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In this ongoing romance series, a woman discovers that she is trapped in an endless cycle: a problem to be solved, a man to marry and every time she falls in love, she disappears into another teary saga

[April 2025 - Sony Pictures to adapt Tom King comic with screenwriter Joan Goldman and director Lenny Abrahamson (The Room) with Emma Watts producing]

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📈 +1,900% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week after Sony announced a film adaptation of this comic property

Key Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2025

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1st cover appearance of Hell Hulk

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📈 +600% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week - second consecutive week on the Key Collector Comics Trending 20

Dreamwave ⋅ 2004

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Comic book adaptation of the popular video game

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📈 +420% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week (including variants) after the Netflix animated series premiere and announcement of a second season

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Cover art by David Finch featuring White Rabbit

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📈 +350% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week on a rumor posted to the Peacemaker 2 IMDb page that Brey Noelle will depict White Rabbit in the upcoming season - last week Batman: The Dark Knight #1 ranked on the Trending 20

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Premiere issue

1st appearance of Richard Parker II

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📈 +343% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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1st full appearance of Nathaniel Richards

Origin of Kang Prime, specifically how he discovered the time travel research of his ancestor to travel to ancient Egypt and become Rama-Tut

This version of Kang was born in the 30th century and is a descendant of Nathaniel Richards

Nathaniel Richards, the father of Reed Richards, inadvertently traveled into a parallel timestream while attempting to travel to the future

Centuries after this event occurred, his descendant who would become Kang was born and utilized the research of his ancestor to travel back to ancient Egypt and become Rama-Tut

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📈 +320% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week due to speculation Robert Downey Jr.'s character may be an alternate universe relation

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1st appearance of All-New Venom, later revealed to be Mary Jane Watson

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📈 +275% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

Image ⋅ 2003

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1st appearance of Nyx, later becomes She-Spawn

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📈 +250% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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Iconic cover art by Jim Lee

Revealed that Wolverine, Black Widow and Captain America knew one another in World War II

Origin of the first meeting between Captain America and Wolverine

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📈 +233% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

Marvel ⋅ 1967

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1st appearance of the Red Guardian, Alexi Shostakov- husband of Natasha Romanova, the Black Widow

[July 2022 - Marvel recently trademarked the title Red Guardian: Generations / September 2022 - confirmed for the Thunderbolts movie]

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📈 +200% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

Marvel ⋅ 2015

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Premiere issue of a nine-issue series

Incursion of the main Marvel 616 universe and the Ultimate Universe - first incursion occurs in New Avengers #33 (2015)

[SDCC 2022 - Phase 6 of the Multiverse Saga will conclude with the movie Avengers: Secret Wars]

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📈 +200% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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1st appearance of Radiant Black

1st appearance of Marshall, later becomes the second Radiant Black

1st cameo appearance of Radiant Red

Preview of Inferno Girl Red aka Dragon Girl Red

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📈 +200% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

Marvel ⋅ 2000

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1st appearance of the Sentry

1st appearance of The Void, the dark aspect of The Sentry

[SDCC 2024 - Lewis Pullman stated his character's name is Bob in Thunderbolts which is likely the alter ego of the Sentry, Bob Reynolds / confirmed]

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📈 +186% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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Marriage of Peter Parker and Mary Jane Watson

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📈 +150% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

Marvel ⋅ 1993

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Iconic cover art by Andy Kubert

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📈 +122% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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1st appearance of Lobo, an intergalactic bounty hunter

[January 2023 - Jason Momoa speculated to play Lobo in James Gunn's DC films / December 2024 - confirmed]

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📈 +118% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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2nd appearance and first cover of Gambit

1st chronological appearance of Gambit in-story / in-continuity

X-Men Annual #14 went on sale three weeks before this issue and is often considered the first cameo appearance of Gambit

This would imply that his appearance is brief though he appears in 15 panels throughout X-Men Annual #14 with at least 10 instances of dialogue

Tap cover and swipe left to view images where Gambit is the main or partial focus of the sequence in X-Men Annual #14

Uncanny X-Men #266 was written as if it were to be published prior to the annual, therefore #266 would be the first chronological appearance of Gambit in-story (or in-continuity)

CGC, the grading certification company for comic books, recognizes Uncanny X-Men #266 as the first full appearance of Gambit

[January 2024 - Gambit rumored for the X-Men MCU reboot according to a casting grid]

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📈 +108% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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Iconic cover art by Marc Silvestri

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📈 +108% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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Premiere issue of an ongoing series in the Absolute Universe, a dimension built on Darkseid energy

Introduction of Alfred Pennyworth, an M16 agent

Introduction of Black Mask

Introduction of Waylon Jones, Killer Crock in the mainstream universe

Introduction of Martha Wayne, Commissioner Gordon, Barbara Gordon, Harvey Bullock

Introduction of Selina Kyle, Oswald Cobblepot, Edward Nygma, Harvey Dent - as children in a photograph

Introduction of Joker, first cameo appearance

Introduction of Julia Pennyworth, cameo appearance

Introduction and death of Thomas Wayne

1st team appearance of the Party Animals, led by Black Mask

Absolute Batman #1 preceded by a 16-page black and white ashcan preview

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📈 +104% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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Identity of All-New Venom revealed to be Mary Jane Watson

The Sleeper Symbiote bonds with M.O.D.O.K.

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📈 +102% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

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