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Issue: The Avengers #284
Publication Date: October 1987
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Issues: #284 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: 07148602458310
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); Jim Shooter (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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Assault on Olympus!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): John Buscema [as B.] (signed)
Inker(s): Tom Palmer [as P.] (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Avengers
Character(s): Ares; Artemis; the Avengers [She-Hulk; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Thor [Sigurd Jarlson]]; Hephaestus
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Pages: 1
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Battleground: Olympus

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Roger Stern
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 [Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Doctor Druid; She-Hulk; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Thor [Sigurd Jarlson]]; Hercules; Wasp; Greek gods [Ares (villain); Apollo; Aphrodite; Artemis (villain); Athena; Dionysus (villain); Hephaestus; Hera; Hermes; Venus; Zeus (villain)]; Prometheus
Synopsis: The Avengers, except Captain America whose legs were badly injured by Zeus, battle Zeus and the Greek gods aligned with him. The team is able to take out the gods but are unable to defeat an enraged Zeus. Prometheus manages to revive Hercules, but angered the demigod is unable to perceive friend from foe.
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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
Disclose Notes: Mark's Remarks editorial; letter on The Avengers #278. Letter from Jim Hardy

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