Avengers: The Initiative
#18
[Standard Cover]
(December 2008)
Marvel,
2007 Series
- Price
- 2.99 USD; 3.50 CAD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 2008-10-29
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- T+
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Marvel Publishing Inc.
- Brand
-
Marvel [in horizontal box]
- Barcode
- 759606060849 01811
- Editing
- Tom Brevoort (editor); Jeanine Schaefer (associate editor)
Issue Notes
This issue has variants:
[no title indexed]
The Avengers / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Thor Girl; Ultragirl
- Reprints
Indexer Notes
Cover includes the "Secret Invasion" logo.
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[Recap and Dramatis Personae]
The Avengers / recap / 1 page
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Yellowjacket (a Skrull); Dum-Dum Dugan (a Skrull); 3-D Man; Komodo; Skrull Kill Krew [Ryder; Riot]; Gravity; Hardball; Cloud 9 [Cloud Nine]; Ant-Man; Crusader; Thor Girl; Ultragirl; Jocasta; Devil-Slayer
Don't Shoot 'Til You See the Green of Their Eyes!
The Avengers / comic story / 23 pages
- Script
- Dan Slott; Christos Gage (credited as Christos N. Gage)
- Pencils
- Steve Kurth
- Inks
- Andrew Hennessy (credited as Drew Hennessy)
- Colors
- Matt Milla
- Letters
- Joe Caramagna of Virtual Calligraphy (credited as VC's Joe Caramagna)
- Genre
- superhero
- Characters
- Skrull Kill Krew: 3-D Man [Delroy Garrett Jr.]; Catwalk [Kimberly Dee]; Moonstomp; Riot [Heidi Sladkin]; Ryder
Young Avengers: Hulkling [Teddy Altman]; Stature [Cassandra Lang]; Wiccan [Billy Kaplan]
Ant-Man [Eric O'Grady]; Devil-Slayer; Nick Fury; Jocasta; Prodigy [Richard Gilmore]; Taskmaster [Tony Masters]; Freedom Force [Gravity; Spinner; Equinox (a Skrull; death); Think Tank; Cloud 9 [Cloud Nine]]; Komodo; Hardball; Skrulls [Dum-Dum Dugan; Lieutenant Dharr]; Cavalry [Stunt-Master; Ultragirl; Crimebuster; Thor Girl (a Skrull; death)]; Action Pack [Vox; Prima Donna; Frog-Man]; Order [Calamity; Supernaut; Aralune; Anthem]; Liberteens [Revolutionary (a Skrull; death); Hope; Whiz Kid] - Synopsis
- 3-D Man's group continues to take out Skrull bases until there are only 6 left but once they view the information Ant-Man took from the Skrull headquarters they realize that the Skrull's have a plan to shift the Earth to the Negative Zone if they lose.
- Reprints
-
in Avengers: The Initiative (Marvel, 2007 series) #3 - Secret Invasion ([February] 2009) -
in Marvel Heroes (Panini France, 2007 series) #22 (août 2009) - in Skrulls Must Die! - The Complete Skrull Kill Krew (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
- in Avengers: The Initiative - The Complete Collection (Marvel, 2017 series) #1 (2017)
-
Marvel Celebrates 40 Years of a Legend's Work Sal Buscema
text article / 2 pages
- Characters
- Avengers [Vision; Yellowjacket; Giant Man; Wasp; Black Panther; Thor; Black Knight; Iron Man; Captain America]
Indexer Notes
Page 1 is a full-page illustration of the Avengers by Sal Buscema, page 2 is an interview with Sal Buscema.
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
[no title indexed]
The Avengers -
1.
[Recap and Dramatis Personae]
The Avengers -
2.
Don't Shoot 'Til You See the Green of Their Eyes!
The Avengers -
3.
Marvel Celebrates 40 Years of a Legend's Work Sal Buscema
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- Paul Lefebvre
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