History Bookends / ComicBooks

* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:
** Sterling Gates started and ended his run by using a Cat Grant news piece. In the first issue, Cat wrote an article titled: "Why the World Doesn't Need a Supergirl". In the final issue, she wrote a kind of reluctant recantation: "The world needs a Supergirl".
** Peter David's book: In the first issue's cover, main character Linda is holding her skateboard. In the last panel of final storyline ''Comicbook/ManyHappyReturns'', Lois Lane is holding it.

* {{Transmetropolitan}}: The first issue is Spider driving down from the mountain, the last issue is Royce driving up the mountain. Some of the panels are staged almost identically, with Royce in Spider's place. Additionally, it incorporates an off panel BrickJoke involving a beating Spider promised to a [[AssholeVictim tollbooth attendant]] in issue 1.

* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}: Sterling Gates started and ended his run by using a Cat Grant news piece. In the first issue, Cat wrote an article titled: "Why the World Doesn't Need a Supergirl". In the final issue, she wrote a kind of reluctant recantation: "The world needs a Supergirl".

* ''ComicBook/TheGrievousJourneyOfIchabodAzrael'': The comic opens with the {{Narration}} "His name was Ichabod Azrael". It ends with the words "His name was Ichabod Azrael".

* Starling Gates started and ended (for now -- hopefully) his run on {{Supergirl}} by using a Cat Grant news piece.

* The first and last issues of ''StrangersInParadise'' have nearly the same covers; the first showing Francine and Katchoo in an art gallery as young girls, and the last issue showing them in the same pose as mature women.

* A one-issue set of bookends happened in the first part of The Phantom Affair, in the XWingSeries comics. [[http://img48.imageshack.us/img48/8814/blz02ps6.jpg "When you are a child]], the world is full of wonders. [[http://img150.imageshack.us/img150/7556/blz03ws7.jpg When you grow up]], though, wonders tend to have more mundane explanations." [[http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/5400/blz25fd4.jpg "The world is]] full of wonders when you're a child. But sometimes, just sometimes, even a grown-up can meet with one."

* YTheLastMan begins with Yorick in a straitjacket (practicing to be an escape artist) while on the phone to his girlfriend, asking her if she knew that Elvis had a stillborn twin brother. In the last issue, he poses the same question to [[spoiler: one of his clones, who doesn't even know who Elvis is]]. He's in a straitjacket again, this time because [[spoiler: he's been placed on suicide watch]].

** Issue one ends with TheQuestion removing the bat decal from the Bat-signal, and replacing it with a question mark. He then shines it on Renee Montoya's apartment (who has elected as his successor), and asks "Are you ready?". Issue 52 ends with Renee Montoya, now The Question, removing the question mark and putting the bat decal back on the signal. She then shines it on the apartment of Kate Kane's, who is both her girlfriend and Batwoman. "Are you ready?".

* ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' begins and ends with [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] and [[ComicBook/TheFlash Barry Allen]] talking in front of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s grave. Likewise, the [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090716030736/marvel_dc/images/1/18/Blackest_Night_Vol_1_1.jpg cover]] for ''Blackest Night'' #1 is the Batman clone's skull spewing Black Lantern Rings, while [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110428213736/marvel_dc/images/8/81/Brightest_Day_24_Variant.jpg one of the covers]] for ''BrightestDay'' #24 is a similar image of [[spoiler:Comicbook/SwampThing]] spewing White Lantern Rings.

* Part of the opening scene of ''{{Bone}}'' has Smiley Bone unexpectedly charging Phoney Bone a dollar for a random tattered map he found on the ground. Phoney's angry reluctance to pay this impromptu fee causes Fone Bone to chide him that they're lost in the middle of the desert, so he should cough up the dollar. The very last scene repeats this occurrence, with the map replaced by one of their food rations.
* In the first set of ''ElfQuest'', there's a book end that occurs within the main storyline while Cutter and Leetah have been struck by "Recognition", a biological imperative that's trying to force them to mate and have kids. In one scene [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ03/DisplayOQ03.html?page=12 Cutter knocks on the window of Leetah's hut]] to demand why she's continuing to resist, and she angrily rebuffs him. It's probably not a spoiler-worthy surprise that she eventually gives in, and the scene is bookended by [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ05/DisplayOQ05.html?page=28 Cutter knocking at her window again]], only this time it's to invite her to make love under the stars. Aaaah.

* ''BlackestNight'' begins and ends with [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] and [[TheFlash Barry Allen]] talking in front of Franchise/{{Batman}}'s grave. Likewise, the [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090716030736/marvel_dc/images/1/18/Blackest_Night_Vol_1_1.jpg cover]] for ''Blackest Night'' #1 is the Batman clone's skull spewing Black Lantern Rings, while [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110428213736/marvel_dc/images/8/81/Brightest_Day_24_Variant.jpg one of the covers]] for ''BrightestDay'' #24 is a similar image of [[spoiler:Comicbook/SwampThing]] spewing White Lantern Rings.

* MarvelZombies begins with the Zombie Sentry going into Earth-2149 from his dimension. Marvel Zombies Return ends with him [[StableTimeLoop leaving his dimension to Earth-2149.]]

* The first and last issues of ''StrangersInParadise'' have nearly the same covers; the first showing Francine and Katchoo as younger, and the last issue showing them as more mature.

* ''{{Tintin}} and the Picaros'' uses two very similar panels to show that despite [[spoiler:Alcazar's regime replacing Tapioca's]], nothing has changed for the ordinary people.

* ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'' begins with {{Deadpool}} sitting alone in his shitty apartment, watching TV and lusting after BeaArthur. The scene is revisited in panel-for-panel recreations a couple of times throughout the series, and then the final issue ends with Deadpool sitting alone in his shitty apartment, watching TV... and then being joined by his friends.

** Also by Alan Moore, Franchise/{{Batman}}'s ''TheKillingJoke'', which begins and ends with a shot of rain hitting the ground, and the joke which is starting in the beginning is completed at the conclusion.

** Also by Alan Moore, Comicbook/{{Batman}}'s ''TheKillingJoke'', which begins and ends with a shot of rain hitting the ground, and the joke which is starting in the beginning is completed at the conclusion.

* ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' begins and ends with [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/File:52_1.jpg similar]] [[http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/File:52_52.jpg covers]] (emphasizing {{Superman}}, {{Batman}}, and WonderWoman's absence during the TimeSkip that took place after InfiniteCrisis).

* ''BlackestNight'' begins and ends with [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]] and [[TheFlash Barry Allen]] talking in front of {{Batman}}'s grave. Likewise, the [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090716030736/marvel_dc/images/1/18/Blackest_Night_Vol_1_1.jpg cover]] for ''Blackest Night'' #1 is the Batman clone's skull spewing Black Lantern Rings, while [[http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110428213736/marvel_dc/images/8/81/Brightest_Day_24_Variant.jpg one of the covers]] for ''BrightestDay'' #24 is a similar image of [[spoiler:Comicbook/SwampThing]] spewing White Lantern Rings.

* The ''AstroCity'' story "In Dreams" starts and ends with Samaritan dreaming about flying.