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Issue: The Avengers #186

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Publication Date: August 1979

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Issues: #186 of 401 Issues (872 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0714860245808

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

Editor(s): Jim Salicrup (assistant editor); Roger Stern (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Notes: This issue features the first appearance of a Chthon-possessed Scarlet Witch, a "Dark Scarlet Witch", so to speak. It anticipates, in many ways, the Dark Phoenix character, by the same artist, that first appeared in The X-Men #134 (June 1980).

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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 #186 [Direct Edition]

The Avengers #186 [Newsstand]

The Avengers #186 [UK Cover Price]

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Enter... Modred the Mystic!

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): the Darkhold book; Modred the Mystic; The Avengers [the Scarlet Witch; Vision; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Beast; Wasp [Janet Pym]; Falcon]

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Pages: 1

Nights of Wundagore!

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Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Character(s): the Avengers [the Beast; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; the Falcon; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Quicksilver (origin, details); the Scarlet Witch (origin, details); the Vision; the Wasp [Janet Pym]]; Bova; Chthon (introduction); Django Maximoff; Edwin Jarvis; Henry Peter Gyrich; the High Evolutionary (flashback); Jonathan Drew (flashback); Magda (introduction, wife of Magneto, mother of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, flashback); Modred the Mystic; Robert Frank [the Whizzer] (flashback); Madeline Joyce Frank [Miss America] (flashback, death)

First Line: High above the sun-streaked village of east Transia...

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Pages: 17

Job Number: LG458

Notes: Magneto revealed as father of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch via the appearance of Magda in X-Men #125. The origin of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch storyline discussed in detail by Mark Gruenwald in the letters page of Avengers #192.

The Adventures of Gritboy

Advertisement (Comic Format) on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Penciller(s): N. Rosati (signed)

Inker(s): N. Rosati (signed)

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Genres: teen

Feature(s): Grit newspaper

Character(s): Chris

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Pages: 0.5

Notes: Comic strip ad for the Grit newspaper from Grit Publishing Co..

The Next Time You're Shopping For Good Comics... Wear Your Sunglasses!

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Genres: humorous

Feature(s): Marvel Magazine

Synopsis: In a colorless world a boy picks up a Marvel color magazine and is blown away by the colors inside.

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Pages: 1

Notes: Comic strip promo for the color Marvel Magazine line.

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Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

Notes: Letters on The Avengers #182. Letters from Mike Labrie, Bill Krauss, and Larry Brundin.