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"Definitive" List of Bronze Age Marvel Keys
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25 minutes ago, Dogsupreme said:

I would add:

MARVEL SIDE

SAVAGE TALES #1v1 -1st MAN THING

Adventure into Fear 19- 1st HOWARD THE DUCK

the problem is some announcement may launch and obscure 1st appearance into the stratosphere. Here some I consider underlooked:

DAREDEVIL #150 - 1st Paladin

Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #23-1st Jack of Hearts

Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #19- 1st White Tiger. With the success of Black Panther this is a latino martial arts character ripe for Marvel to use

Invaders #8- 1st Union Jack

Spiderman and his Amazing friends #1-1st Firestar

X-Men #107- 1st STARJAMMERS

Avengers #145- 1st Hellcat

Incredible Hulk Annual #5- 2nd appearance of GROOT not a reprint

Marvel Previews #4-1st Starlord

Incredible Hulk #271-1st Rocket Raccoon

Strange Tales #181- 1st Gamora

Strange Tales #169-1st Brother Voodoo

Power Pack #1-1st Power Pack

DC SIDE

Adventure Comics #428- 1st Ochid

Ragman #1-1st Ragman

New Teen Titans #2-1st Deathstroke and Trigon

New Teen Titans #21-1st Brother Blood also 1st NIGHT FORCE

Legion of Superheroes #298-1st Amethyst Princess of Gemworld

FIrestorm #1-1st Firestorm

Starfire #1-1st Starfire

Action #521-1st Vixen

Just my 2¢

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for this -- great list!

One small note -- while Incredible Hulk #271 is Rocket Raccoon's first appearance in the comics, he was first introduced in Marvel Preview #7.

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34 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said:

Thanks for this -- great list!

One small note -- while Incredible Hulk #271 is Rocket Raccoon's first appearance in the comics, he was first introduced in Marvel Preview #7.

yes.you are correct.my bad. 

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11 hours ago, Dogsupreme said:

Incredible Hulk Annual #5- 2nd appearance of GROOT not a reprint

Not only is it not a reprint, it's not Groot! Not that a second appearance would be key anyway.

The only Marvel Monster who appears in that issue is Xemnu.

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21 hours ago, Dogsupreme said:

DC SIDE

Adventure Comics #428- 1st Ochid

Ragman #1-1st Ragman

New Teen Titans #2-1st Deathstroke and Trigon

New Teen Titans #21-1st Brother Blood also 1st NIGHT FORCE

Legion of Superheroes #298-1st Amethyst Princess of Gemworld

FIrestorm #1-1st Firestorm

Starfire #1-1st Starfire

Action #521-1st Vixen

Just my 2¢

No love for Black Lightning?

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BLACK LIGHTNING is cool.

I am not a big DC guy though so my knowledge is limited. However, I am starting to get into DC.

I would add:

GREEN LANTERN v1#141-1st Omega Men

ADVENTURE COMICS #327-1st Timberwolf

DETECTIVE #474-1st modern DEADSHOT

DETECTIVE #475-1st Joker Fish

DC SPECIAL #4-1st Cain

TEEN TITANS v1#49-Joker's Daughter (Harley Quinn)

ALL STAR COMICS #58-Power Girl

ALL STAR COMICS #69-The Huntress

On Marvel add

AMAZING SPIDERMAN #125-1st MAN WOLF

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, GeeksAreMyPeeps said:
14 hours ago, Dogsupreme said:

BLACK LIGHTNING is cool.

I am not a big DC guy though so my knowledge is limited. However, I am starting to get into DC.

I would add:

TEEN TITANS v1#49-Joker's Daughter (Harley Quinn)

Do you mean Batman Family 6? That's the first appearance.

Also, Harlequin is not Harley Quinn.

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I like the list, but the more D-level characters that you include, alla Night Nurse, Moondragon, etc., the more exponential the list becomes. Is New Gods #7 (1st Steppenwolf) really a "definitive Bronze Age Key"? If you want to just make a listing of all BA 1st appearance books, we can do that...but in my collection, not all 1st appearance books are "Keys". 

