Greatest Best Favorite Avenger Ever: Group D
Marvel’s premiere super-team The Avengers have had more than a hundred members since they first assembled in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby‘s Avengers #1 in 1963. The initial roster of Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man and Wasp has expanded over the decades to include multiple mutants, monsters, gods, aliens, super soldiers, and robots — and the occasional extra Ant-Man, or Iron Man, or Hulk.
With Avengers: Age of Ultron just around the corner, interest in these heroes has never been greater, so we’ve decided to pit all the official comic book Avengers against each other in a battle for your affections. Who is the greatest, best, favorite Avenger of all time? Only you can decide.
We’ve created voting groups that mix up different eras of Avengers membership. Group D features a couple of big brains, a Hulk (not that one) a Torch (not that one), a magic-wielding doctor (not that one), and the very first of the Avengers women. The two or three most popular Avengers will go through from each group, so you’re encouraged to vote tactically.
- Rafael Albuquerque
Rafael Albuquerque Amadeus Cho
Created by Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa
First joined the team in Mighty Avengers #21 (March 2009)Smartest person in the room (usually)
Loves dogs, also monsters - Tom Grummett
Tom Grummett Doctor Anthony Druid
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
First joined the team in Avengers #278 (April 1987)The Sorceror Subordinate
If you're gonna druid, druid right - Doc Shaner
Doc Shaner Henry McCoy/Beast
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
First joined the team in Avengers #151 (September 1976)Mathlete
Routinely reupholstered
Played by Steve Bacic, Kelsey Grammar, Nicholas Hoult - Jung-Geun Yoon
Jung-Geun Yoon Izzy Kane/Smasher
Created by Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opena
First joined the team in Avengers vol. 5 #1 (December 2012)Girl who wears glasses
Legally not the granddaughter of Dan Dare Janet Van Dyne/Wasp
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
Co-founded the team in Avengers #1 (September 1963)Shrinks. Grows. Sews! (Sewing is cool.)
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant?
To be played by nobody ever, because life is cruel- Mukesh Singh
Mukesh Singh Jim Hammond/Human Torch
Created by Carl Burgos
First joined the team in Avengers West Coast #50 (November 1989)Burning plastic
One of the first ever superheroes to get mostly forgotten - Ed McGuiness, Dexter Vines
Ed McGuiness, Dexter Vines Thunderbolt Ross/Red Hulk
Created by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuiness
First joined the team in Avengers vol. 4 #12 (June 2011)Hulk (red)
Party trick: Sucking in his moustache
Played by Sam Elliott and William Hurt - Jorge Molina
Jorge Molina Vance Astrovik/Justice
Created by Don Heck and Gerry Conway
First joined the team in Avengers vol. 3 #4 (May 1998)Telekinetic
Avenger, mutant, New Warrior, Guardian of the Galaxy, and he still can't find a team
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