Fantastic Four #19 for Sale - First Appearance of Nathaniel Richards - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #19
Publication date: October 1963
Key date: 1963-10-00
On-sale date: 1963-07-09
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 Nathaniel Richards - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Rama-Tut - 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	At the Mercy of Rama-Tut	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Paul Reinman; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Rama-Tut First, Nathaniel Richards First, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	Prisoners of the Pharoah! [sic]	comic story	22	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: S. Rosen	Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Alicia Masters, Phillip Masters, Mister Fantastic, Rama-Tut First, Puppet Master, Nathaniel Richards First, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm
11	Another Marvel Masterpiece	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky, Frank Giacoia; letters: Artie Simek	Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Bobby Drake, Jean Grey, Iceman, Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto, Marvel Girl, Hank McCoy, Professor X, Scott Summers, Warren Worthington III, Charles Xavier
13	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg

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
America's Best TV Comics #[nn]	1967	On eBay ›
Giant-Size Avengers #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 ›
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)

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