Tales to Astonish #67 for Sale - First Appearance of Hidden Man - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #67
Publication date: May 1965
Key date: 1965-05-00
On-sale date: 1965-02-04
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 Hidden Man - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Supramor - 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	Where Strides the Behemoth! / The Hidden Man and His Rays of Doom!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby, Sol Brodsky; inks: Chic Stone, Sol Brodsky; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Giant-Man, Hidden Man First, Hulk, Hank Pym, Supramor First, Janet Van Dyne, Wasp
2	The Mystery of the Hidden Man, and His Rays of Doom!	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Bob Powell; inks: Chic Stone; letters: Artie Simek	Giant-Man, Hidden Man First, Hank Pym, Supramor First, Janet Van Dyne, Wasp
3	4 More Marvel Masterpieces!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: various (cover reproductions); inks: various (cover reproductions); colors: various (cover reproductions); letters: various (cover reproductions); typeset
6	-	in-house column	0.3	letters: typeset; ?
7	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.7	pencils: Wally Wood; inks: Wally Wood; colors: Stan Goldberg	Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]
10	Where Strides the Behemoth	comic story	10	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Frank Ray; letters: Art Simek	Bruce Banner, Hulk, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Glenn Talbot
16	-	letters page	1	script: Stan Lee

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Super-Heroes #26	1970	On eBay ›
Rampaging Hulk #5	1977	On eBay ›
Essential Hulk #1 ISBN 0-7851-0712-6	1999	On eBay ›
Essential Ant-Man #1 ISBN 0-7851-0822-X	2002	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #2 ISBN 0-7581-1654-0	2004	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man / Giant-Man #2 ISBN 978-0-7851-2911-0	2008	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #6667 of 101#68 ›

Sources

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

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