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Issue: The Avengers #87
Publication Date: April 1971
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Issues: #87 of 402 Issues (913 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 02/09/1971
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 20 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: A full size reprint of was packaged with the Marvel Legends Black Panther action figure in 2005. On-sale date from 1971 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age U.S.; later standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: saddle-stitched (squarebound #200)
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
Format Notes:  
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Look Homeward, Avenger!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa]; Goliath [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold. Los Vengadores: La Batalla por La Tierra #[nn] published February 2013
In Issue: FlagAvengers : L'intégrale #1971 published April 2013
In Content Item: FlagThe Avengers #138 published May 1976
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagThe Avengers #350 [Direct Edition] published August 1992
as Avengers Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Avengers #4 [unnamed variant] published January 2004
as Look Homeward, Avenger! [Avengers #87] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAvengers No. 87 [Marvel Legends Reprint] #[nn] published May 2005
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Avengers #9 [Regular Edition] published May 2009
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Famous name prizes or cash...from Olympic
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for Olympic Sales Club, Inc. soliciting salespeople for greeting cards.
Appears inside front cover.
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Look Homeward, Avenger!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: jungle, superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa] (origin); Goliath [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]; Edwin Jarvis; T'Chaka (flashback, death); N'Baza (flashback, death); B'Tumba (flashback, death); Ulysses Klaw (flashback); A.I.M. (flashback)
First Line: We are home-- back from the parallel Earth of the Squadron Supreme...
Synopsis: T'Challa tells the Avengers his origin story.
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold. Los Vengadores: La Batalla por La Tierra #[nn] published February 2013
In Content Item: FlagAvengers No. 87 [Marvel Legends Reprint] #[nn] published May 2005
as Look Homeward, Avenger! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Avengers #9 [Regular Edition] published May 2009
as Look Homeward, Avenger! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAvengers : L'intégrale #1971 published April 2013
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 19
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Look, fellows!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Recruitment ad for sales people for Grit newspaper, between story pages 3 and 4.
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ? (panel backgrounds only)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 6 and 7 on upper portion of page.
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Marvelmania Official Club Stationery Kit

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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Pages: 0.6
Disclose Notes: On lower portion of page between story pages 6 and 7.
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Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (background and lettering only)
Letterer(s): typeset
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Subject Matter
First Line: The end of the skinny body
Synopsis: Ad for 'Crash Weight Formula' weight-gaining program.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between pages 6 and 7.
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: These 3 big drafting kits* given to you!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Advertisement for high paying jobs in the drafting field, between story pages 9 and 10.
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Shop by Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Free! powerful muscles fast!
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Thumbnail advertisements for various products including back-issue comic books.
On lower half of page, beneath story half-page numbered 12.
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Shop by Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: We buy & sell comic books
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Thumbnail advertisements for various products including back-issue comic books.
On lower half of page, beneath story half-page numbered 13.
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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First Line: Step into the real world of space with Vern Estes.
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad for model rocketry kits from Estes Industries Inc. Between pages 15 and 16 of story. Top half of page.
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (panel background only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: America’s most amusing pet squirrel monkey
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Thumbnail advertisements for various products including back-issue comic books.
Between story pages numbered 15 and 16 on lower half of page.
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Shop by Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Free facts on how to become a game warden
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Thumbnail advertisements for various products including back-issue comic books.
Between story pages 18 and 19.
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[untitled]

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Spider-Man; Daredevil; Iceman; Conan; Namor; Thor; Captain America; Hulk; the Thing; Iron Man; Black Widow; Human Torch
First Line: Indisputably incredible items to incite your interest, intensify your involvement, and increase your information
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan's Soapbox discusses why Marvel's stories have been dealing with real issues: civil rights, pollution, campus unrest, etc. In other news, Marvel will publish a 50 cent magazine called Savage Tales, New York University student film-makers shot part of a planned documentary on Herb Trimpe in the Marvel offices, Stan was featured in nationally-televised interview on a CBS-TV morning program (not named), King Kull will be a new comic, and Gardner Fox has joined the bullpen. Also a large spot illustration of "Marvel" flanked by headshots of 12 characters (taken from published art.)
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Muscles of steel
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for a variety of novelty items.
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Character(s): Avengers [Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne-Pym]]
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Pages: 1.6
Disclose Notes: Letters from Roger Schoolcraft, John Payne, Shirley Gorman, and Paty. Includes “Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.”
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Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Amazing Adventures
Character(s): The Inhumans; Black Widow
First Line: All this and the Black Widow too!!
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Pages: 0.4
Disclose Notes: House ad for Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series) #6.
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Second chance for high school drop-outs to get a diploma
Synopsis: Send for free booklet on how to finish high school at home.
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Pages: 1
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Inker(s): ? (photographs)
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Feature(s): Margrace Corporation Free Booklet
First Line: More and more men report Telepander Training helps develop power-packed muscles in only 35 days!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Ad for the Telepander program of weight training.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Make money get prizes with fast selling American seeds
Synopsis: Ad for selling vegetable and flower seeds for the American Seed Co. in exchange for prizes or money. Three kids with quotes endorsing this enterprise are seen in black and white photos.
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Color ad on back cover.

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