(February-March 1955)
- Price:
- 0.10 USD
- Pages:
- 36
- Indicia frequency:
- every other month
- Indicia Publisher:
- Magazine Enterprises
- Brand:
- ME
- Editing:
- Raymond C. Krank
- Format:
- Golden Age; US Size; Glossy Cover; Full Color; Saddle Stitched
Issue Notes
All info by Len Wolinsky, GCD error list, March 2007. Art credits added by Craig Delich 1-31-08.
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
The Fog Robbers
The Avenger / comic story / 8 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- The Avenger [Roger Wright] (I); Claire Farrow (his secretary)
- Reprints:
-
in The Avenger (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958?) - in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #27 ([December] 2000)
-
Death Has Three Faces
The Avenger / comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
Content Information
- Genre:
- Superhero
- Characters:
- The Avenger [Roger Wright]
- Synopsis:
- When a guided atomic missile is lost in the mid-pacific waters it is up to The Avenger to recover it before the Russians do. Because of this adventure The Avenger contracted cancer.
- Reprints:
- in The Avenger (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958?)
- in Golden-Age Men of Mystery (AC, 1996 series) #13 (1999) [originally in color; in black and white]
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Newman's log book, The Comics! Vol. 14, No. 8 (Aug. 2003)
The Red Hand of Terror!
The Avenger / comic story / 7 pages
Credits
- Script:
- ?
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- A-3
Content Information
- Genre:
- superhero
- Characters:
- The Avenger [Roger Wright]
- Reprints:
- in The Avenger (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958?)
- in Golden-Age Men of Mystery (AC, 1996 series) #5 (1997) [originally in color; in black and white]
-
The Birth of the Avenger!
The Avenger / comic story / 6 pages
Credits
- Script:
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Inks:
- Dick Ayers (signed)
- Colors:
- ?
- Letters:
- ?
- Job Number:
- A-4
Content Information
- Genre:
- Superhero
- Characters:
- The Avenger [Roger Wright] (origin); Claire Farrow (D); Ralph Wright (Roger's brother); Ralph's wife; Ivan Pavelitch; V: Sergei Viroshonsky.
- Synopsis:
- Scientist Ralph Wright and his wife are kidnapped by Russian agents, wanting him to write a letter to his brother, who has just invented a new type of airplane the Soviets want.
- Reprints:
- in The Avenger (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958?)
- in Sentinels of Justice (AC, 1993 series) #1 (1993) [originally in color; in black and white]
- in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #35 (2002), #69 ([October] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-31-08.
Writer credit confirmed by Avenger Number Zero (AC Comics, 1999 series) #0. Formerly credited to Gardner Fox.
Editing
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Avenger -
1.
The Fog Robbers
The Avenger -
2.
Death Has Three Faces
The Avenger -
3.
The Red Hand of Terror!
The Avenger -
4.
The Birth of the Avenger!
The Avenger
This issue was most recently modified by:
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- Lou Mougin
- Jim Walls
- Merlin Haas
- Jeremy Patterson
- Daniel Thingvold
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- Jim Stangas
Issues in this series have been indexed by:
- Merlin Haas
- Jim Walls
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