could have come to some sort of agreement at that time or at least parted under more amicable circumstances. I leave it to you to decide if we should ever make any attempt to rectify that situation; certainly I've never been
4131-407: The finished stories, he and Sol started having me check the corrections before they went out, and that would break up my concentration still further. ... [and] they kept asking me to do this or that, or questions like in which issue something happened, or Stan would come in to check something, because I knew a lot about Marvel continuity up to that time. ... It quickly became apparent to them, too, that
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#17328014088474212-482: The first Man-Thing story in color comics, after Conway and Len Wein had introduced the character in the black-and-white comics magazine Savage Tales . Later that year, Thomas wrote the " Kree–Skrull War " storyline across multiple issues of The Avengers penciled variously by Sal Buscema , Neal Adams, and John Buscema . Thomas was the first person other than Stan Lee to receive a writer's credit for The Amazing Spider-Man , and he and artist Ross Andru launched
4293-509: The forces of Nazism . When these superheroes saved the life of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill from Master Man , the thankful Churchill suggested that they should become a team, known as the Invaders. The Invaders fight the Axis powers over the world until eventually finding themselves in England , where they meet Lord James Montgomery Falsworth, the original Union Jack . He joins
4374-811: The future: Luke Cage as the Black Avenger , Iron Man as Electro , Ms. Marvel as the Black Widow , Spider-Man as the Challenger , Spider-Woman as the Silver Scorpion , and Wolverine as Captain Terror. The Wasp uses her powers to stay hidden from sight. They end the Red Skull I's reign of terror and restore the original timeline. At the end of the series, Toro is revived in the modern era, thanks to Bucky I's temporary acquisition of
4455-455: The hotel and – I wrote him a letter! Not applying for a job or anything so mundane as that – I just said that I admired his work, and would like to buy him a drink some time. I figured he just might remember me from Alter Ego ." Lee did, and phoned Thomas to offer him a Marvel writing test. The writer's test, Thomas said in 1998, "was four Jack Kirby pages from Fantastic Four Annual #2 ... [Stan Lee] had Sol [Brodsky] or someone take out
4536-460: The next ten years Thomas did less work for the mainstream comics press. For a series of independent publishers, he wrote issues of the TV-series tie-ins Xena: Warrior Princess , Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and The X-Files for Topps Comics . He also wrote for television, and relaunched Alter Ego as a formal magazine published by TwoMorrows Publishing in 1999. In 2005, he earned
4617-561: The notoriously difficult Weisinger, to a point, Thomas said in 1981, that he would go "home to my dingy little room at, coincidentally, the George Washington Hotel in Manhattan , during that second week, and actually feeling tears well into my eyes, at the ripe old age of 24." Familiar with editor and chief writer Stan Lee 's Marvel work, and feeling them "the most vital comics around", Thomas "just sat down one night at
4698-512: The novel, through issues #6–8 and 10–11 and Marvel Preview #8 ("The Legion of Monsters"), before Marvel canceled Dracula Lives and later many of its other black-and-whites. Anthem , a comic book series by Thomas and artists Daniel Acuña , Jorge Santamaria Garcia and Benito Gallego , about World War II superheroes in an alternate reality , was published by Heroic Publishing in January 2006. Thomas returned to Red Sonja in 2006, writing
4779-701: The one-shot Red Sonja: Monster Isle for Dynamite Entertainment . In 2007 Thomas wrote a Black Knight story for Marvel's four-issue miniseries Mystic Arcana . From 2007 to 2010, Thomas wrote adaptations of classic literature for the Marvel imprint Marvel Illustrated , including The Last of the Mohicans (2007), The Man in the Iron Mask (2007–2008), Treasure Island (2007–2008), The Iliad (2008), Moby-Dick (2008), The Picture of Dorian Gray (2008), The Three Musketeers (2008–2009), and Kidnapped (2009). In 2010, Marvel Illustrated released
4860-418: The original Vision and Union Jack to face a resurfaced threat from World War II. This threat manifests as a disease that mutates those infected, causing horrible deformation, granting superhuman strength, and driving the victim insane with pain and rage. Those infected are driven to attack and thereby infect others. In World War II this pathogen was created by Arnim Zola , as his last project before suffering
