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Issue: The Avengers #97
Publication Date: March 1972
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Issues: #97 of 402 Issues (913 Printings)
Title:
Variant: U.S. Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel Comics GroupView Brand Images4
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
On Sale Date: 12/07/1971
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.20 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 16 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s):  
Disclose Notes: On-sale date from 1972 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress with a correction factor of plus 28 days.
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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
Format Notes:  
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reprinted 2 times as/in other Issues.
reprinted 11 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as a Content Item in another Issue:
FlagMarvel-pocket #3/1985; 4 published July 1985 as Del IX Slutet! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 3 other Issues:
FlagSecret Invasion: Rise of the Skrulls #[nn] published January 2018
FlagAvengers: Earth's Mightiest [Heroes] #2 published January 2018
FlagAvengers: Kree / Skrull War Gallery Edition #[nn] published January 2022
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Godhood's End!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Rick Jones; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Vision [Aarkus]; Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]; Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Fin [Peter Noble]
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Avengers #10 [Regular Edition] published May 2010
In Content Item: FlagThe Kree-Skrull War Starring the Avengers #2 published October 1983
as Cover Gallery [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)].25 page size
In Content Item: FlagAvengers: The Kree-Skrull War #[nn] [1st Printing] published July 2000
as Chapter Nine Godhood’s End! [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Exklusiv #40 published January 2002
as The Avengers #97 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Avengers #4 [unnamed variant] published January 2004
as Godhood's End! [Avengers #97] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black & white
In Content Item: FlagAvengers: Kree / Skrull War #[nn] [Second Edition] published January 2008
as [untitled] [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagWrekers Classics #27 published ?
as Het einde van de godheid! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Remote U-control life size ghost special $1
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside front cover. Ad for novelty items from the Johnson Smith Co.
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Godhood's End!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Goliath [Clint Barton]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]; Rick Jones; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Nick Fury; Annihilus; Intelligence Supreme [Supreme Intelligence]; Ronan; Emperor Dorrek VII; Princess Anelle; H. Warren Craddock (Skrull imposter, death); Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Vision [Aarkus]; Blazing Skull [Mark Todd]; Patriot [Jeffrey Mace]; Fin [Peter Noble]; Angel [Thomas Halloway]; H. Warren Craddock
First Line: I've been hurled back.... back into the Negative Zone!
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In Issue: FlagMarvel Masterworks: The Avengers #10 [Regular Edition] published May 2010
In Content Item: FlagThe Kree-Skrull War Starring the Avengers #2 published October 1983
as Godhood's End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagAvengers: The Kree-Skrull War #[nn] [1st Printing] published July 2000
as Godhood's End! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMarvel Exklusiv #40 published January 2002
as Teil neun: Godhood's End! / Das Ende eines Gottes! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential Avengers #4 [unnamed variant] published January 2004
as Godhood's End! [Avengers #97] [Story on Interior Page(s)]black & white
In Content Item: FlagAvengers: Kree / Skrull War #[nn] [Second Edition] published January 2008
as Godhood's End [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 21
Job Number: 818Z
Disclose Notes: Conclusion of the Kree-Skrull War epic. Captain Marvel merges with Rick Jones. Cameos of many Golden Age Timely characters.

Credits list Neal Adams as "Consultant". Roy Thomas credited him as co-plotter in The letters section of Avengers # 100, as does the Official Marvel Index to the Avengers (II) #2.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photograph)
Colorist(s): ? (background only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: 8 mm motion picture projector
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad for three products from Honor House Products.
On top half of page between story pages 3 and 4.
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First Line: We'll pay you $10,000.00 for this Lincoln penny
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Advertisement from Centre Coin Co. to buy coins.
On lower half of page between story pages 3 and 4.
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Editor(s): ?
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First Line: Any 14 of these hit records for only $2.86
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Record club membership ad.
Between story pages 6 and 7.
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Penciller(s): ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: These 3 big drafting kits* given to you!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Between story pages 9 and 10.
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Shop by Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Invite your friends over for a haunting
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Miscellaneous ads from various dealers. Includes ads for back-issue comics.
Between story pages numbered 15 and 16.
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Shop by Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
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First Line: 75 free gifts
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Pages: 2
Disclose Notes: Miscellaneous ads from various dealers. Includes ads for back-issue comics.
Between story pages 18 and 19.
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Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
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Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Boy
First Line: Boys 12 or older sell Grit in your spare time
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Ad, with response coupon, from Grit Publishing Co. located on top half of page.
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Shop by Mail

Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Inker(s): ?; ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (panel backgrounds only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: 40 page comic book catalog #5
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Miscellaneous ads from various dealers. Includes ads for back-issue comics.
On lower half of page.
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In-house Column  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? (promo copy)
Colorist(s): ? (panel backgrounds only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Mighty Marvel is back on the track! (or: play it again, Stan!)
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Includes: Items; Stan Lee’s Soapbox; The Mighty Marvel Checklist
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?; typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Marilyn Bull, John Hanley, and W. P. Mills. Includes “Know Ye These, the Hallowed Ranks of Marveldom.”
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Inker(s): ? (photographs)
Colorist(s): ? (panel backgrounds and lettering only)
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
Character(s): Arnold Schwarzenegger (photo); Joe Weider (photo)
First Line: I put 2 full inches on my arms - 3 inches on my chest and trimmed 4 inches off my waist in just 7 weeks...
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Ad for the "Weider System" of body building.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): typeset
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First Line: Never finished high school?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Inside back cover. Ad for a program to finish high school at home.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ? ( ad copy)
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Editor(s): ?
Subject Matter
First Line: Do you need extra money?
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Cheerful House. Back cover ad seeking sellers of greeting cards.

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