The Avengers #32 for Sale - First Appearance of Bill Foster - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #32
Publication date: September 1966
Key date: 1966-09-00
On-sale date: 1966-07-07
Indicia publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Bill Foster - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Tai Chen - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Supreme Serpent - 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	The Sign of the Serpent!	cover	1	pencils: Don Heck; inks: Don Heck; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Clint Barton, Captain America, Goliath, Hawkeye, Hank Pym, Steve Rogers, Janet Van Dyne, Wasp
2	The Sign of the Serpent!	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Don Heck; inks: Don Heck; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Captain America, Tai Chen First, Bill Foster First, Nick Fury, Goliath, Hawkeye, Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff, Hank Pym, Quicksilver, Steve Rogers
3	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, Bill Everett, Larry Lieber; inks: Sol Brodsky, Vince Colletta, Dick Ayers, Steve Ditko, Bill Everett, Paul Reinman; letters: Artie Simek, Sam Rosen	Destroyer; Warriors Three [Fandral; Hogun; Volstagg]; Enchantress; Executioner; Mad Merlin; The Avengers [Iron Man [Tony Stark]; The Mighty Thor; Giant Man; The Wasp; The Incredible Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Daredevil; the Sub-Mariner; the Human Torch [Jim Hammond]; Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed
13	Newsworthy Notes and Nutty Nonsense from Your Friendly Neighborhood Bullpen!	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
14	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Morrie Kuramoto	Silver Surfer; The Thing
15	It's Clobberin' Time!!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	script: ? (ad copy)	The Thing
16	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Don Heck, Jack Kirby; inks: Frank Giacoia, Don Heck	Clint Barton, Captain America, Hawkeye, Steve Rogers, Janet Van Dyne, Wasp

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 10d [0-0-10 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Giant-Size Marvel Triple Action #2	1975	On eBay ›
Essential Avengers #2 ISBN 0-7851-0741-X	1998	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers #4 ISBN 978-0-7851-6360-2	2012	On eBay ›
The Avengers Omnibus #2 ISBN 978-0-7851-9177-3	2015	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Check spine ticks and cover gloss in the photos; silver-age Marvels chip at the edges easily.
Look for tanning at the page edges and transfer stains on the inside covers.
Confirm the cover price against the plate; higher prices can mean a later or foreign printing.

Series context

‹ #3132 of 402#33 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q66133372 (Bill Foster), first-appearance property (CC0)

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