Strange Tales #163 for Sale - First Appearance of Clay Quartermain - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series)
Issue: #163
Publication date: December 1967
Key date: 1967-12-00
On-sale date: 1967-08-31
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 Clay Quartermain - 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	And the Dragon Cried... Death!	cover	1	pencils: Jim Steranko; inks: Jim Steranko; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Jim Steranko	Nick Fury, Plan Chu, The Yellow Claw
1	And the Dragon Cried... Death!	comic story	12	script: Jim Steranko; pencils: Jim Steranko; inks: Frank Giacoia; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Sam Rosen	Nick Fury, Gaffer, Karl von Horstbadden, Sidney "Gaff" Levine, Plan Chu, Clay Quartermain First, Suwan, Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Fritz Voltzmann, The Yellow Claw
2	Instant Info, Insanely Inspired by Irrelevant Items of Incredible Inconsequence!	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
3	Three Faces of Doom!	comic story	10	script: Jim Lawrence, Dan Adkins; pencils: Dan Adkins; inks: Dan Adkins; letters: Al Kurzrok	Doctor Strange, The Living Tribunal, Stephen Strange
4	-	letters page	1	pencils: Jim Steranko, Dan Adkins; inks: Jim Steranko, Dan Adkins

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Essential Doctor Strange #1 ISBN 0-7851-0816-5	2001	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #2 ISBN 0-7851-1737-7	2005	On eBay ›
Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0747-9	2000	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 ISBN 978-0-7851-3503-6	2009	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #162163 of 168#164 ›

Sources

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

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