Tales to Astonish #75 for Sale - First Appearance of Arrkam - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #75
Publication date: January 1966
Key date: 1966-01-00
On-sale date: 1965-10-05
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 Arrkam - 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	Not All My Power Can Save Me!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby, Gene Colan; inks: Sol Brodsky, Vince Colletta; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Bruce Banner, Dorma, Hulk, Namor, Sub-Mariner
2	The End of the Quest!	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Adam Austin; inks: Vince Colletta; letters: Sam Rosen	Dorma, Krang, Namor, Neptune, Sub-Mariner, Vashti
3	More Nutty News and Notes from One Marvel Madman to Another!	in-house column	1	letters: typeset	Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
7	Who SAYS that Marvel Madness isn't taking over the world?!!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: ? (promo copy); letters: typeset
9	Not All My Power Can Save Me!	comic story	10	script: Stan Lee; pencils: J. Kirby, M. Demeo; inks: M. Demeo; letters: S. Rosen	Arrkam First, Bruce Banner, Hulk, Rick Jones, Leader, Betty Ross, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Samuel Sterns, Glenn Talbot, Uatu, The Watcher
15	-	letters page	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Vince Colletta	Namor the Sub-Mariner

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 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 #2	1972	On eBay ›
Incredible Hulk [King Size Special] #4	1972	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 ›

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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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