Characters That Debuted In 2018  

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Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st appearance of Spider-Kid

1st appearance of Astro-Spider

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1st appearance of a Spider-Man/Punisher character

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1st appearance of Odessa Drake, leader of the Thieves Guild of New York

DC ⋅ 2018

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1st team appearance of Gemini

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1st appearance of Jinny Hex, great-great-great granddaughter of Jonah Hex

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Two-part limited series featuring Weapon Hex, a combination of Scarlett Witch/X-23

1st cameo appearance of Speed Weasel, little sister of Weapon Hex

1st appearance of Hellhound, a combination of Sabretooth and Magik

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1st team appearance of Neo-Hydra: led by Red Skull's daughter Sin and Miss Sinister

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1st appearance of Lady Firefly

[October 2021 - Brendan Fraser cast as Firefly could be origin of the true main villain, a female successor]

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1st appearance of Aladdin who is revealed to have been a Green Lantern

DC initially was going to introduce a character named Doctor Endless based on the 7 Endless from The Sandman but Neal Gaiman disallowed it

Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st appearance of Spiders-Man, an alternate reality Spider-Man comprised of thousands of living spiders

DC ⋅ 2018

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1st cameo appearance of Fuerza

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Debut of a new alternate dimension called the Cosmic Dark Age

Takes place during the era between Jack Kirby's Kamanadi and before the futuristic Legion of Super-heroes

1st appearance of War Cry

1st appearance of Deep Dweller

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1st appearance of Moon Squirrel and Tippysaur

1st appearance of Mister Invisible and Hot Rocks

1st appearance of the Green Widow (Hulk/Black Widow), Iron Titania and Doctor Doomactus

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1st full appearance of The Spider, Captain George Stacy

Solo story featuring Spiders-Man

Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st appearance of the second Red Widow

1st full team appearance of the Defenders of the Deep: Namor, Piranhas, Echinda, Andromeda, King Crab, Tiger Shark, Orka, Bloodtide, Manowar

Winter Guard new roster: Ursa Major, Red Widow, Vanguard, Vostok, Perun, Chernobog, Perun, Darkstar, Crimson Dynamo

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1st appearance of Rapture, an ally of Azrael

Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st appearance of Erika the Red, a brutal female barbarian with a soft spot for Thor

Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st appearance of Captain Hydra, identity unknown

Captain America was briefly revealed to be an agent of Hydra in 'Captain America: Steve Rogers' #1 (2016) which Marvel quickly reversed after negative fan response

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1st full appearance of the Nightwings in-costume

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1st appearance of Archivus, chronicler of the Multiverse

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1st team appearance of The Fantastix

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1st appearance of Big Angry

1st appearance of Emperor Attican

Foil ⋅ Action Lab ⋅ 2018

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1st cover appearance of the second Zombie Tramp, Angel Lynch

Variant foil cover art by Dan Mendoza, limited to 100 copies

New York Comic Con 2018 exclusive

Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st cameo appearance of Spider-Cop

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1st appearance of Splyce

1st appearance of Harry Hokum

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1st appearance of Bad Dream, a human boy living in the Dream Dimension with his pet, the Cloud Chimera

Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st appearance of the third Red Hulk, Carl Creel the Absorbing Man (briefly)

Circulation: 41,938

Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st team appearance of the "evil" Exiles: Captain Axis, Shuri Killmonger, Iron Kang, X 2/3rd and Skele-Thor

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1st cameo team appearance of The Dreadfuls: Metalmorpho, Phantom Boy, Plasma-Man, Doctor Dread

Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st appearance of Shoon’Kwa as Atlas Bear

DC ⋅ 2018

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Origin of Hawkman

1st appearance of Idamm

Marvel ⋅ 2018

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1st appearance of X-Assassin, a clone of X-23

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1st appearance of the Conductor

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1st appearance of Old Man Daredevil

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1st appearance of AI-X, an alien, teenage Green Lantern

1st full team appearance of the Injustice Army

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1st cameo team appearance of the Old Gods, Namma's children

Callie becomes Cailleach, a horned female with blue skin

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