The Avengers Annual #10 for Sale - First Appearance of Rogue - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The Avengers Annual (Marvel, 1967 series)
Issue: #10
Publication date: [November] 1981
Key date: 1981-11-00
On-sale date: 1981-07-14
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Price: $0.75
Pages: 52
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

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

First appearance of Madelyne Pryor - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character. An independent public reference points at Uncanny X-Men #168 instead - the dispute is on file, not hidden.

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	pencils: Al Milgrom; inks: Al Milgrom; letters: Irv Watanabe	St. John Allerdyce, Anna Marie First, Avalanche, Clint Barton, Beast, Blob, Captain America, Colossus, Carol Danvers, Raven Darkhölme, Destiny, Jessica Drew, Fred Dukes, Hawkeye
2	By Friends--Betrayed!	comic story	38	script: Chris Claremont; pencils: Michael Golden; inks: Armando Gil, Joe Rubinstein, Dave Simons; colors: Michael Golden; letters: Joe Rosen	St. John Allerdyce, Anna Marie First, Bambi Arbogast, Avalanche, Clint Barton, Beast, Blob, Captain America, Colossus, Carol Danvers, Raven Darkhölme, Destiny, Jessica Drew, Fred Dukes
13	Ain't She Sweet?	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Denys Cowan; inks: Al Milgrom

Plus 12 pages of advertisements and other matter across 14 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand	barcode 0714860292215

Where to read it

Collection	Year
X-Men Firsts #1	1996	On eBay ›
Essential Ms. Marvel #1 ISBN 0-7851-2499-3	2007	On eBay ›
Marvel Visionaries: Chris Claremont #[nn] ISBN 0-7851-1887-X	2005	On eBay ›
Avengers Annual #10 [Marvel Legends Reprint] #[nn]	2005	On eBay ›
The Greatest Battles of the Avengers #[nn]	1993	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men #7 ISBN 978-0-7851-3513-5	2011	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

‹ #910 of 23#11 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q741279 (Madelyne Pryor), first-appearance property (CC0)

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