The Avenger
#1 [A-1 #129]
(February-March 1955)
Magazine Enterprises,
1955 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- every other month
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Magazine Enterprises
- Brand
- ME
- Editing
- Ray Krank (editor)
Issue Notes
All info by Len Wolinsky, GCD error list, March 2007. Art credits added by Craig Delich 1-31-08.
Sentinels of Justice (AC Comics, 1993 series) #1, which reprints the origin story and has a new Avenger story by Dick Ayers, says Ayers was paid $35 a page for pencils, inks, and letters. Issues from this series are identical to select entries under GCD series #389, which is named "A-1", as follows: 1 [A-1 #129]; 2 [A-1 #131]; 3 [A-1 #133]; 4 [A-1 #138].
Sentinels of Justice (AC Comics, 1993 series) #1, which reprints the origin story and has a new Avenger story by Dick Ayers, says Ayers was paid $35 a page for pencils, inks, and letters. Issues from this series are identical to select entries under GCD series #389, which is named "A-1", as follows: 1 [A-1 #129]; 2 [A-1 #131]; 3 [A-1 #133]; 4 [A-1 #138].
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
[no title indexed]
The Avenger / cover / 1 page
- Pencils
- Bob Powell (signed as
POWELL) - Inks
- Bob Powell (signed as POWELL)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- typeset
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avenger [Roger Wright]
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The Fog Robbers
The Avenger / comic story / 8 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avenger [Roger Wright] (introduction); Claire Farrow (his secretary); Phineas Fletcher; Igor Larsen
- Synopsis
- Professor Fletcher is robbed in an artificial fog.
- Reprints
-
in L'âge merveilleux des Comics (J.F.C. Editions, 2012 series) #5 -
in The Avenger (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 ([circa 1958]) - in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #27 ([December] 2000)
-
Death Has Three Faces!
The Avenger / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avenger [Roger Wright]
- Synopsis
- When a guided atomic missile is lost in the mid-pacific waters it is up to The Avenger to recover it before the Russians do.
- Reprints
- in The Avenger (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 ([circa 1958])
- in Golden-Age Men of Mystery (AC, 1996 series) #13 (1999) [originally in color; in black and white]
-
Indexer Notes
Script credit from Newman's log book, The Comics! Vol. 14, No. 8 (Aug. 2003).
The Red Hand of Terror!
The Avenger / comic story / 7 pages
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number
- A-3
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avenger [Roger Wright]; Dr. Klaus Oberschaff
- Synopsis
- The Avenger goes to Vienna to save a scientist.
- Reprints
- in The Avenger (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 ([circa 1958])
- in Golden-Age Men of Mystery (AC, 1996 series) #5 (1997) [originally in color; in black and white]
-
The Birth of the Avenger!
The Avenger / comic story / 6 pages
- Script
- Paul S. Newman
- Pencils
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Inks
- Dick Ayers (signed as Ayers)
- Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Dick Ayers
- Job Number
- A-4
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avenger [Roger Wright] (origin); Claire Farrow; Ralph Wright (Roger's brother); Ralph's wife; Ivan Pavelitch; Sergei Viroshonsky (villain)
- Synopsis
- Colonel Ralph Wright and his wife are kidnapped by Russian agents, wanting him to write a letter to his brother Roger, who has just invented a new type of airplane the Soviets want.
- Reprints
- in The Avenger (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 ([circa 1958])
- in Sentinels of Justice (AC, 1993 series) #1 (1993) [originally in color; in black and white] which is reprinted
- in Klassik Komix Men of Action (Mini-Komix, 2015 series) ([August 21, 2015]) [This reprint is from the AC Comics black and white reprint and not the original color story.]
- in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #35 (2002), #69 ([October] 2007)
-
Indexer Notes
Synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-31-08.
Writer credit confirmed by Avenger Number Zero (AC Comics, 1999 series) #0. Formerly credited to Gardner Fox.
The Avenger is inspired to wear a costume by a Ghost Rider mask bought for his nephew. Dick Ayers was the creator of the original Ghost Rider.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Avenger -
1.
The Fog Robbers
The Avenger -
2.
["Hi-Power Binoculars"]
-
3.
["Toy bonanza"]
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4.
Death Has Three Faces!
The Avenger -
5.
The Red Hand of Terror!
The Avenger -
6.
The Birth of the Avenger!
The Avenger
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- Keith Alan Morgan
- Lou Mougin (R.I.P.)
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