Daredevil #8 for Sale - First Appearance of Wilbur Day - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Daredevil (Marvel, 1964 series)
Issue: #8
Publication date: June 1965
Key date: 1965-06-00
On-sale date: 1965-04-01
Indicia publisher: Olympia 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 Wilbur Day - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Stilt-Man - 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	Daredevil vs. Stilt Man	cover	1	pencils: Wally Wood; inks: Wally Wood; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Daredevil, Wilbur Day First, Matt Murdock, Stilt-Man First
1	The Stiltman Cometh!	comic story	20	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Wally Wood; inks: Wally Wood; letters: S. Rosen	Daredevil, Wilbur Day First, Matt Murdock, Foggy Nelson, Karen Page, Stilt-Man First
2	Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko; inks: Frank Giacoia, Steve Ditko; letters: Sam Rosen	Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]]; Dr. Doom [Victor Von Doom]; Daredevil [Matt Murdock]; Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; Crime Master; Green Goblin [Norman Osborn]
3	Two More Triumphs For Marvel..!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Vince Colletta, Carl Hubbell; letters: Sam Rosen	Sergeant Nick Fury; the Howling Commandos [Corporal Dum Dum Dugan; Robert Ralston [Rebel Ralston]; Dino Manelli; Izzy Cohen; Gabe Jones; Percival Pinkerton]; Thor
4	The Merry Marvel Marching Society	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: ? (promo copy); letters: ?; typeset	Daredevil [Matt Murdock]
5	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Super-Heroes #28	1970	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #17 ISBN 0-87135-806-9	1991	On eBay ›
Essential Daredevil #1 ISBN 0-7851-0949-8	2002	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Daredevil #1 ISBN 0-7851-1257-X	2003	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

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Sources

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

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