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Clue from Ed.

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Clue from Ed.	comment	Comics trope for any long-running serialized story with an intact continuity. An event mentioned in dialog or captions has an asterisk next to it, and down near the panel border is a little message, saying something like, "See Volume 4, Issue 3 - Ed." Sometimes, in shared universe titles, it may be an issue of a completely different comic series. Some comics fans, especially young ones, may wonder who this Ed, the enormously helpful man at the comics company, must be. Of course, most of the older fans figure out that this is in fact "the editor". This little footnote also entices the reader to seek out the back issue that includes the story in question. Or, if they don't have the issue, it's an incentive to go out and buy it. Back in the Silver Age, many of these footnotes in Marvel Comics would be credited to a "(Adjective that begins with 'S') Stan". This was, of course, a reference to Stan Lee. Use of these notes has been dissuaded by companies today (and they are allegedly all but banned at Marvel to "hide" the Continuity Snarls), but they are starting to make a comeback. Can also be used for a joke in an article, in which case it's Note from Ed.. If you're reading a webcomic, the Alt Text may double as this.
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Clue from Ed. / int_11859033	comment	The "Battle for the Lost Diamond Mines of Brazil" storyline in Narbonic beginning strips had these in every panel as a Footnote Fever gag. Interrupted by Helen through the fourth wall breakage, see page image.
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Clue from Ed. / int_1858fe06	comment	Used a lot in the Archie Sonic and Mega Man (Archie Comics) comics, even using it as a method of MST in some parts. One in Mega Man #13 doubled as Product Placement for an upcoming graphic novel of the previous arc, which was due in several months after that issue's release. Another in Sonic the Hedgehog #252 had the Ed. about to point out in which issue an event that never happened before took place before going "Wait a minute...", realizing the scale of the Continuity Reboot caused by the Cosmic Retcon at the end of Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide.
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Clue from Ed. / int_1a12bbee	comment	The Mighty Thor: Marvel is infamous for its overuse of the "Midgard = Earth" caption whenever Thor is in a comic. Many have asked why not just translate it into Earth then, or why make that note when people can just Google it these days. Nevertheless, they have kept doing it, with at least one case reading "Earth, because we're obligated to do this in every comic Thor appears in."
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Clue from Ed. / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	Used very sparsely in Hellboy, generally to point you towards a cool event that was just mentioned. They are not attributed to an editor.
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Clue from Ed. / int_1f1826e5	type	Clue from Ed.
Clue from Ed. / int_1f1826e5	comment	The Amalgam era of Marvel/DC used these, but more often than not subverted this by referring to comics that didn't exist.
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Clue from Ed. / int_25161608	comment	Subverted in the second issue of Wisdom: Rudiments of Wisdom, in which the clues all refer to comics that have never existed. The Infocom computer game Leather Goddesses of Phobos came with a "Lane Mastodon" comic that did the same. Megaton Man did this as well, referencing to titles that never existed.
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Clue from Ed. / int_39eb4272	comment	Some of the old Doctor Who Novelisations have footnotes explaining Call Backs and Continuity Nods. The novelisation of The Day of the Doctor has two referring to the novelisations of "Silence in the Library" and "Listen" ... which sadly don't exist in this universe.
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Clue from Ed. / int_3ec5b7a6	comment	One set of House of Leaves' footnotes is of this sort.
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Clue from Ed. / int_3f633fb4	comment	One Cracked article had a Leaning on the Fourth Wall moment where the writer started an argument with "Ed".
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Clue from Ed. / int_400469e	comment	Parodied in at least one Calvin and Hobbes where we see one of the comic books Calvin is reading, though with no attribution to "Ed." or anyone else.
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Clue from Ed. / int_409683e7	comment	In keeping with its comic book-like style, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse has several onscreen Clues From Ed., with two notable instances being to explain Hammerspace and why Spider-Punk says he â€œainâ€™t got a Scooby-Dooâ€� about something.
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Clue from Ed. / int_46d48eba	comment	The second and third James Bond novels, Live and Let Die and Moonraker, have footnotes for the first reference to the previous novel.
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Clue from Ed. / int_5307b01d	comment	Parodied in a Penny Arcade comic about Tycho's hatred of the undead. The print version takes it a little farther, referring to the strip's "Kool-Aid thin continuity".
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Clue from Ed. / int_63e72a51	comment	2000 AD's Editor-In-Chief Tharg the Mighty always refers to these as "Tharg Notes."
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Clue from Ed. / int_6d396a70	comment	"Logic and Hime-chan's Punch", one of the comics in the Hoshiiro Girldrop anthology, is covered with Clues from Ed. While it focuses on the relationship between two of the characters, all the events they reference are footnoted by nonexistent previous chapters.
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Clue from Ed. / int_765cd538	comment	Done in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #699, as it's Boom's first run of the series which had been not running for about a year, and dealing with Disney Superheroes that American audiences wouldn't be expected to be familiar with (except maybe Super Goof). They decide to turn it into a running gag, pointing out things that should be really obvious. (hence the name "-Obvious Aaron") Italian Disney comics regulatly do it too. In later years some writers started to use them to actually call out the reader for not remembering the story (or stories) they're calling back to, asking them to stop reading the current story until they don't finish to read the older one(s).