4941-578: The others being Marvel Spotlight and Marvel Feature . The advantage of such tryout books was that they allowed the publisher to assess a feature's popularity without the marketing investment required to launch a new series, and without the blow to the publisher's image with readers if the new series immediately failed. In addition to giving established characters a first shot at a starring role, Marvel Premiere introduced new characters and reintroduced characters who no longer had their own titles. Writer Roy Thomas and penciler Gil Kane revamped Him as
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#17328014088475022-471: The past. This triggers an alternative reality to emerge where most of the Avengers are wiped from time. Doctor Strange manages to send the Invaders and the surviving members of the Avengers into the past before being wiped from time himself. In the past, the soldier raised his dead friends and healed a dying Union Jack. The soldier then attempted to destroy the Nazis with the Cosmic Cube, but lost it when he
5103-458: The scales, in a dispute he seems ill-equipped to judge." In 2022, Thomas returned to write Wolverine, in the first two issues of a new Marvel Comics ongoing series called X-Men: Legends which tells new in-continuity stories of early X-Men adventures. Thomas's two-part story takes place right after The Incredible Hulk #181 and right before Giant-Size X-Men #1 and reveals a missing link mystery about Wolverine's costume. Thomas serves on
5184-473: The series to address the complicated and sometimes contradictory continuity issues surrounding the JSA. In 1983, Thomas and artist Jerry Ordway created Infinity, Inc. , a group composed of the JSA's children. The characters debuted in All-Star Squadron #25 (Sept. 1983) and were launched in their own series in March 1984. Thomas wrote several limited series for DC including America vs.
5265-482: The series was on the verge of cancellation. While efforts to save it failed – the title ended its initial run with #66 – Thomas' collaboration with artist Neal Adams through #63 (Dec. 1969) is regarded as a Silver Age creative highlight. Thomas won the 1969 Alley Award that year for Best Writer, while Adams and inker Tom Palmer , netted 1969 Alley Awards for Best Pencil Artist and Best Inking Artist, respectively. Thomas and artist Barry Smith launched Conan
5346-403: The staff writer thing wasn't working, and Stan segued me over to being an editorial assistant, which immediately worked out better for all concerned. To that point, editor-in-chief Lee had been the main writer of Marvel publications, with his brother, Larry Lieber , often picking up the slack plotting of Lee-scripted stories. Thomas soon became the first new Marvel writer to sustain a presence at
5427-460: The story, and mailed it to Marvel from Texas; Marvel unwittingly printed the letter , and dropped the retraction order. In 2010, Comics Bulletin ranked Englehart and Brunner's run on the "Doctor Strange" feature ninth on its list of the "Top 10 1970s Marvels". Iron Fist first appeared in issue #15, written by Roy Thomas and drawn by Gil Kane. Other introductions include the Legion of Monsters,
5508-448: The superhero known as the Spirit of '76 )—created a new team, the All-Winners Squad. When that team dissolves, Marvel retroactively changes the continuity ("retcon") of several members, having them join Citizen V 's V-Battalion . After the Invaders' introduction in the pages of The Avengers , the team appeared in its own try-out title, Giant-Size Invaders #1 in 1975, followed by the ongoing series; The Invaders later that year, and
5589-486: The team and provides them with a base of operations in England. Eventually, Falsworth's children Brian ( Union Jack II) and Jacqueline ( Spitfire ) become members. The team later adds Miss America (Madeline Joyce) and super-speedster the Whizzer (Bob Frank), during a battle with the Super-Axis . Later, against the threat of the Battle-Axis, the team is assisted by the Blazing Skull and the Silver Scorpion . The team continues to fight against several threats, (including
5670-403: The teen-romance title Patsy and Hedy #104–105 (Feb.-April 1966), and two " Doctor Strange " stories, plotted by Lee and Steve Ditko , in Strange Tales #143–144 (April–May 1966). Two previously written freelance stories for Charlton Comics also saw print: "The Second Trojan War" in Son of Vulcan #50 (Jan. 1966) and "The Eye of Horus" in Blue Beetle #54 (March 1966). "When Stan saw
5751-473: The work of Lee and Jack Kirby , who is credited with co-creating many classic Marvel characters. Thomas stated, "Something like 95 percent of the time, [the book] is a very good biography. However, the remaining (and crucial) 5 percent of its content, scattered amid all that painstaking research and well-written prose, renders it often untrustworthy...i.e., a very bad biography. Because the author often insists, visibly and intrusively, on putting his verbal thumb on
