Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20190509171612/@comment-61022-20190510063035

Copeinator123 wrote: And I think that's a great disservice to those stories, where unless there is a wiki better suited for the information, then if it was published by Marvel it should fall under our umbrella, we are the Marvel Database. I've never seen it expliclty defined we had to limit ourselves to just "Marvel Superheroes stemming from the works of Lee, Kirby, Ditko"

The imprint stuff also gets kind of sticky. Kick-Ass has moved from Marvel's Icon imprint to Image last year. Ditto for Kingsman. Powers started off as an Image series, I'm guessing it'll probably go back there like all the other Icon titles did when Marvel ended the imprint. My gut says that since they're creator owned stuff and they are all being published by Image maybe we should collaborate with the people over at the Image Wiki and come up with something.

Copeinator123 wrote: 100% disagree with that, there are thousands of one-shot characters that the appendix alone found interesting enough to give a page. And just going through the golden age comics to see where a lot of them originated and 2011 you may have disagreed since you worked on a lot of one-shot characters (though i'm sure most if not all were connected to Cap, Namor etc in some way)

That takes me back. In those days I was creating pages for one-off Golden Age villains that were unique or interesting. I think I probably went over-kill with some of the Nazi and Imperial Japanese soldiers, not realizing how one-dimensional they all were in those days.

Then there were the western characters from that era that have never been seen since (Arrowhead, Tex Morgan, Blaze Carson, Buckskin Billy etc. etc.), I look at them as kind of grey areas. There's nothing official (that I am aware of) confirming if they are part of Earth-616, but they're also from the days of the American Frontier so it's not like they'd make a huge impact if they were-or-weren't included.

I also delved into some Korean War era stories that had recurring characters, but they were confirmed as cannon in the Marvel Atlas.

Then there's the mountain of romance comics that are out there. I think we haven't really delved into the cannonicity of Tessie the Typist because, really, who wants to ready a dated romance comic from the 1950s? I tried ready old Patsy Walker comics and I had to nope out because they were really bad.