Tuesday, May 28, 2019

The Avengers #7: The Newton edition


Newton Comics' The Avengers #7 was published 4 October 1975:


The cover was originally published on the cover of Marvel Comics' The Avengers #7:


The story contents are as follows:

Their Darkest Hour!, originally published in The Avengers #7, August 1964 

Hawkeye, The Marksman! [Part 1], originally published in Tales of Suspense #57, September 1964

Their Darkest Hour! appears unmodified, apart from the erasure of original page numbers. The editor could have intervened to correct a couple of references to previous issue numbers in this series but didn't.

Hawkeye, The Marksman is an 18-page story. Six pages are included in this instalment. Unfortunately the editor botched it...

The splash page and following page are as per Tales of Suspense #57. However, the rest of the pages are not from this story at all - they are from In Mortal Combat with Captain America!, originally published in Tales of Suspense #58!

Here's a photo of pp 2-3 as printed by Newton:


The page on the left is the second page from Hawkeye, The Marksman!, and the page on the right is the third page from In Mortal Combat with Captain America!

The saga continues in The Avengers #8...

This issue includes a poster and Swap Card:


The poster is recoloured and slightly modified from the cover of Marvel Comics' The X-Men #2:


It was shortly to be adapted for Newton's The X-Men with The Avengers #2:


This poster is also included in Newton's The X-Men with The Avengers #1.

The Swap Card is Fantastic Four Series A (1 of 15) No. 3 with the cover to Newton's The Fantastic Four #3.

This issue does not contain any in-house advertisements for other Newton Comics issues. 

It does include an ad for the Mail Order Only Origins Of Marvel Comics:


The contest expires 17 November 1975.

This issue was advertised in-house:


This is scanned from The Incredible Hulk #8

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