The issue actually starts with Nova, his brother Robbie and Fran, who is Robbie's girlfriend(?) roaming an English village to investigate reports of weird stuff. Robbie oddly seems to be the older brother here. They get attacked by a weird creature in the woods, then find a home that's been trashed. Thor, the Vision, and Iron Man show up, in a group that is definitely not the Avengers. . . yet. They're here because they just finished dealing with some weird creature that made a town in Iowa go crazy last issue, and when they heard reports of weird stuff, came here to make sure it wasn't the same weird creature. It's not
Captain America and the Invisible Woman are back in town, asking questions and flirt sparring. Well, Steve Rogers would definitely be a step up from Reed or Namor. Also, Sue Richards' weakness is apparently pigeons. Dr. Doom is sitting on a throne somewhere with a big goblet of wine, taking notes.On their way to the mysterious house, they figure out they're being followed by the Black Widow, who is there because. . . she's bored. Allegedly.
With everyone at the house, they encounter the spriggan, who mostly makes them look like chumps by disrupting their powers and having their luck go against them. But it's love of stealing things leads it to try and swipe Mjolnir, and, yeah. That wasn't a good idea. Especially since spriggan are the ghosts of giants, apparently? Did not know that. I do know how Thor feels about giants, though, and this spirit gets banished/exorcised/destroyed.
After all that, Captain America says he liked something Thor said about "avenging", and well, you know how that goes. The title actually ends in three issues, then Marvel restarted the book almost immediately (because Marvel), and let it run for another couple years.
[7th, 36th comic. Marvel Adventures Super-Heroes (vol. 1) #18, by Paul Tobin (writer), Ig Guara (penciler), Sotocolor (colorist), Dave Sharpe (letterer)]
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I remember the Marvel Adventures line -- the Avengers comic was better than the mainstream one at the time -- but I don't remember this particular title. Was it the MA version of Marvel Team-Up? From the context -- a seemingly random group of heroes all turning up in the same place -- it seems to be.
I think it actually started after they ended Marvel Adventures Avengers. Initially, it's like you figured, a Marvel Team-Up style thing with random pairings. But hy this point, there started to be more issue-to-issue continuity, building towards having a consistent roster.
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