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This is currently non canon. It's imagining a condensed Marvel Universe.

Some Birthdays are repeated as Comci and film canon is included.

## **PART ONE: IN THE BEGINNING...**

### **13.8 Billion Years Ago**

The Marvel Universe is created in a massive explosion from the eruption of another dying reality, the First Big Bang. Matter and energy condense to form the cosmos, under the stewardship of a benevolent multiversal entity known as the One-Above-All and its assistant, the Living Tribunal. [Date based on scientific theory]

A being from a previous collapsed universe, formerly known as Galen of the planet Taa, emerges into the newborn universe inside a protective shell. Galen has merged with the sentience of his dead universe and is undergoing a metamorphosis that will take billions of years. [Thor #169]

The Six Infinity Stones are created in the Big Bang.(Thanos Quest 1-2, 1990)

The M’kraan crystal forms. Many rumors surround it such as life first forming on the planet the crystal resides on and is believed to have been created by Shi’ar gods.(X-Men #107-109(1977))

Eternity, Death, Lord Chaos, Master Order, and others—abstract entities that are the ethereal embodiments of the new universe—are born.(explained in Quasar #20, 1991)

The Celestial Axis, a pattern of sentient energy, threads itself through the still-forming universe.

### **8 Billion Years Ago**

Eternity, the embodiment of everything in the universe, weaves from the Celestial Axis a sentient quasi-physical entity called Eon. Created to become the cosmic custodian of the universe and to monitor beings of incredible power that might pose a threat to the universe’s existence, Eon also eventually becomes responsible for nurturing the evolution of sentient life forms throughout the universe. [Captain Marvel #29(1973) and Quasar #2(1989)]

The Phoenix Force is created, allegedly the nexus of all psionic energy that has, does or ever will exist. It’s primary purpose is to burn away anything deemed obsolete and regrow it as it sees fit.( Phoenix is explained in Classic X-Men #8(1987),Classic X-Men #43(1990),and Fantastic Four #286(1986))

### **7 Billion Years Ago**

Life begins to evolve in the universe on many planets. Each planet capable of sustaining life is granted a consciousness by the One-Above-All, derived from the Celestial Axis. On most worlds, this consciousness produces from itself beings known as gods. Many of these planets also give rise to sentient mortal beings, some of whom achieve a level of intelligence allowing the creation of civilizations.

The Acanti, a fishlike race that can survive in space, evolve(Uncanny X-Men #166(1983)).

The Celestials come into existence in a second big bang(Ultimates 2 #6(2017) Celestials first seen in Eternals #2(1976))

One of the first intelligent races to arise will eventually become known to the rest of the universe as the Watchers. Their evolution causes them to develop tremendous mental abilities and energy-manipulating powers. As civilizations arise on other worlds, the High Tribunal of the Watchers debates whether or not to share their knowledge and technology with less-advanced cultures. The Watcher known as Uatu persuades the Tribunal to share their knowledge, and so a delegation of four Watchers travels to the planet Prosilicus. The Watchers offer the Prosilicans the knowledge of atomic energy, which will advance their level of technology considerably. The Watchers tutor the Prosilicans in the uses of atomic energy for several months, then depart. The Prosilicans use their new knowledge to develop nuclear weapons, and war and conflict breaks out across their planet. They next engage in war with an alien race, which proves to be more technologically advanced than them. These aliens all but destroy the remaining Prosilicans. Returning to evaluate the progress of their experiment, the Watchers are horrified to discover what the Prosilicans have done with their knowledge. During the next meeting of the High Tribunal, the Watchers decide that they will never again interfere in the affairs of another race. The Watchers instead develop a policy of non-interference and passive observation of alien cultures. [Tales of Suspense #53(1964) and Cyclopedia Universum is first seen in Fantastic Four #544(2007)]

The Parasitic insectoid race known as the Brood enslave the Acanti race.(Enslavement of the Acanti was recounted in Uncanny X-Men #166(1983))

Soon after the meeting of the High Tribunal, the immortal Watchers abandon their home planet and relocate throughout the universe, each Watcher choosing a different solar system to monitor and observe.

As other civilized alien races begin facing extinction, a number of last survivors, all of whom had driven themselves in pursuit of a particular discipline, discover that they have become immortal. These immortals eventually become known as the Elders of the Universe. They include the Collector, the Grandmaster, and the Contemplator. Their immortality allows them to survive not only the deaths of their races but eventually also the destruction of their galaxies. In pursuit of their particular disciplines, the Elders spread out across the universe.

Galen’s spaceship is observed by a Watcher named Ecce. The Watcher studies the ship as it travels through space and learns that the being within has vast power, which is growing. Realizing that Galen will one day have to consume entire planets to sustain himself, the Watcher contemplates killing the creature within. In the end, Ecce decides to abide by his race’s policy of non-interference and lets the ship travel on its way, although he continues to observe it. Developing within the spaceship, Galen renames himself Galactus and begins learning how to master his vast power. Galactus transforms his spaceship into a huge incubation chamber to further aid his development. [Super-Villain Classics #1(1983) and Thor #169(1969)]

Eventually, the incubation chamber drifts into the orbit of the planet Archeopia. Years later, Galactus emerges from the chamber and destroys the planet, absorbing its energies into himself. Only a handful of Archeopians manage to flee the destruction of their planet. [Thor #162]

Over the next few millennia, Galactus constructs an enormous starbase, Taa II, which engulfs the entire Archeopian solar system. With the construction of his starbase complete, Galactus begins wandering the universe in search of planets to sate his hunger.

### **5.5 Billion Years Ago**

The alien beings who will one day be known as the Astronomer and the Runner, both Elders of the Universe, are born.

### **4.6 Billion Years Ago**

The star Sol begins to condense out of nebular gases, eventually forming a solar system. [Scientific theory]

Eon, foreseeing threats to the conditions of life in the universe, creates the quantum bands, a pair of weapons that allows the wearer to manipulate energy at will. Over the millennia as new threats arise in the cosmos, Eon will appoint new champions, giving each of them the quantum bands to aid in their duties. The first such champion is a being named Glakandra. [Quasar #2–3]

### **4.4 Billion Years Ago**

The crust around the third planet from the star Sol solidifies and hardens. This planet will eventually be known as Earth. [Scientific theory](Silver Surfer Annual #2(1989) and Thor Annual #10(1982))

### **4 Billion Years Ago**

A Celestial Progenitor crashed on earth due to infection by cosmic locusts called the Horde(Avengers #5(2018))

### **3.8 Billion Years Ago**

The first single-celled organisms are formed on Earth. [Scientific theory]

### **3.5 Billion Years Ago**

The Demiurge achieves consciousness after being coalesced from Earth’s biosphere. As conditions on Earth become more supportive of life, the Demiurge, sensing the need for diversity, splits up into countless fragments, each of which forms into a new being, such as Chthon, Gaea, Set, and many others. These entities, known as the Elder Gods, spread out across the globe and influence the development of the planet’s environment. [Thor Annual #10 and Silver Surfer Annual #2(1989)] [Date based on scientific theory]

### **3 Billion Years Ago**

Gaea assigns herself as protector of the emerging life in Earth’s seas. Chthon begins devoting himself to the study and manipulation of mystical energies, becoming Earth’s first sorcerer, a master of black magic. Set spawns a number of offspring, among them Sligguth and Damballah. [Silver Surfer Annual #2]

Set, realizing he can increase his own power by consuming the energy of his fellows, becomes the first being on Earth to commit murder. Thus, he starts down the path of degeneracy into a demon. Other Elder Gods quickly follow Set’s example, becoming corrupt, then evil as they feed off each other while engaged in never-ending warfare.

Yggdrasil, the world tree sprouts into an energy field connecting adjoining dimensions. The Ten Realms are formed(The tenth being later retconned as Heven is added here)(Thor #7(2015) sums up the ten realms).

The elder God, the Beast emerges on the Earth and degenerates most of the others (Beast’s history is revealed in Elektra: Assassin #7(1987)

### **2 Billion Years Ago**

After a billion years, all the Elder Gods except Gaea have degenerated. Gaea fears that the Elder Gods’ wars will destroy the evolving life on the planet. Thus, Gaea mates with a reincarnation of the Demiurge and gives birth to Atum, who dedicates himself to eradicating the evil of the Elder Gods. Atum begins destroying the Elder Gods, absorbing their malefic energies into himself. These energies cause him to undergo a metamorphosis into the monstrous form of Demogorge the God-Eater. Chthon, sensing the end is near, inscribes all the mystical knowledge he has amassed onto a magical parchment, then casts a spell which allows him to escape into another dimension before Demogorge can slay him. Before fleeing the earth, Chthon hides the parchment containing his mystical knowledge and leaves it behind. Set, witnessing what Chthon has done, replicates the spell so he and his offspring can escape also. A few other Elder Gods such as the Beast may have managed to escape as well. In the end, Gaea is the only Elder God permitted to exist on the planet, and she infuses her uncorrupted essence into the earth and into all living things. Demogorge then releases all the energies he had absorbed, reverting to Atum once more. He then takes up residence deep within the sun. [Thor Annual #10]

Over the next billion years, the evil energies that Demogorge released when he changed back to Atum gradually form into a number of lesser demonic beings, such as Mephisto, Satannish, Thog, Marduk Kurios, Belathauzer, Jergal Zadh, and others. Most are banished from the earth by Gaea and take up residence in various pocket dimensions, known collectively as the Infernal Realms or Hell. [Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #8]

### **250 Million Years Ago**

A race of immortal extradimensional demons, known as the Undying Ones, journeys to Earth through a rift in time and space. They nearly wipe out all life on earth before Gaea can stop them. However, due to their own innate mystic powers, the Undying Ones survive Gaea’s attack and remain to prey upon Earth’s lifeforms for eons, although their numbers and power gradually wane as time goes on. [Sub-Mariner #22][Date based on scientific theory]

### **200 Million Years Ago**

The Beyonders, a race of almost omnipotent extradimensional beings, hire an alien race called the Nuwali to build wildlife preserves on a number of different planets. These facilities allow the Beyonders to observe the process of evolution under relatively controlled conditions. One of the planets chosen as a site for a preserve is Earth. The Nuwali arrive on Earth during the Triassic period and begin construction of the preserve on the continent of Antarctica. They choose a spot with active volcanoes and set up advanced technological devices deep within caverns under the valley to help maintain a tropical climate. When the preserve is completed, the Nuwali begin stocking it with all manner of earthly animal life. Over the next several millennia, the Nuwali return to restock the preserve. In this way, many species that fall to extinction outside the preserve manage to survive within it. This wildlife preserve will one day be known as the Savage Land.(Ka-Zar the Savage #31 and #34(1984))

### **66 Million Years Ago**

From his pocket dimension, Set enjoys a mystic link with the dinosaurs through which he can feed off their life energies. Over many millions of years, he has amassed tremendous power in this way. However, Gaea realizes the dinosaurs represent an evolutionary dead end and shifts the balance of evolution on Earth in favor of mammalian life. Enraged, Set directs the dinosaurs to kill off the mammals. Realizing her brother is behind the carnage, Gaea challenges Set to face her. Thus, Set returns to Earth in the form of gigantic serpent. Finding herself overmatched, Gaea summons her son Atum to once again battle the demon. As before, Atum assumes the form of the Demogorge, and his battle with Set rages for millions of years. The devastation unleashed by their fighting drives the dinosaurs to extinction, but Gaea shelters the mammals so they might survive. Finally, the Demogorge triumphs and Set is forced back to his pocket dimension, too drained of energy to ever return to Earth on his own. The Demogorge changes back into Atum and bids farewell to Gaea, heading back to his dwelling place in the sun. Set vows to one day have his revenge. [Iron Man Annual #10]

### **20 Million Years Ago**

The Celestials, enormous aliens in humanoid armor who possess vast cosmic power, visit the planet Skrullos in the Andromeda Galaxy, the homeworld of the Skrulls. There they perform genetic tests upon the inhabitants, resulting in three separate branches of Skrullkind. After completing their experiments, the Celestials leave the planet. One of the branches, the Skrull Deviants, is given the ability to physically alter their appearance at will. Over time, the Deviant Skrulls wage war on the other two Skrull branches, driving them to extinction.(Silver Surfer #5(1987)).

The Avian Shi'ar species forms on the planet Chandilar(Avengers #378(1994), Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk #3(2018), and Uncanny X-Men #478(2006).

In the Andromeda Galaxy, the planet Xandar, weary of the Shi’ar, Skrulls and other empires, form the space militia the Nova Corps, overseen by the Worldmind, a sentient super computer containing the accumulated knowledge of Xandar.(Fantastic Four #205-206, #208-209(1979), Nova #1(1976), Rom #24(1981))

The Progenitors(worshippers of the Celestial Zero) experiment on the Kree race, advancing their evolution into the eventual blue and pale skinned Kree, forming into a powerful Empire.(Royal #9(2017))

A subset of Deviant Skrulls evolves along slightly different lines and masters the arts of sorcery. Regarded as a threat by the main branch of Deviant Skrulls, this subset is banished to an area of space called the Dark Nebula, where they will continue to evolve and mutate into the Dire Wraiths. [Rom, Spaceknight #50]

The Skrulls eventually become a space-faring race and establish an empire spanning the Andromeda Galaxy.

Skrull scientists spend thousands of years looking for a means to convert thought into reality. Finally, the scientists discover a method whereby they open a portal to the dimension of the Beyonders and capture the resulting energy discharge within a cubical force field, thus creating a device which can alter reality. By holding this Cosmic Cube in one’s hand, one can do anything one wants. The Cube is immediately confiscated by the Skrull emperor, who uses its power to proclaim himself a god. After years in the possession of the power-mad emperor, the Cosmic Cube begins developing a consciousness and personality of its own, patterned after that of its holder. The Cube, acting independently of the emperor, then begins altering reality to shape its own wishes, drastically altering or even destroying entire solar systems. The destruction it causes wipes out two-thirds of the Skrull empire and causes the Skrulls to revert to the level of barbarism.

The Skrull Cosmic Cube eventually matures and evolves further, abandoning much of its insane ruthlessness. Because it had been created by the Skrulls, it creates a Skrull-like humanoid appearance for itself, with features modeled on the emperor who had used it for so long. The Cosmic Cube remains driven by the urge to transform worlds, but because of the inherent lack of imagination in Skrulls, the Cube is also cursed with the same handicap. Thus, the Shaper of Worlds, as the evolved Cosmic Cube now calls itself, continues to rule the universe, seeking out imaginative beings who will aid him by providing images on which to base his transformations.

The Skrulls eventually reestablish their civilization and again develop a galaxy-wide empire.

### **10 Million Years Ago**

The Skrulls, while attempting to build a trans-galactic empire based on free trade, land an expeditionary force on the planet Hala in the galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud. They intend to educate the barbaric natives to the point where they can join the empire. However, Hala proves to have two equally intelligent races, the humanoid Kree and the plant-like Cotati. The Skrulls propose a test to determine the worthier species. Taking representative members of both species to a distant planetoid in a nearby “neutral” galaxy—Earth’s moon, in fact—the Skrulls create an area with a life-sustaining atmosphere, later known as the Blue Area of the Moon, and then bid the two groups to use what resources they have to create something of worth. The Skrulls then depart. The Kree construct a magnificent city, while the Cotati create a beautiful garden. A year later, the Skrulls return to judge the two races and deem the Cotati’s accomplishment the more worthy. Enraged, the Kree murder both the Skrulls and the Cotati and seize the Skrulls’ starship. They use the ship to return to their native planet, then set about deciphering how the technology of the starship works. [Avengers #133(1975)]

After the abandonment of the Blue Area of the Moon, the Watcher Uatu sets up his home there.

Within a hundred years of acquiring interstellar technology from the Skrulls, the new Kree Empire begins to spread throughout their galaxy. The Kree then launch an attack upon the Skrull Empire, forcing the peaceful Skrulls to become warlike to defend themselves. The first Kree-Skrull War will continue for hundreds of thousands of years.

The Cotati on Hala are driven nearly to extinction as the Kree wage a campaign of genocide against them. However, a handful of Kree pacifists hide a group of Cotati in their temple. Eventually, these Kree begin worshiping the Cotati that they have kept sheltered and come to be known as the Priests of Pama. To further ensure their survival, the priests relocate the surviving Cotati to planets throughout the universe. [Avengers #134(1975)]

### **5 Million Years Ago**

On Earth, the N’Garai, a race of extradimensional demons, emerge to wreak havoc on the world and its inhabitants. They soon start a war with the demonic Undying Ones, which eventually reaches a stalemate and settles into a long-standing enmity.

