Year: 1992
Major Events:
- The Midnight Sons line of comics debuts
- Marvel 2099 shows a possible future Marvel. Possible futures would become an epidemic in the ’90s, but Marvel finally got it right when the Century turned and they launched Ultimate Spider-Man.
- Infinity War
- The New Universe comes to the 616
- Northstar comes out as gay
- X-Ecutioner’s Song
- Rhodey becomes War Machine, Her becomes Kismet, and Eric Masterson becomes Thor, Punisher becomes black, and Captain America becomes a werewolf
- Rage joins the New Warriors
- The Secret Defenders debut
- Marvel Boy goes to prison for killing his father
Important Deaths: Vermin, Master Kahn, Tai (New Warriors).
Best New Series: Punisher War Zone, Warlock and Infinity Watch.
Top 10 New Characters:
- Carnage
- Omega Red
- Spider-Man 2099
- Demogoblin
- Terror
- Amy Chen of Wild Pack
- Morg
- Victoria Montesi
- Proctor and the Gatherers
- Peter Parker’s (Fake) Parents
Top 10 (or 20) Stories (only post if they END in that year).
Note: This was a not-so-great year, preceding a slew of not great years. Not a single A+ story this year and only two “A” graded tales (the first two on this list.
- Hulk #390-392 and X-Facotr #76
- Marvel Super Heroes #9 (Kurt Busiek Iron Man story only)
- Marvel Comics Presents #99-100
- Hulk #397-400
- Punisher Invades the ‘Nam
- Wolverine: Inner Fury
- Spectacular Spider-Man #186-190
- Sensational She-Hulk #36
- Iron Man #284-291
- Punisher #53-59