THE GLOBAL AVENGERS
The United States of America
The best-known reprint of Avengers comic strips must be the 1968-published
Gold Key comic, John Steed Emma Peel (no 'and'), which features two stories
taken from TV Comic and redisplayed in colour. The comic has a
fantastic three colour cover featuring an image from 'A Funny Thing Happened
On The Way To The Station'.
There exists a variant cover for this comic, which features photographs of
Steed and Mrs Peel on the inside front covers and an Avengers pin-up
on the back. The stories reprinted are 'The Roman Invasion' from TV
Comic issues 756 to 760, and 'The Mirage Maker' from issues 761 to 766.
Note that neither of these TV Comic Avengers strips was given
an 'on-page' title, so these two titles were probably invented by the editors
at Gold Key.
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John Steed Emma Peel front cover
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Alternative Inside Front Cover
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When catastrophe threatens Merrie England, two
groovy agents stand ever ready to do it in! John Steed, jaunty,
debonair, the very model of a proper British gentleman and Emma
Peel, hip, with-it and a very mod judo swinger. |
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Alternative Inside Back Cover
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In a game where the stakes are high, where there's
many a deal off the bottom of the deck and trump is - death! |
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The other US Avengers comic was the co-production, with the British ACME
comics company, Steed and Mrs. Peel, which was published between 1990 and
1992. A little more detail is available here.
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