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Year: 1973

Major Events: (bullets)

  • Marvel launches several horror magazines featuring canon characters like Dracula and Garth the Zombie
  • Bill Everett, creator of Daredevil, Sub-Mariner, and Garth the Zombie, dies
  • Red Wolf and Shanna get their series cancelled
  • Black Widow joins The Avengers (but so does Swordsman)
  • The Avengers/Defenders War,
  • Spider-Man gets his Spider Mobile
  • The Serpent Squad forms
  • Vision/Scarlet Witch romance begins
  • The cosmic universe–with Thanos at the center–begins
  • Doctor Doom fails to pay Luke Cage $200

Important Deaths: Gwen Stacy, The Ancient One, Mimic

Best New Series: Frankenstein and Ghost Rider.

Top 30 New Characters: Yes, 30.  1973 is the best Marvel year so far, with debuts of horror and cosmic characters, oddballs, and many (many!) future movie stars…

  1. Thanos
  2. Punisher
  3. Valkyrie
  4. Blade
  5. Drax the Destroyer
  6. Shang Chi
  7. Howard the Duck
  8. Son of Satan (Daimon Hellstrom)
  9. Moondragon
  10. Mantis
  11. Eros (Starfox)
  12. Frankenstein’s Monster
  13. Tatterdemallion
  14. Wundarr
  15. Angar the Screamer
  16. The Orb
  17. Solarr
  18. Harpy
  19. Satana the Daughter of Satan
  20. Garth the Zombie
  21. Brother Voodoo
  22. Chemistro
  23. Zzzax
  24. Helmut Zemo
  25. Deacon Frost
  26. Fu Manchu
  27. Bi-Beast
  28. Jackal
  29. Wendigo
  30. Harpy

Top 10 Stories:

  1. Amazing Spider-Man #121 (death of Gwen Stacy)
  2. Iron Man #55 (1st Thanos, Drax)
  3. Defenders #4 (1st Valkyrie)
  4. Avengers #115-118/Defenders #8-11 (A/D War)
  5. Jungle Action #6-8
  6. Amazing Spider-Man #123
  7. Captain Marvel #26-31
  8. Luke Cage #8-9 (Dr. Doom owes Luke $200)
  9. Avengers #110-111
  10. Adventure into Fear with Man-Thing #12

ADVENTURE INTO FEAR WITH MAN-THING #12 (1973)

ADVENTURE INTO FEAR WITH MAN-THING #16 (1973)

ADVENTURE INTO FEAR WITH MAN-THING #17 (1973): 1st Wundarr

ADVENTURE INTO FEAR WITH MAN-THING #18 (1973)

ADVENTURE INTO FEAR WITH MAN-THING #19 (1973): 1st Howard the Duck!

AMAZING ADVENTURES #16-17 (1973): Rutland Parade

AMAZING ADVENTURES #17-38 (1973-1976)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #116-118 (1973)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #121 (1973): Death of Gwen Stacy

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #123 (1973): meets Luke Cage

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #124-125 (1973)

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #126 (1973): Harry becomes Green Goblin; Kangaroo dies

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #127-128 (1973-1974)

ASTONISHING TALES #21-24 (1973): Fin Fang Foom vs It The Living Colossus

AVENGERS #107-108 (1973): Cap gets his secret identity back; Vision/Scarlet Witch get romantic

AVENGERS #109, DAREDEVIL #99 (1973)

AVENGERS #110-111 (1973): Black Widow joins

AVENGERS #112 (1973): 1st Mantis

AVENGERS #113 (1973)

AVENGERS #114 (1973): Swordsman joins

CAPTAIN AMERICA #160-162 (1973): 1st Solarr, Peggy Carter

CAPTAIN AMERICA #163-167 (1973): 1st Nightshade; Serpent Squad

CAPTAIN AMERICA #168 (1973): 1st Helmut Zemo

CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON #157-159 (1973)

CAPTAIN MARVEL #24-25 (1973)

Captain Marvel #26-31 (1973-1974)

DAREDEVIL AND BLACK WIDOW #100-101 (1973): 1st Angar the Screamer

DAREDEVIL and BLACK WIDOW #102 (1973)

DAREDEVIL AND BLACK WIDOW #103-107 (1973-1974)

DAREDEVIL AND THE BLACK WIDOW #97-98 (1973)

DEFENDERS #4 (1973): New Valkyrie; Black Knight turned to stone

DEFENDERS #5 (1973)

DEFENDERS #6 (1973)

DEFENDERS #7-8 (1973)

FANTASTIC FOUR #129-132 (1972-1973): 1st Thundra; Johnny’s red costume

FANTASTIC FOUR #133 (1973)

FANTASTIC FOUR #134-135 (1973)

FANTASTIC FOUR 138-139 (1973)

FRANKENSTEIN #1-12 (1973-1974)

Find out how Frankenstein is like Captain America!

