Megaton Man #3 - First Appearance of Badguy, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: Megaton Man (Kitchen Sink Press, 1984 series)
Issue: #3
Publication date: April 1985
Key date: April 9, 1985
On-sale date: April 9, 1985
Indicia publisher: Kitchen Sink Press Inc.
Price: $2.00; 2.50 CAD
Pages: 36

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Bart Gamble - 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	Prayers From Mars!	cover	1	script: Don Simpson; pencils: Don Simpson; inks: Don Simpson; colors: Peter Poplaski; letters: Don Simpson	Megaton Man, Trent Phloog
1	I Am Called Bad Guy, Mortal!	comic story	32	script: Don Simpson; pencils: Don Simpson; inks: Don Simpson; colors: Ray Fehrenbach, Bill Poplaski; letters: Don Simpson; editing: Denis Kitchen	Badguy First, Megaton Man, Bart Gamble First, Bing Gloom, Trent Phloog, Yarn Man

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Megaton Man #[nn] ISBN 0-7434-9758-9	2004	On eBay ›
The 1980s ISBN 979-8-8750-0091-1	2025	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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