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Issue: The Avengers #288
Publication Date: February 1988
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Issues: #288 of 401 Issues (872 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
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: 07148602458302
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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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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When Wakes The Sentry Sinister!

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]]; Adaptoid (disguised as the Fixer); Machine Man; Sentry 459
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Heavy Metal!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Ralph Macchio
Penciller(s): John Buscema (breakdowns)
Inker(s): Tom Palmer (finishes)
Colorist(s): Christie 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]]; 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.
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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
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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