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Issue: The Avengers: The Korvac Saga #[nn]
Publication Date: January 1991
 
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Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: Marvel ComicsView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: 01/15/1991
Volume: none
Pages: 196
ISBN: 0871357607
UPC/EAN: 02488523661301
Price: $15.75 CAD
£6.50 GBP
$12.95 USD
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Content Items: 27 (11 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Trade Paperback
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Modern Age U.S.
Paper Stock: glossy cardstock cover; Baxter interior
Binding: squarebound trade paperback
Publishing Format: collected edition
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Inks over pencils. Colors and bannering yet to be added. From the collection of W. Allen.
 

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Avengers: The Korvac Saga

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Contents

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Introduction

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The impassioned epic popularly referred to as "The Michael Saga"...
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FlagThe Avengers #175 [U.S. Cover Price] published September 1978
was From Whence Came... the Enemy? [Illustration on Cover, Front]Only Michael Korvac figure
 
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Image of Michael Korvac taken from the cover of The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #175 (September 1978).
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Tomorrow Dies Today!

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Kathy Schilling; Mrs. Lichter-Dale
Why, oh, why does the priority communications alarm always go off when I'm in the shower?
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was Tomorrow Dies Today! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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First Blood

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Leaving the SHIELD orbiting space station behind, an Avengers' Quinjet rockets Earthward...
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"...Though Hell Should Bar the Way!"

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Meyer; Mack
So this is where you've been hiding! Just hanging out, huh?
Jocasta is delivered to Avengers mansion where she is reactivated and battles the team.
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"...Where Angels Fear to Tread"

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Sister Eucalypta (robot, villain); Blanche; Mrs. Pike
She went that way! Hurry!
The Avengers follow Jocasta back to Ultron's lair and battle the powerful robot. Ultron tries to make Jocasta his bride but she rejects him and helps the Avengers take him down.
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FlagThe Avengers #171 [unnamed variant] published May 1978
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Holocaust in New York Harbor!

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Sister Jude
Anybody home?! Hey, Avengers! Where's the cake...
The Avengers battle Tyrak.
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was Holocaust in New York Harbor! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Threshold of Oblivion!

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It is springtime in Manhattan, and the afternoon breezes are warm with the promise of summer.
The Avengers are vanishing one by one...
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Inker information in Avengers #179.
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Captives of the Collector!

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Energy Creatures of Erdile
One-by-one, thirteen past and present Avengers have mysteriously vanished from the Earth.
The Avengers vs The Collector.
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The End... and the Beginning!

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They stand in a silence that reaches beyond awe.
Origin of Michael Korvac.
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was The End... and the Beginning! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Destiny Hunt!

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Your summons was most urgent, Iron Man-- and took me from a vigil most grave.
The Avengers face Michael.
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was The Destiny Hunt! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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The Hope... and the Slaughter!

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Once he was called Korvac, the Machine Man...
The Avengers face Michael.
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FlagThe Avengers #177 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1978
was The Hope... And the Slaughter! [Story on Interior Page(s)]
 
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Epilogue

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A private cemetary in Queens a few days later...
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FlagAvengers: The Korvac Saga #[nn] published January 2012
 
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Behold... The Guardians of the Galaxy!

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FlagThe Avengers #167 [unnamed variant] published January 1978
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First Blood!

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was First Blood! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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The Return of the Bride of Ultron!

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FlagThe Avengers #170 [unnamed variant] published April 1978
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Shards of Crystal Doom!

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Sister Eucalypta
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FlagThe Avengers #171 [unnamed variant] published May 1978
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Holocaust in New York Harbor!

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...And Then There Were None!

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Captured by the Collector!

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FlagThe Avengers #174 [unnamed variant] published August 1978
was Captured by the Collector! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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From Whence Came...The Enemy?

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Destiny Hunt!

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FlagThe Avengers #176 [U.S. Cover Price] published October 1978
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...These Who Lay Dying!

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FlagThe Avengers #177 [U.S. Cover Price] published November 1978
was ...These Who Lay Dying! [Illustration on Cover, Front]
 
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Cover signed "Cockrum - Austin - sort of".
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Blank Pages

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Known as Korvac the Machine Man...
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Back cover of the volume with original art by George Pérez.

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