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Rift, The #1
Red 5 ⋅ 2017
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Rift, The #1
 
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Premiere issue of a 4 part series that tells the story of a woman and her son who witness the crash of a 1941 fighter plane that passed through a portal into the present day

Copies ordered by retailers: 2,391

[Aired on Apple TV April 2020]

Saga of the Swamp Thing #50
DC ⋅ 1986
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Saga of the Swamp Thing #50
 
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1st unofficial team appearance of the Justice League Dark

Death of Giovanni Zatara and Sargon the Sorcerer

1st full appearance of the Great Evil Beast, in the form of darkness

Captain America #354
Marvel ⋅ 1989
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Captain America #354
 
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1st full appearance and cover of John Walker as U.S. Agent, appeared briefly in West Coast Avengers #44

[September 2022 - confirmed for the Thunderbolts movie]

Tales of Suspense #82
Marvel ⋅ 1966
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Tales of Suspense #82
 
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1st appearance of Adaptoid, an android embedded with a shard of the Cosmic Cube who later became Super-Adaptoid

Amazing Spider-Man #101
2nd Print ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 1992
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Amazing Spider-Man #101
 
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Second printing with silver background published over two decades after the original

Captain America #323
Marvel ⋅ 1986
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Captain America #323
 
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1st appearance of John Walker as Super-Patriot, later becomes U.S. Agent

1st team appearance of The Buckies: Lemar Hoskins, later becomes Battlestar, Hector Lenox and Jerome Johnson, later become Left-Winger and Right-Winger

Specialty border printed on select covers published in November 1986 celebrating Marvel's 25th Anniversary or more precisely, the 25th year since Fantastic Four #1 was published in November 1961

Avenging Spider-Man #9
Marvel ⋅ 2012
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Avenging Spider-Man #9
 
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1st appearance of Carol Danvers as Captain Marvel

Carol doesn't officially accept the codename until Captain Marvel #1 2012

Thunderbolts #1
Marvel ⋅ 1997
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Thunderbolts #1
 
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Thunderbolts are revealed to be the Masters of Evil led by Baron Helmut Zemo as Citizen V

Meteorite revealed to be Moonstone

Atlas revealed to be Goliath

Mach-1 revealed to be Beetle

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Techno revealed to be Fixer

Songbird revealed to be Screaming Mimi

1st cameo appearance of Hallie Takahama, later becomes Jolt

1st appearance of Dallas Riordan

Incredible Hulk #449
Marvel ⋅ 1996
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Incredible Hulk #449
 
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1st team appearance of The Thunderbolts: Citizen V (formerly Baron Zemo), Atlas (formerly Goliath), Mach-1 (formerly Beetle), Songbird (formerly Screaming Mimi), Meteorite (formerly Moonstone II), Techno (formerly Fixer)

[February 2019 - 🚨 KEY COLLECTOR COMICS EXCLUSIVE - a Thunderbolts series is in development]

[SDCC 2022 - Thunderbolts confirmed]

Amazing Fantasy #7
Marvel ⋅ 2005
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Amazing Fantasy #7
 
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1st appearance of the new Scorpion, Carmilla Black

1st appearance of Monica Rapaccini, Scientist Supreme of A.I.M. and mother of Carmilla

[January 2020 - confirmed character in the M.O.D.O.K. animated series]

Copies purchased by retailers: 21,798

Creatures on the Loose #30
Marvel ⋅ 1974
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Creatures on the Loose #30
 
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Solo stories featuring Man-Wolf begin

1st appearance of Agent Simon Stroud

Hulk #1
Marvel ⋅ 2008
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Hulk #1
 
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1st cover appearance of the Red Hulk, General 'Thunderbolt' Ross

Death of Abomination, initially suspected to have been shot to death by the Hulk but later revealed to be murdered by the Red Hulk

1st team appearance of a new Winter Guard roster: Red Guardian, Ursa Major, Crimson Dynamo, Darkstar

⚠️ Debatable Firsts: the interior story is about a murder perpetrated by, who is believed to be the Hulk, Bruce Banner. Doc Samson as an investigator is piecing together what occurred and the panels depict a recreation of events from his point-of-view with the belief that it is Bruce Banner, the green Hulk who is the killer

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[October 2022 - Harrison Ford has been cast as General Ross in Thunderbolts but no word yet on if Red Hulk will appear]

Web of Venom: The Good Son #1
Non-Key
1:25 ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2020
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Web of Venom: The Good Son #1
 
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Variant cover art by Gerardo Sandoval

Vengeance #1
Marvel ⋅ 2011
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Vengeance #1
 
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1st appearance of Miss America aka America Chavez

Copies ordered by retailers: 25,873

Batman Beyond #25
DC ⋅ 2018
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Batman Beyond #25
 
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1st appearance of Elainna Grayson, future daughter of Dick Grayson, later becomes Batwoman

Copies ordered by retailers: 24,219

Thunderbolts #4
Marvel ⋅ 1997
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Thunderbolts #4
 
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1st full appearance of Jolt in costume

Justice League Dark #1
DC ⋅ 2011
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Justice League Dark #1
 
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1st team appearance of Justice League Dark: Hellblazer, Shade the Changing Man, Madame Xanadu, Deadman, Zatanna

Fear Agent #1
Image ⋅ 2005
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Fear Agent #1
 
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A drunken Texan travels the galaxy exterminating aliens as one of the last representatives of the once great Fear Agents

Cover art inspired by Weird Science-Fantasy #29 by Frank Frazetta

Copies ordered by retailers: 7,643

[June 2020 - pilot script is finished]

Tales of Suspense #94
Marvel ⋅ 1967
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Tales of Suspense #94
 
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1st appearance of M.O.D.O.K., a Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing

Captain America #333
Marvel ⋅ 1987
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Captain America #333
 
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1st appearance of John Walker as the fourth Captain America, formerly Super-Patriot

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