Nancy and Sluggo #187 for Sale - First Appearance of Faron - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Nancy and Sluggo (Dell, 1960 series)
Issue: #187
Publication date: March-April 1962
Key date: 1962-03-00
On-sale date: 1962-01-11
Indicia publisher: Dell Publishing Co. Inc.
Price: $0.15
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Faron - 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	-	cover	1		Nancy, Sluggo
1	The Outdoors Type	comic story	1
2	Poetic Justice	comic story	5
3	Back to Backdrop	comic story	6
4	Count Down and Out	comic story	4
5	Tick Tack Toed	comic story	1
6	The Gift	text story	1	letters: typeset
7	-	comic story	4	script: Charles Schulz; pencils: Charles Schulz; inks: Charles Schulz	Charlie Brown, Faron First, Frieda, Snoopy, Linus Van Pelt, Lucy Van Pelt
8	Snow Business	comic story	4.67
9	-	statement of ownership	0.33	script: Helen Meyer
10	Rat Race	comic story	5
11	The Plane Facts	comic story	1		Nancy; Fritzi Ritz
12	Time Pieces	comic story	1

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Peanuts Dell Archive #[nn] ISBN 9781684152551	2018	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #18614 of 14

Sources

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

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