Firestorm the Nuclear Man #65 - First Appearance of Firestorm, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Firestorm the Nuclear Man (DC, 1987 series)
Issue: #65
Publication date: November 1987
Key date: November 1987
On-sale date: July 14, 1987
Indicia publisher: DC Comics Inc.
Price: $0.75; 1.00 CAD; 0.40 GBP
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance (cover) of Firestorm - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

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: Ross Andru; inks: John Beatty; colors: Nansi Hoolahan	Firestorm First
1	Fallout	comic story	22	script: John Ostrander; pencils: Ross Andru; inks: Roy Richardson; colors: Nansi Hoolahan; letters: Duncan Andrews	Firestorm [Ronnie Raymond; Mikhail Arkadin]; Ed Raymond; Felicity Smoak; Zastrow; Nina Arkadin
2	-	letters page	2	script: Barbara Randall, Denny O'Neil

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	price 0.75 USD; barcode 0709893167511
Canadian	price 1.00 CAD; barcode 0709893167511

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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