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Issue: The Avengers #190
Publication Date: December 1979
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Issues: #190 of 402 Issues (913 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 09/01/1979
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0714860245812
Price: $0.40 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 8 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from list in Meet the Dealers #13.
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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 as/ in another Issue.
reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagStar Magazine #5 published January 1991 as Cuore di pietra [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Avengers #19 [unnamed variant] published January 2019
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reprinted from a Content Item in another Issue.
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
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Cover, Front
Original Artwork
Digital Edition
Adult Image
Title Page
Indicia on this Page
 
 
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Something Evil This Way Comes!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Avengers [the Beast; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; the Vision; the Wasp]; Daredevil; the Grey Gargoyle
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #385 published May 1982
as [untitled] [Illustration on Cover, Front]
In Content Item: FlagStar Magazine #5 published January 1991
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAvengers: Heart of Stone #[nn] published January 2013
as Something Evil This Way Comes! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Heart of Stone

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Avengers [The Beast; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; The Falcon; Goliath [Clint Barton] (flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; The Scarlet Witch; Thor [Donald Blake](flashback); The Vision; The Wasp]; Charles P. Irwin; Daredevil [also as Matt Murdock]; Edwin Jarvis; Emerson Bale; Graviton (flashback); The Grey Gargoyle; Henry Peter Gyrich; Jeryn Hogarth; Judy (flashback); Lt. Dwight Stanford; Senator Fleckner; Senator Reischel; Senator Roosevelt; Ultron-6 (flashback)
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagStar Magazine #5 published January 1991
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] #385 published May 1982
as Heart of Stone [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAvengers: Heart of Stone #[nn] published January 2013
as Heart of Stone [Story on Interior Page(s)]
From Content Item: FlagAvengers: Heart of Stone #[nn] published January 2013
was [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]Original art
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 17
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Follow Us to Fun and Adventure Every Saturday Morning on ABC-TV!!!

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (advertisement copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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More Bombastic Paperbacks From Marvel

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (advertisement copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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Wowie! Zowie! CBS Saturday Morning's Looking Good

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (advertisement copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 2
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Now--Get Four Titles For the Price of Three!

Promotional Material (from Publisher)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
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December 1979

In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Character(s): Micronauts [Bug; Commander Arcturus Rann; Marionette [Princess Mari]; Prince Acroyear]
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Stan talks about the uproar he caused by promoting EPIC in his column when he promised not to use the column to hawk products. Miscellaneous Marvel news items, including a blurb about MARVEL COMICS #1 and MICRONAUTS #12.
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Spider-Man Meets June Jitsui!

Advertisement (Comic Format)  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): June Jitsui; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
Synopsis: Spider-Man runs into June Jitsui, martial arts expert and defeats her by keeping her hands busy with Hostess Twinkies.
Reprinting
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Comic strip ad for Hostess Twinkies from ITT Continental Baking Company.
Inks credit changed from Josef Rubinstein to Bob McLeod. Credit confirmed by Josef Rubinstein through a Facebook Messenger conversation, on 13 September 2018.

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