Young Men #26 for Sale - First Appearance of The Vulture - Where to Buy

Identification plate

Series: Young Men (Marvel, 1950 series)
Issue: #26
Publication date: March 1954
Key date: 1954-03-00
Indicia publisher: Interstate Publishing Corp.
Price: $0.10
Pages: 36
Rating: Authorized A. C. M. P. Conforms to the Comics Code

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Why this issue matters

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

First appearance of Isidoro Scarlotti - 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	-	cover	1	pencils: Carl Burgos; inks: Carl Burgos; colors: Stan Goldberg	Jim Hammond, Human Torch, Thomas Raymond, Toro
2	The Vulture	comic story	8	script: Joe Gill; pencils: Carl Burgos; inks: Carl Burgos	Jim Hammond, Human Torch, Thomas Raymond, Isidoro Scarlotti First, Toro, The Vulture First, Chief Wilson, Mary Wilson
5	Pursuit	text story	2	letters: typeset
10	Captain America Turns Traitor!	comic story	7	script: Don Rico; pencils: John Romita; inks: John Romita	Captain America [Steve Rogers]; Bucky; Oranoff; Dr. Standish; Sub-Mariner [Namor] (cameo); Human Torch [Jim Hammond] (cameo); Toro [Thomas Raymond] (cameo)
13	-	comic story	8	script: Bill Everett; pencils: Bill Everett; inks: Bill Everett; letters: Bill Everett	Sub-Mariner [Namor]; Betty Dean; Nelson

Plus 10 pages of advertisements and other matter across 14 sequences, as published.

Where to read it

Collection	Year
Marvel Super-Heroes #15	1968	On eBay ›
Marvel Super-Heroes #19	1969	On eBay ›
Golden Age of Marvel #[nn] ISBN 0785105646	1997	On eBay ›
Marvel Masterworks: Atlas Era Heroes #1 ISBN 0-7851-2408-X	2007	On eBay ›
Marvel Visionaries: John Romita Sr. #[nn] ISBN 978-0-7851-1780-3	2005	On eBay ›
Decades: Marvel in the '50s - Captain America Strikes! #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-91659-6	2018	On eBay ›
Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Sub-Mariner by Bill Everett - The Post-War Years Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-92250-4	2019	On eBay ›
Timely's Greatest: The Golden Age Human Torch by Carl Burgos Omnibus #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-91933-7	2019	On eBay ›
Marvel Visionaries: John Romita Sr. #[nn] ISBN 978-1-302-91806-4	2019	On eBay ›

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Before you buy

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Check for trimmed edges, married covers, and clipped coupons - all common on books this old.
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Series context

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Sources

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

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