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Clue from Ed. / int_76c806ab	comment	Parodied in the newest Howard the Duck series, with multiple heroes referencing past events having to do with Howard, and the clue box mentioning completely fake comics. There was also a genuine direction to Howard the Duck #1, which got into a whole thing about which #1 it meant (not the current series, and not the original series, but the series that had started the previous year, before being reset). Spider-Man/Deadpool does a similar thing during the "Infinite House of Civil yet Secret Crisis War Invasion" arc, with the clue box claiming more could be found in the tie-ins to the non-existing Crisis Crossover the title is alluding to.
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Clue from Ed. / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court: Tom Siddell made this subtle piece of satire◊ as a response to the fans who were confused by the Flash Back on the original version of page 437.
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Clue from Ed. / int_89273319	comment	Spider-Man/Deadpool does a similar thing during the "Infinite House of Civil yet Secret Crisis War Invasion" arc, with the clue box claiming more could be found in the tie-ins to the non-existing Crisis Crossover the title is alluding to.
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Clue from Ed. / int_8a1c34ad	comment	Axe Cop links some seemingly out-of-place facts to the Fourth-Wall Mail Slot or printed media.
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Clue from Ed. / int_8de0a7d5	comment	Shonen Jump tends to do this to explain cultural terms or Japanese writing. One issue of Karakuridouji Ultimo got stupid with it, though, when a character said he was a bodyguard of the nobility, and the footnote explained that bodyguard meant "a bodyguard of the nobility".
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Clue from Ed. / int_9a71b77e	comment	When Quicksilver revealed his new power of flight in X-Men Vol 1 #44, a box added "As peerlessly portrayed in The Avengers #?? —Sorry-About-That-Stan". (It was #43.)
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Clue from Ed. / int_9d87baa5	comment	Patsy Walker, a.k.a. Hellcat! has it frequently given its reliance on Continuity Nods, especially to Hellcat's tenure in The Defenders in the 1970s. And given it's a comedic title, more often than not the thing mentioned is so weird that it warrants a "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer.
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Clue from Ed. / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Frequent occurrences in Tintin, and quite helpful at that since all the stories have names, and therefore it's easy to recall in what context the character/event/general happening last made an appearance. Of course, it also helps that there are only 23 albums.
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Clue from Ed. / int_a78cc92f	comment	Chick Tracts does this with Bible verses. They don't always have a clear connection with the events of the panel. In some comics they will also cite more recent books, often those they published.
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Clue from Ed. / int_b116e63d	comment	Parodied by 101 Ways to End the Clone Saga, with the editor forgetting what S.H.I.E.L.D. means when it's mentioned, having to return several panels later without prompting from the dialogue.
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Clue from Ed. / int_bb8d2f1a	comment	Some non-English versions of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy contain editorial footnotes to explain jokes that do not survive Cultural Translation. Befitting the written style of the books, these notes are often informal and conversational in tone and wouldn't be out of place within the actual Guide.
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Clue from Ed. / int_bd310eaa	comment	Rather than clutter up the page itself, El Goonish Shive always starts off The Rant with a list of links to mentioned events.
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Clue from Ed. / int_ce50887e	comment	Dragon Ball's English translation is an interesting example due to the Sequel Displacement caused by the Z anime, whose popularity convinced VIZ Media to re-title those chapters as Dragon Ball Z. Fans picking up the first volume of Z will find a few notes mentioning that certain, unexplained things such as previous adventures and characters were established in Dragon Ball and that you should read that if you want to know more.
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Clue from Ed. / int_e6c206b1	comment	Mentions of previous Huckleberry chapters get this treatment. Characters can have custom asterisks in their speech bubble, such as Huckleberry's small berry.
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Clue from Ed. / int_e91422c9	comment	DC Comics blundered themselves into a minor flackstorm of criticism regarding editorial footnotes. When asked why Countdown, which was absolutely dense with references to events from other comics to the point where it was pretty much unreadable on its own (okay, it was pretty much unreadable, period), had no editorial footnote boxes, DC responded that "that's what the Internet is for". The Internet was not amused. DC started putting the boxes in.
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Clue from Ed. / int_f8df4747	comment	The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye and its sister series The Transformers: Robots in Disguise do this sometimes, although only to events before they started (mostly from the previous ongoing). They aren't labeled "Ed", though.
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Clue from Ed. / int_fb8549c	comment	Often parodied in Deadpool comics: for example, when a character makes a reference to something that happened during the Onslaught event, the clue box refuses to admit it ever happened. Another time the box blatantly admits that there's no good reason to remember the villain from an earlier appearance in another comic, as it wasn't very good.
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B.P.R.D. (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Crime Syndicate (2021) (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Deathstroke (Rebirth) (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
El Eternauta (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Eternals (2021) (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Hellboy (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Mega Man (Archie Comics) (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Patsy Walker, a.k.a. Hellcat! (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
The Mighty Thor (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
The Superior Foes of Spider-Man (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
2000 AD (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Wisdom (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Wisdom: Rudiments of Wisdom (Comic Book) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
The Phantom (Comic Strip) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
DraculaLives	seeAlso	Clue from Ed.
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Danganronpa (Franchise) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc IF / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Yo-kai Watch (Manga) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Map Men (Web Video) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Band vs. Band (Webcomic) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Huckleberry (Webcomic) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Klonoa: Dream Crusaders (Webcomic) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Marvelâ€™s Voices (2022) (Webcomic) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Roomies!, It's Walky!, Joyce and Walky! (Webcomic) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Super Mario Adventures Cont'd (Webcomic) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.
Leather Goddesses of Phobos (Video Game) / int_487cb7a7	type	Clue from Ed.

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