The Avengers #79 [Regular Edition]

(August 1970)

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Johnson Smith & Co. Catalog / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Lo! The Lethal Legion! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Avengers / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas (credited)

Pencils

John Buscema (credited)

Inks

Tom Palmer (credited)

Colors

Tom Palmer ?

Letters

Artie Simek (credited)

Job Number

333-Z

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Hail, Avengers! Wherefore have Thor and Iron Man been summoned into thy midst?

Feature Logo

The Mighty Avengers!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Goliath [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]; Monica Lynne; Lethal Legion [Grim Reaper [Eric Williams]; Man-Ape [M'Baku]; Living Laser [Arthur Parks]; Power Man [Erik Josten]; Swordsman [Jacques Duquesne]]

Synopsis

The Avengers invade the lair of the Lethal Legion to rescue the Black Panther.

Reprints

• in Die ruhmreichen Rächer (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #78 ([Januar 1978])
• in Thor (Arédit-Artima, 1977 series) #14 (juin 1981)
• in Los Vengadores (Novedades, 1981 series) #79 (2 de septiembre de 1982)
• in The Greatest Battles of the Avengers (Marvel, 1993 series) (1993)
• in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #4 (2004)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers (Marvel, 2003 series) #8 ([December] 2008)
• in Marvel Gold. Los Vengadores: La Batalla por La Tierra (Panini España, 2013 series) (Febrero 2013)
• in The Avengers Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #3 ([May] 2018)
• in Avengers Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #5 - This Beachhead Earth (2020)

Indexer Notes

Inking credit corrected by Jean Baptiste, December 2008, via GCD Errors list. Story continues from previous issue.

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Conan / promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.4 page (report information)

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Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Colors

? (panel backgrounds and lettering only)

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• in The Avengers Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #3 ([May] 2018)

Indexer Notes

Full page letter from Philip Mallory Jones.

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