Adventure Comics #479 for Sale - First Appearance of The Silver Fog - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Adventure Comics (DC, 1938 series)
Issue: #479
Publication date: March 1981
Key date: 1981-03-00
Indicia publisher: DC Comics Inc.
Price: $0.50
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Silver Fog - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Sam Toth - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of The Red Death - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Hal Kramer - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Frannie Nash - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Glinda Parks - 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	-	cover	1	pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Bob Smith; colors: Tatjana Wood	Chris King's H-Dial aliases, Vicki Grant, Vicki Grant's H-Dial aliases, Chris King
2	To Save a World!	comic story	10	script: Marv Wolfman; pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Larry Mahlstedt; letters: Todd Klein	Chris King's H-Dial aliases, Roger Dunbar, The Flying Buttress, G.L.U.N.K., Vicki Grant, Vicki Grant's H-Dial aliases, Chris King, Chris King's H-Dial aliases, Vicki Grant's H-Dial aliases
5	-	public service announcement	0.125	letters: typeset
7	The Red Death	comic story	7	script: Marv Wolfman; pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Dennis Jensen; letters: Ben Oda	Chris King's H-Dial aliases, Chris King's H-Dial aliases, Roger Dunbar, Vicki Grant, Vicki Grant's H-Dial aliases, Chris King, Gregory King, Hal Kramer First, The Red Death First, The Silver Fog First, Sam Toth First, Vicki Grant's H-Dial aliases
10	As the Silver Fog Rolls In...	comic story	7	script: Marv Wolfman; pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Dennis Jensen; letters: Ben Oda	Chris King's H-Dial aliases, Vicki Grant, Chris King, Gregory King, Elizabeth King, Bradford Mann, Frannie Nash First, Glinda Parks First, The Silver Fog First, Sam Toth First, Vicki Grant's H-Dial aliases
13	-	letters page	1	script: JCH; pencils: Carmine Infantino; inks: Steve Mitchell
14	Now You Can Dial "H" for Hero	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Carmine Infantino	Chris King's H-Dial aliases, Chris King's H-Dial aliases, Chris King's H-Dial aliases, Chris King's H-Dial aliases, The Flying Buttress, G.L.U.N.K., Vicki Grant, Vicki Grant's H-Dial aliases, Vicki Grant's H-Dial aliases, Chris King, Hal Kramer First, Chris King's H-Dial aliases, The Red Death First, The Silver Fog First

Plus 8.875 pages of advertisements and other matter across 10 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0709893113003
British	price 0.15 GBP

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Moon Knight #1	1980	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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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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