Fantastic Four #66 for Sale - First Appearance of Adam Warlock - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #66
Publication date: September 1967
Key date: 1967-09-00
On-sale date: 1967-06-08
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 Adam Warlock - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Professor Wladyslav Shinski - 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	What Lurks Behind the Beehive?	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Ben Grimm, Alicia Masters, The Thing
2	What Lurks Behind the Beehive?	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Artie Simek	Crystal, Ben Grimm, Dr. Jerome Hamilton, Adam Warlock First, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Alicia Masters, Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff, Dr. Maris Morlak, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Professor Wladyslav Shinski First, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm
3	Not Brand Echh	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Marie Severin; inks: Marie Severin; letters: Artie Simek
11	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Marie Severin; inks: Marie Severin
12	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	script: ? (ad copy)
14	-	letters page	2	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott	Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Black Bolt; Triton

Plus 10.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 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 #49	1974	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #4 ISBN 0-7851-1484-X	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #7	2004	On eBay ›
The Marvel Comics Illustrated Version of Fantastic Four #02838 ISBN 0-939766-02-7	1982	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #6566 of 416#67 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q55740455 (Adam Warlock), first-appearance property (CC0)

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