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First appearances

Name: Comic Book Co Codex: First appearances
Creator: Comic Book Co
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The work each character first appeared in. `evidence` = curated (Codex key-issue record, with issue number) or source (Wikidata).

first_appearances.csv

1,917 rows · UTF-8 CSV with a header row

codex.sqlite.gz

this table and every other, as table first_appearances

datapackage.json

schema, primary and foreign keys (Frictionless standard)

All tables

the full catalog

Columns

Column	Type	Meaning
`character_id`	string	Character → `entities`
`work_id`	string	Work of first appearance → `entities`
`issue`	string	Issue number where recorded
`evidence`	string	curated \| source

Licence and provenance

CC BY 4.0 — cite Comic Book Co Codex, https://comicbookco.com/codex/. The Codex combines Comic Book Co editorial records with rows ingested from Wikidata (CC0 1.0) by deterministic code; the compiled table is published by Comic Book Co under CC BY 4.0.

Last updated 2026-09-06