Sentinels #3 for Sale - First Appearance of Michael Babineaux - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Sentinels (Marvel, 2024 series)
Issue: #3
Publication date: February 2025
Key date: 2025-02-00
On-sale date: 2024-12-18
Indicia publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
Price: $3.99
Pages: 32
Barcode: 75960620962000311
Rating: Rated T+

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Michael Babineaux - 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: Justin Mason; inks: Justin Mason; colors: Federico Blee	Drumfire, Bradley Hansen, Erik Lehnsherr, Lockstep, Magneto, Patricia Pham, Camila Rivera, Sawtooth, Dragos Teodorescu, Voivod
1	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
2	Mud and Metal Mixing Good	comic story	20	script: Alex Paknadel; pencils: Justin Mason; inks: Justin Mason; colors: Federico Blee; letters: VC's Travis Lanham	Michael Babineaux First, Drumfire, Bradley Hansen, Erik Lehnsherr, Lockstep, Magneto, Patricia Pham, Camila Rivera, Sawtooth, Shellback, Dragos Teodorescu, Lawrence Trask, Voivod
3	-	in-house column	2	editing: Martin Biro, Cy Pedro Beltran, Noah Sharma, Annalise Bissa, Mark Basso, Darren Shan
4	-	letters page	1	script: Alex Paknadel; pencils: Justin Mason; inks: Justin Mason; colors: Justin Mason
5	Next	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Kael Ngu Cover	barcode 75960620962000321

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Sentinels: Necessary Monsters #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-96020-9	2025	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #23 of 5#4 ›

Sources

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

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