The Avengers: The Man Who Stole Tomorrow

I remember buying this book when it first came out when I was a teenager. The Avengers was always my favorite book and this one was the first superhero novel I had ever read so it has a particular fondness in me. Now many years later I have a re read it again and it brought back the feeling of a time when life was simpler.

I love me some marvel.

This is the tenth (of eleven) book in the Marvel Novel Series. The Avengers in this book are Iron Man, Thor, The Vision, The Beast, Quicksilver, The Scarlet Witch and Captain America. I don't believe that Quicksilver was a member of the Avengers at the time this book was published (1979), because he was married to Crystal and living with the Inhumans. Anyway, this is a pretty entertaining book. It isn't revealed that Kang the Conquerer is the villain until more than half way through the book, but it isn't much of a shock, because there he is on the cover of the book.

This is firmly anchored in the period when Beast is told to stop playing pong, and pay attention. Yes, the ever lovin' Beast era.The Avengers get back from a mission, and are meeting when a strange Eskimo type attacks them and starts ranting about gods, and summons a big green super polar bear to attack the heroes. What is more, it works.It seems the winged one he was ranting about was Namor, who moved the Captain America cased in ice by accident, which enabled him to be discovered and become an Avenger in the modern day.He nicks Cap, the Avengers talk to Namor, and they team up to get him back from his new deific status. It is no mystical powers this guy has, but a necklace provided by Kang.So, of course, they end up in the future. Kangs throws everything at them from dinosaurs (because even Kang thinks dinosaurs are cool), to the conscience police, but the ever lovin' Beast pulls a tech trick or two of his own to win the day.