I'll have to track this one down if only to see "Iron Man somehow defeating Captain Marvel!" and how Hawkeye and Cap survived a battle that killed off Thor(!), Wonderman(!!), Captain Marvel(!!!), and Iron Man (!!!!).

The turning point for Hawkeye was Gru's 1983 mini-series, though. I wasn't too thrilled at seeing him getting hitched to Mockingbird, since that took away from his "cool loner" image, but at least he enjoyed some love and respect for many years after.

Still, my favorite Hawkeye moment has to be Avengers 189, where Clint humiliated Deathbird!

Actually, Hawkeye has always been a cocky smart@$$ type who likes to mouth off. Going back to the Kooky Quartet days, he was always making one snarky comment after another about Captain America. Even after Hawkeye came to respect Cap, he was still the wiseguy on the team, and a real hothead. Once Haweye became the chairman of the West Coast Avengers, he could get quite propritary about that, not wanting to be given orders by Cap whenever the later showed up. So, really, I don't see it out of character for Hawkeye to jokingly refer to Cap as "cornball."

Your left hand contained a stack of scap paper. You would show the audience the black paper as well as your empty hands. You'd look at the mark and "write" a number on the paper. You'd really only scratch a line of two that could be altered to almost any number. You put the pencil down on the table in front of you and when the marks told you their weight, you'd write the actual number on the blank paper using your thumbnail. Your thumb was hidden by the stack of paper you were holding in your left hand.

Once an hour or so, you's let a small prize go to someone, usually a little kid. Maybe once or twice a night, if a large enough crowd gathered, you let one of the large prizes go by writing down the wrong number as well.

If anyone's interested, I can also tell you how those basketball hoops and throwing darts are altered. : )

In his introduction, DeFalco wrote about how he received criticism for not just having Hawkeye cheat, but also call Cap a "cornball" to his face and then have Cap raise doubts about Hawk's ethics at the baseball game. It seemed way out of character for the guys, as they had fought through tougher scrapes without acting like jerks and losing respect for each other. The first Secret Wars comes to mind, as does the Korvac saga, and anything Gruenwald or Busiek ever wrote featuring both characters.

The fact that most, if not all of the dead warriors have since come back only dates the story further. We have seen the following return to life since then: Drax, Bucky, Nighthawk, Terrax, Dracula, and the Green Goblin, if that was one of the Osborns.

Nice save by Hawkeye, yeah, but a really bad story in general.

He didn't think that he might snap off the head? Or tell him to open his hand, since he was expecting a trick anyway?

And what power made him so zipping away in that vortex -- his mind? Because technically he DID pick the correct arrow because Hawkeye snapped the head off only after he chose it. Sorry, that was a weak trick: if a schmuck like me can think of more ways to look out for a trick than Mr. Games himself, something is seriously wrong.