The Avengers #69 for Sale - First Appearance of Nighthawk - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #69
Publication date: October 1969
Key date: 1969-10-00
On-sale date: 1969-08-12
Indicia publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Price: $0.15
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Kyle Richmond - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of James Sanders - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of The Grandmaster - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of En Dwi Gast - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

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

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

First appearance of Doctor Spectrum - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Billy Roberts - 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	pencils: Sal Buscema; inks: Sam Grainger; letters: Sam Rosen	Clint Barton, Black Panther, Captain America, Goliath, Growing Man, Kang the Conqueror, Thor Odinson, Hank Pym, Nathaniel Richards, Steve Rogers, T'Challa, Thor, Janet Van Dyne, Vision
2	Let the Game Begin	comic story	20	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Sal Buscema; inks: Sam Grainger; colors: Sam Grainger; letters: Artie Simek	Clint Barton, Black Panther, Captain America, Doctor Spectrum First, En Dwi Gast First, En Dwi Gast First, Goliath, The Grandmaster First, Growing Man, Hyperion First, Iron Man, Kang the Conqueror, Nighthawk First, Thor Odinson
7	-	in-house column	0.4	script: ? (promo copy); colors: ? (panel backgrounds only); letters: typeset
8	Marvelmania	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.6	script: ? (promo copy)	Captain America; Hulk; Iron Man; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Silver Surfer; Spider-Man; Thor; Dr. Doom; Daredevil
10	-	letters page	1	script: Roy Thomas

Plus 13 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 1/- [0-1-0 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Super Action #30	1981	On eBay ›
Essential Avengers #4 ISBN 0-7851-1485-8	2004	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers #8 ISBN 978-0-7851-2934-9	2008	On eBay ›
Avengers: Kang - Time and Time Again #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-1820-9	2005	On eBay ›
Behold… the Vision ISBN 978-0-7851-9165-0	2015	On eBay ›
Squadron Sinister #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-9888-8	2016	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #6869 of 402#70 ›

Sources

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

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