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Year: 1963

Best new series:

Best new characters: Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Wasp, Baron Mordo, Sandman, J Jonah Jameson, Vulture, Doctors Strange and Octopus, Lizard, Wasp, The Watcher, Molecule Man, Cobra and Hyde.

Major events: Stan Lee and Jack Kirby appear as characters in the Marvel Universe, Iron Man gets red armor, the FF go to Atlantis, The Avengers form, Sgt Nick Fury joins the main Marvel Universe and SHIELD is introduced, Thing and Hulk fight for the first time.

The Top 10 comics of 1963

  1. The Amazing Spider-Man #1: 1st Chameleon; meets Fantastic 4, introducing idea of “shared universe”
  2. Fantastic Four #12: 1st Thing vs Hulk Fight
  3. The Amazing Spider-Man #3: 1st Doctor Octopus
  4. Fantastic Four #13: 1st Watcher
  5. Fantastic Four #10: 1st Stan and Jack
  6. The Amazing Spider-Man #7: 1st Vulture
  7. Fantastic Four #11: 1st Impossible Man and Willie Lumpkin
  8. Strange Tales #115: Origin of Dr. Strange
  9. The Amazing Spider-Man #5: vs Doctor Doom
  10. Avengers #1: 1st “assembled” team

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #1 (1963)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #2 (1963): 1st Vulture, J. Jonah Jameson, and Tinkerer; 1st Cover Corner Box

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #3 (1963): 1st Doctor Octopus!

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4 (1963): Enter Sandman

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #5 (1963)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #6 (1963): 1st Lizard

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #7 (1963)

AVENGERS #1 (1963)

AVENGERS #2 (1963): 1st Space Phantom

FANTASTIC FOUR #10 (1963): 1st Stan and Jack!

FANTASTIC FOUR #11 (1963): 1st Impossible Man and Willie Lumpkin

FANTASTIC FOUR #12 (1963): 1st Thing/Hulk Fight

FANTASTIC FOUR #13 (1963): 1st Watcher

FANTASTIC FOUR #14 (1963)

FANTASTIC FOUR #15 (1963): 1st Yancy St Gang, Mad Thinker and Awesome Android!

FANTASTIC FOUR #16-17 (1963)

FANTASTIC FOUR #19 (1963): 1st Rama Tut

FANTASTIC FOUR #20 (1963): 1st Molecule Man

FANTASTIC FOUR #21 (1963): 1st Nick Fury & Hate Monger

FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #1 (1963): 1st Atlantis

INCREDIBLE HULK #5-6 (1963)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #88 (1963)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #89 (1963)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #90-91 (1963)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #92 (1963)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #93 (1963): 1st Radioactive Man

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #94 (1963)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #95 (1963)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #96-97 (1963): 1st Surtur

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #98-100 (1963-1964): 1st Cobra and Hyde; 1st Surtur

STRANGE TALES #103 (1963)

STRANGE TALES #104 (1963): 1st Trapster!

STRANGE TALES #105 (1963)

STRANGE TALES #106 (1963)

STRANGE TALES #107 (1963)

STRANGE TALES #110 (1963): 1st Dr. Strange and Nightmare!

STRANGE TALES #111 (1963): 1st Baron Mordo

STRANGE TALES #112 (1963)

STRANGE TALES #113 (1963)

STRANGE TALES #114 (1963): 1st Fake Captain America; 1st Victoria Bentley

STRANGE TALES #115 (1963): The Origin of Dr. Strange

STRANGE TALES ANNUAL #2 (1963)

TALES OF SUSPENSE #39 (1963): 1st Iron Man!

TALES OF SUSPENSE #40 (1963): 1st Marianne Rogers

TALES OF SUSPENSE #41-42 (1963): 1st Doctor Strange (not!)

TALES OF SUSPENSE #43 (1963)

TALES OF SUSPENSE #44-45 (1963): 1st Pepper and Happy

TALES OF SUSPENSE #46 (1963): 1st Crimson Dynamo

TALES OF SUSPENSE #47 (1963)

TALES OF SUSPENSE #48 (1963): 1st Red Armor

TALES TO ASTONISH #39 (1963): 1st Scarlet Beetle

TALES TO ASTONISH #40-41 (1963)

TALES TO ASTONISH #42-43 (1963)

TALES TO ASTONISH #44 (1963): 1st Wasp!

TALES TO ASTONISH #45-47 (1963): 1st Egghead

TALES TO ASTONISH #48 (1963)

TALES TO ASTONISH #49 (1963): 1st Giant Man

Tales To Astonish #50-51 (1963-1964): 1st Whirlwind

X-MEN #2 (1964)

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