Fantastic Four #12 for Sale - First Appearance of Alicia Masters - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #12
Publication date: March 1963
Key date: 1963-03-00
On-sale date: 1962-12-10
Indicia publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

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

First appearance of The Wrecker - 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 Fantastic Four Meet the Hulk!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Ben Grimm, Hulk, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	The Incredible Hulk [Part 1]	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Bruce Banner, Ben Grimm, Hulk, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Alicia Masters First, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Johnny Storm, The Thing
3	Part 2 Mission: Stop the Hulk!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Ben Grimm, Hulk, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Rick Jones, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Johnny Storm, The Thing, Karl Kort First
5	Part 3 Who Is the Wrecker?	comic story	3	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Rick Jones, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Johnny Storm, The Thing, Karl Kort First, The Wrecker First
7	Part 4 The Hulk at Last!	comic story	10	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Ben Grimm, Hulk, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Rick Jones, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Johnny Storm, The Thing, Karl Kort First, The Wrecker First
14	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel's Greatest Comics #29	1970	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #6 ISBN 0-87135-481-0	1988	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #1 ISBN 0-7851-0666-9	1998	On eBay ›
The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #8	1986	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four Omnibus #1 ISBN 0-7851-1870-5	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #2 ISBN 0-7851-0980-3	2003	On eBay ›
Master Lock Presents: The Incredible Hulk #1	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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