### **3 Million Years Ago**

Gaea gives birth to the race of Primal Gods over the course of several millennia, producing non-corporeal beings such as Anu, Búri, Nuadhu, Ouranus, and Thoth, whose descendants will eventually found a number of different pantheons of new gods.

Hominid species on the landmass that will eventually be called Africa are exposed to a Mysterious Black Monolith(2001: A Space Odyssey Marvel licensed comic) begin to use stone tools. They live in large social groups in semi-permanent camps. [Scientific theory].

### **1.8 Million Years Ago**

Tribes of Homo erectus begin to migrate beyond their home continent. From his pocket dimension, Set mystically influences a handful of Homo erectus and turns them into serpent-like humanoids. Set also gives these Serpent Men the ability to shape-change into hominid form.

### **1.5 Million Years Ago**

The Primal Gods intervene in the lives of the hominid species for the first time when they drive the demonic N’Garai back to their native dimension. Seeing that the demons’ hominid slaves have been utterly corrupted by evil, the gods choose one female and transform her into a mystical avatar of the Phoenix Force(also known as the Firebird). Embodying all that is decent, kind, and noble, the Firebird leads the hominids on the path to redemption. Having become immortal, she learns to assume humanoid form and eventually comes to be known as Jade. [Marvel Preview #7, Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #22]

The extradimensional demon Shuma-Gorath travels to Earth, where he torments and devours many of the Homo erectus tribes. Eventually, a time-traveling sorcerer called Sise-Neg appears and banishes Shuma-Gorath from Earth’s dimension. [Marvel Premiere #14]

### **1.3 Million Years Ago**

The migrating Homo erectus tribes reach the continent that will one day be called Asia. [Scientific theory]

### **1.2. Million Years Ago**

The Celestial Zgreb the Aspirant came to Earth seeking its fellow Celestial, the Progenitor. Zgreb was infected by the horde, forcing Odin to gather a group of primitive era heroes to battle him including the Firebird.(Avengers #1-6(2018-2019) and Marvel Legacy #1(2017))

### **1 Million Years Ago**

The Homo erectus tribes master the art of making fire.

Set, foreseeing the arrival on Earth of the First Host of the Celestials, urges his Serpent Men to kill the nearby Homo erectus tribe so that they and not the hominids will be the ones to be empowered by the Celestials. The Serpent Men enter the valley near where the Celestials will land and urge two hominids to betray their own tribe. However, the hominids reject the Serpent Men and drive them from the valley. [Uncanny X-Men Annual #13]

The First Host of the Celestials arrives on Earth to explore the planet and to perform genetic experiments on the dominant humanoid species. They are greeted by Gaea, who escorts them to the valley where the tribe of Homo erectus lives. The Serpent Men approach the Celestials but are driven away by Arishem the Judge. Meanwhile, Gammenon the Gatherer brings a handful of hominids to the Celestials’ ship. Ziran the Tester analyzes the hominids, then begins his experiments. He creates the Deviants, a sub-species that is genetically unstable, so that the Celestials can determine humankind’s adaptability. Nezzar the Calculator then experiments and creates the Eternals, a sub-species that is evolutionarily accelerated, given vastly extended life spans, and endowed with the ability to channel and manipulate limited quantities of cosmic energy. The Eternals are created to test mankind’s durability and longevity. To further test the versatility of hominid genes, Oneg the Prober implants a dormant DNA complex in other specimens of the main species, which will one day result in radical benevolent mutations. Then, having completed their experiments, the Celestials release their test subjects and leave Earth. [What If? #23(1980), Uncanny X-Men Annual #13, Eternals #1(1977) Eternals #1(2006)]

An alien spaceship crash-lands on a mountain on an extradimensional world. The energy released by the destruction of the ship’s warp drive causes a permanent fluctuating rift to be opened into Earth’s dimension. The rift is located in the Himalayan Mountains in what is today Tibet. The aliens use the remains of their ship to build a city which they name K’un-Lun. The activities of the new colony prove harmful to the native plant-based life-forms, which are sentient and call themselves the H’ylthri. The H’ylthri attempt to communicate with the humanoid settlers, but to no avail. [Iron Fist #2]

The H’ylthri create a humanoid form out of vegetable matter and send it to spy on the alien settlement. However, as there are only about a hundred colonists, the spy is quickly discovered. In the ensuing fight, the spy is beheaded and its body collapses into a mass of plant tissue. The warriors of K’un-Lun are shocked and realize they must guard against such infiltration by the H’ylthri. The two races settle into a long-standing enmity. [Namor #22]

In a parallel timeline, a six-fingered wizard named Somon the Artificer succeeds in creating a race of Great Beasts that enables him to conquer the world. Among them are Tundra, Tanaraq, Kolomaq, Ranaq, Kariooq, and Tolamaq. However, the monsters soon turn on each other, and their constant warfare lays waste to the entire planet. Over time, billions of people perish in the unending conflict and their souls are imprisoned in the Pit of Ultimate Sadness to be used by the Great Beasts as a food source. The world inhabited by the Great Beasts thus becomes one of the Twisted Realms. When all the souls have been consumed and the planet has died, the Great Beasts begin looking for new worlds to conquer. They will eventually make repeated attempts to break through the interdimensional barrier to Earth. [Alpha Flight #24]

### **993,000 Years Ago**

The Kree Science Council, aware that their enemies the Skrulls had created a Cosmic Cube, designs an enormous cybernetic/organic computer to help them create a Cube of their own. When the computer becomes functional, it determines that a Cosmic Cube would be too dangerous to construct and refuses the Science Council’s request. Over time, the computer achieves more and more political power until it is finally elected as absolute ruler of the Kree. The computer is henceforth known as the Supreme Intelligence. Eventually, the Supreme Intelligence even becomes an object of worship and an entire organized religion grows up around it.

### **800,000 Years Ago**

On Earth, the migrating tribes of Homo erectus first reach the continent that will one day be called Europe. [Scientific theory]

### **500,000 Years Ago**

Through unknown, possibly sorcerous means, a number of Homo erectus tribes rapidly evolve into the mysterious Elder Races, who hold dominion over the earth for several millennia before all but disappearing. A few powerful wizards, such as Thulsa Doom, the Dark Rider, Tuzun Thune, and the Demonolater, survive the destruction of their race.

## **PART TWO: AGED UNDREAMED OF**

### **200,000 B.C.**

Homo sapiens evolves on Earth. Humankind eventually becomes strong enough and smart enough to fight back against the Serpent Men’s constant attacks. Eventually, the humans migrate around the world. As they encounter various groups of gods, the mortals and immortals profoundly influence each other. [Date based on scientific theory]

### **100,000 B.C.**

Humans learn to navigate in boats over open water and become a sea-faring people. [Scientific theory]

### **80,000 B.C.**

The seat of the Skrull Empire is moved to the planet Tarnax IV, which is more centrally located in the empire. This planet is thenceforth called the Imperial Throneworld.

### **78,000 B.C.**

A Kree scientist named Bronek develops the first Sentry prototype, a humanoid robot designed to safeguard and patrol Kree interstellar outposts and weapons depots.

As the Kree-Skrull War rages on, the Kree set up a supply outpost in Earth’s solar system on the planet Uranus, hoping to maintain a weapons base close to the natural space-warp that exists in the Sol system. They leave Kree Sentry 213 behind to guard it.

### **48,000 B.C.**

The Plodex, an alien race that has exhausted all natural resources within its own solar system, develop an ingenious means to colonize other worlds. An automated ship lands on a hospitable planet and sends out a hypnotic summons to attract the most intelligent species of that world. The ship then combines Plodex DNA in unhatched eggs with that of the dominant species. The ship then disperses millions of eggs all across the planet. One of these colony ships is launched towards Earth. [Alpha Flight #4]

### **38,000 B.C.**

The Plodex colony spaceship crash-lands in the region that will become northern Asia. The damaged starship hypnotically summons all mobile life to come to the ship but fires off its supply of Plodex eggs before they can be genetically altered to survive on Earth’s surface. All but two of the eggs eventually die. One of the eggs that lands in the ocean manages to adapt itself to the aquatic environment and survive. As a result, the undeveloped Plodex inside the egg becomes amphibious. The egg will drift across the ocean for many millennia before hatching. [Alpha Flight #4]

Attracted by the hypnotic summons, a human man makes his way to the Plodex ship. Captured by the ship’s automated devices, the man’s body is dissected, analyzed, and destroyed. However, his brain is kept alive and conscious, so he experiences tremendous pain that drives him insane. Over the next several thousand years, the human brain remains in the spaceship. [Alpha Flight #3, Alpha Flight # 2-4,(1983)]

### **35,000 B.C.**

The demon Shuma-Gorath returns to Earth from his native dimension and establishes himself on a mountain on the continent that will one day be known as Europe. He resumes feasting upon the local human populations, eventually driving the Neanderthals to extinction. He rules his domain for a few thousand years, until a young god named Crom, a descendant of Earth’s Primal Gods, decides to answer the prayers of his worshipers. Manifesting as a fierce thunderstorm, Crom provides a human shaman with the mystic tomes later known as the Iron-Bound Books of Shuma-Gorath. The shaman is thus able to cast a spell that allows Crom to imprison Shuma-Gorath within the mountain. The region surrounding the mountain becomes a place of perpetual gloom, and the Iron-Bound Books are eventually lost. [Conan the Barbarian #260]

### **25,000 B.C.**

The dawn of the Pre-Cataclysmic Age of human civilization. Barbarian nomads of mainstream humanity begin wandering the island continents of Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu and eventually establish a thriving civilization on the Eurasian landmass, which at this time is known as the Thurian Continent. In the western kingdoms, worship of the gods Valka and Hotath rises, while in the far east the goddess Syndra is venerated. Numerous other gods, most descended from Gaea and/or the Primal Gods, seek worshipers among the humans as well. Lemuria is inhabited by the Deviants.

The Atlantean wizard C’Thunda creates a set of mystical lenses that he can combine into a powerful energy weapon. However, the weapon is stolen and all the lenses are eventually lost. Over the following millennia, the lenses will be discovered one by one and incorporated into various works of art. [Daredevil #128]

Shunned by his tribe, C’Thunda uses black magic to create a powerful talisman known as the Chimera. Before he can use it, though, C’Thunda is murdered and his assassin disappears with the Chimera into a network of caverns, never to be seen again. [Tomb of Dracula #26]

### **24,000 B.C.**

As the first cities are established in Lemuria, they are attacked by the Serpent Men, beginning the conflict later known as the Thousand Year War.

### **23,000 B.C.**

The Thousand Year War comes to an end when the god Gorm provides the human king, Thungarth of Nemedis, with an enchanted sword forged from a meteorite. Though Thungarth is killed in the final battle, the Serpent Men are routed, allowing human settlements to finally thrive in Lemuria. [Creatures on the Loose #26]

The Nuwali, the alien race hired by the Beyonders to construct and stock animal preserves throughout the galaxy, make one of their last trips to Earth during its Pleistocene epoch to restock the Antarctica preserve. The Beyonders eventually lose interest in the habitats, so the Nuwali stop introducing new breeds into the existing preserves. Without routine maintenance, all the preserves except Earth’s eventually collapse.

Civil war breaks out between two factions of the earth’s Eternals. Uranos wants to wage war against the humans, while his brother Chronos proposes the way of peaceful coexistence. The two sides clash over their ideologies in a violent confrontation that kills almost nine-tenths of their population and destroys the Eternals’ capital city of Titanos. Finally, Chronos’s forces prevail and he decrees that Uranos and his surviving band of followers be banished from Earth into outer space. Chronos exiles Uranos and his followers into space. With the rebels gone, Chronos forsakes violence and decides to devote himself to the pursuit of science and knowledge. [Captain Marvel #29, What If? #24]

Zuras and his brother Alars are born to Chronos and Daina of the Eternals.

Uranos and the banished Eternals fly through space, approaching the edge of the solar system. Concentrating their mental abilities, they manage to slightly change their course and are caught by the gravity of the planet Uranus. Eventually discovering the Kree weapons depot on the planet, they manage to defeat the Kree guarding it and pass through the dome surrounding the enclosure. They then battle and destroy Kree Sentry 213, which had been placed there on guard, but not before the Sentry activates a trans-galactic alarm. Uranos then orders his followers to cannibalize the Kree technology to build a spaceship to transport them back to Earth. Once the ship is completed, the rebel Eternals set course for their home planet. However, four of the rebels remain behind and eventually build a thriving colony within the depot enclosure. [What If? #26–27]

A Kree armada investigates the signal from Uranus, believing the Skrulls to be responsible for Sentry 213’s destruction. They discover the rebel Eternals in their crude spaceship passing Saturn on their journey back to Earth. The Kree destroy the ship, then capture one of the bodies floating in the wreckage. Puzzled by the Eternal’s physiognomy, the Kree take him back to the planet Kree-Lar, their new throneworld, for vivisection. [What If? #27–28]

About half of the rebel Eternals aboard the spaceship survive the Kree attack. Linking together, they conserve their oxygen long enough to make their way to Saturn’s moon Titan. There, using their energy manipulation powers, they begin to convert the interior of the moon into a highly technological society. Within a few hundred years they are a fully-functioning civilization. [What If #28]

The Kree discover that the Eternal they have examined was a result of the Celestials’ experiments on earthlings. Kree scientists then petition their rulers to perform their own experiments on human subjects. The Supreme Intelligence grants them permission, hoping that the experiment will result in a race of super-warriors for the Kree. Journeying to Earth, the Kree begin genetically engineering a small tribe of humans into more advanced beings. After twenty-five years, the Kree end their experiments and set the tribe free. The Kree leave Sentry 459 behind on a small South Pacific island to monitor for Skrull activity and to observe the progress of the human test subjects, who will one day be known as the Inhumans.[What If #28(1980) Fantastic Four(#577)(2010)] The Kree have also experimented on the Badoon, Centaurans and Kymellians.

The Eternal colony on the planet Uranus, now free of the destructive tendencies of its former leader, begins devoting itself to peaceful scientific and philosophical pursuits. They decide to devote themselves to the mysteries of the universe and set about trying to discover a grand unified theory of everything. [Quasar #2]

The Eternal colony on Titan, meanwhile, ruled by the warlike Uranos, eventually degenerates and falls into a civil war so terrible that it wipes out the entire population, except for one woman named Sui-San. [Captain Marvel #29]

Chronos, in his laboratory in the rebuilt city of Titanos, continues his research into the Eternals’ abilities to manipulate cosmic energy. Finally he is successful in isolating cosmic power, but the container in which it is held explodes, disintegrating Chronos, destroying Titanos, and bombarding the Eternals in the city with cosmic particles. Although Chronos’s atoms are scattered throughout the city, the energy he had released augments his astral form to a considerable degree, to the point where his powers operate on a cosmic scale. [Captain Marvel #29, What If #24–25]

Chronos’s astral form then appears before his sons, Zuras and Alars, informing them of what has happened. The cosmic particles have unlocked the Eternals’ genetic potential, he explains, making them virtually immortal and invulnerable and allowing them to pass this legacy down to their descendants. Zuras and Alars then initiate the first Uni-Mind, collectively melding the Eternals into one mind and body. While in this form, the Eternals decide to make Zuras their new leader. When the Uni-Mind dissolves, Alars does not contest the decision and voluntarily exiles himself into outer space, hoping to avoid the polarization that led to the Eternals’ earlier civil war. [What If #25]

The cosmic particles from the explosion in Titanos spread throughout the solar system. The Eternals on Uranus are eventually bombarded by the cosmic energy, and although they are not granted immortality like their brethren on Earth, their life spans and durability are greatly enhanced. [Quasar #7]

Alars, making his way through space, discovers Sui-San among the ruins of the colony on Titan. They fall in love and begin working together to rebuild and re-populate her world. Because Sui-San was not present at the explosion which granted Alars his immortality, their descendants have much longer lives than Eternals before the explosion but not as great as Alars himself. [Captain Marvel #29]

Zuras decides not to rebuild the city of Titanos again and leads his people to what is today known as Mount Olympus in Greece, establishing a new city, Olympia, there. Eventually, two other Eternal cities are also founded, Polaria in Siberia and Oceana in the Pacific. Olympia, from which Zuras rules all Earth’s Eternals, remains their capital city.

