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The Avengers #195

Marvel · Series began 1963 · May 1980

first appearance (cameo) of Taskmaster

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WHY COLLECTORS WANT IT

Taskmaster (Tony Masters) — introduction, last panel cameo

Dates

Cover date: May 1980
Pages: 36

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Editions and covers (3)

Copies of #195 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Direct edition40¢ cover

Direct

No UPC barcode in the corner box: direct editions show artwork, a logo or a blank box there.
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Newsstand edition40¢ cover

Newsstand

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 0714860245805
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UK pence edition0.12 GBP cover

British

Printed cover price 0.12 GBP.
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Publisher’s description

The Avengers break into the Solomon Institute for the Criminally Insane to locate missing team member Wasp. Selbe is revealed to be a clone of “Solomon”, the head “doctor” of the institute. Solomon’s intentions with Selbe however, are far from benevolent.

Reprinted in

Marvel Superheroes [Marvel Super-Heroes] (1979), Avengers Visionaries (1999), Essential Avengers (1999), Avengers Legends (2002), Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers (2003), Avengers No. 195 [Marvel Legends Reprint] (2006), Avengers Epic Collection (2013), Avengers: Heart of Stone (2013), Ant-Man: Scott Lang (2015), Marvel Comics Digest (2017), Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp Prelude (2018), Taskmaster: Anything You Can Do... (2019)