Further to Jonah’s Euro-smoke dispenser, a reader writes:

Remember that time the Avengers banded with the Fantastic Four despite political resistance from the X-Men to issue a statement threatening to lay future economic sanctions on Galactus if he didn’t start disassembling his world-devouring machine within the next three years? That was AWESOME!!!

Oddly enough, when you pick up those Dorling Kindersley “ultimate guides” to the Avengers and the Justice League et al and look at the big cutaway double spreads of headquarters with the conference table with the built-in state-of-the-art mineral-water dispensers you do get the vague feeling that within the heart of every super-group there’s an EU sub-committee trying to break out.