Fantastic Four #79 for Sale - First Appearance of Sergius O'Hoolihan - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #79
Publication date: October 1968
Key date: 1968-10-00
On-sale date: 1968-07-16
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 Sergius O'Hoolihan - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Android Man - 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	This Monster Forever!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Ben Grimm, The Thing
2	A Monster Forever?	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Artie Simek	Android Man First, Crystal, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Alicia Masters, Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff, Mister Fantastic, Sergius O'Hoolihan First, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
10	-	in-house column	1	script: Smiley; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott	Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]
13	-	letters page	2	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Sam Rosen	Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]
14	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Buscema; inks: Frank Giacoia	Avengers [Goliath [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Hawkeye [Clint Barton]; Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Black Panther [T'Challa]]; Alternate Avengers [Giant-Man [Henry Pym]; Wasp [Janet Van Dyne]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]; Thor; Hulk [Bruce Banner]]

Plus 11 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel's Greatest Comics #61	1976	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #4 ISBN 0-7851-1484-X	2005	On eBay ›
Stan Lee Meets The Thing #1	2006	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #7879 of 416#80 ›

Sources

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

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