Thread:Marvelous 345678/@comment-27496405-20180723185324/@comment-26454055-20181220192618

BEJT wrote:

I will explain that yes, these are all non-canon, in the binary canonical sense of them not being official canon. These are the only official canon MCU comics (either they have a red MCU canon stamp or they have been officially confirmed by the Kevin Feige of MCU comics, Will Corona Pilgrim, to be canon despite not having a stamp - usually because they were published before the stamp became a thing, but also because Jessica Jones didn't get stamped because it's on the TV side of things). All other MCU comics are what they label as "inspired canon" - a sort of "semi-canon" state that ultimately falls on the side of "no, they're not actually canon", but for stories which are inspired by the MCU and made as if they are set in it, just are not actually. The video games of the films are also in the "inspired canon" camp. Made with the film characters' designs, sometimes with the actors' voices, made to fit with the films, but not actually canon and often with pieces that don't actually quite fit. I would also say deleted scenes are inspired canon, because they essentially are made to fit into the film nicely (the whole point of the deleted scenes), but anything stated in them can easily be thrown out in the future if necessary. Anything inspired canon, including these comics, I do consider for timeline evidence, because it's like comments from people involved - it's made with the intent of relating to canon and therefore if they say that there was "3 months" between certain events then that was intended to be correct - just obviously, proper canon takes priority. Yes, totally agreed. I know about the "official" tie-ins with the red stamps. It's nice because all or most of those are available on Marvel Unlimited which I subscribe to. And none of these comics are 100% canon in my opinion either, but a lot of them are what I call "optional MCU canon". I have a spreadsheet with every MCU-related comic that I could find out about here. I believe it's mostly a complete list. I have the ones that I think maybe fit into canon labeled as "Maybe Canon" and for the ones that are definitely not canon, I listed reasons why. I didn't catch that thing about Captain America and the Blitz, so thanks for pointing that out.

If you could send over whatever you have on that list, that would be greatly appreciated. But no rush. I have some Japanese friends who may be willing to translate the two "Episode 0" comics from the Weekly Shonen Magazine. If I have to, I will try to buy some of these on eBay or something. But I don't think I'll be able to find them all, which is ok. I'll still try for a while and then I'll give up on the ones that are impossible to find anywhere.