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Issue: The Avengers #289
Publication Date: March 1988
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Issues: #289 of 401 Issues (872 Printings)
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Variant: Direct Edition
Rating: Approved By the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagMarvel
Brand: MarvelView Brand Images3
Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics
On Sale Date: (not set)
Volume: 1
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: none
Price: $0.95 CAD
£0.40 GBP
$0.75 USD
Indicia Frequency: Approved By the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 3 (1 story, 1 cover)
Editor(s): Gregory Wright (assistant editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
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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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Heavy Metal Horde!

Illustration  on  Cover, Front
Credits
Penciller(s): John Buscema (signed)
Inker(s): Tom Palmer (signed)
Colorist(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Avengers
Character(s): the Avengers [Namor the Sub-Mariner; She-Hulk; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]]; Adaptoid; Machine Man; Sentry 459; Tess-One; Doomsday Man; Awesome Android
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold: Los Poderosos Vengadores #10 published December 2012
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Miscellaneous
Pages: 1
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The Cube Root

Story  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Writer(s): Ralph Macchio
Penciller(s): John Buscema (breakdowns)
Inker(s): Tom Palmer (finisher)
Colorist(s): Paul Becton
Letterer(s): Bill Oakley
Subject Matter
Genres: superhero
Feature(s): The Avengers
Character(s): Avengers [Namor the Sub-Mariner; She-Hulk [Jennifer Walters]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]]; Marrina; Stingray [Dr. Walt Newell]; Heavy Metal [Super-Adaptoid; Sentry 459; Tess-One; Awesome Android (joins); Machine Man (quits)] (villains); Kubik (a Cosmic Cube, first as Kubik)
Synopsis: Heavy Metal attacks Hydrobase and the Avengers. Machine Man reveals that he has been waiting for the Super-Adaptoid to reveal its true intentions and helps the Avengers against the Adaptoid. The Adaptoid uses the Avengers' computer to find the Cosmic Cube and brings it to Hydrobase. The Cube arrives in a sentient humanoid form calling itself Kubik. The Super-Adaptoid duplicates Kubik's powers.
Reprinting
In Issue: FlagMarvel Gold: Los Poderosos Vengadores #10 published December 2012
In Issue: FlagAvengers: Heavy Metal #[nn] published January 2013
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Pages: 22
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s)
Credits
Letterer(s): typeset
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Letters from Michael Proteau, D.L. Lambert Jr., David Young

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