Thread:The Many-Angled One/@comment-27766744-20180619154420/@comment-3406131-20180620234537

The Many-Angled One wrote: To make my point clear, the field is used for appearances and mentions are not that; that's not a thing we need a rule to tell us.

I'm not against crediting the writer who introduced a character through a mention, nor am I against listing their "first mention" on the "First2" field (with a note on the "Notes" section complementing the information, preferably). That was one side on my interpretation of it, but the other way seemed fine to me as well. The handbook field (I'm using and #2 here) I was mentioned is named "first appearance", yet does include mentions, in first rank (simarly for Legion and X-Force (M Branch)). Similarly, it list sthe identities for Excalibur ("Hussain", then "Excalibur"), the degree of appearance for Hecatomb ("energies", "identified", "full"), Midgard Serpent ("behind the scenes", "full"), Scalphunter ("shadowed", "identified, full") or Wraith ("vision", "physical", "identified").

Recent handbooks presents the mention as part of the first appearance(s) as well: Shiklah in, Apocalypse Twins, Avengers Initiative (1950s) and Silver Sable in.

Given this, the term "appearance" isn't seemingly meant to separate "mention" from "appearance" as we used it on the comics page, but simply to indicate the first appearance of a subject in comics.