Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20190509171612/@comment-61022-20190509203711

I think that this is a currently evolving subject these days, particularly with Disney (and by extension Marvel) buying up all sorts of properties over the past few years.

I do have some thoughts on a few aspects of this conversation...

Conan

I think this is going to be a being one moving forward since Dark Horse had the rights to Conan from 1999ish(?) until 2018. The big question I have is if that Dark Horse stuff is considered cannon to Marvel's version of Conan? On the one hand, Marvel is reprinting some of the Dark Horse stuff. On the other hand, Marvel has reprinted the Star Wars books that Dark Horse released as well.

Me, I think we should hold off on if the Dark Horse Conan stuff is Marvel cannon for the time being unless something is officially stated confirming this. Unless there is something I'm missing, I don't think they have.

Also, we don't know if Marvel intends to reprint all of the Dark Horse Conan books either (with some exception, as I am sure they won't be able to reprint the Conan/Wonder Woman crossover that happened last year). I point to the Dark Horse Star Wars stuff as an example. Marvel reprinted some of it in 2014 when they got the license back but... have they continued reprinting the Dark Horse stuff?

Other Licensed Stuff I'd handle this on a case-by-case basis. Unless it's obvious that they are on Earth-616 (which hasn't really been a thing since the early 80s, excepting the Conan revival this year) or some kind of multiversal connection to Earth-616, we should consider it non-cannon in any way and should defer people to the appropriate Wiki.

Then again, when it comes to the multiversal connections, we should only be covering the characters are that are entrenched in the Marvel multiverse.

Marvels G.I. Joe/Transformers comics are part of the Marvel Multiverse for a few reasons. The US Books primarily because they have a version of Spider-Man in that reality (although he only appears once and is never seen again). The UK books primarily because of Death's Head. However, we don't have profiles for every G.I. Joe or Transformer. We leave those up to the respective wikis. We do however have pages for the reality designations and some of the Marvel owned stuff (Death's Head, Circuit Breaker, that one-off Spider-Man etc.)

Atlas/Timely Anthology Books This is a tough one. Especially since Marvel continues to add stuff into continuity with their themed handbooks (Marvel 75th, Marvel Monsters and Vampires come to mind immediately)

I think unless we get some kind of confirmation we should consider them non-cannon unless we got some confirmation. When you consider these stories they are almost all one-off stories. Very few characters that appear in these stories appear in another story. The ones that have, I think it is safe to assume, have all been considered part of Marvel cannon. Creating pages for one-off characters seems kind of a pointless endeavor since their profiles are going to say the same thing as the issue they appear in.

However, if I were to think of a compromise, maybe we could come up with an Index page (like the Character Index) that lists all of these questionable characters.