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I really like the look of this map. I've recently reread Avengers 137-140 for a Beast volume and was pretty impressed - that run references the Defenders stint in that bronze age way of making the MU seem so real.

There's a really funny exchange with YJ, Iron Man, and Hawkeye over the Defenders in #137 which cascades into the will-he-or-won't-he subplot which is finally resolved when YJ rejoins in #151. "The Defenders didn't 'let me go', Shellhead. You can come and go as you please with them --" Awesome.

If it were me, I'd scan the pages needed to follow Hank + Jan's chronology through this period. Here's my map. I don't have the originals so these first page numbers are from the Serpent Crown tpb.

#141 pg 9-10 The Avengers visit Hank + Jan in the hospital.
#148 pg 110 Hank + Jan are released, Jan announces her intention to return to the Avengers with or without Hank.

The next set is from Avengers #150 - 151 which, for those who don't know, includes both a reprint of #16 and a history of the Avengers told through the form of a broadcast accompanying the news of the new lineup. Here's my map to tease out the 'current' events from the other stuff for these two issues. These page numbers are from the originals so they include ads.

#151 pg 1
#150 pg 1-3, 7, 10
#151 pg 3, 7, (10), 14, 17, 22-23, 26-27 (30-31)

Notes:

#151 pg 1 and #152 pg 10 are fully broadcast pages but set up the narrative for the transitions.

#151 pg 10 is a broadcast page that is not at all needed for 'current' content or story flow but is a retrospective on Hank Pym's Avengers career that may be useful for this volume.

#151 pg 30-31 are 'current' story pages that could be lost for this particular volume because they cliffhang to the next Avengers adventure and because page 27 ends with the big final lineup Avengers Assemble moment. If I decided to go this route, I would probably keep page 30 but black out the inset panel which is part of the cliffhang. I'd keep pg 30, though, because it includes Hank telling Jan above the roar of the crowd that he could enjoy being an Avenger after all which nicely draws the whole mini-drama to a close.

For not too many scanned pages, you could have the whole Hank + Jan chronology from 141-151 including the whole relationship/professional crisis story from this period. Could be done with sliced up comics, too but I'm not sure what the extra pages would do to the story flow. I've read through it the way I have mapped and it reads pretty smooth, believe it or not.

Sorry to sidetrack so much. I'd suggest the main title be Ant-Man, Yellowjacket, and the Wasp with the subtitle "Stranger Things" which of course is a double meaning referring to the central part "The Stranger" plays in the center of the volume. (#137-140)

Kid Zemo