Fantastic Four #82 for Sale - First Appearance of Zorr - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #82
Publication date: January 1969
Key date: 1969-01-00
On-sale date: 1968-10-10
Indicia publisher: Perfect Film & Chemical Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Zorr - 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	-	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; colors: Stan Goldberg	Black Bolt, Blackagar Boltagon, Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon, Crystal, Gorgon, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Karnak, Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff, Medusa, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	The Mark of -- the Madman!	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Artie Simek	Black Bolt, Blackagar Boltagon, Medusalith Amaquelin Boltagon, Crystal, Gorgon, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Karnak, Lockjaw, Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff, Maximus, Medusa, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards
4	Marvel Plastic Pillows; Marvel T-Shirts; Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: ? (ad copy)	Spider-Man; Thor; The Thing; Captain Marvel (cameo); The Hulk (cameo)
10	-	in-house column	1	script: Smiley; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott	Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]
12	-	letters page	2	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Sam Rosen	Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Crystal]
13	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Herb Trimpe, John Romita; inks: Dan Adkins, John Romita; letters: Sam Rosen	Spider-Man; Namor, the Sub-Mariner; Lady Dorma

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel's Greatest Comics #64	1976	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #4 ISBN 0-7851-1484-X	2005	On eBay ›

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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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