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Issue: The Avengers #196

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Publication Date: June 1980

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Issues: #196 of 401 Issues (872 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

Brand: Marvel Comics Group

Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0714860245806

Price: $0.40 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
5 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

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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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2 The Avengers #196 [Direct Edition]

The Avengers #196 [Newsstand]

The Avengers #196 [UK Cover Price]

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Content Items (5 total)

Introducing the Treacherous Taskmaster!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): the Taskmaster

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Pages: 1

The Terrible Toll of the Taskmaster

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): Ant-Man [Scott Lang]; the Avengers [the Beast; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jocasta; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; the Vision; the Wasp; Yellowjacket [Henry Pym]; Wonder Man]; Selbe; Dr. Pernell Solomon; Iron Fist (flashback); Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (flashback); the Taskmaster

Synopsis: The Avengers rescue Yellowjacket, Ant-Man and Wasp from the Taskmaster.

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Pages: 17

Notes: Scott Lang, the Ant-Man, is mistakenly referred to, in page 3 panel 4, as Scott Harris.

"The Trap"

Advertisement on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Genres: superhero

Character(s): Larcenous Lil; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]

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Pages: 1

Notes: Comic strip ad for Hostess Twinkies from ITT Continental Baking Company.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: David Michelinie on how Marvel is now having writers conduct their own letters pages and letters on The Avengers #192. Letters from readers: Kurt Busiek, Kyle Turner, John Riley

The Dingo Kids Meet O.J. Simpson

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Genres: celebrity, sports

Feature(s): The Dingo Kids and O.J. Simpson; Dingo boots

Character(s): O.J. Simpson

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Pages: 1

Notes: Inside back cover. Comic strip ad for Dingo boots from Acme Boot Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Northwest Industries, Inc.