My
edition of The Avengers: Assault on
Olympus is a hardcover from the Marvel Premiere Classic line of reprints.
It’s super expensive but luckily I bought mine for 50% off. I have no idea why
Marvel charges so much for reprints of old comics. It seems wrong somehow as
well as counter intuitive. Why check out old comics when it’s cheaper to buy
new ones? Then again, new Marvel comics aren’t cheap either. Either way, if you
can find some of these old reprints for cheap, either in discount bins or 50%
off shelves, grab ‘em. They’re almost always a treat. Even when the comics are
bad it gives you an idea of what they were like back in the day. That’s always
interesting. If you get lucky, you’ll end up buying a comic as good as this
one. I’ve only ever read one comic by Roger Stern, Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment and that was an
excellent story. Clearly I’ve been missing out the Stern goodness because Assault on Olympus was also pretty great.
All of
the issues in this collection were written by Roger Stern with exception to
issue# 280 which was written by Bob Harras. Likewise John Buscema and Tom
Palmer illustrated all of the issues except for #280 which was drawn by Bob Hall
and Kyle Baker. Christie Scheele coloured most of the stories and Bill Oakley
did the bulk of the lettering. These are all familiar creator names for anybody
who has read Marvel comics from the 1980s. This is a solid creative team and it
shouldn’t have been surprising as to how good these issues were.
