Journey into Mystery #93 for Sale - First Appearance of Radioactive Man - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Journey into Mystery (Marvel, 1952 series)
Issue: #93
Publication date: June 1963
Key date: 1963-06-00
On-sale date: 1963-04-02
Indicia publisher: Atlas Magazines Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Radioactive Man - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Chen Lu - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

Origin story on record for: Radioactive Man.

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	Radio-Active-Man!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Chen Lu First, Thor Odinson, Radioactive Man First, Thor
2	The Mysterious Radio-Active Man!	comic story	13	script: Stan Lee, R. Berns; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: R. Holloway	Jane Foster, Chen Lu First, Thor Odinson, Radioactive Man First, Thor, Mao Zedong
3	Over the Moon	text story	2	letters: typeset	Mr. Collins; Jim
8	The Man Who Wouldn't Die!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber; pencils: Larry Lieber; inks: Matt Fox; letters: Artie Simek	Caleb Cartwright
12	I Saw a Martian!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; letters: Art Simek

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
Journey into Mystery Annual #1	1965	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks #18 ISBN 0-87135-807-7	1991	On eBay ›
Essential Thor #1 ISBN 0-7851-0761-4	2001	On eBay ›
The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe #9	1986	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor #1 ISBN 0-7851-1267-7	2003	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #9293 of 125#94 ›

Sources

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

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