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Error ⋅ SLG ⋅ 1996

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Fourth printing, error edition

Value unknown

DC ⋅ 2016

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$2
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$3

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1st appearance of Wallace R. West as Kid Flash

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$3

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1st appearance of Salome, a Sorceress Supreme of the ancient world

Dynamite ⋅ 2011

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1st full team appearance of the Ninjettes

Dynamite ⋅ 2011

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1st cameo team appearance of the Ninjettes

Bad Idea ⋅ 2022

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Story of a thief who escapes from hell and is pursued by demons

Multiple choice ending that gives the reader the option of which story to follow in later publications

Bad Idea describes this story as potentially infinite and endless in its diverging narrative

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20-page promotional comic created by Marvel in collaboration with iConnect internet service provider

Story takes place in the 20th Century Fox X-Men Movie Universe

1:30 ⋅ BOOM! ⋅ 2018

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$18

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Variant cover art by Dan Mora

Store Exclusive ⋅ Image ⋅ 2021

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$8
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$25

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Variant cover art by Bryan Silverbax, limited to 500 copies

Cover art inspired by the Notorious B.I.G. album 'Ready To Die'

2nd Print ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2014

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Second printing

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$9
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$35

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Anthology of stories available at San Diego Comic Con 1992 or by mail order

Exclusive ⋅ DC ⋅ 2020

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$1k

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Promotional comic given away in celebration of Burbank, California's installation of a 15-foot statue of Batman based on Jim Lee's character design

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Copies ordered by retailers: 5,924

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$18
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$65

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Promotional item with sketches of various characters featured in Mortal Kombat Deception including Havik, Tanya, and Sindel, as well as a brief account of the game's history

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2nd appearance of Hypno-Hustler

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$45
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$130

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1st appearance of Hypno-Hustler

Whitman edition

Whitman ⋅ Western ⋅ 1974

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$120
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$450

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1st appearance of the Addams Family in a standard format comic

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Promotional giveaway obtained by getting a Covid-19 vaccination

Collaboration by Marvel, Pfizer and Biontech

Dell ⋅ 1946

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$275

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First original stories featuring Popeye created for the comic book format, previous publications were collected newspaper strips

Dell ⋅ 1967

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Final issue with interior art and story by long-time Popeye creator Bud Sagendorf

The Popeye title continued with issue #94, published by Charlton Comics with interior art by George Wildman - issue number #93 was never published and issue #95 was the final consecutive Bud Sagendorf cover

Dell ⋅ 1962

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Gold Key/Western begins publishing Popeye

Tile changes from 'Popeye' to 'Popeye the Sailor'

Gamestop ⋅ 2018

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Wraparound cover art by Alex Ross featuring Spider-Man from the PlayStation Universe, published prior to the first in-story appearance in Spider-Geddon #0

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1st appearance of Hypno-Hustler

[December 2022 - Donald Glover reported to be cast in a Sony Spider-Man film that will be written by Myles Murphy, son of Eddie Murphy and focus on the character Hypno-Hustler]

Whitman ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 1977

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1st cover appearance of Han Solo and Chewbacca

Whitman edition with UPC in bottom left corner

There is a theory the earliest Whitman 3-pack issues of Star Wars #1 - #3 were printed with UPC codes but they confused the grocery store scanners and were left off later printings

Dell ⋅ 1948

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First ongoing solo-titled Popeye series in standard comic format

Previous issues with Popeye headlining the title fell within a series like Feature Book, King Comics and Four Color

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Obtained as a mailaway offer from Wizard

Story: Ghost Rider pursues the CEO of a company that produces defective motorcycles which burn their owners to death

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$8k

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Referred to as the 'Remember Pearl Harbor' issue due to the icon on the cover

Pearl Harbor refers to the December 7, 1941 attack on a naval base in Honolulu Hawaii which led to the United States entering World War II

Diamond Exclusive ⋅ DC ⋅ 1999

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$250

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Distributed to attendees of the 1999 Baltimore Retailer Representative Program meeting of comic shop owners

Games Workshop ⋅ 1998

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Premiere issue of the ongoing Warhammer anthology series

Cover art featuring Captain Leonatos who also appeared on the back cover of the preview in an advertisement for this issue

Games Workshop ⋅ 1998

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Promotional preview for the 1998 Warhammer anthology comic set in the world of the war game

[December 2022 - Henry Cavill is closing in on a deal to star and executive produce a series adaptation of Warhammer 40,000 for Amazon to be produced by Games Workshop and Vertigo Entertainment]

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Variant cover art by Geoff Senior

Variant ⋅ Keenspot ⋅ 2018

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Variant cover art by Shawn Remulac featuring Kanye West aka Ye

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Cover art by George Perez inspired by Superman #1 (1939)

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Premiere issue of a series based on the Fox Kids animated series, preceded by a Wizard Magazine distributed #1/2 issue

Reprint ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2005

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Reprint of Avengers #87, the origin of Black Panther

Distributed with the 2005 Marvel Legends Black Panther action figure

1:50 ⋅ DC ⋅ 2022

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Variant cover art by Joshua Middleton

Foil edition

Image ⋅ 1998

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$15

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Copies ordered by retailers: approx. 29,743

Fun Publications ⋅ 2012

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$45

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Series created exclusively for BotCon, later distributed to comic shops through Diamond

2nd Print ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2020

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$35

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Second printing

Marvel ⋅ 2019

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$10

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Copies ordered by retailers: 25,816

Wizard Exclusive ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 1999

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$30

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Adaptation of the 'World's Apart' Spider-Man Unlimited animated series episode

Obtained by mail through a Wizard Magazine special promotion

Image ⋅ 2022

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1st team appearance of the Court of Priests

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Adaptation of the 1975 Disney film 'Escape From Witch Mountain' which was based off of the 1968 novel by Alexander Key

[December 2022 - a pilot episode starting Bryce Dallas Howard has been greenlit for Disney+]

Reprint ⋅ Dark Horse ⋅ 2022

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Reprint of The Last of Us: American Dreams #3

Distributed with the Firefly Edition of the Last of Us Part 1 video game re-release sold exclusively in the United States (July 2022) on direct.playstation.com

Reprint ⋅ Dark Horse ⋅ 2022

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Reprint of The Last of Us: American Dreams #2

Distributed with the Firefly Edition of the Last of Us Part 1 video game re-release sold exclusively in the United States (July 2022) on direct.playstation.com

Reprint ⋅ Dark Horse ⋅ 2022

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Reprint of The Last of Us: American Dreams #1

Distributed with the Firefly Edition of the Last of Us Part 1 video game re-release sold exclusively in the United States (July 2022) on direct.playstation.com

Marvel ⋅ 1986

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1st cover appearance of Mojo

Reprint ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2017

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$18
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$60

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Reprint of Alf #48, published by Lionsgate Entertainment

How this issue was distributed is unknown with some saying that it was an Alf TV series DVD boxed set promotional item but it is a standard-sized issue therefore it would not fit in a DVD case

Fox ⋅ 1940

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1st appearance of Dynamite Thor, an explosive expert who fought Nazis

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One-shot standalone reprint of a story originally published in Giant-Size Spider-Man #1

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