Tales to Astonish #71 for Sale - First Appearance of Vashti - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #71
Publication date: September 1965
Key date: 1965-09-00
On-sale date: 1965-06-01
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 Vashti - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Neptune - 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	Escape to Nowhere!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Vince Colletta; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Namor, Sub-Mariner
2	Escape... to Nowhere!	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Adam Austin; inks: Vince Colletta; letters: Artie Simek	Dorma, Krang, Namor, Neptune First, Sub-Mariner, Vashti First
3	More Triumphs for Marvel..!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: various; inks: various; colors: various; letters: ?; typeset
6	-	in-house column	1	letters: ?; typeset	Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Thing [Ben Grimm]
9	Like a Beast at Bay!	comic story	10	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby, Mickey Demeo; inks: Mickey Demeo; letters: Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Hulk, Rick Jones, Leader, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Samuel Sterns, Glenn Talbot
14	-	letters page	1	script: Stan Lee

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Sub-Mariner Special #1	1971	On eBay ›
Incredible Hulk [King Size Special] #3	1971	On eBay ›
Essential Hulk #1 ISBN 0-7851-0712-6	1999	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #2 ISBN 0-7581-1654-0	2004	On eBay ›
The Incredible Hulk #[nn] ISBN 0671242245	1978	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #7071 of 101#72 ›

Sources

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

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