The Avengers #252 [Direct]
(February 1985)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.75 CAD; 0.30 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Howard Mackie (assistant editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

Cover title "The Mighty Avengers"
This issue has variants:

Who on Earth Is Strong Enough to Smash Hercules? Hint: There's Two of Them! (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
Bob Hall
Inks
Joe Sinnott
Colors
Christie Scheele ?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hercules; the Scarlet Witch; Starfox]; the Blood Brothers
Reprints
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Cover gallery

Deciding Factor! (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Roger Stern
Pencils
Bob Hall (breakdowns)
Inks
Joe Sinnott (finishes)
Colors
Christie Scheele
Letters
Jim Novak
Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Dane Whitman [a.k.a. the Black Knight]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Hercules; the Scarlet Witch; Starfox; the Vision]; the Blood Brothers; Colonel Farnam; Doc Samson; Edwin Jarvis; the Hulk (seen on video file)
Reprints

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

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

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters on The Avengers #247; Question of the Month "What monster can you best relate to?" asked to Stern, Hall, Sinnott, Novak, Mackie, Gruenwald and Shooter; Next Issue blurb. Letters from Peter R. Arcand, Julie A. Lonnquist, Shawn Campbell, David Alan Wright, Steve Prellwitz, Anthony Famulato, SalvatoreDos Santos

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Who on Earth Is Strong Enough to Smash Hercules? Hint: There's Two of Them!
    The Avengers
  2. 1. Deciding Factor!
    The Avengers
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Avengers Assemble!
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