Strange Tales #137 for Sale - First Appearance of Leslie Farrington - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series)
Issue: #137
Publication date: October 1965
Key date: 1965-10-00
On-sale date: 1965-07-08
Indicia publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Leslie Farrington - 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	The Prize Is.. Earth!	cover	1	pencils: John Severin, Steve Ditko; inks: John Severin, Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Ancient One, Doctor Strange, Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Gabe Jones, Stephen Strange
1	The Prize Is... Earth!	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: J. Kirby, John Severin; inks: John Severin; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Arnold Brown, Dum Dum Dugan, Leslie Farrington First, Nick Fury, Gabe Jones
2	When Meet the Mystic Minds!	comic story	10	script: Steve Ditko, Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Ancient One, Baron Mordo, Doctor Strange, Hamir, Stephen Strange
3	-	letters page	1	script: Stan Lee

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 10d [0-0-10 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel's Greatest Comics #26	1970	On eBay ›
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #16	1970	On eBay ›
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #17	1971	On eBay ›
Strange Tales #186	1976	On eBay ›
Doctor Strange Classics Starring Doctor Strange #3	1984	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #23 ISBN 0-87135-915-4	1992	On eBay ›
Essential Doctor Strange #1 ISBN 0-7851-0816-5	2001	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #1 ISBN 0-7851-1180-8; 978-0-7851-1180-1	2003	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 ISBN 0-7851-2686-4	2007	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #136137 of 168#138 ›

Sources

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

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