The Avengers #80 for Sale - First Appearance of William Talltrees - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #80
Publication date: September 1970
Key date: 1970-09-00
On-sale date: 1970-07-14
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 William Talltrees - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

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

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

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

Origin story on record for: Red Wolf.

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 Coming of Red Wolf!	cover	1	pencils: John Buscema; inks: Tom Palmer; colors: Tom Palmer; letters: Sam Rosen	Captain America, Iron Man, Lobo First, Thor Odinson, Red Wolf First, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, William Talltrees First, Thor, Vision
2	The Coming of Red Wolf!	comic story	19	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: John Buscema; inks: Tom Palmer; colors: Tom Palmer; letters: Sam Rosen	Clint Barton, Black Panther, Captain America, Goliath, Iron Man, Lobo First, Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff, Thor Odinson, Owayodata First, Quicksilver, Red Wolf First, Steve Rogers, Scarlet Witch
4	-	in-house column	0.4	script: ? (promo copy); colors: ? (panel backgrounds only); letters: typeset
5	Super Poster Offer	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.6	pencils: John Romita, Jack Kirby, Jim Steranko, Herb Trimpe; inks: John Romita, Mike Royer, Jim Steranko, Herb Trimpe	Spider-Man; Hulk; Doctor Doom; Captain America
14	-	in-house column	0.75	script: Stan Lee
15	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.25	script: Stan Lee; pencils: John Romita, Sal Buscema; inks: Mike Esposito, John Romita, John Verpoorten; letters: Sam Rosen	Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]
16	"In the preceding issue of The Avengers was printed...	letters page	1	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Barry Windsor-Smith, Sal Buscema; inks: Dan Adkins, Tom Palmer; letters: Sam Rosen	Black Panther [T'Challa]

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

Printings and variants

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Avengers Log #1	1994	On eBay ›
Essential Avengers #4 ISBN 0-7851-1485-8	2004	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers #9 ISBN 978-0-7851-3501-2	2009	On eBay ›
Marvel 1872 #[nn] ISBN 978-0785198772	2015	On eBay ›
Taking Back Justice ISBN 978-1-302-90638-2	2017	On eBay ›
The Avengers Omnibus #3 ISBN 978-1-302-91020-4	2018	On eBay ›
The Avengers Omnibus #3 ISBN 978-1-302-91534-6	2018	On eBay ›

Reading the story costs a fraction of owning the issue. Both routes are on every file.

Before you buy

Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
Look for Mark Jewelers inserts and date stamps - they affect collector preference, not authenticity.

Series context

‹ #7980 of 402#81 ›

Sources

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

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