In the past we've been very relaxed on the rules regarding the addition of character articles from the Pre-Marvel age. This includes characters from a wide-range of Timely-era, Atlas-era, and early post-Fantastic Four #1 Marvel-era series, but most often stems from the Atlas-era sci-fi and horror anthology series, such as early Journey into Mystery, Tales to Astonish and Strange Tales, among many, many others.
While hundreds of characters from before Fantastic Four #1 have since been confirmed to be canon to Earth-616 (or sometimes their own separate-but-official realities), many characters have not been confirmed as canon, but still have pages here on the Database. But the time has come for us to clean house.
This thread will be the place for users to report pages that do not have any citations or references to confirm their place within an official reality. Once here, research will be done to determine if the character does in fact belong to an official universe (with references and updates added to their page), and if not, the article will be processed for deletion.
I'll be the main admin working on this, so feel free to direct any questions/feedback at me.
THE LIST
This is the working list I have so far. Every character here (some of which I created at one point) is waiting on a confirmation or reference to place them somewhere in the canon proper, or otherwise is in need of deletion. This is only a small handful of the characters in need of review.
- Anuxa – Tales to Astonish #7
- Billy Buckskin - Billy Buckskin Western Vol 1
- The Beast From the Bog (Chalo) – Chamber of Darkness #5
- The Four-Armed Men – Tales to Astonish #26
- Glop (Hulk) – Tales to Astonish #21
- The Gorilla-Man (Franz Radzik) – Tales to Astonish #28
- It – Strange Tales #82
- Kraggoom – Journey into Mystery #78
- Linda Brown, Aunt May, Uncle Ben – Strange Tales #97
- Lucius P. Gregory – Journey into Mystery #75
- The Man – Journey into Mystery #40
- Max Garr – Tales of Suspense #18
- Plant-Thing from Mars – Strange Tales #91
- Simon Drudd – Tales to Astonish #10
- Sserpo – Amazing Adventures #6
- The Statue Maker – Tales to Astonish #34
- Sydney Burr – Tales to Astonish #4
- Thing from the Hidden Swamp and Mary Brown – Tales to Astonish #30
- The Thing That Hunts for Me – Strange Tales #92
- Weed – Strange Tales #94
- X-13 – Strange Tales #93
- Zarkorr – Tales of Suspense #35
- Everything from Earth-TRN148 – Tales of Suspense #29
- Everything from Earth-TRN214 – Strange Tales #99
THE SEMI-CONFIRMED LIST
These characters are either borderline acceptable, or have comic issues that may confirm their Canonical status, but still need further research.
- Experiment 247 from Tales to Astonish #1 not necessarily confirmed for Earth-616, but an alternate reality counterpart appeared in Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. Season 1, Episode 24
- Freddy Sykes and The Genie from Tales to Astonish #8 were featured in Monsters Unleashed promotional material
- Poker Face from Strange Tales of the Unusual #7 was a featured variant for S.H.I.E.L.D. Vol 3 #11
- Starr the Slayer from Chamber of Darkness #4 is not confirmed in Earth-616, but an alternate reality counterpart appeared in Newuniversal #1. The MAX Comics line also had a 4-issue mini-series featuring a version of the character, but it's unclear which reality that series may fall in.
- Thorg from Tales to Astonish #16 was a featured variant for Unbeatable Squirrel Girl Vol 2 #1 and appeared in Monsters Unleashed promotional material