The Avengers
#221
[Direct]
(July 1982)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1982-04-06
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Lance Tooks (assistant editor); Jim Salicrup (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #10.
This issue has variants:
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
The Avengers / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Who will be the newest members of the Avengers Earth's mighties heroes?!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Ant-Man [Scott Lang]; Black Bolt; Daredevil; Dazzler; Doctor Strange; Hawkeye; the Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; ROM; She-Hulk; the Silver Surfer; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Spider-Woman [Jessica Drew]; Wolverine
- Reprints
-
in Avengers: I Am an Avenger (Marvel, 2010 series) #[1] ([May 2010])
-
Indexer Notes
The cover penciler is identified in the letters column in Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #225; this information supplied by Ralf H. Kienzle, September 2005 (credit was previously given to Bob Hall). - Denys Howard
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A Cracker Jack Story
Scottie; Cracker Jack / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- children; sports
- Characters
- Scottie
Indexer Notes
Inside front cover. Comic strip ad for the Cracker Jack snack.
...New Blood!
The Avengers / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Jim Shooter (plot); David Michelinie (plot, script)
- Pencils
- Bob Hall
- Inks
- Brett Breeding
- Colors
- Christie Scheele
- Letters
- Janice Chiang
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- the Avengers [the Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hawkeye (rejoins the Avengers); Hercules (flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Scarlet Witch (flashback); Thor [Donald Blake]; the Vision (flashback); the Wasp]; Carrothers; Dazzler; Drax the Destroyer(flashback); Edwin Jarvis; Henry Peter Gyrich; the Invisible Girl; the Mechano-Marauder [Fabian Stankowicz]; Moondragon (flashback); President Ronald Reagan; She-Hulk (joins the Avengers); Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Spider-Woman [Jessica Drew]
- Reprints
-
in Die Rächer (Condor, 1979 series) #11 -
in Los Vengadores (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #34 (Noviembre 1985), #35 (Diciembre 1985) - in Avengers: I Am an Avenger (Marvel, 2010 series) #[1] ([May 2010])
- in Avengers: The Trial of Yellowjacket (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
-
[The Woods of Oakthorn]
A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! / comics-form advertising / 1 page
- Genre
- sword and sorcery
- Characters
- Grimslade; Indel; Oakthorn; Saren; Valerius
Indexer Notes
Comic strip ad for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR Hobbies, Inc.. Continued between [Grindal the Mentor] and [The Black Swamp of Lobella].
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page
Indexer Notes
The Mighty Marvel Checklist; The Hype Box.
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1 page
Indexer Notes
Letters on The Avengers #216. Letters from T. M. Maple, Dale L. Coe, David Taylor, Steve Lacy, Ted Saverio Naczek, Barry Dutter, Janet Bailey, and unsigned.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
["Who will be the newest members of the Avengers Earth's mighties heroes?!"]
The Avengers -
1.
A Cracker Jack Story
Scottie; Cracker Jack -
2.
...New Blood!
The Avengers -
3.
[The Woods of Oakthorn]
A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure! -
4.
[no title indexed]
Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist -
5.
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble!
This issue was modified by, among others
- Katie
- Chris Boyko
- Max Capp
- Steve Coates
- Peter Croome
- Gregory Fischer
- Denys Howard
- Mike Nielsen
- Mark Q
- Derek Reinhard
- Terry Staats
- Richard Thomson
- Steven Tice
- Mike Verhart
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