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Timeline

This timeline is compiled from a number of sources, including The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics by Les Daniels, the 1998 Fantastic Four Annual (which had Ben Grimm travelling to a world where time had progressed normally since 1961), Don Markstein's Toonopedia, and plain old eyeballing and guesswork based on what looks right.

When possible, characters and events show up when they were first printed, but in some cases, due to the "smear" of Marvel time, the date on a story doesn't make sense with respect to the age of a character, so adjustments are inevitable. In other cases, moving the events around just felt right. It's not an exact science.

Incidentally, James Nostack is planning on running a semi-historical Marvel FASERIP game set during the 1960s sometime in the fall or winter of 2005. Until August, 2005 he can be reached at nostack [at] comcast.net if anyone is interested.

Marvel_Realtime:Pre_1900
Marvel_Realtime:1900_1920
Marvel_Realtime:1921_1940
Marvel_Realtime:1941_1960
Marvel_Realtime:1961_1980
Marvel_Realtime:1981_2000
Marvel_Realtime:2001_Present

Character Writeups

This is a generic supplement, but there's no reason not to offer write-ups for characters (or, heck, possible characters) in various systems.