I was just about to answer an old question with newly-released information, but I stopped: the answer came from an issue of a recent comic, and basically the whole answer would be spoilers. The question was of the "Has this ever happened" style, and answering in the affirmative at all would give away major plot points of an ongoing story...

What's the policy here? Should an entire answer be wrapped in spoiler tags? If the question is "Has X ever happened?" and it happened in this month's issue, even just saying "Yes, it happens in Comic-Name #12" would be a spoiler, before anyone even got to the spoiler text outlining exactly what happens in Issue 12.

I know from this Meta answer that timeframe shouldn't really be weighed in giving spoilers, since someone will always be new to the franchise. But it also seems wrong to read a comic on the day it comes out, and then jump on the site and shout "Yeah! That totally happens! It just happened in the issue you haven't had time to read yet!"

Is there a policy for this? Wrapping a whole answer in spoiler tags seems ugly, but so does giving away spoilers without wrapping them in spoiler tags...

I was just about to answer an old question with newly-released information, but I stopped: the answer came from an issue of a recent comic, and basically the whole answer would be spoilers. The question was of the "Has this ever happened" style, and answering in the affirmative at all would give away major plot points of an ongoing story...

What's the policy here? Should an entire answer be wrapped in spoiler tags? If the question is "Has X ever happened?" and it happened in this month's issue, even just saying "Yes, it happens in Comic-Name #12" would be a spoiler, before anyone even got to the spoiler text outlining exactly what happens in Issue 12.

I know from this Meta answer that timeframe shouldn't really be weighed in giving spoilers, since someone will always be new to the franchise. But it also seems wrong to read a comic on the day it comes out, and then jump on the site and shout "Yeah! That totally happens! It just happened in the issue you haven't had time to read yet!"

Is there a policy for this? Wrapping a whole answer in spoiler tags seems ugly, but so does giving away spoilers without wrapping them in spoiler tags...