5832-482: The wounds which necessitated his consciousness being transferred into his robotic form. To contain the plague, the Invaders had to kill the entire population of a village in the Netherlands, including some who had been infected, but had not yet transformed. In this miniseries, the infection reappears in the modern era. In 2014, Marvel launched a new series written by James Robinson and starring Captain America who
5913-662: Was spun off into its own title, The New Invaders , running 10 issues (August 2004 – June 2005) beginning with issue #0. It was written by Allan Jacobsen with artwork by C. P. Smith. The new team consisted of the Blazing Skull (Mark Todd), a flame-generating girl named Tara, former Liberty Legion member the Thin Man (Dr. Bruce Dickson), the U.S. Agent (John Walker, a.k.a. Captain America V), Union Jack III (Joey Chapman) and returning members Namor and Spitfire. Later,
5994-477: Was 'staff writer'. I wasn't hired as an editor or assistant editor. I was supposed to come in 40 hours a week and write scripts on staff. ... I sat at this corrugated metal desk with a typewriter in a small office with production manager Sol Brodsky and corresponding secretary Flo Steinberg . Everybody who came up to Marvel wound up there, and the phone was constantly ringing, with conversations going on all around me. ... Almost at once, even though Stan proofed all
6075-455: Was also often used as a dumping ground for stories which could not be published elsewhere. It ran for 61 issues from April 1972 to August 1981. Contrary to the title, the majority of the characters and concepts featured in Marvel Premiere had previously appeared in other comics. Marvel Premiere was one of three tryout books proposed by Stan Lee after he transitioned from being Marvel Comics' writer and editor to its president and publisher,
6156-415: Was attacked by Red Skull henchmen. The Red Skull I later came into possession of the Cosmic Cube and transformed the world into one made in his own image. Elsewhere, the Invaders and the Avengers arrived in the past, but found that it had dramatically changed. The Avengers took up identities of Golden Age characters so that they could fit into the past without giving the Red Skull I too much information about
6237-467: Was back at Marvel less than an hour after I first left, and had a Modeling with Millie assignment to do over the weekend. It was a Friday." His employment was announced in the " Bullpen Bulletins " section of Fantastic Four #47 (Feb. 1966) under the heading "How About That! Department" ("Roy's a fan who's made it!"). Thomas later described his early days at Marvel: I was hired after taking [the] 'writer's test', and my first official job title at Marvel
6318-445: Was canceled], we were selling in the low 40 percent range of more than 400,000 print run, so it was actually selling a couple hundred thousand copies [but] at the time you needed to sell even more." He eventually did have a Caribbean honeymoon, where he scripted the wedding of Hank Pym and Janet van Dyne in The Avengers #60 (Jan. 1969). Thomas, who had turned over X-Men to other writers, returned with issue #55 (April 1969) when
6399-459: Was enrolled at a parochial Lutheran school and attended St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. As an adult, Thomas is "not religious" and has been described as a "lapsed Lutheran". He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1961 with a BS in education, having majored in history and social science. Thomas became an early and active member of Silver Age comic book fandom in
6480-635: Was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2011 and into the Harvey Awards Hall of Fame in 2022. Thomas was born in Jackson, Missouri , United States. As a child, he was a devoted comic book fan, and in grade school he wrote and drew his own comics for distribution to friends and family. The first of these was All-Giant Comics , which he recalls as having featured such characters as Elephant Giant. He
6561-534: Was marked by a strong sense of continuity , and stories that ranged from the personal to the cosmic – the latter most prominently with the " Kree-Skrull War " in issues #89–97 (June 1971 – March 1972). Additional work included an occasional " Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D " and "Doctor Strange" story in Strange Tales . When that title became the solo comic Doctor Strange , he wrote the entire run of new stories, from #169–183 (June 1968 – Nov. 1969), mostly with
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