Been waiting for this one and figured that Marvel would get it - which given this is a list from America is fair enough - but I still call outrage. Judge Dredd is the single most significent character in what is arguably the single most significent comic ever (if people werer around I'd explain why 2000ad is the most signifient comic ever but I'll just let it go here for now I guess)

For shame America, for shame look to the rest of the world... says the man from the UK shouting out for the UK comic - arh well I'll ignore my own hypocrisy!

This may be one of those things that anyone who cares to know already knows, but #2 was actually the first issue of Whiz Comics:

Or I could just actually read the comments and note what others have said! D'oh!

So technically, Whiz Comics #2 is Whiz Comics #1.

That was a joke. But comics history is always welcome.

Love,
buttler

You've got that exactly backwards.

Marvelman started as a Captain Marvel substitute after Fawcett stopped publishing new material for the character.

From the wikipedia article on the character...

The character's origins were in black and white reprints of the American Captain Marvel comics by a London publisher, L. Miller & Son, Ltd. When the US publishers of Captain Marvel, Fawcett Comics, agreed to cease publication of the title after a lawsuit from DC Comics, Len Miller was faced with the supply of Captain Marvel material being cut off. He turned to a British comic writer/artist, Mick Anglo, for help, and transformed Captain Marvel to Marvelman and Captain Marvel Jr. to Young Marvelman. The changes took place with issue number 25 in each title, both cover-dated February 3rd, 1954, although they had been announced about five issues earlier.

I'd say this was nearly as much of a no-brainer as #27.

This may be one of those things that anyone who cares to know already knows, but #2 was actually the first issue of Whiz Comics:

#1 was a promo-only B&W test run to lure advertisers, and was printed with two different titles: Flash Comics (a title that All-American Publications snapped up before Whiz came out) and Thrill Comics. Captain Marvel was still called Captain Thunder in that one.

"From Hell" began in Taboo #2

DC Comics Presents Annual #2 was an Elliot S. Maggin story that introduced Superwoman (Kristin Wells) to Earth-1 continuity.

And Swamp Thing Annual #2, "Down Among the Dead Men", in addition to being an excellent Alan Moore story in general, was where most of the DC/Vertigo Cosmology was established, much of which persists to this day.

This was one of the more interesting philisophical choices, because how much important stuff *ever* happens in a second issue? If it was really important, you'd put it in the debut issue.

With the Skrulls invading, Fantastic Four 2 gets no love?

I'm not saying your choice is wrong though - perspectives will differ across the Atlantic

Also of note: two serious contenders for the first comics superheroine ever emerged in #2s, depending on how you choose to define "superheroine": The Woman in Red in Thrilling Comics and Fantomah in Jungle Comics.

Other notable debuts at #2 include the oh-so-adaptable Patsy Walker in Miss America Magazine, Werewolf by Night in Marvel Spotlight, Satana in Vampire Tales, Toro in Human Torch Comics and Super Goof in The Phantom Blot. The not at all skrully Space Phantom first showed up in Avengers, and Captain Comet reentered modern comics in Secret Society of Super Villains. And hey, the Green Team in FIrst Issue Special!

My favorite #2, though, has to be Bob Phantom over in Blue Ribbon Comics. BOB PHANTOM! The name alone makes criminals quake in their bell-toed elf boots.

Brian: Can San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 get an honourable mention for the debut of Hellboy?

I like how the text and copy, the selling point for this new character in a practically new book is almost completely lost, down by Cap's feet!

Gangway For Captain Marvel! indeed.

Okay, Uranus jokes begin in three...two...one...