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Issue: The Avengers #290

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Publication Date: April 1988

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Issues: #290 of 401 Issues (872 Printings)

Title:

Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved By the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand:

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 07148602458304

Price: $0.95 CAD
$0.75 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved By the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Gregory Wright (assistant editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

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Format

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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The Avengers #290 [Direct Edition]

The Avengers #290 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

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Content Items (3 total)

Day Of The Adaptiod!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Penciller(s): John Buscema (signed)

Inker(s): Tom Palmer (signed)

Colorist(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Avengers

Character(s): the Avengers [Dr. Druid; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; She-Hulk; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; The Captain [Steve Rogers]]; Marrina; Adaptoid; Machine Man

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Pages: 1

The World According To the Adaptoid

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Mark Gruenwald (co-plot); Ralph Macchio (co-plot; script)

Penciller(s): John Buscema (breakdowns)

Inker(s): Tom Palmer (finisher)

Colorist(s): Christie Scheele [as Max Scheele]

Letterer(s): Bill Oakley

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Avengers

Character(s): Avengers [Dr. Druid; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]]; The Captain [Steve Rogers]; Marrina; Machine Man; Stingray (cameo); Super-Adaptoid (first as Supreme Adaptoid, villain); Kubik; Mentallo (cameo flashback); Heavy Metal [Sentry 459; Tess-One; Awesome Android] (cameo flashback)

Synopsis: With the power of the Cosmic Cube, the Super-Adaptoid renames himself the Supreme Adaptoid and plans on controlling the universe. Kubik transports the Captain into the battle. The Captain is able to defeat the Supreme Adaptoid by tricking the creature into duplicating the human ability to die. Kubik strips the Adaptoid of the power of the Cube removing its ability to duplicate powers.

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Pages: 22

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Mark Gruenwald

Letterer(s): typeset

Subject Matter

Feature(s): Avengers Assemble!

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters from Jeffrey R. Lacasse, D. L. Lambert Jr., Tom Parkin, Howard W. Hales, Bill Climer