The Avengers 1963 #173 - 3.0 - $3.00

The Avengers are vanishing one by one... Vs The Collector.

On-sale date from Comic Reader (Street Enterprises, 1973 series) #155 (April 1978).

• Threshold of Oblivion! - Inking credit was to to D. Hands, which explained in the letters page to issue #179, as a pseudonym for Diverse Hands, as 7 different inkers worked virtually overnight to complete the story, details were provided as to who did what pages. The same story credits were repeated in The Official Marvel Index to the Avengers Vol 2 #3. First David Michelinie Avengers' script.
• - Letters from Wayne Jones, Ken Walsh, Meredith Ellen Robbins