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List of Comicbook Characters Ranked By # of Appearances
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I was wondering who had the most appearances in various issues Sup or Bat... so I found this Ranker list.

Wow. I figured Sup and Bat would battle for #1 and #2, but some of the rest of these rankings... wow. :whatthe:

I don't know when this list was made, but there is an obvious "tilt" in character appearances that I wasn't expecting.

Some of the big names that I thought for sure would be near the top didn't even crack the top 50, and some in the top half are just O.o were they really that popular?

Ranker: Top 100 Most Popular Superheroes and Villains in Comic Books

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1. Batman- Number of appearances: 14358 issues
2. Superman - Number of appearances: 13164 issues
3. Wolverine - Number of appearances: 12912 issues
4. Spider-Man - Number of appearances: 12164 issues
5. Captain America - Number of appearances: 9139 issues
6. Cyclops - Number of appearances: 8967 issues
7. Iron Man - Number of appearances: 8697 issues
8. Storm - Number of appearances: 7777 issues
9. Beast - Number of appearances: 7715 issues
10. Thing - Number of appearances: 6492 issues

11. Thor - Number of appearances: 6370 issues
12. Iceman - Number of appearances: 6242 issues
13. Hulk - Number of appearances: 6119 issues
14. Grayson - Number of appearances: 6057 issues
15. Colossus - Number of appearances: 6050 issues
16. Professor X - Number of appearances: 6004 issues
17. Jean Grey - Number of appearances: 5992 issues
18. Archangel - Number of appearances: 5918 issues
19. Wonder Woman - Number of appearances: 5905 issues
20. Mister Fantastic - Number of appearances: 5636 issues

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30. Daredevil - Number of appearances: 3717 issues

33. Doctor Strange - Number of appearances: 3662 issues

34. Hal Jordan - Number of appearances: 3619 issues

37. Cannonball - Number of appearances: 3479 issues

38. Judge Dredd - Number of appearances: 3380 issues

40. The Phantom - Number of apperances: 3370 issues

42. Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) - Number of appearances: 3180 issues

51. Doctor Doom - Number of appearances: 2860 issues

55. Barbara Gordon - Number of appearances: 2519 issues

58. Joker - Number of appearances: 2406 issues

66. Magik - Number of appearances: 2254 issues

67. Punisher - Number of appearances: 2253 issues

68. Black Panther - Number of appearances: 2238 issues

71. Deadpool - Number of appearances: 2183 issues

76. Catwoman - Number of appearances: 2038 issues

78. Spider-Woman - Number of appearances: 1927 issues

80. Silver Surfer - Number of appearances: 1867 issues

84. Venom - Number of appearances: 1793 issues

100. Atom - Number of appearances: 1365 issues

 

 

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13 minutes ago, jcjames said:

Spider-Man - Number of appearances: 12164 issues

This issue number seems extraordinarily high to me. Anyone agree?

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1 minute ago, Get Marwood & I said:

This issue number seems extraordinarily high to me. Anyone agree?

Not really, considering he had so many running books consecutively and then made appearances EVERYWHERE.  He is the US version of Wolverine, but poor Logan didn't have eleventy billion monthly consecutive comics at the same time (just was in every team possible instead).

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7 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

This issue number seems extraordinarily high to me. Anyone agree?

Yeah...I don't know. Is it including foreign editions, reprints, collections? I'd like to see the criteria they're using as far as what constitutes an "appearance". 

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2406 appearances of Joker and he hasnt been executed for numerous homicides wth

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8 minutes ago, Get Marwood & I said:

This issue number seems extraordinarily high to me. Anyone agree?

I dunno, there's a lot of different spidey titles out there.

ASM, PPSP, SensSM, WoSM, SM, etc...

 

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4 minutes ago, Crops068 said:

Not really, considering he had so many running books consecutively and then made appearances EVERYWHERE.  He is the US version of Wolverine, but poor Logan didn't have eleventy billion monthly consecutive comics at the same time (just was in every team possible instead).

Consider that 12000 is 1000 years of appearing in 1 issue per month, 200 years of appearing in 5 issues per month, 50 years of appearing in 20 issues per month, etc.

Spidey hasn't been around that much more than 50 years and I'm not sure there are any months that he actually hit 20(!!) appearances, let alone as an average.

They probably got the numbers from that junk site that includes all kinds of :censored:

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8 minutes ago, jcjames said:

Was Judge Dredd really that popular!?

I wasn't comicbooking in the 90s so I wouldn't know.

 

Dredd had (short) stories published weekly, so his numbers should be relatively high.

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12 minutes ago, Lazyboy said:

Consider that 12000 is 1000 years of appearing in 1 issue per month, 200 years of appearing in 5 issues per month, 50 years of appearing in 20 issues per month, etc.

Spidey hasn't been around that much more than 50 years and I'm not sure there are any months that he actually hit 20(!!) appearances, let alone as an average.

They probably got the numbers from that junk site that includes all kinds of :censored:

MCS has about 160 pages (50 issues/page) of spidey-title issues for close to 8000 apps in spidey-title issues (might include variants though).

But that's not counting his apps in non-spidey titles.

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?q=spider-man&dsp=issuelist

 

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3 minutes ago, jcjames said:

MCS has about 160 pages (50 issues/page) of spidey-title issues for close to 8000 apps in spidey-title issues.

That's not counting his apps in non-spidey titles.

 

I'm unclear-can you clarify what this means?  I dont understand '160 pages' and '50 issues/page' means.

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2 minutes ago, jcjames said:

MCS has 160 pages (50 issues/page) of spidey-titles. Not counting his apps in non-spidey titles.

 

With the vast majority being one-shots, variants, various reprints, etc.

Show me a publishing month with 20 actual Spidey appearances.

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Just now, Broke as a Joke said:

Wolverine at over 12,000 appearances in 3rd place is astounding when you think that before his ongoing in 88', he probably had less than 150.

Do they count Hulk 180 as one of his 'appearances'?  Because-

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Hulk

Powers & Abilities: Shapeshifting, Healing factor, Superhuman speed, Superhuman strength, Reality warping

 

I knew about the strength and healing, but not the others. They must've come after I stopped reading it.

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1 minute ago, Broke as a Joke said:

Wolverine at over 12,000 appearances in 3rd place is astounding when you think that before his ongoing in 88', he probably had less than 150.

Wolvie has many appearances but, again, those numbers are B.S.

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1 minute ago, Lazyboy said:

Wolvie has many appearances but, again, those numbers are B.S.

I wonder where such numbers could be found?

I mean, real numbers. That's what I started looking for but didn't find explanations for where the numbers come from.

 

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