This may be a dumb question... but I often read collections that contains something like "title x 13-20 and 19.1". So my big question: what is the "19.1" issue in this case? I've seen it many times now, and still don't understand...
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This may be a dumb question... but I often read collections that contains something like "title x 13-20 and 19.1". So my big question: what is the "19.1" issue in this case? I've seen it many times now, and still don't understand...
[QUOTE=Hive;4911772]This may be a dumb question... but I often read collections that contains something like "title x 13-20 and 19.1". So my big question: what is the "19.1" issue in this case? I've seen it many times now, and still don't understand...[/QUOTE]
Well it depends. But it usually linked to a special event.
For exemple in 2013 DC had the "Forever Evil" event and each DC title had 1 to 4 .x issue about villains.
With the recent lack of an "Annual" for most books, I tend to think of them as a "we want to do a special issue for some reason that doesn't tie into any ongoing storylines".
Like jb681131 said, it does tend to end up being around company events, or big #'s & anniversary's.
Thanks for the replies. So it's basically just a special vaguely tied into the story that chronologically fits after, in my example, issue 19?
Explains a lot, actually.
[QUOTE=Hive;4911818]Thanks for the replies. So it's basically just a special vaguely tied into the story that chronologically fits after, in my example, issue 19?
Explains a lot, actually.[/QUOTE]
Marvel briefly used them as a “launching point” issue. Let’s say you wanted to get into Captain America but didn’t want to hop in in the middle of a story. The “point” indicated it was the start of a new storyline.