Cover art by Bruce Timm

1st appearance of Jo, April, Molly, Mal, Ripley, Jen, and Rosie

Early representation of a trans-person in comics (Jo)

Comichron reports under 16k copies of Lumberjanes #1 purchased by retailers including all variants except for the web exclusive

There are presumably fewer than 1,000 copies of the second printing

[October 2020 - 🚨 KEY COLECTOR COMICS EXCLUSIVE - an animated Lumberjanes series is in development for HBO Max]

1st appearance of Billie Morales, sister of Miles as a baby

Scarlet Witch gives birth to her and the Vision's twin sons

1st appearance of Thomas Shepherd as a baby, later becomes Speed

1st appearance of Billy Kaplan as a baby, later becomes Wiccan

Jennika transforms into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

Copies ordered by retailers: 15,381

1st appearance of Daken, the son of Wolverine and Itsu

Daken is featured in half of this issue but is mostly disguised although his claws are shown and he is revealed to be the son of Logan

[April 2021 - Marvel launched a travel website at exploremadripoor.com. There are certain numbers that were found in scenes of The Falcon and Winter Soldier that could be entered into different interactive parts of the site. Two names that were viewable on the site were Daken and Mystique]

1st appearance and origin of Ghost Rider, Robbie Reyes

[December 2021 - Gabriel Luna seems to be teasing a reprisal of his Ghost Rider role in response to a tweet from BossLogic]

Classic battle of Punisher vs Deadpool

1st appearance of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in comic books

1st cameo appearance of Punchline

1st cameo appearance of The Designer

1st appearance of Sam Wilson as Captain America

[SDCC 2022 - Captain America 4 officially titled Captain America: New World Order]

1st appearance of Gabby, a clone of X-23, later renamed Honey Badger, then Scout

1st appearance of Belona and Zelda

Rhodey assumes the codename War Machine

Prior to this this issue, War Machine was the name of the armor

Rhodes first wears the armor in Iron Man #284 but refers to himself as Iron Man. Prior to #284, Stark wore the War Machine armor

[February 2021 - Don Cheadle will reprise his role as War Machine in Armor Wars]

First chronological appearance of Rogue

First battle of Rogue vs Ms. Marvel

This story was intended to be published in Ms. Marvel #25 (1979) but the title was abruptly cancelled with Ms. Marvel #23 - Rogue was introduced two years later in Avengers Annual #10

Story also references Ms. Marvel's unexplained pregnancy

1st appearance and origin of Lady Bullseye

1st appearance and cover of Devil Dinosaur

1st appearance of Moon Boy

1st appearance of Static Shock, the first black superhero to star in his own cartoon series

1st appearance of Hotstreak, a villain with the power to control fire

[October 2020 - Warner Brothers and Michael B. Jordan to produce a Static Shock movie / June 2022 - rumor filming will begin late 2022 with Caleb McLaughlin (Stranger Things) in the lead role]

First issue of three-issue miniseries where Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova face-off to own the codename Black Widow

First mention of the Red Room where orphaned girls were trained in the Black Widow Ops program

Yelena Belova identity revealed

⚠ There is debate as to whether this issue is the first full appearance of Black Widow, Yelena Belova or Inhumans #5

Marc Spector assumes the moniker of Mr. Knight

⚠ Some collectors are gravitating to Secret Avengers #19 but the Mr. Knight persona was not introduced in that issue, just a similar suit

1st team appearance of the Dora Milaje, Wakanda's special forces: Okoye and Nakia

Nakia later becomes Malice

1st appearance of Zuri, an elder of Wakanda

1st appearance of Cletus Kasady, later becomes Carnage

1st full appearance of Cardiac, a doctor who vowed to find a cure for the ailment that caused the death of his brother

1st appearance of Firestorm, high school student Ronnie Raymond and physicist Martin Stein merged together after a nuclear accident

1st appearance of Danton Black, becomes Multiplex

First battle of Wolverine vs Deadpool

Premiere issue of a four-part limited series featuring Psylocke

Back-up story featuring Cable and his adopted daughter, Hope Summers - chapter two continues in Dark X-Men #1

2nd appearance and origin of Harley Quinn, not in the mainstream universe

1st appearance of Bud and Lou in comics, Harley's pet hyenas

First ongoing Deadpool title series

Deadpool begins to take shape as a comedic character under the direction of writer Joe Kelly

1st appearance of Blind Al

1st appearance of Cannon Fodder

1st appearance of Leatherhead, a mutated alligator and enemy of the Turtles

Premiere issue of John Constantine's first ongoing titled series

1st appearance of Papa Midnite

📈 +360% increase in copies sold this week versus the previous week

1st appearance of Livewire based off of the animated series, later becomes part of DC continuity

Squint first uses the alias Malak

⚠ Misconception: listings on eBay claim this issue is the first appearance of Darth Malak but according to writer John Jackson Miller: Malak does not fall to the Dark Side in my comics series. He first appears under the name Squint in KOTOR #0. He first uses the alias Malak in #31. He takes the name Malak permanently in #42

1st appearance of Vixen, the first black female member of the Justice League of America

[October 2020 - a unconfirmed project is rumored to be in the works for HBO Max]

1st appearance of Blackheart, son of Mephisto

Premiere issue of the new series that explores the Hulk's immortality

1st appearance of Jackie McGee, inspired by Jack McGee from The Hulk TV series

Circulation: 84,153

Cosmic Ghost Rider revealed to be Frank Castle in the far future

1st cameo appearance of Silver Surfer as the Fallen One

1st appearance of Gen, a rhinoceros bounty hunter

10-page Usagi Yojimbo story

1st appearance of the second Mr. Terrific, Michael Holt

1st appearance of Maika

First team-up of Power Man and Iron Fist

Classic battle of Flash vs Professor Zoom

1st appearance of Abraham

1st appearance of Rosita

1st appearance of Eugene

1st appearance of Black Hammer

1st appearance of Lucy Weber, later becomes the second Black Hammer

1st appearance of Abraham Slam

1st appearance of Talky-Walky

1st appearance of Madame Dragonfly

1st appearance of Golden Gail

1st appearance of Colonel Weird

1st appearance of Anti-God

1st team appearance of Starlok and the Lightriders

Copies ordered by retailers: 19,775

[December 2019 - optioned for TV and film by Legendary with development well underway according to Jeff Lemire]

First interior art by Jim Lee, interior inks

Ongoing series created by Terry Moore about a dead girl out for revenge