Three extradimensional sorcerers, Necrom and his students Feron and Merlyn, materialize in the ruins of Titanos seeking to take advantage of a cosmic alignment to create a stable energy matrix of tremendous power. Feron fulfills a lifetime of training by summoning the celestial avatar known as the Phoenix, then uses its power to project a manifestation of the tower at the heart of the alignment through the multiverse, thereby linking together all planes of reality. However, Necrom betrays his students, hoping to gain the power of the energy matrix for himself. Feron, sustained by the Phoenix force, battles Necrom, giving Merlyn the chance to leap into the matrix. Absorbing its energies, Merlyn is swept away across the infinite dimensions. The defeated Necrom steals the part of the Phoenix force that had bonded itself to Feron and combines it with a portion of his own life-essence to create the Anti-Phoenix, which he leaves buried deep underground before escaping into another dimension. [Excalibur #50]

Left behind on Earth, Feron(now the wielder of the Phoenix Force)maintains a constant vigil should the Anti-Phoenix rise again and eventually passes this duty on to his descendants. Before dying, Feron places his power into the earth itself, to be used someday by his heir to fight the Anti-Phoenix. [Excalibur #50]

Merlyn eventually masters the energy matrix and, finding he has become immortal, creates the extradimensional realm of Otherworld. [Excalibur #50]

### **22,000 B.C.**

Continually subjected to attacks by prejudiced humans, the Inhumans create a refuge on the island of Attilan in the North Atlantic Ocean. There they make great advancements in civilization and scientific discovery, especially in genetics. The Inhumans eventually found a government based on genocracy, or rule by the most genetically fit. [Thor #146]

The parents of a young boy named Tuk are exiled from Attilan(presumably for being normal humans).(Captain America Comics #1-5 1941).

### **20,000 B.C.**

The Eternals’ leader Zuras marries Cybele.

The Eternal later called Ikaris is born to Virako and his wife, two second-generation Polar Eternals.

Azura, later known as Thena, is born to Zuras and Cybele.

Azura meets Kro, a Deviant with Eternal-like capabilities. Kro has extremely long life, is almost invulnerable, and has the ability to alter his physical appearance. Azura and Kro fall in love despite the hostility that exists between their two races, but their relationship eventually ends badly. Azura maintains her love for Kro but, not knowing of his virtual immortality, eventually assumes that the Deviant has died of old age. Fearing that if other Deviants knew of his special powers they would experiment on him, Kro changes his appearance and takes up a new identity. Over the following millennia, he will take on a number of different shapes and guises.

### **19,500 B.C.**

Eallal, king of Valusia, a nation on the Thurian Continent, is assassinated in his throne room by the Serpent Men. Using their ability to alter their appearance to resemble human beings, the Serpent Men have infiltrated human civilizations with the intent to conquer them. Disguised as human priests, they foster a religion that worships the Elder God Set. [Kull the Conqueror #2]

### **18,500 B.C.**

Kull, an Atlantean barbarian, usurps the throne of Valusia. With the aid of a Pictish ally, Brule the Spear-Slayer, Kull discovers the threat of the shape-changing Serpent Men and drives them out of his royal court. Kull then tracks the serpent-priests to their remote temple and destroys it. There, he meets the undead sorcerer Thulsa Doom, and the two soon become mortal enemies. [Kull the Conqueror #1–3, Monsters on the Prowl #16]

Kull is driven from the throne of Valusia by Thulsa Doom, who begins a tyrannical rule over the kingdom as Kull escapes execution and flees into the wilderness. Joined by the rebellious minstrel Ridondo, the exiled king returns to Atlantis in search of an army to take back his crown. During his quest, Kull encounters several sorcerers and battles numerous monsters. Finding his way to Grondar on the eastern side of the Thurian Continent, Kull overcomes the machinations of a trio of wizards and takes advantage of an ancient curse to trap Thulsa Doom. Returning to the City of Wonders in triumph, Kull again becomes king of Valusia. [Kull the Destroyer #11–29]

Thulsa Doom soon escapes and lures Kull to a final showdown in the wilderness of Grondar, using an enchanted sword to drain Kull’s life-force as they duel. However, Kull manages to switch swords with his foe and impales Thulsa Doom. The wizard’s body crumbles to dust, and Kull returns to his kingdom. [Marvel Preview #19]

Following prophetic dreams, Kull warns his subjects that the Serpent Men remain a threat to the kingdom. That very night, a massive army of Serpent Men marches on the City of Wonders. Kull kills a couple of scouts, then retreats to prepare for a lengthy siege. For months, the Serpent Men and their human mercenaries surround the city. A traitorous nobleman slips out and informs the Serpent Men of a weak spot in the city’s defenses, but, aware of his treachery, Kull repels the attack. The Serpent Men then kill the traitor. Finally, after six months, the City of Wonders succumbs to plague, and Kull orders the infected quarantined in a concentration camp. Many of the sick and dying revolt and storm the palace, only to be slain by the king’s archers. Kull has some of the plague-ridden bodies catapulted into the Serpent Men’s ranks, which finally breaks the siege. Kull and his forces are then able to attack and kill off most of the last remaining Serpent Men. [Savage Sword of Conan #140, 148–149, 159]

A wizard unearths the Chimera and uses it to send a flame-giant to attack Kull. Though Kull survives, the wizard is killed and the Chimera is lost again. [Tomb of Dracula #26]

Atlantean sorcerers discover the Darkhold, the ancient mystical scroll penned by the Elder God Chthon. Founding the Cult of the Darkholders, they begin experimenting with the spells contained on the parchment, looking for a method to cause their enemies to return from the dead as a slave army. Varnæ, a cult member dying of wounds inflicted by Kull, volunteers to be the first test subject. After his death, Varnæ is successfully returned to a semblance of life, becoming the first vampire on Earth. The Darkholders intend to use the vampires against Kull, their greatest enemy. However, the vampires prove to be more powerful than the sorcerers, so the undead turn against their creators, killing most of them. The vampires then flee to the Thurian Continent. Varnæ assumes the title Lord of the Vampires and retains this role for many millennia. [Conan the Barbarian #245, Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme #11(1989)]

The few surviving members of the Cult of the Darkholders pursue their undead creations to the Thurian Continent, taking the Darkhold with them. Over the next several millennia, the parchment passes through countless hands.

### **18,250 B.C.**

Advancing civilization and technological innovations greatly improve the lives of most Atlanteans. They achieve wonders of science and technology that have yet to be paralleled by modern humans. Over the following centuries, Atlantis develops into a sophisticated empire.

The Deviants conquer the island continent of Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean and enslave the human population. The slaves are then forced to invade other human nations to expand the Deviants’ empire. In this way, the Deviants soon come to dominate the entire Thurian Continent. Only Atlantis manages to remain free, quickly driving back the Deviants’ continual invasion attempts.

Atlantean expeditions to Antarctica discover the Nuwali technology used to sustain the Savage Land. Their scientists make considerable improvements to the machinery and extend the area which it controls. Using other Nuwali technology they find, the Atlanteans also create wonderful devices used for entertainment. The Atlanteans name the new territory Pangea. Word of this new land spreads throughout Atlantis and Valusia, and Pangea quickly becomes a recreational resort for both cultures. The new settlers also import to Pangea many of the different breeds of animals in both Atlantis and the adjoining Savage Land.

A number Lemurian refugees, fleeing Deviant persecution, also settle in Pangea. Some dinosaur species are taken back to Lemuria and introduced to the jungles of Chush.

Pangean scientists perform genetic experiments on the ape-men of the Savage Land in order to create laborers to run the amusement parks in Pangea. The scientists are successful in creating a number of different offshoots of humanity, such as the Aerians, Tree-People, Tubanti, and other animal-like races, all with human intelligence. Eventually, the Animal Peoples of Pangea become increasingly fed up with being treated like slaves. To solve this, the Pangeans relocate the Animal Peoples to a distant corner of Pangea and build fully-mechanical automatons to run the Pangean parks. Nevertheless, the Animal Peoples rise in rebellion and eventually defeat their Atlantean masters. They demand equal rights from the Atlanteans, so the scientists once again extend the climate controls surrounding Pangea and the Savage Land. Satisfied, the Animal Peoples relocate peacefully.

### **18,100 B.C.**

Thongor, a young barbarian from northern Lemuria, makes his way to the cities in the southern part of the continent when his clan is wiped out by intertribal warfare. He supports himself as a thief, assassin, and pirate. While working as a mercenary in the militia of Thurdis, he kills his commanding officer in a bar fight and becomes a fugitive. Thongor steals an airship built with Deviant technology and crashes it in the dinosaur-infested jungles of Chush. He is rescued by the wizard Sharajsha of Zaar, who recruits him to help stop a group of Serpent Men from opening an interdimensional portal to bring Set back to Earth. Having reforged the enchanted sword used by Thungarth of Nemedis, Thongor destroys the Serpent Men before the portal can be opened. [Creatures on the Loose #22–29]

### **18,000 B.C.**

The Eternals Valkin and Phastos construct the Pyramid of the Winds in the Arctic Circle. The Pyramid and its storehouses are designed to hold the Eternals’ most dangerous weapons. The symbol of the Pyramid is imprinted on the brow of Valkin’s nephew, the future Ikaris, with the keys to the Pyramid designed into his clothing. [Eternals #19]

The Atlantean sorceress Zhered-Na prophesies the sinking of Atlantis. Furious, the Atlantean king Kamuu orders Zhered-Na to cease making this prophecy. When she refuses to do so, she is banished from Atlantis. Zhered-Na’s boat washes up on the shore of the Thurian Continent, where she starts a new cult of disciples. One of her followers is Dakimh the Enchanter, whom Zhered-Na makes virtually immortal through magical means. [Adventure into Fear #15]

Atlantis is suffering from both civil war and a number of invasions from Lemuria and Mu. Foreseeing that the Deviants will soon conquer the capital city of Atlantis and the major city of Netheria, King Kamuu orders huge transparent domes erected over the cities and has their foundations fortified as well. Finally, when Lemurian invaders murder his wife, Queen Zartra, Kamuu opens the magma pits which are the city’s main means of heating. The Lemurian force is destroyed, but the magma release triggers a seismological catastrophe that causes a series of devastating earthquakes throughout the continent. Kamuu is killed when his palace crumbles into the sea. [Sub-Mariner #62–63]

Lemurian alchemists, with the aid of the Serpent Men, create the Serpent Crown, an object of great mystical power. From his pocket dimension, Set links his consciousness to the crown when the alchemists’ leader, Atra, sacrifices his daughter Antilia. The crown then becomes a receptacle for Set’s power. Atra places the Serpent Crown on his head and sets out to overthrow the Deviants and conquer the world. [Marvel Team-Up Annual #5, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23]

The Second Host of the Celestials arrives on Earth to inspect the progress of their experiments, the Deviants and Eternals. The main religion of the Deviants is worship of the Celestials, whom they consider “space gods.” However, they also hate the Celestials for making them genetically unstable and physically repulsive. Phraug, Emperor of the Deviants, gives the order to launch an attack upon the Second Host. However, Atra confronts Phraug and tries to destroy him with the Serpent Crown, only to discover that Set has promised the crown to Phraug. The two rival Set-worshipers then begin fighting for possession of the Serpent Crown. [Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23]

The Celestials, finding the direction of Deviant technology counterproductive, retaliate against the Deviants’ attack by causing a massive nuclear explosion that destroys the continent of Lemuria and triggers the collapse of the unstable Atlantean continent as well. The effects of this event cause tremendous changes around the world and will become known as the Great Cataclysm. [Conan the Barbarian #1, Eternals #2(1976), Sub Mariner #62-64(1973), ]

Atra and Emperor Phraug are directly under the main explosion and are killed instantly, but the Celestials preserve their skeletal remains, still clutching the Serpent Crown, as a warning to others. The Great Cataclysm causes the continents of Atlantis, Lemuria, and Mu to crumble into the ocean, and the populations of these lands are almost entirely wiped out. [Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23]

A handful of Atlanteans load a number of animals aboard a large ark and escape the destruction of their homeland. The Eternal who will later be known as Ikaris leads the Atlantean ship to the relative safety of the Thurian Continent. Being this timeline’s Noah’s Ark[Eternals #2]

The Atlantean city of Netheria, under its protective dome, sinks to the bottom of the sea intact. Their scientists quickly find a way to recycle the air supply and the people in the sunken city survive. Over time, the city shifts on its base until it finally comes to rest in a huge undersea cavern. The citizens rename their isolated home the Netherworld. [Tales of Suspense #43]

A cult dedicated to the demon Xotli flees Atlantis by traveling west in a fleet of flying dragon-ships. They settle in the Antillean archipelago, where they enslave the indigenous population. However, Xotli’s insatiable appetite for human sacrifice causes their colony to slowly degenerate. [Marvel Graphic Novel: Conan of the Isles]

The continent of Mu is utterly destroyed, but a woman named Astarta, having previously been made immortal by an unidentified sea-god, survives and is swept away to the shores of the island of Kelka. The inhabitants mistake her for their goddess Ashtoreth and begin worshiping her. [Conan the Barbarian #71]

Although Lemuria is annihilated, some Deviants manage to escape by fleeing to a number of subterranean settlements that had previously been established. Eventually, the Deviants build a new capital, the City of Toads, underneath the Pacific Ocean floor.

The human survivors from Lemuria take refuge on the eastern shores of the Thurian Continent, only to be enslaved again by a mysterious ancient race that dwells there. Even the far north is rocked by the upheavals, but the humans there are protected by the god Búri. The mortals begin to refer to their tribe as Hyborians in honor of their savior. Their population is increased by refugees from the greater devastations to the south, forcing them to take over territory occupied by a vicious species of “abominable snowmen.” The creatures are driven into the Arctic wastes. [Savage Sword of Conan #8]

During the Great Cataclysm, an extradimensional necromancer called Llan the Sorcerer comes to Earth and creates a doomsday religion around himself in order to draw psychic power from his followers. He is opposed by a woman called Talisman, who wears a mystical golden headband. She is able to defeat Llan by taking advantage of his arrogance and banishes him from the earth. Knowing that her foe will return in 10,000 years, Talisman imbues one of Llan’s idols with a powerful binding spell and leaves it for her successor. [Alpha Flight #83]

As a result of the Great Cataclysm, Pangea and the Savage Land sink below sea level but are saved from flooding by the high mountains that surround them. However, earthquakes and aftershocks caused by the Cataclysm wipe out three-fourths of the population of Pangea. The rest of the inhabitants quickly degenerate into barbarism, with constant warfare further depleting their numbers. Eventually, peace returns to Pangea and the Savage Land, and primitive tribes develop along racial lines. [Ka-Zar: Lord of the Hidden Jungle #1]

The Inhumans on the island of Attilan manage to protect themselves from the devastation of the Great Cataclysm via their superior technology.

The vampire lord Varnæ survives the Great Cataclysm by placing himself in suspended animation within his blood-filled sarcophagus. Most of the other vampires are wiped out. [Conan the Barbarian #245]

Wrongly blaming Zhered-Na for the Great Cataclysm, the Thurians attack her and her cultists. Zhered-Na is killed, but her pupil Dakimh and a number of other disciples escape, taking with them scrolls containing Zhered-Na’s mystical knowledge. [Adventure into Fear #15]

The Second Host of the Celestials accuses one of their own of crimes “against life itself.” The renegade resists capture and the Celestials are forced to fight him. Overcoming the renegade Celestial, they remove his life essence and imprison his body beneath a mountain range in what will become California. The Celestials store the renegade’s life essence and the weapon used to defeat him in the Pyramid of the Winds in the Arctic Circle. This Celestial’s name is wiped from mortal knowledge. In times to come, he will be known as the Great Renegade and as the Dreaming Celestial. [Eternals #18]

The Second Host of the Celestials concludes its experiments and observations and leaves Earth.

After the Great Cataclysm, the focus of Deviant worship changes. The Deviants develop an intense hatred towards the Celestials and become obsessed with seeking a means for their destruction. The priesthood comes to dominate much of Deviant life, although they are technically still ruled by a monarchy.

In the aftermath of the Great Cataclysm, the mainstream humans begin a slow process of re-discovering and re-developing their civilizations. The history of the preceding age passes into legend.

