Fantastic Four #24 for Sale - First Appearance of Billie Lumpkin - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four (Marvel, 1998 series)
Issue: #24
Publication date: December 1999
Key date: 1999-12-00
On-sale date: 1999-10-06
Indicia publisher: Marvel Comics
Price: $1.99; 2.99 CAD
Pages: 38
Barcode: 75960604456602411
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Billie Lumpkin - 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: Salvador Larroca; inks: Art Thibert; colors: Liquid!	Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Woman, Mister Fantastic, Franklin Richards, Reed Richards, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
1	Last Farewell	comic story	23	script: Chris Claremont; pencils: Salvador Larroca; inks: Art Thibert; colors: Liquid!; letters: RS, Comicraft	Morrie Bench, Captain America, Ben Grimm, Buford Hollis, Human Torch, Hydro-Man, Invisible Woman, Iron Man, Billie Lumpkin First, Marvel Girl, Wanda Maximoff, Mister Fantastic, Professor X, Razorback
2	Trading Card	insert or dust jacket			Avengers; Spider-Man
3	-	letters page	0.7	letters: typeset
4	Statement of Ownership	statement of ownership	0.3	letters: typeset

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Newsstand $1.99	barcode 07480802462912
Newsstand $2.49	price 2.49 USD; barcode 07148602462012
Newsstand $2.29	price 2.29 USD; barcode 00928102462012

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Fantastic Four: Heroes Return - The Complete Collection #2 ISBN 978-1-302-92340-2	2020	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #2324 of 160#25 ›

Sources

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

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