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Key issues

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

Collector-relevant milestones: first appearances, deaths, returns, team changes.

key_issues.csv

226 rows · UTF-8 CSV with a header row

codex.sqlite.gz

this table and every other, as table key_issues

datapackage.json

schema, primary and foreign keys (Frictionless standard)

All tables

the full catalog

Columns

Column	Type	Meaning
`id`	integer	Statement id
`character_id`	string	Character → `entities`
`kind`	string	first_appearance \| death \| return \| joins_team \| ...
`work_id`	string	Series → `entities`
`issue`	string	Issue number
`year`	string	Year
`note`	string	Why it matters

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