Year: 1968

Major Events:

  • Hank and Jan get married
  • Franklin Richards is born
  • Black Panther joins The Avengers
  • Iron Man and Captain America get their own series
  • Marvel experiments with a black-and-white magazine format
  • Neal Adams draws X-Men
  • The Serpent Crown, Adamantium and The Microverse are introduced

Important Deaths: Professor X (not!)

Best New Series: Silver Surfer

Top 10 New Characters:

  1. Vision
  2. Ultron
  3. Captain Marvel
  4. Franklin Richards
  5. Jester
  6. Tiger Shark
  7. Silvermane
  8. Grim Reaper
  9. Whiplash
  10. Mangog

Top 10 Stories

  1. Avengers #57-58: “Behold: the Vision!”
  2. Thor #159: Expanded origin
  3. Silver Surfer #1
  4. Avengers #54-55: 1st Ultron
  5. X-Men #56: 1st Neal Adams
  6. Daredevil #48
  7. Amazing Spider-Man #68-75: Tablet Saga
  8. Fantastic Four #74-77: 1st Microverse
  9. Avengers #59-60: Jan and Hank marry
  10. Daredevil #42-46: 1st Jester