Tales of Suspense #96 for Sale - First Appearance of Captain America - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #96
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 Captain America - 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	To Be Reborn	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Frank Giacoia; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Captain America First
2	The Deadly Victory!	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Frank Giacoia; letters: Sam Rosen	Paul Pierre Duval, Grey Gargoyle, Iron Man, Jasper Sitwell, Tony Stark
3	Instant Info, Insanely Inspired by Irrelevant Items of Incredible Inconsequence!	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee	Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic [Reed Richards]; The Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Iron Man [Tony Stark]
6	America's Best TV Comics are here...Saturdays!	promo (ad from the publisher)	2		Fantastic Four [Reed Richards, Thing, Susan Richards, Human Torch]; Spider-Man; Casper the Friendly Ghost; King Kong; The Beatles [John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr]; George of the Jungle
7	To Be Reborn!	comic story	10	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Sam Rosen	Captain America First, Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Steve Rogers
9	Super-Heroes Club	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	colors: ?; ? (page color, text color); letters: typeset
11	-	letters page	1	script: Gary Friedrich	Iron Man

Plus 8.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 8 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Essential Captain America #1 ISBN 0-7851-0740-1	2000	On eBay ›
Marvel Double Feature #13	1975	On eBay ›
Marvel Double Feature #20	1977	On eBay ›
Essential Iron Man #2 ISBN 0-7851-1487-4	2004	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Captain America #2 ISBN 0-7851-1785-7	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #4 ISBN 0-7851-2678-3	2007	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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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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