Fantastic Four #50 for Sale - First Appearance of Wyatt Wingfoot - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #50
Publication date: May 1966
Key date: 1966-05-00
On-sale date: 1966-02-10
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 Wyatt Wingfoot - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Coach Sam Thorne - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Belle Thorne - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Whitey Mullins - 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 Startling Saga of the Silver Surfer!	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, Norrin Radd, Reed Richards, Silver Surfer, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	The Startling Saga of the Silver Surfer!	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: S. Rosen	Black Bolt, Blackagar Boltagon, Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon, Crystal, Galactus, Galan, Gorgon, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Alicia Masters, Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff, Medusa, Mister Fantastic
3	Marvel Collectors’ Item Classics	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky, Steve Ditko, Vince Colletta, Dick Ayers; letters: Sam Rosen	Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Looter; Thor [Donald Blake]; Odin; Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sandman [Flint Marko]; Ant-Man [Henry Pym]; Protector [Gerald Marsh]
13	-	in-house column	1	script: ? (promo copy); colors: ? (panel backgrounds only); letters: typeset
14	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: ? (ad copy)	The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Hulk; Spider-Man
15	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott, Frank Giacoia	Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]

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 #37	1972	On eBay ›
Marvel Treasury Edition #2	1974	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #25 ISBN 0-87135-990-1	1993	On eBay ›
Silver Surfer: The Coming of Galactus #[nn] ISBN 0-87135-957-X	1992	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

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Sources

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

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