Fantastic Four #47 for Sale - First Appearance of Maximus - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #47
Publication date: February 1966
Key date: 1966-02-00
On-sale date: 1965-11-11
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 Maximus - 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	Beware, the Hidden Land!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	Beware the Hidden Land!	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Black Bolt, Blackagar Boltagon, Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon, Crystal, Dragon Man, Gorgon, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Karnak, Lockjaw, Alicia Masters, Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff, Maximus First
3	Marvel Collectors' Item Classics	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby; inks: Steve Ditko, Dick Ayers, George Klein, George Roussos; letters: Artie Simek, Sam Rosen	The X-Men [Cyclops; Marvel Girl [Jean Grey]; Angel; Beast; Iceman]; Master Mold; Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]; Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Comrade X [Ni
13	-	in-house column	1	script: ? (promo copy); colors: ? (panel backgrounds only); letters: typeset
14	Marvel Comics Group Official Swingin' Stationery; Marvel Comics Thor T-Shirt; Marvel Comics Spider-Man Poster	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby; inks: Steve Ditko, Vince Colletta, Dick Ayers; letters: Sam Rosen	Thing; Iron Man; Daredevil; Quicksilver; Invisible Girl; Thor; Sub-Mariner; Dr. Strange; Sgt. Fury; Rawhide Kid; Spider-Man; Hulk; Absorbing Man [Crusher Creel]
15	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott	Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Richards]]

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 10d [0-0-10 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel's Greatest Comics #34	1972	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #25 ISBN 0-87135-990-1	1993	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #3 ISBN 0-7851-0782-7	2000	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #5 ISBN 0-7851-1184-0	2004	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four Omnibus #2 ISBN 0-7851-2403-9	2007	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #4647 of 416#48 ›

Sources

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

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