Tales to Astonish #42 for Sale - First Appearance of The Voice - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #42
Publication date: April 1963
Key date: 1963-04-00
On-sale date: 1963-01-10
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 The Voice - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Jason Cragg - 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 Man with the Voice of Doom!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Ant-Man, Jason Cragg First, Hank Pym, The Voice First
1	The Voice of Doom!	comic story	13	script: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber; pencils: Don Heck; inks: Don Heck; letters: Art Simek	Ant-Man, Jason Cragg First, Hank Pym, The Voice First
2	Secret Mission	text story	1.75	letters: typeset	Ezra Bolton; Prof. Carmichael; Prof. Greever
3	The Eyes of the Mummy!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber; pencils: Joe Sinnott; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Terry Szenics	Harry Sloan; Mrs. Sloan; Sadie
4	Statement Required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as Amended by the Acts of March 3, 1933, July 2, 1946 and June 11, 1960 (74 Stat. 208)	statement of ownership	0.25	letters: typeset
5	I Am Not Human!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Artie Simek	E-1

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Essential Ant-Man #1 ISBN 0-7851-0822-X	2002	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #1 ISBN 0-7851-2049-1	2006	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #4142 of 101#43 ›

Sources

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

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