The Avengers #243 [Direct]
(May 1984)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.25 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1984-01-17
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Mike Carlin (assistant editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

Cover title "The Mighty Avengers". On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #40, with newsstand on-sale date of 1984-02-07.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

[The Vision Takes Command!] (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

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

Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Hawkeye; Iron Man [James Rhodes]; the Scarlet Witch; Starfox; Thor [Donald Blake]; the Vision; the Wasp]
Reprints

Chain of Command! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Roger Stern
Pencils
Al Milgrom
Inks
Joe Sinnott
Colors
Julianna Ferriter
Letters
Jack Morelli

Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Hawkeye; Iron Man [James Rhodes]; Quicksilver; the Scarlet Witch; She-Hulk; Starfox; Thor [Donald Blake]; the Vision; the Wasp]; Crystal; Edwin Jarvis; Henry Peter Gyrich; ISAAC; Luna; Mockingbird; Raymond Sikorski
Synopsis
With the core Avengers missing, Vision tries to calm the fears of the public as the rest of the team continues to fight crime. The lost Avengers return from the Secret Wars and a West Coast branch headed by Hawkeye is proposed to solve the problem of the surplus Avengers.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Continued in part from MARVEL SUPER-HEROES SECRET WARS (Marvel, 1984 series) #12

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 2)

Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 0.75 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters on The Avengers #238; Question of the Month "What is your favorite sport?" asked to Stern, Milgrom, Sinnott, Morelli, Scheele and Shooter; Special Announcements Section. Letters from Jim Cough, Donni Schick, Paul Smith

Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation (Table of Contents: 3)

statement of ownership / 0.25 page (report information)

Script
Ed Shukin (business manager)
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Date of filing: October 4, 1983. Average number of copies of each issue during preceding 12 months (net press run): 413,151. Single issue nearest to filing date: 404,252.

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Table of Contents
  1. 0. [The Vision Takes Command!]
    The Avengers
  2. 1. Chain of Command!
    The Avengers
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Avengers Assemble!
  4. 3. Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation
This issue was modified by, among others
  • Katie
  • Max Capp
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Kelly Langston-Smith
  • James Ludwig
  • Mike Nielsen
  • Stéphane PETIT
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Jim Van Dore
  • Mike Verhart