"AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!"
"They're the Avengers! They're the varsity. They're the all-stars! Sure the X-Men sell better, but the Avengers are the premier guys. They're what everything else orbits around. When you think of heroes in the Marvel Universe, Spider Man is that guy in the shadows, the Hulk is that monster off on the horizon, and Dr. Strange is that weird guy down in Greenwich Village. But the core... the foundation of the Marvel Universe is the Avengers!" --- Kurt Busiek, new AVENGERS writer.
They are the world's greatest heroes: America's super-soldier, reborn from the ashes of World War II; an immortal thunder god from the golden halls of Asgard; a modern-day knight clad in futuristic armor of his own design; a young woman whose mutant power to affect probability causes some to see her as a witch; an archer whose unerring eye is matched only by the strength of his arms; a brilliant scientist and his one true love, each endowed with the abilities of the smallest of the Earth's creatures, the insects; and a synthezoid, an artificial man, able to alter his density from diamond-hardness to ethereal nothingness with but a thought. Together, they stand allied against the threats that none of them can face alone; together, they are much, much more than the sum of their parts. They are Earth's Mightiest Heroes--The AVENGERS!
--A rather nice summary, even if it does come from the Heroes Reborn gatefold covers.
"My fists hit as hard as Thor's Hammer!"
--Wondy, in almost every issue in the late 1970s.
"FOREST HILLS GARDENS??!"
"Oh my stars and garters!"
"I've trashed dozens of armored foes! You're just one more!"
"Circuits disrupted! Damn you!"
"The Old Order Changeth!"
"I hope it won't be your finish, handsome! I'm still waiting to see what you'd look like in an ivy league suit and a crew cut! With those shoulders, those eyes...mmmm..." The Wasp to Thor, Issue # 3. (thanks to Mrazek!)
"All that guy can do is fly and talk to birds."