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Issue Details

Issue #17
Published November 1968
Cover Price 0.25 USD
Pages 64
Editing Stan Lee
Notes Possible Romita cover credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo. Background art is clipped from the interior story. Cover credits confirmed 2009 on the error list via The Official Marvel Index to the Avengers #3 (Marvel Comics, Oct. 1987), p. 22.

Cover Details

Genre superhero
Pencils Howard Purcell; John Romita Sr. (Black Knight)
Inks Dan Adkins; John Romita Sr. (Black Knight)
Notes Possible Romita cover credit provided 2006 by Nick Caputo. Background art is clipped from the interior story. Cover credits confirmed 2009 on the error list via The Official Marvel Index to the Avengers #3 (Marvel Comics, Oct. 1987), p. 22.

22 page Black Knight story "The Black Knight Reborn"

Characters Black Knight; Black Knight I [Sir Percy of Scandia] (as a ghost; death in flashback); Merlin (flashback); V: Modred (villain; as ghost and in flashback); Guardian of the Ebony Blade (first appearance; villain; death); Le Sabre [Paul Richarde] (first appearance; villain); the Nether gods (first appearance; villains)
Genre superhero
Script Roy Thomas
Pencils Howard Purcell
Inks Dan Adkins; others
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Sam Rosen
Notes app. between AVENGERS #55 / 60

8 page Human Torch story "Alien Encounter"

Genre superhero
Script Stan Lee?
Pencils Dick Ayers
Inks Dick Ayers
Colors Stan Goldberg
Reprinted from Men's Adventures (Marvel, 1950 series) #28

3 page Sub-Mariner story "Wings On His Feet"

Genre superhero
Script Bill Everett
Pencils Bill Everett
Inks Bill Everett
Colors Stan Goldberg
Letters Bill Everett
Reprinted from Sub-Mariner Comics (Marvel, 1954 series) #38

18 page All-Winners Squad story "Menace From the Future World"

Genre superhero
Script Otto Binder
Pencils Al Avison; Vince Alascia
Inks Charles Nicholas, Syd Shores, George Klein
Colors Stan Goldberg
Reprinted from All-Winners Comics (Marvel, 1941 series) #21 [concluded next issue]