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Year: 1970

Major Events:

  • The Death of Captain Stacy
  • Banner and Hulk split for the first time
  • X-Men is cancelled
  • Dr. Strange forms The Defenders
  • Black Widow gets half of a solo books (Amazing Adventures), making her the first female Marvel title character, and also gets her classic leather costume
  • The first black Iron Man
  • Silver Surfer and Captain Marvel are cancelled

Important Deaths: Captain Stacy; Aries of the Zodiac gang (killed by Thor)

Best New Series:  Astonishing Tales

Top 10 New Characters:

  1. Kangaroo.  Just kidding.  Kangaroo is stupid.  #1 is Sunfire–the first Japanese hero
  2. Agatha Harkness
  3. Howard Stark
  4. Turk Barrett
  5. Valkyrie
  6. Firebrand
  7. Arkon
  8. Vanessa and Richard Fisk
  9. Jim Wilson
  10. The Zodiac Gang

Top 10 Stories:

  1. Amazing Spider-Man #88-90
  2. Fantastic Four #100
  3. Daredevil #63-64
  4. Astonishing Tales #1-2 (Ka-Zar story)
  5. Astonishing Tales #1-3 (Dr. Doom story)
  6. Captain America #128-129 (Cap has PTSD)
  7. Amazing Spider-Man #86 (new Black Widow costume)
  8. Thor #175-177 (Asgard using guns)
  9. Hulk #130-132 (1st Jim Wilson; Hulk-Banner split)
  10. Avengers #83 (1st Valkyrie)

INCREDIBLE HULK #121 (1969)

AMAZING ADVENTURES #1 (1970): Black Widow

AMAZING ADVENTURES #1-2 (1970): Inhumans

AMAZING ADVENTURES #2-4 (1970-1971): Black Widow

AMAZING ADVENTURES #3-4 (1970-1971): Inhumans

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #80 (1970)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #81 (1970): 1st Kangaroo

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #82 (1970)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #83-85 (1970): 1st Kingpin Family

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #86 (1970): Black Widow new costume

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #87 (1970)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #88-90 (1970): Death of Captain Stacy

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #91-92 (1970-1971)

ASTONISHING TALES #1-2 (1970): Ka-Zar Solo Story; 1st Garokk the Petrified Man

ASTONISHING TALES #1-3 (1970): Doctor Doom Solo Story

ASTONISHING TALES #3-5 (1970-1971): Ka-Zar Story

AVENGERS #72 (1970): 1st Zodiac

Avengers #75-76 (1970) 1st Arkon

Avengers #77 (1970)

AVENGERS #78-79 (1970): 1st Lethal Legion

AVENGERS #80-81 (1970): 1st Red Wolf

AVENGERS #82 (1970)

AVENGERS #83 (1970): 1st “Valkyrie”

BULLPEN BULLETINS: MARCH 1970, NO MORE !!!

Captain America #121 (1970) 1st Man-Brute

CAPTAIN AMERICA #122 (1970)

CAPTAIN AMERICA #123 (1970)

Captain America #124-125 (1970)

Captain America #126-127 (1970) (1st Black Cap!)

CAPTAIN AMERICA #128-129 (1970): Cap Deals With His PTSD

CAPTAIN AMERICA #130-132 (1970): 1st Marvel Movie

CAPTAIN MARVEL #20-21 (1970): Series hiatus

DAREDEVIL #59-60 (1969-1970)

DAREDEVIL #61 (1970)

DAREDEVIL #62 (1970): Nighthawk joins 616

DAREDEVIL #63-64 (1970)

DAREDEVIL #65-66 (1970)

DAREDEVIL #67 (1970)

DAREDEVIL #68 (1970)

DAREDEVIL #69 (1970): 1st Turk

Daredevil #70-71 (1970)

DR. STRANGE #183, SUB-MARINER #22, HULK #126 (1970): Defenders Begins

FANTASTIC FOUR #100 (1970)

FANTASTIC FOUR #101 (1970)

FANTASTIC FOUR #102-104 (1970): War With Atlantis; Jack’s Last Issue

FANTASTIC FOUR #105-106 (1970)

FANTASTIC FOUR #95-98 (1970)

FANTASTIC FOUR #99 (1970)

INCREDIBLE HULK #124 (1970): A Wedding?

Incredible Hulk #125 (1970)

INCREDIBLE HULK #127 (1970)

Incredible Hulk #128 (1970)

Incredible Hulk #129 (1970): 1st Glob

INCREDIBLE HULK #130-132 (1970): 1st Jim Wilson; Banner and Hulk split

INCREDIBLE HULK #133-134 (1970)

IRON MAN #21-22 (1970): 1st black Iron Man

IRON MAN #23 (1970)

Iron Man #24 (1970)

Iron Man #25 (1970): An Inconvenient Truth

Iron Man #26 (1970)

IRON MAN #27 (1970): 1st Firebrand

Iron Man #28 (1970): 1st Howard Stark, final Archie Goodwin

Iron Man #29 (1970)

Iron Man #30 (1970)

Iron Man #31 (1970)

Iron Man #32 (1970)

JACK KIRBY LEAVES MARVEL (1970)

KA-ZAR #1 (1970)

MARVEL MARKET RESEARCH: 1970

Silver Surfer #12 (1970)

SILVER SURFER #13 (1970)

Silver Surfer #14-15 (1970): Fights!

Silver Surfer #16-17 (1970)

SILVER SURFER #18 (1970) (series ends)

Sub-Mariner #21 (1970)

Sub-Mariner #23-24 (1970): 1st Orka

Sub-Mariner #25-30 (1970)

Sub-Mariner #31 (1970)

Sub-Mariner #32 (1970): 1st Llyra

The Avengers #73-74 (1970)

THE CRITERIA FOR A NO-PRIZE (1970)

THOR #172 (1970)

Thor #173 (1970)

THOR #174 (1970)

THOR #175-177 (1970): Guns in Asgard

Thor #178 (1970)

Thor #179-181 (1970): Kirby’s last issue

Thor #182-183 (1970)

X-MEN #64 (1970): 1st SUNFIRE

X-MEN #65 (1970): Prof X returns; Havok joins

X-MEN #66: THE FINAL ISSUE

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