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In any case, rereading 25 years of Marvel Comics and trying to keep everything in my head eventually proved to be too much for me and I ended my run at 1986. This was a personally significant year as by that time I was well into college and had essentially made a full transition to independents. Also they had brought Jean Grey back. And later, of course, Elektra. With all of these resurrections, it was pretty difficult to maintain a straight face and call this a consistent “universe”. Therefore my last researched entry is 1986.
However, in preparation for diving into the longboxes, I had created a master timeline going up to 2013, derived from various “official” published sources (ie - “Marvel Year By Year”) as well as from pages created by Wicks and SMM. The way I handled each Marvel year was to review my notes describing a specific year and then read every comic in that year, making any corrections to the “official” story. I think in the end that there are enough differences in my accounting than the others to justify the existence of this resource - also the pictures are nice...
Although I stopped “fact-checking” all of my research notes with comprehensive comics-reading after the 1986 books, my research notes are in the appendix. Who knows, maybe I’ll get a second wind someday, but really, a story built up over 25 years really needs to end someday. And considering the insane gyrations the MU has been going through in the last 20-30 years…don't
get me started.
In summary, if you are looking for a 25 page history of the Marvel Universe with cited comic issue numbers, then this is a good place to start. Additionally, the tabs below Uatu's warning (top of page, natch!) lead to heavily cited timelines of the Marvel Universe before 1961. Enjoy!| UPDATES | FORUM | FAQ |
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You have somehow stumbled across the web page housing the Marvel Chronology Project. Briefly, the MCP is an effort to catalog every actual appearance by every significant character in the Marvel Universe, and place them in their proper chronological order. There are very few graphics on this site, in an effort to cut the download time. You've probably come here for information, not pictures, although there are some excellent graphics at some of the link sites. More on that in a moment.
If there's a particular character that's struck your fancy, that you just can't live without owning their every appearance, this is the place to start. Simply click on the first character of their name (if it's a supporting character, then the first letter of their last name), and the Project will take you to an alphabetical listing of all characters starting with that letter. You'll notice that some characters have links on their names. These links take you to either a cross-referenced MCP web page, or to a web page at another site dedicated to that character. If you have a web page that features a Marvel character, let us know and we'll add a link if it's appropriate.
First, however, you should visit the key and read the FAQ. The key gives you more detailed information about the project, including our charter, an abbreviations list, a list of titles covered, and what qualifies as an 'appearance.' The FAQ (or Frequently Asked Questions) goes into more detail on these and many other points that have been causing you to lose sleep.
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