### **17,500 B.C.**

After five hundred years of constant warfare with the primitive Picts, the Atlanteans have been reduced to stone-age cavemen. [Savage Sword of Conan #8]

### **16,500 B.C.**

In the far north, the Hyborian tribes thrive despite their harsh environment. Eventually, a group of warriors sets off into the icy wastes of the Arctic to investigate sightings of the “abominable snowmen.” None of the warriors ever return. In time, other groups of Hyborians wander south in search of a more hospitable environment. [Conan the Barbarian #2, Savage Sword of Conan #8]

### **16,000 B.C.**

A small group of vampires from the south establishes a base near the Hyborian settlement and begins to prey upon the humans. The gods help the mortals fight back, however, and finally entomb the vampires beneath an icy mountain. [Savage Sword of Conan #141]

### **15,500 B.C.**

The first civilization to rise from the ashes of the Great Cataclysm is the Acheron Empire. It is eventually corrupted by necromancers in the service of the Elder God Set. [Giant-Size Conan #1]

### **15,000 B.C.**

The Lemurian slaves finally revolt, destroying their masters’ civilization. Refugees from the ruling class move west and establish a new kingdom called Stygia in what is today part of North Africa. The former slaves gradually develop their own society in central Eurasia and eventually come to be known as the Hyrkanians. [Savage Sword of Conan #8]

### **13,000 B.C.**

The Acheron Empire is conquered and destroyed by barbarians from the north. A few survivors take refuge in the mountains, but most of the population is wiped out. [Giant-Size Conan #1]

Randac, an Inhuman scientist, isolates a chemical catalyst for human mutation which he names Terrigen. Randac exposes himself to the Terrigen Mists and emerges with powerful mental-manipulative abilities. Elected as leader because of his genetic superiority, Randac begins a program by which all Inhumans, if they so desire, are subjected to the mists. Learning that the Inhumans are using Terrigen, Sentry 459 activates itself and contacts the Inhumans. Sending a report to its Kree masters, the Sentry then returns to its island. [Thor #146–147]

### **12,500 B.C.**

Gral, ruler of Attilan, exposes all of the Inhumans to the Terrigen Mists without their consent, causing fully one-third of the population to mutate into bizarre creatures. For many years after, the Inhumans are segregated according to similar morphologies and forced to live in “Mutation Camps.” Finally, Gral is deposed by the visionary leader Auran, who teaches his people to accept their genetic diversity and strange powers. Elected the new king of the Inhumans, Auran initiates an era of peace and harmony that will last for the next twelve millennia.

An event known as the Lesser Cataclysm further devastates the world and causes massive disruptions to humanity’s primitive societies. A large area of the Thurian Continent floods, forming the Vilayet Sea. [Savage Sword of Conan #8]

### **11,500 B.C.**

The dawn of the Hyborian Age of human civilization. In the land of Cimmeria, a region now part of northern Europe, the god Crom gains many worshipers among the descendants of the Atlanteans. Another god, a frost giant named Ymir, is worshiped in the northern lands of Nordheim, present-day Scandinavia. Many of the more civilized kingdoms of what is now Europe come to worship Mitra and Ishtar and their pantheons.

The powerful wizard Epemitreus the Sage succeeds in limiting Set’s sphere of influence to the land of Stygia, greatly weakening the arch-demon. Even after the death of his physical body, Epemitreus’s astral form continues to combat Set’s human worshipers. [Conan the Barbarian Annual #2]

### **10,100 B.C.**

One of the foremost sorcerers of the age is Kulan Gath of the land of Stygia. He and his chief rival, the Hyperborean witch Vammatar, both seek to unlock the secrets of the Iron-Bound Books of Shuma-Gorath. They decide to join forces and seal their pact by getting married. The ancient texts lead them to the Mount of Crom in Cimmeria, but on its snowy slopes the sorcerous spouses betray each other. A sudden, fierce thunderstorm, presumably generated by Crom, causes an avalanche that separates the combatants. The Iron-Bound Books are lost under tons of rock and ice. In defeat, Kulan Gath returns to Stygia to find his place has been usurped by the wizard Thoth-Amon. Humiliated, Kulan Gath grudgingly submits to serving as Thoth-Amon’s apprentice. [Conan the Barbarian #258]

### **10,000 B.C.**

Mortal Civilizations began to recognize a new generation of Gods, Annunaki, Egyptian, Eternal(Olympian) and the Asgardians reborn from the cycle of Ragnarok.(Thor Annual #10(1982))

Agamotto, after millennia, passes on his title of sorcerer supreme to Shamhat Saraswati, who was from a race of winged people(Bird Men) created by the noble mystic Oshtur to counter the evil serpent men and Wold Men created by the demonic Cthon.(Marvel Tarot #1(2007))

A central European tribe beleived a newborn child was destined for godhood. She is actually a vampire. The tribe member sacrificed themselves to her hunger, becoming the immortal vampire mutant Selene.(X-Necrosha #1(2009))

Kulan Gath becomes high priest of the demonic N’Garai, which the Set worshipers find offensive, and is forced to flee Stygia to prevent his own execution. Sometime during Kulan Gath’s life, he encounters the Homo superior Selene, a sorceress who uses her mutant powers to drain the life energies of her victims in order to sustain her own. The two become bitter enemies. [Uncanny X-Men #191]

Conan, a barbarian mercenary from Cimmeria, leaves home to find numerous adventures involving swords and sorcery. [Conan the Barbarian #1]

While roving Nordheim with warriors from the Æsir tribe, Conan is captured by the witch-queen Vammatar. After seducing Conan, she attempts to add him to her undead legions, but he escapes. [Savage Sword of Conan #39, Conan the Barbarian #254]

When Kulan Gath is tricked by the extradimensional witch Xiombarg into freeing the sorceress Terhali from suspended animation, Conan is drawn into a mystical war alongside the sorcerer-king Elric of Melniboné. Terhali’s first act is to kill Kulan Gath, but the evil sorceress is destroyed by Conan’s friend Zephra, who is imbued by the Melnibonéan gods with fatal levels of magical energy. Elric then returns to his own dimension. [Conan the Barbarian #14–15]

In the eastern city of Makkalet, Conan meets Red Sonja, a warrior woman from the Hyrkanian Steppes. Their paths will cross a number of times, usually as allies. [Conan the Barbarian #23–24]

After passing through the hellish realm of the N’Garai, Kulan Gath returns to Earth in a new body. Finding a patron in King Strabonus of Koth, he continues his mystic studies in hopes of one day gaining control over Shuma-Gorath. [Conan the Barbarian #253]

While sailing along the west coast of what will later be known as Africa, Conan falls in with the pirate Bêlit, known as the Queen of the Black Coast, and joins the crew of her ship, the Tigress. He becomes her lover, too, and they sail together for several years. [Conan the Barbarian #58]

While in Stygia, Conan fights the Serpent Men for the first time when Thoth-Amon sends the shape-changers to kill him, Bêlit, and their new ally Zula, last of the Zamballah tribe. [Conan the Barbarian #89]

In order to defeat an alien demon called the Devourer of Souls, Conan frees Thulsa Doom from the infernal realm where he’s been trapped since his destruction 8,000 years ago. The Devourer of Souls usurps the power of an extinct pantheon of gods, but the dead gods manage to provide Conan with a magic sword to protect him. With the help of Red Sonja and a loyal band of followers, Conan tracks down the Devourer of Souls and destroys him. [Conan the Barbarian Annual #12, Conan the Barbarian #200]

Months later, Thulsa Doom tries to usurp Conan’s life so as to remain on Earth, but after a fierce battle of wills, Conan sends the necromancer back to the netherworld from which he emerged. [Conan the Barbarian #202–203]

Conan, Red Sonja, and Zula discover the vampire lord Varnæ a few years after he is released from his sarcophagus. They manage to escape being turned into vampires when Zula reads from the Darkhold scroll that Varnæ has recovered. Weakened by the spell, Varnæ retreats to his underground lair, prevented from pursuing the trio by the rising sun. Over the following years, Varnæ slowly builds a new army of vampires to serve him. [Conan the Barbarian #244–245]

Finally ready to attempt to gain control over Shuma-Gorath, Kulan Gath manipulates Conan into swearing an oath to kill Vammatar for him. Even so, Vammatar reaches the Mount of Crom in Cimmeria, where she and Kulan Gath are reunited. The two sorcerers once more agree to join forces. However, Shuma-Gorath foils their plan by compelling one of Conan’s companions to cast the magic spell to release him from his millennia of imprisonment. Shuma-Gorath then slays Kulan Gath and Vammatar, but Conan manages to use the Iron-Bound Books to draw Crom into the battle. With a devastating blast of thunder and lightning, Crom banishes Shuma-Gorath back to his home dimension. [Conan the Barbarian #252–260]

Thulsa Doom, reduced to merely an enchanted skull, tricks Conan and a crew of Khitan pirates into reuniting him with his skeletal body in the land now known as Australia. Unwilling to cede control of the Serpent Men to the ancient wizard, Thoth-Amon accompanies them in the guise of a small monkey. The final showdown between the two Set-worshiping sorcerers is brought to a sudden end by the local serpent-goddess Jandlinatjari, who hurls Thulsa Doom’s skull through time before he reaches full power. Conan and the pirates kill all the Serpent Men in Thulsa Doom’s service before setting sail for Khitai. [Savage Sword of Conan #190–193]

Searching for the fabled Treasure of Tranicos with pirates of the Red Brotherhood, Conan meets a much-younger female adventurer called Valeria. Their paths will cross a number of times, usually as rivals. [Savage Sword of Conan #196]

When the last surviving group of Serpent Men in Stygia tries to use Conan to take over the narcotics trade in the port city of Khemi, he leaves them trapped inside a burning lighthouse and books passage on a merchant vessel bound for Zingara. [Savage Sword of Conan #122]

While serving as a buccaneer captain for the king of Zingara, Conan stumbles upon the Cobra Crown, an inferior replica of the Serpent Crown, on an island where the Serpent Men left a temple to the demon Tsathoggua. The crown is soon stolen from Conan and falls into the hands of Thoth-Amon, who attempts to use it to usurp the throne of Zingara. However, his Zingaran ally, Duke Villagro, seizes the Cobra Crown for himself when he discovers the wizard has betrayed him. Thoth-Amon and Villagro fight each other while Conan attempts to restore the rightful king to the throne. Finally, Thoth-Amon kills Villagro, only to find that their battle has burned out the Cobra Crown. Frustrated, Thoth-Amon escapes and returns to Stygia. [Savage Sword of Conan #40–43]

When King Numedides of Aquilonia goes mad, Conan is recruited to lead a rebel army to seize the palace. Despite the efforts of the king’s wizard, Thulandra Thuu, Conan succeeds. He drives the wizard off and strangles Numedides, then usurps the throne for himself. Having seen Conan’s leadership abilities firsthand, the nobility accepts his reign, which will last for decades. [Savage Sword of Conan #49–52]

When his Ring of Power is stolen, Thoth-Amon is chased out of Stygia. He eventually becomes the slave of an Aquilonian outlaw called Ascalante, who plots to assassinate King Conan. However, Thoth-Amon discovers his lost ring in the possession of one of Ascalante’s co-conspirators and reclaims it. The wizard then calls upon Set to send him a monstrous servant. Set causes a giant baboon-like creature to materialize, which then tracks Ascalante to the royal palace and murders him before being slain in turn by Conan. [Conan the Barbarian Annual #2]

After a few years, King Conan takes a wife, Zenobia. They soon have a son, Conn, followed by a daughter Radegund and a son Taurus. [Conan the Barbarian Annual #4–5, King Conan #1]

After a diplomatic mission to the subcontinent of Vendhya, King Conan attempts to return to Aquilonia by sailing east across the Pacific Ocean. A fierce storm causes Conan and one other survivor to be shipwrecked on the western coast of South America. They procure a new boat after settling some political intrigues among the people they find there. Conan sails along the coast for two weeks before running afoul of a North American tribe dominated by an evil sorcerer. With the help of a local girl, Conan kills the sorcerer before he can wipe out a neighboring tribe. Conan and his new crew then set sail again, still searching for a northern passage. They are waylaid in the Arctic by a whale which Conan is forced to hunt down and kill. Having barely survived these three adventures, Conan decides to sail west to more familiar territory. He finally arrives in Aquilonia nearly a year after he left and defeats a foreigner scheming to marry Zenobia and usurp the throne. [Savage Sword of Conan #166–169]

When Thoth-Amon kidnaps the teenaged Prince Conn, King Conan and his soldiers track them down and kill the wizard’s sorcerous allies. Several months later, Conan hunts down Thoth-Amon in Stygia and destroys his army of apprentices, known as the Black Ring. In desperation, Thoth-Amon retreats to the last refuge of the Serpent Men, located in the southernmost reaches of the African continent. However, after escaping a manifestation of Damballah, spawn of Set, Conan and Conn pursue Thoth-Amon to his remote lair and kill him. With the help of their own allies, Conan and Conn then wipe out the last of the original race of Serpent Men. [King Conan #1–4]

The genetic legacy of the Serpent Men survives by lying dormant in a hybrid race that co-exists with mainstream humanity in isolated enclaves. [Marvel Premiere #4]

Thoth-Amon is resurrected through the magic of his Ring of Power, though the ring is swallowed by a fish before he can locate it. Needing a base of operations, Thoth-Amon allies himself anonymously with a treacherous nobleman of Aquilonia. The wizard then begins plotting his revenge on King Conan and his family. [Conan the King #27]

Thoth-Amon finally regains his Ring of Power and uses it to usurp the throne of Aquilonia while King Conan is traveling in the Far East. Conan’s son Taurus is forced to serve the wizard while the rest of the family goes into exile. Several months later, Conan returns and deprives Thoth-Amon of his ring by cutting off his hand. Conan then breaks Thoth-Amon’s back, ending his threat forever. [Conan the King #53–55]

With the final death of Thoth-Amon, the cult of Set in Stygia begins declining in power and influence. [Marvel Team-Up Annual #5]

Forced to defend his realm from an alliance of enemy nations, King Conan ends up conquering a vast swath of new territory, which he forges into a mighty empire. [Conan the King #29–49]

A few years after Zenobia dies in childbirth, the lonely and dispirited Emperor Conan receives a vision from the spirit of Epemitreus the Sage that impels him to abdicate the throne in favor of his son, Conn, and set sail across the Atlantic Ocean. In the Antilles, Conan and his crew discover the surviving colony of Atlanteans, still ruled by the cult of the demon Xotli. Escaping capture, Conan saves his crew from becoming human sacrifices to Xotli by releasing a captive population of giant lizards. Conan then uses an amulet given him by Epemitreus to summon Mitra to the earthly plane, and the god quickly destroys Xotli in a devastating supernatural battle. In the aftermath, Conan and his crew commandeer a ship and set out to explore the archipelago and the unknown continent to the west. It is in the region now known as Central America that Conan finally dies in battle. [Marvel Graphic Novel: Conan of the Isles]

Red Sonja kills the resurrected Kulan Gath, but he transfers his essence into a nearby magical amulet, intending to seize a new body for himself when the right mystical forces converge. However, Kulan Gath will remain trapped within the amulet for the next twelve millennia. At the time of her death, Red Sonja’s life essence is magically infused into her sword. [Marvel Team-Up #79]

### **9,500 B.C.**

A priest of Mitra named Arus undertakes missionary work among the Pictish barbarians, where he encounters an ambitious chief called Gorm. Inspired by the priest’s tales of the wealthy Hyborian kingdoms, Gorm leads his warriors out of the wilderness, setting off a series of devastating wars that will cause the near total collapse of civilization in less than a century. For the next millennium, the remaining barbarian tribes engage in bloody skirmishes that further decimate the human population. [Savage Sword of Conan #15–17]

### **8,235 B.C.**

A young nomad from Nordheim meets Ulluxy’l Kwan Tae Syn, an extradimensional being who stands guard over the Hellfire Helix, a non-organic life form from outer space. In order to survive on Earth, the Hellfire Helix has used its mystical powers to encase itself within a protective crystal called the Bloodgem. The Helix intends to conquer Earth but needs a native life form as its agent. Ulluxy’l lures the young nomad back to its lair and offers him a portion of the Bloodgem’s power. The youth agrees and is granted superhuman strength. When he leads the rest of his tribe back to the lair, though, the Helix kills them. Enraged, the youth attacks the gem, causing a tremendous explosion. The gem shatters, and its hundreds of fragments are scattered. One of the pieces becomes lodged in the nomad’s chest, granting him immortality and eternal youth. The nomad eventually takes the name Ulysses Bloodstone. Bloodstone's pursuit of the monster Giganto would later be adapted into this world's version of Moby Dick[Marvel Presents #2(1975)].

One of the Bloodgem fragments is found by a savage, whose latent mutant psychic powers are thus activated. The gem grants this savage immortality and eternal youth as well. Down through the millennia, the savage will be known by numerous aliases, among them the Warlock, the Mad Merlin, and the Maha Yogi. [Hulk #210]

### **8030 B.C.**

On the continent later known as North America, a team of superpowered adventurers protects the people from all manner of monsters, aliens, and mystical menaces. They are known as the Tribe of the Moon, and their members include Bear Brother, Firehand, Talks-to-Spirits, and Willow-Dancer. During one of their battles, they meet a 17-year-old girl called Nahita of the Elk Tribe. Talks-to-Spirits realizes Nahita is fated to become the second Talisman and instructs her to reach into his sacred medicine pouch. She produces the mystical golden headband and, thus imbued with magical power, the new Talisman joins the team.

