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Issue: The Avengers [John Steed Emma Peel] #1
Publication Date: November 1968
 
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Issues: #1 of 1 Issue
Title:
Variant: unnamed
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Publisher: FlagWestern
Brand: Gold KeyView Brand Images2
Indicia Publisher: Western Publishing Company Inc.
On Sale Date: 08/01/1968
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.15 USD
Indicia Frequency: none
Content Items: 9 (4 stories, 1 cover)
Editor(s): ?
Disclose Notes: Cover code: 10213-811. Adapted from the popular British television program The Avengers, which ran from 1961 to 1969 in the UK, created by Sydney Newman. On-sale date from 1968 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Silver Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
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The Lid's Off a Spy Game a La Mod!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): ? (photo)
Inker(s): ? (photo)
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Feature(s): The Avengers
Character(s): Avengers [John Steed; Emma Peel]
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Photo cover of actors Patrick Macnee as John Steed and Diana Rigg as Emma Peel.
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The Roman Invasion

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Feature(s): The Avengers
Character(s): Avengers [John Steed; Emma Peel]; Karl; Helmut; Agent 77 of the British secret service
Synopsis: John Steed and Emma Peel are having a picnic when it is interupted by two men wearing Roman armor having a sword fight. After one man is hurt Emma and John defeat the other and rush them both to a hospital. The uninjured man (Helmut, a foreign spy) escapes. John finds a clue in the wounded man's clothes and goes to check out where a movie with Roman soldiers is being filmed and is mistaken for an extra. Helmut recognizes him and tries to kill him during the filming of a fight scene. Emma has found out what is going on from the wounded british spy and arrives in time to save John.
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From Issue: FlagTV Comic #760 published ?two page strip per issue; layout changed for this reprinting
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #759 published ?
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #758 published ?
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #757 published ?
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #756 published ?
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Pages: 14
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Sea Horse

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Keys of Knowledge
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Pages: 1
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Field

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Picture Dictionary
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Pages: 1
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[untitled]

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Jest for Fun
First Line: 1st Traveler: I'm never going back...
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Pages: 1
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Plesiosaur

Text Article  on  Interior Page(s)
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Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: informational
Feature(s): Dinosauria
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Pages: 1
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The Mirage Maker

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): Pat Williams
Inker(s): Pat Williams
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: adventure, espionage
Feature(s): The Avengers
Character(s): Avengers [John Steed; Emma Peel]; the Colonel; Johnson (the scientist); Sammy; Franz; Hans
Synopsis: John and Emma are sent to help protect a scientist that has created a mirage making machine. While the scientist is demonstrating the machine to his assistant it is causing havok in the countryside. Because of the mirages John and Emma end up being chased by a policeman until they arrive at the scientist's home. There they find the foreign agents who are trying to steal the machine. While trying to escape from the agents they end up going through an Army testing ground where they finally capture the agents using the mirage machine.
Reprinting
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #766 published ?two page strip per issue; layout changed for this reprinting
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #765 published ?
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #764 published ?
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #763 published ?
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #762 published ?
From Issue: FlagTV Comic #761 published ?
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Pages: 12
Disclose Notes: Art credits via The Avengers Illustrated website.
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Cement Is Not Corn

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
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Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Mini-Comics
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Pages: 0.5
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[untitled]

Cartoon  on  Interior Page(s)
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous
Feature(s): Chuckle Time
First Line: He listens to my wife all day!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Four cartoons.

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