Tales to Astonish #96 for Sale - First Appearance of Logar - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Tales to Astonish (Marvel, 1959 series)
Issue: #96
Publication date: October 1967
Key date: 1967-10-00
On-sale date: 1967-07-11
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 Logar - 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	Somewhere Stands... Skull Island!	cover	1	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Dan Adkins; inks: Dan Adkins; colors: Stan Goldberg; letters: Artie Simek	Namor, Parnival Plunder, Plunderer, Sub-Mariner
1	Somewhere Stands... Skull Island!	comic story	12	script: Raymond Marais; pencils: Bill Everett, Werner Roth; inks: Vince Colletta; letters: Artie Simek	Dorma, Logar First, Namor, Parnival Plunder, Plunderer, Fen, Sub-Mariner, Vashti
2	A Sagacious Smattering of Scuttlebutt, Scoops, and Space-Wasting Small-Talk!	in-house column	1	script: Stan Lee	Hulk [Bruce Banner]; Sub-Mariner [Namor]
3	What Have I Created?	comic story	10	script: Stan Lee; pencils: Marie Severin; inks: Herb Trimpe; colors: Marie Severin; letters: Al Kurzrok	Bruce Banner, High Evolutionary, Hulk, Herbert Edgar Wyndham
4	-	letters page	1	pencils: Marie Severin; inks: Frank Giacoia	Hulk [Bruce Banner]

Printings and variants

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Super-Heroes #51	1975	On eBay ›
Essential Hulk #2 ISBN 0-7851-0795-9	2001	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk #3 ISBN 0-7851-2032-7	2006	On eBay ›

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Series context

‹ #9596 of 101#97 ›

Sources

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

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