Back before it ended, the Deadpool Team Up series was numbered backwards, starting at 1000.Like Zero Hour above the miniseries Marvel: The Lost Generation the numbering go backwards matching the timetravelling POV character.Intended as a jumping on point, it might work better if any care was made to ensure that #38 isn't part four of a six-part story. Marvel now have "Point One" issues, standalone stories that establish the characters' status quo, published as, for example, #37.5 (between #s 37 and 38).One wonders what will happen when it actually reaches issue 2000. Naturally, the number of the first issue of January directly follows that of the last issue of November, but the stories in the December issue still fall between them. Each of these special issues has been given the number of the next year, starting with December 1999's 'prog 2000' and continuing through prog 2001 (December 2000), prog 2002 (December 2001), etc. In 1999, the publisher of ~2000 AD~ decided to stop doing annuals in favour of triple-length December issues, which are cheaper and sell better.(With a number of titled but un-numbered comics in between during the runs of Universe and Paradise X.
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