Comics Facts!

Mostly stuff you don't really wanna know.

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Dragonball's very own Freeza in X-Men: No More Human! [Check out more comics facts!]

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Kevin Smith on Batman: Year One, ladies and gentlemen! [Source] [Look, there's more facts over there!]

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Deadpool #27 set the Guinnes World Record for the most number of characters in a comic book cover (232, of which 224 deemed famous enough by Guinness World Records). There are however at least a few other covers with more characters, like the Crisis on Infinite Earths' one. Source [check out more facts!]

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From Ultimate Comics All-New Spider-Man #20 [check out more facts!]

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In a promotional image for the new 52 inker Scott Williams forgot to ink Green Lantern’s ring. The ring was later added for the cover of Justice Legue #1.

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The epic feud between Kevin Smith and Tim Burton

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Noseless Wolverine After Magneto extracted the adamantium from his body Wolverine’s healing factor went crazy and he regressed to a feral state. As a result of this mutation his nose temporaly disappeared. [check out more facts!]

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Captain America’s disc shaped shield was given to him by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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Spider-Man’s black costume idea came from a fan letter: editor in chief Jim Shooter liked it and bought the concept from the reader, Randy Schueller, for $220. The original design (with a red spider logo and the good old web-pits) and the history behind the costume (an instable molecule suit developed by Reed Richards with the design provided by Janet -Wasp- Van Dyne) were later changed into the ones we know.

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"Amazonium", the metal from which Wonder Woman’s bracelets are made, was renamed "Feminum" in the 70’s tv series.

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In his first Modern Age appearance (Journey Into Mystery #85) Loki couldn’t use magic when soaking wet.

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Nowhere Men vs Better Off Ted

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In Frank Miller's "The Dark Knight Returns" -set in an alternate future- an old Oliver Queen (Green Arrow) implies that Superman cut off his arm years before for some reason.

The untold situation is somewhat recreated in Green Arrow #100, where Ollie’s arm is stuck inside a bomb, and the only way for Superman to save him is to tear his arm off. Oliver however prefers to die than to remain crippled, and manages to detonate the bomb (but don't worry, he later came back to life thanks to Parallax).

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In The Dark Knight Rises, during the football stadium scene, a fan of the Gotham Rogues (the home team) in the crowd is holding a sign bearing the Robin insigna.

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In Marvel Universe Laufey is Loki’s father. In Norse mythology Laufey is actually Loki’s mother's name, while his father's name is Farbauti.

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Since Superman started flying only after the animated series (1943) and apparently Captain Marvel started in the fifth issue of Whiz Comics (1940), the first hero to fly was actually Namor, who was described in his first appearance on Motion Picture Funnies Weekly #1 (1939) as "An ultra-man [who] flies in the air".

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Cyclops’ optic blasts are not lasers -they only have concussive force- and they don’t generate any heat. Sometimes writers don't know about that, forget, or joke about it (we made the same mistake on a fact a while ago). Source (and Uncanny X-Men #391/#502)