Guardians Guardians of the of the Galaxy, Key Galaxy Vol. 2 The Pendulum of Popularity as Seen movie movie If the characters were in any major movies or TV shows, I in Twelve Sporadically-Appearing listed them in blue above the appropriate dates, so that Comic Characters: any correlation with an increase (or lack thereof) in the 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 number of their comic appearances around that time can A Series of Charts be seen. First Giant-size Iron Man Avengers Avengers: Avengers Annihilation: Thanos Guardians Old Man appearance: Avengers Silver Surfer (v.1987) (v.1968) Avengers Forever Celestial (v.1998) Conquest: Imperative of Quill Avengers (v.1996) In the bottom chart to the right, each black square (v.1963) Quest Starlord Nowhere Mantis represents one comic appearance by the character in a #112 West Coast Guardians of the Character 5 out of 12 Avengers Fantastic Four Galaxy (v.2008) given month. The more black squares per month, the (v.1961) First appearance: 1973 Avengers (v.1963) (v.1985) more appearances by that character for that month. Total appearances: 197 There are nine possible spaces for each month; nine was Annihilation: Defenders Captain Conquest chosen because that was the most appearances any (v.1972) Marvel How These Charts Were Developed character in this project had in a single month. Defenders/ (v.1968) All the characters for this series of charts were selected Avengers because there is a sporadic pattern to their comic-book War arc In the top chart, I collapsed the months and aggregated a appearances, whether due to deaths and resurrections, whole year's appearances into one set of concentrated nostalgic revivals, or tie-ins to outside media, etc. boxes, so it looks more like a bar chart. Therefore, the bottom chart shows a more fine-grained I focused on characters with less than a thousand picture of exactly when the character appeared, and the appearances, for the ease of processing. top chart provides a better visualization of how their total appearances ebbed and flowed. "Appearances" here only include actual, original comic January book appearances. They do not include reprints, The red lines and text underneath the top chart indicate February handbooks, or promotional comics. I did include some some of the main comics that the character appeared in. edge-case issues like the infamous Marvel Swimsuit March The red lines show the years the character appeared in comics that are not stories, but are in a sense new those series. These featured red comics are a material. April subjectively-chosen selection of all the comics the characters were in; they are intended to show the main May I got the information almost entirely from the website drivers of the character's appearances at any given time, Comic Vine, although I used other sites when necessary. June not to provide a complete list. If anyone does want a Since Comic Vine is a wiki, its information is only as complete list, contact me and I can send it to you. July accurate as its wiki-writers, but generally speaking I find Generally speaking, I included a series if the character it to be very reliable when it comes to this sort of factual appeared in it three or more times, if they were a recurring August information. Any mistakes are more likely to be my own, team-member in the series, or if the series was named since I transcribed all the data by hand and September after the character. "hand-designed" the chart. October If the character was in a comic where more than one The list of appearances accurately reflect the content of November volume had the same (or a very similar) title, then I listed the wiki as of October 29, 2019. the year the volume started after the name of the volume. December All dates are cover dates, not in-store dates. Chris Wildrick, 2019 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019