### **8,025 B.C.**

Learning that Llan the Sorcerer has returned and massacred her home village, Talisman leads the Tribe of the Moon to an impact crater in the far north known as the Eye of the World to stop him from opening a dimensional nexus leading to the Twisted Realms. Leaving her teammates to battle the sorcerer’s demons, Talisman goes to face Llan alone. Playing on her foe’s vanity, Talisman is able to use her predecessor’s enchanted idol to trap Llan in a harmless form for the next 10,000 years. [Alpha Flight #83]

### **8,000 B.C.**

The Hyborian Age ends when a War of the Gods causes another major cataclysm that erases all trace of civilization. The Hyborian-era gods are attacked and finally defeated by a younger generation of godly races, including the Titans, the Ogdoad, the Fomorians, and others. Ymir is banished to an icy pocket dimension. Five other Hyborian-era gods survive, though exiled to a dark realm, and are thenceforth known as They Who Sit Above in Shadow. [Speculation]

Humanity is blasted back to the Stone Age until the civilization of Egypt begins developing in what was formerly Stygia. All knowledge of the Hyborian Age is lost.

## **PART THREE: IN ANCIENT TIMES...**

### **7,900 B.C.**

Homo mermanus, a blue-skinned aquatic humanoid species genetically engineered by the Deviants as a slave race, begins wandering the Atlantic Ocean due to the lack of their masters.

The human brain captured and studied by the Plodex colonization craft is still trapped[Alpha Flight #3]

A large meteorite composed primarily of vibranium crashes into central Africa, on the tribal lands of the Wakandan people. Over the years, its radioactive properties cause various mutations in the local flora and fauna. Numerous people, too, are mutated in ways that cause them to be hated and feared by the other members of the tribe. In response to the threat, Bashenga becomes a champion of his people known as the Black Panther and is made king of all the Wakandas. A religious cult grows up around him, and his royal line continues unbroken down to the present day. [Black Panther #7(1978)]

### **6000 B.C.**

Homo mermanus comes upon the ruined capital city of Atlantis. Their leader, Kamuu, discovers the throne and the sword of the Atlantean Emperor Kamuu, his namesake. Following this discovery, young Kamuu is visited by the spirit of the dead emperor, who invites the merman to settle in the city’s ruins and to there found a new empire. The merman Kamuu agrees, and Homo mermanus then becomes known as the new Atlanteans. [Saga of the Sub-Mariner #1(1988) and Sub-Mariner #64–66(1973)]

People in Egypt begin worshiping the descendants of the Primal God Thoth. [Date based on historical accounts]

### **5500 B.C.**

About half the population of the new Atlantis immigrates to the Pacific Ocean. They eventually settle in the submerged ruins of Lemuria, becoming known as the new Lemurians. They soon discover the remarkably preserved skeletons of Atra, wielder of the Serpent Crown, and Phraug, the Deviant emperor, but shun the area where they lay as a place of evil. However, their proximity to the Serpent Crown eventually causes the Lemurians’ skin to become scaly and greenish. [Sub-Mariner #10, Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #9]

### **4000–3000 B.C.**

Human civilizations begin to develop in the Sumer region of the Nile river valley. [Date based on historical accounts]

The Book of the Vishanti, a mystic tome considered to be the greatest known source of white magical knowledge, comes into the possession of priests of the Babylonian sun god Marduk. The priests conjure up a gryphon, a creature that had once roamed Pre-Cataclysmic Atlantis, to guard over the book.

Zeus, a descendant of the Primal God Ouranus and member of the Olympian Eternals, begins seeking worshipers on Earth. His brother Neptune also becomes patron god of the Atlanteans, even choosing to live among them for a while. [Date based on historical accounts]

Four extradimensional beings, banished from their homeworld, come to Earth and conquer themselves a kingdom in the Middle East. Due to their superhuman abilities, they come to be known as the Elementals, and are worshiped as tyrannical gods. When they try to extend their domain into the land of Egypt, a young warrior named Dann teams up with an elderly wizard named Garret to create a mystical gem called the Ruby Scarab. The jewel’s power forces Hellfire, Hydron, Magnum, and Zephyr to flee Earth’s dimension. [Supernatural Thrillers #8]

Soon after, the Egyptians begin organized worship of the gods Osiris, Isis, Khonshu, and their brethren, descendants of Thoth. Osiris becomes the first ruler, or pharaoh, of Egypt, establishing his seat of power in the city of Heliopolis. [Date based on historical accounts]

Osiris’s brother Seth gains followers by convincing worshipers of Set that he is the Elder God incarnated. Set, realizing he lacks the power to challenge the Egyptian god from his dimension of exile, is forced to look elsewhere for new worshipers. [Punisher Annual #2]

Seth becomes infuriated when Osiris mates with Seth’s wife Nephthys and sires Anubis. Seth tricks Osiris into entering a sarcophagus, which Seth then seals and buries. Osiris’s wife Isis eventually finds the sarcophagus and frees him. Upon his release, however, Osiris is attacked by Seth and killed. Seth scatters Osiris’s body parts throughout Egypt. Isis eventually gathers the pieces together and, aided by Osiris’s sons Anubis and Horus, uses magic to bring Osiris back to life. Upon his resurrection, Osiris orders Horus to hunt down Seth and make him pay for his crimes. Horus and Seth begin a battle which will rage for centuries. [Thor #240]

Osiris eventually allows the humans to rule themselves but he continues to guide their development. Then, Osiris and the rest of his pantheon take up residence in an extradimensional realm called the Celestial Heliopolis.

### **2,950 B.C.**

A time-traveler from the 30th century A.D. arrives in Egypt in an attempt to loot the wealth of the past. Upon his arrival, his time machine malfunctions and crashes. The time-traveler is blinded in the explosion and the time machine is rendered inoperable. Calling himself **Rama-Tut**, the time-traveler uses his advanced technology and his army of robots to subjugate the natives and make himself pharaoh. The Egyptians use their medical knowledge to cure Rama-Tut’s blindness. Rama-Tut then sets himself up as the god of the Egyptians, outlawing all other religions. *[Fantastic Four #19(1963)]* A coup organized by En Sabah Nur, a mutant who has molecular control over his own body, overthrows Rama Tut and forces him to escape back to his own time [X-Factor #24, Rise of Apocalypse #1-4(1996-1997)].

### **2,800 B.C.**

Zeus takes the guise of King Amphitryon of Troezen, seduces the king’s wife Queen Alcmena, and fathers a child with her. She gives birth to Heracles, who will become known to the Roman peoples as Hercules. Zeus’s wife Hera is enraged that Zeus has committed adultery against her and vows to one day destroy Heracles. One year later, the infant Heracles first displays his superhuman strength when he strangles two serpents summoned by Hera to attack him.

### **2,775 B.C.**

When Heracles is in his mid-twenties he is commanded by King Eurystheus of Argos to perform twelve great labors which will take twelve years to complete. One of these feats is to enter Hades, the Olympian realm of the dead, and capture Cerebrus, the guardian of the underworld. Heracles’ successful capture of Cerebrus infuriates Pluto the ruler of the Hades, and the two become enemies.

One of Heracles’ twelve feats, the cleaning of the Augean stables, is performed by the Eternal who will soon become known as Gilgamesh (later called the Forgotten One). Because of his enormous strength, people believe this Eternal to be Heracles. [Thor #291]

### **2,760 B.C.**

Approximately 40 years after his birth, Heracles is killed when his wife Deianeira accidentally poisons him. Zeus intervenes and transports his son to Olympus, where he is revived and made fully immortal.

Sersi, a third- or fourth-generation Eternal, is born. [Speculation]

### **2,700 B.C.**

The Eternal called Gilgamesh becomes king of the city of Uruk in the land of Sumer. Gilgamesh fights and then befriends the superhuman Enkidu until Enkidu is later slain by the Mesopotamian gods. [Date based on historical accounts]

Makkari, a third- or fourth-generation Eternal, is born. [Speculation]

### **2,620 B.C.**

A Colony of Brood crash and invade Ancient Egypt but are repelled by En Sabah Nur and the warrior Imhotep. En Sabah Nur allows Imhotep to find the Brotherhood of the Shield.(S.H.I.E.L.D. #1(2010))

### **2,500 B.C.**

The Polar Eternal named Virako charges his son with hunting down the Deviants who are living in tunnels under the Aegean Sea. On the island of Crete, the son assumes the name “Daedalus” and marries a human woman, eventually producing a son of his own, whom they name Icarus. As a boy, Icarus delights in being flown around by his super-powered father, and so, with the aid of Makkari and Phastos, “Daedalus” constructs a flying harness for his son. However, “Daedalus” is then called away to fight Deviants in distant parts of the globe, leaving his family behind for many years. During his long absence, his wife falls into despair. Coming to believe his father has been captured by his enemies, Icarus puts on the flying device to search for him. However, because of his lack of proper training, Icarus flies too high and faints from lack of oxygen in the upper atmosphere. Icarus drifts in the sky for days without regaining consciousness, until his flying device finally burns out. He falls into the sea and is killed on impact. Soon after, “Daedalus” returns from his war against the Deviants and is told what has happened. Eventually finding his son’s body and burying it.[Eternals v.2 #5] [Date based on historical accounts]

### **2,000 B.C.**

The Olympian Eternal Zeus(also known as Zuras) decides to promote worship of his pantheon among the Greeks.Soon after, the Greeks begin actively worshiping the Olympians. [Date based on historical accounts]

The Inhumans genetically engineer a slave race, the Alpha Primitives, to serve them so they can devote themselves to the pursuit of knowledge(Fantastic Four #47(1966)), Thor #146-152(1967), and What If? #29-30(1981))

Thanos and Eros are likely born to Alars and Sui-San(Thanos Rising #1-5(2013))

A Dragonlike race from the planet of Kakaranathara arrive on earth. The Dragonlike species goes on a rampage but are all slain, with the last to fall being the dragon Fing Fang Foom. The valley of Dragons gets its name from this assault(Iron Man #272(1991))

### **1,900 B.C.**

the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by the powerful wizard Sise-Neg. [Marvel Premiere #14] [Date based on historical accounts]

### **1,250 B.C.**

Moses, leader of the Jewish people enslaved in Egypt, comes into possession of the ancient Atlantean artifact that will one day be known as King Solomon’s Staff, and it grants him formidable magic powers. [Marvel Preview #19]

Moses challenges Pharaoh En Sabah Nur to gain the freedom of the Jews. When Anath-Na Mut, the Egyptian court magician, fails to best Moses in a contest of power, he is banished by the pharaoh. Moses eventually wins the freedom of his people, thus beginning the great Exodus. Anath-Na Mut wanders for years before discovering an ancient temple, in which he finds the mystical Ka stone. Anath-Na Mut feels compelled to place the Ka stone on his forehead and upon doing so is immediately overwhelmed with power. He becomes both superhumanly strong and immortal. Anath-Na Mut takes the name “The Sphinx” and returns to confront En Sabah Nur, in a battle that seemingly destroys them both. [Fantastic Four #212(1979) and Nova #6-7(1977)] [Date based on historical accounts].

Two organizations are formed in direct opposition to each other, the Hand, who worships the Beast, and the Chaste. The Chaste has the initiation of climbing a near unescapable cliff with no support. (Daredevil #190(1983 shows the origin of the Chaste)(Elektra: The Hand #1-5(2004) cover the origins of the Hand).

### **1,190 B.C.**

The Trojan War ends when Odysseus uses the Trojan Horse to infiltrate and destroy the city of Troy.[Thor Annual #8] [Date based on historical accounts]

Odysseus and his crew, sailing home from the Trojan War, land on the Mediterranean island of Aeaea, home of the Eternal Sersi. Odysseus’s crewmen become drunk and start menacing Sersi and her servants. Fed up with their behavior, Sersi uses her powers to transform the crewmen into pigs and other wild beasts. Odysseus goes ashore to investigate the whereabouts of his missing crew and discovers Sersi. Taking a liking to Odysseus, Sersi agrees to transform the sailors back to their human forms. Odysseus and his men spend a year as Sersi’s guests before resuming their travels. [Eternals #4]

### **1,130 B.C.**

The Celtic gods, known as the Tuatha Dé Danann, are driven out of the British Isles and take up residence in the extradimensional realm of Otherworld, where they establish themselves on the island of Avalon.

### **1,000 B.C.**

Worship of the Olympian Eternal pantheon has become the “official” religion of the Greek peoples. The Romans also begin worshiping the Olympian Eternals. Eventually, worship of the Olympian Eternals spreads throughout the Roman Empire. [Date based on historical accounts]

Members of the Swarili tribe of northern Africa are enslaved by the Egyptians. The Swarili chieftain N’Kantu incites a rebellion against their captors and succeeds in killing the pharaoh. However, the insurrection is quickly put down. As punishment, the Egyptian high priest Nephrus has N’Kantu mummified and entombed in a sarcophagus. The still-conscious N’Kantu is unable to escape and is slowly driven insane before dying. [Supernatural Thrillers #5]

A subset of the Inhuman population who all develop angel-like wings when exposed to the Terrigen Mist begins to see the rest of the inhabitants of Attilan as inferior, leading to social unrest. King Nestor finally accedes to their demands for a separate settlement located high in the sky. The village, dubbed the Aerie, is constructed using anti-gravitic technology and tethered to Attilan by a pylon hundreds of meters tall. However, the leader of these “Bird-People,” as they come to be called, continues to agitate for a full political separation. Finally, he declares himself King Kylus I and initiates a pogrom against those in the Aerie whose wings are more bat-like. Horrified, Nestor orders the pylon be severed, causing the Aerie to drift away on the oceanic air currents. Facing starvation, the Bird-People take to stealing livestock from the world’s human population, until working out how to build a “fertile crescent” around their floating city. After Kylus’s death, the bat-winged martyr who opposed him, Cheiros, comes to be honored on an equal footing with the “Mad King.” [Thor Annual #12]

### **648 B.C.**

When the city of Babylon falls to the Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, its ruler, Shamash-shum-ukin, flees into the ziggurat in which he had been studying sorcery. Ashurbanipal takes control of Babylon and claims Shamash-shum-ukin committed suicide rather than be captured. [Savage Sword of Conan #7] [Date based on historical accounts]

### **500 B.C.**

The mutant En Sabah Nur has awakened and travels to India and takes on the guise of Kali Ma, the Indian goddess of death. [X-Factor #24] [Date based on historical accounts]

### **100 B.C.**

A druid initiate who worships the sun god Hu and the moon goddess Ceridwen sets out to sea in an open boat for his final test. His heart is troubled, for in defiance of his order’s practice of chastity, he had spent the previous night with his lover. When a storm blows up and capsizes his boat, he assumes he is being punished by his gods. However, his life is spared by sea-sprites who place him in suspended animation. [Gargoyle #3]

### **37 B.C.**

Cleopatra VII, the Queen of Egypt encounters the immortal wanderer Anath-Na Mut, a.k.a the Sphinx. [Strange Tales #124] [Date based on historical accounts]

### **34 B.C.**

Cleopatra is opposed by a sorcerer called Hatap who overthrows her[Tales of Suspense #34, lack of time travel means Iron Man does not show up to defeat Hatap] [Date based on historical accounts]

### **31 B.C.**

Seth finally achieves victory over Horus, the son of Osiris, ending their centuries-long war. Seth then imprisons Osiris, Isis, and Horus within a great pyramid which he buries under the desert. With his main opponents out of the way, Seth then conquers the Celestial Heliopolis and rules over the other Egyptian gods. Without the protection of the Egyptian gods, Hatap is defeated by the Roman legions, ending forever the reign of the pharaohs. [Thor #240]

## **PART FOUR: ANNO DOMINI**

### **1–99 A.D.**

During an extended sojourn on Earth, Odin, a descendant of the Primal God Búri and leader of the Asgardians, gathers worshipers among the Northern Germanic peoples of Europe. In time, the Vikings and other Baltic peoples begin actively worshiping the Asgardian pantheon. [Date based on historical accounts]

Odin mates with the Elder God Gaea to produce the nine Valkyries, who are charged with collecting the souls of valorous warriors slain on the battlefields of Earth and transporting them to Valhalla, where they will join Odin’s ever-growing ghost army, the Einherjar. Among the Valkyries are Hildegarde and their leader, Brunnhilde. [Defenders #109]

The Elder God Set establishes a new cult of worshipers among the aquatic Atlanteans. The cult’s main purpose is to enable Set to cross the dimensional boundary to Earth. They succeed in bringing part of Set’s essence into the Earth dimension, containing it within a large globe called the Golden Serpent. Neptune intervenes and uses his trident to sever the portion of Set in Earth’s dimension from the rest of him. Badly wounded, Set retreats in agony. The destruction Neptune causes kills off most of Set’s followers, but a few escape. Neptune places the globe containing Set’s energy in an undersea cavern and assigns a giant sea monster to guard over it. The wounded Set vows to one day destroy Atlantis to gain revenge on Neptune. [Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #9]

The demon Mephisto plots to enslave a fellow demon, Zarathos. Mephisto steals the soul of an American Indian later known as Centurious, so that when the soul-devouring Zarathos attacks him, his lack of a soul defeats Zarathos. Losing the faith of his followers, Zarathos’s powers begin to dwindle, allowing Mephisto to take control of the living flame of Zarathos’s soul. Over the next few millennia, Mephisto occasionally amuses himself by grafting Zarathos’s soul onto that of a human being. [Ghost Rider #77]

The Kree place Sentry 9168 on a Pacific Island.

