Talk:Johnny Ghost/@comment-32649790-20190315163959/@comment-25867149-20190318160056

It means that his first appearance was his second appearance because his true first appearance was the one in which he died, except he didn't because this was later retconned as his father. It's still listed as his first appearance though because it is essentially the first time the character was ever featured and mentioned by name and that version of Ghost is essentially a prototypical version of our Ghost that Jordan was trying out. He liked the character so he kept him around.