WWE Survivor Series 2017 Special #1 - First Appearance of Nia Jax, Printings and Contents

Identification plate

Series: WWE Survivor Series 2017 Special (Boom! Studios, 2017 series)
Issue: #1
Publication date: November 2017
Key date: November 15, 2017
On-sale date: November 15, 2017
Indicia publisher: Boom! Studios
Price: $7.99
Pages: 44
Barcode: 84428400629300111

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Why this issue matters

First appearance (cover) of Nia Jax - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance (cover) of Naomi - the earliest appearance on record is a cover, not an interior story.

First appearance of Kurt Angle - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of "Mean Gene" Okerlund - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

First appearance of Gerald Brisco - the earliest non-flashback appearance on record for this character.

The evidence

Claims here come from the story records for this issue, listed under Sources at the bottom of the file. Character hubs with full evidence tables are coming to this site.

Seq	Story	Type	Pages	Credits	Characters
0	WWE	cover	1	pencils: Rahzzah; inks: Rahzzah; colors: Rahzzah	Goldberg, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Nia Jax First, Brock Lesnar, Naomi First
1	-	credits, title page	1	letters: typeset
2	The Montreal Screwjob	comic story	12	script: Dennis Hopeless; pencils: Lucas Werneck; inks: Lucas Werneck; colors: Jeremy Lawson; letters: Jim Campbell	Gerald Brisco First, Dustin Rhodes, Bret "The Hitman" Hart, Vince McMahon, Shawn Michaels, Sgt. Slaughter, Triple H
3	Debut	comic story	6	script: Box Brown; pencils: Rodrigo Lorenzo; inks: Rodrigo Lorenzo; colors: Doug Garbark; letters: Jim Campbell	Kurt Angle First
4	Down the Hatch	comic story	4	script: Derek Fridolfs; pencils: Derek Fridolfs; inks: Derek Fridolfs; colors: Fred Stresing; letters: Jim Campbell	The Gobbledy Gooker, Gorilla Monsoon, "Mean Gene" Okerlund First, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, The Undertaker
5	1 Minute, 26 Seconds	comic story	8	script: Kevin Panetta; pencils: Kendall Goode; inks: Kendall Goode; colors: Kendall Goode; letters: Jim Campbell	Goldberg, Paul Heyman, Brock Lesnar
6	The Root of All Evil	comic story	6	script: Lan Pitts; pencils: Kelly Williams; inks: Kelly Williams; colors: Dee Cunniffe; letters: Jim Campbell	"The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase, Jim Neidhart, The Undertaker, Virgil
7	The Shield: Called Up	comic story	5	script: Aaron Gillespie; pencils: Tim Lattie; inks: Tim Lattie; colors: Doug Garbark; letters: Jim Campbell	Jon Moxley, Roman Reigns, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Seth Rollins, Triple H

Printings and variants

Edition	How to tell
Cover B Jim Rugg What If Variant	price [none]; barcode 84428400629300121
Cover C Juan Doe Undertaker Variant	barcode 84428400629300131

Where to read it

Collection	Year
WWE: Then. Now. Forever. #1 ISBN 978-1684151288	2018	On eBay ›
WWE: Then. Now. Forever. #2 ISBN 9781684152575	2018	On eBay ›

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Series context

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Sources

Grand Comics Database, issue record (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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