The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #16

Volume: 1

Price: 0.12 USD

Pages: 36

On-sale Date: 1965-03-11

Editing: Stan Lee (sourced) (editor); Martin Goodman (credited) (publisher)

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The Avengers / cover / 1 page

Script:	Stan Lee ?
Pencils:	Jack Kirby (sourced)
Inks:	Carl Hubbell ? (sourced) Sol Brodsky ? (sourced)
Colors:	Stan Goldberg
Letters:	Sam Rosen (sourced)

Genre:superhero

First Line of Dialogue or Text:Avengers Assemble!

Universe:

Marvel : mainstream

Characters:

The Avengers

Captain America [Steve Rogers]
Giant-Man [Hank Pym]
(on poster)
Hawkeye [Clint Barton]
(on poster)
Iron Man [Tony Stark]
(on poster)
Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]
(on poster)
Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]
(on poster)
Thor [Don Blake]
(on poster)
Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
(on poster)

Black Knight [Nathan Garrett]
(on poster)
Enchantress [Amora]
(on poster)
The Executioner [Skurge]
(on poster)
Rick Jones
(on poster)
Melter [Bruno Horgan]
(on poster)

Reprints (25)

in Avengers Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #25 - The Gathering (2023)

Indexer Notes

The Official Marvel Index to the Avengers (Marvel, 1994 series) #1 lists and Nick Caputo thinks the cover inker is Sol Brodsky. Carl Gafford and the original indexer credited Dick Ayers. Mark Evanier says it's Carl Hubbell.

Issue Data

Publisher's Brand: Marvel Comics Group [under character box]
Indicia / Colophon Publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
Indicia Frequency: monthly
Publisher's Age Guidelines: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Printer: Printed in the U.S.A. by Eastern Color Printing Co., Waterbury 20, Conn.

Parts of this issue are reprinted:

Indexer Notes

On-sale date from 1965 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.

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Elbarr Distributors Novelties / advertisement / 1 page

The Old Order Changeth!

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The Avengers / comic story / 20 pages

Script:	Stan Lee (credited) (plot, script) Jack Kirby (sourced) (plot)
Pencils:	Jack Kirby (credited) (layouts) Dick Ayers (credited) (pencils) Carl Hubbell (see notes)
Inks:	Dick Ayers (credited) Carl Hubbell (see notes)
Colors:	Stan Goldberg ?
Letters:	Artie Simek (credited)

Genre:superhero

First Line of Dialogue or Text:One side, Thor!
Keywords:Amazon; dimensional space warp

Universe:

Marvel : mainstream

Characters:

The Avengers

Captain America [Steve Rogers]
(featured)
Giant-Man [Hank Pym]
(featured) (leaves team)
Hawkeye [Clint Barton]
(featured) (joins team, also in flashback)
Iron Man [Tony Stark]
(featured) (leaves team)
Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]
(featured) (joins team)
Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]
(featured) (joins team)
Thor [Don Blake]
(featured) (leaves team)
Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]
(featured) (leaves team)

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

Mastermind [Jason Wyngarde]
(flashback) (cameo)
Quicksilver [Pietro Maximoff]
(flashback) (leaves team)
Scarlet Witch [Wanda Maximoff]
(flashback) (leaves team)
Toad [Mortimer Toynbee]
(flashback) (cameo)

Masters of Evil

Black Knight [Nathan Garrett]
(villain) (leaves team)
Enchantress [Amora]
(villain) (leaves team)
The Executioner [Skurge]
(villain) (leaves team)
Melter [Bruno Horgan]
(villain) (leaves team)

X-Men

Angel [Warren Worthington III]
(flashback) (cameo)
Beast [Hank McCoy]
(flashback) (cameo)
Iceman [Bobby Drake]
(flashback) (cameo)

Black Widow [Natasha Romanoff]
(flashback) (guest)
Elendil
Happy Hogan
(guest)
Hulk [Bruce Banner]
(cameo)
Immortus [Nathaniel Richards]
(guest)
Edwin Jarvis
(supporting) (unnamed)
Rick Jones
(supporting)
Erik Josten
(villain) (unnamed, as one of Zemo's mercenaries)
Kang [Nathaniel Richards]
(Other Earth - Earth-6311)

(guest)
Magneto [Erik Lehnsherr]
(flashback) (cameo)
Mole Man [Harvey Elder]
(guest)
Sub-Mariner. [Namor]
(guest)

Bill; communist agents (antagonist, flashback); Atlanteans [unnamed ones] (guest); Zemo's slaves [unnamed ones]; General Curtiss

