Captain America #111 for Sale - First Appearance of Mankiller - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series)
Issue: #111
Publication date: March 1969
Key date: 1969-03-00
On-sale date: 1968-12-05
Indicia publisher: Magazine Management Co.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Mankiller - 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	Bucky, Captain America, Rick Jones, Madame Hydra, Mankiller First, Steve Rogers, Ophelia Sarkissian
2	Tomorrow You Live, Tonight I Die!	comic story	20	script: Steranko, Lee; pencils: Steranko; inks: Sinnott; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Sam Rosen	Bucky, Captain America, Rick Jones, Madame Hydra, Mankiller First, Steve Rogers, Ophelia Sarkissian
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
11	-	in-house column	1	script: Smiley; pencils: John Romita	Captain America
14	-	letters page	2	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Frank Giacoia; letters: Sam Rosen
15	Not Brand Echh!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Buscema, Marie Severin; inks: Marie Severin, Sal Buscema; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Sam Rosen	Silver Surfer; Thor; Forbush-Man; Frankenstein's Monster

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Captain America #400	1992	On eBay ›
Captain America Special Edition #1	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Super Action #13	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 ›
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

‹ #11012 of 355#112 ›

Sources

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

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