The Avengers
#289
[Newsstand]
(March 1988)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.75 USD; 0.95 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved By the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics
- Brand
-
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
- Barcode
- 071486024583 03
- Editing
- Gregory Wright (assistant editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue is a variant of The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #289 [Direct].
Heavy Metal Horde!
The Avengers / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- John Buscema (signed)
- Inks
- Tom Palmer (signed)
- Colors
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- the Avengers [Namor the Sub-Mariner; She-Hulk; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]]; Adaptoid; Machine Man; Sentry 459; Tess-One; Doomsday Man; Awesome Android
- Reprints
![Cover Thumbnail for The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #289 [Newsstand]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/783/w200/783985.jpg?-617071855007753626)
![Cover Thumbnail for The Avengers (1963 series) #289 [Direct]](https://files1.comics.org//img/gcd/covers_by_id/19/w100/19287.jpg?-5381724835106107388)
The Cube Root
The Avengers / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Ralph Macchio
- Pencils
- John Buscema (breakdowns)
- Inks
- Tom Palmer (finisher)
- Colors
- Paul Becton
- Letters
- Bill Oakley
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- 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.
- Reprints
-
in Die Rächer (Condor, 1979 series) #24 -
in Strange (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #249 (5 septembre 1990) -
in Marvel Gold: Los Poderosos Vengadores (Panini España, 2011 series) #10 - Campo de Batalla, El Olimpo (Diciembre 2012) -
in Avengers: Heavy Metal (Marvel, 2013 series) (2013)
-
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Mark Gruenwald
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters from Michael Proteau, D.L. Lambert Jr., David Young
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
Heavy Metal Horde!
The Avengers -
1.
The Cube Root
The Avengers -
2.
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble!
This issue was modified by
- Katie
- Peter Croome
- Kelly Langston-Smith
- Derek Reinhard
- Tony R. Rose
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