Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-18172179-20141003193641/@comment-220364-20141004002053

Two other thoughts:
 * 1) Most of the pages were talking about are not catch alls Like Alan Scott (New Earth). The catch alls do wind up using the absolute first appearance simply because DC assigned the entire thing to New Earth.
 * 2) If we were dealing with an true over view page, I'd agree that the first appearance would be the oldest one. But such a page would be a general overview of what Superman is as a character covering the entire past 75 years, not just one version.