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1st appearance of Barbara Ann Minerva, becomes Cheetah in issue #9

1st appearance of Epione, an Amazon

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1st cameo appearance of Kyle Rayner, final page, later becomes the third Green Lantern

1st cameo appearance of Alexandra DeWitt, Rayner's girlfriend who is brutally murdered in the controversial issue Green Lantern #54

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A young woman wields a bewitched Viking axe against four criminals whose decapitated heads speak to her and continue to endanger the life of the one she loves

🔮 DC Possibilities: James Gunn cut his chops on horror and the genre is winning at the box office so chances are good we’ll see chillers coming from WB, possibly even from the son of Stephen King’s Hill House DC imprint

[February 2025 - as predicted back in October 2022, an adaptation is in the works with Natasha Lyonne to star and produce]

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1st appearance of Elainna Grayson, future daughter of Dick Grayson, later becomes Batwoman

Copies ordered by retailers: 24,219

Eclipse ⋅ 1985

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Reintroduction of Marvelman, a 1950s British superhero renamed Miracleman for legal purposes

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Jennika transforms into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

Copies ordered by retailers: 15,381

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1st appearance and origin of Deadman, a ghost with the ability to possess the living

1st cameo appearance of Rama Kushna, voice only

Marvel ⋅ 1987

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1st full team appearance of the Horsemen of Apocalypse: Death, Famine, War, Pestilence

1st full appearance of Angel as the Horseman Death, later named Archangel in X-Factor #38

⚠️ Debatable Firsts: Angel's first appearance as Archangel is often cited as X-Factor #24. The Horseman Death, formerly known as Angel, becomes Archangel in X-Factor #38

Marvel ⋅ 2019

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1st cameo appearance of Danielle Cage as Thor, in an alternate reality

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1st appearance of a Vox, a Super-Inhuman, later becomes Vox Supreme

Design ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2018

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Variant cover art by Ariel Olivetti

Marvel ⋅ 1989

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Origin and death of the Goblin Queen aka Madelyne Pryor

Warren Worthington, formerly Angel, then the Horseman Death, becomes Archangel, named by Beast

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1st appearance of Tiger Claw, an assassin

Ahoy Comics ⋅ 2019

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Three high school jocks in the 1980s are frozen by an experimental cryogenics device and revived 40 years later in a computer-driven world ruled by nerds

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1st appearance of Ghost Maker, a KGB agent

Comic book displayed in the convenient store scene in Friday the 13th Part 3

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First team-up of Shang-Chi and Iron Fist

1st appearance of Quan-St'ar, the first to slay Shou-Lao the dragon of K'un-Lun

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1st appearance of Black Hand, utilizes technology to drain and repurpose the power of a Lantern Ring

Exclusive ⋅ Image ⋅ 2019

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Variant cover art by Todd McFarlane

‘Inaugural Signing Day’ exclusive available at a 2019 Alamo event at the Alamo Drafthouse in Phoenix, AZ

Marvel ⋅ 1981

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1st appearance and origin of Stained Glass Scarlet, a former nun who became a vigilante

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