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Retroactive continuity

Index Retroactive continuity

Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which established facts in a fictional work are adjusted, ignored, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which breaks continuity with the former. [1]

128 relations: Alan Moore, All-Star Squadron, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Conan Doyle, Balkans, Batman: The Killing Joke, Battlestar Galactica, Bewitched, Beyonder, Bobby Ewing, Boy Meets World, Bugsy Siegel, Cartoon, Caulfield East, Victoria, Charlie Sheen, Comic book, Comic book death, Comic book letter column, Continuity (fiction), Creation Entertainment, Dallas (1978 TV series), DC Comics, Deadpool (film), Designs on Jerry, Diegesis, Doctor Who, E. E. Smith, Earth-Two, False memory syndrome, Family Guy, Faster-than-light, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fisher King, Flatline, Floating timeline, Full House, Galactic Center, Geoff Johns, George Lucas, Glossary of professional wrestling terms, Golden Age of Comic Books, Horror film, Hunter Tylo, Isaac Asimov, Jack McKinney (writer), Jim Shooter, Joe Kubert, John Byrne (comics), Kryptonian, Kurt Busiek, ..., Last Call (novel), Lex Luthor, List of retroactive continuities, Manga, Marvel Comics, Marvelman, Montenegro, Moon, My Wife and Kids, Neologism, Nero Wolfe, Of Course He's Dead, Omnipotence, Over My Dead Body (novel), Pam Ewing, Parallel universes in fiction, Patrick Duffy, Professional wrestling, Pulp magazine, Regeneration (Doctor Who), Retronym, Rex Stout, Rick Hoberg, Robotech, Robotech II: The Sentinels, Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles, Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, Roseanne, Roy Thomas, San Bernardino, California, Santa Barbara, California, Secret history, Sequel, Serial (radio and television), Sherlock Holmes, Shutter Bugged Cat, Skylark DuQuesne, Soap opera, Space Race, Spider-Man: Chapter One, Star Wars, Superboy (Kon-El), Superhero, Superman, Supermassive black hole, Swamp Thing, Taylor Hayes (The Bold and the Beautiful), Teen Titans, The Adventure of the Empty House, The Amazing Spider-Man, The American Magazine, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Final Problem, The Flintstones, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather Part III, The Matrix Revolutions, The Omen, The Rampaging Hulk, The Simpsons, The Skylark of Space, Tim Powers, Tom and Jerry, Tom DeFalco, Torchwood, Trantor, Two and a Half Men, Untold Tales of Spider-Man, Usenet, Video game, Wilma Flintstone, Wolfhart Pannenberg, World War I, World War II, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: The Hidden Years, 2061: Odyssey Three. Expand index (78 more) »

Alan Moore

Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English writer known primarily for his work in comic books including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The Ballad of Halo Jones and From Hell.

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All-Star Squadron

The All-Star Squadron is a DC Comics superhero team that debuted in Justice League of America #193 (August 1981) and was created by Roy Thomas, Rich Buckler and Jerry Ordway.

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Arthur C. Clarke

Sir Arthur Charles Clarke (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes.

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Balkans

The Balkans, or the Balkan Peninsula, is a geographic area in southeastern Europe with various and disputed definitions.

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Batman: The Killing Joke

Batman: The Killing Joke is a 1988 DC Comics one-shot graphic novel featuring the characters Batman and the Joker written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Brian Bolland.

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Battlestar Galactica

Battlestar Galactica is an American science fiction media franchise created by Glen A. Larson.

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Bewitched

Bewitched is an American television sitcom fantasy series, originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from September 17, 1964 to March 25, 1972.

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Beyonder

The Beyonder is a fictional cosmic entity appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Bobby Ewing

Robert "Bobby" James Ewing is a fictional character in the American television series Dallas and its 2012 revival.

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Boy Meets World

Boy Meets World is an American television sitcom that chronicles the coming-of-age events and everyday life-lessons of Cory Matthews (portrayed by Ben Savage).

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Bugsy Siegel

Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (February 28, 1906 – June 20, 1947) was an American mobster.

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Cartoon

A cartoon is a type of illustration, possibly animated, typically in a non-realistic or semi-realistic style.

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Caulfield East, Victoria

Caulfield East is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district.

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Charlie Sheen

Carlos Irwin Estévez (born September 3, 1965), known professionally as Charlie Sheen, is an American actor.

