Sarge Steel #1 for Sale - First Appearance of Sarge Steel - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Sarge Steel (Charlton, 1964 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: December 1964
Key date: 1964-12-10
Indicia publisher: Charlton Comics Group
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Sarge Steel - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

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	Pearls of Death	cover	1	pencils: Dick Giordano; inks: Dick Giordano; letters: Jon D'Agostino	Sarge Steel First
1	File #101 The Case of the Pearls of Death	comic story	20	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Dick Giordano; inks: Dick Giordano
2	The OSS in WW II	comic story	3	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Bill Fraccio; inks: Tony Tallarico
3	The Spark	text story	2	letters: typeset
4	The Road to Freedom	comic story	1	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Sam Glanzman; inks: Sam Glanzman

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Alter Ego #106	2011	On eBay ›
Sarge Steel Reader Collection ISBN 9781082255496	2017	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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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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