Who was / is the best Avengers writer??

I don't know if he is the best, but Englehart is my favorite.

Roy Thomas brought a lot to the title, but Steve Englehart made it the "cosmic" and grand scale beyond!!

I've set it up so we can have 3 votes each. I couldn't limit myself to one!!

Stan Lee followed by Roger Stern. The third one was too difficult a choice for me.

Tie between Roy Thomas and Roger Stern.

Roy Thomas, then Stan, then Stern.

Englehart was writing when I first started buying the comic, and I had read my Dad's
issues written by Stan Lee and Roy Thomas. So, those three will always have a
special place in my heart.

Stern,Michelinie,Lee.

1. Roy Thomas
2. Roger Stern
3. Stan Lee

Johns wrote for Avengers? What did I miss?

Hank and Janet doing naughty things with their powers? That was Johns.

I can only choose one: Kurt Busiek.

It was not easy picking Thomas over Avengers creator Stan Lee, but I did for the following reasons.

When I think of great Avengers stories, none of them were written by Stan Lee. The resurrection of Captain America was a great event, but overall not a great story.

It was Roy Thomas who recognized that Iron Man and Thor should be the anchors of the group and involved on an active basis; he even began sneaking them back in despite being told by Stan Lee to make the Avengers a group for the second-tier heroes.

It was Roy Thomas who gave us the Black Knight, the Lethal Legion, Arkon, the Grim Reaper, the Vision, Ultron, Yellowjacket, the marriage of Hank and Jan, and The Masters of Evil/Jarvis/Ultron/Vision storyline, which I think is the first great multi-issue story arc in the Avengers comic. He would also later give us the epic Kree/Skrull War.

Most of what the other writers above contributed is built on the vision of Roy Thomas.

Thomas, Stern, Lee, Englehart.

What I need to do is to go back and read the Avengers during those Giant-Sized
issues (# 2-4) by Englehart, circa 1975 to see how they hold up. When I was
12, that stuff had me completely. It was tough coming up with 50¢ an issue,
but I saved everything I had, went out searching for returnable pop bottles, etc.
just so that I could keep up with those stories.

Joss Whedon isn't in the poll?

Just wait till the Browncoats find out about this.

Avengers #3 is my favorite single-issue story ever and perfectly captures the spirit of Silver Age Marvel, IMO -- so Stan Lee.

I didn't realize we could vote for 3 when I voted, so if I were to vote for two others, it would be Roger Stern and Kurt Busiek.

IAWTP

I had to vote Jim Shooter
just to piss off John Byrne.

Mansion Siege is the best Avengers story there ever was or will be. So I vote for Stern, obv.

I went Lee, Stern, and Busiek. I wavered between Englehart and Thomas for the third spot rather than Busiek, and essentially flipped a coin mentally.