Tales to Astonish #84 for Sale - First Appearance of Gorki - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #84
Publication date: October 1966
Key date: 1966-10-00
On-sale date: 1966-06-30
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 Gorki - 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	Like a Beast at Bay!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Sam Rosen	Bruce Banner, Hulk, Namor, Sub-Mariner
2	Like a Beast at Bay!	comic story	12	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: Sam Rosen	Bruce Banner, Hulk, Krang, Dorma, Namor, Number One, Sub-Mariner
3	Newsworthy Notes and Nutty Nonsense from Your Friendly Neighborhood Bullpen!	in-house column	1	letters: typeset
6	Another Marvel Masterpiece Now on Sale!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.6	script: ? (promo copy); letters: ?; typeset
7	It's Clobberin' Time!!	promo (ad from the publisher)	0.4	script: ? (promo copy)
10	Rampage in the City!	comic story	10	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Bill Everett, Jerry Grandenetti, Gene Colan, Jack Kirby; inks: Bill Everett, Dick Ayers, John Tartaglione, Mike Esposito, Sol Brodsky; letters: Artie Simek	Bruce Banner, Boomerang, Gorki First, Hulk, Rick Jones, Fred Myers, Namor, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Sub-Mariner, Glenn Talbot
16	-	letters page	1	pencils: Gene Colan; inks: Dick Ayers	Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Thing [Ben Grimm]

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 13 sequences, as published.

Printings and variants

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Super-Heroes #39	1973	On eBay ›
Essential Hulk #1 ISBN 0-7851-0712-6	1999	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #3 ISBN 0-7851-2032-7	2006	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #8384 of 101#85 ›

Sources

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

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