Amazing Adventures #11 for Sale - First Appearance of Linda Donaldson - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Amazing Adventures (Marvel, 1970 series)
Issue: #11
Publication date: March 1972
Key date: 1972-03-00
On-sale date: 1971-12-14
Indicia publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Price: $0.20
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Professor Carl Maddicks - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Mr. Grant - 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	Lo! A Beast Is Born!	cover	1	pencils: Gil Kane; inks: Bill Everett; letters: Sam Rosen, Gaspar Saladino	Beast, Professor Carl Maddicks First, Hank McCoy
1	The Beast!	comic story	21	script: Gerry Conway; pencils: Tom Sutton; inks: Syd Shores; letters: Sam Rosen	Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Linda Donaldson First, Bobby Drake, Jean Grey, Iceman, Professor Carl Maddicks First, Marvel Girl, Hank McCoy, Scott Summers, Warren Worthington III, Professor X, Charles Xavier
2	Mighty Marvel Is Back on the Track! (Or: Play It Again, Stan!)	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
3	-	letters page	1	script: Roy Thomas

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 0.06 GBP

Where to read it

Collection	Year
X-Men: Mutations #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-0197-7	1996	On eBay ›
Marvel Milestones: Beast & Kitty Pryde #[nn]	2006	On eBay ›
Marvel Milestones: Star Brand & Quasar #[nn]	2006	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men #7 ISBN 978-0-7851-3048-2	2008	On eBay ›
Essential Classic X-Men #3 ISBN 978-0-7851-3060-4	2009	On eBay ›
Marvel Firsts: The 1970s #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-6380-0	2011	On eBay ›
It's Always Darkest before the Dawn ISBN 978-1-302-91603-9	2019	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

Check the price box: Marvel ran 30-cent and 35-cent test-market price variants in 1976-77.
Canadian and Whitman editions exist for many bronze books; match the barcode area to the plate.
Look for Mark Jewelers inserts and date stamps - they affect collector preference, not authenticity.

Series context

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Sources

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

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