Custom: Triple A Baseball Heroes #2 for Sale - First Appearance of The Angel - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Custom: Triple A Baseball Heroes (Marvel, 2007 series)
Issue: #2
Publication date: August 2008
Key date: 2008-08-00
On-sale date: 2008-08
Indicia publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
Price: 0.00 FREE
Pages: 20

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Thunderstrike - 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	-	cover	1	pencils: John Watson; inks: John Watson; colors: Sotocolor's A. Crossley	Bruce Banner, Captain America, Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Harvey Elder, Green Goblin, Hulk, Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto, Mole Man, Thor Odinson, Peter Parker, Steve Rogers, Spider-Man
1	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	1	pencils: John Watson	Bruce Banner, Captain America, Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Harvey Elder, Green Goblin, Hulk, Erik Lehnsherr, Magneto, Mole Man, Thor Odinson, Peter Parker, Steve Rogers, Spider-Man
2	Home Run Horror!	comic story	12	script: Marc Sumerak; pencils: Mario Gully; inks: Mario Gully; colors: A. Crossley, SotoColor; letters: VC, Joe Caramagna; editing: Nicole Boose, Jon-Michael Ennis, Lauren Sankovitch	The Angel First, Ares, Bruce Banner, Beast, Black Bolt, Black Panther, Blackagar Boltagon, Eddie Brock, Luke Cage, Captain America, Colossus, Cyclops, Carol Danvers, Daredevil
3	Great Cities, Great Fans, Great Value	promo (ad from the publisher)	2		Bruce Banner, Hulk, Iron Man, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Tony Stark
4	-	cover reprint (on interior page)	2	pencils: John Watson, Greg Horn, Gerald Parel; inks: John Watson, Greg Horn, Gerald Parel	Iron Man, Tony Stark

Plus 2 pages of advertisements and other matter across 2 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Buffalo Bisons variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Toledo Mud Hens variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Tucson Sidewinders variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Indianapolis Indians variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Columbus Clippers variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Sacramento River Cats variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Memphis Redbirds variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Durham Bulls variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.
Charlotte Knights variant	See the GCD record for identification notes.

Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #12 of 2

Sources

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

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