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Comic book

A comic book or comicbook, also called comic magazine or simply comic, is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes.

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Comic book death

In the comic book fan community, the apparent death and subsequent return of a long-running character is often called a comic book death.

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Comic book letter column

A comic book letter column is a section of an American comic book where readers' letters to the publisher appear.

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Continuity (fiction)

In fiction, continuity is consistency of the characteristics of people, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time.

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Creation Entertainment

Creation Entertainment is an American for-profit entertainment company located in Glendale, California, which produces fan conventions for fans of various films and television series, mainly in the science fiction, horror, and fantasy genres.

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Dallas (1978 TV series)

Dallas is an American prime time television soap opera that aired on CBS from April 2, 1978, to May 3, 1991.

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DC Comics

DC Comics, Inc. is an American comic book publisher.

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Deadpool (film)

Deadpool is a 2016 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, distributed by 20th Century Fox.

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Designs on Jerry

Designs on Jerry is the 93rd one reel animated Tom and Jerry short, released in 1955, directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby with music by Scott Bradley.

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Diegesis

Diegesis (from the Greek διήγησις from διηγεῖσθαι, "to narrate") is a style of fiction storytelling that presents an interior view of a world in which.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British science-fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963.

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E. E. Smith

Edward Elmer Smith (also E. E. Smith, E. E. Smith, Ph.D., E. E. "Doc" Smith, Doc Smith, "Skylark" Smith, or—to his family—Ted; May 2, 1890 – August 31, 1965) was an American food engineer (specializing in doughnut and pastry mixes) and science-fiction author, best known for the Lensman and Skylark series.

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Earth-Two

Earth-Two is a fictional universe appearing in American comic book published by DC Comics.

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False memory syndrome

False memory syndrome (FMS) describes a condition in which a person's identity and relationships are affected by memories that are factually incorrect but that they strongly believe.

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Family Guy

Family Guy is an American animated sitcom created by Seth MacFarlane for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Faster-than-light

Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communication and travel are the conjectural propagation of information or matter faster than the speed of light.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Fisher King

In Arthurian legend, the Fisher King, also known as the Wounded King or Maimed King, is the last in a long line charged with keeping the Holy Grail.

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Flatline

A flatline is an electrical time sequence measurement that shows no activity and therefore, when represented, shows a flat line instead of a moving one.

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Floating timeline

A floating timeline (also known as a sliding timescale) is a device used in fiction, particularly in comics and animation, to explain why characters age little or not at all over a period of time — despite real-world markers like notable events, people and technology appearing in the works and correlating with the real world.

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Full House

Full House is an American television sitcom created by Jeff Franklin for ABC.

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Galactic Center

The Galactic Center is the rotational center of the Milky Way.

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Geoff Johns

Geoff Johns (born January 25, 1973) is an American comic book writer, television writer, television producer, film producer and screenwriter.

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George Lucas

George Walton Lucas Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American filmmaker and entrepreneur.

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Glossary of professional wrestling terms

Professional wrestling has accrued a considerable nomenclature throughout its existence.

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Golden Age of Comic Books

The Golden Age of Comic Books describes an era of American comic books from the late 1930s to circa 1950.

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Horror film

A horror film is a film that seeks to elicit a physiological reaction, such as an elevated heartbeat, through the use of fear and shocking one’s audiences.

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Hunter Tylo

Hunter Tylo (born Deborah Jo Hunter, July 3, 1962) is an American actress, author and former model.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Jack McKinney (writer)

Jack McKinney was a pseudonym used by American authors James Luceno and Brian Daley before the latter's death.

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Jim Shooter

James Shooter (born September 27, 1951) is an American writer, occasional fill-in artist, editor, and publisher for various comic books.

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Joe Kubert

Joseph "Joe" Kubert (September 18, 1926 – August 12, 2012) was a Polish-born American comic book artist, art teacher, and founder of The Kubert School.

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John Byrne (comics)

John Lindley Byrne (born July 6, 1950) is an American comics artist and writer. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes. Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics' Superman franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as penciller, inker, letterer and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also served as penciler and inker). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. He is the co-creator of such Marvel characters as Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, Sabretooth, Shadow King, Scott Lang (Ant-Man), Bishop, Omega Red and Rachel Summers.

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Kryptonian

Kryptonians are a fictional extraterrestrial race of humanoids within the DC Comics universe that originated on the planet Krypton.

