The Avengers
#197
[Direct]
(July 1980)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-04-15
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Jim Salicrup (credited) (editor); Bob Budiansky (credited) (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Prelude of the War-Devil!
The Avengers / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Pérez (signed as
PEREZ [no spaces]) - Inks
- Bob McLeod (signed as
MCLEOD) - Colors
- ?
- Letters
- ?
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers: Beast [Hank McCoy]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jocasta; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Vision; Wasp [Janet Pym]; Wonder Man [Simon Williams]
Ant-Man [Scott Lang]; Edwin Jarvis; Red Ronin - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Grandes Heróis Marvel (Editora Abril, 1983 series) #17 (setembro de 1987) -
in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #9 ([September] 2013)
-
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The Saga of Johnny West
Johnny West; Acme / advertisement / 1 page
- Genre
- western-frontier
- Characters
- Johnny West
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Comic strip ad for Acme boots from Acme Boot Company, Inc., a subsidiary of Northwest Industries. Inc..
Prelude of the War-Devil!
The Avengers / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- David Michelinie (credited)
- Pencils
- Carmine Infantino (credited) (layouts, p. 2-17); George Pérez (sourced) (p. 1)
- Inks
- Brett Breeding (credited as Jack’s Little Helpers) (sourced); Al Milgrom (credited as Jack’s Little Helpers) (sourced); Vince Colletta (credited as Jack’s Little Helpers) (sourced)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Job Number
- LF121
- Feature Logo
The Mighty Avengers!- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ant-Man [Scott Lang]; the Avengers [the Beast; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jocasta; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers] (her pregnancy is revealed); the Scarlet Witch; the Vision; the Wasp; Wonder Man; Yellowjacket [Henry Pym]]; Candy Brown; her son Chauncey; Dr. Earl Cowan; Edwin Jarvis; Karnowski; Melissa Zimmerman; Red Ronin
- Reprints
-
in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1981 series) #2 (Diciembre 1981) -
in Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #392 (December 1982) -
in De Vergelders Special (Juniorpress, 1983 series) #2 (1983) -
in Les Vengeurs (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #11 - Défi aux Vengeurs (octobre 1983) [Moins [Minus] 1 page] - in Los Vengadores (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #17 (Junio 1984)
-
in Hulk (Semic, 1984 series) #9/1985 (uke 39 1985) [minus 5 pages] - in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #9 ([September] 2013)
- in Marvel Masterworks: Ms. Marvel (Marvel, 2014 series) #2 (2016) [only pages 8, 9, and 17]
- in Captain Marvel: Ms. Marvel - A Hero Is Born Omnibus (Marvel, 2018 series) (2018) [3 pages]
- in Ms. Marvel Epic Collection (Marvel, 2019 series) #2 - The Woman Who Fell to Earth (2019)
-
Indexer Notes
Additional art credits 2005 by Steven Tice.
"Sunday Punch"
Hostess Fruit Pies; The Thing / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Thing (Hostess Ads - Earth-51914); giant monster
- Reprints
- from [Marvel Hostess Ads] (Marvel, 1975 series) #48 (July 1980)
-
Indexer Notes
Comic strip ad for Hostess Fruit Pies from ITT Continental Baking Company.
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- David Michelinie
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters on The Avengers #192 & 193. Letters from Judy Krauss, Robert Becker, Patrick R. Ivy, Bernardo Colagrosso
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Prelude of the War-Devil!
The Avengers -
1.
The Saga of Johnny West
Johnny West; Acme -
2.
Prelude of the War-Devil!
The Avengers -
3.
"Sunday Punch"
Hostess Fruit Pies; The Thing -
4.
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble!
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- Max Capp
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- Darrel McCann
- Mike Nielsen
- Antonio Pontes Junior
- Derek Reinhard
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
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- Warren Zeigler
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