The Avengers #188 (1979) for Sale - Where to Buy

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Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	The Elements of Doom!	cover	1	pencils: John Byrne; inks: Terry Austin	Beast, Captain America, Carol Danvers, Falcon, Wanda Maximoff, Hank McCoy, Ms. Marvel, Janet Van Dyne, Steve Rogers, Scarlet Witch, Wasp, Simon Williams, Sam Wilson, Wonder Man
1	Elementary, Dear Avengers	comic story	18	script: Jim Shooter, Bill Mantlo; pencils: John Byrne, Dan Green, Frank Springer; inks: Dan Green, Frank Springer; colors: Sharen; letters: Gaspar	Beast, Black Bolt, Blackagar Boltagon, Captain America, Crystal, Carol Danvers, Falcon, Gorgon, Karnak, Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff, Hank McCoy, Ms. Marvel

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	See the GCD record for identification notes.
British	price 0.12 GBP

Collection	Year
Backpack Marvels: Avengers #1 ISBN 0-7851-0765-7	2001	On eBay ›
Avengers: Heart of Stone #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-8431-7	2013	On eBay ›
Essential Avengers #9 ISBN 978-0-7851-8411-9	2013	On eBay ›
Marvel Universe by John Byrne Omnibus #[1] ISBN 978-0-7851-9560-3	2016	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers #18 ISBN 978-1-302-90960-4	2018	On eBay ›
The Yesterday Quest ISBN 978-1-302-94876-4	2023	On eBay ›

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Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
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