The Avengers
#196
[Direct]
(June 1980)
Marvel,
1963 Series
- Volume
- 1
- Price
- 0.40 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1980-03-18
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Comics Group
- Brand
-
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
- Editing
- Jim Salicrup (credited) (editor); Bob Budiansky (credited) (assistant editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
- Parts of this issue are reprinted:
Introducing the Treacherous Taskmaster!
The Avengers / cover / 1 page
- Script
- ?
- Pencils
- George Pérez (signed as
PEREZ [no spaces]) - Inks
- Joe Rubinstein (signed as
Rubinstein) - Colors
- ?
- Letters
- Gaspar Saladino; typeset
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Anything the Avengers can do, I can do better!
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Taskmaster [Tony Masters]
- Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Reprints
-
in Les Vengeurs (Editions Héritage, 1974 series) #126/127 -
in Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #391 (November 1982) -
in Les Vengeurs (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #11 - Défi aux Vengeurs (octobre 1983) -
in Los Vengadores (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #17 (Junio 1984) -
in The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #350 (Early August 1992) which is reprinted - in Avengers Visionaries (Marvel, 1999 series) (July 1999)
- in Avengers No. 196 [Marvel Legends Reprint] (Marvel, 2005 series) (June 2005) [cover]
- in Avengers: Heart of Stone (Marvel, 2013 series) (2013)
- in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #9 ([September] 2013)
- in Ant-Man: Scott Lang (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Marvel Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #7 (August 2018)
- in Taskmaster: Anything You Can Do... (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019) [recolored; new trade dress ]
- in True Believers: Black Widow - Taskmaster (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (December 2020), #1 (December 2020)
-
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The Terrible Toll of the Taskmaster
The Avengers / comic story / 17 pages
- Script
- David Michelinie (credited)
- Pencils
- George Pérez (credited)
- Inks
- Jack Abel (credited)
- Colors
- Carl Gafford (credited)
- Letters
- John Costanza (credited)
- Feature Logo
The Mighty Avengers!- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- The Avengers: Beast [Hank McCoy]; Captain America [Steve Rogers] (also in flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Jocasta; Ms. Marvel [Carol Danvers]; Vision; Wasp [Janet Pym]; Wonder Man [Simon Williams]; Yellowjacket [Hank Pym]
Iron Fist [Danny Rand] (flashback) (cameo); Scott Lang; Selbe; Pernell Solomon; Spider-Man [Peter Parker] (flashback) (cameo); Taskmaster [Tony Masters]; Solomon Institute [Rasputin; Maurice; Trainee Blitz Team Seven; Cyber-Squad X] - Universe
- Marvel : mainstream
- Synopsis
- The Avengers rescue Yellowjacket, Ant-Man and Wasp from the Taskmaster.
- Reprints
- in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1981 series) #2 (Diciembre 1981)
- in Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (Marvel UK, 1979 series) #391 (November 1982)
-
in De Vergelders Special (Juniorpress, 1983 series) #2 (1983) - in Les Vengeurs (Arédit-Artima, 1980 series) #11 - Défi aux Vengeurs (octobre 1983) [Moins [Minus] 2 pages]
- in Los Vengadores (Planeta DeAgostini, 1983 series) #17 (Junio 1984)
-
in Hulk (Interpresse, 1984 series) #7/1985 (uge 28 1985) -
in Hulk (Semic, 1984 series) #7/1985 (uke 30 1985) - in Avengers Visionaries (Marvel, 1999 series) (July 1999)
- in Avengers Legends (Marvel, 2002 series) #3 - George Perez Book 1 (January 2003)
- in Avengers No. 196 [Marvel Legends Reprint] (Marvel, 2005 series) (June 2005)
- in Avengers: Heart of Stone (Marvel, 2013 series) (2013)
- in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #9 ([September] 2013)
- in Ant-Man: Scott Lang (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Marvel Comics Digest (Archie, 2017 series) #7 (August 2018)
- in True Believers: Black Widow - Taskmaster (Marvel, 2020 series) #1 (December 2020)
-
- Keywords
- Ant-Man's Helmet; Captain America's Shield; Iron Man Armor Model 4; Long Island; New York State; Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane; Southampton; Yellowjacket's Suit
Indexer Notes
Scott Lang, the Ant-Man, is mistakenly referred to, in page 3 panel 4, as Scott Harris.
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1 page
- Script
- David Michelinie
- Letters
- typeset
Indexer Notes
David Michelinie on how Marvel is now having writers conduct their own letters pages and letters on The Avengers #192. Letters from readers: Kurt Busiek, Kyle Turner, John Riley
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
-
0.
Introducing the Treacherous Taskmaster!
The Avengers -
1.
The Terrible Toll of the Taskmaster
The Avengers -
2.
The Trap
Hostess Twinkies; Spider-Man -
3.
[no title indexed]
Avengers Assemble! -
4.
The Dingo Kids Meet O.J. Simpson
Dingo Boots / Acme Boots
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