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Issue: The Avengers #244
Publication Date: June 1984
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Issues: #244 of 402 Issues (913 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 02/21/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.25 GBP
$0.60 USD
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Content Items: 4 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: Cover title "The Mighty Avengers". On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #42, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-03-13.
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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
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reprinted 4 times as/in other Issues.
reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Avengers #23 [unnamed variant] published January 2023
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The Wraiths Walk Among Us!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; the Scarlet Witch; Starfox; the Vision]; a Dire Wraith
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Moon Patrol

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
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Penciller(s): ?
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Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Moon Patrol; Atari
Reprinting
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Comics ad for the Moon Patrol video game from Atari.
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"And the Rocket's Red Glare!"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; the Scarlet Witch; Starfox; the Vision; the Wasp]; Dr. Woodrow Cather; Dire Wraiths; Wraith Rocketeers; General Bridges; Lockjaw (cameo); Quicksilver (cameo); Clint Barton [Hawkeye] (cameo); Bobbi Morse [Mockingbird] (cameo); Bill Foster [Goliath] (cameo)
Synopsis: The Avengers battle Dire Wraiths who have been causing accidents at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Clint and Bobbi arrive on the West coast.
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In Issue: FlagAvengers: West Coast Avengers - Assemble #[nn] [premiere edition] published January 2010
In Issue: FlagWest Coast Avengers Omnibus #1 published June 2013
In Issue: FlagAvengers: Absolute Vision #2 published January 2014
In Issue: FlagCapitan America & i Vendicatori #28 published ?Italy
In Content Item: FlagDie Rächer #14 published January 1985
as Die Dämonischen [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Although all male Dire Wraith scientists were shown to be killed in Rom (Marvel, 1979 series) #48, this story clearly shows that some of them survived.
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[untitled]

Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters on The Avengers #239. Short fan letter from David Letterman concerning his appearance in that issue. Question of the Month "What is your biggest pet peeve?" asked to Stern, Milgrom, Sinnott, Novak, Scheele, Carlin, Gruenwald and Shooter; Special Announcements Section. Letters from Randy Zimmerman, Ned Harper (David Letterman Exclusive Club), James Ryley, Howard W. Stangroom, Susan Murrie, Dave Letterman

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