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[bronze johnny]

What's the first issue ever printed with the number zero?

 

What are the the Zero numbered issues?

 

I couldn't find any thread dealing with this topic.

 

 

[Broke as a Joke]

 

Magnus Robot Fighter 0??

 

 

[Vikingreed]

Magnus and Gen 13 popped in my head.

Harbinger did too.

 

I don't know the order.

[kpaqu1]

Zap Comix #0 1967?

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

Zap Comix #0 1967?

There was a discussion about this either here or on the Valiant Fans boards. I think Zap was the earliest anyone came up with before Magnus.

[kpaqu1]

Zap Comix #0 1967?

There was a discussion about this either here or on the Valiant Fans boards. I think Zap was the earliest anyone came up with before Magnus.

 

I'm surprised there aren't any other undergrounds with a #0.

[kpaqu1]

Just going through MCS site listings and found Moebius 0 from June 1990.

 

There are are others that MCS lists as a #0 but they might be #nn (not numbered) or wrong in the case of Synn, Girl from LSD which is actually #1 in the indicia.

[kpaqu1]

Here's some from the 1980s:

 

Adventurers #0 1985

 

Adventurers Book II #0 1988

 

Albedo #0 1983 (and later printings also in the 80s)

 

Fish Police #0 1987

[Aweandlorder]

[Aweandlorder]

ooops sorry..

 

 

 

 

damn autocorrect

[CKB]

As far I a know it is Zap #0.

[Gatsby77]

Yeah - Albedo 0 popped into my head first, but Zap 0 clearly trumps it by a bunch.

 

Albedo 0 and 1 were crazy expensive with all the different variants in the mid-80s. Long before 2 came to prominence.

[dupont2005]

It's Zap. And it wasn't a sales gimmick either, but a mistake in release. The second issue was released as number one, for whatever reason, so when the first issue was completed it was numbered zero so it would still be first. I didn't know it had become a gimmick as early as the 1980's though. I don't remember stumbling across one until the early 90's with Image and Wizard and whoever else.

 

Now I want the Adventurers and Albedo ones

[revivedrevival]

Hoax Hunters (Image Comics)

 

Clarification: HH is not the oldest. I misread the question. I thought it was about series that started at issue zero. HH, Archer & Armstrong and Rai come to my mind.

[valiantman]

Zap Comix #0 is the oldest in the CGC census (1967).

 

CGC lists a "Community Capers Comics #0" (1971).

 

If those are both considered "underground", then Albedo #0 (1983) is the oldest comic that would have been in your local comic shop from a regular distributor.

 

For still existing publishers, the oldest #0 is Aliens vs. Predator from Dark Horse Comics (1990).

[Ant-Man]

DC had a month (or series of months) where every title had a #0 published. I only remember because I was buying Robin at the time. 1994, I believe.

[GeeksAreMyPeeps]

DC had a month (or series of months) where every title had a #0 published. I only remember because I was buying Robin at the time. 1994, I believe.

That would be Zero Month, when Zero Hour #0 came out.

 

I know DC also did a month where every issue was numbered 1,000,000, and Marvel did a -1 Flashback month. Any other oddly numbered books out there? Was there ever an issue pi?

[Brock]

DC had a month (or series of months) where every title had a #0 published. I only remember because I was buying Robin at the time. 1994, I believe.

That would be Zero Month, when Zero Hour #0 came out.

 

I know DC also did a month where every issue was numbered 1,000,000, and Marvel did a -1 Flashback month. Any other oddly numbered books out there? Was there ever an issue pi?

 

I've seen issues numbered (?) "alpha", "omega", and "infinity", but so far no pi...

 

Topps' X-Files had a -2.

[dupont2005]

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