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Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1
First Funnies ⋅ 1939
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Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1
 
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1st appearance and origin of Namor the Sub-Mariner

1st appearance of American Ace

1st appearance of the Holy One, later known as Thakorr, a former ruler of Atlantis

Only nine copies are known to exist

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This comic was intended to be a giveaway at movie theaters but it never went into full production

Fantastic Four #2
Marvel ⋅ 1962
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Fantastic Four #2
 
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1st team appearance of the Skrulls, the shape-shifting alien race

2nd team appearance of the Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four #5
Marvel ⋅ 1962
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Fantastic Four #5
 
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1st appearance and origin of Doctor Doom

Fantastic Four #8
Marvel ⋅ 1962
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Fantastic Four #8
 
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1st appearance of Alicia Masters

1st appearance of the Puppet Master

Strange Tales #102
Marvel ⋅ 1962
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Strange Tales #102
 
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1st appearance and origin of the Wizard, Bentley Wittman

Fantastic Four #11
Marvel ⋅ 1963
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Fantastic Four #11
 
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1st appearance and origin of Impossible Man

Fantastic Four #14
Marvel ⋅ 1963
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Fantastic Four #14
 
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2nd appearance of the Puppet Master

Fantastic Four #15
Marvel ⋅ 1963
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Fantastic Four #15
 
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1st appearance of the Mad Thinker

1st appearance of the Awesome Android

Letters page includes a fan letter from future writer and Editor-In-Chief, Roy Thomas

Fantastic Four #36
Marvel ⋅ 1965
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Fantastic Four #36
 
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1st team appearance of the Frightful Four: Madame Medusa, Paste-Pot Pete, Sandman, Wizard

1st appearance of Medusa

Fantastic Four #49
Marvel ⋅ 1966
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Fantastic Four #49
 
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1st full appearance of Galactus

1st cover and 2nd appearance of the Silver Surfer

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9.6 sold for $20,400 [$18,000 in 2020] +13%

Fantastic Four #56
Marvel ⋅ 1966
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Fantastic Four #56
 
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2nd appearance of Klaw

Fantastic Four #65
Marvel ⋅ 1967
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Fantastic Four #65
 
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1st appearance of Ronan the Accuser, a high-ranking Kree who can trace his ancestry back to the early Kree tribes of Hala

1st appearance of the Supreme Intelligence, a collective information system of the greatest Kree minds

Fantastic Four Annual #5
Marvel ⋅ 1967
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Fantastic Four Annual #5
 
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1st appearance of Psycho-Man

First solo Silver Surfer story

Short story with an illustrated Stan Lee and Jack Kirby showing readers how they develop a plot

Fantastic Four Annual #6
Marvel ⋅ 1968
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Fantastic Four Annual #6
 
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1st appearance of Annihilus, ruler of the Negative Zone

1st appearance of Franklin Richards, as an unnamed infant, considered by Marvel to be the most powerful mutant in the Marvel Universe

Introduction of the Cosmic Control Rod, a weapon used by Annihilus that manipulates matter

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Silver Surfer #3
Marvel ⋅ 1968
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Silver Surfer #3
 
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1st appearance of Mephisto

[October 2022 - Deadline is speculating Sacha Baron Cohen will portray Mephisto in a Marvel project / March 2023 - it is rumored that a Mephisto special is filming at the same time as the Agatha TV series]

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