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1964

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This is the year where the Marvel Universe truly becomes a Universe. It's 'announced' more or less, with the big FF/Avengers/Hulk fight in FF #25-26, and then goes on with a ton of guest appearances and very tight continuity across books. This is what this whole site is about, and this is where it really starts to happen.

If Paste Pot Pete gets an early parole because he helped the Avengers dissolve Baron Zemo's Adhesive X, then when he next shows up to bother the Human Torch, he talks about it. It's now a part of his history. This sounds like a small thing, but it's one of the main things that made Marvel something special in the comic book industry in the mid-60s (the other thing was their 'real life' characterizations of their characters). The very fact that the Avengers would think to call up a super villain from another comic book to ask for help is a huge deal.

'Regular' crossovers, and villain cross-pollination really picks up: Magneto vs. Thor, Loki vs. Dr. Strange, X-Men & the FF vs. the Puppet Master & the Mad Thinker, Spider-Man & Daredevil vs. the Ringmaster, Kraven and the Chameleon vs. Iron Man.

Creator notes: This is still mainly a Lee/Kirby/Dikto show, with Don Heck on Iron Man and Dick Ayers and others occasionally popping up in a fill-in capacity. Lots of continuity inserts: Busiek's Untold Tales of Spider-Man is still going strong, and the second part of Iron Man: The Iron Age takes place here, although it's not as great as the first one. Mark Waid's Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty provides a very nice look at Cap's adjustment to the modern world. Frank Miller's Man Without Fear mini provides a great origin for Daredevil, and a -1 Flashback book for Electra by Peter Milligan fits in here as well.
Notable events: Some super-villain teams and partnerships form this year: the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, the Masters of Evil, Cobra and Hyde, the Sinister Six.
New characters: Daredevil, Blob, Scarecrow, Mastermind, Toad, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Grey Gargoyle, Beetle, Enchantress, Executioner, Baron Zemo I, Black Widow, Mysterio, Green Goblin, Owl, Hawkeye, Kang (as Kang), Immortus, Unus the Untouchable, Black Knight (Nathan Garret), Space Phantom, Unicorn, Diablo, Purple Man, Jarvis, Wonder Man, Hercules

Tales Of Suspense #49 (Iron Man) 
Amazing Spider-Man #8 (first story) 
Tales To Astonish #51 (Giant-Man/Wasp) 
Strange Tales #116 (Human Torch) 
Avengers #3 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #4 
Uncanny X-Men #3 1st Blob
Fantastic Four #22 Invisible Girl's powers expand: projected invisibility, forcefields
Amazing Spider-Man #9 1st Electro
Strange Tales #117 (Human Torch) 
Fantastic Four #23 
Tales To Astonish #52 (Giant-Man/Wasp) 1st Black Knight
Tales Of Suspense #50 (Iron Man) 
Tales Of Suspense #51 1st Scarecrow
Avengers #4 1st Captain America in modern age.
Uncanny X-Men #4 1st Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Toad, Mastermind)
Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #5-6 
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #1-5 
Elektra #-1 
Iron Man: The Iron Age #2 
Tales To Astonish #53 
Amazing Spider-Man #10 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #5-7 
Strange Tales #119 (Human Torch) 
Fantastic Four #24 
Strange Tales #119 (Dr. Strange) 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #8 1st Headsman
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #9 
Amazing Spider-Man #11 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #10 
Journey Into Mystery #101-103 1st Enchantress & Executioner
Tales Of Suspense #52 (Iron Man) 1st Black Widow
Tales Of Suspense #52 (Watcher) 
Tales To Astonish #54 (Giant-Man/Wasp) 
Tales To Astonish #55 (Giant-Man/Wasp) 
Amazing Spider-Man #12 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #11 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #12 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #13 
Tales To Astonish #56 (Giant-Man/Wasp) 
Fantastic Four #25-26 Early crossover event: Hulk vs. the Fantastic Four & the Avengers!
Avengers #5-6 1st Masters of Evil (Baron Zemo I, Black Knight, Melter, Radioactive Man).
Tales Of Suspense #53 
Uncanny X-Men #5 
Strange Tales #120 
Journey Into Mystery #104-106 1st Cobra & Hyde team-up
Strange Tales #121 
Amazing Spider-Man #13 1st Mysterio
Fantastic Four #27 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #14 
Strange Tales #122 (Human Torch) 
Daredevil #2 
Tales Of Suspense #54 (Watcher) 
Tales Of Suspense #54-55 
Amazing Spider-Man #14 1st Green Goblin
Strange Tales #122 (Dr. Strange) 
Fantastic Four #28 
Tales Of Suspense #56 (Iron Man) 1st Unicorn
Tales Of Suspense #56 (Watcher)  
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #15 
Tales To Astonish #57 (Giant-Man/Wasp) 
Avengers #7 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #16 
Uncanny X-Men #6 
Amazing Spider-Man #15 1st Kraven the Hunter
Tales To Astonish #58 
Strange Tales #123 1st Beetle
Daredevil #3 1st Owl
Fantastic Four #29 
Journey Into Mystery #107-108 1st Grey Gargoyle
Tales Of Suspense #57 1st Hawkeye
Tales To Astonish #59 
Strange Tales #124 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #17 
Journey Into Mystery #109 
Fantastic Four #30 1st Diablo
Untold Tales of Spider-Man: Strange Encounter 
Strange Tales #125 (Human Torch) 
Strange Tales #126 (Human Torch) 
Fantastic Four annual #2 
Avengers #8 1st Kang
Amazing Spider-Man #16 
Fantastic Four #31 
Untold Tales Of Spider-Man #18 
Amazing Spider-Man annual #1 1st Sinister Six (Doctor Octopus, Electro, Kraven, Mysterio, Sandman, Vulture)
Untold Tales Of Spider-Man #19 
Amazing Spider-Man #17 
Uncanny X-Men #7 
Tales To Astonish #60 (Giant-Man/Wasp) 
Tales To Astonish #60 (Hulk) 
Tales Of Suspense #58 (Iron Man) 
Tales Of Suspense #58 (Watcher) 
Daredevil #4 1st Purple Man
Tales Of Suspense #59 (Captain America) 1st Jarvis
Tales Of Suspense #59 (Iron Man) 
Avengers #9 1st Wonder Man
Strange Tales #125 (Dr. Strange) 
Strange Tales #126-127 (Dr. Strange) 
Amazing Spider-Man #18 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man #20-22 
Uncanny X-Men #8 1st Unus
Tales To Astonish #61 (Giant-Man/Wasp) 
Tales To Astonish #61 (Hulk) 
Journey Into Mystery #110-111 
Tales To Astonish #62 (Giant-Man/Wasp) 
Tales To Astonish #62 (Hulk) 
Avengers #10 1st Immortus
Journey Into Mystery annual #1 1st Hercules
Generation X #-1 
Journey Into Mystery #112 
Fantastic Four #32 
Hulk Smash Avengers #1 
Strange Tales #127 (Human Torch) 
Amazing Spider-Man #19 
Tales Of Suspense #60 
Untold Tales of Spider-Man '97 
Uncanny X-Men #9 
Tales Of Suspense #61-62 (Iron Man) 
Avengers #11 
Tales of Suspense #61 (Captain America) 
Daredevil #5 
Fantastic Four #33 1st Attuma

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