Marvel Fanfare #3 for Sale - First Appearance of El Águila - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Marvel Fanfare (Marvel, 1982 series)
Issue: #3
Publication date: July 1982
Key date: 1982-07-00
On-sale date: 1982-04-06
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $1.25
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of El Águila - 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	2	pencils: Dave Cockrum; inks: Bob McLeod; colors: Glynis Oliver	Amphibius, Angel, Barbarus, Colossus, Gaza, Logan, Karl Lykos, Ororo Munroe, Nightcrawler, Piotr Rasputin, Sauron, Storm, Lupo, Vertigo
1	-	comic story	1	script: Al Milgrom; pencils: Al Milgrom; inks: Al Milgrom; letters: Rick Parker	Chris Claremont, Al Milgrom, James Shooter
2	Into the Land of Death...	comic story	20	script: Chris Claremont; pencils: Dave Cockrum; inks: Bob McLeod; colors: Glynis Wein; letters: Jim Novak	Amphibius, Tanya Anderssen, Angel, Barbarus, Brainchild, Colossus, Gaza, Ka-Zar, Logan, Karl Lykos, Ororo Munroe, Nightcrawler, Peter Parker, Kevin Plunder
3	-	in-house column	1	script: Jim Shooter
4	Swashbucklers	comic story	11	script: Charlie Boatner; pencils: Trevor Von Eeden; inks: Josef Rubinstein; colors: Ed Hannigan; letters: Jim Novak	El Águila First, Clint Barton, Hawkeye
5	-	letters page	1	script: Al Milgrom

Where to read it

Collection	Year
X-Men in the Savage Land #[nn] ISBN 0871353385	1989	On eBay ›
X-Men / Spider-Man: Savage Land #[nn] ISBN 0785108912	2002	On eBay ›
The Savage Land #[nn] ISBN 0871353385	1987	On eBay ›
The Uncanny X-Men Omnibus #2 ISBN 978-0-7851-8572-7	2014	On eBay ›
Marvel Fanfare: Strange Tales #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-2702-4	2008	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
Look for Mark Jewelers inserts and date stamps - they affect collector preference, not authenticity.

Series context

‹ #23 of 60#4 ›

Sources

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

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