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Adaptation of the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Published by DC in 1989, two years later Marvel began publishing the comic book series, Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book

Cheerios mail-away promotion

SDCC ⋅ 88 MPH Studios ⋅ 2004

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San Diego Comic Con 2004 exclusive

Ashcan edition, 12-pages black & white

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1st team appearance of the Alpha Lanterns: Boodikka, Chaselon, Green Man, Kraken and Varix

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1st appearance of Pink Goblin

3rd Print ⋅ ONI ⋅ 2015

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Variant third printing cover art by Julieta Locas

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Reprint of Giant Size X-Men #1

2nd team appearance of the New Mutants, in a back-up story featuring Kitty Pryde celebrating her birthday

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Debut of new Squirrel Girl costume

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1st appearance of Steven Universe, the son of a Crystal Gem guardian and a human

Halloween Spoooktacular published between the pilot episode of Steven Universe (May 2013) and the first episode of the first season (November 2013)

Marvel ⋅ 2004

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Origin of Black Widow, specifically the brainwashing and training she and 27 other orphaned girls endured after being recruited to The Red Room Academy for the Black Widow Ops Program

Variant ⋅ Image ⋅ 1999

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Variant cover art by Todd McFarlane

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Death of Time Trapper

Death of Mordru

1st appearance of The Black Witch, formerly The White Witch

Duo Damsel renamed Duplicate Damsel

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First mention of Starheart, the sentient embodiment of the Green Flame of the lantern

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1st appearance of Sodam Yat as Ion

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1st appearance of Kinetix, controls telekinetic magic

1st appearance of Gates, creates teleportation disks

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Retitled ‘Legion of Super-Heroes'

Continues numbering from 'Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes'

Superboy leaves the Legion of Super-Heroes

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First solo series featuring Steven Universe

Convention Exclusive ⋅ BOOM! ⋅ 2019

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Variant cover art by Xiao Tong Kong

2019 convention exclusive

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Officially retitled 'Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes'

Continues numbering from 'Superboy'

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1st appearance of the Infinite Man, has the ability to summon any creature from any era

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1st appearance of Sodam Yat, later introduced as Ion, prophesied to be the Ultimate Green Lantern

1st team appearance of the Children of the White Lobe, prophesied to contribute to the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps

1st appearance of Qull of the Five Inversions, a demon who foreshadowed the destruction of the Green Lantern Corps to Abin Sur

1st appearance of T:D:H:D, the Mad God

Written by Alan Moore in 1986, the prophecy of Qull was the foundation of the Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night storylines, written by Geoff Johns 20 years later

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Origin of Black Widow continued

1:10 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2010

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Variant cover art by Adi Granov

'White Suit' variant

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Origin continued

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Death of Ivan Petrovich

Origin of Black Widow concluded

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Solo story touring the Fortress of Solitude

Image ⋅ 2017

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Copies ordered by retailers: 15,400

DC ⋅ 2001

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Harley Quinn pitches an idea for a TV show that would feature Harley, Poison Ivy and Catwoman

The team-up of the three characters is imagined as Harley explains her idea but does not actually occur

2nd Print ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2010

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Variant second printing cover art by Harvey Tolibao

Wraparound cover depicting Psylocke battling The Hand

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Cover art inspired by the Nirvana album 'Nevermind'

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Fuse, Ramone’s brother, says that he thinks she is going to use the codename Alloy

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Origin of Stature

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First solo series featuring Sam Wilson as Captain America

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Doctor Octopus begins transferring his mind to the body of Peter Parker, later Doc Ock becomes The Superior Spider-Man

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1st appearance of Godwulf

Final issue

1:50 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2014

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Variant cover art by Adam Hughes

Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2019

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Variant cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz

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One-shot based on the Star Trek: New Frontier television series

1:200 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2019

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Variant virgin cover art by Artgerm featuring Gwen Stacy

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Issue #3 in the seven-issue series

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Low print run: 21,366

Marvel ⋅ 2008

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1st appearance of Wasabi-No Ginger, a samurai chef

1st appearance of Fredzilla

1:50 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2019

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Variant cover art by Bill Sienkiewicz

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1st appearance of Mr. Thunderbolt

1st appearance of The Operator

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Free Comic Book Day 2009

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Debut of new Solar Rangers costumes

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1st team appearance of The Ghostbusters in U.S. comic books

Adapted from the cartoon series

[August 2024 - Netflix has ordered a Ghostbusters animated series from Sony Pictures Animation]

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1st team appearance of The Ghostbusters in comics

Published by Marvel UK (United Kingdom)

DC Vertigo ⋅ 1989

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1st cameo appearance of Merv Pumpkinhead

Ashcan ⋅ IDW ⋅ 2019

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First meeting of The Transformers and Ghostbusters

1st appearance of Ecto-1 (Ecto-tron), the Ghostbusters' car as a Transformer

Promotional Ashcan edition

1:50 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2013

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Variant cover art by Milo Manara

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