The Avengers #394 [Newsstand]
(January 1996)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
1.50 USD; 2.05 CAD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics
Brand
Marvel A M Universe
Barcode
071486024583 01
Editing
Matt Idelson (assistant editor); Ralph Macchio (editor); Mark Gruenwald (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

This issue is a variant of The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #394 [Direct Edition].

Introducing the Wasp?!? (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Mike Deodato (signed)
Inks
Mike Deodato (signed)
Colors
?
Letters
?
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Avengers [Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Crystal; Vision; Wasp]
Reprints

Indexer Notes

Pencils, Inks: Previously F. Benes. New info by David B. Elson, 2005-07-05 (Per Sandell ed.)

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Bad Blood (Table of Contents: 1)

The Avengers / comic story / 21 pages (report information)

Script
Bob Harras (plot); Terry Kavanagh (plot); Ben Raab (script)
Pencils
Mike Deodato
Inks
Tom Palmer
Colors
Frank Lopez
Letters
Janice Chiang
Genre
superhero
Characters
The Avengers [Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Deathcry; Crystal; Hercules; Quicksilver; Vision; Hawkeye; Wasp; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Black Panther]; Swordsman; Malachi; Tobias; Mantis; Tuc; Masque; Kang the Conquerer
Synopsis
Wasp gains new appearance.
Reprints

Indexer Notes

This storyline was apparently controversial. Kurt Busiek, in Avengers Forever (Marvel, 1998 series), retroactively claimed that the Mantis who appeared in the story was actually a Space Phantom brainwashed into thinking he was Mantis.

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

Avengers the Assembly / letters page / 0.67 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
?

Indexer Notes

Letters from Ben Herman, Mark Dito, Doug Tennant

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: 339,865. Single issue nearest to filing date: 142,814.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Table of Contents
  1. 0. Introducing the Wasp?!?
    The Avengers
  2. 1. Bad Blood
    The Avengers
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Avengers the Assembly
  4. 3. Statement of Ownership
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