Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-18172179-20141003193641/@comment-18172179-20141003221211

Byfield wrote:

And that really does a disservice in some cases. The New and Prime Earths are not the exact same character that appeared in Action Comics #1. Nor are the logical, in-story progressions from that character. They are, for good or ill, adaptations of that characters that have had origins, powers, and personality tweaked. In those cases it is appropriate to use the later issues.

The hurdle is going to be finding definitive first appearance.

Still, most of the New Earth versions were just based on and later rectonned with their previous counterparts. I agree with the Prime Earth distinction, for in that case DC rebooted everything.

I still believe that for the New Earth characters, the most accurate thing to do is to place the actual first appearance of the character in the infobox and in the notes section add the in-universe first appearance. Like the Batman page for example or in a similar way the the Prime Earth characters' pages; all additional info can be added in the notes, without misleading.