The Avengers #41 for Sale - First Appearance of Wai Ling - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #41
Publication date: June 1967
Key date: 1967-06-00
On-sale date: 1967-04-11
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 Wai Ling - 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	Let Sleeping Dragons Lie!	cover	1	pencils: John Buscema; inks: George Roussos; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Clint Barton, Esteban Corazón de Ablo, Diablo, Dragon Man, Goliath, Hawkeye, Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff, Hank Pym, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch
2	Let Sleeping Dragons Lie!	comic story	20	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: John Buscema; inks: George Bell; letters: Artie Simek	Black Widow, Wai Ling First, Natasha Romanoff, Chao Yen, Clint Barton, Esteban Corazón de Ablo, Diablo, Dragon Man, Bill Foster, Goliath, Hawkeye, Hercules, Human Torch, Pietro Maximoff
3	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Romita, Jack Kirby; inks: Mike Esposito, Joe Sinnott, John Romita; letters: Sam Rosen	Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Thing [Ben Grimm]]; Sentry 459; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]
12	More Mixed-up Madness from Marvel’s Mighty Masters of Mysticism, Magnificence, and Misinformation!	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
13	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5	script: ? (ad copy)
15	-	letters page	2	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Don Heck; inks: George Roussos	Clint Barton, Black Widow, Goliath, Hawkeye, Hercules, Hank Pym, Natasha Romanoff

Plus 10.5 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 10d [0-0-10 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Avengers Log #1	1994	On eBay ›
Marvel Triple Action #33	1977	On eBay ›
Essential Avengers #2 ISBN 0-7851-0741-X	1998	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers #5 ISBN 0-7851-1848-9	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Visionaries: John Buscema #[nn] ISBN 0785121617; 978-0785121619	2006	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #4041 of 402#42 ›

Sources

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

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