Synopsis:: Most of the old Avengers line-up leaves, leaving Captain America behind to be leading the Scarlet Witch, Hawkeye and Quicksilver.; in Los Vengadores (Editora de Periódicos, S. C. L. "La Prensa", 1965 series) #23 (15 de agosto de 1966)
in Terrific! (IPC, 1967 series) #21 (2 September 1967) [Pages 1-10 only. Black and white], #22 (9 September 1967)
in Los Vengadores (Ediciones Vértice, 1969 series) #7 ([Marzo] 1970)
in Il Mitico Thor (Editoriale Corno, 1971 series) #24 (29 Febbraio 1972)
in Marvel Triple Action (Marvel, 1972 series) #10 (April 1973)
in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1972 series) #11 (4ème trimestre 1974) [N&B et recadré [B&W and reframed]]
in Die ruhmreichen Rächer (BSV - Williams, 1974 series) #15 ([März 1975])
in The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #150 (August 1976) [pages 7-18; 12 pp.]
which is reprinted
in Thor e Capitan America (Editoriale Corno, 1978 series) #197
in Vengeur (Arédit-Artima, 1985 series) #4 (février 1986) [N&B et remonté [B&W and reframed]]
in Avengers (Marvel, 1998 series) #27 (April 2000)
in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #7 (2010)
in Avengers: The Big Three (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
in Avengers: The Private War of Dr. Doom (Marvel, 2012 series) (2012)
in Marvel Gold. Los Vengadores: La Guerra Privada del Doctor Muerte (Panini España, 2013 series) (Febrero 2013)
in Avengers Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #9 - The Final Threat (2013), #9 - The Final Threat (2013)
in Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers (Marvel, 2003 series) #16 (2016)
in Los Vengadores (Novedades, 1981 series) #16 (18 de junio de 1981)
in Strange Spécial Origines (Semic S.A., 1989 series) #235 hors série (5 juillet 1989)
in Marvel Masterworks (Marvel, 1987 series) #9 ([September] 1989)
in Marvel Milestone Edition: The Avengers #16 (Marvel, 1993 series) (October 1993)
in Essential Avengers (Marvel, 1999 series) #1 ([November] 1999) [black and white]
in Avengers : L'intégrale (Panini France, 2006 series) #1965 (janvier 2007)
in Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers (Marvel, 2009 series) #2 (2009)
in Avengers: I Am an Avenger (Marvel, 2010 series) #[1] (2010)
in The Avengers Omnibus (Marvel, 2011 series) #1 (2011)
in Avengers Epic Collection (Marvel, 2013 series) #1 - Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2014)
in Marvel Gold. Los Vengadores (Panini España, 2012 series) #1 (Febrero 2015)
in Avengers: The Vibranium Collection (Marvel, 2015 series) (2015)
in Avengers: Operation Hydra (Marvel, 2015 series) #1 (June 2015)
in Black Widow Epic Collection (Marvel, 2019 series) #1 - Beware the Black Widow (2019) [pages 7-8]
in The Black Widow Strikes Omnibus (Marvel, 2019 series) (2019) [Pages 7-8 only]
in Hawkeye Epic Collection (Marvel, 2021 series) #1 - The Avenging Archer (2021)
in The Avengers (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) (Penguin Random House, 2023 series) (2023)
in Marvel Origins (Hachette [DE], 2023 series) #29 - Avengers 3 (1964) ([September] 2024)

Indexer Notes

Nick Caputo suspects that Carl Hubbell provided alterations on several figures throughout the story, particularly on pages 5, 10, 17 and 20, per his blog:

http://nick-caputo.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-unknown-art-of-carl-hubbell.html

The episode title might be inspired by A. Tennyson’s poem Idylls of the King, The Passing of Arthur (1869): "The old order changeth, yielding place to new."

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Captain America; Fantastic Four; Iron Man; Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos; Spider-Man / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Commercial Trades Institute Courses / advertisement / 1 page

Treasure Chest of Fun

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Honor House Products Novelties / advertisement / 1 page

U.S. Gov't Surplus

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Merry Marvel Marching Society / in-house column / 1 page

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All About the Avengers / letters page / 2 pages

Script:	Stan Lee
Pencils:	Jack Kirby (illustrations)
Inks:	Chic Stone (illustrations)
Colors:	? (illustrations)
Letters:	typeset

Feature Logo:All About the Avengers [All About on top]

Characters:

The Avengers

Iron Man [Tony Stark]

The Avengers

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Indexer Notes

Letters from: Ted Moore, Jerry DeStefano, Nathan Zimmerman, David Szurek, John Halloran, Richard Kraus, Maurice Johnson, Jack Marchese, Carl Czaga, and Charles Taylor. Includes “The Mighty Marvel Checklist.” Illustrations are adapted from the covers of The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series) #10 and #11 with modifications on Giant-Man helmet.

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Elbarr Distributors Novelties / advertisement / 1 page

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The Avengers / comic story / 20 pages

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Captain America; Fantastic Four; Iron Man; Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos; Spider-Man / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Commercial Trades Institute Courses / advertisement / 1 page

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Christy Trades School Training / advertisement / 0.5 page

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Estes Rockets / advertisement / 1 page

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Sea-Monkeys / advertisement / 0.5 page

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Elbarr Distributors Novelties / advertisement / 0.5 page

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Doctor Strange; Giant-Man; Hulk; Human Torch; The Thing; Thor; X-Men / promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page

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Merry Marvel Marching Society / in-house column / 1 page

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All About the Avengers / letters page / 2 pages

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Yubiwaza System / advertisement / 1 page

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Famous Artists Schools / advertisement / 1 page

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Treasure Chest of Fun

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