Strange Academy: Blood Hunt #1 for Sale - First Appearance of Pia - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Strange Academy: Blood Hunt (Marvel, 2024 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: July 2024
Key date: 2024-07-00
On-sale date: 2024-05-08
Indicia publisher: Marvel Worldwide Inc.
Price: $4.99
Pages: 44
Barcode: 75960620894400111
Rating: Rated T+

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Tito Peping - 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: Humberto Ramos; inks: Humberto Ramos; colors: Edgar Delgado	Germán Aguilar, Doyle Dormammu, Guslaug, Zoe Laveau, Shaylee Moonpeddle, Toth
1	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
2	The City That Never Weeps	comic story	20	script: Daniel José Older; pencils: Luigi Zagaria; inks: Luigi Zagaria; colors: Edgar Delgado; letters: VC's Clayton Cowles	Germán Aguilar, Darkhold, Doctor Strange, Doctor Voodoo, Doyle Dormammu, Jericho Drumm, Guslaug, Zoe Laveau, Shaylee Moonpeddle, Tito Peping First, Pia First, Stephen Strange, Toth
3	How to Save a Life	comic story	6	script: Daniel José Older; pencils: Eric Gapstur, Scott Hanna; inks: Eric Gapstur, Scott Hanna; colors: Erick Arciniega; letters: VC's Clayton Cowles	Darkhold, Agatha Harkness
4	A Tiger by the Tail	comic story	4	script: Daniel José Older; pencils: Eric Gapstur; inks: Eric Gapstur; colors: Edgar Delgado; letters: VC's Clayton Cowles	Doctor Voodoo, Jericho Drumm, Tito Peping First, Pia First
5	Blood Hunt: May Checklist	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	letters: typeset
6	Next:	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Humberto Ramos; inks: Humberto Ramos; colors: Edgar Delgado

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Doaly Cover	barcode 75960620894400131
Blood Red Variant Cover	barcode 75960620894400121

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Blood Hunt: Marvel Universe #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-95863-3	2024	On eBay ›

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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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