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Avengers: The Initiative #27

Marvel · Series began 2007 · October 2009

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Dates

Cover date: October 2009
On sale: August 26, 2009
Pages: 36

Editions and covers (2)

Copies of #27 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Original edition

Barcode 75960606084902711
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Variant Edition - '70th Anniversary Frame' - Rafa Sandoval Cover

Barcode 75960606084902721
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Creators

pencils: Matteo De Longis, Rafa Sandovalinks: Matteo De Longis, Roger Bonetscript: Christos Gagecolors: Edgar Delgadoletters: Virtual Calligraphy, Joe Caramagna

Stories

Chapter 1: Even the Losers · 13 pages
Johnny Guitar reflects on he and Doctor Sax's long but uneventful crime career. After joining the Initiative, Guitar realizes they're going to be sacrificed as canon fodder. Guitar injures Doctor Sax so that he'll be spared from joining the assault on the Negative Zone. Guitar dies during the fight.
Chapter 2: The Taking of 42 · 9 pages
With help from Hardball, the Initiative retakes Prison 42.

Characters

Alison BlaireDazzlerFlint MarkoSandmanGreer NelsonTigraMax DillonElectroAdrian ToomesThe VultureFred DukesBlobTony MastersTaskmasterVance AstrovikRobbie BaldwinSt. John AllerdycePyroJusticePeter PetruskiDragon ManTrapsterFrank PayneConstrictorLiving LaserArthur ParksBlastaarClownElliot FranklinGreat Gambonnos

Reprinted in

Avengers: The Initiative (2008), Avengers: The Initiative - Dreams & Nightmares (2010), Avengers: The Initiative - The Complete Collection (2017)