The Avengers
#1
(September 22, 1973)
Marvel UK,
1973 Series
- Price
- 0.06 GBP
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Ltd.
- Editing
- Peter L. Skingley (editor)
[no title indexed]
The Avengers; Doctor Strange / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby; Dan Adkins
- Inks
- George Roussos; Vince Colletta; Dan Adkins
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- John Costanza; Morrie Kuramoto
- Genre
- superhero; fantasy-supernatural
Indexer Notes
Cover images taken from various sources, notably Avengers # 4 and Dr. Strange # 169
Count Dracula's Deadly Secret
Count Dracula / advertisement / 1 page
- Characters
- Count Dracula
- Synopsis
- Advertisement for a brand of ice cream.
Captain America Joins...the Avengers!
The Avengers / comic story / 22 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited)
- Pencils
- Jack Kirby (credited)
- Inks
- George Roussos (uncredeted)
- Letters
- Artie Simek (credited as Art Simek)
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; Rick Jones; Teen Brigade; Namor the Sub-Mariner; Atlanteans; a D'Bari; Bucky Barnes (cameo flashback); Hulk [Bruce Banner] (cameo flashback)
- Synopsis
- Namor attacks a group of eskimos and throws their idol into the sea. When the ice melts, the figure trapped within turns out to be Captain America, in suspended animation since the end of World War II. The Avengers rescue Cap and return to New York. An alien figure turns our heroes to stone. When Cap and Rick Jones track him down, the alien agrees to restore the Avengers if they agree to help him recover his broken space ship in return. When doing so, the Avengers are attacked by Namor and his people. The restored spaceship ultimately drives off Namor and his men.
- Reprints
-
from The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #4 (March 1964) [black & white - page 6 omitted]
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- Keywords
- D'Bari
[no title indexed]
text article / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Hi There Adventure Lover!
- Synopsis
- Editorial piece welcoming readers to the first issue.
"You Can be a Real He-Man"
advertisement / 1 page
- Synopsis
- Advertisement for Charles Atlas bodybuilding products.
The Origin of Dr. Strange
Doctor Strange / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- Stan Lee (credited); Steve Ditko (co-plot, uncredited)
- Pencils
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Inks
- Steve Ditko (credited)
- Letters
- Sam Rosen
- Editing
- Stan Lee (original editor)
- Genre
- horror-suspense; superhero; fantasy-supernatural
- Characters
- Doctor Strange, The Ancient One, Baron Mordo.
- Synopsis
- Dr. Stephen Strange, a top neurosurgeon, damages his hands in an accident and seeks out a mystic for help. He saves the seer from his treacherous student, becoming his pupil and finding a new purpose.
- Reprints
- from Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series) #115 (December 1963) [black & white]
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Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Avengers; Doctor Strange -
1.
Count Dracula's Deadly Secret
Count Dracula -
2.
Captain America Joins...the Avengers!
The Avengers -
3.
["Hi There Adventure Lover!"]
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4.
"You Can be a Real He-Man"
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5.
The Origin of Dr. Strange
Doctor Strange -
6.
The Adventures of the Cresta Bear
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7.
It's Disneytime again.
This issue was modified by, among others
- David Bruce
- Nick Caputo
- Lionel English
- Phil Owens
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