The X-Men #24 for Sale - First Appearance of Ted Roberts - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: The X-Men (Marvel, 1963 series)
Issue: #24
Publication date: September 1966
Key date: 1966-09-00
On-sale date: 1966-06-30
Indicia publisher: Canam Publishers Sales Corp.
Price: $0.12
Pages: 36
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority

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Why this issue matters

First appearance of Ted Roberts - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character. An independent public reference records the same first appearance.

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

First appearance of August Hopper - 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 Plague Of The Locust!	cover	1	pencils: Werner Roth; inks: Dick Ayers; colors: Stan Goldberg, Marie Severin; letters: Sam Rosen	Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Bobby Drake, Jean Grey, August Hopper First, Iceman, Locust First, Marvel Girl, Hank McCoy, Scott Summers, Warren Worthington III
1	The Plague of... the Locust!	comic story	20	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Werner Roth; inks: Dick Ayers; letters: Sam Rosen	Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Bobby Drake, Jean Grey, August Hopper First, Iceman, Locust First, Marvel Girl, Hank McCoy, Ted Roberts First, Scott Summers, Warren Worthington III, Professor X
2	Newsworthy Notes and Nutty Nonsense from Your Friendly Neighborhood Bullpen!	in-house column	1	letters: typeset
3	-	letters page	2	script: Roy Thomas; pencils: Werner Roth; inks: Dick Ayers

Printings and variants

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

Where to read it

Collection	Year
The X-Men #72	1971	On eBay ›
Essential Uncanny X-Men #1 ISBN 0-7851-0730-4	1999	On eBay ›
The X-Men Omnibus #1 ISBN 978-0-7851-2958-5	2009	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men #3 ISBN 978-0-7851-5070-1	2011	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men #[3] ISBN 0-7851-0809-2	2002	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Series context

‹ #2324 of 141#25 ›

Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wikidata, Q111347244 (Ted Roberts), first-appearance property (CC0)

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