The Avengers #19 [Regular Edition]
(August 1965)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.12 USD
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1965-06-08
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Vista Publications, Inc.
Brand
Marvel Pop Art Productions
Printer
Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury, Conn., U.S.A.
Editing
Stan Lee (editor)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
This issue has variants:

The Coming of... the Swordsman! (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Jack Kirby; Don Heck (insets)
Inks
Frank Giacoia
Colors
Stan Goldberg
Letters
Sam Rosen

Genre
superhero
Characters
The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]]; Swordsman [Jacques Duquesne]
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 1) (Expand) /

Niresk Industries, Inc. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

The Coming of... the Swordsman! (Table of Contents: 2)

The Avengers / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script
Stan Lee (credited)
Pencils
Don Heck (credited)
Inks
Dick Ayers (credited)
Colors
?
Letters
Artie Simek (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text
No one questions a man with an Avengers' i.d. card!
Genre
superhero
Characters
Swordsman [Jacques Duquesne] (introduction); The Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]]
Synopsis
Introduction of the Swordsman. His origin and Hawkeye's are both told.
Reprints

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 3) (Expand) /

Daredevil; Doctor Strange; Fantastic Four; Nick Fury; Spider-Man; Strange Tales / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Treasure Chest of Fun (Table of Contents: 4) (Expand) /

Honor House Products / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 5) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 6) (Expand) /

Littleton Coin Co. / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 7) (Expand) /

Grit Newspaper / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 8) (Expand) /

Strat-O-Matic Baseball Game / advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 9) (Expand) /

advertisement / 0.5 page (report information)

Stamps; Shop by Mail (Table of Contents: 10) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Shop by Mail (Table of Contents: 11) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 12) (Expand) /

Amazing Spider-Man Annual; Journey into Mystery Annual / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 13) (Expand) /

The Merry Marvel Bullpen Page! / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 14)

All About the Avengers / letters page / 2 pages (report information)

Script
?
Colors
? (panel backgrounds and lettering only)
Letters
typeset

Reprints

Indexer Notes

Letters from Jeff Morden, Rosalind Rogoff, Mark Kernes, Cary Burkett, Brad Reddersen, William Boles, John Baggerman, Richard Whitehead, and N. W. Rapparlie; includes The Mighty Marvel Checklist.

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 15) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 16) (Expand) /

advertisement / 1 page (report information)

[no title indexed] (Table of Contents: 17) (Expand) /

Wallace Brown Greeting Cards / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. The Coming of... the Swordsman!
    The Avengers
  2. 1. ["4 complete fishing outfits"]
    Niresk Industries, Inc.
  3. 2. The Coming of... the Swordsman!
    The Avengers
  4. 3. ["4 more Marvel masterpieces!"]
    Daredevil; Doctor Strange; Fantastic Four; Nick Fury; Spider-Man; Strange Tales
  5. 4. Treasure Chest of Fun
    Honor House Products
  6. 5. ["Are you proud of your paycheck?"]
  7. 6. ["Strange coins and valuable coin catalog"]
    Littleton Coin Co.
  8. 7. ["Look! Boys wanted to sell Grit"]
    Grit Newspaper
  9. 8. ["Play 1965 big league baseball games"]
    Strat-O-Matic Baseball Game
  10. 9. ["Amazing X-ray vision instantly!"]
  11. 10. Stamps; Shop by Mail
  12. 11. Shop by Mail
  13. 12. ["Two more triumphs for Marvel..!"]
    Amazing Spider-Man Annual; Journey into Mystery Annual
  14. 13. ["Face front!"]
    The Merry Marvel Bullpen Page!
  15. 14. [no title indexed]
    All About the Avengers
  16. 15. ["Record riot"]
  17. 16. ["U.S. government surplus direct by mail!"]
  18. 17. ["Boys, girls, men, women"]
    Wallace Brown Greeting Cards
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