The Avengers #187 [Newsstand]
(September 1979)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.40 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Barcode
0714860245809
Editing
Jim Salicrup (assistant editor); Roger Stern (editor); Jim Shooter (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

Direct Edition for this issue was actually printed with a bardcode that was slashed out from the printer/publisher. Direct Edition is also distinguishable by the diamond price box on the upper left of the cover.
This issue is a variant of The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #187 [Direct]. There exist further variants:

The Witch on Wundagore Mountain! (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Pencils
John Byrne (signed as BYRNE)
Inks
Terry Austin (signed as austin)
Colors
?
Letters
Gaspar Saladino

Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; "Dark" Scarlet Witch; the Falcon; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Quicksilver; the Wasp [Janet Pym]; Wonder Man]
Reprints

The Call of the Mountain Thing! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Avengers / comic story / 17 pages (report information)

Script
Mark Gruenwald (plot); Steven Grant (plot); David Michelinie (plot, script)
Pencils
John Byrne
Inks
Dan Green
Colors
George Roussos
Letters
Jim Novak

Job Number
LG487
First Line of Dialogue or Text
Portrait of a travel agent's nightmare:
Feature Logo
The Mighty Avengers!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Aelfric the Mad Monk (flashback); Agatha Harkness (flashback); the Avengers [the Beast [Hank McCoy]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; the Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff](origin); the Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff](origin, more details); the Wasp [Janet van Dyne]; Wonder Man [Simon Williams]]; Bova Ayrshire; Cagliostro (flashback); Chthon (under appearance of the Scarlet Witch, and of The Other, flashback); Django Maximoff (death); Gaea (flashback); Gregor Russoff (flashback); the High Evolutionary [Herbert Wyndham] (flashback); Janet Lyton (flashback); Janice (flashback); Jessica Drew (flashback, as an infant); Jonathan Drew (flashback); Knights of Wundagore (flashback); Magda Eisenhardt (flashback); Magnus (flashback, and also under appearance of Jonathan Drew); Meriem Drew (flashback); Modred the Mystic; Morgan Le Fey (flashback); Taboo (flashback); Grant Whittaker (flashback).
Reprints

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

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

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters on the "Busiek controversy". Letters from Bruce McCorkindale and Cat Yronwode.

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Witch on Wundagore Mountain!
    The Avengers
  2. 1. The Call of the Mountain Thing!
    The Avengers
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Avengers Assemble!
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