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Introduction to "Comic Book Numbering"

Comic book numbering used to be a very simple issue - each issue was incremented one number from the preceding issue in a simple natural number sequence starting at issue #1 until infinity.

Occasionally there would be some complications when a series was re-named (often when a key character in an ongoing anthology becomes popular enough for their own title), such as "The Incredible Hulk (1968)" taking over the numbering from "Tales to Astonish (1959)" or "Captain America (1968)" taking over the numbering of "Tales of Suspense (1959)".

However, DC Comics started an inadvertent trend when John Byrne re-structured the Man of Steel in the mid-1980's. All Superman comics (Action Comics and Superman) were taken offline for a few months, and a re-launch re-started Superman (1987) with a new #1, and continued the pre-existing Superman (1939) numbering with "Adventures of Superman (1987)". Superman (2006) re-merged Superman (1987) and Adventures of Superman (1987) to a single title.

Both DC and Marvel comics insisted on the occassional oddly numbered comic (0, -1 for Marvel, 1,000,000 for DC) which made continuity of numbering strange.

Marvel had a mathematical psychotic break and sold off key characters (e.g. Hulk, Avengers, Iron Man, Captain America and the Fantastic Four) to a group of artist/writers in the ill-fated "Heroes Reborn" period of about a year in the mid-1990's, each series being re-started as a new #1. This experiment lasted about a year from 1996 to 1997, where the characters were re-introduced into the "real" (616) universe of Marvel in "Heroes Return".

Marvel's marketing department, realizing that "#1" issues had extra purchase value, began randomly re-starting series to generate new #1's. Later, someone woke up and realized that they were missing the chance to capitalize on significant milestone issues (500, 600 etc.) and began to re-number the ongoing series, with mixed success. Some re-numbering was simply the inclusion of series X and series Y of the same character, with the new numbering being the sum. However, with other series, the effect was somewhat confusing (see Hulk).

This site is an attempt to make sense of the numbering issues.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Marvel NOW - Cancelled and New Titles (Nov-Dec 2012)

I found this list on Wikipedia, but it later vanished.  I liked to have the "old" series final issue numbers, so found the "old" Wikipedia entry for "Marvel Now" and pulled out this list (Link to cancelled wikipedia page).

Comic Vine also reports cancelled/new series (Comic Vine - Marvel NOW)



Cancelled series
Name
The Amazing Spider-Man
Volume
1
Last Issue Number
#700 (December 2012)
Avengers 4 #34 (November 2012)
Captain America 6 #19 (October 2012)
Captain America & 1 #640 (December 2012)
Deadpool 2 #63 (October 2012)
Defenders 4 #12 (November 2012)
Fantastic Four 1 #611 (October 2012)
FF 1 #23 (October 2012)
Incredible Hulk 3 #15 (October 2012)
Invincible Iron Man 1 #527 (October 2012)
New Avengers 2 #34 (November 2012)
New Mutants 3 #50 (October 2012)
Secret Avengers 1 #37 (January 2013)
The Mighty Thor 1 #22 (October 2012)
Uncanny X-Force 1 #35 (December 2012)
Uncanny X-Men 2 #20 (October 2012)
Wolverine 2 #317 (December 2012)
X-Men 3 #41 (February 2013)
X-Men Legacy 1 #275 (October 2012)


New series
A+X 1 #1 (October 2012)
All-New X-Men 1 #1 (November 2012)
Avengers 5 #1 (December 2012)
Avengers Arena 1 #1 (December 2012)
Cable and X-Force 1 #1 (December 2012)
Captain America 7 #1 (November 2012)
Deadpool 3 #1 (November 2012)
FF 2 #1 (November 2012)
Fantastic Four 4 #1 (November 2012)
Fearless Defenders 1 #1 (February 2012)
Guardians of the Galaxy 3 #0.1 (February 2013)
Indestructible Hulk 1 #1 (November 2012)
Iron Man 5 #1 (November 2012)
Morbius: The Living Vampire 2 #1 (January 2013)
New Avengers 3 #1 (January 2013)
Nova 5 #1 (February 2013)
Savage Wolverine 1 #1 (January 2013)
Secret Avengers 2 #1 (February 2013)
The Superior Spider-Man 1 #1 (January 2013)
Thor: God of Thunder 1 #1 (November 2012)
Thunderbolts 2 #1 (December 2012)
Uncanny Avengers 1 #1 (October 2012)
Uncanny X-Force 2 #1 (January 2013)
Uncanny X-Men 3 #1 (February 2013)
Wolverine 5 #1 (March 2013)
X-Men Legacy 2 #1 (November 2012)
Young Avengers 2 #1 (January 2013)


Other series
Avengers Assemble 1 #9 (November 2012)
Daredevil 3 #23 (February 2012)
Journey into Mystery 1 #646 (November 2012)
Red She-Hulk 1 #58 (October 2012)
Wolverine and the X-Men 1 #19 (October 2012)
One-shot
Marvel NOW! Point One 1 #1 (October 2012)

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