WordNet
n. the act of beginning something new; "they looked forward to the debut of their new product line" [syn: introduction, debut, launching, unveiling, entry]
Wikipedia
In comic books and other stories with a long history, first appearance refers to the first occurrence to feature a fictional character.
Usage examples of "first appearance".
Everything is stored, so that retrospectively it is possible to go back to the magnetic tapes and to trace the first appearance of a codeword, say, or command responsibility in a crisis.
While we were waiting, Sergeant Cuff looked through the evergreen arch on our left, spied out our rosery, and walked straight in, with the first appearance of anything like interest that he had shown yet.
He had not as yet entered any branch of the service, having just returned from abroad, where he had been educated, and this was his first appearance in society.
Several, then a score, of the pirate cutters had vanished into the Matrix only moments from their first appearance in sidereal space.
Will was miserable in the necessity for playing the part of a friend who was making his first appearance and greeting to Rosamond, while his thoughts were busy about her feeling since that scene of yesterday, which seemed still inexorably to enclose them both, like the painful vision of a double madness.
Had his first appearance, or his resemblance to the picture they had just been examining, been insufficient to assure the other two that they now saw Mr.
Its chief merit is its scrupulous accuracy, which indeed was a little questioned on its first appearance, but has since been completely established.
At first they often thought she was dead, but at last they got used to it, and only consulted the almanac to find the moment when she would begin to revive, which, of course, was with the first appearance of the silver thread of the crescent moon.
Towse tould me that one night, being in Bed and perfectly waking, and a Candle burning by him (as he usually had) there came into his Chamber and stood by his bed side an Olde Gentleman in such an habits as was in fashion in Q: Elizebeth's tyme, at whose first appearance Mr.
Imagine coming all that way and bombing on your very first appearance.
This is a rare, accidentally-noir story, and his first appearance in Plots With Guns.