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House of Mystery #175
DC ⋅ 1968
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House of Mystery #175
 
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1st appearance of Cain, House of Mystery caretaker

1st appearance of Gregory the Gargoyle

The Sandman #1
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1989
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The Sandman #1
 
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1st appearance of Dream aka Morpheus

1st appearance of Unity Kincaid

1st appearance of Roderick Burgess

1st appearance of Ethel Cripps

The Sandman #4
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1989
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The Sandman #4
 
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1st appearance of Lucifer Morningstar

1st appearance of demon Azazel, Choronzon and Beezlebub in fly form

1st cameo appearance of Nada, a former lover of Dream

The Sandman #8
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1989
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The Sandman #8
 
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1st appearance of Death, Dream’s sister

Books of Magic #1
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1990
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Books of Magic #1
 
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1st full appearance of Timothy Hunter, a boy destined to be the world’s greatest magician

Books of Magic #1
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1994
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Books of Magic #1
 
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Series about a young magician and his journey

The Invisibles #10
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1995
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The Invisibles #10
 
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1st appearance of Jim Crow

The Invisibles #25
DC Vertigo ⋅ 1996
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The Invisibles #25
 
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1st appearance of Division X

Fables #1
DC Vertigo ⋅ 2002
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Fables #1
 
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Premiere issue of the ongoing Vertigo series about traditional fable characters ousted from their homelands and living in the real world

Fables #1
Variant ⋅ DC Vertigo ⋅ 2002
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Fables #1
 
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Variant cover art by Alex Maleev

Y: The Last Man #1
DC Vertigo ⋅ 2002
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Y: The Last Man #1
 
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Premiere issue of a series created by Brian K. Vaughn about the last man on a female populated Earth

Ex-Machina #1
WildStorm ⋅ 2004
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Ex-Machina #1
 
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1st appearance of Mitchell Hundred

[January 2020 - Legendary to adapt into a movie]

Sweet Tooth #1
DC Vertigo ⋅ 2009
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Sweet Tooth #1
 
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A young man with deer-like features journeys to a sanctuary, hunted by those who believe the half-human-animal hybrids are somehow responsible for the plague that has been erasing humanity

Copies ordered by retailers: 18,551

Adapted for a Netflix television series

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