The Avengers #88 [Regular Edition]

(May 1971)

The Summons of Psyklop (Table of Contents: 1)

The Avengers / comic story / 19 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas; Harlan Ellison (plot)

Pencils

Sal Buscema

Inks

Jim Mooney

Colors

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Letters

Shelly Leferman

Job Number

564-Z

First Line of Dialogue or Text

You have a mouth-- and you must scream!

Genre

superhero

Characters

Avengers [Black Panther [T'Challa]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Goliath [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]; Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]; Thor [Donald Blake]; Vision]; Falcon [Sam Wilson]; Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Professor X [Charles Xavier]; Thunderbolt Ross; Glenn Talbot; Psyklop (introduction)

Synopsis

The finest minds on Earth have devised a way to contain the Hulk, BUT a member of an ancient alien race kidnaps him to use his power to awaken the dark gods he serves. Oh, and there is a little voo-doo too.

Reprints

• in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #123 (February 8, 1975) [pages 1-9]
• in Hulk (Arédit-Artima, 1976 series) #8 (avril 1978) [N&B [B&W]]
• in Die ruhmreichen Rächer (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #87 ([Mai 1978])
• in Marvel Super-Heroes (Marvel, 1967 series) #90 (August 1980)
• in Hulk el Hombre Increíble (Editorial Novaro, 1979 series) #31 (29 de junio de 1981), #32 (13 de julio de 1981)
• in The Marvel Comics Illustrated Version of the Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1982 series) #02832 (January 1982)
• in Hulk (Interpresse, 1984 series) #10/1984 ([oktober] 1984) [Pages 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 and 17 (panel 4, 5 and 6)]
• in Hulk (Semic, 1984 series) #10/1984 (uke 43 1984) [Pages 1, 2, 3, 11, 12, 13 and 17 (panel 4, 5 and 6)]
• in The Avengers #88 [JC Penney Marvel Vintage Pack] (Marvel, 1994 series) #[nn] ([1994])
• in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #4 (2004)
• in Essential Hulk (Marvel, 1999 series) #3 (April 2005)
• in Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers (Marvel, 2003 series) #9 ([May] 2009)
• in Marvel Gold. Los Vengadores: La Batalla por La Tierra (Panini España, 2013 series) (Febrero 2013)
• in Avengers : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2006 series) #1971 (avril 2013)
• in The Avengers Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #3 ([May] 2018)
• in The Mighty World of Marvel (Marvel UK, 1972 series) #124 [pages 10-20; page 15 deleted; pages 12 and 13 of the original are each numbered half-pages that are combined to form page 3 of the reprinted story]

Keywords

voodoo

Indexer Notes

Story continued in Incredible Hulk (Marvel, 1968 series) #140. The middle part of this story is inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu".

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

Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1.66 pages (report information)

Script

Roy Thomas

Letters

typeset

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Special Note: By now, most of Marveldom...

Reprints

• in The Avengers Omnibus (Marvel, 2012 series) #3 ([May] 2018)

Indexer Notes

Letters from Tom Fagan, James G. Shell, Jonathan Guss, W. P. Mills, Gail Abraham

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