Captain America #107 for Sale - First Appearance of Doctor Faustus - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Captain America (Marvel, 1968 series)
Issue: #107
Publication date: November 1968
Key date: 1968-11-00
On-sale date: 1968-08-01
Indicia publisher: Leading Magazine Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Doctor Faustus - 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	Here Lies Bucky	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Frank Giacoia	Bucky Barnes, Bucky, Captain America, Adolf Hitler, Red Skull, Steve Rogers, Johann Shmidt
2	If the Past Be Not Dead--	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Syd Shores; letters: Artie Simek	Bucky Barnes, Bucky, Captain America, Sharon Carter, Doctor Faustus First, Johann Fennhoff, Adolf Hitler, Steve Rogers
4	Marvel Plastic Pillows; Marvel T-Shirts; Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: ? (ad copy)	Spider-Man; Thor; The Thing; Captain Marvel [Mar-Vell]; The Hulk
10	-	in-house column	1	script: Smiley	Captain America
13	Let's Yap with Cap	letters page	2	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dan Adkins; letters: Sam Rosen	Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Falcon
14	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Buscema, Jim Steranko, Marie Severin; inks: Frank Giacoia, Jim Steranko, Marie Severin; colors: Jim Steranko; letters: Sam Rosen, Jim Steranko

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 11 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Super Action #9	1978	On eBay ›
Essential Captain America #2 ISBN 0-7851-0827-0	2002	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Captain America #3 ISBN 0-7851-2063-7	2006	On eBay ›
Captain America Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-5078-7	2011	On eBay ›
The Coming of... the Falcon ISBN 978-1-302-90007-6	2016	On eBay ›
Captain America (Penguin Classics Marvel Collection) #[nn] ISBN 978-0-14-313575-3	2022	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #1068 of 355#108 ›

Sources

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

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