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Avatar: The Last Airbender – Team Avatar Tales

comics anthology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ85744361 ↗
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The Avatar: The Last Airbender – Team Avatar Tales is a graphic novel anthology published by Dark Horse Comics collecting the 2013, 2014, and 2015 Free Comic Book Day stories and several original short stories created for this collection. It is part of Dark Horse Comics' continuation of the Avatar: The Last Airbender television series.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2014, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2019-10-02. The account is most persuasive where Avatar, Last and Airbender can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Avatar: The Last Airbender – Team Avatar Tales” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.