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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
I thought about Gwen, but decided that it should be a true return from the dead, not a clone or a newly created alternate universe version who never died.
I suppose technically that means the comic book characters who have been dead the longest are Thomas and Martha Wayne. :P
(Yes, I know we said Marvel.)
2005. And he died in the '40s.
edited 28th Jan '15 5:21:36 PM by BadWolf21
There were stories written in the fifties about Cap and Bucky fighting Soviets. When people questioned how this was possible in the sixties they came up with the excuse that two other people took over the identities of Cap and Bucky but slowly went insane due to a botched super soldier serum. The fifties Bucky eventually became Cap's ally Nomad but then the original Bucky killed him when he turned up as the Winter Soldier.
Yeah. Revealing the "True Cap" awakening from a frozen iceberg was an Author's Saving Throw after the Red Scare passed, hating communists fell out of style, and Captain America punching out communists began to look unpleasant.
edited 28th Jan '15 5:34:26 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.If Spider-Gwen came to the 616 universe and made her home there, I would count that as Gwen Stacy returning to the 616 universe after 42 years.
It's difficult to apply this to DC due to how their continuity works. Also things get fuzzy when you ask yourself who counts as 'dead, or believed dead, or believed out of action.' thankfully the longer examples (and ones which are not on going) are less ambiguous.
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Good old C-List Fodder. Batroc the Leaper is the only one who's immune. Even Stilt-Man got killed off. Of course, it's not noteworthy when a minor character is killed off; but if that character is noteworthy enough that down the line a writer feels like bringing them back; then it becomes interesting to ask why.
edited 28th Jan '15 5:38:16 PM by Whowho
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Well it's not as bad Hawkman's history.
It was a pretty convoluted excuse though. This was back when Marvel was trying to insist their superhero world was a continuous narrative and didn't say "Screw it, we're retconning those stories." They split up the original Avengers team for a similar reason when people questioned how it was possible for them to be having all these solo adventures while supposedly working as Avengers.
edited 28th Jan '15 5:38:13 PM by Kostya
Whowho: I would disagree with you on that, then. It's not "Gwen coming back," it's "A different Gwen existing."
Kostya: I gave up even trying to understand Hawkman's history a long time ago. It helps that I never really found Hawkman terribly interesting to begin with.
edited 28th Jan '15 5:39:34 PM by BadWolf21
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And yet now days you can have a character be in four different on going books met only with a lampshade and a wolverine joke.
That's fair, and I think I prefer that. The benefit of playing this game with MARVEL is that their world are pretty distinct outside of Captain Britain/Exiles shenanigans. Though time will tell what the fourth secret wars will entail.
edited 28th Jan '15 5:46:54 PM by Whowho
I didn't know that about the roster change.
Still, the Kooky Quartet set a good precedent. Yes.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersOne More Day never would have happened if Ben Reilly were alive today.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.I've seen some of the covers for those comics. Each is proudly emblazoned with the title "Captain America: Commie Smasher!" Ran for what, five issues?
Edit: Here's one of them.
◊ The art here makes them look like a couple of assholes, if you ask me.
edited 28th Jan '15 7:23:35 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!

Y'know, the joke was always "The only characters who stay dead are Uncle Ben and Bucky Barnes"
But... as far as I'm aware, Bucky hasn't stayed dead for a long time. Like, Winter Soldier isn't that new is it?
"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."