Fantastic Four #5 for Sale - First Appearance of Victor Von Doom - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #5
Publication date: July 1962
Key date: 1962-07-00
On-sale date: 1962-04-10
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 Victor Von Doom - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Doctor Doom - 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	Meet... Doctor Doom!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Doctor Doom First, Victor Von Doom First, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	Prisoners of Doctor Doom! Part 1	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Victor Von Doom First, Doctor Doom First, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
3	-	letters page	1	script: Stan Lee
6	Part 2 Back to the Past!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Doctor Doom First, Victor Von Doom First, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
8	Part 3 On the Trail of Blackbeard	comic story	3	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
11	Part 4 Battle!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Doctor Doom First, Victor Von Doom First, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
14	Now on Sale!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Jack Kirby; letters: Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Hulk, Betty Ross, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross
16	Part 5 The Vengeance of Doctor Doom!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Doctor Doom First, Victor Von Doom First, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, 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 #2	1964	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #2 ISBN 0-87135-307-5	1987	On eBay ›
Bring on the Bad Guys: Origins of the Marvel Comics Villains #[nn] ISBN 0-671-22355-0	1976	On eBay ›
Marvel Comics' The Fantastic Four #81445 ISBN 0-671-81445-1	1977	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #1 ISBN 0-7851-0666-9	1998	On eBay ›
The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #3	1986	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four Omnibus #1 ISBN 0-7851-1870-5	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #1 ISBN 0-7851-1181-6	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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