Tales to Astonish #83 for Sale - First Appearance of Number One - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #83
Publication date: September 1966
Key date: 1966-09-00
On-sale date: 1966-06-02
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 Number One - 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	Less Than Monster, More Than Man!	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby, Bill Everett; inks: Bill Everett; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Bruce Banner, Hulk, Rick Jones, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross
2	The Sub-Mariner Strikes!	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: Artie Simek	Dorma, Krang, Namor, Number One First, Sub-Mariner
3	Capricious Commentaries, Carefully Cooked-Up to Confuse and Confound You!	in-house column	1	letters: typeset
6	It's Clobberin' Time!!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: ? (promo copy)
9	Less than Monster, More than Man!	comic story	10	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby, Bill Everett; inks: Bill Everett; letters: Sammy Rosen	Bruce Banner, Boomerang, Hulk, Rick Jones, Fred Myers, Betty Ross, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Glenn Talbot
15	-	letters page	1	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Jack Kirby	Thing [Ben Grimm]

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
Marvel Super-Heroes #38	1973	On eBay ›
Essential Hulk #1 ISBN 0-7851-0712-6	1999	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #3 ISBN 0-7851-2032-7	2006	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #8283 of 101#84 ›

Sources

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

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