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Issue: The Avenger #1 [A-1 #129]
Publication Date: February 1955
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Issues: #1 [A-1 #129] of 4 Issues
Title:
Variant: unnamed
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMagazine Enterprises
Brand: ME
Indicia Publisher: Magazine Enterprises
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: none
Pages: 36
ISBN: none
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.10 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 7 (4 stories, 1 cover)
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: Color
Dimensions: Standard Golden Age U. S.
Paper Stock: Glossy cover; Newsprint interior
Binding: Saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Avenger [Roger Wright]
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Fog Robbers

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Avenger [Roger Wright] (introduction); Claire Farrow (his secretary); Phineas Fletcher; Igor Larsen
First Line: When a gang of international thieves steal...
Synopsis: Professor Fletcher is robbed in an artificial fog.
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In Issue: FlagL'âge merveilleux des Comics #5 published ?
In Content Item: FlagThe Avenger #9 published January 1958
as The Fog Robbers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #27 published December 2000
as The Fog Robbers [Story on Interior Page(s)]
Reprint Notes:  
Miscellaneous
Pages: 8
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ?
Inker(s): ?
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Hi-Power Binoculars
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Bruce Sales Co.
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Advertisement  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Penciller(s): ? (photograph)
Inker(s): ? (photograph)
Letterer(s): typeset
Subject Matter
First Line: Toy bonanza
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Pages: 0.5
Disclose Notes: Modern Toy Company.
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Death Has Three Faces!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Avenger [Roger Wright]
First Line: The Pegasus III is going to explode any second now...
Synopsis: When a guided atomic missile is lost in the mid-pacific waters it is up to The Avenger to recover it before the Russians do.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Avenger #9 published January 1958
as Death Has Three Faces [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Men of Mystery #13 published January 1999
as Death Has Three Faces [Story on Interior Page(s)]originally in color; in black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Disclose Notes: Script credit from Newman's log book, The Comics! Vol. 14, No. 8 (Aug. 2003).
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The Red Hand of Terror!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): ?
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Avenger [Roger Wright]; Dr. Klaus Oberschaff
First Line: To avenge the crimes of man on man...
Synopsis: The Avenger goes to Vienna to save a scientist.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Avenger #9 published January 1958
as The Red Hand of Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagGolden-Age Men of Mystery #5 published January 1997
as The Red Hand of Terror [Story on Interior Page(s)]originally in color; in black and white
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 7
Job Number: A-3
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The Birth of the Avenger!

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): The Avenger [Roger Wright] (origin); Claire Farrow; Ralph Wright (Roger's brother); Ralph's wife; Ivan Pavelitch; Sergei Viroshonsky (villain)
First Line: Take him alive!
Synopsis: Colonel Ralph Wright and his wife are kidnapped by Russian agents, wanting him to write a letter to his brother Roger, who has just invented a new type of airplane the Soviets want.
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In Content Item: FlagThe Avenger #9 published January 1958
as The Birth of The Avenger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagSentinels of Justice #1 published January 1993
as The Birth of the Avenger! [Story on Interior Page(s)]originally in color; in black and white
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #35 published January 2002
as The Birth of the Avenger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagMen of Mystery Comics #69 published October 2007
as The Birth of the Avenger [Story on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 6
Job Number: A-4

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