Fantastic Four Annual #6 for Sale - First Appearance of Franklin Richards - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Fantastic Four Annual (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #6
Publication date: November 1968
Key date: 1968-11-00
On-sale date: 1968-08-13
Indicia publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
Price: $0.25
Pages: 68
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Franklin Richards - 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	Let There Be-- Life!	cover	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Sam Rosen	Annihilus, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Mister Fantastic, Reed Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
1	Contents Page	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1	pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott	Fantastic Four [Mister Fantastic [Reed Richards]; Human Torch [Johnny Storm]; the Thing [Ben Grimm]; Invisible Girl [Sue Storm]]
2	Let There Be... Life!	comic story	48	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Joe Sinnott; letters: Sam Rosen	Annihilus, Crystal, Ben Grimm, Human Torch, Invisible Girl, Crystalia Amaquelin Maximoff, Doctor Molinari, Mister Fantastic, Franklin Richards First, Reed Richards, Scavenger, Susan Storm Richards, Johnny Storm, The Thing
3	Now in Full Color!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Romita; inks: John Romita	Spider-Man; the Green Goblin
9	Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko, John Romita; inks: Steve Ditko, John Romita	Black Knight [Dane Whitman]; Circus of Crime [Clown; Flying Gambonis [Luigi Gambonno; Ernesto Gambonno]; Human Canonball; Princess Python]
12	Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: John Buscema, John Romita; inks: Joe Sinnott, John Romita	Spider-Man [Peter Parker]; May Parker; Ben Parker; Mary Jane Watson; Gwen Stacy; Harry Osborn; Flash Thompson; Captain George Stacy; John Jameson; J. Jonah Jameson; Robbie Robertson; Betty Brant; Frederick Foswell; Silver Surfer [Norrin Radd]; Badoon
15	It's Brand New!!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.5		Thor; Spider-Man
16	Marvel Super-Hero T-Shirts	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.25	script: ? (ad copy)	Spider-Man; Thor; Hulk; Captain Marvel
17	The Merry Marvel Marching Society Membership Kit!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.25	script: ? (ad copy)	The Thing
21	Now Hear This!	text article	1	script: ? (promo copy); colors: ? (background only); letters: typeset

Plus 13 pages of advertisements and other matter across 16 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #5	1968	On eBay ›
Giant-Size Fantastic Four #6	1975	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four #54 (483)	2002	On eBay ›
Essential Fantastic Four #4 ISBN 0-7851-1484-X	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Fantastic Four #8 ISBN 978-0-7851-6294-0	2012	On eBay ›
Fantastic Four Omnibus #3 ISBN 978-0-7851-9175-9	2015	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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