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Issue Details

Issue #221
Published July 1982
Frequency monthly
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 36
Editing Lance Tooks (Assistant Editor); Jim Salicrup (Editor); Jim Shooter (Editor-in-Chief)

Cover Details - "Who Will Be The Newest Members Of The Avengers Earth's Mightiest Heroes?!"

Characters Ant-Man [Scott Lang]; Black Bolt; Daredevil; Dazzler; Doctor Strange; Hawkeye; the Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Power Man [Luke Cage]; ROM; She-Hulk; the Silver Surfer; Spider-Man; Spider-Woman [Jessica Drew]; Wolverine
Genre superhero
Pencils Ed Hannigan
Inks Brett Breeding
Letters typeset
Notes The cover penciler is identified in the letters column in Avengers (1963 series) 225; this information supplied by Ralf H. Kienzle, September 2005 (credit was previously given to Bob Hall). - Denys Howard
Reprinted in Avengers: I am an Avenger (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

1 page Scottie advertisement "A Cracker Jack Story"

Characters Scottie
Genre children; sports
Notes Inside front cover. Comic strip ad for the Cracker Jack snack.

22 page The Avengers story "...New Blood!"

Characters the Avengers [the Black Widow; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hawkeye (rejoins the Avengers); Hercules (flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark]; the Scarlet Witch (flashback); Thor [Donald Blake]; the Vision (flashback); the Wasp]; Carrothers; Dazzler; Drax the Destroyer(flashback); Edwin Jarvis; Henry Peter Gyrich; the Invisible Girl; the Mechano-Marauder [Fabian Stankowicz]; Moondragon (flashback); President Ronald Reagan; She-Hulk (joins the Avengers); Spider-Man; Spider-Woman [Jessica Drew]
Genre superhero
Script Jim Shooter (plot); David Michelinie (plot, script)
Pencils Bob Hall
Inks Brett Breeding
Colors Christie Scheele
Letters Janice Chiang
Reprinted in Avengers: I am an Avenger (Marvel, 2010 series) #[nn]

1 page Dungeons & Dragons advertisement A "Dungeons & Dragons" Adventure! [The Woods of Oakthorn]

Characters Grimslade; Indel; Oakthorn; Saren; Valerius
Genre sword and sorcery
Pencils Bill Willingham
Inks Bill Willingham
Notes Comic strip ad for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game from TSR Hobbies, Inc.. Continued between [Grindal the Mentor] and [The Black Swamp of Lobella].

1 page letters page "Avengers Assemble!"

Script Barry Dutter (letter writer); various
Letters typeset
Notes Letters on The Avengers #216.