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Thunderbolt Ross
40 appearances · Silver Age · 1964–2025 · 2 key issues
Teams & affiliations
Avengers
★ First appearance
The Avengers #5
Trivia
- 🗓️ Thunderbolt Ross first appeared in The Avengers #5 in 1964 — that's 62 years ago.
- 🎨 Co-created by Jack Kirby.
- 📚 Appears in 40 issues across 29 different series.
- ⭐ 2 of their appearances are key issues collectors actively chase.
- 📈 Has appeared in comics for 61 years (1964–2025) — a true Silver Age mainstay.
- 🛡️ Runs with Avengers.
Covers through the years — 1964–1989
1964 
1971 
1978 
1989 Appearances
Tales to Astonish (1959)
Journey into Mystery (1952)
Giant-Size Defenders (1974)
Marvel Treasury Edition (1974)
The Incredible Hulk Annual (1976)
What If? (1977)
Hulk Comic (1979)
Incredible Hulk and Wolverine (1986)
The Marvel Saga the Official History of the Marvel Universe (1985)
Marvel Super-Heroes (1990)
Uncanny Origins (1996)
Rampaging Hulk (1998)
Incredible Hulk vs Superman (1999)
Hulk (1999)
Master Lock Presents: The Incredible Hulk (2003)
Hulk: Gray (2003)
Marvel Masterworks: The Incredible Hulk (2003)
What If General Ross Had Become the Hulk? (2005)
Hulk Visionaries: Peter David (2005)
Marvel Masterworks: The X-Men (2003)
Avengers (2018)
Mighty Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers (2021)
Incredible Hulk Epic Collection (2015)
Giant-Size Marvel Omnibus (2025)