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1st appearance of Green Lantern, John Stewart

[October 2024 - Aaron Pierre cast as John Stewart in the Lanterns]

2nd appearance of Green Lantern, Guy Gardner

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

1st appearance of Epione, an Amazon

Dynamite Entertainment ⋅ 2008

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Adaptation of the video game franchise that spawned 11 games

Copies ordered by retailers: 7,810

[April 2020 - optioned for a TV series with a showrunner attached]

Image ⋅ 2014

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Second lowest quantity of copies ordered by retailers in the series: 11,766

Marvel ⋅ 1977

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1st appearance of Uni-Mind, a gift to the Eternals from the Celestials allowing a telepathic link to one another

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1st appearance of Admiral Thrawn

1st appearance of Mara Jade, the wife of Luke Skywalker

1st appearance of Joruus C'baoth, a clone of Palpatine

1st appearance of Gilad Pallaeon, a commander under Thrawn

Store Exclusive ⋅ BOOM! ⋅ 2019

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Variant cover art by Peach Momoko, limited to 250 copies

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Exclusive ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2019

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'Imagineering' edition, given to developers of the Galaxy's Edge theme park at Disney World and Disneyland

Print run of 6,800 copies

Variant ⋅ Devil's Due Publishing ⋅ 2019

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Variant cover art by Carla Cohen, limited to 250 copies

DC sent a cease and desist to Devil's Due for further printings and also to retailers who were selling the cover

Marvel ⋅ 2009

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Five-issue series that begins with heroes from the Ultimate Universe exploring foreboding natural disasters including underwater volcanoes, mentioned in Avengers Endgame

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First appearance of Blade outside of Tomb of Dracula

First meeting of Blade and Morbius

2nd Print ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2018

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Variant second printing cover art by Ryan Stegman

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1st appearance of the Black Widow, Natasha Romanova

Death of the first Crimson Dynamo

1st appearance and death of the second Crimson Dynamo, Boris Turgenov

BOOM! ⋅ 2018

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A top-secret, elite branch of boy scouts tasked by the government to take on covert missions

Copies ordered by retailers: 9,686

[April 2020 - creator Matt Kindt responded to a tweet asking if Black Badge has been optioned by saying ‘we’re just waiting for an official announcement’ then removed it from his Twitter account]

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First meeting of the original Black Knight, Sir Percy and Dane Whitman, the third Black Knight

Origin of the Black Knight, Sir Percy

Origin of the Ebony Blade and Ebony Dagger

Marvel ⋅ 2001

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1st team appearance of X-Statix: Coach, Anarchist, Battering Ram, Gin Genie, La Nuit, Plazm, Sluk, Zeitgeist, Doop, U-Go Girl

[March 2025 - supposed concept art leaked online depicting Doop for a potential MCU project but the legitimacy of the artwork being official is unknown - see additional images by tapping cover and swiping]

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1st cameo appearance of the Joker's daughter aka Duela Dent, reintroduced in the New 52, final page

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Cover art by J. Scott Campbell featuring The Black Cat

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