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Canadian Edition ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 1983
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$60
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$300
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$675

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$0.75 Canadian price variant

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$8
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$20
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$75

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1st appearance of Terry McGinnis as Batman (Beyond) in-costume, in-story

1st cameo appearance of Blight, a living nuclear disaster emitting radiation as a green, glowing skeleton

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One-shot anthology of horror stories collected in hardcover, prestige format edition

1st appearance of The Beasts of Burden, a group of pets that investigate the legend of a haunted doghouse

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Cover art featuring Orko

Final issue

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Reprint of Batman's first appearance

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1st appearance of Nebula as a cyborg, similar to how she appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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1st team appearance of the corrupted gods that serve as Knull's sentries

Variant ⋅ Zenescope ⋅ 2013
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Variant cover art by Elias Chatzoudis

Limited to 500 copies

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$4
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$12
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$40

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1st appearance of Joultz

Promotional giveaway by Con Edison, an energy provider based in New York

Charlton ⋅ 1960
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$25
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$80
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$250

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1st appearance of Konga

Variant ⋅ Image ⋅ 2018
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Variant Pink Signature edition

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1st appearance of Preus, a sergeant in the Citizen's Patrol Corps who kept peace in Kandor

Centaur ⋅ 1942
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$125
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$330
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$890

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Promotional comic commissioned by the Chicago Mail Order Company that was also a catalog of items for sale

Clothing and items were incorporated into the stories that could be purchased from the comic book/catalog

GT Interactive Software ⋅ 1996
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$40
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$110
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$475

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Promotional issue given away at a gaming convention in 1996

First printing can be identified by the black warning banner at the top of the cover with red text fully italicized

First printing can also be identified by the issue number '#1' NOT italicized

Second printing is nearly identical except that the two aforementioned criteria are reversed with the issue number '#1' italicized and the red banner text NOT italicized

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1st appearance of Nate Heywood the grandson of Commander Steel, later becomes Citizen Steel

1st team appearance of the Fourth Reich: Captain Nazi, White Dragon, Baroness Blitzkrieg, Swastika, Reichsmark

Foil ⋅ Image ⋅ 2018
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$30
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$90
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$310

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Variant silver foil cover

Obtained by purchasing the Oblivion Song Collector's Edition which included: a statue replica of the cover to the first issue, a print and a pin

Variant ⋅ DC ⋅ 2004
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Variant sketch cover art by Jim Lee

Price Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 1976
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$30
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$90
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$310

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$0.30 price variant

1:50 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2019
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$4
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$12
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$45

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Variant cover art by Adi Granov

1:100 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2019
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$5
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$18
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$65

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Variant virgin cover art by Adi Granov

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One-shot featuring an alternate reality where Supergirl and Batgirl are the main heroes in place of Superman and Batman

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Marriage of Hulk and Caiera

The Hulk becomes king of Sakaar

2nd Print ⋅ Image ⋅ 2008
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$5
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$18
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$65

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Second printing

Store Exclusive ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2019
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$3
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$9
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$25

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Variant sketch cover art by Jay Anacleto

Variant ⋅ Devil's Due Publishing ⋅ 2008
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$15
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$150

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First commissioned cover art by Jenny Frison

Although Voltron was published first, this cover of Hack/Slash was her first hired-on job in comics

Marvel ⋅ 2012
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$15

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First team-up of Hawkeye Clint Barton and Hawkeye, Kate Bishop

Variant ⋅ Mig.Biz ⋅ 2006
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Variant black and white sketch art by Jim Steranko

Dynamite ⋅ 2011
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$12

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Cover art by Lucio Parrillo

Dynamite ⋅ 2011
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$55

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Cover art by Lucio Parrillo

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1st appearance of White Raven, a famous intergalactic bounty hunter

One-shot issue originally published in 1995 by Panini, Marvel's publishing partner based in Italy

Dark Horse ⋅ 2001
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Cover art by Leinil Francis Yu

64 pages

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Copies ordered by retailers: 11,689

2nd Print ⋅ Image ⋅ 2004
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$5
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$15
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$50

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Second printing indicated by the number 2 as the last number on the UPC/barcode

Reprint ⋅ DC ⋅ 2008
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$18

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Reprint of Watchmen #1

Variant ⋅ Devil's Due Publishing ⋅ 2019
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$25

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'Cease and DCist' edition, limited to 500 copies

Created in response to DC sending a Cease and Desist letter to Devil's Due for portraying Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as Wonder Woman in a previous issue

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500th issue double-sized anniversary issue

Interior art by John Romita Sr and John Romita Jr

Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2008
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$40
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$120
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$400

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Book Market variant

1:20 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2008
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$10
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$30
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$100

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Variant cover art by Frank Cho

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Debut of Spider-Man Armor MK III, a multi-enemy defensive and offensive suit designed to fight The Sinister Six

Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2015
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$70

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Variant wraparound cover art by Art Adams

Dynamite ⋅ 2014
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$25

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Team-up of Django and Zorro

Co-published by DC and Dynamite

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$1k
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$4.6k

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Cover art by Alex Schomburg

Depiction of torture

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Variant cover art featuring Peter Parker as Prodigy

Interior story is Spectacular Spider-Man #257

2nd Print ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2018
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Variant second printing cover art by Ken Lashley

Cover art inspired by Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975)

Archie ⋅ 1993
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$9
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$95

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Cover art by Dan DeCarlo

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$18
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$60

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1st appearance of Inque

Final issue of the first limited series

23,000 copies ordered by retailers

DC ⋅ 1980
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$3
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$12

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First published artwork at DC by George Perez

International ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 1995
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$120
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$400
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$1.2k

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Variant colorless cover

Promotional giveaway originating from Finland

Variant ⋅ Dynamite ⋅ 2017
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$4
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$12
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$40

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Variant cover art by John Cassaday

Subscription edition

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1st appearance of Jughead as a werewolf

One-shot, standalone issue that led to an ongoing series

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