Strange Tales #144 for Sale - First Appearance of Jasper Sitwell - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Strange Tales (Marvel, 1951 series)
Issue: #144
Publication date: May 1966
Key date: 1966-05-00
On-sale date: 1966-02-10
Indicia publisher: Vista Publications Inc.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

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

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

First appearance of Dredmund Druid - 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	The Day of the Druid!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Mike Esposito; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Dredmund Cromwell First, Doctor Strange, Dredmund Druid First, Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Stephen Strange
1	The Day of the Druid!	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee, Jack Kirby; pencils: Jack Kirby, Howard Purcell; inks: M. Demeo; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Clipper Charlie, Dredmund Cromwell First, Dredmund Druid First, Dum Dum Dugan, Nick Fury, Jasper Sitwell First
2	Naturally Nifty, Newsy, Nondescript Nonsense About Our Nutty Non-Entities!	in-house column	1	letters: typeset
3	Where Man Hath Never Trod!	comic story	10	script: Steve Ditko, Roy Thomas; pencils: Steve Ditko; inks: Steve Ditko; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Ancient One, Clea, Doctor Strange, Dormammu, Stephen Strange
4	-	letters page	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Jack Kirby; inks: Mike Esposito

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 10d [0-0-10 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD #18	1971	On eBay ›
Essential Doctor Strange #1 ISBN 0-7851-0816-5	2001	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #2 ISBN 0-7851-1737-7	2005	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 ISBN 0-7851-2686-4	2007	On eBay ›
Doctor Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts #2 ISBN 0-671-82582-8	1979	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Doctor Strange #2 ISBN 978-0-7851-6770-9	2013	On eBay ›
S.H.I.E.L.D. by Lee & Kirby: The Complete Collection. #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-9901-4	2015	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #143144 of 168#145 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q24083294 (Jasper Sitwell), first-appearance property (CC0)

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