Fantastic Four #70 for Sale - First Appearance of Scavenger - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #70
Publication date: January 1968
Key date: 1968-01-00
On-sale date: 1967-10-10
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 Scavenger - 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	When Fall the Mighty!	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, Scavenger First, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	When Fall the Mighty	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Artie Simek	Crystal, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mad Thinker, Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Jose Santini, Scavenger First, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
3	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: John Romita; inks: John Romita; letters: Sam Rosen	Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Doctor Octopus [Otto Octavius]
15	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
16	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	script: ? (promo copy)	The Thing
17	Marvel Super-Hero T-Shirts	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	script: ? (ad copy)
18	-	letters page	2	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott	Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]]

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 14 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel's Greatest Comics #53	1974	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #4 ISBN 0-7851-1484-X	2005	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #6970 of 416#71 ›

Sources

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

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