Invincible Iron Man #9 for Sale - First Appearance of The Good Witch of the North - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Invincible Iron Man (Marvel, 2008 series)
Issue: #9
Publication date: March 2009
Key date: 2009-03-00
On-sale date: 2009-01-07
Indicia publisher: Marvel Publishing Inc.
Price: $2.99
Pages: 36
Barcode: 75960606427400911
Rating: Rated A

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of The Good Witch of the North - 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: Salvador Larroca; colors: Frank D'Armata	Iron Man, Tony Stark
1	Previously...	recap	1	pencils: Salvador Larroca; inks: Salvador Larroca
2	World's Most Wanted Part 2 Godspeed	comic story	22	script: Matt Fraction; pencils: Salvador Larroca; inks: Salvador Larroca; colors: Frank D'Armata; letters: VC's Joe Caramagna	Maria Hill, Iron Man, Norman Osborn, Pepper Potts, Tony Stark, Victoria Hand
3	-	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Salvador Larroca; inks: Salvador Larroca	Iron Man, Tony Stark
4	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Exclusive Excerpt	promo (ad from the publisher)	6	script: Eric Shanower; pencils: Skottie Young; inks: Skottie Young	The Lion, Dorothy Gale, The Good Witch of the North First, The Scarecrow, The Tin Woodman, Toto

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
2nd Printing Variant - Salvador Larroca Cover	barcode 75960606427400921
Newsstand	price 3.99 USD; 3.99 CAD; barcode 07447003252602

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Iron Man by Fraction & Larroca: The Complete Collection #1 ISBN 978-1-302-91628-2	2019	On eBay ›
Invincible Iron Man #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-4295-9	2010	On eBay ›
World's Most Wanted Book 1 ISBN 978-0-7851-3413-8	2009	On eBay ›
World's Most Wanted ISBN 978-1-302-95664-6	2024	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #89 of 62#10 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q3821514 (The Good Witch of the North), first-appearance property (CC0)

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