### **100–199 A.D.**

As the religion of Christianity spreads throughout the Roman Empire, Zuras decides it is time for the Olympian Eternals to break most of their ties with Earth. However, Neptune is allowed to retain access to his Atlantean followers. The further spread of Christianity causes many old polytheistic faiths to die out. As a result, many of the fairies, elementals, and other spirit-folk, which have previously roamed the earth in great numbers, begin degenerating mentally and physically into demons. Many such creatures from the British Isles avoid this fate by emigrating to the extradimensional realm of Otherworld. [Date based on historical accounts]

### **114 AD**

In China, Zhang Heng of the Brotherhood of the Shield convinces a Celestial to give birth inside the sun rather than the Earth, which would have destroyed it.(S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 and #4(2010))

### **400–499 A.D.**

Thor, prince of the extradimensional realm of Asgard, is born to Odin and the Elder God Gaea in a cavern near the coast of Norway on Earth. Odin takes the baby to Asgard to be raised by his wife, Frigga. [Thor #301, Thor Annual 11]

Odin leads the warriors of Asgard in an all-out assault on the giants of Jotunheim. Using the enchanted war-hammer Mjolnir, Odin slays Laufey, king of the giants. In the aftermath of the battle, Odin finds Laufey’s infant son, Loki, hidden in a bundle of canvas and decides to take him back to Asgard to raise alongside his own son, Thor. [Journey into Mystery #112]

Odin appoints Heimdall to be the guardian of the Rainbow Bridge after a demonstration of his amazing powers of perception. Heimdall soon proves himself when he senses an invisible air elemental sneaking into Asgard and reports the danger to Odin at the risk of looking like a fool. Odin captures the elemental and commends Heimdall for his unparalleled vigilance. [Journey into Mystery #104–105]

Merlyn returns to Earth and establishes himself as the preeminent wizard of the British Isles. To bolster his reputation, he invents many fanciful tales of his heritage and youthful days. Known generally as Merlin, he gains the favor of King Uther Pendragon by enabling the king to marry his arch-rival’s wife, Igraine. The result of their union is the boy Arthur, whom Merlin is determined to forge into a great leader. As such, Merlin arranges with the king to supervise the boy’s upbringing. [Date based on historical accounts]

Romulus Augustulus, child emperor of Rome, is deposed. Augustulus is the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire, and will later be known as Tyrannus. [Date based on historical accounts]

### **500–599 A.D.**

When the Fenris Wolf tries to steal the Golden Apples of Immortality from the goddess Idunn during her annual pilgrimage to Asgard, she is saved by Haakun the Hunter, who uses his enchanted battle axe to banish Fenris to the remote realm of Varinheim. [Journey into Mystery #114]

While watching a combat tournament with Thor, Loki decides to make some mischief. He uses a magic spell to cause the better fighter’s quarterstaff to shatter. When they are caught, Thor insists on receiving the same punishment as Loki. Impressed by the young god’s nobility, the warriors let both boys off with a warning. Later, Thor challenges Loki to a race to the foot of the Rainbow Bridge. Loki is infuriated when Thor easily outpaces him and burns with jealousy and resentment. Loki vows to himself to one day be the most powerful god in Asgard, even if it means somehow getting rid of Thor. [Journey into Mystery #113]

Merlin(the current Sorcerer Supreme as confirmed in Doctor Strange and the Sorcerers Supreme #1-2(2016)) uses magic to ensure that Arthur succeeds his father as king, by producing an enchanted sword which only Arthur can remove from the stone in which it is embedded. Then serving as King Arthur’s principal advisor, Merlin also sees to it that Arthur receives the magic sword Excalibur, as well as arranging Arthur’s marriage to the Lady Guinevere. Merlin also prophesizes that Arthur’s illegitimate son Mordred, the result of a pre-marital affair, will one day bring ruin to the kingdom of Camelot. Arthur’s attempt to have the baby killed fails.

Merlin advises Arthur as he forms his Knights of the Round Table. However, foreseeing the need for an anonymous champion, Merlin advises the parents of Percy of Scandia, Arthur’s distant cousin, to secretly train their son in all known forms of combat. Merlin also teaches Arthur’s half-sister Morgan le Fay the arts of sorcery in exchange for her sexual favors. He soon becomes aware of her natural predisposition toward evil.(Camelot in the Marvel universe has been seen in Young Allies #11(1944),Black Knight #1(1955), and Iron Man #150(1981)).

While en route to Camelot to join the Knights of the Round Table, Lancelot du Lac is killed by a dragon[Marvel Premiere #14, originally he was saved by a time travelling Dr.Strange]

When Mordred reaches manhood and comes to live in Camelot, Merlin summons Sir Percy of Scandia to court and helps him become the mysterious Black Knight. Merlin gives Percy the Ebony Blade, an enchanted sword he has created from a meteorite. Merlin warns Percy to keep his true identity a secret so that his enemies cannot have him killed. [Black Knight #1(1955) and Mystic Arcana: Black Knight #1(2007)]

Morgan le Fay comes into possession of the Darkhold and binds the parchments into book form for the first time. Then, with a new Cult of the Darkhold, Morgan journeys to Wundagore Mountain in central Europe. Using the spells within the Darkhold, she summons Chthon to Earth but finds him too powerful to control. From Camelot, Merlin senses the danger and lends his power to Morgan’s so that they can imprison the Elder God inside Wundagore Mountain. Defeated, Morgan le Fay and her cult return to England with the Darkhold. Over the ensuing centuries, Chthon’s mystic energy will seep into the mountain’s clay. [Avengers #241(1984), Spider-Woman #41, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22, Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #11(1989)]

Aware of the grave threat Morgan le Fay poses so long as she possesses the Darkhold, Merlin takes the Black Knight away from Camelot for a time to deal with her. However, he finds that the spells within the book make her a more formidable opponent than he anticipated.

While Merlin is away, the immortal mutant who possesses a fragment of the Bloodgem, known later as the Maha Yogi, comes to Camelot and uses his psychic powers to impersonate the famous wizard. The imposter’s erratic actions cause concern among Merlin’s friends, and rumors begin to spread that Merlin has succumbed to some evil force. [Journey into Mystery #96, Hulk #210]

Magnus, apprentice and lover to Morgan le Fay, becomes appalled by the corruption of Morgan’s soul. He steals the Darkhold from her and places it within a tower on the Isle of Wight. Magnus casts a spell so that no one of evil intent may enter the tower. Morgan tracks Magnus down and kills him while he is engaged in astral projection. However, Magnus’s astral form survives the death of his physical body. [Avengers #241, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #22]

Hearing of the reputation of a young mage called Modred the Mystic, the Mad Merlin summons him to Camelot. However, Modred is suspicious and decides to seek out powerful magics with which to fight him. Since his intentions are good, Modred is able to enter the Dark Tower on the Isle of Wight to access the Darkhold. Upon uttering an incantation from the book, Modred encounters a manifestation of Chthon. They fight a mystic battle until Modred’s fiancé, Janice, enters the tower. The manifestation of Chthon threatens to steal her soul, so Modred offers his own in her place. Modred then becomes corrupted by Chthon’s evil. [Marvel Chillers #1]

The Mad Merlin recruits the man later known as St. Brendan, a Christian priest skilled in white magic, to fight Modred. Brendan enters the tower and casts two spells, one to seal the Darkhold in a mystical sphere and another to place Modred in suspended animation. Believing Modred to be dead, Janice’s father, the sorcerer Gervasse, buries him in a vault near the Dark Tower. Brendan then tears the Darkhold apart and has the indestructible pages scattered throughout Europe. [Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #11]

Sersi the Eternal exposes the Mad Merlin as an impostor during a visit to Camelot. Upon the true Merlin’s return, the wizard kills the imposter. The impostor is forgotten. [Hulk #210]

Over the next few years, the Black Knight becomes one of Camelot’s greatest champions, defending the realm several times from Morgan le Fay and her nephew Mordred. Although the Black Knight and Mordred fight a number of times, there is never a clear victor and the Black Knight is unable to uncover any damning evidence of Mordred’s treachery. [Black Knight #2–5]

Romulus Augustulus, now calling himself Tyrannus, raises an army to found a new empire. Choosing England as his first conquest, Tyrannus battles the Black Knight and King Arthur’s troops. Defeated, Tyrannus is brought to Camelot to be judged by Arthur and Merlin. Merlin banishes Tyrannus. Arriving in North America, Tyrannus encounters a group of Subterraneans, Tyrannus easily conquers the weak-willed race. The Tyrannoids, as his slaves come to be known, show Tyrannus the remnants of devices left by the Deviants, and he spends the next several decades studying and mastering the ancient technology. He will eventually find the fountain of youth in Florida and claim it.(Avengers Annual #20(1990)) King Arthur becomes the Emperor of Rome.

The Black Knight reveals his identity to his beloved Lady Rosamund and asks for her hand in marriage. She accepts, and a year after the wedding, gives birth to a son, Edmund. Later, Rosamund has another son, Geoffrey. [Black Knight Limited Series #1]

Over time, the glory of Camelot begins to fade, due in part to Morgan le Fay’s machinations. To counter this trend, Merlin suggests the Knights of the Round Table undertake a quest to find the fabled Holy Grail. As a result, many of Arthur’s greatest knights are lost in far-distant lands.

Mordred openly raises an army to challenge Arthur in Europe.

After the Black Knight leads an army to victory over Morgan le Fay, Merlin casts a spell which prevents her from physically leaving her castle. Nevertheless, she continues to cause trouble for King Arthur and his subjects with her magic spells.

As an act of revenge, Morgan le Fay tricks Merlin’s latest lover, the young sorceress Nimue, into trapping Merlin’s physical body in an enchanted cave with her spells. However, he is still able to aid King Arthur and Camelot in his astral form on rare occasions.

Time-travelers from the 20th century A.D., Iron Man and Doctor Doom, materialize in Camelot. Doctor Doom allies himself with Morgan le Fay, hoping to increase his own mystical knowledge, while Iron Man allies himself with King Arthur. Morgan le Fay casts a spell which causes all those killed by King Arthur’s sword Excalibur to rise from the dead. Iron Man, realizing that she is the power behind her undead forces, abandons the battlefield to confront Morgan directly. Not wishing to fight technology that she does not understand, Morgan attempts a spell to transport herself out of Earth’s dimension. Once she has dematerialized, the power which animates her dead forces dissipates. Doctor Doom, realizing what Iron Man has done, confronts him in Morgan’s castle. However, knowing that he will need Iron Man to return to his own time, Doctor Doom decides to forego fighting to cooperate on a time-travel device cannibalized from their two suits of armor. After they have returned to the future, Morgan le Fay reappears in her castle, having failed to overcome Merlin’s enchantments. [Iron Man #150]

The ghostly Magnus combats Morgan le Fay. During the fight, Morgan is knocked from a window and Merlin’s spell causes her body to burst into flames and disintegrate. Morgan le Fay’s spirit is banished to a netherworld. [Spider-Woman #50]

Having lost his prime ally, Mordred summons an evil demonic entity known as the Dragon of the Moon. During the last battle between King Arthur and Mordred, the Eternal known as the Interloper joins the fight and slays the Dragon, his ancient enemy. [Defenders #152]

King Arthur and Mordred mortally wound each other in battle. Before Mordred dies, he also mortally wounds the Black Knight by stabbing him in the back. Merlin’s astral form appears to the dying Sir Percy and casts a spell to enable his spirit to return to Earth if the evil of Mordred ever rises again. Upon his death, Mordred’s spirit is drawn to the netherworld by Morgan le Fay. [Marvel Super-Heroes #17]

The body of the Black Knight is buried with the Ebony Blade beneath Sir Percy’s castle. Arthur’s body is conveyed to the extradimensional realm of Otherworld by nine mysterious women, where it is buried on the island of Avalon.

With the fall of Camelot, Merlyn decides to abandon his earthly identity and return to Otherworld, where his daughter Roma is waiting for him. Before departing, he leaves an enchanted sword and a mystical amulet within an ancient circle of standing stones in the northern kingdom of Bernicia. [Captain Britain #35]

Thor and Loki work together to retrieve the Golden Apples of Immortality when they are stolen by a trio of Storm Giants. Though Loki tries to leave Thor behind so he can claim all the credit, his schemes fail. Pleased with his son, Odin allows Thor to attempt to lift the hammer Mjolnir. With great effort, Thor raises it slightly off the ground. Odin assures Thor that, with every act of valor he performs, the hammer will grow easier to lift. [Journey into Mystery #100]

When Asgard’s enemies attack en masse, Thor takes his sword and shield and races to the Rainbow Bridge to help Heimdall defend the realm. Heimdall sends the young prince away, but Loki leads Thor to a breach in their defenses, hoping he’ll die in battle. Thor is soon set upon by Geirrodur the Troll, Haag of Nornheim, a gang of Frost Giants, and assorted fantastic beasts. Despite the overwhelming odds, Thor manages to hold his foes off until the warriors of Asgard can come to his rescue. Afterwards, Thor finds he can lift Mjolnir higher than ever before. [Journey into Mystery #101]

As old age causes Tyrannus to grow frail, the Tyrannoids immerse him in a mystical pool which causes him to revert to a young man. Tyrannus keeps himself alive for centuries using this Fountain of Youth.

### **700–799 A.D.**

Thor journeys to Nornheim and meets the three Norns—Urd, Skuld, and Verdanda—who prophesy that Thor will meet death before he wins the mystic hammer Mjolnir. Undaunted, Thor returns to Asgard and learns from his friend Balder the Brave that Storm Giants have kidnapped Heimdall’s sister Sif. In a rage, Thor grabs Mjolnir without thinking and charges off to the rescue. Smashing his way into the giants’ fortress, Thor learns that they have turned Sif over to Hela, the Goddess of Death. Thor tracks Hela down and offers himself in Sif’s place. Finding herself unable to take so noble a life, Hela lets them both go. Only when he is back in Asgard does Thor realize he’s fulfilled the Norns’ prophecy and can now wield Mjolnir. [Journey into Mystery #102]

Odin officially presents Thor with Mjolnir in a ceremony before the assembled warriors of Asgard. During dinner, Thor slips out to try out some of the hammer’s enchantments. He discovers that, by throwing the hammer and holding onto the thong, he can fly through the air. From his vantage point in the sky, Thor spots a legion of boar-gods advancing on Asgard and easily routs them. [Thor Annual #11]

Getting into a protracted fight with a young Storm Giant, Thor learns not to rely too much on his magic hammer, realizing that he must use his brain as much as his weaponry to win battles. [Thor #252–253]

Thor and Loki travel to Jotunheim looking for Storm Giants to fight. There, Thor accidentally tumbles through an interdimensional portal and finds himself in Olympia. He gets into a fight with Hercules until Zuras breaks it up and orders them to shake hands and part as friends. Thor complies, then Zuras sends him back to Jotunheim, seals the portal. [Journey into Mystery Annual #1]

Thor journeys to Earth for the first time to give favors to his worshipers among the Vikings and other Baltic peoples. The thunder god visits his worshipers many times, stirring them to countless battles and glory. [Thor Annual #11]

### **800–899 A.D.**

Esteban Diablo is born in Spain. Growing up, he becomes fascinated with alchemy and roams Europe in pursuit of forbidden lore and arcane knowledge. Eventually arriving in Transylvania, his experiments lead to the creation of an elixir based on Vampire DNA which grants him immortality. Setting up a dictatorship in a section of Transylvania, Diablo uses his alchemy to rule his small corner of the world with an iron fist. Diablo eventually makes a deal with Mephisto for his life but ends up being dragged into hell.(Alpha Flight #21(1985) and Fantastic Four #525(2005)).

