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Issue Details

Issue #1
Published February-March 1955
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 36
Editing Raymond C. Krank
Notes All info by Len Wolinsky, GCD error list, March 2007. Art credits added by Craig Delich 1-31-08.

Cover Details

Characters The Avenger
Genre superhero
Pencils Bob Powell (signed)
Inks Bob Powell (signed)
Letters typeset
Notes All info by Len Wolinsky, GCD error list, March 2007. Art credits added by Craig Delich 1-31-08.

8 page The Avenger story "The Fog Robbers"

Characters The Avenger [Roger Wright] (I); Claire Farrow (his secretary)
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted in Avenger, The (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958?)

7 page The Avenger story "Death Has Three Faces"

Characters The Avenger [Roger Wright]
Synopsis When a guided atomic missile is lost in the mid-pacific waters it is up to The Avenger to recover it before the Russians do.
Genre Superhero
Pencils Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes Because of this adventure The Avenger contracted cancer.
Reprinted in Avenger, The (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958?); in Golden-Age Men of Mystery (AC, 1996 series) #13 (1999) [in black and white]

7 page The Avenger story "The Red Hand of Terror!"

Characters The Avenger [Roger Wright]
Genre superhero
Pencils Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Reprinted in Avenger, The (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958?); in Golden-Age Men of Mystery (AC, 1996 series) #5 (1997) [in black and white]

6 page The Avenger story "The Birth of the Avenger!"

Characters The Avenger [Roger Wright] (origin); Claire Farrow (D); Ralph Wright (Roger's brother); Ralph's wife; Ivan Pavelitch; V: Sergei Viroshonsky.
Synopsis Scientist Ralph Wright and his wife are kidnapped by Russian agents, wanting him to write a letter to his brother, who has just invented a new type of airplane the Soviets want.
Genre Superhero
Script Gardner Fox
Pencils Dick Ayers (signed)
Inks Dick Ayers (signed)
Notes Synopsis added by Craig Delich 1-31-08.
Reprinted in Avenger, The (I. W. Publishing; Super Comics, 1958 series) #9 (1958?); in Men of Mystery Comics (AC, 1999 series) #69 (2007); in Sentinels of Justice (AC, 1993 series) #1 (1993) [in black and white]