Gunslingers #1 for Sale - First Appearance of Living Totem - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Gunslingers (Marvel, 2000 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: February 2000
Key date: 2000-02-00
On-sale date: 1999-12-15
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $2.99; 4.50 CAD
Pages: 68
Barcode: 75960604830400111
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Living Totem - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

Death on record for: Clem Carter.

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	Startling Stories of the Wild, Wild West Starring: the Two-Gun Kid! Caleb Hammer! and the Rawhide Kid!	cover	1	pencils: John Buscema; inks: John Buscema; colors: Richard Isanove	Caleb Hammer, Matt Hawk, Thunder, Two-Gun Kid
2	Trapped by Grizzly Grogan!	comic story	13	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Dick Ayers; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: Dick Ayers	Sheriff Brett Barton, Boom-Boom Brown, Nancy Carter, Matt Hawk, Thunder, Two-Gun Kid
4	Beware!! The Terrible Totem!!	comic story	19	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: Artie Simek	Johnny Bart, Living Totem First, Nightwind, Rawhide Kid
5	It Was Their Last Chance for Justice and Their First Step Towards Immortality	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Leonardo Manco; inks: Leonardo Manco; colors: Leonardo Manco
6	The Eyes of Orville Jones!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Keller; inks: Jack Keller; letters: Artie Simek	Blaine Colt, Kid Colt
7	Subscribe Today!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Byrne; inks: John Byrne
8	I Hate the Two-Gun Kid!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: Artie Simek	Clem Carter Death, Nancy Carter, Matt Hawk, Thunder, Two-Gun Kid
9	The Heroes You Love	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: ? (promo copy); letters: typeset
10	The Devil's Starry Anvil!	comic story	17	script: Peter B. Gillis; pencils: Gene Day; inks: Tony DeZuniga; colors: Ben Sean; letters: John Costanza	Caleb Hammer

Plus 5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 5 sequences, as published.

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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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