SIEGE – AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE

Marvel, New York, 2010, 1^st pr thus.  ISBN 978-0-7851-4817-3.  Hard cover, unpaginated (approx. 150 pages).  Unread copy, like new; light rubs on jacket.  Collecting Avengers: The Initiative #31-35 plus the Avengers: The Initiative Special.  Illustrators: Rafa Sandoval, Mahmud Asrar, and Jorge Molina.  ‘Handed leadership of the Initiative with co-conspirator Parker Robbins (aka the Hood), he hasn’t ever had it this good.  …  And now, he’s been offered a seat at the table of Osborn’s biggest power players:  the Cabal!  But as dangerous a fighter as he can be, is the Taskmaster ready to hang with the Hood, Osborn and Loki as they plot world domination?  He won’t have time to ponder that question, though, as events overtake the Initiative in Osborn’s run-up to the Siege of Asgard – and the many plot threads that have defined the Initiative come to their dramatic conclusions! (from front flap)