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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, {{smallcaps|"See Volume 4, Issue 3 - Ed."}} Sometimes, in [[The Verse|shared universe]] titles, it may be an issue of a completely different comic series.
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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 Snarl
Can also be used for a joke in an article, in which case it's [[Note From Ed]].
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* The Amalgam era of Marvel/DC used these, but more often than not subverted this by referring to comics that didn't exist.
* ''[[2000 AD]]'''s Editor-In-Chief Tharg the Mighty always refers to these as "Tharg Notes."
* Often parodied in ''[[Deadpool]]'' comics: for example, when a character makes a reference to something that happened during the Onslaught event, the clue box [[Canon
* 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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* One set of ''[[House of Leaves]]''' footnotes is of this sort.
* Some of the old ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Novelization
* 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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== Web Comic ==
* Parodied in a ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' comic about Tycho's [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/2/27/ hatred of the undead.] The print version takes it a little farther, referring to the strip's "Kool-Aid thin continuity".
* Parodied on [https://web.archive.org/web/20091205084530/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=12&issue=9 this page] of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.
** Also [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p60 here].
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* [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10236 One] ''[[Narbonic]]'' strip had these in ''every panel''. The first panel of the next strip had one which Helen interrupted with a minor fourth wall breakage.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]:'' Tom Siddell made [http://gunnerkrigg.wikia.com/wiki/Image:437alt.jpg this subtle piece of satire] as a response to the fans who were confused by the [[Flash Back]] on [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=437 the original version of page 437].
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