• When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

Bo1983

Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    785

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Posts posted by Bo1983

    First Appearance comic Question

    in Comics General

    Posted

    On 5/22/2022 at 12:29 PM, Off Panel said:

    I've said it before, but...

    Someone asks you, "What did Wolverine do in his first appearance?"

    If you reflexively answer, "He fought the Hulk!" then deep down you see 181 as his first appearance.

    If you reflexively answer, "He yelled his own name!" then deep down you see 180 as his first appearance.

     

    As many of you have said, comics have their own quirks and conventions that force us to speak intentionally on matters like this. I'm very comfortable with the distinction between "first cameo appearance" (180) and "first full appearance" (181). I will even accept jcjames' nomenclature of "first brief appearance" for 180.

    In my personal opinion, Hulk 181 is not Wolverine's unqualified first appearance, just as 180 isn't his first full appearance. 

    1000 years from now there will still be a argument about this!!✌️

    First Appearance comic Question

    in Comics General

    Posted · Edited by Bo1983

    On 4/25/2022 at 12:08 PM, thunsicker said:

    Now if you really wanted to get me going it would be in an X-Men 201 type situation.  In retcon I would never consider it a first appearance.  For that matter I don't think Tales To Astonish 27 is Ant-Man's first appearance.  Hank Pym's, yes.  But not Ant-Man's.

    That would be tales to astonish 35.The first appearance of Ant man.One cool thing Spider-Man and Ant man came out just one month between  each other!