Avengers Falcon

by Christopher J. Priest, Stan Lee (Text), Mark Evanier (Text)

The Falcon is soaring into the animated Avengers Assemble and the new film Captain America: The Winter Soldier - now learn his secret origin in this comprehensive collecti on of his formative adventures! Witness all the action as Sam Wilson, along with his trained falcon Redwing, battles to save his fellow Harlem residents from slumlords, evades a malfuncti oning Sentinel, and takes on the megawatt menace Electro! COLLECTING: FALCON 1-4; MARVEL PREMIERE 49; CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) 117-119; MATERIAL FROM CAPTAIN AMERICA (1968) 220, 276-278

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Comic Book

205 pages, Paperback

First published March 18, 2014

About the author

Formerly (before 1993) known as James or Jim Owsley.

Christopher James Priest is a critically acclaimed novelist and comic book writer. Priest is the first African-American writer and editor for Marvel and DC Comics. His groundbreaking Black Panther series was lauded by Entertainment Weekly and The Village Voice and will serve as the basis for the 2018 Marvel Cinematic Universe adaption.

Besides Black Panther, Priest has written comics for Conan, Steel, Green Lantern, The Crew and edited The Amazing Spider-Man. He also co-created Quantum & Woody along with Mark Bright and co-founded Milestone Media.

After a decade long hiatus he is currently writing comic books again and recently concluded a stint writing the comic book Deathstroke (2016-2019).

In addition to being a writer, Christopher J. Priest is also a baptist minister.

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Somewhat dated reprint of the Falcon's first miniseries, his origin in Captain America and some backup stories. The dialogue can sound very dated now. The Falcon's origin story is pretty ridiculous and best forgotten. The Falcon was a drug dealer. The Red Skull changed his personality using a cosmic cube so he could infiltrate Cap. The falcon miniseries was decent, but then it was written by Jim Owsley, now known as Christopher Priest. He was one of Marvel's better writers at the time.

[Jon Boon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Maybe it's nostalgia, but I just love that art style I associate with growing up reading Marvel in the 80's.

The Falcon is a great character and this is a nice collection. My only issue is I would really have liked more stories, but there are some nice extras in here, providing context and detail for the character.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Every time there's a new marvel movie, they scramble to collect some stories featuring that character.
Winter Soldier reminded everyone that the Falcon is a very cool, very under appreciated hero.

The Falcon has never gotten himself a solo series, but has accumulated a good amount of minis and done in ones. This volume collects a bunch of them.

The best of the bunch is the mini-series from the 80s. One of my favorites.

A nice introduction to a hero that deserves more exposure than just dressing up like another hero.

[Mitchell Friedman · Rating 1 out of 5]

A reprint. Hard to believe this would have ever been considered good. Not the writing nor the art. Not the story, not the characterization. Not the slang. Just no.

[Jedi Sunni · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this one was very interesting and some what surprising to see a character who seems to be of African American decent. I like the fact that this was a positive character from the inter-city who made the choice to be different. I liked this comic, though there are some stupid stereotypes. I still think it challenges you to think introspectively, especially if you are from a urban background. My rating for this issue is a 4.2 out of 5.0.

[j]

3.5. the storylines were okay. i'm a big fan of 60s comic book art styles, so this was (mostly) a joy to read.