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Kurt Busiek

Kurt Busiek (born September 16, 1960) is an American comic book writer.

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Last Call (novel)

Last Call is a fantasy novel by American writer Tim Powers.

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Lex Luthor

Alexander Joseph "Lex" Luthor is a fictional supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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List of retroactive continuities

The following are examples of retroactive continuities (or retcons).

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Manga

are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

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Marvel Comics

Marvel Comics is the common name and primary imprint of Marvel Worldwide Inc., formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, a publisher of American comic books and related media.

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Marvelman

Miracleman, formerly known as Marvelman, is a fictional superhero appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics.

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Montenegro

Montenegro (Montenegrin: Црна Гора / Crna Gora, meaning "Black Mountain") is a sovereign state in Southeastern Europe.

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Moon

The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.

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My Wife and Kids

My Wife and Kids is an American sitcom that ran on ABC from March 28, 2001 to May 17, 2005.

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Neologism

A neologism (from Greek νέο- néo-, "new" and λόγος lógos, "speech, utterance") is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not yet been fully accepted into mainstream language.

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Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout.

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Of Course He's Dead

"Of Course He's Dead" is the series finale of the long-running sitcom Two and a Half Men.

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Omnipotence

Omnipotence is the quality of having unlimited power.

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Over My Dead Body (novel)

Over My Dead Body is the seventh Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout.

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Pam Ewing

Pamela "Pam" Barnes Ewing is a fictional character from the CBS primetime soap opera, Dallas.

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Parallel universes in fiction

A parallel universe is a hypothetical self-contained reality co-existing with one's own.

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Patrick Duffy

Patrick Duffy (born March 17, 1949) is an American actor, best known for his role on the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas, where he played Bobby Ewing, the youngest son of Miss Ellie and the nicest brother of J.R. Ewing (played by Barbara Bel Geddes and Larry Hagman respectively) from 1978 to 1985 and from 1986 to 1991.

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Professional wrestling

Professional wrestling (often shortened to pro wrestling or simply wrestling) is a form of sports entertainment which combines athletics with theatrical performance.

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Pulp magazine

Pulp magazines (often referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the 1950s.

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Regeneration (Doctor Who)

In the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, regeneration is a biological ability exhibited by the Time Lords, a race of fictional humanoids originating on the planet Gallifrey.

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Retronym

A retronym is a newer name for an existing thing that differentiates the original form or version from a more recent one.

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Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout (December 1, 1886 – October 27, 1975) was an American writer noted for his detective fiction.

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Rick Hoberg

Richard Renick Hoberg (born June 7, 1952) is an American comics artist and animator.

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Robotech

Robotech is a science fiction franchise that began with an 85-episode anime television series produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production and first released in the United States in 1985.

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Robotech II: The Sentinels

Robotech II: The Sentinels was an attempt by Harmony Gold USA to continue the original 1985 ''Robotech'' television series.

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Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles

Robotech: Prelude to the Shadow Chronicles is a five-part comic book mini-series written by Tommy Yune along with the Waltrip brothers, who were previously the art-and-writing team of the Robotech II: The Sentinels comic series.

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Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles

Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles is the 2006 animated sequel to the 1985 ''Robotech'' television series.

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Roseanne

Roseanne is an American television sitcom starring Roseanne Barr.

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Roy Thomas

Roy William Thomas Jr."Roy Thomas Checklist" Alter Ego Vol.

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San Bernardino, California

San Bernardino is a city located in the Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan area (sometimes called the "Inland Empire").

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Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara (Spanish for "Saint Barbara") is the county seat of Santa Barbara County in the U.S. state of California.

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Secret history

A secret history (or shadow history) is a revisionist interpretation of either fictional or real history which is claimed to have been deliberately suppressed, forgotten, or ignored by established scholars.

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Sequel

A sequel is a literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work.

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Serial (radio and television)

In television and radio programming, a serial has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion.

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional private detective created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Shutter Bugged Cat

Shutter Bugged Cat is a 1967 Tom and Jerry cartoon, produced in the Chuck Jones era.

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Skylark DuQuesne

Skylark DuQuesne is a science fiction novel by American writer E. E. Smith, the final novel in his Skylark series.

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Soap opera

A soap opera or soaper is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction presented in serial format on television, radio and in novels, featuring the lives of many characters and focusing on emotional relationships to the point of melodrama.

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Space Race

The Space Race refers to the 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for dominance in spaceflight capability.

