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Issue Details

Issue #30
Published May 2001
Cover Price 2.50 USD; 3.75 CAD
Pages 36
Editing Joe Quesada (editor-in-chief); Tom Brevoort (editor); Marc Sumerak (assistant editor)

Cover Details - "First Contact: Wakanda 1941"

Characters Black Panther [T'Chaka]; Captain America
Genre superhero
Pencils Sal Velluto (signed)
Inks Sal Velluto (signed)
Colors MM (signed)
Letters typeset

22 page Black Panther story "The Story Thus Far"

Characters Black Panther; Everett K. Ross; Captain America (also in flashback); Reed Richards; Monica Lynne; T'Chaka (also as Black Panther; flashback); Black Dragon (as Mephisto; see issue 38); Henry Peter Gyrich; Officer Price; Nikki Adams (flashback); Fantastic Four (cameo; flashback); Wyatt Wingfoot (cameo; flashback); Avengers (cameo; flashback to issue 8)
Synopsis Ross defends the Black Panther before the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Genre superhero
Script Christopher Priest
Pencils Norm Breyfogle
Inks Norm Breyfogle
Colors VLM
Letters Sharpefont; Paul Tutrone
Notes Part of this story is a flashback to 1941, showing the first meeting of T'Chaka and Captain America

1 page letters page "Mail to the King!"

Letters typeset

Black Panther story "*** Delete this sequence ***"

Characters Nikki Adams (flashback), Fantastic Four (cameo; flashback), Wyatt Wingfoot (cameo; flashback), Avengers (cameo; flashback to issue 8)
Genre superhero
Script Christopher Priest
Pencils Norm Breyfogle
Inks Norm Breyfogle
Colors VLM
Letters Sharpefont, Paul Tutrone
Notes continued from previous record