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That's weird. Why would someone make that?

Now we know why it's FREE medical help. You get what you pay for.

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Is there something going on with Thundercats? I have a handful of watchers on a few (probably unimportant) issues that have been available for probably a few years.

Ah, but a chef's knife is designed to be rolled, so a crescent shaped knife would be fine, unless you don't know how to use it. Then I guess you're going to see that there's space between the knife and the board everywhere except in one spot

What does this even mean?

I'm going to start advertising my books as Organic.

While I imagine that the first issue will be the most popular to get, it's not the first appearance.

I actually sold one a couple months ago.

SMH at this bit of condescension from someone who noted in his immediately previous comment "Collect what you love."

The "some" that agree with what you're presenting are vastly outnumbered by the "some" that don't, so it's not so gray, but people who agree with you like to muddy the waters. Comics is a storytelling medium. Historically collectors have accepted "appearance" to mean the inclusion of a character in that medium. If you like collecting publications that advertise upcoming characters and comics, by all means, continue to do that. No one is going to begrudge you collecting what you like to collect; that's the very point of collecting.

I think "Modern" is a sort of catch-all until we see that there was a commonality amongst books that were published after the end of the most recent defined "age" that current books don't share. Then, a new age starts to take form. Of course, it will take years until the edges of that age become more defined. Just as it takes time for small particles sloshed about in liquid to settle on the bottom.

Right now they're drying out Stan Lee's hide, and when it's good and ready they're going to include strips of Stan jerky inserted into comic slabs

I think what you're ignoring is that many comic enthusiasts *like* arguing about stuff like what the beginning and ends of ages are. Or whether certain periods deserved to be their own age or part of another. An argument about what comics were published in the '60s would put me to sleep. I happen to find comics history interesting. If people have an alternate opinion on the span of comic ages and a good reason for identifying those dates that isn't simply "eBay says so" then I'm up for hearing them out.

Notice the lack of a notation that it's a first appearance (not that CGC is the authority on that). It's a curiosity for people who like to collect that sort of stuff, sure, which is why it's interesting to note when it was published.

It wasn't

I would call it a depiction. "Appearance" has a more specific definition in collecting terminology.

I don't consider this an appearance (first or otherwise) any more than I do an ad in a book. Generally, anything that's editorial or marketing I view as a different category, and Wizard falls into that category.

I don't disagree with the general premise that it's easier to identify books by the date they were published, but ages generally convey a particular feeling, A book from 1990 feels a lot more like a book published in 1989 from the same company than it does like one published in 1999. I also agree with what you pointed out about the two issues of JiM. They belong to the same age because they have the same feel, regardless of whether Showcase 4 was published between them. Different titles enter the new age at different times, as people catch up with the trendsetters. The Silver Age was largely a revival of super-hero comics, after the Golden Age diversified into all sorts of genres (westerns, romance, science fiction, etc.). The Bronze Age was largely defined by pushing the boundaries of the content and testing the limits of the CCA (initially, anyway, and then generally books became more mature). I think the Copper Age was largely about a few things, with creator rights and changing distribution systems at the core. It's a little earlier than most people suggest, but I think the catalyst for the Copper Age was the DC implosion. That led to many departures from DC, the most important amongst them probably being Archie Goodwin and Larry Hama. They both ended up at Marvel, where Goodwin helmed the launch of Marvel's first (mostly) creator-owned imprint (Epic), and Larry Hama's work on G.I. Joe led to an explosion in licensed material. I see the formation of Image as being a relative midpoint of the Copper Age. Sure, the fight over creator rights culminated here, but the first few years showed a lot of the problems with having a line that was run by the creators, with late and canceled books a regular occurrence. I don't think it was until Liefeld and Lee came back to Marvel for a bit that Image started settling down into what it more closely resembles today. It's interesting that you point out our current situation as the potential beginning of a new era, especially as Bad Idea is about to test new distribution methods. Eniac #1 might be the first book of the new age.

Not by me. That still feels like Copper. I think the Copper Age ended in the later '90s, when Marvel cancelled and relaunched most of it's long running titles, Valiant was sold to Acclaim, and many of the other super-hero universes that launched in that decade (Milestone, Comic's Greatest World, Ultraverse, etc.) died out.

Are all of Marvel's new characters just existing characters mashed up? Can we give "Host Rider" Thor's hammer and have his family gunned down while they picnic in Central Park?

If it is, then this seems so much more appropriate:

If you look at the list, the books that seem to have a smaller percentage of newsstands submitted compared to others from the same year are ones that would have had a lot of speculation anticipated before the release (Wolverine #1, New Mutants #1, etc.). I think the books that were a slow burn are probably the ones that give the best idea of the proportion of directs to newsstands that were out there.

Maybe it's an art project.

John Cena tweeted out a picture of X-O Manowar and now the first issue has a good number of sales