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Issue: The Avengers #263

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Publication Date: January 1986

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Issues: #263 of 401 Issues (872 Printings)

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Variant: Newsstand

Rating: Approved By the Comics Code Authority

Publisher: Flag

Marvel

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Indicia Publisher: Marvel Comics Group

On Sale Date: (not set)

Volume: 1

Pages: 36

ISBN:

UPC/EAN: 0714860245801

Price: $0.65 USD

Indicia Frequency: Approved By the Comics Code Authority

Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
3 (1 story, 1 cover) from base issue

Editor(s): Howard Mackie (assistant editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

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Format

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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2 The Avengers #263 [Direct Edition]

The Avengers #263 [CA Cover Price]

The Avengers #263 [Newsstand]

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Cover, Front

Original Artwork

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Content Items (3 total)

What Lurks Within The Cocoon?

Illustration on Cover, Front from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): ?

Penciller(s): John Buscema (signed)

Inker(s): Tom Palmer (signed)

Colorist(s): Christie Scheele ?

Letterer(s): ?

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Avengers

Character(s): Avengers [Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Hercules; Namor the Sub-Mariner]; Jean Grey (within the cocoon)

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Pages: 1

"What Lurks Below?"

Story on Interior Page(s) from base issue

Credits

Writer(s): Roger Stern

Penciller(s): John Buscema (breakdowns)

Inker(s): Tom Palmer (finishes)

Colorist(s): Christie Scheele

Letterer(s): Jim Novak

Subject Matter

Genres: superhero

Feature(s): The Avengers

Character(s): Avengers [Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Hercules; Namor the Sub-Mariner; the Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; The Enclave [Morlak; Shinski; Zota]; Derek Freeman; Her (flashback); Jean Grey; Melter; Raymond Sikorski; Scourge; Adam Warlock (flashback); Nelson (FBI diver); Carter (FBI diver); Keegan (Melter's henchman)

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.

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Pages: 22

Notes: Continued in Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1963 series) #286, which leads up to X-Factor #1.

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Letters Page on Interior Page(s) from base issue

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Writer(s): ?

Letterer(s): typeset

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Pages: 1

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, Marshall Mattie