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Issue: The Avengers #288
Publication Date: February 1988
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Issues: #288 of 402 Issues (913 Printings)
Title:
Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
£0.40 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
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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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Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in another Issue:
FlagAvengers Epic Collection #18 published January 2020
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When Wakes the Sentry Sinister!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Avengers [Dr. Druid; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; She-Hulk; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]]; Adaptoid (disguised as the Fixer); Machine Man; Sentry 459
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold: Los Poderosos Vengadores #10 published December 2012
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Pages: 1
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Heavy Metal!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Dr. Druid; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]]; Marrina; Heavy Metal [Super-Adaptoid (in the form of the Fixer); Machine Man; Sentry 459; Tess-One] (introduction, villains); Doomsday Man (destroyed)
Synopsis: The Super-Adaptoid gains the Machine Man's help after promising to revive Jocasta. After gaining control of Sentry 459 and Tess-One the group, naming itself Heavy Metal, attacks Hydrobase.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold: Los Poderosos Vengadores #10 published December 2012
In Issue: FlagAvengers: Heavy Metal #[nn] published January 2013
In Content Item: FlagDie Rächer #23 published ?
as Zwei Rächer in der Falle [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 22
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: In "Mark's Remarks" Mark Gruenwald recounts why Roger Stern is no longer the writer of the title. Letters from Jeff Miller, Cynthia Scott, Hurricane Heeran, Brian Daly

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