SuperMegaMonkey: Marvel Chronology (2025)

FAQs

How many Marvel Comics are there? ›

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Timely's first comic book was Marvel Comics no. 1 (cover dated October 1939), which featured several superhero characters, most notably the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner.

Marvel's major heroes were created in the 1960s, but the amount of time that has passed between then and now within the universe itself has (after a prolonged period of being identified as about 10 years in the mid-to-late 1990s) most recently been identified as 13 years.

The first issue of The Official Index To The Marvel Universe suggests that there are 32,000 comics in the last 70 years. Let say you spend 15 minutes reading one comic book; it would take you 480,000 minutes or 8000 hours or 333 days reading non-stop to finish all of them, theoretically speaking.

The dispute between Marvel and Dc has been going on since the 1940s. DC originated in 1934 and Marvel in 1939.

The first publication of Timely was Marvel Comics #1, the world's first introduction to Marvel characters that introduced Carl Burgos's android superhero the Human Torch and Bill Everett's Namor the Sub-Mariner, the first of many Marvel characters.

Marshaling his childhood ambition to be a writer, young Stanley Lieber made his comic-book debut with the text filler "Captain America Foils the Traitor's Revenge" in Captain America Comics #3 (cover-dated May 1941), using the pseudonym Stan Lee (a play on his first name, "Stanley"), which years later he would adopt as ...

Short answer: (1) DC came first, and (2) Marvel has had a bigger impact on the industry. Long answer: (1) DC was created in 1934, while Marvel came to be in the earlty 60s. Actually, “Marvel” originated in 1939 but named differently, “Timely Comics”.

Who was the first superhero in DC Comics? DC Comics introduced its first costumed superhero, Superman, in Action Comics no. 1 in 1938.

Who was the first Avengers in comics? ›

The team made its debut in The Avengers #1 (cover-dated September 1963). Labeled "Earth's Mightiest Heroes", the original Avengers consisted of Iron Man, Ant-Man, Hulk, Thor and the Wasp.

According to one of the writers, Stephen McFeely, the 5-year minute time jump was a last minute conception, and the purpose was to return the focus of the plot to the original members of the team, to show how they were dealing with the losses after killing Thanos, as well as to let us get deep into the lives of the ...

In Marvel comics and movies, are all universes connected? Short Answer, No. Well, not yet. In the Comics, they did this thing called Secret Wars, where all the different characters from different branches of the comics came together and fought Kang and Doom.

The general Western rule of reading left to right can still apply, but sometimes a spread can have images and text presented in a spiral or circular order instead of the common linear order. A reader's best judgment will need to be applied at times when reading a comic that contains an uncommon structure.

Reading Comic Pages Properly

Read each dialogue bubble from left to right, starting with the leftmost panel and moving your eyes to any dialogue featured on the bottom or right of the panel. Move to the next panel as you reach the right side of the first panel.

Luckily, many of the major comics publishers have digitized their comics and developed their own subscription services and apps. That means you can access some of the most popular and influential comics throughout the years, like The Dark Knight Returns on DC Universe Infinite and House of M on Marvel Unlimited.