The Avengers #40 [Regular Edition]

(May 1967)

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Don Bolander Career Institute Booklet / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Suddenly... the Sub-Mariner! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Avengers / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited)

Pencils

Don Heck (credited)

Inks

George Roussos (credited as George Bell)

Colors

?

Letters

Sam Rosen

Feature Logo

The Mighty Avengers!

Genre

superhero

Characters

The Avengers: Goliath [Hank Pym]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
S.H.I.E.L.D.: Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff] (supporting)
Captain America [Steve Rogers] (guest); Hercules (guest); Lord Vashti (guest); Mole Man [Harvey Elder] (villain); Namor the Sub-Mariner [Namor] (guest); Thunderbolt Ross (guest); Amalga-Beast; Moloids; Atlanteans

Universe

Marvel : mainstream

Reprints

• in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #115 (7 de septiembre de 1968)
• in Hit Comics (BSV - Williams, 1966 series) #70
• in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1969 series) #18 ([Febrero] 1971)
• in Il Mitico Thor (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #46 (2 Gennaio 1973)
• in The Avengers (Marvel UK, 1973 series) #46 (August 3, 1974) [Pages 1-11 of the original story only]
• in Die ruhmreichen Rächer (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #39 ([Juli 1976])
• in Marvel Triple Action (Marvel, 1972 series) #32 (November 1976) [minus 2 pages]
• in Submariner (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #6 (décembre 1977) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Los Vengadores (Novedades, 1981 series) #40 (3 de diciembre de 1981)
• in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #2 ([November] 1998) [black and white]
• in Avengers : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2006 series) #1967 (mai 2009)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers (Marvel, 2009 series) #4 ([March] 2012)
• in The Avengers Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #2 (2015), #2 [Second Edition] (2023)

Keywords

Aero-Car; Arizona; Atlantic Ocean; Atlantis; Avengers Mansion; Captain America's Shield; Caribbean Sea; Cosmic Cube; Hawkeye's Trick Arrows; Manhattan; New York City; nuclear submarine; Pacific Ocean; Puerto Nuevo; Subterranea

Indexer Notes

With the Sub-Mariner.

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Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas ?

Pencils

Don Heck (illustration)

Inks

George Roussos (illustration)

Colors

? (illustration)

Letters

typeset

Characters

Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff]; Black Widow

Reprints

• in The Avengers Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #2 (2015), #2 [Second Edition] (2023)

Indexer Notes

Letters from John Phillips, Wayne Tagemeister, Ken Turner, Dennis Crabtree, Steve Utley, and William Hedrick. Includes M.M.M.S. membership form, and illustration from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #38.

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