Year: 1964
Major Events:
- Firsts:
- Sinister Six forms Marvel’s first super-villain team
- The X-Men use Cerebro to find other mutants
- Captain America joins the 616 Universe and kills Baron Zemo.
- Weddings: Sue and Reed get married
- Marvel adopts “Age of Marvel” branding
- Iceman changes to his modern ice-form, from snow-form
- Dr. Doom gets a detailed origin
Important Deaths: Baron Zemo
Best New Series: Daredevil, with X-Men a close second
Top 20 New Characters:
- Daredevil
- Marvel Girl
- Magneto
- Cyclops
- Professor X
- Scarlet Witch
- Hela
- Beast
- Clea
- Norman Osborn
- Jarvis
- Sif
- Kraven the Hunter
- Mysterio
- Quicksilver
- Super Skrull
- Purple Man
- Unus the Untouchable
- Iceman
- Grey Gargoyle
Top 10 Stories of the year:
- Avengers #4: 1st Captain America
- Amazing Spider-Man #14: 1st Green Goblin
- Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1: 1st Sinister Six
- Daredevil #1
- X-Men #1
- Fantastic Four #25-26: Hulk vs Thing
- Amazing Spider-Man #13: 1st Mysterio
- Fantastic Four #18: 1st Super Skrull
- Amazing Spider-Man #15: 1st Kraven
- X-Men #4: 1st Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver