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Issue Details

Issue	#75
Published	May 1981
Cover Price	0.75 USD
Pages	52
Editing	Jim Salicrup (Editor); Bob Budiansky (Assistant Editor)

Cover Details - "War in the Negative Zone!"

Characters	Thing; Avengers [Iron Man; Hawkeye; Captain America; Wasp; Beast]; Blastaar; Annihilus; Super-Adaptoid
Genre	superhero
Pencils	Alan Kupperberg [as AK]; George Perez (Thing head); John Byrne (Avengers heads)
Inks	Joe Sinnott; Terry Austin (Avengers heads)

38 page Thing and Avengers story "By Blastaar--Betrayed!"

Characters	Fantastic Four [Thing; Human Torch; Mr. Fantastic; Invisible Girl]; Franklin Richards; Annihilus; Blastaar (origin); Nyglar; Scrupulo; Sacra; Super-Adaptoid; Avengers [Captain America; Beast; Scarlet Witch (in flashback); Vision (in flashback); Iron Man; Wasp; Hawkeye]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; Edwin Jarvis
Synopsis	Blastaar and Annihilus unite forces and it is up to Thing and the Avengers to stop them.
Genre	superhero
Script	Tom DeFalco
Pencils	Alan Kupperberg (breakdowns); Chic Stone (finished art)
Inks	Chic Stone
Colors	George Roussos
Letters	Jean Simek (pp.1-11), Michael Higgins (pp.12-46)

2 page Spider-Man; Hostess Twinkies Cakes advertisement "The Rescue!"

Characters	Spider-Man
Genre	Superhero
Notes	Placed between pages 37 and 38 of the main sequence.

1 page letters page "The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Letters Page!"

Letters	Typeset
Notes	Letters of comment from readers Frank Titone, Gregg Flood and Jason Lamb.