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Issue: The Avengers #117
Publication Date: November 1973
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Issues: #117 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: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 08/14/1973
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 6 (3 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Part 4 of 6-part crossover with The Defenders.

Steve Englehart explains the Watergate-related plot alterations to this story in the letters page of Avengers #122.
On-sale date from The Comic Reader #99.
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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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reprinted 6 times as/in other Issues.
reprinted 6 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagSuper Spider-Man #231 published July 1977 as Captain America Vs. Sub-Mariner Chapter 8 [Story on Interior Page(s)] pp. 11-18
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 2 other Issues:
FlagAvengers Epic Collection #7 [unnamed variant] published January 2018
FlagAvengers: Earth's Mightiest [Heroes] #3 published January 2019
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Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Notation
Marked Image
Markers over numbering.
 
 
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[untitled]

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]; Defender [Sub-Mariner [Namor]]; Sunfire [Shiro Yoshida]
First Line: Not even Captain America can withstand my power!
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Defenders #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2010
In Content Item: FlagAvengers / Defenders War #[nn] published May 2002
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #1 published January 2005
as Avengers #117 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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[Avengers / Defenders War, Interlude] Holocaust

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Vision]; Mantis; Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Dormammu; Loki
First Line: What is this?
Synopsis: The Swordsman fights Valkrie and Captain America fights the Sub-Mariner. Captain America and Sub-Mariner begin to realize that the two teams have been set up to fight each other by someone else.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagEtranges Aventures #49 published January 1975
In Issue: FlagSuper Spider-Man #231 published July 1977pp. 11-18
In Issue: FlagAvengers: Defenders War #[nn] [Premiere Edition] published January 2007
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Defenders #2 [Regular Edition] published December 2010
In Issue: FlagMarvel Classic #4 published November 2011
In Content Item: FlagAvengers / Defenders War #[nn] published May 2002
as Holocaust [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAvengers / Defenders War #[nn] published May 2002
as Swordsman vs. Valkyrie Chapter 7 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAvengers / Defenders War #[nn] published May 2002
as Captain America vs. Sub-Mariner Chapter 8 [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Defenders #1 published January 2005
as Holocaust [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
Job Number: 1642Z
Disclose Notes: Defenders crossover.
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[Avengers / Defenders War] Chapter 7

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Swordsman [Jacques Duquesne]]; Defenders [Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Aragorn
First Line: At last-- the jungles of Bolivia!
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
Disclose Notes: Chapter 7 of Defenders crossover.
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[Avengers / Defenders War] Chapter 8

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]]; Defenders [Sub-Mariner [Namor]]; Sunfire [Shiro Yoshida]
First Line: Meanwhile, half a world away, in downtown Osaka, Japan...
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 9
Job Number: 1642Z
Disclose Notes: Chapter 8 of Defenders crossover. Continues in The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #10.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Letters from Brian E. Cook, K. J. Robbins, and Ms. S. Otie.
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Kull the Destroyer

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Kull
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: House ad for Kull the Destroyer #11 (Marvel, 1973 Series).

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