GHOST RIDER #1-3, MARVEL SPOTLIGHT #12 (1973): 1st Son of Satan

HANDS OF SHANG CHI MASTER OF KUNG FU #18 (1973)

HERB AND LINDA GET MARRIED (1973)

INCREDIBLE HULK #159 (1973)

INCREDIBLE HULK #160 (1973)

INCREDIBLE HULK #161 (1973): Mimic dies

INCREDIBLE HULK #162 (1973): 1st Wendigo

INCREDIBLE HULK #163-165 (1973): 1st Gremlin

INCREDIBLE HULK #166 (1973): 1st Zzzax

INCREDIBLE HULK #168-170 (1973): 1st HARPY and BI-BEAST

IRON MAN #44-47 (1973): Guardsman dies

Iron Man #54 (1973): 1st Moondragon

IRON MAN #55 (1973): 1st Thanos, Drax, Eros, Kronos, Mentor, Blood Brothers

Iron Man #56-58 (1973)

Iron Man #59 (1973)

Iron Man #60-61 (1973)

Iron Man #62 (1973)

Iron Man #63-66 (1973-1974)

Jungle Action #6-8 (1973-1974)

LUKE CAGE: HERO FOR HIRE #10-11 (1973)

LUKE CAGE: HERO FOR HIRE #12 (1973): 1st Chemistro

LUKE CAGE: HERO FOR HIRE #13 (1973)

LUKE CAGE: HERO FOR HIRE #14-16 (1973): 1st Shades, Comanche, Stiletto

LUKE CAGE: HERO FOR HIRE #5-6 (1973): 1st Black Mariah

LUKE CAGE: HERO FOR HIRE #7 (1973)

LUKE CAGE: HERO FOR HIRE #8-9 (1973): Dr Doom owes Luke $200

Marvel Feature #7-10 (1972-1973): Wasp and Ant-Man

MARVEL PREMIERE #12-14 (1973-1974)

Marvel Team-Up #12: Werewolf (1973)

Marvel Team-Up #13 (1973): Captain America

Marvel Team-Up #14 (1973): Sub-Mariner

Marvel Team-Up #15 (1973): Ghost Rider; 1st Orb

MARVEL TEAM-UP #5-6 (1972-1973): Vision and The Thing

MARVEL TEAM-UP #7 (1973): Thor

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM STAN LEE (who is a cheap MF) (1973)

MONSTER MADNESS (1973)

OBITUARY FOR BILL EVERETT (1973)

POWER OF WARLOCK #8 (1973)

Strange Tales #169-173 (1973-1974): 1st Brother Voodoo

SUB-MARINER #57-59 (1972)

SUB-MARINER #60 (1973)

Sub-Mariner #61-63 (1973): 1st Hydrobase; last Bill Everett issue

TALES OF THE ZOMBIE #1 (1973)

THE AVENGERS/DEFENDERS WAR (Avengers #115-118 / Defenders #8-11) (1973)

THE TOMORROW WAR! (Marvel Team-Up #9-11) (1973)

THOR #206-207 (1972-1973)

THOR #208 (1973)

Thor #209 (1973)

THOR #210-211 (1973)

Thor #212-213 (1973)

Thor #214-216 (1973)

Thor #217-220 (1973-1974)

TODAY IS MANHUNTER DAY: THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF D.C.’S “MANHUNTER!” (1973-1974)

TOMB OF DRACULA #7-17 (1973): 1st Blade, Quincy Harker

VAMPIRE TALES #1 (1973)

VAMPIRE TALES #2-11 (1973-1975): Series Ends

WEREWOLF BY NIGHT #11-12 (1973)

WEREWOLF BY NIGHT #3-8 (1973)

Werewolf By Night #9-10 (1973) and Marvel Team-Up #93 (1980): 1st Tatterdemalion

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #129 (1974): 1st Punisher and Jackal

FANTASTIC FOUR #136-137 (1973)

FANTASTIC FOUR 140-142 (1973-1974)

INCREDIBLE HULK #167 (1973)

Marvel Team-Up #16-17 (1973-1974): 1st Basilisk

Sub-Mariner #64-72 (1973-1974): Series Ends

TALES OF THE ZOMBIE #2-8 (1973-1974)

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