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character in this project had in a single month. , The Pendulum of Popularity as Seen Daredevil season , in Twelve Sporadically-Appearing In the top chart, I collapsed the months and aggregated movie movie 2 Netflix a whole year's appearances into one set of concentrated season Comic Characters: 1 boxes, so it looks more like a bar chart. A Series of Charts Therefore, the bottom chart shows a more fine-grained picture of exactly when the character appeared, and the Elektra Natchios top chart provides a better visualization of how their total appearances ebbed and flowed. Character 6 out of 12 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 : 1981 The red lines and text underneath the top chart indicate First Elektra: Assassin Elektra Daredevil Elektra Elektra Daredevil House Daredevil 1872 Daredevil Marvel Total appearances: 472 Black appearance: Lives (v.1964) Elektra: (v.1996) (v.2001) Elektra: Ultimate (v.1998) New of M: (v.1998) (v.2013) (v.2015) Elektra Defenders Knights: some of the main comics that the character appeared Widow Daredevil Again! Fall from Grace arc Root (v.2008) Glimpse Daredevil Mangaverse: (v.2017) (v.2017) 20th (v.2010) Elektra in. The red lines show the years the character appeared (v.1964) (first real return after of and /Elektra The Rings of Herc (v.2011) How These Charts Were Developed Wolverine Mighty Dark (v.2014) Master Contest in those series. These featured red comics are a #168 resurrection) Evil Fate All the characters for this series of charts were selected (v.1988) J2 (v.2003) Avengers Reign: Daredevil: of of Spider-man Savage subjectively-chosen selection of all the comics the Enemy of Elektra (v.2007) Elektra End of Days Savage Kung-fu Champions 2099 Avengers because there is a sporadic pattern to their comic-book Daredevil: DC Daredevil the State on the Wolverine (v.2015) (v.2016) (v.2015) characters were in; they are intended to show the main Daredevil The Man vs Over Elektra appearances, whether due to deaths and resurrections, (v.1998) arc Rise drivers of the character's appearances at any given (v.1964) Without Marvel the and Secret Uncanny Daredevil nostalgic revivals, or tie-ins to outside media, etc. Killed in #181 (1982) Fear Edge Wolverine: Invasion X-force Heroes Uncanny Avengers (v.2019) time, not to provide a complete list. If anyone does want Resurrected in #190 (1983) Redeemer Ultimate Spider-man (v.2000) (v.2008) (v.2010) for (v.2015) a complete list, contact me and I can send it to you. Hire I focused on characters with less than a thousand (v.2011) Generally speaking, I included a series if the character Fall Agents appearances, for the ease of processing. of of appeared in it three or more times, if they were a the SHIELD recurring team-member in the series, or if the series was Elektra: : "Appearances" here only include actual, original comic Red named after the character. Hulk book appearances. They do not include reprints, Marvel handbooks, or promotional comics. I did include some Nemesis: If the character was in a comic where more than one The Shadowland: edge-case issues like the infamous Marvel Swimsuit Elektra volume had the same (or a very similar) title, then I listed Imperfects comics that are not stories, but are in a sense new the year the volume started after the name of the material. Elektra: volume. The Official I got the information almost entirely from the website Movie Comic Vine, although I used other sites when necessary. Adaptation Since Comic Vine is a wiki, its information is only as accurate as its wiki-writers, but generally speaking I find it to be very reliable when it comes to this sort of factual information. Any mistakes are more likely to be my own, since I transcribed all the data by hand and "hand-designed" the chart. January February The list of appearances accurately reflect the content of the wiki as of October 29, 2019. March

All dates are cover dates, not in-store dates. April May Key If the characters were in any major movies or TV shows, I June listed them in blue above the appropriate dates, so that July any correlation with an increase (or lack thereof) in the number of their comic appearances around that time August can be seen. September In the bottom chart to the right, each black square October represents one comic appearance by the character in a given month. The more black squares per month, the November more appearances by that character for that month. December There are nine possible spaces for each month; nine was Chris Wildrick, 2019 chosen because that was the most appearances any 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