Giant-Size Avengers 2, pg 19

Time to roll out some Kang the Conqueror artwork. Dave Cockrum did only a small handful of Avenger issues, but imho, none were better than the Giant-sized key turning point of the Celestial Madonna storyline by Englehart -- I devoured this issue as a kid!


Here Kang battles the Avengers with Macrobots containing members of the Avengers, with a Thor Macrobot being the remaining opponent. This issue also marks the death of one of my favorite Avengers, the Swordsman, at Kang's hands -- blew my mind back in 74.

I'm not sure who inked this particular page -- read somewhere that Neal Adams came in to finish the last 6-7 pages, but not certain about this page. Anyone know?

Anyway, love the raw rage of Kang in first panel, the kinetic backgrounds of each panel and just the issue in general!