Fantastic Four #11 for Sale - First Appearance of Impossible Man - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #11
Publication date: February 1963
Key date: 1963-02-00
On-sale date: 1962-11-01
Indicia publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Impossible Man - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character. An independent public reference records the same first appearance.

First appearance of Willie Lumpkin - 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	The Impossible Man	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby, Al Hartley; inks: Jack Kirby, Al Hartley; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Impossible Man First, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	A Visit with the Fantastic Four	comic story	11	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Willie Lumpkin First, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
6	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby, Sol Brodsky; inks: Jack Kirby, Sol Brodsky; colors: Stan Goldberg	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, Susan Storm Richards, The Thing
7	Prince Namor, the Mighty Sub-Mariner!	illustration	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Namor, Sub-Mariner
10	The Impossible Man	comic story	11	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Impossible Man First, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 14 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Fantastic Four Annual #3	1965	On eBay ›
Comix: A History of Comic Books in America #[nn]	1971	On eBay ›
Marvel Treasury Edition #2	1974	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #6 ISBN 0-87135-481-0	1988	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #1 ISBN 0-7851-0666-9	1998	On eBay ›
The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #8	1986	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four Omnibus #1 ISBN 0-7851-1870-5	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #2 ISBN 0-7851-0980-3	2003	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q1149855 (Impossible Man), first-appearance property (CC0)

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