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:
- Absorbing Man
- Juggernaut
- Black Bolt
- Lockjaw
- Karnak the Shatterer
- Leader
- Dragon Man
- Scorpion
- Medusa
- Mary Jane Watson
- The Sentinels
- Stilt-Man
- Gorgon
- Collector
- Eternity
- Ka-Zar
- Stranger
- Destroyer (animated armor)
- Hydra
- Ani-Men
Top 10 stories of 1965
- Tales of Suspense #66-68: Red Skull’s origin
- Strange Tales #135: Modern Nick Fury and 1st Hydra
- Avengers #16: 1st major lineup change
- Amazing Spider-Man #20: 1st Scorpion
- X-Men #12-13: Origin of Professor X and 1st Juggernaut
- Journey into Mystery #114-115: 1st Absorbing Man
- Fantastic Four #36: 1st Medusa and the Frightful Four
- Daredevil #8: 1st Stilt-Man
- Journey Into Mystery #116-120: Destroyer armor shatters Mjolnir
- Journey into Mystery #112: Thor and The Avengers fight Hulk