 

If we're doing that, I'd add these...a notation as to why they are "key" would be nice for any listing as well:

·        2001 #8 (1st Machine Man)

·        All-Star Comics #58 (1st Power Girl)

·        All-Star Western #10 (1st Jonah Hex)

·        Amazing Adventures #11 (1st Beast w/ fur)

·        Amazing Spider-Man #101, 121, 122, 124 (1st Man-Wolf),129, 135, 136, 149, 194

·        Astonishing Tales #25 (1st Deathlok)

·        Avengers #83, 93, 100, 112, 181, 196

·        Avengers Annual #10 (1st Rogue)

·        Batman #232 (1st Ra's Al Gul)

·        Captain America #117 (1st Falcon - SA?), 180 (1st Nomad), 217 (1st Quasar)

·        Captain Marvel #25

·        Cat #1

·        Conan the Barbarian #1 (1st Conan), 23 (1st Red Sonja), 24 (1st full Red Sonja)

·        Daredevil #111 (1st Silver Samurai), 131 (1st Bullseye), 158 (Frank Miller begins), 168 (1st Elektra), 181 (Death Elektra)

·        DC Superstars #17 (1st Huntress)

·        Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu #19 (1st White Tiger)

·        Defenders #1 (1st Defenders)

·        Defenders #27 (1st Starhawk), 28 (1st full Starhawk)

·        Demon #1 (1st Entrigen)

·        Detective Comics #400 (1st Man-Bat), 474 (1st Deadshot)

·        Eternals #1 (1st Eternals)

·        Eternals #2 (1st Celestials)

·        Fantastic Four #112 (Hulk vs. Thing)

·        Fantasy Quarterly #1 (1st Elf Quest)

·        Fear #19 (1st Howard the Duck)

·        Firestorm #1 (1st Firestorm)

·        Forever People #1 (1st full Darkseid)

·        Ghost Rider #1

·        Giant-Size Creatures #1 (1st Tigra)

·        Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1st new X-Men, Storm,, Nightcrawler, Colossus & Thunderbird., 2nd full Wolverine)

·        Hero For Hire #1 (1st Luke Cage)

·        Howard the Duck #1

·        Incredible Hulk #141 (1st Doc Samson), 180 (1st Wolverine), 181 (1st full Wolverine)

·        Incredible Hulk Annual #6 (1st appearance of Paragon (later, becomes Her, Kismet & Ayesha))

·        Iron Fist #1, 14 (1st Sabertooth)

·        Iron Man #54, 55 (1st Thanos and Drax), 128

·        Jungle Action #6 (1st Kill Monger)

·        Kamandi #1 (1st Kamandi)

·        Marvel Feature #1 (1st Defenders)

·        Marvel Premiere #1 (1st Adam Warlock), 15 (1st Iron Fist), 47 (1st Scott Lang as Ant-Man)

·        Marvel Premiere #28 (1st Legion of Monsters)

·        Marvel Preview #4 (1st Star-Lord), 7 (1st Rocket Racoon)

·        Marvel Spotlight #2 (1st Werewolf by Night), 5 (1st Ghost Rider), 12, 32 (1st Spider-Woman)

·        Marvel Spotlight #6 (1st Star-Lord in comics)

·        Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1st Guardians of the Galaxy) - SA?1969 and 25-cent cover?

·        Marvel Team-Up #1

·        Marvel Team-Up #95 (1st Mockingbird)

·        Ms. Marvel #1, 16, 17, 18

·        New Gods #1 (1st Orion),7 (1st Steppenwolf)

·        Night Nurse #1 (1st Night Nurse)

·        Nova #1 (1st Nova)

·        ROM #1 (1st ROM Space Knight)

·        Savage She-Hulk #1 (1st She-Hulk)

·        Shadow #1 (1st Shadow)

·        Special Marvel Edition #15 (1st Master of Kung-Fu)

·        Star Wars #1, 42 (1st Boba Fett in comics - Copper?)

·        Strange Tales #169 (1st Brother Voodoo), 180 (1st Gamora)

·        Sub-Mariner #34 (Defenders prelude), 35 (Defenders prelude)

·        Thor #193 (Silver Surfer app.), 225 (1st Firelord)

·        Tomb of Dracula #1, 10 (1st Blade)

·        Warlock #1 (1st In-Betweener, Thanos/Gamora origin)

·        Werewolf By Night #32 (1st Moon Knight)

·        X-Men #94, 101, 107 (1st Starjammers), 109, 120, 121, 129, 130 (1st Dazzler), 141

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3 hours ago, AGGIEZ said:

I like the list, but the more D-level characters that you include, alla Night Nurse, Moondragon, etc., the more exponential the list becomes. Is New Gods #7 (1st Steppenwolf) really a "definitive Bronze Age Key"? If you want to just make a listing of all BA 1st appearance books, we can do that...but in my collection, not all 1st appearance books are "Keys". 

