Future Imperfect #1 for Sale - First Appearance of The Thing - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Future Imperfect (Marvel, 2015 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: August 2015
Key date: 2015-08-00
On-sale date: 2015-06-03
Indicia publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
Barcode: 75960608214800111
Rating: Rated T+

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Thing - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Skooter - 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: Greg Land; inks: Greg Land; colors: Nolan Woodard	Maestro
1	Battleworld: Dystopia	foreword, introduction, preface, afterword	1
2	Future Imperfect	comic story	20	script: Peter David; pencils: Greg Land; inks: Jay Leisten; colors: Nolan Woodard; letters: VC's Joe Sabino	Janis Jones, Maestro, Skooter First, Ruby Summers, The Thing First, Bruce Banner, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross
3	Next: Here's the Thing...	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Greg Land; inks: Greg Land; colors: Nolan Woodard	Maestro [Earth-69413]; Thing [Thaddeus Ross, Earth-69413]

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Incentive Dale Keown Ant-Sized Variant	barcode 75960608214800151
Incentive Dale Keown Variant	barcode 75960608214800141
Nick Bradshaw Ingwenible Hulk Variant	barcode 75960608214800161

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Future Imperfect: Warzones! #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-9869-7	2015	On eBay ›
Hulk: Maestro by Peter David Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-95113-9	2023	On eBay ›
Hulk: Maestro by Peter David Omnibus #[nn]	2023	On eBay ›
Secret Wars: Battleworld Omnibus #2 ISBN 978-1-302-96552-5	2025	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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