In Asgard, Odin makes Balder the Brave invulnerable to reward his extraordinary valor. Jealous, Loki tracks down Karnilla, Queen of Nornheim, and forces her to reveal that Balder is still susceptible to weapons made of mistletoe. However, when Loki then attacks Balder with a blowgun made of mistletoe, Karnilla uses her sorcery to cause the weapon to burst into flame. Loki vows to get revenge on the Norn Queen for her betrayal. [Journey into Mystery #106–107]

Thor travels to the Kingdom of the Dwarves to rescue a number of Asgardians who have been kidnapped and sold to the Trolls as slaves. The Dwarf king, Sindri, insists that it was the only way to keep the Trolls from invading his realm. After freeing his comrades, Thor drives the Trolls away and seals off the passage between the two kingdoms. [Journey into Mystery #108]

At war with the Mountain Giants, Odin pretends to banish Thor from Asgard in order to lure their enemies into a trap. A traitor, Arkin the Weak, reports to Queen Knorda of the Mountain Giants that Thor will be riding alone through a certain mountain pass. When the giants ambush him, Thor leads them into a box canyon where the warriors of Asgard are waiting. Thor is impressed by his father’s cunning. [Journey into Mystery #109]

Odin leads the warriors of Asgard to a battle with the legions of Prince Rivvak, whose father, Rampok the Rebel, led a rival territory until his recent death. Rivvak is young and untested in battle, but though he is sick with fear, he refuses to shirk his duty. Impressed, Odin arranges for his forces to be driven from the battlefield by geysers of flame. He explains to Thor that Asgard benefits if the surrounding settlements are strong and don’t lose hope in the face of an invincible army. [Journey into Mystery #110]

Loki continues his attempts to get rid of Thor, goading him into battling an invincible rock elemental named Sigurd, a powerful Storm Giant called Ghan, and the king of a hostile territory, Hymir. Each time, Thor is triumphant, leaving Loki frustrated. [Journey into Mystery #111, 115–116]

### **900–999 A.D.**

The dragon Chiantang attacks the extradimensional city of K’un-Lun. Much of the population survives, and the devastated city is eventually rebuilt.

Liam Cassidy builds a castle, known as Cassidy Keep, on the northwest coast of Ireland as protection against Viking raiders. Over the next thousand years, despite countless sieges, the castle’s defenses will never be breached. [Uncanny X-Men #101]

A series of Troll raids on Asgardian settlements prompts Thor to invade their subterranean kingdom, where he discovers the Trolls were driven to the surface by Uroc, a disgruntled weaponsmith who created a monstrous new body for himself out of the mystical metal uru. Though unable to defeat Uroc in direct combat, Thor causes him to fall into a bottomless chasm, earning the thunder god the gratitude of the Troll king, Grundor the Greater. [Thor #408–409]

To win a bet with Loki, Thor travels to Earth and joins a Viking expedition to North America, posing as a mortal named Sigurd. Should Thor resort to using any of his godly powers during the voyage, he will lose the bet and have to renounce his claim to the throne of Asgard. Naturally, Loki uses his spells to place the explorers in extreme jeopardy, directing them to an abandoned Atlantean outpost where they are attacked by giant rats, mummies, and a dragon. Realizing that Loki is cheating, Thor uses Mjolnir to defeat the monsters, though not before his mortal friend Baldric is killed. Returning to Asgard in a rage, Thor attacks Loki, but Odin decrees that Thor shares the blame for accepting such a reckless wager in the first place. [Thor #401]

Thor is determined to save the life of one of his mortal worshipers, Runolf, the last survivor of an ill-fated Viking raiding party. However, the three Norns decree that Runolf’s time has run out. Ignoring the protests of both Odin and Heimdall, Thor crosses the Rainbow Bridge to Earth and finds Runolf’s boat on the storm-tossed sea. However, a gigantic sea monster attacks Thor, and during the battle, Runolf drowns when his boat is capsized. Though he kills the sea monster, Thor is depressed that he was unable to save Runolf. Odin then commands Thor to make an annual pilgrimage to Nornheim so he will never forget the lesson he has learned. [Bizarre Adventures #32]

The Eternals begin making plans to greet the Third Host of the Celestials, due to arrive on Earth in a few years.

### **1000–1099 A.D.**

The last seven Great Beasts attempt their third invasion of Earth. They are opposed by the Inuit gods, led by Hodiak and his daughter Nelvanna. Their final battle occurs at the large impact crater in the Arctic known as the Eye of the World. Eventually, the Inuit gods are able to set the Great Beasts against each other, allowing Nelvanna to cast a spell to create a barrier imprisoning their foes in their home dimension. However, the Great Beast Tundra creates a vortex which spins much of the energy of the spell back at her. Thus, both the Great Beasts and the Inuit gods become trapped in their respective dimensions. [Alpha Flight #24]

Thor discovers a group of his Viking worshipers slaughtering the members of a Christian monastery. Horrified that his followers are committing such atrocities in his name, Thor commands the outlaw of slaughter in such a way and decides to withdraw from the Earth dimension and let his religion die out. [Thor Annual #11]

Consumed with guilt after centuries of fruitless scheming and manipulation, a depressed Odin attempts to crucify himself on Yggdrasil, the World-Tree. However, after nine days, the Elder God Gaea appears and reveals that a gargantuan spacecraft is moving through the solar system, heading directly for Earth. Odin asks her the ship’s purpose, but she merely says that if he wants to find out, he’ll have to save himself. Thus, Odin frees himself from the tree and drags himself back to Asgard, where the fiery oracle Mimir informs him that the ship carries the Celestials, who intend to pass judgment on the world. Outraged, Odin vows to put a stop to the aliens’ plans. [Thor #300]

A rivalry between Thor and Hercules erupts into a full-scale war between Asgard and Olympus. During the conflict, Odin and Zuras meet and realize that, as each pantheon is sustained by the beliefs of their worshipers, neither side can ever hope to conquer the other. Thus, they each grant their own side an illusory victory followed by an ignominious rejection by the other culture. Humiliated, Thor leaves Asgard for an extended sojourn on Earth. [Thor Annual #5]

While exploring South America, Thor encounters a group of Polar Eternals who have come to the region to assist the fledgling civilizations they have found there. Thor joins Virako, Valkin, Ajak, and the others in their efforts, but he soon grows bored and heads off on his own to explore North America. When he returns about 10 years later, Thor accompanies the Eternals to the Yucatán Peninsula, where they spend the next decade assisting the Mayas, who have recently suffered a large-scale social collapse. Thor then follows the Eternals to the Andes Mountains to assist the people there. However, they find the region has been conquered by Dromedan, a powerful telepathic mutate created by the Deviants. Victory is achieved over Dromedan and his monstrous minions only through Virako’s heroic self-sacrifice. Valkin declares his intention to be a father-figure to Virako’s son Ikaris. When the Celestials’ spaceship descends on the scene,Thor is sent back to Asgard with knowledge of the Eternals, Deviants, and Celestials. [Thor Annual #7]

Meanwhile, Odin and Zuras organize the first **Council of Godheads**, a convocation of the chieftains or “sky-fathers” of the various Earth pantheons, to address the problem of the Celestials. Among those gathered are the Primal Gods Anu, Nuadhu, and Thoth. Worried that the Celestials will destroy the world, the gods agree to send a delegation consisting of Odin, Zuras, and the Hindu god **Vishnu** to confront the aliens. However, when they arrive in the Andes Mountains, the three gods find they are completely outmatched by the power of the **Third Host of the Celestials**, who threaten to close all the interdimensional portals between the gods’ realms and Earth unless the gods agree to stop interfering with the human race. Seeing they have no choice, Odin, Zuras, and Vishnu kneel down and agree to the aliens’ terms. *[Thor #300(1980)]*

Armed with the knowledge that the Celestials intend to render their final judgment upon their return in a thousand years, Odin commands his finest craftsmen to construct a suit of armor capable of going toe-to-toe with a Celestial. Meanwhile, the “sky-mothers” of the various pantheons hold a summit of their own to find a less warlike solution to the problem. They decide to gather from among their worshipers over the next millennium twelve people to epitomize the noblest attributes of the human race and, by infusing them with divine energy, transform them into a new race of Young Gods. The goddesses agree that each pantheon will take turns watching over the selected humans while they rest in suspended animation in a hidden temple. [Thor #300–301]

Because he has agreed to stop interfering with the human race, Odin is forced to disband the Valkyrior. Barred from the earth, their leader, Brunnhilde, becomes embittered and roams Asgard in search of something meaningful to do. She is recruited as a lackey by Amora, a sorceress known as the Enchantress, but quits when she realizes her skills are being used for evil ends. However, the Enchantress traps Brunnhilde’s spirit inside a magic crystal, which enables her to imbue other women with the Valkyrie’s power whenever it suits her purposes. Assuming that Brunnhilde has left Asgard in search of adventure, Odin does not search for her. [Defenders #108–109]

After a failed invasion of England, a ship of Viking warriors and their families makes its way south along the coast of Africa until a powerful storm drives it to Antarctica, where it takes shelter in a network of caverns. They emerge in a fertile valley within a large volcanic caldera in a remote part of Pangea and decide to settle there. The lost Viking colony will survive in the isolated valley for the next 900 years. [Thor #342]

The Third Host of the Celestials drives the last of the Undying Ones back to their home dimension, finally freeing humanity of their sinister influence. The Celestials then leave Earth, planning to return in a thousand years when mutants and other superhuman beings will have emerged and developed on a large scale. They leave a beacon in the Andes Mountains to guide the Fourth Host there. Ikaris decides to devote the next millennium to honing his senses to superhuman acuity so he can locate the hidden homing beacon.

Odin takes the completed suit of armor to the Council of Godheads so that each “sky-father” can imbue it with a portion of his power, making it all but invincible. Odin then names this armored dreadnought the Destroyer and hides it in a temple in the jungles of Vietnam. He also constructs a gigantic sheathed sword for the Destroyer to use against the Celestials should the Fourth Host judge humanity unfit to survive, which comes to be known as the Odinsword. [Thor #300]

A human wizard named Ebrok magically transforms two household cats into sentient humanoid felines whom he names Flavius and Helene. Ebrok then begins training the two creatures in the mystical arts. As the population of Cat People begins to grow, members of Ebrok’s Sorcerers Guild begin to oppose his actions. The sorcerer Belasco, with others, casts a spell which banishes the Cat People to a pocket dimension known as “The Land Within.” One aspect of the spell compels the Cat People to respond to any earth-born sorcerer who summons them. However, having learned of the Guild’s plans, Flavius and Helene cast spells to prevent the two of them from being banished. They remain with Ebrok until they are eventually discovered by the Sorcerers Guild. One of the wizards kills Ebrok, and an enraged Flavius hurls a container of their current experiment at the murderer. Within the container is a virus that eventually sweeps over all Europe and comes to be known as the Black Plague. Flavius and Helene flee from the Sorcerers Guild into the mountains, where they begin work on a cure for the Black Plague. However, the Sorcerers Guild casts a spell preventing Flavius and Helene from creating new Cat People, causing them to shift their research into a process for transforming humans into Cat People. Their first success is to transform a human woman into the feline warrior known as the Tigra, who slays their enemies in the Sorcerers Guild. Following the destruction of the Guild, Flavius and Helene are able to discover a cure for the Black Plague and sire a new race of Cat People. In time, the demonic nature of the Land Within transforms the original Cat People into demons themselves. The sorcerer Belasco survives the Tigra’s attack and uses his magic to extend his life. Although he eventually begins serving the N’Garai, Belasco retains control over the Cat People from the Land Within. [What If? #35, West Coast Avengers #6, Fantastic Four #314]

A Chinese monk named Kan founds an order devoted to the ways of peace and serenity. After being victimized by an evil sorcerer, Kan devotes himself to serve those sorcerers who fight evil. Kan trains his first-born son to follow in his footsteps. In the following generations, every first-born child is pledged to do likewise. His descendants include Hamir the Hermit and Wong. [Doctor Strange v.2 #44]

The Uranian Eternals discover the equation for the grand unified theory of everything. They spend the next several centuries trying to verify their findings. [Quasar #2] [Date is speculative]

### **1100 A.D.**

After an extended period of peace, the bored warriors of Asgard begin to fight with each other. When Odin finds even Thor and Loki brawling in the palace, he orders them to lead a group of warriors on a quest to the lands beyond their golden realm, which they call Utgard. Thor recruits Balder and a rotund, aging warrior named Volstagg. Loki hires a number of mercenaries, including a swordsman known as Fandral the Dashing. A mysterious foreigner called Hogun the Grim also volunteers to join the crew. When Loki attempts to incite a mutiny, Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun take Thor’s side and help suppress the revolt. As the ship enters the territory of Thryheim, Loki is kidnapped by Queen Ula’s flying trolls. Despite his brother’s treachery, Thor invades her palace and rescues him. Odin then recalls his warriors to Asgard and reveals to them the prophecies of Ragnarok—the doom of the gods. After having Loki arrested, Odin orders Thor to retrieve a powerful weapon known as the Wizard’s Eye. The thunder god takes Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun with him on the mission, and they wrest the weapon from a barbarian marauder named Harokin. When Harokin dies of his wounds, Thor and his comrades bear witness as the fallen warrior is escorted to Valhalla by Hela and six Valkyries. Subsequently, Volstagg, Fandral, and Hogun find fame as the Warriors Three. [Journey into Mystery #117–125, Thor #126–133]

### **1149 A.D.**

Ælfric, a corrupt Spanish monk, gathers together most of the pieces of the Darkhold, but is burned at the stake for heresy. However, his soul becomes imprisoned within the Darkhold parchments. [Werewolf by Night #3]

The Catholic Church takes possession of the Darkhold and turns it over to a young priest, Paulo Montesi, curator of the Church’s occult library in Rome. Pope Eugene III decrees that only Father Montesi will be permitted to handle the scrolls and orders that they be rebound into a single volume, which is then called the Book of Sins. The Pope also allows Montesi to marry and sire children so that his descendants may be trained to be the book’s curators. [Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #12]

### **1150 A.D.**

While traveling through the wilderness beyond Asgard with Loki and the Warriors Three, Thor is drawn into a life-or-death struggle with two conceptual beings, Fear and Desire, whom Odin also faced in his youth. When his fighting ability fails him, Thor’s innate nobility enables him to survive the encounter. Odin is pleased that Thor has passed the ultimate test of a warrior. [Thor #323]

### **1175 A.D.**

Feeling the need to procreate, the malevolent entity Nightmare, master of the Dream Dimension, rapes a succubus named Zhilla Char and strands her in a pocket dimension. She is soon consumed by demonic birthing flames, and from her charred corpse rises her “daughter,” who will come to be known as the Dreamqueen. Exerting her will on the barren terrain around her, the Dreamqueen creates a kingdom to rule and peoples it with servile automatons. In time, however, she comes to see her realm as merely a gilded cage. [Alpha Flight #67]

### **1190 A.D.**

Varnæ, lord of the vampires, learns that the Catholic Church is studying the Darkhold in an attempt to discover a means to destroy the undead. Invading Rome, Varnæ and his band of vampires kill Father Montesi but are driven off before they can steal the Darkhold. [Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #12]

Eobar of Garrington, a descendant of Sir Percy and an ally of King Richard the Lionheart of England, participates in the Third Crusade. The astral form of Mordred escapes the netherworld to which it had been banished and commandeers a new body, then allies himself with England’s Prince John against his brother Richard. As a result, Merlin’s spell pulls the spirit of Eobar’s descendant, Dane Whitman, out of limbo (where a spell woven by the Enchantress has left him after turning his body to stone) and puts him in possession of Eobar’s body so that the Black Knight may live again. Whitman, in Eobar’s body, continues aiding King Richard by fighting alongside the crusaders.[Defenders #11]

The new Black Knight soon defeats Mordred and Prince John and continues to fight savagely in the Crusades. Mordred’s spirit is banished back to the netherworld from which it came.

