Black Panther #18 for Sale - First Appearance of Ghekre - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Black Panther (Marvel, 2005 series)
Issue: #18
Publication date: September 2006
Key date: 2006-09-00
On-sale date: 2006-07-26
Indicia publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
Price: $3.99; 5.75 CAD
Pages: 52
Barcode: 75960605583801811
Rating: Rated T+

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Nelson Mandela - 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	Civil War Cease-Fire	cover	2	pencils: Frank Cho; inks: Frank Cho; colors: Dean White	Beast, Black Bolt, Black Panther, Blackagar Boltagon, Luke Cage, Captain America, Carol Danvers, Doctor Strange, Falcon, Bill Foster, Goliath, Ben Grimm, Invisible Woman, Iron Man
1	Previously	recap	1	pencils: Joseph Michael Linsner; inks: Joseph Michael Linsner	Black Panther, Ororo Munroe, Storm, T'Challa
2	Bride of the Panther: Part 5: Here Come a Storm	comic story	31	script: Reginald Hudlin; pencils: Scot Eaton, Kaare Andrews; inks: Klaus Janson, Kaare Andrews; colors: Dean White, Kaare Andrews; letters: VC's Randy Gentile	Black Bolt, Black Panther, Blade, Blackagar Boltagon, Isaiah Bradley, Eric Brooks, Brother Voodoo, George W. Bush, Luke Cage, Captain America, Fidel Castro, Colossus, Cyclops, Victor Von Doom
3	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
4	Divining the Design...	text article	4	script: Jim McCann
5	Mail to the King!	letters page	1	script: Daniel Ketchum

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Variant Edition - Michael Turner Cover	barcode 75960605583801821
Newsstand	barcode 07148602459009

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Civil War: Fantastic Four #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-4881-4	2010	On eBay ›
Black Panther: The Bride #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-2107-2	2006	On eBay ›
Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin: The Complete Collection #1 ISBN 978-1-302-90771-6	2017	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four	2016	On eBay ›
Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-96348-4	2024	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

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

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