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Newsstand ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2010

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Newsstand Edition, indicated by the barcode

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Joker appears as an old man in an alternate reality wearing a pin similar to the Watchmen's Comedian

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One-shot issue featuring Moe, the bartender from The Simpsons

Ashcan ⋅ Image ⋅ 1993

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Ashcan edition limited to 1,800 copies

Black and white issue with partial story pages from issue #1 and #2

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1st full appearance of Blaze, the demon sister of Satanus

Marvel ⋅ 2019

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Kitty Pryde becomes the Red Queen

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Cover art by Tim Sale featuring The Riddler

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Expanded origin stories based on characters from the 2009 Borderland game

Origin of Roland, a playable character from the game

[April 2021 - Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett and Gina Carano starring in the film directed by Eli Roth / In theaters August 9, 2024]

GameStop ⋅ IDW ⋅ 2012

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GameStop exclusive

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Expanded origin stories based on characters from the 2009 Borderland game

Origin of Lilith, a playable character from the game

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Expanded origin stories based on characters from the 2009 Borderland game

Origin of Brick, a playable character from the game

Dark Horse ⋅ 1991

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Sin City stories begin and continue through Dark Horse Presents #62

Image ⋅ 2005

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First reprint of The Walking Dead #1

Also reprinted: Girls #1, Sea of Red #1, Strange Girls #1

Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2008

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Variant cover art featuring the Iron Fist logo

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1st appearance of Pokemon in U.S. comics

Marvel ⋅ 2017

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1st team appearance of Froggy Frelson and Murd Blurdock, parody characters based on Froggy Nelson and Matt Murdock

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Variant cover art by Kevin Eastman

Promo ⋅ Image ⋅ 2018

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Variant cover art by Chris Burnham

Scarce 'The Last Wine' edition reprinting The Walking Dead #1

Promotional comic distributed with The Walking Dead branded wine which include augmented reality "living" labels, interactive with mobile phones

Consumer popularity caused wine distributors to restrict shipment of the wine to avoid a complete absence of the product from the market between vintages

Dynamite Entertainment ⋅ 2010

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Cover art by J. Scott Campbell featuring Dejah Thoris

Dynamite Entertainment ⋅ 2010

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Cover art by J. Scott Campbell featuring Dejah Thoris

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First meeting of Naomi and Young Justice

Debut of new costume and code name for Tim Drake

Origin of Jinny Hex

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1st appearance of Mademoiselle Marie, decades later it is revealed that she had an affair with a British Military officer named Alfred Pennyworth and from the encounter, had a child named Julia (Pennyworth)

Fantagraphics ⋅ 1988

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First cover art by Adam Hughes

Variant ⋅ BOOM! ⋅ 2019

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Variant cover art by Mirka Andolfo, limited to one per store

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First team-up of the Incredible Hulk and She-Hulk, the first time they fought side-by-side

In the Disney movie Cool Runnings, the character named Sanka is reading this comic

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Comic book adaptation of the Cartoon Network's first original animated mini-series

Comic Zone ⋅ 1992

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Biography of Ted Bundy, believed to have killed over 36 people

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Cover art by Jim Balent

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1st appearance of General Grevious, a cyborg and Supreme Commander of the Confederacy of Independent Systems

1st cover appearance of Barriss Offee

WildStorm ⋅ 2002

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Marriage of Apollo and Midnighter

First mainstream comic book wedding between two male superheroes

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Marriage of Titania and Absorbing Man

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Captain America transforms into a werewolf (Capwolf) after being injected with a mutagen

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Marriage of Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon

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Ra's Al Ghul marries Batman to Talia Al Ghul while Batman's unconscious.

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1st appearance of Roy Harper as a vampire hunter from Earth-43

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Wedding of Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy in an alternate reality

1st full appearance of Uranos, an Eternal

Origin of the Eternals continued

DC Vertigo ⋅ 2012

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Hip-hop retelling of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' with focus placed on Tybalt, set in a futuristic version of Brooklyn

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Six-issue limited series adapted from the Sony Playstation video game of the same name

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Six-issue limited series adapted from the Sony Playstation video game of the same name

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Six-issue limited series adapted from the Sony Playstation video game of the same name

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Six-issue limited series adapted from the Sony Playstation video game of the same name

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Six-issue limited series adapted from the Sony Playstation video game of the same name

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Six-issue limited series adapted from the Sony Playstation video game of the same name

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In accordance with the writer Mark Gruenwald's wishes, his cremated ashes were mixed with the ink in the first printing edition of this trade paperback

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1st appearance of Black Krrsantan, a Wookiee bounty hunter

1st cameo appearance of Doctor Cylo

First ongoing Darth Vader solo-titled series

📖 Reading Order: next read Star Wars #4 (2015)

Variant ⋅ BOOM! ⋅ 2017

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Variant cover art by Micahel Dialynas

Limited to 500 copies

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1st cover appearance of Uncle Scrooge

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Origin of Apocalypse

Introduction of Akkaba, the place of Apocalypse's birth

GameStop ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2000

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Promotional giveaway inserted in GamePro, a video game magazine, issue #147 (December 2000)

Tie-in to the Neversoft Spider-Man game

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Marvel ⋅ 2015

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1st appearance of Sana Starros in disguise

📖 Reading Order: next read Darth Vader #2 (2015 series)

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