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Apologies to my takers for delay, but I will close this thing in the a.m. and get PM’s out. Last call at half off, or send bulk deal PM’s, boardieland!
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I just meant it in the context of “definitive first object,” which too often seems the myopic goal of first appearance discussions.
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My is the hobby needs to drop the “rookie card” mentality. Comics are stories; sometimes an issue can represent 10 minutes in characters’ fictional world, sometimes days or years. I’ll use Wolverine as my example: his first appearance is Hulk 180 through 182. Without all three, you don’t have his first full story. 181 is most valued as it’s the core chunk; 180 moreso than 182 as it’s the literal first time we lay eyes on the character in actual story content; 182 is still well more valuable than nearby run books for the title as it contains the last (albeit brief) part of Wolverine’s first story. When you stop trying to identify the “rookie card” and think in terms of story content, it gets easier. I still can’t explain Jimmy Olsen 134.
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I don’t know if this is going to help, but try viewing it not as written word but as approximation of spoken word, which of course is what comic book word balloons are. Think of Mel Gibson, half out of breath, shouting every phrase in one of those melodramatic 80’s barbarian movies as he leads a faceless legion into a mindless battle scene. I suspect that’s more like what Kirby had in mind.