



In 1963, Marvel decided to throw their hat in the ring and offer a "Super-Team," a concept that was more the territory of DC, with their highly successful Justice League of America, and introduce The Avengers, a team that was comprised of characters that each had their own degree of personal baggage, which would often create tensions within their own ranks!įor example, the first team had an ambivalence to the participation of the Hulk - an often volitle force, that with his brute strength would often just do what he wanted to do, which more than often was NOT following a leader Iron Man, whose fragililty of health issues that would always be looming over the group's ability to get the job done.
