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The Avengers#289
Cover: John Buscema & Tom Palmer
The Avengers #289
“The Cube Root”
writer Ralph Macchio · artist John Buscema · inker Tom Palmer · colorist Paul Becton · letterer Bill Oakley · cover John Buscema, Tom Palmer
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writer Ralph Macchio
artist John Buscema
inker Tom Palmer
colorist Paul Becton
letterer Bill Oakley
cover pencils John Buscema
cover inks Tom Palmer
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Heavy Metal attacks Hydrobase and the Avengers. Machine Man reveals that he has been waiting for the Super-Adaptoid to reveal its true intentions and helps the Avengers against the Adaptoid. The Adaptoid uses the Avengers' computer to find the Cosmic Cube and brings it to Hydrobase. The Cube arrives in a sentient humanoid form calling itself Kubik. The Super-Adaptoid duplicates Kubik's powers.
Plot details indexed by the Grand Comics Database (CC BY-SA).