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1st appearance of the Anti-Sonic, later renamed Scourge

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1st cover appearance of Scourge, formerly Evil/Anti-Sonic

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1st appearance of Meows Morales

1st full appearance of Spider-Guin, an anthropomorphic version of Gwen Stacy as a penguin

Spider-Guin aka Penguin Stacy makes a cameo in Spider-Gwen Annual #1 (2016)

Independent ⋅ 2009
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Mike Mignola 2009 sketchbook

Independent ⋅ 2011
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Mike Mignola 2011 sketchbook

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Natasha Irons becomes Steel

Ape Entertainment ⋅ 2011
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1st appearance of Black Dynamite in comics, inspired by the 2009 film

Big City Comics ⋅ 1990
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1st appearance of Brotherman, a hero committed to bringing justice to Big City

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1st appearance of Bloodwynd, later revealed to be Martian Manhunter in disguise but eventually becomes an original character

Cover art inspired by Justice League of America #1 (1960)

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1st full appearance and origin of Bloodwynd, a descendant of slaves who created the Blood Gem - previously appeared in Justice League America #61 but later revealed to be Martian Manhunter in disguise

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1st cameo appearance of Spider-Guin aka Penguin Stacy

1st appearance of Koala Kommander, a parody of Cobra Commander

First solo Spider-Gwen annual issue

1:10 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2017
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Variant cover art by Leonard Kirk featuring X-23, Laura Kinney and Gabby aka Honey Badger

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16-promotional comic produced by Custom Comics for the New York City Police Department

Coincided with the introduction of the 9-1-1 emergency phone number

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First crossover of Ghostbusters and Transformers

Dynamic Forces ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 1999
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Variant cover art by JG Jones featuring Yelena Belova

Real name revealed in this issue, introduces herself as The Black Widow in Inhumans #5

Dynamic Forces edition

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16-page preview included in Wizard Magazine #90

1st partial cover appearance and sketch preview of Black Widow, Yelena Belova

Marvel ⋅ 1999
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1st appearance of Achebe, a brilliant but psychotic man who sold his soul to Mephisto

1st cameo appearance of White Wolf

1st cameo team appearance of the Hatut Zeraze

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One-shot collection of pin-ups showing Marvel heroes on vacation

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A collection of pin-ups featuring Marvel superheroes on vacation

Cover art by Marc Silvestri featuring Storm

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A collection of pin-ups featuring Marvel superheroes on vacation

Cover art by Joe Jusko featuring Rogue

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A collection of pin-ups featuring Marvel superheroes on vacation

Cover art by Adam Hughes featuring Namor and the Invisible Woman

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A collection of pin-ups featuring Marvel superheroes on vacation

Cover art by Tim and Greg Hildebrandt featuring Gambit and Rogue

In 2019 Marvel canceled a revival of the Marvel Swimsuit title for reasons unknown

DC ⋅ 1988
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1st appearance of Extrano, DC's first openly gay character

1st appearance of Jet, Celia Windward

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1st appearance of Tom Foster as the second Black Goliath

In the next issue, Tom drops 'black' from his codename and becomes Goliath

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First published appearance of Darkwing Duck in a comic magazine story

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Final issue of the 1991 Innovation series

Dynamite ⋅ 2013
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Cover art by Jenny Frison

Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2015
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Variant cover art by Dale Keown

Four Color Grail edition

Variant ⋅ Dynamite ⋅ 2013
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Variant cover art by Lucio Parrillo

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Variant cover art by Jenny Frison

Preview of the 2009 limited series 'Vampirella Second Coming'

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1st full appearance of War Toy, a mate created by Ultron who possessed the brain patterns of Mockingbird

2nd Print ⋅ Cartoon Books ⋅ 1991
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Second printing with lime-green title text

Preview ⋅ WildStorm ⋅ 2008
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First written work in the comic book industry by J.J. Abrams

San Diego Comic Con 2008 exclusive given away to promote the TV series Fringe

5-page preview with character bios, 12 pages total

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1st appearance of the personality Marvel refers to as the 'Mindless Hulk'

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Origin of the Priest of Sickles

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Promotional mini-comic packaged with Splat hair dye

350,000 units produced

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Promotional comic published by DC and UNICEF to promote landmine awareness in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Published in English, Latin and Cyrillic

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1st appearance and origin of Samurai Jack in comics

1st appearance of Aku, translation "evil" in Japanese, a shape-shifting demon and the main antagonist of Samurai Jack

DC Vertigo ⋅ 2002
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Double Feature Edition

Collects the first and second issue of Y: The Last Man with a composite cover of both issues

1:50 ⋅ IDW ⋅ 2019
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Variant cover art by Kevin Eastman

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Autobiographical comic book featuring stories about the author, Harvey Pekar and his life in Cleveland, Ohio

Adapted into a film starring Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar

American Splendor was a 16 issue series, published annually until 1993 when it was then acquired by Dark Horse

Canadian Edition ⋅ DC ⋅ 1988
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$1.00 Canadian price variant

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1st full appearance of Kaliber

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Beginning of Lobo's distinct character development as he is known today

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1st U.S. appearance of Godzilla, unnamed

Godzilla battles Mothra in the first panel, inspired by 'Godzilla vs The Thing (1964)

DC ⋅ 1998
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1st appearance of Lobo's daughter, imagined - Lobo imagines what it would be like to be married with a child. The depiction of his child looks like the character Crush, his actual in-continuity daughter, introduced 20 years later in Teen Titans (2018)

Variant ⋅ Caliber ⋅ 1997
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Variant cover art by Adam Hughes

Marvel ⋅ 1972
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First battle of Godzilla vs King Kong (movie stills)

DC ⋅ 1984
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Partial origin of Lobo

1:25 ⋅ DC Vertigo ⋅ 2010
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Variant cover art by Jim lee

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