Miguel O'hara
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The Pendulum of Popularity as Seen Key If the characters were in any major movies or TV shows, I Spider-man: in Twelve Sporadically-Appearing listed them in blue above the appropriate dates, so that Into the Spider-Verse Comic Characters: any correlation with an increase (or lack thereof) in the movie number of their comic appearances around that time can A Series of Charts be seen. 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 In the bottom chart to the right, each black square First 2099 Unlimited 2099: Captain Exiles Timestorm Superior Spider-man 2099 Miguel O'Hara (Spider-man 2099) appearance: Spider-man World of Marvel (v.2001) 2009/2099 Spider-man (v.2015) Character 11 out of 12 represents one comic appearance by the character in a Web of 2099 Tomorrow (v.2000) given month. The more black squares per month, the Spider-man X-men 2099 Special First appearance: 1992 (v.1985) #90 Superior Secret more appearances by that character for that month. Spider-man Wars Total appearances: 226 Team-up 2099 There are nine possible spaces for each month; nine was Spider-man chosen because that was the most appearances any 2099 Doom 2099 How These Charts Were Developed (v.1992) Spider-man Fantastic Spider-man All the characters for this series of charts were selected character in this project had in a single month. 2099 Meets Four 2099 Punisher Spider-man 2099 (v.2014) because there is a sporadic pattern to their comic-book 2099 appearances, whether due to deaths and resurrections, In the top chart, I collapsed the months and aggregated a whole year's appearances into one set of concentrated Amazing nostalgic revivals, or tie-ins to outside media, etc. Ravage 2099 Spider-man boxes, so it looks more like a bar chart. (v.2014) I focused on characters with less than a thousand Therefore, the bottom chart shows a more fine-grained appearances, for the ease of processing. picture of exactly when the character appeared, and the top chart provides a better visualization of how their total "Appearances" here only include actual, original comic appearances ebbed and flowed. book appearances. They do not include reprints, January handbooks, or promotional comics. I did include some The red lines and text underneath the top chart indicate edge-case issues like the infamous Marvel Swimsuit some of the main comics that the character appeared in. February comics that are not stories, but are in a sense new The red lines show the years the character appeared in March material. those series. These featured red comics are a subjectively-chosen selection of all the comics the April I got the information almost entirely from the website characters were in; they are intended to show the main Comic Vine, although I used other sites when necessary. drivers of the character's appearances at any given time, May not to provide a complete list. If anyone does want a Since Comic Vine is a wiki, its information is only as June accurate as its wiki-writers, but generally speaking I find complete list, contact me and I can send it to you. it to be very reliable when it comes to this sort of factual Generally speaking, I included a series if the character July information. Any mistakes are more likely to be my own, appeared in it three or more times, if they were a recurring August since I transcribed all the data by hand and team-member in the series, or if the series was named after the character. "hand-designed" the chart. September The list of appearances accurately reflect the content of If the character was in a comic where more than one October the wiki as of October 29, 2019. volume had the same (or a very similar) title, then I listed the year the volume started after the name of the volume. November All dates are cover dates, not in-store dates. December Chris Wildrick, 2019 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.