The Avengers #57 - First Appearance of Vision, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #57
Publication date: October 1968
Key date: October 1968
On-sale date: August 8, 1968
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

From the editorial file First appearance of the Vision, October 1968, walking out of the rain in one of John Buscema's most reproduced sequences. The top Avengers key after #1 and #4.

First appearance of Vision - 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	Behold...The Vision!	cover	1	pencils: John Buscema; inks: John Buscema, George Klein; letters: Sam Rosen	Clint Barton, Black Panther, Goliath, Hawkeye, Hank Pym, T'Challa, Janet Van Dyne, Vision First, Wasp
2	Behold... the Vision!	comic story	20	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: John Buscema, Marie Severin; inks: George Klein; letters: Sam Rosen	Black Widow, Natasha Romanoff, Clint Barton, Black Panther, Goliath, Hawkeye, Hank Pym, T'Challa, Ultron, Janet Van Dyne, Vision First, Wasp
4	Marvel Plastic Pillows; Marvel T-Shirts; Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: ? (ad copy)	Spider-Man; Thor; The Thing; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; The Hulk
10	-	in-house column	1	script: Smiley; pencils: John Buscema; inks: George Klein
13	-	letters page	2	pencils: John Buscema; inks: George Klein
14	Not Brand Echh!; Spectacular Spider-Man	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby, John Romita, Marie Severin, John Buscema; inks: Joe Sinnott, John Romita, Marie Severin; letters: Sam Rosen, Artie Simek	Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Annihilus; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; May Parker; Ben Parker; Mary Jane Watson; Gwen Stacy; Harry Osborn; Flash Thompson; Captain George Stacy; John Jameson; J. Jonah Jameson; Robbie Robertson; Betty Brant

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Treasury Edition #7	1975	On eBay ›
The Avengers #350	1992	On eBay ›
The Avengers Log #1	1994	On eBay ›
Marvel Comics Illustrated Version of The Avengers #02822 ISBN 0-939766-09-4	1982	On eBay ›
Essential Avengers #3 ISBN 0-7851-0787-8	2001	On eBay ›
Marvel Super Action #18	1980	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers #6 ISBN 0-7851-2079-3	2006	On eBay ›
Avengers: Ultron Unleashed #1	1999	On eBay ›
Marvel Visionaries: Roy Thomas #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-2088-2	2006	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #5657 of 402#58 ›

Sources

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

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