 

If we're doing that, I'd add these...a notation as to why they are "key" would be nice for any listing as well:

·        2001 #8 (1st Machine Man)

·        All-Star Comics #58 (1st Power Girl)

·        All-Star Western #10 (1st Jonah Hex)

·        Amazing Adventures #11 (1st Beast w/ fur)

·        Amazing Spider-Man #101, 121, 122, 124 (1st Man-Wolf),129, 135, 136, 149, 194

·        Astonishing Tales #25 (1st Deathlok)

·        Avengers #83, 93, 100, 112, 181, 196

·        Avengers Annual #10 (1st Rogue)

·        Batman #232 (1st Ra's Al Gul)

·        Captain America #117 (1st Falcon - SA?), 180 (1st Nomad), 217 (1st Quasar)

·        Captain Marvel #25

·        Cat #1

·        Conan the Barbarian #1 (1st Conan), 23 (1st Red Sonja), 24 (1st full Red Sonja)

·        Daredevil #111 (1st Silver Samurai), 131 (1st Bullseye), 158 (Frank Miller begins), 168 (1st Elektra), 181 (Death Elektra)

·        DC Superstars #17 (1st Huntress)

·        Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu #19 (1st White Tiger)

·        Defenders #1 (1st Defenders)

·        Defenders #27 (1st Starhawk), 28 (1st full Starhawk)

·        Demon #1 (1st Entrigen)

·        Detective Comics #400 (1st Man-Bat), 474 (1st Deadshot)

·        Eternals #1 (1st Eternals)

·        Eternals #2 (1st Celestials)

·        Fantastic Four #112 (Hulk vs. Thing)

·        Fantasy Quarterly #1 (1st Elf Quest)

·        Fear #19 (1st Howard the Duck)

·        Firestorm #1 (1st Firestorm)

·        Forever People #1 (1st full Darkseid)

·        Ghost Rider #1

·        Giant-Size Creatures #1 (1st Tigra)

·        Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1st new X-Men, Storm,, Nightcrawler, Colossus & Thunderbird., 2nd full Wolverine)

·        Hero For Hire #1 (1st Luke Cage)

·        Howard the Duck #1

·        Incredible Hulk #141 (1st Doc Samson), 180 (1st Wolverine), 181 (1st full Wolverine)

·        Incredible Hulk Annual #6 (1st appearance of Paragon (later, becomes Her, Kismet & Ayesha))

·        Iron Fist #1, 14 (1st Sabertooth)

·        Iron Man #54, 55 (1st Thanos and Drax), 128

·        Jungle Action #6 (1st Kill Monger)

·        Kamandi #1 (1st Kamandi)

·        Marvel Feature #1 (1st Defenders)

·        Marvel Premiere #1 (1st Adam Warlock), 15 (1st Iron Fist), 47 (1st Scott Lang as Ant-Man)

·        Marvel Premiere #28 (1st Legion of Monsters)

·        Marvel Preview #4 (1st Star-Lord), 7 (1st Rocket Racoon)

·        Marvel Spotlight #2 (1st Werewolf by Night), 5 (1st Ghost Rider), 12, 32 (1st Spider-Woman)

·        Marvel Spotlight #6 (1st Star-Lord in comics)

·        Marvel Super-Heroes #18 (1st Guardians of the Galaxy) - SA?1969 and 25-cent cover?

·        Marvel Team-Up #1

·        Marvel Team-Up #95 (1st Mockingbird)

·        Ms. Marvel #1, 16, 17, 18

·        New Gods #1 (1st Orion),7 (1st Steppenwolf)

·        Night Nurse #1 (1st Night Nurse)

·        Nova #1 (1st Nova)

·        ROM #1 (1st ROM Space Knight)

·        Savage She-Hulk #1 (1st She-Hulk)

·        Shadow #1 (1st Shadow)

·        Special Marvel Edition #15 (1st Master of Kung-Fu)

·        Star Wars #1, 42 (1st Boba Fett in comics - Copper?)

·        Strange Tales #169 (1st Brother Voodoo), 180 (1st Gamora)

·        Sub-Mariner #34 (Defenders prelude), 35 (Defenders prelude)

·        Thor #193 (Silver Surfer app.), 225 (1st Firelord)

·        Tomb of Dracula #1, 10 (1st Blade)

·        Warlock #1 (1st In-Betweener, Thanos/Gamora origin)

·        Werewolf By Night #32 (1st Moon Knight)

·        X-Men #94, 101, 107 (1st Starjammers), 109, 120, 121, 129, 130 (1st Dazzler), 141

Great seeing the notes.   I have a few questions on some:

Can you add the notations to the Amazing Spidermans, Avengers, Captain Marvel 25?

Is Cat #1 the fist app?

What’s marvel spotlight 12?

Why Marvel team up #1? 

Why Ms Marvel 16,17,18?

I’d like to see this list ranked by value, but don’t have the time atm to do that.

 

 

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