Doctor Strange #47 - First Appearance of Ikonn, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Doctor Strange (Marvel, 1974 series)
Issue: #47
Publication date: June 1981
Key date: June 1981
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.50
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance (cover) of Ikonn - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

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	Ikonn...Lord of Illusions!	cover	1	pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Tom Palmer; colors: Tom Palmer	Doctor Strange, Ikonn First, Stephen Strange
1	The Grand Illusion!	comic story	22	script: Roger Stern; pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Dan Green; colors: Bob Sharen; letters: Jim Novak	Clea, Doctor Strange, Ikonn First, Stephen Strange, Sara Wolfe, Wong
3	-	letters page	1	script: Roger Stern

Plus 1 page of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0714860291406
British	price 0.20 GBP

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Essential Doctor Strange #4 ISBN 978-0-7851-3062-8	2009	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #9 ISBN 978-1-302-91704-3	2019	On eBay ›
The Reality War ISBN 978-1-302-93357-9	2021	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #4647 of 81#48 ›

Sources

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

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