The Avengers
#184
[Direct]
(June 1979)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1979-03-20
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Barcode
- 0714860245806
- Editing
- Roger Stern (credited) (editor); Jim Salicrup (credited) (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited as J. Shooter) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
In the Grip of the... Absorbing Man!
The Avengers / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Pérez (signed as
PÉREZ) - Inks
- Terry Austin (signed as
austin) - Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Irv Watanabe
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers: Beast [Hank McCoy]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Vision; Wasp [Janet Pym]
Absorbing Man [Crusher Creel] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in De Vergelders (Juniorpress, 1979 series) #9 (1980) -
in Les Vengeurs (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #7 - Le retour de l'Homme-Absorbant (juin 1982) -
in Avengers: Nights of Wundagore (Marvel, 2009 series) (2009) -
in Marvel Gold: Los Vengadores: Noches de Wundagore (Panini España, 2011 series) (Enero 2011) - in Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #[1] (2016)
- in Avengers Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #10 - The Yesterday Quest (2023)
-
- Keywords
- Absorbing Man's Ball and Chain; Iron Man Armor Model 4; New York City; New York Harbor
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Death on the Hudson!
The Avengers / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- David Michelinie (credited)
- Pencils
- John Byrne (credited) ("choreography / pencils")
- Inks
- Joe Rubinstein (credited as D. Hands) (pages 3, 4, 15); Terry Austin (credited as D. Hands) (pages 9, 13); Al Gordon ? (credited as D. Hands) (page 10); Klaus Janson ? (credited as D. Hands) (page 14)
- Colors
- Bob Sharen (credited as B. Sharen)
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino (page 1); Diana Albers (credited as D. Albers) (pages 2-17)
- Job Number
- LG406
- Feature Logo
The Mighty Avengers!- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers: Beast [Hank McCoy]; Captain America [Steve Rogers] (also in flashback); Falcon [Sam Wilson] (also in flashback); Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Vision; Wasp [Janet Pym]
Absorbing Man [Crusher Creel]; Henry Peter Gyrich (flashback); Sandy Herkowitz; Edwin Jarvis; Redwing (also in flashback) - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The Avengers battle the Absorbing Man.
- Reprints
- in De Vergelders (Juniorpress, 1979 series) #9 (1980)
-
in Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #379 (November 1981) [minus p. 4; pp. 1-3, 5-17. Black & white.] - in Les Vengeurs (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #7 - Le retour de l'Homme-Absorbant (juin 1982) [Moins [Minus] 1 page]
- in Los Vengadores (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #11 (Diciembre 1983)
- in Backpack Marvels: Avengers (Marvel, 2001 series) #1 (January 2001)
- in Avengers: Nights of Wundagore (Marvel, 2009 series) (2009)
- in Marvel Gold: Los Vengadores: Noches de Wundagore (Panini España, 2011 series) (Enero 2011)
- in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #8 ([April] 2012)
- in Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus (Marvel, 2016 series) #[1] (2016)
- in Avengers Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #10 - The Yesterday Quest (2023)
-
- Keywords
- Absorbing Man's Ball and Chain; Airjet-Cycle; Atlantic Ocean; Avengers Mansion; Captain America's Shield; Falcon's Wings; Hawkeye's Bow and Trick Arrows; Iron Man Armor Model 4; Manhattan; New York City; New York Harbor; Wasp's Bio-Synthetic Wings
Indexer Notes
Expanded credits 2005 by Steven Tice.
D. Hands inker credit = diverse hands.
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- Roger Stern
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
Letters on artists and storylines. Letters from Mike Labrie, David Tatum, Paul Cascio
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
In the Grip of the... Absorbing Man!
The Avengers -
1.
Death on the Hudson!
The Avengers -
2.
Hotshot on the Block.
Hostess Twinkies; Spider-Man -
3.
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble! -
4.
Street Ball
Spalding Sports Equipment
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