The Avengers #117 [British]
(November 1973)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.06 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Roy Thomas (editor)

Issue Notes

Part 4 of 6-part crossover with The Defenders. NOTE: Steve Englehart explains the Watergate-related plot alterations to this story in the letters page of Avengers #122.
This issue is a variant of The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #117 [Regular Edition].

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Romita
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
?
Letters
Danny Crespi

First Line of Dialogue or Text
Not even Captain America can withstand my power!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]; Defender [Sub-Mariner [Namor]]; Sunfire [Shiro Yoshida]
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[Avengers / Defenders War, Interlude] Holocaust (Table of Contents: 1)

The Avengers / comic story / 2 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Englehart (credited)
Pencils
Bob Brown (credited)
Inks
Mike Esposito (credited)
Colors
Petra Goldberg (credited)
Letters
Gaspar Saladino (page 1); June Braverman (credited) (page 2)

Job Number
1642Z
First Line of Dialogue or Text
What is this?
Feature Logo
The Mighty Avengers!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Vision]; Mantis; Defenders [Doctor Strange [Stephen Strange]; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Dormammu; Loki
Synopsis
The Swordsman fights Valkrie and Captain America fights the Sub-Mariner. Captain America and Sub-Mariner begin to realize that the two teams have been set up to fight each other by someone else.
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Indexer Notes

Defenders crossover.

[Avengers / Defenders War] Chapter 7 (Table of Contents: 2)

The Avengers / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Englehart
Pencils
Bob Brown
Inks
Mike Esposito
Colors
Petra Goldberg
Letters
June Braverman

First Line of Dialogue or Text
At last-- the jungles of Bolivia!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Avengers [Swordsman [Jacques Duquesne]]; Defenders [Valkyrie [Barbara]]; Aragorn
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Chapter 7 of Defenders crossover.

[Avengers / Defenders War] Chapter 8 (Table of Contents: 3)

The Avengers / comic story / 9 pages (report information)

Script
Steve Englehart
Pencils
Bob Brown
Inks
Frank McLaughlin (uncredited)
Colors
Petra Goldberg
Letters
June Braverman

Job Number
1642Z
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Meanwhile, half a world away, in downtown Osaka, Japan...
Genre
superhero
Characters
Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]]; Defenders [Sub-Mariner [Namor]]; Sunfire [Shiro Yoshida]
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Indexer Notes

Chapter 8 of Defenders crossover. Continues in The Defenders (Marvel, 1972 series) #10.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 0.5 page (report information)

Script
Steve Englehart
Letters
typeset

Feature Logo
Avengers Assemble!
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Brian E. Cook, K. J. Robbins, and Ms. S. Otie.

[Kull the Destroyer] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

Kull / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. ["Not even Captain America can withstand my power!"]
    The Avengers
  2. 1. [Avengers / Defenders War, Interlude] Holocaust
    The Avengers
  3. 2. [Avengers / Defenders War] Chapter 7
    The Avengers
  4. 3. [Avengers / Defenders War] Chapter 8
    The Avengers
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Avengers Assemble!
  6. 5. [Kull the Destroyer]
    Kull
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