The Avengers #88 for Sale - First Appearance of Psyklop - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Avengers (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #88
Publication date: May 1971
Key date: 1971-05-00
On-sale date: 1971-03-09
Indicia publisher: Magazine Management Co. Inc.
Price: $0.15
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Psyklop - 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	The Summons of Psyklop!	cover	1	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Sal Buscema; inks: Sal Buscema; letters: Morrie Kuramoto	Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Captain America, Falcon, Goliath, Hulk, Iron Man, Psyklop First, Steve Rogers, Tony Stark, Thor, Sam Wilson, Thor Odinson
2	The Summons of Psyklop	comic story	19	script: Roy Thomas, Harlan Ellison; pencils: Sal Buscema; inks: Jim Mooney; letters: Shelly Leferman	Bruce Banner, Clint Barton, Black Panther, Captain America, Falcon, Goliath, Hulk, Iron Man, Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff, Mister Fantastic, Psyklop First, Quicksilver, Redwing
4	-	in-house column	0.4	script: ? (promo copy); colors: ? (panel backgrounds only); letters: typeset
5	Super Poster Offer	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.6	pencils: Jack Kirby, Howard Purcell; inks: Jack Kirby, Howard Purcell	Fantastic Four [Mr. Fantastic; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; Invisible Girl; Thing]; Black Knight; Aragorn; Silver Surfer; Galactus; Thor
13	-	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee
15	-	letters page	1.6	script: Roy Thomas
16	King Kull —	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.4	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: John Romita; inks: John Romita	Kull

Plus 12 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 1/- [0-1-0 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Super-Heroes #90	1980	On eBay ›
Essential Hulk #3 ISBN 0-7851-1689-3	2005	On eBay ›
Essential Avengers #4 ISBN 0-7851-1485-8	2004	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers #9 ISBN 978-0-7851-3501-2	2009	On eBay ›

Reading the story costs a fraction of owning the issue. Both routes are on every file.

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

‹ #8788 of 402#89 ›

Sources

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

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