Tales of Suspense #57 for Sale - First Appearance of Clint Barton - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales of Suspense (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #57
Publication date: September 1964
Key date: 1964-09-00
On-sale date: 1964-06-09
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 Clint Barton - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

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

First appearance of Pete - 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	Hawkeye	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Don Heck; inks: Don Heck; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Clint Barton First, Black Widow, Hawkeye First, Iron Man, Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark
1	Hawkeye, the Marksman!	comic story	18	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Don Heck; inks: Don Heck; letters: S. Rosen	Clint Barton First, Black Widow, Hawkeye First, Happy Hogan, Iron Man, Pete First, Pepper Potts, Natasha Romanoff, Tony Stark
2	The Runner	text story	1	editing: Stan Lee	Mike; Hermes; Snaky Blake
3	Two More Triumphs for Marvel..!	promo (ad from the publisher)	1	pencils: Steve Ditko, Jack Kirby; inks: Steve Ditko, Sol Brodsky; letters: Sam Rosen, Artie Simek
4	The Watcher's Power!	comic story	5	script: Stan Lee, Larry Lieber; pencils: Larry Lieber; inks: Geo. Bell; letters: Art Simek	Uatu, The Watcher

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
British	price 9d [0-0-9 GBP]

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Collectors' Item Classics #17	1968	On eBay ›
Marvel's Greatest Comics #23	1969	On eBay ›
Giant-Size Iron Man #1	1975	On eBay ›
Thunderbolts #39	2000	On eBay ›
Essential Iron Man #1 ISBN 0-7851-0759-2	2000	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Invincible Iron Man #2 ISBN 0-7851-1771-7	2005	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #5657 of 99#58 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q24026688 (Clint Barton), first-appearance property (CC0)

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