Editing The Avengers (TV series) (section)

===Comics===
The first UK Avengers comic strips,<ref>[http://wingedavenger.theavengers.tv/index.htm The Avengers Illustrated comic strip info]. Retrieved 5 November 2010</ref> featuring Steed and [[Cathy Gale]], first appeared in regional TV listings magazines ''Look Westward'' and ''The Viewer'' from 14 September 1963 to 9 May 1964 (and later in 1964, re-printed in the ''[[Manchester Evening News]]''). This run consisted of four serials.

Steed and Mrs Peel comic strips began in [[Polystyle Publications]]' ''[[TV Comic]]'' in issue #720, dated 2 October 1965, beginning after the TV debut of [[Emma Peel]], and ran until issue #771, dated 24 September 1966 – this run consisted of 10 serials plus one 4-page one-off in ''TV Comic Holiday Special'' (June 1966). At that point the rights were sold to publishers [[D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd]], where the next version of the strip appeared in issue #199, dated 10 December 1966, of ''Diana'' the popular paper for girls. Its run ended in issue #224, dated 2 June 1967, with art by Emilio Frejo and Juan Gonzalez Alacrojo – this run consisted of 8 serials.

Earlier, ''The Growing Up of Emma Peel'' comic strip had appeared in ''June and Schoolfriend'' comic from issue #52, dated 29 January 1966, to issue #63, dated 16 April 1966. This had featured the adventures of 14-year-old Emma Knight and was run concurrent with the ''TV Comic'' strip and consisted of 11 instalments.

The Avengers returned to ''TV Comic'' issue #877, dated 5 October 1968, just after [[Tara King]] debuted on TV, the Tara & Steed strip continued until issue #1077, dated 5 August 1972. This run consisted of 28 serials plus a 4-page one-off in ''TV Comic Holiday Special 1972''. Also in 1966 [[Thorpe & Porter]] published a 68-page Avengers comic featuring Steed & Peel, with original art by [[Mick Anglo]] and [[Mick Austin]] — this consisted of four 16-page stories.

A few ''Avengers''-related comic books have been published in the USA. They are not named ''The Avengers'' because the rights to the names "Avengers" and "New Avengers" are held by [[Marvel Comics]] for use with their [[Avengers (comics)|Avengers]] comics depicting a team of superheroes called ''The Avengers''. [[Gold Key Comics]] published one issue of ''John Steed Emma Peel'' in 1968 (subtitled ''The Avengers'' on the [[Indicia (publishing)|Indicia]] page), which included two newly coloured and reformatted ''The Avengers'' strips from ''TV Comic''.

A 3-issue limited entitled ''Steed and Mrs. Peel'' appeared in 1990–1992 under the [[Acme Press]]/[[Eclipse Comics]] imprint; it featured a three-part story, "The Golden Game" in issues #1–3, by [[Grant Morrison]] and a two-part story, in issues #2 & #3, "A Deadly Rainbow" by Anne Caulfield; both strips had art by [[Ian Gibson (artist)|Ian Gibson]]. [[Boom! Studios]] reprinted this series in six issues in early 2012, and later published a new ongoing series written by [[Mark Waid]] and Caleb Monroe which lasted 12 issues. Boom! subsequently announced a six-issue follow-up series, ''Steed and Mrs. Peel: We're Needed'', which was launched in the summer of 2014.<ref>[http://www.newsarama.com/20920-boom-studios-july-2014-solicitations.html "Boom Studios! July 2014 solicitations"], Newsarama.com, 23 April 2014. Accessed 5 July 2014.</ref> Despite issue #1 showing "1 of 6", only 3 issues were produced ("2 of 3" and "3 of 3" showing on the other issues, with the cover for issue #3 being the one originally planned for issue #4 which was planned to be the start of another 3-issue story).

In the UK, where hardback annuals are traditionally produced for sale at Christmas, The Avengers first appeared in ''TV Crimebusters Annual'' (1962) and featured a 7-page comic strip with Dr David Keel titled ''The Drug Pedlar''. Atlas Publications produced three ''The Avengers'' hardback Annuals for 1967, 1968 and 1969, which also featured original Avengers comic strips featuring Steed, Emma Peel, and Tara King, as well as text stories.

The ''TV Comic'' Avengers strips and the 1966 Avengers comic and a few comic strips from the Annuals have been translated and published in Germany, the Netherlands, France, and Chile.

The Avengers also have made a number of [[cameo appearance]]s in comics over the years:
* In 1991's ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' #173, [[Gary Russell]] and artists [[Mike Collins (comics)|Mike Collins]] and Steve Pini show [[Captain Britain]] about to hit John Steed when Emma Peel shows up behind him.
* Emma Peel and John Steed were seen among the crowd in a bar scene in ''[[Kingdom Come (comics)|Kingdom Come]]'' #2 (1996) by [[Mark Waid]] and [[Alex Ross]].
* Emma Peel and John Steed appeared unnamed in ''[[Superman (comic book)|Superman]]'' #13 (1988) by [[John Byrne (comics)|John Byrne]] and [[Karl Kesel]].
* A crossover series, ''[[Batman '66]] Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel'', was launched in June 2016 as a joint effort between [[DC Comics]] and [[Boom! Studios]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://comicsalliance.com/batman-66-meets-steed-and-mrs-peel |title=Batman '66 Meets Steed And Mrs. Peel in New Crossover |access-date=12 June 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616165756/http://comicsalliance.com/batman-66-meets-steed-and-mrs-peel/ |archive-date=16 June 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2016/06/08/batman-66-meets-steed-and-mrs-peel-ian-edginton-and-matthew-dow-smith-unite-two-tv|title=Batman '66 Meets Steed and Mrs. Peel: Ian Edginton and Matthew Dow Smith Unite Two TV Icons|date=8 June 2016|access-date=12 June 2016}}</ref>
* [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' is littered with oblique references to events and characters in ''The Avengers'', with three unnamed characters that are clearly Purdey, Tara and Emma appearing at the end of the book "Century: 2009".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jessnevins.com/annotations/2009annotations.html|title=Century 2009 Annotations|website=Jessnevins.com|access-date=10 November 2016}}</ref>