The Avengers #234 [Direct]
(August 1983)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP; 0.75 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1983-04-19
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Mike Carlin (assistant editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #24, with newsstand on-sale date of 1983-05-10.
This issue has variants:

Seasons of the Witch! (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Al Milgrom (signed)
Inks
Joe Sinnott (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
Rick Parker ?

Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Quicksilver; the Scarlet Witch; Thor [Donald Blake]; the Vision; the Wasp]; Bova; Cyclops; the High Evolutionary; Magneto
Reprints

A Cracker Jack Story [Basketball Story] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Scottie; Cracker Jack / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Witch's Tale! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Avengers / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Roger Stern
Pencils
Al Milgrom (breakdowns); Joe Sinnott (finished art)
Inks
Joe Sinnott
Colors
Christie Scheele
Letters
Jim Novak

Genre
superhero
Characters
Agatha Harkness (flashback); the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; the Falcon (flashback); Hawkeye; Iron Man [Tony Stark] (flashback); Moondragon (flashback); Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers] (flashback); Quicksilver (flashback); the Scarlet Witch; She-Hulk; Starfox; Thor [Donal Blake]; the Vision; the Wasp; Wonder Man (flashback)]; Bova (flashback); Crystal (flashback); Django Maximoff (flashback); Doctor Doom (flashback); Doctor Strange; Edwin Jarvis; the High Evolutionary (flashback); Immortus (flashback); Luna (flashback); Magda (flashback); Magneto (flashback); Sheila Danning; the Stranger (flashback); the Toad (flashback); the X-Men [Angel; the Beast; Cyclops; Iceman; Marvel Girl] (flashback)
Synopsis
Origin of the Scarlet Witch retold in detail.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Continued in Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1974 series) #60.

Star Frontiers (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Star Frontiers; TSR / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 4)

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

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters on The Avengers #229; Question of the Month "If you could have one super-power, what would it be?" asked to Stern, Milgrom, Sinnott, Novak, Scheele, Carlin, Gruenwald and Shooter; Announcements Section. Mark Augenstein, Lynn Tucker, Stephen Hutchins, George A. Williams, Steven Thomas, Kevin Vicks

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Seasons of the Witch!
    The Avengers
  2. 1. A Cracker Jack Story [Basketball Story]
    Scottie; Cracker Jack
  3. 2. The Witch's Tale!
    The Avengers
  4. 3. Star Frontiers
    Star Frontiers; TSR
  5. 4. [no title indexed]
    Avengers Assemble!
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Max Capp
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Stéphane PETIT
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Steven Tice
  • Mike Verhart