Guardians The Pendulum of Popularity as Seen of the Galaxy, in Twelve Sporadically-Appearing Vol. 2 Comic Characters: movie A Series of Charts Guardians of the Galaxy Groot movie Character 3 out of 12 First appearance: 1960 Total appearances: 3

How These Charts Were Developed All the characters for this series of charts were selected because there is a sporadic pattern to their comic-book appearances, whether due to deaths and resurrections, 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 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 nostalgic revivals, or tie-ins to outside media, etc. First First First Beginning Nick AnnihilationGuardians of the Galaxy Annihilators Guardians of the Galaxy Star- I Am Infinity Guardians appearance: modern recent of recent Fury's : Conquest: (v.2008) (v.2013) lord Groot Countdown of the I focused on characters with less than a thousand Tales to "Marvel" appearance: run of Howling Star-lord (v.2015) Galaxy Astonish appearance: Sensational popularity: Commandoes Thanos Annihilators: All-new (v.2019) appearances, for the ease of processing. (v.1959) Incredible Spider-man Spider-man(v.2005) Annihilation: Imperative Earthfall X-men Infinity #13 Hulk Annual #-1 (Flashback) Team-up Conquest (v.2012) Marvel Universe Guardians of War (v.1968) #5 Special Avengers the Galaxy (v.2015b) (v.2018) "Appearances" here only include actual, original comic Assemble book appearances. They do not include reprints, Guardians of the handbooks, or promotional comics. I did include some Galaxy (v.2015) All-new Guardians edge-case issues like the infamous Marvel Swimsuit of the comics that are not stories, but are in a sense new Rocket Rocket Galaxy Raccoon Raccoon (v.2017) material. (v.2014) and Groot (v.2015) Guardians I got the information almost entirely from the website Legendary of the Star-lord Guardians Galaxy Comic Vine, although I used other sites when necessary. of (v.2017) Since Comic Vine is a wiki, its information is only as Infinity accurate as its wiki-writers, but generally speaking I find Mighty Captain it to be very reliable when it comes to this sort of factual Groot Marvel information. Any mistakes are more likely to be my own, (v.2017) since I transcribed all the data by hand and Guardians "hand-designed" the chart. of the Galaxy Monsters Infinite Comic Unleashed! (v.2017)

The list of appearances accurately reflect the content of Angela: the wiki as of October 29, 2019. Asgard's Guardians Assassin of the Galaxy Adaptation All dates are cover dates, not in-store dates. Marvel Universe Guardians Guardians Key of the of the Galaxy If the characters were in any major movies or TV shows, I Galaxy Awesome Mix (v.2015a) Infinite listed them in blue above the appropriate dates, so that Comic any correlation with an increase (or lack thereof) in the number of their comic appearances around that time Thors Deadpool: can be seen. Too Soon? Guardians Infinite In the bottom chart to the right, each black square Team-up Comic represents one comic appearance by the character in a Infinity Gauntlet given month. The more black squares per month, the (v.2015) more appearances by that character for that month. Howard There are nine possible spaces for each month; nine was Guardians the 3000 Duck chosen because that was the most appearances any (v.2015) character in this project had in a single month. Twelve Guardians- Marvel: In the top chart, I collapsed the months and aggregated related Avengers one-shots Alliance a whole year's appearances into one set of concentrated boxes, so it looks more like a bar chart. Civil Therefore, the bottom chart shows a more fine-grained War II picture of exactly when the character appeared, and the Five top chart provides a better visualization of how their Guardians- total appearances ebbed and flowed. related one-shots The red lines and text underneath the top chart indicate some of the main comics that the character appeared in. The red lines show the years the character appeared in those series. These featured red comics are a subjectively-chosen selection of all the comics the characters were in; they are intended to show the main January drivers of the character's appearances at any given February time, not to provide a complete list. If anyone does want a complete list, contact me and I can send it to you. March Generally speaking, I included a series if the character appeared in it three or more times, if they were a April recurring team-member in the series, or if the series was May named after the character. June If the character was in a comic where more than one July volume had the same (or a very similar) title, then I listed the year the volume started after the name of the August volume. September October November December

Chris Wildrick, 2019 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 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