Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1257201-20161227233458/@comment-6369172-20161231122429

Okay I've just poked around at the All-Star Comics page, looking to demonstrate this technique described above, and be a big hero, by solving the problem LK describes, way up at the top of this page, about Johnny Thunder's appearances. Findings: 1/ Johnny Thunder appears in both stories, and already is listed in both "Appearing in" lists as an {a|}, not an {apn|}. Those arrows are already gone. 2/ But all the other JSA members are listed as {apn|}s. Jay Flash has an apn-arrow AND a note in the "Notes". The arrow says his prior appearance is in DC Special ; the note says his prior appearance is in Flash Comics. So there's a perfect illustration of the problem S.H. describes, half a page up from here. 3/ Johnny's note, in Notes, describes only one prior appearance and one following appearance. So there's a perfect illustration of the problem L.K. describes, at the top of this discussion. 4/ There's no good place to embed a TBC link in any of the synopsis text. So there's a perfect explosion of my methodology. Bah. Conclusions: 1a/ To reconstruct the apn-arrows OR to set up TBC-links, that's the question. Or it would be, IF there were some in-universe plot points to make it necessary, or out-of-universe evidence to make it possible. But there ain't none. 2a/ There's just as much reason to be suspicious of the info in Notes as there is to suspect the apn-arrows. Setting up TBC-links doesn't solve this problem. Eliminating apn-arrows also doesn't solve it. 3a/ A better note, in Notes, would solve that problem. 4a/ Both stories in this issue of ASC are standalone stories. No plot points hinge on any appearance of any character in any prior story. So the thing that makes it impossible to reliably sequence these character-appearances is also the same thing that makes it unnecessary.