Talk:List of Marvel Comics first appearances

Patrollers or lack there of
Is there anyone actually monitoring this page? --Jamdav86 15:00, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)


 * I am, as of this message. Is there a problem? ACS (Wikipedian) 08:47, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Scope: Significance
How extensive should this list be? I imagine a rule of thumb could be any character with their own article (most minor powered characters), or any to appear in multiple non-consecutive issues (which would include most family/partners/friends), or should it be an exhaustive list? --Lollerkeet 23:06, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Scope: Continuities
This list at present covers Earth-616 natives and immigrants. Should alternate versions be included, or should each universe have its own article? --Lollerkeet 23:06, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

Why are some names bolded?
Some names like Punisher and Angel are in bold, is there a point to this?★Trekker (talk) 19:58, 9 September 2017 (UTC)

Merger proposal
The merge tag has been on these two articles for several months now, but it doesn't look like there has been any discussion or action taken. There is extensive overlap of information, and the only thing that List of Marvel Comics superhero debuts adds is the creators, which could easily be merged with the information in this article, which is otherwise more exhaustive. Alternately, the List of Marvel Comics superhero debuts list could be modified to justify it standing on its own. I have added to the discussion on that page proposing changes to that list as well. Idisestablish (talk) 04:29, 16 June 2019 (UTC)

Page overhaul
Since this edit was a major revamp, here's what changed:

Organization –
 * The list has been translated to table format and made sortable.
 * Date format was changed from “Month YYYY” to “YYYY-MM” to allow date sort.
 * Articles (a, an, the, la, el) in entries and publication titles were either subordinated or removed to improve alphabetical sort.
 * Characters known by multiple names now have each listed separately to facilitate lookup. (For example, the same character has entries for Carol Danvers, Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Warbird, and Binary.)

Content –
 * Creators have been added for most entries.
 * The number of entries has been greatly expanded, from ~1000 to ~2500. Some dead-link and less notable entries were dropped. Primary criterion for inclusion was the existence of an article page or appearance in a glossary such as List of Marvel Comics characters.
 * Errors corrected if found.
 * Footnotes added if deemed relevant.
 * “See also” section expanded.

--Badmoon36 (talk) 14:46, 4 May 2020 (UTC)

Incorrect dates being used
It seems that incorrect dates are being used for first appearances. Currently the list uses publication dates which were often dated several months ahead of a given comic book's actual physical in store release date.

For example, first appearances in Captain America Comics #1 are given the date 1941-03 which is the publication date of that issue. However, the actual on sale date was December 20, 1940 according to http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/comic.php?comicid=51832

Thus listing the first appearance date of Captain America as 1941-03 is incorrect as his first appearance date was actually 1940-12. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.37.170.154 (talk) 14:09, 29 January 2022 (UTC)