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Spider-Man: Chapter One

Spider-Man: Chapter One is a comic book limited series starring Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics for 13 issues (#1-12, with a #0 added between #6 and #7) from December 1998 to October 1999.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Superboy (Kon-El)

Superboy (also known as Kon-El or Conner Kent) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Superhero

A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero or Super) is a type of heroic stock character, usually possessing supernatural or superhuman powers, who is dedicated to fighting the evil of his/her universe, protecting the public, and usually battling supervillains.

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Superman

Superman is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Supermassive black hole

A supermassive black hole (SMBH or SBH) is the largest type of black hole, on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses, and is found in the centre of almost all currently known massive galaxies.

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Swamp Thing

The Swamp Thing is a fictional character and antihero in comic books published by American company DC Comics.

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Taylor Hayes (The Bold and the Beautiful)

Taylor Hayes is a fictional character from the American CBS soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful, portrayed by Hunter Tylo.

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Teen Titans

The Teen Titans, also known as the New Teen Titans and the Titans, are a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, often in an eponymous monthly series.

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The Adventure of the Empty House

"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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The Amazing Spider-Man

The Amazing Spider-Man is an American comic book series published by Marvel Comics, featuring the fictional superhero Spider-Man as its main protagonist. Being in the mainstream continuity of the franchise, it began publication in 1963 as a monthly periodical and was published continuously, with a brief interruption in 1995, until its relaunch with a new numbering order in 1999. In 2003 the series reverted to the numbering order of the first volume. The title has occasionally been published biweekly, and was published three times a month from 2008 to 2010. A film named after the comic was released July 3, 2012. After DC Comics' relaunch of Action Comics and Detective Comics with new #1 issues in 2011, it had been the highest-numbered American comic still in circulation until it was cancelled. The title ended its 50-year run as a continuously published comic with issue #700 in December 2012. It was replaced by The Superior Spider-Man as part of the Marvel NOW! relaunch of Marvel's comic lines. The title was relaunched in April 2014, starting fresh from issue #1, after the "Goblin Nation" story arc published in The Superior Spider-Man and Superior Spider-Man Team-Up. In late 2015, The Amazing Spider-Man was relaunched again with a new volume with issue #1 following the 2015 Secret Wars event.

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The American Magazine

The American Magazine was a periodical publication founded in June 1906, a continuation of failed publications purchased a few years earlier from publishing mogul Miriam Leslie.

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The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful (often referred to as B&B) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS.

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The Final Problem

"The Final Problem" is a short story by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes.

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The Flintstones

The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC.

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The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom that originally aired on NBC from September 10, 1990, to May 20, 1996.

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The Godfather Part II

The Godfather Part II is a 1974 American crime film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay co-written with Mario Puzo, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

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The Godfather Part III

The Godfather Part III is a 1990 American crime film written by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, and directed by Coppola.

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The Matrix Revolutions

The Matrix Revolutions is a 2003 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowski Brothers.

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The Omen

The Omen is a 1976 English-language supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner, and written by David Seltzer.

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The Rampaging Hulk

The Rampaging Hulk is a comic book series published by Marvel Comics.

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The Simpsons

The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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The Skylark of Space

The Skylark of Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Edward E. "Doc" Smith, written between 1915 and 1921 while Smith was working on his doctorate.

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Tim Powers

Timothy Thomas "Tim" Powers (born February 29, 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry is an American animated series of short films created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.

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Tom DeFalco

Tom DeFalco (born June 26, 1950) is an American comic book writer and editor, well known for his association with Marvel Comics and in particular for his work with Spider-Man.

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Torchwood

Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies.

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Trantor

Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' Series and ''Empire'' series of science fiction novels.

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Two and a Half Men

Two and a Half Men is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS for twelve seasons from September 22, 2003, to February 19, 2015.

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Untold Tales of Spider-Man

Untold Tales of Spider-Man is an American comic book series starring Spider-Man published by Marvel Comics for 26 issues (#1–25, and a -1 issue between #s 22 and 23) from September 1995 to October 1997.

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Usenet

Usenet is a worldwide distributed discussion system available on computers.

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Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

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Wilma Flintstone

Wilma Flintstone is a fictional character in the television animated series The Flintstones.

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Wolfhart Pannenberg

Wolfhart Pannenberg (2 October 1928 – 4 September 2014) was a German theologian.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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World War II

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_continuity

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