Year: 1984
Major Events:
- Spider-Man has his very first costume change, but his costume is a symbiote!
- Assistant Editors’ Month
- The Avengers visit David Letterman
- Medusa married Black Bolt, and J. Jonah Jameson weds Marla Madison
- Susan Richards miscarries
- Rick Jones gets cancer but, sadly, it doesn’t kill him
- The West Coast Avengers are formed
- The Dire Wraith War ties the Rom universe into several Marvel monthlies
- Kitty Pryde becomes Shadowcat
- Bill Sienkiewicz becomes the regular New Mutants artist
- The Casket of Winters, from Thor, unleashes snow on Earth across several books
- Ka-Zar and Moon Knight get cancelled
- She-Hulk joins the Fantastic Four, and hooks up with Wyatt Wingfoot
Important Deaths: Hobgoblin; Alpha Flight’s Guardian; Red Skull and Helmut Zemo; Unus the Untouchable.
Best New Series: Power Pack
Top 10 New Characters:
- Power Pack (all four of the them)
- Demon Bear
- Forge
- Symbiote (not named Venom yet)
- Warlock the Alien
- Silvermane (Cyborg form)
- The Hellfire Club’s Hellions, their answer to the New Mutants
- Beyonder
- Micah Synn
- Leech
Top 10 Stories
- Daredevil #208-209
- Doctor Strange #66
- New Mutants #18-20
- Fantastic Four #266-267
- Marvel Fanfare #15
- Iron Man #182
- Alpha Flight #11-12
- Uncanny X-Men #183
- Thor #345-353
- Uncanny X-Men #169