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Year: 1962

Major Events: 

  • Debut and origin of Spider-Man, many Asgardians, and others 
  • Sub-Mariner brought into the 616
  • Marvel gives out the first no-prize
  • The first time-travel story
  • Hank Pym becomes both Ant-Man and Yellow Jacket

Best New Series: The Incredible Hulk

Top 10 New Characters:

  1. Spider-Man
  2. Hulk
  3. Doctor Doom
  4. Thor
  5. Hank Pym
  6. Loki
  7. The Skrulls
  8. Odin
  9. Puppet Master
  10. Egghead

Top 10 Stories

  1. Fantastic Four #5: 1st Doctor Doom
  2. Amazing Fantasy #15: 1st Spider-Man 
  3. Fantastic Four #4: 1st Namor
  4. Fantastic Four #2: 1st skrulls
  5. Fantastic Four #6: Doom hijacks the Baxter Building
  6. Hulk #1
  7. Journey into Mystery #83: 1st Thor
  8. Tales to Astonish #27: 1st Hank Pym
  9. Journey into Mystery #85: 1st Loki
  10. Fantastic Four #8: 1st Puppet Master and Alicia Masters

 

 

AMAZING FANTASY #15 (1962): 1st Spider-Man

FANTASTIC FOUR #3 (1962): 1st Fantasti-Car

FANTASTIC FOUR #4 (1962): Return of Sub-Mariner

FANTASTIC FOUR #5 (1962): 1st Doctor Doom, 1st Time Travel…And the Single Greatest Comic Book of All Time

FANTASTIC FOUR #6 (1962): 1st Super-Villain Team-Up and 1st (Unofficial) No-Prize

FANTASTIC FOUR #7 (1962)

FANTASTIC FOUR #8 (1962): 1st Puppet Master and Alicia Masters

FANTASTIC FOUR #9 (1962): Prince Namor: Movie Producer

FANTASTIC FOUR HOUSE AD (1962)

INCREDIBLE HULK #1 (1962)

INCREDIBLE HULK #2 (1962)

INCREDIBLE HULK #3-4 (1962)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #83 (1962): First Thor!

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #84 (1962): 1st Jane Foster

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #85 (1962): 1st Loki, Heimdall, Balder, and Asgard

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #86-87 (1962): 1st Odin and The Uru Hammer

STRANGE TALES #101 (1962)

STRANGE TALES #102 (1962): 1st Wizard

Tales to Astonish #27 (1962): 1st Hank Pym

TALES TO ASTONISH #35 (1962): 1st Ant-Man!

TALES TO ASTONISH #36-37 (1962)

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