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Year: 1965

Major Events: 

  • X-Men fight Avengers for the first time
  • Thing spanks Invisible Girl
  • To avoid triggering the Comic Book Code, Marvel introduces “The Maggia”
  • Frightful Four forms the second super villain group
  • Savage Land is introduced
  • Namor hires Matt Murdock as his lawyer
  • Thor fights Hercules
  • Hank Pym becomes Goliath
  • Golden Age characters Patsy Walker and Red Skull brought into the 616

Important Deaths: None

Best New Series: No new series launched.

Top 20 New Characters:

  1. Absorbing Man
  2. Juggernaut
  3. Black Bolt
  4. Lockjaw
  5. Karnak the Shatterer
  6. Leader
  7. Dragon Man
  8. Scorpion
  9. Medusa
  10. Mary Jane Watson
  11. The Sentinels
  12. Stilt-Man
  13. Gorgon
  14. Collector
  15. Eternity
  16. Ka-Zar
  17. Stranger
  18. Destroyer (animated armor)
  19. Hydra
  20. Ani-Men

Top 10 stories of 1965

  1. Tales of Suspense #66-68: Red Skull’s origin
  2. Strange Tales #135: Modern Nick Fury and 1st Hydra
  3. Avengers #16: 1st major lineup change
  4. Amazing Spider-Man #20: 1st Scorpion
  5. X-Men #12-13: Origin of Professor X and 1st Juggernaut
  6. Journey into Mystery #114-115: 1st Absorbing Man
  7. Fantastic Four #36: 1st Medusa and the Frightful Four
  8. Daredevil #8: 1st Stilt-Man
  9. Journey Into Mystery #116-120: Destroyer armor shatters Mjolnir
  10. Journey into Mystery #112: Thor and The Avengers fight Hulk

 

Journey Into Mystery Annual #1 (1964)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #20 (1965): 1st Scorpion

Amazing Spider-Man #21 (1965)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #22 (1965): 1st Princess Python

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #23 (1965)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #24 (1965)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #25 (1965)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #26-27 (1965)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #28 (1965): 1st Molten Man

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #29 (1965)

Amazing Spider-Man #30 (1965): 1st Master Planner

Amazing Spider-Man Annual #2 (1965)

AVENGERS #12 (1965)

Avengers #13-14 (1965): 1st Maggia, Count Nefaria

AVENGERS #15-16 (1965): Major lineup change

AVENGERS #17 (1965)

Avengers #18 (1965)

Avengers #19-20 (1965): 1st Swordsman

AVENGERS #21-22 (1965)

Avengers #23-24 (1965-1966)

AVENGERS #26-31 (1966): 1st Collector; Goliath

DAREDEVIL #10-11 (1965): 1st Ani-Men

DAREDEVIL #6 (1965): 1st Mr. Fear

DAREDEVIL #7 (1965): vs Namor

DAREDEVIL #8 (1965): 1st Stilt-Man!

DAREDEVIL #9 (1965)

FANTASTIC FOUR #34 (1965)

FANTASTIC FOUR #35 (1965): 1st Dragon Man; Reed proposes to Sue

FANTASTIC FOUR #36 (1965): 1st Medusa, Frightful Four

Fantastic Four #37 (1965)

FANTASTIC FOUR #38 (1965): 1st spanking; 1st Trapster

FANTASTIC FOUR #39-40 (1965): Jack Kirby Draws Daredevil!

FANTASTIC FOUR #41-43 (1965)

FANTASTIC FOUR #44-47 (1965): 1st Inhumans

FANTASTIC FOUR ANNUAL #3 (1965): Reed and Sue wedding; 1st Patsy Walker

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE LIFE MODEL DECOY!

Journey Into Mystery #112 (1965)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #113 (1965)

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #114-115 (1965): 1st Absorbing Man

JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY #116-120 (1965): 1st Destroyer

Journey Into Mystery #121-123 (1965-1966)

NICK FURY HOUSE AD!

STRANGE TALES #128 (1965): 1st Demonicus

STRANGE TALES #129 (1965): 1st Tiboro

STRANGE TALES #130-133 (1965)

Strange Tales #132 (1965)

STRANGE TALES #134 (1965): 1st Eternity (off screen)

STRANGE TALES #135-138 (1965): Nick Fury; 1st Hydra!

Strange Tales #139-145 (1965-1966): Nick Fury; 1st Druid

TALES OF SUSPENSE #61-62 (1965)

TALES OF SUSPENSE #63-64 (1965)

TALES OF SUSPENSE #65 (1965)

TALES OF SUSPENSE #66-68 (1965): The first Silver Age appearance of the REAL Red Skull

Tales Of Suspense #69-71 (1965): 1st Titanium Man

Tales Of Suspense #72 (1965)

TALES TO ASTONISH #61-69 (1964-1965): 1st Leader; Col. Talbot

TALES TO ASTONISH #70-76 (1965-1966)

X-MEN #10 (1965): 1st Ka-Zar!

X-MEN #11 (1965): 1st Stranger

X-Men #17-18 (1965-1966): Magneto Returns!

STRANGE TALES #135-147 (1965-1966): 1st Eternity

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