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Issue Details

Issue #9
Published June 1978
Cover Price 0.60 USD
Pages 52
Editing Roy Thomas

Cover Details - "What If the Avengers Had Fought Evil During the 1950's?"

Characters the Avengers [Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor]; the Avengers [the 3-D Man; Gorilla-Man; the Human Robot; Marvel Boy; Venus]
Genre superhero; period
Pencils Jack Kirby (signed)
Inks Joe Sinnott (signed)
Letters John Costanza?
Reprinted in Agents of Atlas (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

33 page The Avengers story "What If... the Avengers Had Been Formed During the 1950's?"

Characters the Avengers [the Beast; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Hercules (flashback); Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; the Vision]; the Avengers [the 3-D Man; Gorilla-Man; the Human Robot; Jimmy Woo (F.B.I. agent); Marvel Boy; Venus]; the Black Dragons (motorcycle gang); the Cold Warrior; Desi Arnaz; Electro (Russian villian); Elvis Presley; Fritz von Voltzmann; the Great Video; Jann of the Jungle; Lucille Ball; Namora; Nikita Kruschev; President Dwight Eisenhower; Professor Matthew Grayson (Marvel Boy's father, flashback); Richard Nixon; Skrulls (flashback); Skull-Face (demon); Suwan; the Watcher; the Yellow Claw
Synopsis Heroes of the 1950's form their own Avengers team.
Genre superhero; period
Script Don Glut; Roy Thomas (concept)
Pencils Alan Kupperberg (breakdowns); Bill Black (finishes)
Inks Bill Black
Colors Carl Gafford
Letters Tom Orzechowski
Notes Set primarily in San Francisco, Africa and Washington in the 1950's. The story may have happened in Marvel continuity.
Reprinted in Agents of Atlas (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)

Half page Gritboy; Grit advertisement "The Adventures of Gritboy"

Characters Blake; Chris
Genre teen
Notes Comics ad for the Grit newspaper.

1 page Thor; Hostess Twinkies advertisement "Thor Meets a Glutton For Gold"

Characters Gudrun the Golden; Sif; Thor
Genre superhero
Pencils Sal Buscema
Inks Joe Sinnott
Letters Joe Rosen
Notes Comics ad for Hostess Twinkies from ITT Continental Baking Co..

Half page letters page "Why Not?"

Script various
Letters typeset
Notes Editorial and letters on What If? #6.
Reprinted in Agents of Atlas (Marvel, 2007 series) #[nn] (2007)