Fantastic Four #14 for Sale - First Appearance of Phillip Masters - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #14
Publication date: May 1963
Key date: 1963-05-00
On-sale date: 1963-02-12
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 Phillip Masters - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Puppet Master - 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 Sub-Mariner Strikes!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Namor, Sub-Mariner, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	Once Again, The Fantastic Four Face the Threat of Sub-Mariner, and “The Merciless Puppet Master” Part 1	comic story	22	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Harvey Elder, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Alicia Masters, Phillip Masters First, Mister Fantastic, Mole Man, Namor, Puppet Master First, Reed Richards, Johnny Storm
8	Watch For The Greatest Symbols in Comics!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky, Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Ant-Man, Thor Odinson, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Iron Man, Mister Fantastic, Peter Parker, Hank Pym, Reed Richards, Spider-Man, Tony Stark, Johnny Storm, Susan Storm Richards
10	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Sol Brodsky; colors: Stan Goldberg	Invisible Girl, Susan Storm Richards

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 14 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #9	1967	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #6 ISBN 0-87135-481-0	1988	On eBay ›
The Avengers #1&1/2	1999	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #1 ISBN 0-7851-0666-9	1998	On eBay ›
The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #9	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 ›

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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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