The Avengers #220 [Direct]
(June 1982)

Marvel, 1963 Series
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Volume
1
Price
0.60 USD; 0.25 GBP
Pages
36
Indicia Frequency
monthly
On-sale Date
1982-03-09
Publisher's Age Guidelines
Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Indicia / Colophon Publisher
Marvel Comics Group
Brand
Marvel Comics Group [entire top banner]
Editing
Lance Tooks (assistant editor); Jim Salicrup (credited) (editor); Jim Shooter (credited) (editor-in-chief)

Issue Notes

On-sale date from Amazing Heroes #9.
This issue has variants:
Parts of this issue are reprinted:

War Against the Gods! (Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page (report information)

Pencils
Bob Hall (signed as Hall)
Inks
Brett Breeding (signed as Breeding)
Colors
?
Letters
typeset; ?
Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor [Donald Blake]; the Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Drax the Destroyer; Moondragon (statues)
Reprints
Cover Thumbnail for The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #220 [Direct] Cover Thumbnail for The Avengers (1963 series) #220 [Newsstand]
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War Against the Gods! (Table of Contents: 1)

The Avengers / comic story / 22 pages (report information)

Script
Jim Shooter (credited)
Pencils
Bob Hall (credited)
Inks
Dan Green (credited) (pages 1-4, 5 (panels 1, 4-6), 7, 8, 9 (top two tiers?), 10 (panels 2-8?), 11?, 12?, 15? (panels 5, 6), 17?); Sal Trapani (page 5 (panels 2 & 3), 10 (panel 1); Jack Abel (page 9 (bottom tier); Bob Layton (pages 14 (bottom tier), 15 (Iron Man figures, panel 5), 20 (panel 6), 22 (panel 5?); Dave Simons (page 16 ?); Steve Mitchell (page 18 ?); ? (pages 6, 13, 19-21) (see notes)
Colors
Christie Scheele (credited)
Letters
Joe Rosen (credited as Rosen) (pages 1-5); Janice Chiang (credited as Chiang) (pages 6-22)
First Line of Dialogue or Text
On the planet Ba-Bani, an unimaginable distance from Earth...
Genre
superhero
Characters
the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor [also as Dr. Donald Blake]; the Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]]; Drax the Destroyer (origin, death); Odin; Moondragon; Thanos (flashback)
Synopsis
Drax is killed by Moondragon.
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Indexer Notes

Only Dan Green is credited with the inking. Additional art and lettering information added 2005, updated June 2007, by Steven Tice.

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

Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist / in-house column / 1 page (report information)

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

Avengers Assemble! / letters page / 1 page (report information)

Script
?
Letters
typeset

Indexer Notes

Letters on The Avengers #216. Letters from: Elizabeth Holden, David Schmidt, Thomas Purdy, Carlos M. Fernandez, John A. Wilcox.

Editing
Issue at my.comics.org
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Series Information
Table of Contents
  1. 0. War Against the Gods!
    The Avengers
  2. 1. War Against the Gods!
    The Avengers
  3. 2. [no title indexed]
    Bullpen Bulletins; Hype Box; Mighty Marvel Checklist
  4. 3. [no title indexed]
    Avengers Assemble!
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  • Katie
  • Chris Boyko
  • Max Capp
  • Steve Coates
  • Peter Croome
  • Gregory Fischer
  • Darrel McCann
  • Derek Reinhard
  • Per Sandell
  • Ramon Schenk
  • Richard Thomson
  • Steven Tice
  • Mike Verhart
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