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John Byrne
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Its the Grand Marvel Comics Accumulator - take all the previous runs and add together, but only near a 'significant number' like a multiple of 100. After a few issues revert back to a new number one until you get near the next multiple and accumulate again.•• If that's their ploy, their math is still off. Based on the GCBDb, and counting ONLY American editions with the name WOLVERINE in the title, the accumulation is well over 750!
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James Woodcock
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Ok, I'm at a loss then, but then clearly so are they
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Adam Hutchinson
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I THINK it's based on the number of issues of ongoing series starring Wolverine. I THINK.
Found this article:
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- 189 issues of the original series. (And Larry Hama wrote the majority of them.)
- 74 issues of the second series that started in 2003. It actually lasted to issue #90, but starred Daken as of #75 and was rechristened “Dark Wolverine,” so that’s probably out of play.
- 16 issues of Wolverine: Weapon X. Some might think to exclude this since it was technically an ancillary title at the time, but it was written by Aaron and during the period that the main book starred Daken, so let’s count it.
- 20 issues of the current volume of Wolverine, which hits #20 in December |
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Brendan Howard
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Looks like the first continuing Wolverine series got to #189:
http://www.comicvine.com/wolverine/49-4250/
I vaguely remember the series going twice-monthly in the summertime for a few years, which is maybe why the 12-issues-a-year math doesn't add up.
The second series relaunch got to #74 as Wolverine and continued to #90 as Dark Wolverine:
http://www.comicvine.com/wolverine/49-10809/
http://www.comicvine.com/dark-wolverine/49-26883/
The third series relaunch had 20 issues before renumbering to #300:
http://www.comicvine.com/wolverine/49-35263/
So that's 189 + 90 + 20 = 299 before renumbering.
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Andrew W. Farago
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Real time and superhero comic time are pretty much incompatible, and you can either accept that and go along for the ride or not. In the new DCU, Dick Grayson was in his late teens when he became Robin, which lasted for about a year before he became Nightwing, Jason Todd must have replaced him immediately and gotten killed almost immediately, Tim Drake had to have been in his late teens and become Robin almost immediately after Jason Todd died before graduating and becoming Red Robin...and all of that took place in about a four-year span, during which he met Talia and fathered the current Robin, who was aged artificially in a lab or something.
You can either fit that into a workable timetable, or you can say "I liked this when I read it in 1990, it still holds up, and I'll re-read it every once in a while knowing that it was published in 1990" and not think too much about it. If Archie can go to 70 proms with 10 different girls and celebrate 70 summer vacations without quite getting to be a senior in high school, I think Neal Adams Batman and Norm Breyfogle Batman and Greg Capullo Batman can co-exist.
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John Byrne
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In the new DCU, Dick Grayson was in his late teens when he became Robin, which lasted for about a year before he became Nightwing…•• A desperate ploy to keep Batman slightly younger than Methuselah!
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Wallace Sellars
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You know what I'd do if I rebooted the DCU? Make Dick the teenage Robin
again. That would eliminate TWO of my favourites in one go, but even
loving Tim as I do and the Nightwing identity for Dick as I do, I still
understand what simplify and core mean. One Batman. One Robin. Their
civilian identities are Bruce Wayne and Richard "Dick" Grayson.
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Exactly! And if I could "reboot" Marvel, Spider-Man, the Human Torch and
all of the X-Men would be teens!
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Kip Lewis
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That's what the Ultimate Universe did; made them teens and they
didn't age.
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Wallace Sellars
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That's what the Ultimate Universe did; made them teens and they
didn't age.
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Any Spider-Man book readers pick up should feature a teenaged
webslinger. (Of course, if the story is taking a look into Peter Parker's future
or a time when he has been temporarily aged by some dastardly villain...)
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James Woodcock
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That's what the Ultimate Universe did; made them teens and they
didn't age.
------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------- Yeah, but ...........
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Josh Goldberg
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This Robin was in his late teens, that Robin was in his late teens... Whatever happened to the concept of the kid sidekick?
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Kip Lewis
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Kid sidekicks went away when Stan Lee said they were bad ideas and
killed Bucky. (Plus, society looks negatively on adults who endanger
tweens, nowadays.)
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