Captain America #110 for Sale - First Appearance of Ophelia Sarkissian - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series)
Issue: #110
Publication date: February 1969
Key date: 1969-02-00
On-sale date: 1968-11-05
Indicia publisher: Perfect Film & Chemical Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

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

First appearance of Bucky - 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: Jim Steranko; inks: Jim Steranko; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Sam Rosen	Bruce Banner, Bucky First, Captain America, Hulk, Rick Jones, Steve Rogers
2	No Longer Alone!	comic story	20	script: Jim Steranko, Stan Lee; pencils: Jim Steranko; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Sam Rosen	Bruce Banner, Bucky First, Captain America, Hulk, Rick Jones, Madame Hydra First, Steve Rogers, Ophelia Sarkissian First
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	Hulk; Captain America
12	-	letters page	2	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Syd Shores; letters: Sam Rosen	Captain America [Steve Rogers]
13	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Romita, Gene Colan; inks: John Romita, Tom Palmer	Spider-Man; Kingpin; Doctor Strange

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Captain America Special Edition #1	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Super Action #12	1979	On eBay ›
Essential Captain America #2 ISBN 0-7851-0827-0	2002	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Captain America #3 ISBN 0-7851-2063-7	2006	On eBay ›
Captain America Sentinel of Liberty #[nn] ISBN 0-671-25232-1	1979	On eBay ›
Marvel Visionaries: Jim Steranko #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0944-7	2002	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #10911 of 355#111 ›

Sources

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

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