Sources. Bibliographic data comes from the Grand Comics Database data dump (CC BY-SA 4.0), scoped to United States, English-language publications. This build: 2026-10-05 09:20:07.
First appearances. A first-appearance claim means: the earliest appearance of the character in this database by issue key date, excluding appearances flagged as flashbacks, with variant printings dated by their parent issue. It is a claim about the record, and the record grows; corrections are welcome.
Cross-checking. First-appearance claims are cross-checked against Wikidata's first-appearance property. Agreement and disputes are shown on the page; a dispute is information, not an error. Only unambiguous name and issue matches are used.
Variants. Variant printings are shown on their parent issue's page. Identification cues come from the recorded differences (price, barcode, variant name).
What is deliberately absent. Prices, price guides, grading census data, and sales estimates. The buy links are eBay affiliate links and never change what the record says.
Corrections. corrections@comicrecord.com
| Label | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Agreed | This record and an independent public reference identify the same first-appearance issue. |
| Disputed | Two plausible records name different issues, and our earliest is a standard story - a genuine interpretive disagreement. |
| Anomaly | The disagreement is most likely a data artifact: a reprint, promo, cover or advertisement indexed ahead of the canonical story, or two same-named characters merged. |
| single source | No unambiguous independent match was available to cross-check. |
| First appearance | Earliest non-flashback appearance on record, in a standard story. |
| promotional | Earliest appearance on record is a publisher ad, not a story; a canonical debut may come later. |
| cover / preview / reprint | Earliest record is a cover, a publisher preview, or a reprinted story rather than the original interior debut. |
Ties. When two issues share a cover month, the one with the earlier on-sale date wins; where on-sale dates are unknown, the database sort order breaks the tie, so a same-month result can reflect a sorting decision rather than a settled fact.