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…
- Thanos
- Punisher
- Valkyrie
- Blade
- Drax the Destroyer
- Shang Chi
- Howard the Duck
- Son of Satan (Daimon Hellstrom)
- Moondragon
- Mantis
- Eros (Starfox)
- Frankenstein’s Monster
- Tatterdemallion
- Wundarr
- Angar the Screamer
- The Orb
- Solarr
- Harpy
- Satana the Daughter of Satan
- Garth the Zombie
- Brother Voodoo
- Chemistro
- Zzzax
- Helmut Zemo
- Deacon Frost
- Fu Manchu
- Bi-Beast
- Jackal
- Wendigo
- Harpy
Top 10 Stories:
- Amazing Spider-Man #121 (death of Gwen Stacy)
- Iron Man #55 (1st Thanos, Drax)
- Defenders #4 (1st Valkyrie)
- Avengers #115-118/Defenders #8-11 (A/D War)
- Jungle Action #6-8
- Amazing Spider-Man #123
- Captain Marvel #26-31
- Luke Cage #8-9 (Dr. Doom owes Luke $200)
- Avengers #110-111
- Adventure into Fear with Man-Thing #12