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Issue: The Avengers #244
Publication Date: June 1984
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Issues: #244 of 401 Issues (872 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved By the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: 03/13/1984
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: 0714860245806
Price: $0.60 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved By the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
4 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue
Editor(s): Michael Carlin (assistant editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #42, with shipping date of 1984-02-21.
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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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The Wraiths Walk Among Us!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Al Milgrom (signed)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Avengers
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) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Feature(s): Moon Patrol; Atari
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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) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Roger Stern
Penciller(s): Al Milgrom (pages 1-9, 17, 18, 22); Carmine Infantino (pages 10-16, 19-21)
Inker(s): Joe Sinnott
Colorist(s): Christie Scheele
Letterer(s): Jim Novak
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Avengers
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; CAMEOS: Lockjaw; Quicksilver; Clint Barton [Hawkeye]; Bobbi Morse [Mockingbird]; Bill Foster [Goliath]
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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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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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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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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