Best Avengers Team EVER?

Well....I've been folloiwing The Avengers since original series, issue #2 (The Space Phantom) and yes, that DOES put me in my mid-forties.

Does anyone have an opinion on their favorite Avengers Team ever?

Although the original team could never be beat in sheer power, what with Ironman, Thor and the Hulk in the group, I'm going to place my vote with the second Avengers team. Mainly:

Captain America Hawkeye Quicksilver Scarlet Witch

It was the first time the concept of a changing roster was used (Although the JSA changed their roster from time to time, the core members remained pretty much the same). This team was also the first to battle more down-to-earth opponants, and appeared together regularly in Captain America's segment of the 60's Marvel Super-Heroes cartoons.

I also have a soft spot for the team of Goliath, Wasp, Hawkeye, Black Panther and Vision, but my original choice remains.

And takers?

I have a soft spot for the team you like and the first line up plus cap. I guess the best for me was the team when Perez was doing the art...the team from the Serpant Crown days and after:

Cap Shellhead Thor Hawkeye (more or less around in the book but hanging with the kid) the Witch Vision Yellow Jacket (I prefer Giant Man though) Beast (we will never get him back I guess) Wasp Wonderman

I will pass on baldy and Hellcat

Yes. That's a great team as well. I think your group was the last Avengers team that really got along without individual agendas. Shortly thereafter Ironman became chairman, and the CA/IM conflict began tearing the group apart. Not that I didn't like Stark as chairman. I though him being boss always made the most sense. The Wasp made for a good chairperson as well. Although CAP is without question the premier chairperson of The Avengers, I always considered him (and Reed Richards in a similar role) to be the unofficial leader of ALL Marvel Super-Heroes.

I share similar feelings towards the Beast as an Avenger. It wasn't until he became an Avenger that Hank's personality really shown. I always considered it as if he made the big leagues, and was VERY disappointed when he lost his fur and became a charter member of X-Factor. What a let down!

Have you read the Ultimates? I'm not a big fan of the Ultimate Universe, but have been reading their version of The Avengers in 'dot.comics'. I've always liked Henry Pym .. well...except for maybe that 'Dr. Who' rip-off he became in West Coast Avengers. I hate what they're doing to him in Ultimates. Sure he's gone through his instabilities in the original continuity. He even became a super-villain for a few issues and struck Jan like ONCE. Turning him into a cruel wife-beater in Ultimates is a far stretch from our Hank Pym. The problem with maintaining two-seperate universes is that new readers are going to get the characters mixed-up. How will readers like Yellowjacket in Avengers when Giant-Man is such an A-Hole in Ultimates?

I was a big fan of the Avengers during Shooter's run in the 80s, when the team was limited to six members:

Captain America Iron Man Thor Wasp Yellow Jacket Tigra

This dynamic seemed to work very well but gave way far too soon to 'the olde order changeth' in which we were introduced to an Avengers with the She-Hulk (who was also a member of Fantastic Four at the time and the subject of a _lot_ of editors notes explaining how she was a member of both teams).

Uh.....not really. She joined the Avengers in issue #221, and she didn't join the FF until around the time the West Coast Avengers were formed, which was at least two realtime years later.

I kinda liked the team that was around when I first started reading at

Yes. That was a good scene,

How about Avengers #100, when the call went out to ALL Avengers at that time. It was pencilled by Barry Windsor Smith. Well they went though the whole team, and how some flew there, and ran there etc and then they got to the Hulk. And how one....and thankfully ONLY one SMASHED his way there. It was priceless. It was also the first time the Swordsman answered the call as a hero.

As a longtime AVENGERS reader myself (in my early 40's), I'll take up that team the original poster mentioned:

Goliath Black Panther Quicksilver Scarlet Witch Vision

and in fact I'll throw in:

Iron Man Captain America Thor

and make it the ever

The Kree-Skrull war was always a favorite, but I still like the Ultron 6 Saga best. The one that begins with Thor, Ironman and Clint Barton (as Goliath in his new red mask) using their super strengths to try to dent a newly discovered metal called Adamantium. And of course The Avengers/Defenders War.

Yes! The first appearance of Adamantium was Avengers 66, drawn by a very young Barry Smith, who had just been hired by Marvel and had been told to 'draw like Kirby'. This was a great story. So was the X-Men done by Smith around the same time (50? 51?). After a few issues, he decided not to 'draw like Kirby' anymore. By Conan 1, he was drawing like himself.

i'd go with the Avengers team that went up against Korvac. (the last issue because it had almost EVERYONE and at their coolest power levels too!)