RETRO MARVEL'S AVENGERS ASSEMBLE IRON MAN, CAPTAIN AMERICA, THOR ECT.. T-SHIRT

If it wasn't for a delay in sending Daredevil #1 to the printer, The Avengers might never have existed. According to Marvel's Senior Vice President of Publishing, Tom Brevoort, when the publisher realized that the first issue of Daredevil wasn't going to be ready in time for its scheduled run at the printer, Stan Lee proposed the idea of bringing a bunch of existing Marvel characters together on the same team, much like DC had done with the Justice League of America. By doing so, they wouldn't need to create complicated origin stories for the individual members, thereby jumping right into whatever adventure Lee and Jack Kirby could come up with on short notice. The pair brainstormed for a while and came up with The Avengers, then hastily put together the first issue and sent it off to the printer. **