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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published September 1967
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 68
Editing Stan Lee

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Don Heck?; John Buscema?; John Romita (touch-ups)
Inks George Roussos
Notes Disputed cover credits per Nick Caputo, pencil credit given to John Buscema (July 13, 2006). Per Bob Hughes, pencils are by Don Heck (August 2, 2006). Both agree on John Romita's touch-ups. Michel Maillot agrees with Caputo via the GCD Error Tracker (http://errors.comics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2030), 21 August 2009.
Reprinted in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #2; in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #56

49 page Avengers story "The Monstrous Master Plan of the Mandarin"

Characters Hercules; Nick Fury; Mandarin (Villain); Power Man (Villain); Living Laser (Villain); Swordsman (Villain); Enchantress (Villain); Executioner (Villain); Ultimo (Villain)
Genre superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Don Heck
Inks George Roussos
Letters Artie Simek
Notes Continued between Avengers, The (Marvel, 1963 series) #44 / 45.
Reprinted in Giant-Size Avengers (Marvel, 1974 series) #5 (1975); in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #2; in Mitico Thor, Il (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #56

1 page biography (nonfictional) "Bombastic Bullpen Biography Dept."

Script Don Heck; Roy Thomas
Letters typeset
Notes bios of Thomas and Heck.

5 page illustration

Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Don Heck
Inks George Roussos