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** In one X-Men story involving the space shuttle nearly everything was correct - and this comic was written before the first time a shuttle actually went into space. Props to [[Chris Claremont]]!

* [[Disney]] comics are not usually known for their accuracy, with one notable exception: Stories by the renowned comic book writer and illustrator [[Don Rosa]] often present surprisingly accurate and well-researched history, geography and even science (for example, if you see some mathematical formula in some comic of his, you can be pretty certain the formula is, in fact, real and accurate). Rosa is known for the amount of research he makes for some of his stories.

** In the collected edition of ''[[The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck]]'', Rosa notes out that he found specific points in time where certain historical figures would be in the same place. He also mentions when he has to "bend" the facts at certain points to make a better story, but it's fairly rare.

* Just about every [[Silver Age]] ''[[Flash]]'' story is solved using a random law of physics, expressed by Barry Allen (a forensic scientist) as a "Flash Fact". Wally West, thankfully, remembers the lessons from his days as Kid Flash, though now he has the Speed Force to help him with all the stuff that can't be done by physics (like breathing while running at near-lightspeed).

* Many of Mike Mignolia's ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]'' stories are essentially retellings of documented folktales, often using details that would usually be lost in modern versions. For example, "The Corpse" is mostly derived from "Teig O'Kane and the Corpse," which originally appeared in a compilation of Irish folklore edited by William Butler Yeats.

* Before writing the ''[[Mega Man (comics)|Mega Man]]'' comic, Ian Flynn heavily researched the series, and it shows. [http://megaman.wikia.com/wiki/Chest,_Plum_and_Ripot Chest, Plum, and Ripot] from the obscure [[Mascot Racer]] ''Battle & Chase'' appear in the first issue reporting on Light's new robots, that issue's ''Short Circuits'' has a [[Mythology Gag]] to both the [[Mega Man (animation)|cartoon]] and the hilariously bad American box art of the first game, and Fire Man retains his Southern accent from ''[[Mega Man Powered Up]]''.

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