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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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* 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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