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Issue: The Avengers #290
Publication Date: April 1988
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Issues: #290 of 401 Issues (872 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: Newsstand
Rating: Approved By the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 07148602458304
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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Day Of The Adaptiod!

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]; The Captain [Steve Rogers]]; Marrina; Adaptoid; Machine Man
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Pages: 1
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The World According To the Adaptoid

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Credits
Writer(s): Mark Gruenwald (co-plot); Ralph Macchio (co-plot; script)
Penciller(s): John Buscema (breakdowns)
Inker(s): Tom Palmer (finisher)
Colorist(s): Christie Scheele [as Max 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]]; The Captain [Steve Rogers]; Marrina; Machine Man; Stingray (cameo); Super-Adaptoid (first as Supreme Adaptoid, villain); Kubik; Mentallo (cameo flashback); Heavy Metal [Sentry 459; Tess-One; Awesome Android] (cameo flashback)
Synopsis: With the power of the Cosmic Cube, the Super-Adaptoid renames himself the Supreme Adaptoid and plans on controlling the universe. Kubik transports the Captain into the battle. The Captain is able to defeat the Supreme Adaptoid by tricking the creature into duplicating the human ability to die. Kubik strips the Adaptoid of the power of the Cube removing its ability to duplicate powers.
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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: Letters from Jeffrey R. Lacasse, D. L. Lambert Jr., Tom Parkin, Howard W. Hales, Bill Climer

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