Volume: 1
Price: 1.50 USD; 2.10 CAD
Pages: 36
On-sale Date: 1995-12-07
Editing: Matt Idelson (credited) (assistant editor); Ralph Macchio (credited) (editor); Mark Gruenwald (credited) (editor-in-chief)
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Introducing the Wasp?!?
(Table of Contents)

The Avengers / cover / 1 page

Pencils:
Inks:
Colors:
?
Letters:
?
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Avengers [Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Crystal; Vision; Wasp]
Reprints (1)

Indexer Notes

Pencils, Inks: Previously F. Benes. New info by David B. Elson, 2005-07-05 (Per Sandell ed.)

This issue has 1 variant

Issue Data

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from the ComicList Database compiled by Charles LePage with information from Sun Coast Comics.

Bad Blood
(Table of Contents: 1)

The Avengers / comic story / 21 pages

Script:
Bob Harras (credited) (plot)
Terry Kavanagh (credited) (plot)
Ben Raab (credited) (script)
Pencils:
Mike Deodato (credited)
Inks:
Tom Palmer (credited)
Colors:
Frank Lopez (credited)
Letters:
Janice Chiang (credited)
  • Genre:superhero
Characters:
The Avengers [Giant-Man [Hank Pym]; Black Widow [Natasha Romanov]; Deathcry; Crystal; Hercules; Quicksilver; Vision; Hawkeye; Wasp; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Black Panther]; Swordsman; Malachi; Tobias; Mantis; Tuc; Masque; Kang the Conquerer
Synopsis:
Wasp gains new appearance.
Reprints (3)

Indexer Notes

This storyline was apparently controversial. Kurt Busiek, in Avengers Forever (Marvel, 1998 series), retroactively claimed that the Mantis who appeared in the story was actually a Space Phantom brainwashed into thinking he was Mantis.

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

Avengers the Assembly / letters page / 0.67 page

Script:
?
Letters:
?

Indexer Notes

Letters from Ben Herman, Mark Dito, Doug Tennant

Statement of Ownership
(Table of Contents: 3)

statement of ownership / 0.33 page

Script:
Letters:
typeset

Indexer Notes

Total No. Copies Printed (net press run): Average no. of copies each issue during preceding 12 months: 339,865. Single issue nearest to filing date: 142,814.

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    Table of Contents
  1. Introducing the Wasp?!?
    The Avengers
  2. Bad Blood
    The Avengers
  3. [no title indexed]
    Avengers the Assembly
  4. Statement of Ownership
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