The Avengers #291 [Direct]
(May 1988)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.00 USD; 1.25 CAD; 0.50 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1988-01-21
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel [standalone or inside vertical box]
Editing
Gregory Wright (assistant editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor); Tom DeFalco (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #135.
This issue has variants:

Let's Party! (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
John Buscema (signed)
Inks
Tom Palmer (signed)
Colors
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Dr. Druid; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; She-Hulk; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Thor [Sigurd Jarlson]]; Marrina
Reprints
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Shadows of the Future Past (Table of Contents: 1)

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

Script
Walter Simonson
Pencils
John Buscema
Inks
Tom Palmer
Colors
Christie Scheele
Letters
Bill Oakley
Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Dr. Druid; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; She-Hulk; Captain Marvel [Monica Rambeau]; Thor [Sigurd Jarlson]]; Marrina; Kang the Conqueror; Nebula; Kanglet
Reprints

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

Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 0.67 page (report information)

Script
Mark Gruenwald
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters from Michael R. Colford, Derrick Matthew Wildestar, Robert Mallory.

Statement of Ownership (Table of Contents: 3)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page (report information)

Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Total No. Copies Printed (net press run): Average no. of copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 386,809. Single issue nearest to filing date: 385,033.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. Let's Party!
    The Avengers
  2. 1. Shadows of the Future Past
    The Avengers
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Avengers Assemble!
  4. 3. Statement of Ownership
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  • Peter Croome
  • Michael Hoskin
  • James Ludwig
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Tony R. Rose
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