MR SigS

I found this at a convention last year in a 50% off box. When looking closer that night in the hotel, I discovered that after what should be the last page, an additional 32 pages (the last) were added. The 3rd image is a top view next to another Giant Size. I love these kind of surprises- a book in a 50% off box with 50% more comic, and it isn't as fun for me if I know of the error before I buy it. If only it had a 2nd cover.

I get where you're coming from, but it wouldn't be a "prize" if it had a price tag.

I also bought the [True-Life Divorce] pages Mike Royer recreated and inked for the upcoming Kirby's Dingbat Love from TwoMorrow's Publishing, but promised not to show them before the book is released- Otherwise I might have posted them instead of the MM pages. It was supposed to have been last month, but now January.

My top 3 comics and top 3 pages of the last year.

It sure is- I bought it from a certain reptile a little East of here.

There is/was a cab company in Klamath Falls, Or called the Klamath Kab Kompany, and I swear the lit sign on the top simply read KKK

I forgot to add this to the first bunch.

I love the Annuals, but these are my only VFs(+/-).

The Watcher could lose a few pounds.

Thanks to Jimmers mentioning he liked Avengers #100 [in part] for the color, I would not have noticed the top edge of this issue. Thanks for liking yellow covers, Jimmers!

The People I want to share it with don't get it, and the people I know who would get it I don't want knowing about them. Not in that much detail.

Agreed it's ho hum, and certainly doesn't threaten X-Men 266 when it comes to significance or character development. As for when X-Fans and anyone else first became aware of him, only one issue qualifies.

CGC consider X-Men Annual #14 a Gambit cameo. All what, 14, 15 panels? So, at least 16 panels

Personally I only classify it as 1st app, regardless of the "quality" of it. In my collection It either is or it is not the first time a character appears, is named, and becomes an entity within a storyline and "universe". In my collection IH 180 = 1st Appearance, 181 = 1st Full Appearance, 182 = 1st Cameo (which, for me, doesn't mean anything).

I have the first 128 issues of Savage Dragon and checked their covers, but everyone (above 2 feet) is in such great shape Ridiculously proportioned, but great shape. So instead, Loraine Newman j/k John Belushi (and quite often, Dan Akroyd)

Definitely the Giant from the Disney Jack/Beanstalk story.

Peg-leg Pete

I agree 100% the content in 181 is far more relevant and significant to the character, making it THE book to have to most collectors including me. I also feel the content in 180 contains his 1st appearance. My point is if a description is not used when considering a 1st appearance, only one comic can be considered "The 1st Appearance of Wolverine [or?]". When people want to describe those appearances, that opens the door for other issues. That's just how I feel- I have both so if someday I ever have to sell, I should be okay in terms of value (if there's still value). Unless the hobby considers previews the 1st appearance at that time

Using an ad from a comic back in 1989, I ordered a copy of X-Men #50 advertised as "NM" for $35 iirc. I had it graded around 2011 and it got 9.6 OW. That was the only comic I bought from them..

Cable

Blackbeard's Ghost

I feel a Cameo is a brief appearance of an already established character, like Spider-Man in FF Annual #3; Likely everyone reading the issue for the first time knew who he was. Wolverine was in just one panel of 180, but the reader didn't know who he was because he'd never appeared in a story before this issue, making it a first appearance- Any description other than "first" is irrelevant IMO Some are very lame, like Darkseid, and if Forever People becomes the book to have because it's a better appearance, then that's that- But it doesn't change that Darkseid appeared in JO134 first. Sometimes it seems the problem is people feel that admitting Hulk 180 and others like it as being the 1st appearance means the value of their 181 (and others) will drop. Why would it when placing the higher value on a 1st app is not a rule that we must follow? And if one day covers become less important than context, causing 180 to become the book to have, so be it- The Market will have decided, but only to the value because that's all the Market can decide. That's how I see it, fwiw