Marvel run with most 1st appearances

[guatoman-migration]

just wondering, what's the Marvel comic run with most first appearances?

[Unca Ben]

Probably the Fantastic Four.

If you include supporting characters with no super powers, Amazing Spider-Man might come close.

[Waylander]

Probably the Fantastic Four.

If you include supporting characters with no super powers, Amazing Spider-Man might come close.

 

Silver age X-Men may come close

[budsbundy]

FF's my guess

[Unca Ben]

Probably the Fantastic Four.

If you include supporting characters with no super powers, Amazing Spider-Man might come close.

 

Silver age X-Men may come close

 

Yeah, I was thinking of them, too. JIM / Thor also had a lot of characters.

[guatoman-migration]

I thought somebody made a reasearch.

ok, I will do it :-)

[mystrymachine]

I thought somebody made a reasearch.

ok, I will do it :-)

 

No need to do that. I will research it for you...

 

Umm.....

 

1) Fantastic Four

2) Spiderman

3) X-men

4) Avengers

 

Nooo problem. (thumbs u

[Forbush-Man]

Fantastic Four would be #1, followed by Amazing Spider-man.

 

Fantastic Four would lead in cross-overs too.

[vaillant]

Hi, welcome – another italian member and registered in 2005 no less!

 

I see you know Matteo and you are in Trieste, glad to meet you.

 

My answer is: undoubtedly the FF and Spider-Man but I believe Avengers can be closer to X-Men than most people think. And Hulk should not be undervalued too.

[Unca Ben]

Because of the number of different X-books I kinda quit paying attention.

 

But for awhile there was an awful lot of mutants running around. It seemed like every time I picked up an X-book there were 2 or 3 new characters I'd never seen before.

 

If many of those first appeared in X-Men / Uncanny X-Men, then that title certainly had its share of first appearances.

[vaillant]

Yes, but not all characters became relevant – and for the X-Men it mostly happened after the 1970s. If we stick to the core of the Marvel age, recent significative characters are very sparse…

[Barbarian]

1 - X-Men

2 - FF

3- ASM

4 -Avengers

5 - Strange Tales

[vaillant]

BTW, surely the New Mutants and especially X-Factor initially brought in a good deal of good characters. But then they trashed everything and made X-Force…

[jaybuck43]

Are we counting what CGC considers a first appearance or are we counting total number of Marvel characters that premiered in the run? If it's the second X-men has to be ahead of Spider-man. Just look at the Morlocks and Shi-ar alone, how many characters came from them?

[kimik]

Overall it would be X-Men. For a while there Marvel was popping out new muties like they were handing out candy at a parade........

[rob_react]

Yeah, I think if it's pure numbers, then X-Men is a character factory. If it's characters that matter then it's probably the Fantastic Four where the 1st 100 issues established half the Marvel Universe.

[namisgr]

It's easily the Fantastic Four if restricted to the Silver and Bronze ages. First Marvel title. New villains appearing in virtually every issue. First teams of villains. Enormous supporting cast (Submariner, Surfer, Panther, Wyatt Wingfoot, each Inhuman, Agatha Harkness, Franklin, etc).

[marvelcollector]

Has anybody done an actual head count?

 

My kneejerk reaction was FF, but I've no numbers to back that up.

[Barbarian]

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_appearances_in_Marvel_Comics_publications

 

Step 1 - Define "run"

[jaybuck43]

So... This is interesting. Just did a quick find on page search of the Wikipedia entry for Marvel First appearances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_appearances_in_Marvel_Comics_publications

X-Men is 106

Spider-man is 85

Fantastic Four is 75