Year: 1979
Major Events:
- Tony Stark’s Demon in the Bottle story
- Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch’s origin is completely revised
- Lots of toy comics launch…And all of them are pretty good!
- Marvel Two-in-One hosts the Project Pegasus Saga, and the first Thing Floating Poker Game
- Spider-Man kills the burglar who killed Uncle Ben
- The Hellfire Club gets its Black Queen
- Frank Miller takes over Daredevil as writer artist, with Klaus Janson on inks, and introduces us to Josie’s Bar
- 1st appearance of the Alpha Flight team
Best New Series: ROM and Micronuats
Top 20 New Characters:
- James Rhodes
- Scott “Ant-Man” Lang
- Black Cat
- Northstar
- Aurora
- ROM the Spaceknight
- Terrax the Tamer
- Sasquatch
- Micronauts
- Snowbird
- Shadow King
- The Nova Corps
- El Aguila
- Captain Universe
- Justin Hammer
- The Grapplers (Screaming Mimi, Letha, Poundcakes)
- Machinesmith
- Cassandra Lang
- Shaman
- The Shogun Warriors
Top 10 Stories
- Iron Man #125-128
- Avengers #181
- Uncanny X-Men #112-119
- Iron Man #123-124
- Avengers #183-184
- Hulk! Magazine #15
- Marvel Team-Up #79
- X-Men #120-121
- Marvel Two-in-One #53-58
- Ghost Rider #35