The Mighty Crusaders #2 - First Appearance of Fly Girl, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: The Mighty Crusaders (Archie, 1965 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: January 1966
Key date: January 1966
On-sale date: 1965
Indicia publisher: Radio Comics Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance (cover) of Fly Girl - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance (cover) of Kim Brand - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance (cover) of The Shield - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	Inferno, the Destroyer	cover	1	pencils: Paul Reinman; inks: Paul Reinman	The Black Hood, Kim Brand First, Matthew "Kip" Burland, The Comet, John Dickering, Fly Girl First, The Fly, Bill Higgins, The Shield First, Tommy Troy
2	The Mighty Crusaders Battle Inferno, the Destroyer	comic story	8	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Mike Sekowsky; inks: Paul Reinman; colors: Victor Gorelick; letters: Sam Rosen	The Black Hood, Kim Brand First, Matthew "Kip" Burland, The Comet, John Dickering, Fly Girl First, The Fly, Bill Higgins, The Shield First, Tommy Troy
6	Inferno the Destroyer Part 2	comic story	11	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Paul Reinman; inks: Frank Giacoia, Joe Giella; colors: Victor Gorelick	The Black Hood, Kim Brand First, Matthew "Kip" Burland, The Comet, John Dickering, Fly Girl First, The Fly, Bill Higgins, The Shield First, Tommy Troy
7	Archie Says... Get This Raincoat Free!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset; ?	Archie Andrews; Veronica Lodge
10	-	letters page	2	script: Richard Goldwater
13	The Origin of the Comet	comic story	5	script: Jerry Siegel; pencils: Paul Reinman; inks: Frank Giacoia, Joe Giella; colors: Victor Gorelick	The Black Hood, Kim Brand First, Matthew "Kip" Burland, The Comet, John Dickering, Fly Girl First, The Fly, Bill Higgins, The Shield First, Tommy Troy

Plus 8 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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