COMICS
The Avengers in TV
Comic
The Avengers strip in TV Comic made its first appearance with
the debut of Mrs. Peel - the first story began in issue 720, dated October 2nd
1965, concurrent with the debut of Mrs. Peel on selected screens around the
nation. After issue 771 - dated September 24th 1966 - there was a hiatus
after 52 issues when the rights were sold to D.C. Thomson for their celebrated
Avengers strip in the pages of Diana comic but, with the coming
of Tara King, the strip made a reappearance in issue 877 dated October 5th 1968
(just under two weeks after Tara had made her TV debut) and ran for 201 issues
until its final appearance in issue 1078, dated August 5th 1972.