That Time The Vision Went On The Tonight Show With Charo And Pee-Wee Herman!

You remember back in the day when John Byrne ruined the Vision, right?

Well, he almost redeemed himself by having the Vision go on Johnny Carson.

See, it turns out that after his transformation, no one recognized our favorite syntheziod:

Gee, a little bit of self-aware commentary there, Mr. Byrne?

Well, the Vision takes that advice to heart...

And, in his logical mind, the best move is...

To interrupt a taping of the Tonight Show!!

And based on the audience reaction...

...yeah, he really does need the PR!

Johnny knows how to roll with the unexpected...

Did I mention Charo was a guest that night?

Sigh...

Well, Vision's TV appearance was no doubt effect, but it also amused the hell out of his teammates:

Reminder: you were only allowed to be on Byrne's West Coast Avengers if you wore red and/or black, or gave up color altogether. No one knows why...

From Avengers Spotlight #23 (1989)

Why Captain Marvel Is The Best! No, Not *That* Captain Marvel. No, Not *That* Captain Marvel, Either!

Long story short--Annihilus has taken over the Baxter Building, and is sending out an ever-expanding and impenetrable "null field" from there in a bid to destroy two universes!

How impenetrable? Let's ask Thor!

Oh, dear.

1980s punch line: "Don't worry, Thor, it happens to all of us sometimes!"
2017 punch line: "Wow, you really are unworthy!"

The Vision doesn't have much more luck:

D'oh!!

So who you gonna call? How about the one, the only Monica Rambeau--CAPTAIN MARVEL!!

I'm just sayin', Marvel picked the wrong Captain Marvel for their Captain Marvel movie.

From Avengers #233 (1983)

Friday Night Fights--Triple Doom Style!!

Short but sweet for tonight's Friday Night Fights!

Three Doctor Dooms have taken over the grand opening of the Avengers' new headquarters. Surprise--they're Doombots!

So Captain America takes care of his:

The Vision--who is radder than you think--has little problem with his:

And finally, well, it's Rage against the machine!

Triple knock-out!!!

Spacebooger want to see an all-out Doombot vs. LMD war.

3 Doombots, 3 loud finishes from Avengers #333 (1991), by Larry Hama, Herb Trimpe (breakdowns) and Tom Morgan & Reggie Jones (finishes)

Now is the time for you to go and vote for my fight. Why? Where there's 3 Doombots, there are probably more--so be safe and vote for the only proven Doombot eliminator! Now go vote!!

This Really Should be An Olympic Sport!!

Gravitron has brought his little chunk of Canada to the big city!!

Man, everybody wants to make it in Manhattan! What's wrong with ruling Canada, bro?

Anyway, in one of the saddest variations of "I have a girlfriend, but she's in Canada," well, Frank's Canadian scientist crush really exists, and kills herself rather than be forced to be Graviton's queen. Oops!

Uh, don't do that, Frank...

Get ready, ladies, for the Great 1977 Marvel Beefcake Show!

Oh, dear...

Hurray!! Do it again!! Do it again!

Now, I fear that some of your primitive post-1970s minds are whining "physics" or "tidal waves" or the like.

The Bullpen has you covered, friend:

Still, Namor could have been pretty pissed...

From Avengers #159 (1977). Letter from Avengers #163 (1977)

There's More Than One Way To Escape An Inescapable Trap...No, Wait, There's Just One Way!

So, the Justice League has been captured by some dickweed aliens, and left in an inescapable trap:

Yow! They'll never get out of that.

Except they aliens have never heard of super-team teamwork!! (Plus, they weren't smart enough to actual put away Wonder Woman's lasso...Seriously, just leaving it on the floor there?)

Well, that wasn't too hard.

Let's see how another super-team deals with a similar situation:

The Avengers were beaten by Attuma, who put "slave collars" on them, and sent them to attack the Sub-Mariner. But Namor wasn't home, and they ended up fighting Doctor Doom instead.

Oops.

The collars preventing the Avengers from fighting efficiently, and kept the Vision from using his intangibility, and result was ignominious defeat:

And, surprise, an inescapable trap!

But like the JLAers, the Avengers know the power of super-team team-work (and like the dickweed aliens, Doom and the denizen of Hydrobase are foolish enough to leave Cap's shield just laying about...):

And this is the part where the Vision frees the rest of them, like Hal Jordan did...

...or not so much. [SPOILER ALERT: The Vision just high-tailed it to make an anti-Attuma alliance with Doom, because surprise twist!]

Anyway, that's the definition of trap-escaping teamwork: have the team member dressed in red create an artificial wind that carries the weapon belonging to the team's WWII icon right into their hands! Works every time!!

Remarkable coincidence, or were Gerry Conway & George Perez deliberately referencing a classic tale by Gardner Fox & Mike Sekowsky?

Or maybe snell is just reading way too much into 2 old comics he just happened to read close together lately...?

From Justice League Of America #7 (1961) and Avengers #155 (1977)