David Cassidy had his own comic book put out by Charlton Comics from February 1972 to September 1973. It lasted 14 issues.

"Spidey Meets the President!" is a backup feature in The Amazing Spider-Man #583. The cover shows Barack Obama giving a thumbs-up to Spider-Man. The comic book was published the week before Obama's inauguration in January 2009. The issue sold over 350,000 copies and went to five printings. It was the highest-selling regular series book of the 2000s.

Red Sonja, She-Devil with a Sword, was created by Robert E. Howard in his 1934 short story "The Shadow of the Vulture". She has since gone one to appear in comic books published by Marvel Comics and Dynamite where she is usually depicted in a very brief scale-armor bikini.

Luke Cage first joined the team in Defenders #18 (December 1974).

Robin, the Boy Wonder, wears a yellow cape.

In one early Archie comic strip, Jughead is identified as Forsythe Pendleton Jones III.

Switzler originally worked as a model, until she was hired and subsequently kidnapped by the villain Pro-Rata and then rescued by Howard the Duck. Indebted to Howard for this service, she subsequently allowed him to live with her.

Dane Whitman is the Black Knight who has been a longtime member of the Avengers as well as a member of the Defenders, Ultraforce, Heroes for Hire, and MI-13.

In the real world, the Maxx is a homeless man living in a box, but in the Outback (an alternate reality) he is the powerful protector of the Jungle Queen.

Dubbed "the poor little rich boy," Richie Rich debuted in Little Dot #1 (September 1953).