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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

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

1st appearance of Belona and Zelda

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Four-issue adaptation of a novel about a private eye

[August 2023 - Skydance acquired the rights to Mike Hammer novels for feature film development]

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1st appearance of Heather Glenn, the girlfriend of Matt Murdock

1st appearance of the second Torpedo

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1st appearance of Cassandra Nova, a parasite from the astral plane who replicated the DNA of Charles Xavier while still in utero

Beast appears with further animal mutations

Debut of new X-Men suits

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1st full appearance of Spider-Woman, Julia Carpenter

First battle of She-Hulk vs Titania

Marvel ⋅ 1976

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1st appearance and origin of Nova, Richard Rider

1st appearance of Rhomann Dey, Corpsman of the Nova Corps

1st appearance of Robbie Rider, brother of Nova

[March 2022 - Deadline reports a Nova project is in development]

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Six-issue limited series

Glow-in-the-dark cover, polybagged with a poster

Origin of Radioactive Man

Fictional publishing date (1952), each comic in the series parodies a different era in comic book history - issues that follow display a fictional issue number

Secret Variant ⋅ Marvel ⋅ 2023

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Spoiler variant

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1st cameo appearance of the White Tiger, Ava Ayala

Marvel ⋅ 2006

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1st team appearance of the Children of the Vault: Sangre, Serafina, Perro, Fuego, Aguja, Cadena, Martillo, Luz, Corregidora

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1st appearance of Lady Deadpool

1st appearance of Cowboy Deadpool

Cover art inspired by the film 'Trainspotting'

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1st cameo appearance of Allen the Alien

1st full appearance of Atom Eve

1st appearance of the Mauler Twins

1st appearance of Robot

1st appearance of Rex-Splode

1st appearance of Dupli-Kate

Origin of Omni-Man

Copies ordered by retailers: 8,506

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1st appearance of Spider-Gwen, Gwen Stacy in an alternate universe (Earth-65)

1st appearance of Em Jay Watson (Earth-65) who later bonds with the Carnage symbiote

1st team appearance of the Mary Janes: Em Jay Watson, Betty Brant, Glory Grant

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The Dark Phoenix Saga Part 2

1st appearance of Dazzler

2nd appearance of Kitty Pryde

2nd appearance of Emma Frost

1st full appearance of Sebastian Shaw, the Black King

Jean Grey becomes the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club

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1st appearance of Mary Jane as Jackpot

1st appearance of Madame Monstrosity

Marriage of Janice Lincoln and Randy Robertson

1:10 ⋅ ONI ⋅ 2023

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Variant cover art by Jay Stephens

1:25 ⋅ DC ⋅ 2023

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Variant cover art by Christian Duce

Cover art inspired by The Incredible Hulk #340

1:25 ⋅ DC ⋅ 2023

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Variant cover art by Natali Sanders

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Recalled due to a depiction of a naked Peter Parker's 'web-shooter' aka penis

Alternate reality story where Peter Parker is an older, retired man

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