Friday, January 22, 2021

The Avengers #5: The Yaffa edition

Page Publications' The Avengers #5 was published c.August 1980:


This cover originally appeared on Marvel Comics' Marvel Triple Action #8:


Marvel Triple Action #8 reprinted Even Avengers Can Die!, originally published in The Avengers #14 with a new cover image credited to Sal Buscema.

The contents:

[The Castle of Count Nefaria!], originally published in The Avengers #13, February 1965
Even Avengers Can Die!, originally published in The Avengers #14, March 1965
Now, By My Hand, Shall Die a Villain!, originally published in The Avengers #15, April 1965 

The print of The Castle of Count Nefaria! is missing the splash page but is otherwise reprinted intact. Previous Yaffa issues of The Avengers opened with stories missing the splash page but compensated by reprinting the cover associated with the story, however the cover to this issue is related to the next story in this issue.

Even Avengers Can Die! and Now, By My Hand, Shall Die a Villain! are reprinted intact, the latter story ending on the inner rear and rear cover.

This issue is the last regular-sized issue in the series, apart from the recycled The Avengers #10. The rest of the issues are digest-sized. Indeed by the time this issue was published many of the other Yaffa series had already converted to the new format.

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