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Marvel ⋅ 2005
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1st appearance of Cassie Lang as Stature

Debut of Kate Bishop's Hawkeye costume

Marvel ⋅ 2016
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Cover art by Tradd Moore

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1st appearance of Sgt. Nick Fury

1st team appearance of the Howling Commandos: Happy Sam Sawyer, Dino Manelli, Dum Dum Dugan, Junior Juniper, Rebel Ralston and Gabe Jones, the first ongoing black character in the mainstream Marvel Universe (post Fantastic Four #1)

In the book, Stan Lee's Amazing Marvel Universe, Stan explains Gabe Jones was intended to be black but due to a printing error, he was the same color as the other soldiers. Gabe's skin tone is noticeably different in the next issue though it doesn't appear to be a natural skin color

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1st appearance of the Watcher

1st appearance of the Red Ghost and his Super Apes

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1st appearance of Blade

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1st appearance of Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau later becomes Photon, then Spectrum

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First solo series featuring Vision and Scarlet Witch

1st appearance of Samhain, the physical embodiment of Halloween

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1st appearance of the Black Widow, Natasha Romanova

Death of the first Crimson Dynamo

1st appearance and death of the second Crimson Dynamo, Boris Turgenov

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1st full appearance of Kamala Khan as Ms. Marvel in-story

1st appearance of Bruno Carrelli

1st appearance of Tanalth the Pursuer

1st appearance of Dawn Greenwood, an ally of the Silver Surfer

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Copies ordered by retailers: 32,929

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1st team appearance of Big Hero 6: Baymax, GoGo Tomago, Honey Lemon, Manbot, Silver Samurai, Sunfire and Hiro Takachicho

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First team-up of the Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk, the first time they fought side-by-side

In the Disney movie Cool Runnings, the character named Sanka is reading this comic

Marvel ⋅ 2015
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Origin of Groot, first brief appearance as a young sapling

Marvel ⋅ 1992
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1st appearance of Rhodey Rhodes in the War Machine armor but he still refers to himself as Iron Man

It isn't until West Coast Avengers #94 until the codename ‘War Machine’ is used

[December 2020 - Don Cheadle will reprise his role as War Machine in an Armor Wars series on Disney+ / November 2022 - an inside source passed along an unconfirmed rumor that Armor Wars has been removed from Disney's production slate]

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1st appearance and origin of Abomination, Emil Blonsky, one of the Hulk's arch-rivals

1st appearance of Byrrah in the Silver Age

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1st appearance of Doctor Strange

1st appearance of the Ancient One, former Sorcerer Supreme

1st appearance of Wong, Doctor Strange's assistant

1st cameo appearance of Nightmare, multiple panels, named but obscured by shadows

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📣 Signature Auction: New High [Previous High]

9.6 sold for $150,000 [$66,000 in 2014] +127%

There are seven copies graded 9.6, none higher

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1st appearance of Talos the Untamed

[December 2020 - confirmed to appear with Nick Fury in Secret Invasion]

Cameo appearance by Death of the Endless from DC Vertigo's Sandman series

Marriage of Marlo Chandler and Rick Jones

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Peter David, the writer, officiates the ceremony

ROM appears in human form

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Story arc in which the shape-shifting race of aliens, The Skrulls, have invaded Earth and are impersonating key figures in the Marvel Universe

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1st full appearance of Riri Williams, suits up in prototype armor

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1st cameo appearance of Riri Williams, later becomes Ironheart

1st appearance of Tomoe, an Inhuman who manipulates machinery through technopathy

[December 2020 - an Ironheart series is confirmed for Disney+ with Dominique Thorne cast as Riri Williams who will be introduced in Black Panther II]

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1st appearance of Razor-Fist, a villain whose forearms are swords

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1st appearance of Gorr, the God Butcher

1st appearance of the Necrosword, the first symbiote created by Knull

Marvel ⋅ 1987
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Part one of the Armor Wars story arc that runs through #231

Tony Stark examines the battlesuit technology of a criminal named The Force to discover that it is top secret, Stark circuitry that powers the armor

Rhodes and Stark investigate who stole the tech and discover a villain named Spymaster was the culprit who sold it to Justin Hammer

Stark wears the Silver Centurion armor while battling Stilt Man and the Controller

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[December 2020 - Don Cheadle will return as War Machine for an Armor Wars series coming to Disney+]

Marvel ⋅ 1964
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1st appearance of Kang, the original version

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1st appearance of Scott Lang as Ant-Man, in costume

1st appearance of Cassie Lang, daughter of Scott Lang, later becomes Stature and then Stinger

[January 2023 - Cassie Lang expected to appear in a Young Avengers project]

1st appearance of Darren Cross, later becomes Yellowjacket

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1st team appearance and origin of the Fantastic Four: Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, The Thing

1st appearance of Mole Man

1st appearance of Giganto, a Deviant Mutate from Monster Isle

1st appearance of Tricephalous

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Landmark issue that launched the Marvel Age of comics

💰 In April 2022, a 9.2 sold for $1.5 million

[SDCC 2022 - Phase 6 will open with the Fantastic Four film / March 2023 - Josh Friedman (‘Avatar: The Way of Water’) is set to write the script for the Fantastic Four movie / November 2023 - Pedro Pascal rumored to have been offered the role of Reed Richards]

Marvel ⋅ 2011
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1st appearance of Miss America aka America Chavez

Copies ordered by retailers: 25,873

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