Fantastic Four #17 for Sale - First Appearance of Dum Dum Dugan - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1961 series)
Issue: #17
Publication date: August 1963
Key date: 1963-08-00
On-sale date: 1963-05-09
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 Dum Dum Dugan - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Gabe Jones - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Rebel Ralston - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Dino Manelli - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Izzy Cohen - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Jonathan Juniper - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Princess Pearla - 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	In the Clutches of Doctor Doom!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
2	Defeated by Doctor Doom!	comic story	22	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Art Simek	Ant-Man, Doctor Doom, Victor Von Doom, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Alicia Masters, Mister Fantastic, Princess Pearla First, Hank Pym, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards
9	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: Artie Simek	Izzy Cohen First, Dum Dum Dugan First, Nick Fury, Gabe Jones First, Jonathan Juniper First, Dino Manelli First, Rebel Ralston First
11	-	letters page	2	script: Stan Lee

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 12 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 #12	1967	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 #10	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)
Wikidata, Q2642001 (Dum Dum Dugan), first-appearance property (CC0)
Wikidata, Q5515336 (Gabe Jones), first-appearance property (CC0)
Wikidata, Q7302047 (Rebel Ralston), first-appearance property (CC0)
Wikidata, Q60785005 (Dino Manelli), first-appearance property (CC0)
Wikidata, Q28805591 (Izzy Cohen), first-appearance property (CC0)

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