The Avengers #2 for Sale - First Appearance of Donald Blake - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: November 1963
Key date: 1963-11-10
On-sale date: 1963-09-03
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 Donald Blake - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Bill Segrist - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character. An independent public reference records the same first appearance.

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	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Thor Odinson, Giant-Man, Iron Man, Hank Pym, Space Phantom, Tony Stark, Thor, Janet Van Dyne, Wasp
2	The Avengers! Battle... the Space Phantom	comic story	22	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Paul Reinman; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Ant-Man, Bruce Banner, Thor Odinson, Giant-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Rick Jones, Hank Pym, Space Phantom, Tony Stark, Thor, Janet Van Dyne, Wasp, Bill Segrist First
4	The Amazing Spider-Man #7	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko	Peter Parker, Spider-Man, Adrian Toomes, The Vulture
8	Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos #4	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky	Izzy Cohen, Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Dino Manelli, Rebel Ralston
11	Next Issue...	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Donald Blake First, Giant-Man, Hulk, Iron Man, Namor, Thor Odinson, Hank Pym, Tony Stark, Sub-Mariner, Thor

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Avengers Annual #4	1971	On eBay ›
Giant-Size Avengers #3	1975	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #4 ISBN 0-87135-479-9	1988	On eBay ›
Essential Avengers #1 ISBN 0-7851-0701-0	1999	On eBay ›
Marvel Super Heroes #1	1966	On eBay ›
Avengers Masterworks #1 ISBN 0-87135-983-9	1993	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers #1 ISBN 0-7851-0883-1	2003	On eBay ›
Avengers: Assemble #[nn]	2005	On eBay ›
Avengers Classic #2	2007	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #12 of 402#3 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q115467130 (Bill Segrist), first-appearance property (CC0)

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