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Issue: The Avengers #87
Publication Date: April 1971
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Issues: #87 of 402 Issues (913 Printings)
Title:
Is Variant Variant: UK Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: object(PgSql\Result)#3 (0) { }
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: 12.0 pence GBQ 0-1-0
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
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Disclose Notes: A price variant intended for distribution in the United Kingdom, with replaced cover price.
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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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Look Homeward, Avenger!

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Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa]; Goliath [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]
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First Line: Famous name prizes or cash...from Olympic
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Disclose Notes: Ad for Olympic Sales Club, Inc. soliciting salespeople for greeting cards.
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Look Homeward, Avenger!

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Genres: jungle, superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa] (origin); Goliath [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]; Edwin Jarvis; T'Chaka (flashback, death); N'Baza (flashback, death); B'Tumba (flashback, death); Ulysses Klaw (flashback); A.I.M. (flashback)
First Line: We are home-- back from the parallel Earth of the Squadron Supreme...
Synopsis: T'Challa tells the Avengers his origin story.
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First Line: Look, fellows!
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Disclose Notes: Recruitment ad for sales people for Grit newspaper, between story pages 3 and 4.
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Marvelmania Official Club Stationery Kit

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First Line: The end of the skinny body
Synopsis: Ad for 'Crash Weight Formula' weight-gaining program.
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First Line: These 3 big drafting kits* given to you!
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Disclose Notes: Advertisement for high paying jobs in the drafting field, between story pages 9 and 10.
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Shop by Mail

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First Line: Free! powerful muscles fast!
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Disclose Notes: Thumbnail advertisements for various products including back-issue comic books.
On lower half of page, beneath story half-page numbered 12.
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Shop by Mail

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First Line: We buy & sell comic books
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On lower half of page, beneath story half-page numbered 13.
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First Line: Step into the real world of space with Vern Estes.
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Disclose Notes: Ad for model rocketry kits from Estes Industries Inc. Between pages 15 and 16 of story. Top half of page.
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First Line: America’s most amusing pet squirrel monkey
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Between story pages numbered 15 and 16 on lower half of page.
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First Line: Free facts on how to become a game warden
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Disclose Notes: Thumbnail advertisements for various products including back-issue comic books.
Between story pages 18 and 19.
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Character(s): Spider-Man; Daredevil; Iceman; Conan; Namor; Thor; Captain America; Hulk; the Thing; Iron Man; Black Widow; Human Torch
First Line: Indisputably incredible items to incite your interest, intensify your involvement, and increase your information
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Disclose Notes: Stan's Soapbox discusses why Marvel's stories have been dealing with real issues: civil rights, pollution, campus unrest, etc. In other news, Marvel will publish a 50 cent magazine called Savage Tales, New York University student film-makers shot part of a planned documentary on Herb Trimpe in the Marvel offices, Stan was featured in nationally-televised interview on a CBS-TV morning program (not named), King Kull will be a new comic, and Gardner Fox has joined the bullpen. Also a large spot illustration of "Marvel" flanked by headshots of 12 characters (taken from published art.)
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First Line: Muscles of steel
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Character(s): Avengers [Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne-Pym]]
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Pages: 1.6
Disclose Notes: Letters from Roger Schoolcraft, John Payne, Shirley Gorman, and Paty. Includes “Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.”
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Feature(s): Amazing Adventures
Character(s): The Inhumans; Black Widow
First Line: All this and the Black Widow too!!
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First Line: Second chance for high school drop-outs to get a diploma
Synopsis: Send for free booklet on how to finish high school at home.
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Feature(s): Margrace Corporation Free Booklet
First Line: More and more men report Telepander Training helps develop power-packed muscles in only 35 days!
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Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Ad for the Telepander program of weight training.
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First Line: Make money get prizes with fast selling American seeds
Synopsis: Ad for selling vegetable and flower seeds for the American Seed Co. in exchange for prizes or money. Three kids with quotes endorsing this enterprise are seen in black and white photos.
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Disclose Notes: Color ad on back cover.

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