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Namor and Valkyrie joining Wonder's nub Avengers team up in 2022

Avengers #53 cover by Javier Garron (Image credit: Marvel Comics)

The roster of Wonder's core Avengers team is expanding with deuce somewhat unexpected recruits from the team's past in February's Avengers #53 - including at to the lowest degree one returning member who was unbowed up trying to kill the Avengers as of late as this summer.

Those two new recruits are Jane Foster, the current head Valkyrie, and Namor, King of Atlantis - who has been a recurring enemy for the Avengers throughout author Jason Aaron's guide, even recruiting his own team of villains to fight surface world targets, and incompatible with the Avengers for master of the Capital of Arizona Effect in the story Avengers: Enter the Phoenix.

Namor has been an Avenger eightfold times in the past, most notably in Roger Stern's '80s Avengers feed and in Geoff Johns' short-lived Avengers stint in the early '00s.

It seems Namor's regaining to the squad, later on a period as their foe (he's often absent back and forth from hero to villain and everyplace in between), will be predicated connected Doctor Doom's new Masters of Evil, formed away villains from around the Multiverse. Weirdly sufficient, Doom and Namor had their own long-run-running nefarious partnership in the classical '70s title Marvel Superintendent-Villain Team.

As for Jane Foster, she's too a quondam member of the Avengers from her time as Thor, prior to anxious and being resurrected as a Valkyrie. She's since gone connected to reform the Asgardian arrange of Valkyries, including recruiting the originative Valkyrie Brunnhilde, WHO was herself a member of the Secret Avengers.

Even though Jane's been an Retaliator before, she hasn't been along the team up at the same time every bit Thor Odinson, from whom she transmissible the mantle and powers of Thor, and to whom she returned IT tardive on when she became Valkyrie. Avengers #53 will mark the first time some Thor and Jane deliver been Avengers simultaneously.

There's another surprising Avengers reunification going connected in Avengers #53 - a merging between Black Panther and Namor, the monarchs of Wakanda and Atlantis, respectively. They haven't been Avengers in collaboration in some fourth dimension (if always, for longer than a short period).

In fact, they're more late known as bloodthirsty enemies, owing to Namor leading Atlantis in an invasion of Wakanda in Avengers vs. X-Men, and Black Felis onca's counterstrike in which Wakanda attacked Atlantis in the event Infinity.

Though they did sorta work together as members of Marvel's Illuminati in Jonathan Hickman's Early Avengers, that partnership was weak at the best, with Infinity complicating it even further. Black Panther and Namor's rivalry and what them both beingness Avengers could mean isn't lost on artist Javier Garron either, WHO put the two at each others' throats on the cover of Avengers #53.

It's interesting that both Jane and Namor are joining the Avengers in 2022, as Jane is about to become Thor in the MCU film sequel Thor: Love and Nose drops, while Namor has been reported as the villain of the Black Panther continuation Wakanda Forever.

Avengers #53 goes happening sale on February 9.

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