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Avery and I were talking about the history of comics funnily-numbered comics, today, and we were wondering what the very first number zero comic was. We knew Wizard had released a bunch of 1/2 issues, and Marvel had released all the #-1 issues in July of 1997’s “Flashback Month,” detailing a bunch of stories that took place prior to the #1 issues of each series. But what was the very first #0?
We first pontificated that it may have been 1994’s ZERO HOUR #0 from DC Comics (which was actually the sixth issue in the series, as it had a countdown gimmick – And it may have possibly been the first comic to have a countdown), but then I recalled that Valiant comics had released an X-O MANOWAR #0 around that same time. We checked, and it had a publication date of August, 1993. So, as far as we can tell, X-O MANOWAR #0 from Valiant comics was the very first number zero issue.
Can any of our loyal Comic Zoners out there help us come up with an earlier one? I think that this would be a very interesting bit of trivia to know!
Zap #0 1968.