#12,490: Avengers (1963) #18
"When The Commissar Commands!"
Title: Avengers (v001)
Editor-in-Chief:
Stan Lee
Editor:
Stan Lee
Writer:
Stan Lee
Artist:
Don Heck
Inker:
Dick Ayers
Letterer:
Artie Simek
Cover Date: July 1965
Release Date: May 1965
Pages: 20
Cover Price: $0.12
Times Read: 1,945
Times Rated: 1,023
Universe:
Earth-616
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Issue Blurb
Communists are terrorizing a small puppet state and the Avengers receive a call asking for their assistance to liberate them. When they arrive, they find it is a trap and the titanic Commissar seems to be their match. Can they find out how to defeat this invincible giant?
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MickTheNerd
Feb 8, 2026
It would've been one thing if it was yet another awful piece of Anti-Communist progandist crap, but they ALSO insult our intelligence by trying to have us believe that Wanda couldn't just...Hex everything to blow up when they got there. These were a bunch of NORMAL ass communists, with ONE robot,...
callmehalalfood
Jan 2, 2026
The Avengers #18 is a strange, uneven entry that feels more like a leftover Golden Age adventure than a step forward for Marvels mid-60s momentum. Swap Nazis for Red China and you more or less have the template: broad caricatures, blunt political messaging, and an exoticized setting that has aged...
bastos
Apr 28, 2019
STRANGE COMPANIONS
This may even be a bit more like a Golden Age comic, truly. Replace Nazis with Red Commie China - and this is what the book feels like. caricature versions of local people put against strange fellows - stuck in the perils of the Red Chinese.
The Avengers somewhat lose the...
specialque
Feb 28, 2014
Again, some of the character bickering seems really forced, but this was a decent issue. Some fun anti-communist propaganda, but the action scenes were good, as was Cap's boredom and lusting after Fury.
