Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20190509171612/@comment-1713281-20190509201337

Copeinator123 wrote: everything Marvel has ever published is canon, its all a different reality in the multiverse

Copeinator123 wrote: my thought has always been in the line of if Marvel (or Timely or Atlas) published it and it contains nothing explicitly contradicted by future events then its canon to 616.

I don't necessarily agree with these, especially since for a long period, none of the pre-Marvel content was canon, aside for a few notable exceptions like Captain America, Namor and their ancillary characters that were re-incorporated after Fantastic Four #1. Yes, a few other characters were brought back into the fold in later decades through appearance or retcons (Two-Gun Kid and Black Knight come to mind), but the notion that most non-hero/pre-FF #1 content was (or could be) canon to the main timeline did not really come into vogue until the 2000's with handbooks and titles re-introducing/re-contextualized characters into canon. The mid-2000s "themed" handbooks (', ',, etc.) were especially big in this, and were where a lot of the single-issue anthology characters were brought into canon.

This kind of thinking on our part is also why so little of the creator-owned stuff and various other imprint lines were never given character articles here. Kick-Ass, Kingsman, Men in Black, Powers--all of those are major franchises, but none of them ever passed that barrier for inclusion.