The world of collecting comics is not unlike the world of sports, filled with its own terms and lingo…and that doesn’t count the stuff we came up with for Issues, like ‘bookies’ and ‘top-shelfers’! Throughout season 1, we tried to include as many jokes and nods to the world of superheroics. Some were one that the casual fan could get while others are so obscure, you might want to do a few wiki searches to find our source material…

Oh wait, we developed an entire DICTIONARY of geek speak! Look no further my friends! You too can learn the lingo of the superfans with just a quick scroll through our list of comic book terminology. Want to add a few definitions yourself? Email us at issuestheseries@gmail.com and we’ll take a look at what you’ve got. Please hold off on the flame wars though- if we wanted that, we’d head to any online forum and add our own badly-spelled rant. For the record, while some of these definitions include some tongue-in-cheek/sarcasm, the core content is real.

Read on, true believer!