Iron Man #7 for Sale - First Appearance of Araoha Tepania - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Iron Man (Marvel, 1998 series)
Issue: #7
Publication date: August 1998
Key date: 1998-08-00
On-sale date: 1998-06-10
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $1.99; 2.80 CAD
Pages: 38
Barcode: 75960604457300711
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Araoha Tepania - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

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

First appearance of Victoria Snow - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Bron Char - 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	Live Kree or Die! 1 of 4	cover	1	pencils: Sean Chen; inks: Sean Chen; colors: Liquid!	Carol Danvers, Iron Man, Tony Stark, Warbird
1	Profiles	character profile	1	script: Bobbie Chase; pencils: Sean Chen; inks: Eric Cannon, Sean Parsons; colors: Liquid!; letters: Comicraft, EW	Black Widow, Carol Danvers, Happy Hogan, Iron Man, Pepper Potts, Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark, Warbird
2	Previously in... The Invincible Iron Man	recap	1	script: Bobbie Chase; pencils: Patrick Zircher; inks: Jon Holdredge; colors: Steve Oliff; letters: Comicraft	Black Widow, Iron Man, Natasha Romanoff, Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark, Araoha Tepania First, Tuatara First
4	Live Kree or Die! 1 of 4: Bad Moon Rising	comic story	22	script: Kurt Busiek, Richard Howell; pencils: Sean Chen; inks: Eric Cannon, Sean Parsons; colors: Steve Oliff; letters: Comicraft	Anna Marie, Clint Barton, Binary, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Bron Char First, Dylon Cir, Cyclops, Carol Danvers, Marie Danvers, Daredevil, Jean Grey, Hawkeye, Marcus Immortus
5	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee; letters: Richard Starkings, Comicraft
6	Subscribe Today!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Romita Jr.; inks: Klaus Janson	Thor Odinson, Thor
7	-	letters page	1	script: Bobbie Chase, Polly Watson; letters: Comicraft
8	Get the Credit Card with Power	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Mark Bagley	Peter Parker, Spider-Man

Plus 9 pages of advertisements and other matter across 1 sequence, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	price 1.99 USD; 2.70 CAD; barcode 72527402454408

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Avengers: Supreme Justice #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0773-8	2001	On eBay ›
Iron Man: Deadly Solutions #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-4258-4	2010	On eBay ›
Avengers by Busiek and Perez Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-9288-6	2015	On eBay ›
Iron Man: Heroes Return - The Complete Collection #1 ISBN 978-1-302-91606-0	2019	On eBay ›
Avengers: Live Kree or Die #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-92318-1	2020	On eBay ›
Avengers Assemble #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-4498-4	2010	On eBay ›
Iron Man by Kurt Busiek & Sean Chen Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-6814-0	2013	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #67 of 89#8 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q66198104 (Victoria Snow), first-appearance property (CC0)
Wikidata, Q66189422 (Bron Char), first-appearance property (CC0)

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