Series Disambiguation (Moon Knight)

[Dean Clayton]

https://mightyavengers.net/continuity/s ... oon-knight
After a week-long trip down memory lane of the two decades of UXN , its time to give you something shiny by launching a brand new type of article we are calling “Series Disambiguation”.

In the first 40 years of the Marvel universe titles, there have only been a handful of series which had been canceled and relaunched with exactly the same name. As such, it was relatively easy to keep track of the differences, the years each ran and how they fit together. However, in the last 2 decades, series now seem to relaunch every time a new creative team takes over, this task has become all the more difficult. It is our hope that these articles will be a useful resource to our visitors.

This first article was originally meant to be released with our Character article on Moon Knight but wasn’t quite ready. With this being a brand new type of article and our 20th birthday we thought it would be the perfect time to release and showcase on both sites even though Moon Knight is not an “X-Men character” (yet). Now go read and let us know if you want more of this type of article!

[Cable]

Excellent new article idea!

I would love to see one for the various Punisher volumes (as of Savage Avengers he is an Avengers character after all )

[WorldWideWade]

This is fantastic! It is a pet project of mine to figure out the legacy numbering of long running series. This was made much easier when Marvel officially tallied most series for their Legacy initiative. I would love to see this incorporated into this type of article where applicable. Here is the legacy numbering for Moon Knight:

[Dean Clayton]

I'm assuming that picture is one that marvel produced? I think I saw them do that for a few titles.

I'd like to add that when Douglas first showed me this new article type , i was blown away - its almost too obvious an idea that i didn't understand why no one has done before - but then I realised most people aren't like UXN contributors and want to do the research

[Spectral Knight]

What a great article format! Would love this rolled out to the other multi-iteration series.

Quick request / suggestion - would it be possible to contain a link to the series volume issue summaries at the beginning/end of each 'volume' should they exist? Maybe in a row spanning both columns after the creative credits? (I know Moon Knight's not been summarised yet, but if this type of article is repeated for Uncanny X-Men / Deadpool / Wolverine etc. it'd be a handy shortcut).

(Also, minor nitpick - the homepage announcement link to the article is broken - presumably because it only exists on MA.net and not UXN? - Equally some of the UXN announcements on MA.net are broken, presume same issue in reverse)

[Blackcyclops]

Kudos completing a pretty arduous task...

Who else would fall into this category of kinda popular B-list superhero who has had multiple titles over the decades and not that many on a team?

Iron Fist
Punisher
Ghost Rider

I’d say the Hulk has had more very long running titles so he doesn’t count. And Deadpool’s books have overall performed for relatively long runs, even in the modern era.

[Lavettye]

Back when I was among the site staff, I would have been against this project.... considering it a waste of ressources that could be otherwise devoted to Spotlights and other material.

But as a mere site visitor, I like and enjoy this type of article very much, it's an intresting mix between a Spotlight, issue summaries, a well-researched Wikipedia entry on publication history and something we did a very long time ago we called "Current Title Info". (that was when Marvel didn't include introductionary pages in their comcis, and we wanted to provide stepping on Points for the current X-Titles)

I think there's more Avengers than X-characters that Series Disambiguation will be a good idea for. Other than the aforementioned ones, I think

She-Hulk
Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) and
Luke Cage

might be worthy candidates. On the X-side, other than Cable, I can only think of Gambit (perhaps intertwined with Rogue, as they appeared in each others' serieses quite often, and actually fully shared two of them) and maybe Bishop ?

[Magik84]

Very Cool article idea, so well researched.

[Douglas Mangum]

Thanks much to all for the positive reaction. While this idea had been in the back of my head of a bit, it really came to a head when I was uploading the covers for the Captain Marvel I Spotlight. I really got turned around on which series was which and there was not a great resource that laid it out simply. I figured that if something would be useful for me, it would be useful for others.

An interesting thing about the feedback here, everyone seems to have focussed on characters with multiple series. It's my intention for these articles to touch team books as well. "Um, which was the X-Men title that was all women? Wait, why is the Whedon series Astonishing X-Men *(3rd series)*?" There's a lot of work to do...

Wade, I did see those images and I've saved a few for future use. In fact, I used that to double-check my calculation and the data (but not the image) was used on the final page. I was not sure who created that image, so it was an issue in terms of accreditation. If it were Marvel, then it was fair use. I would not have wanted to use something another fan created, especially without credit.

Spectral Knight, yes, links are a long-term intention. I have also fixed the broken link and you are correct that it was a UXN/MAN thing. It is current published as a UXN article but will probably be unpublished from that site in a month or so to keep things separate.

[Lavettye]

Those images were part of Marvel's legacy numbering campaign. I liked the return to the original/big numbers, as I find it much easier to recall that a specific event occured in UXM #232 rather than #14 of the fith series. Of course, it took Marvel only about a year to make a U-turn and go back to new volumes with new #1s.

While I saw quite a lot of these Legacy numbering explained images, there are actually far more than I hadn't seen. It seems that they are all collected here:
https://www.comichron.com/faq/legacynum ... arvel.html

[djmintlaw]

Really liked this style of article and looking forward to reading more.

(A minor thing, on the final page under the Marc Spector: Moon Knight descriptions, the description for issue #54 is missing and just left blank. Rather unfortunately the description for #55 also says "Encunters")

[Douglas Mangum]

Thanks for the catch. Both are fixed.

It's amazing how many times you can re-read what you've written (along with other eyes to review) and still not catch errors. I caught at least half a dozen in the hours after its first publication.

[WorldWideWade]

While I saw quite a lot of these Legacy numbering explained images, there are actually far more than I hadn't seen. It seems that they are all collected here:
https://www.comichron.com/faq/legacynum ... arvel.html

That accounts for most of the official images but not all of them as at the very least they left out Miles Morales, Punisher, and the Moon Knight one I posted earlier.

Also there are legacy numbering that have occurred before or since without them explaining the count they arrived at. Off the top of my head there is Spider-woman, Ghost Rider, Ultimates, Silver Surfer, Fanatstic Four, What If?, Nova, X-force, X-factor, and Uncanny X-men.

I actually have quite a few notes on these and ones I feel Marvel may do in the near future if Douglas or anyone else is interested in them.