Marvel wikia retcons its first appearance as xmen#101, but phoenix force isn’t in this issue, phoenix is. At some point between its publication and now the story must’ve changed to involve a cosmic god, but I wonder if before then phoenix’s origin was intended to be an extreme version of fantastic 4’s origin beyond just an homage.

I just started reading xmen#125 and once again in a flashback this is how the event is described:

Her body was consumed by the intense radiation. But her mind refused to die. Driven by her love for Scott Summers, she achieved her full potential as a psi --becoming, briefly, an entity of pure thought-- before finally reforming as Phoenix.

So when does phenix force actually bocme a thing? Were there any other out of universe (as I’ll reach the in universe ones eventually) explanations of the phoenix’s power before then? Shouldn’t the wiki at least mention if a part of an article is a retcon?

Edit: I think it appears first in xmen 153, where Kitty pryde tells colossus’s sister a bedtime story loosely based on the xmen. In the story Jean’s soul manages to defeat Phoenix.

  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    Hey just a heads up, this community does welcome this sort of discussion about comic books, but it’s mostly about comic strips and webcomics. Not trying to dissuade you from posting here, but I did want to let you know about !comicbooks@lemmy.world which while smaller may be a better source of information regarding comic books specifically. And I don’t want this to sound as if I’m looking down on this comm or webcomics/strips, I love them that’s why I’m on both comms!

    Unfortunately I don’t get into the big two myself at all, my big two are Dark Horse and Image lol, so I can’t answer your actual question. But I bet someone there can!