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Issue: The Avengers #263
Publication Date: January 1986
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Issues: #263 of 402 Issues (913 Printings)
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Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: [no rating]
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.75 CAD
£0.30 GBP
$0.65 USD
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Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
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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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reprinted 2 times as/in other Issues.
reprinted 5 times as Content Items in other Issues.
Some/all of Issue reprinted as/in 2 other Issues:
FlagPhoenix Omnibus #2 [unnamed variant] published January 2023
FlagX-Factor: The Original X-Men Omnibus #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2024
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What Lurks within the Cocoon?

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
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Writer(s): ?
Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Reprinting
In Content Item: FlagEssential X-Factor #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2005
as The Avengers #263 [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagCaptain America: Scourge of the Underworld #[nn] published January 2011
as What Lurks within the Cocoon? [Cover Reprint (on Interior Page) on Interior Page(s)]
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Pages: 1
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"What Lurks Below?"

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Character(s): Nelson (FBI diver); Carter (FBI diver); Keegan (Melter's henchman, corpse); Ted
First Line: Tower, this is Charter - Air Beta - 5-niner... still waiting clearance for takeoff.
Synopsis: Sub-Mariner joins the Avengers. The Avengers retrieve a cocoon from the bottom of Jamaica Bay which contains the dormant body of the long-thought-dead Jean Grey of X-Men fame.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagX-Men: Phoenix Rising #[nn] [premiere edition] published January 2009
In Issue: FlagAvengers: The Once and Future Kang #[nn] published January 2013
In Content Item: FlagDe Vergelders Special #24 published January 1988
as Stille wateren [Story on Interior Page(s)]
In Content Item: FlagEssential X-Factor #1 [unnamed variant] published January 2005
as What Lurks Below? [Story on Interior Page(s)]black and white
In Content Item: FlagCaptain America: Scourge of the Underworld #[nn] published January 2011
as [untitled] [Story on Interior Page(s)]1 page only
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Pages: 22
Disclose Notes: Continued in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1963 series) #286, which leads up to X-Factor (Marvel, 1986 series) #1.
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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 on The Avengers #256; Question of the Month "Does anyone in your family look at your work? Who?" asked to Stern, Buscema, Palmer, Novak, Scheele, Mackie, Gruenwald and Shooter; Special Announcements Section. Letters from: Rick Braunstein, Lynn Tucker, Douglas Herr Jr., Jason Donegan, T. E. Pouncey, Frank Jessie, and Marshall Mattie.

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