Sugar & Spike #1 - First Appearance of Sugar Plumm, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Sugar & Spike (DC, 1956 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: April-May 1956
Key date: April 1956
On-sale date: February 21, 1956
Indicia publisher: National Comics Publications Inc.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

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

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

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

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

First appearance of Bill Plumm - 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	Thumbs Up!	cover	1	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer; letters: Sheldon Mayer	Barbara Plumm First, Sugar Plumm First, Harvey Wilson First, Peg Wilson First, Spike Wilson First
2	-	comic story	6	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer; letters: Sheldon Mayer	Spike Wilson [Cecil Wilson]; Sugar Plumm; Peg Wilson (partial); Harvey Wilson (partial); Barbara Plumm (partial); Bill Plumm (partial)
3	Thumbs Up!	comic story	2	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer; letters: Sheldon Mayer	Sugar Plumm; Spike Wilson; Peg Wilson (partial); Barbara Plumm (partial); Harvey Wilson (partial)
5	Write Your Own Comic Page!	activity	1	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer; letters: Sheldon Mayer
6	Busy Corners	comic story	6	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer; letters: Sheldon Mayer	Barbara Plumm First, Sugar Plumm First, Spike Wilson First
7	A Little Preview	promo (ad from the publisher)	1
8	Free Wheeling	comic story	1	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer; letters: Sheldon Mayer	Sugar Plumm; Spike Wilson
9	The Big Question	comic story	2	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer; letters: Sheldon Mayer	Bill Plumm First, Sugar Plumm First, Spike Wilson First
10	Safety-Pin Scientist	text story	2	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer
11	The Yak-Yak Box	comic story	5	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer; letters: Sheldon Mayer	Barbara Plumm First, Sugar Plumm First, Spike Wilson First
12	Littul Snoony	comic story	3	script: Sheldon Mayer; pencils: Sheldon Mayer; inks: Sheldon Mayer; letters: Sheldon Mayer	Snoony Jibbet; Sisty Hunkel

Plus 6 pages of advertisements and other matter across 6 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Best of DC #47	1984	On eBay ›
Sugar and Spike No. 1 Replica Edition #1	2002	On eBay ›
The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics #[nn] ISBN 978-0-8109-5730-5	2009	On eBay ›
The Sugar and Spike Archives #1 ISBN 978-1-4012-3112-5	2011	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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