### **1191 A.D.**

The Black Knight encounters the young Prester John, and together they save King Richard from an assassination plot. Prester John then enters King Richard’s service to fight in the Crusades. [Marvel Fanfare #54]

### **1195 A.D.**

A group of mystics from Avalon in Otherworld unwittingly opens a portal to the Dark Realm of the Fomorians, the ancestral enemies of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the Celtic gods. The demonic Fomorians lay waste to Otherworld until Amergis, the High Druid of Avalon, enlists the aid of the Black Knight. Still, the Fomorians are too powerful to defeat. The Black Knight uses a powerful weapon known as the Evil Eye to close the portal to the Dark Realm. However, the process destroys Eobar’s body. Amergis sends Dane Whitman’s spirit back to the 20th century, where it is reunited with his original body. [Avengers #226]

### **1200 A.D.**

Learning from the Olympian pantheon of the location of a dangerous artifact known as the Crystal of Blood, Odin sends Thor and Loki on a mission to retrieve it. Their quest takes them to the remote castle of a sorceress named Shamballa, who tries to seduce Thor while selling Loki to the Trolls as a slave. The thunder god foils Shamballa’s plans, forcing her to reveal the way to the Cavern of the Screaming Skull. When they arrive, Thor and Loki find the crystal is guarded by Olympian Titans and a gigantic dragon. While Thor is busy destroying these monstrous guardians, Loki seizes the crystal, then threatens to turn its power on Thor. Loki finally admits his hatred and jealousy of Thor and declares that he seeks revenge for the indignities he has suffered living for centuries in the thunder god’s shadow. The last of the Titans sneaks up behind Loki while he is ranting and takes the crystal from him. Before the Titan can obliterate the Asgardians, Thor smashes the crystal with Mjolnir. The cavern suddenly collapses, but Thor carries his brother to safety. Loki calls Thor a fool for saving his life. When they return to Asgard, Thor decides not to tell Odin about Loki’s treachery, but the All-Father is already aware of everything that happened. Odin finally accepts that Loki must never become the King of Asgard. [Marvel Preview #10]

### **1210 A.D.**

After the death of King Richard, Prester John wanders the world, seeing many wonders. Eventually, he finds his way to Avalon in Otherworld. There, he comes into possession of the Evil Eye. However, in anticipation of a their own destruction, the wizards of Avalon place Prester John in suspended animation, with the Evil Eye on his lap, so that he will live on after them. He is returned to Earth, materializing in a crypt located deep beneath the Sahara Desert. [Fantastic Four #54]

Giacomo Montesi, Paulo’s son, becomes the new curator of the Darkhold upon reaching adulthood. Giacomo eventually translates most of the Darkhold into Latin. However, the spell his father had been looking for, the one to eradicate all vampires, is not in the book. Giacomo believes the spell to be on one of the book’s missing parchments. The Darkhold will remain in the hands of the Montesi family for several centuries. [Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #13]

### **1220 A.D.**

The peaceful Neuri tribe is driven from their ancestral home in the Ural Mountains by the advancing Mongol army. They migrate northwards to Siberia, using magic to transform their bodies to better withstand the arctic climate. In time they establish a utopian society underground. [Wolverine: Bloodlust]

Genghis Khan forms a secret society to counter and contain supernatural force called the Duguilang. (Agents of Atlas #1-6(2006-2007),Agents of Atlas #1-11(2009), Atlas #1-5(2010)).

### **1250 A.D.**

Sentenced to Odin’s dungeons for a particularly egregious prank, Loki escapes and leaves the golden city of Asgard for good. While crossing the enchanted forest of Alfheim, Loki is ambushed by Trolls and severely injured. He is rescued by an elderly wizard named Eldred, who nurses Loki back to health and takes him on as his apprentice. However, once he has learned all he can from Eldred, Loki betrays his teacher by sacrificing him to Surtur as part of a devilish pact. Absorbing all of Eldred’s mystic power, Loki drives the Light Elves away and takes over the castle, making it his own. Swearing to return to Asgard only as its ruler, Loki begins plotting the overthrow of Odin. [Thor #400]

The original Castle Frankenstein is erected outside the German city of Darmstadt, though the builders are unaware of a race of dragons living in caverns under the site. [Savage Sword of Conan #22]

### **1275 A.D.**

Infatuated with the goddess Sigyn, Loki decides to woo her with treasures from Eldred’s castle. However, Sigyn finds Loki repulsive and is, in any case, already betrothed to Theoric, a member of Odin’s most elite squad of warriors, the Crimson Hawks. Thus, Loki bribes Geirrodur, King of the Trolls, to ambush Theoric in the wilderness and kill him. When the evil deed is done, Loki uses his magic to assume his rival’s form until the marriage rite has been performed. When Loki reveals himself, the other gods are outraged, but Sigyn agrees to honor her vows. Moved by her fealty, Odin declares Sigyn to be the Goddess of Fidelity. Loki is banished from Asgard, so Sigyn accompanies him back to Eldred’s castle, but they rarely speak to each other. [Thor Annual #14]

### **1289 A.D.**

The alchemist Belasco abducts the the wife of Dante Aligheri, Dante rescues her and later writes an alternate version of *Dante's Inferno*(Ka-Zar the Savage #11-12(1982))

### **1300 A.D.**

Odin sends Thor and the Warriors Three to the desolate realm of Nastrond, where they are attacked by Fafnir the Dragon, who was once the king of that region. Thor uses Mjolnir to summon a storm more powerful than any ever seen on Earth, which causes the ground beneath Fafnir to crumble away, sending the dragon into a deep chasm. With Fafnir thus banished, Odin declares that the storm will magically bring the dead landscape back to life. [Thor #134–136]

Continuing on their trek, Thor and the Warriors Three come to the borders of Hogun the Grim’s homeland, where they are shocked to find a warrior crucified for treason. Hogun explains that he was driven into exile when a sorcerous tyrant called Mogul conquered his realm, and Thor vows to set his people free. The four heroes soon discover Mogul’s hidden lair, the Mystic Mountain—which is actually a gigantic crystal stalactite in an immense cavern beneath a featureless desert. Overcoming Mogul’s magical guardian, the Jinni Devil, Thor and the Warriors Three storm the tyrant’s fortress, Zanadu, and fight their way through his legions, which are followed by a horde of demons. Having become separated from the others, Volstagg stumbles upon a powerful weapon and uses it to incinerate the demons before Thor, Fandral, and Hogun are overwhelmed. They then team up with a local freedom-fighter, the thief Alibar, and defeat Mogul. Thor instates Alibar as the new ruler of Zanadu, and he pledges eternal loyalty to Odin. Hogun returns home to liberate his people, while Thor, Fandral, and Volstagg ride back to Asgard. Odin is pleased to have gained new allies. [Thor #137–145]

### **1348 A.D.**

The Bubonic Plague is sweeping across England. Devlunn loses his entire family to the plague. [Avengers #209]

### **1350 A.D.**

After the Asgardians have defeated the Storm Giants in a fierce battle, the magical standard that makes Odin’s forces invincible, the Raven Banner, is stolen by Trolls when a young warrior, Greyval Grimson, shirks his duty. Emboldened, the Storm Giants team up with the Trolls to conquer Asgard. Odin sends Greyval on a quest with Balder the Brave to retrieve the Raven Banner while Thor and the Warriors Three defend the realm from the attacking giants. Greyval’s cousin, Horskuld, seeking glory for himself, sets off to find the banner on his own, only to be corrupted by Troll treachery. The two cousins fight over the Raven Banner at its hiding place in the Abyss of Shadows until Greyval kills Horskuld. He then carries the standard back to the battlefield, allowing Odin’s forces to defeat the Storm Giants again, though it costs Greyval his life. Impressed, Odin allows Greyval Grimson to join the ghostly Einherjar in Valhalla. [Marvel Graphic Novel #15 – The Raven Banner]

A youth from the Tibetan village of Kamar-Taj becomes apprenticed to Kaluu, the local mystic. Together they increase their magical knowledge, though Kaluu also learns some of the spells of the Darkhold from Varnæ, lord of the vampires. While the youth means to use his sorcery to benefit the village, Kaluu wants to create an empire for himself. Together, they weave a spell which causes everyone in the village to become virtually immortal. Eventually realizing Kaluu’s evil tendencies, the youth attempts to warn the villagers, but Kaluu captures him and imprisons him in the village center. The magics which the youth unleashes to defeat Kaluu accidentally reverse the immortality spell, causing all the villagers to grow sick and die. However, Kaluu escapes into the dimension of Raggaddor, where he becomes trapped. The youth survives the destruction of the village, but the spell which grants him immortality is weakened and he continues to age, albeit very slowly. His experiences lead him to dedicate his life to combating all evil sorcerers. In time, he becomes known as the Ancient One. [Strange Tales #148(1966), Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme #23(1990)]

Being forced out of India by the Mongols, En Sabah Nur journeys to the land of the Aztecs and takes on the form of Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of war. The Aztecs mistakenly believe the mutant to be their god and worship him. [X-Factor #24] [Date is speculative]

### **1390 A.D.**

The Lemurian emperor Naga begins worshiping the Elder God Set, who alters his appearance to make him more reptilian. Set then leads Naga to the resting place of the Serpent Crown, which the emperor believes makes him akin to a god. To protect the secret of his power, Naga then forces his alchemists to kill themselves. Naga then begins a reign of terror that will last for centuries. [Sub-Mariner #10, Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #9]

## **PART FIVE: DARK DAYS**

### **circa 1400 A.D.**

The kingdom of Latveria is founded in the Carpathian Mountains by nobles of the Haasen family, who have emigrated from the German-speaking lands to the north. They wrest the territory from the land barons of western Transylvania and establish their capital city of Haasenstadt.

### **1430**

Vlad Dracula is born in Schassburg, Transylvania, the second son of Vlad Dracul, a.k.a. Vlad the Elder, a Transylvanian nobleman. [Date based on historical accounts]

### **1437**

Vlad the Elder ousts his brother from power and becomes ruler of Transylvania. He allies himself with the Ottoman Turks. [Date based on historical accounts]

### **1444**

Vlad Dracula and his younger brother Radu are captured by Sultan Murad II, leader of the Ottoman Turks, to force Vlad the Elder to adopt policies which favor Turkey. At Murad’s court Dracula learns the effectiveness of extreme cruelty. Radu is eventually tortured to death. During this time, Dracula’s father and older brother Mircea are murdered. [Tomb of Dracula Magazine #2]

### **1448**

Vlad Dracula escapes from Murad’s court and returns home to seize the throne of Transylvania. Dracula rules for eight months before fleeing from the conspirators who had helped kill his father, a cabal led by János Hunyadi. [Tomb of Dracula Magazine #2–3]

### **circa 1450**

Keeping residence in Kamar-Taj, the Ancient One discovers a young man roaming the ruined city, and takes him in as his first apprentice. Over the next two decades, the young man studies under the Ancient One, aiding him in collecting books of black magic, which the Ancient One is stockpiling to keep out of the hands of evil sorcerers. Secretly, the apprentice studies these books to increase his own powers. [Strange Tales v.2 #11] [Date is speculative]

### **1451**

Dracula returns to Transylvania to ally himself with János Hunyadi, from whom he learns the arts of war. [Tomb of Dracula Magazine #3]

### **1454**

Dracula marries Zofia, a Hungarian noblewoman. The marriage had been arranged by Dracula’s father and Dracula hates his new bride. [Tomb of Dracula #60]

### **1455**

Shortly after the birth of their daughter Lilith, Dracula orders Zofia to leave his sight forever. Zofia gives Lilith to a Gypsy woman named Gretchen to raise, then commits suicide. [Giant-Size Chillers #1]

### **1456**

With the aid of János Hunyadi, Dracula is restored to the Transylvanian throne. Dracula dedicates himself to eradicating the Turks. His violent methods of putting them to death earn him the nickname “Vlad the Impaler.” [Tomb of Dracula Magazine #2]

### **1458**

Dracula marries a woman named Maria, whom he loves deeply. They soon have a son, Vlad Tepulus.

### **1459**

Lord Turac of the Turks leads an army to invade Transylvania and attacks Castle Dracula. Dracula is defeated in battle and mortally wounded by Turac. However, Turac wishes to make an example of Dracula, and so takes his prisoner to the gypsy Lianda to cure his wounds. Lianda turns out to be a vampire, and she drinks Dracula’s blood, making him a vampire also. Rising from the grave three days later, Dracula is recaptured by Turac and witnesses the death of his wife Maria. Breaking his bonds, Dracula slays Turac, turning him into a vampire as well. Realizing that he has become a monster, Dracula leaves his infant son Vlad Tepulus to be raised by Gypsies. [Dracula Lives! #2(1973) and Bizarre Adventures #33(1982)]

Tired of his ages-long existence, Varnæ, Lord of the Vampires, decides to hand over the reins of power to Dracula. Varnæ commands his servant Nimrod to pose as the leader of the vampires and draws Dracula into a confrontation. Dracula defeats Nimrod and is proclaimed the new Lord of the Vampires. Suddenly, a group of priests raids the gathering and kills Dracula, his first “death” as a vampire. However, Varnæ arranges for Dracula to be resurrected soon after and imparts to Dracula much of his own power by making Dracula drink his ancient blood. Varnæ then commits suicide by exposing himself to direct sunlight. [Dracula Lives! #3, Bizarre Adventures #33]

Blaming the Gypsies for his transformation into a vampire, Dracula slaughters many of them, including Gretchen’s son. In revenge, Gretchen casts a spell transforming Dracula’s daughter Lilith into a fully-grown vampire with special powers, such as an immunity to sunlight. Gretchen also casts a spell on Lilith whereby if she is killed, her soul would be transported into the body of an innocent woman who wants her father dead. Lilith sets out on her mission of vengeance to destroy her father, and she and Dracula will battle a number of times over the following centuries. [Giant-Size Chillers #1]

Dracula begins amassing a collection of vampire “wives,” many of whom take up residence in his castle. He generally considers these undead women to be expendable.

Dracula finally gains his revenge on Sultan Murad II, luring him to Castle Dracula and killing him, tossing the sultan’s corpse to the Turkish soldiers waiting outside. [Tomb of Dracula Magazine #2]

### **1460s**

Dracula extends his mortal power base by cementing his rule throughout Transylvania, and finally drives the Turks from his domain. Dracula also encounters a member of the Van Helsing family, beginning an enmity that will endure for centuries. [Dracula Lives! #12]

Dracula learns of the existence of the Darkhold and its spell to destroy all vampires. Wishing to acquire it for safekeeping, Dracula forces Murgo, a gypsy thief, to steal the book from the Vatican library. However, Cagliostro, a Gypsy sorcerer, intervenes and steals the Darkhold for himself. Though the Latin translation is left behind, the original Darkhold’s whereabouts remain a mystery for centuries. [Dracula Lives! #4]

Norrin Radd agrees to give his life to become a Herald of Galactus and save his planet(Silver Surfer #1(1968))

### **circa 1470**

The Ancient One discovers his apprentice secretly studying the tomes of evil magic they had collected and banishes him from Kamar-Taj. Over the next few centuries, the former apprentice extends his lifespan by absorbing the life energy of evil men. He eventually assumes the name Mister Jip. [Strange Tales v.2 #11] [Date is speculative]

On an expedition to purchase rice in the foothills, a party of monks from a remote monastery high in the Himalayas is lost in a sudden blizzard. The sole survivor stumbles upon a network of caverns inhabited by a race of “abominable snowmen.” When they see the monk’s mirrored amulet, the primitive beast-men proclaim him a god. Stranded there, the monk begins educating his worshipers, hoping they will one day attain enlightenment. The beast-men eventually start calling themselves “the Chosen” and referring to the monk as “the Master.” [Fantastic Four #145]

### **1471**

Dracula loses interest in ruling his human subjects and abdicates his throne. Transylvania eventually falls under foreign rule, but its subsequent rulers generally leave “Count” Dracula alone to do as he pleases. [Dracula Lives! #13]

### **1475**

A royal dynasty is established in the tiny Balkan kingdom of Symkaria that will rule the country down to the present day. [Amazing Spider-Man #322]

### **early 1500s**

The H.M.S. Drake, a British ship trying to find a southern passage to the Pacific Ocean, is exploring the Antarctic seas when it strikes an iceberg and sinks. One of the sailors survives, carried by ocean currents into the Savage Land. Exploring this strange jungle, the sailor comes across a giant idol of Garokk, a god worshiped by the tribe of the Sun-People. While drinking from a cup that had been placed in front of the idol, the sailor is discovered by tribesmen and he flees. Eventually, he makes his way back to England, and discovers that the potion he drank has made him immortal. The sailor regards this as a curse as he watches his loved ones grow old and die while he remains perpetually youthful. Over the next few centuries, the sailor searches for a way to end his life. Over time, his skin gradually becomes rock-like, and he comes to be known as the Petrified Man. [Astonishing Tales #3] [Date based on historical accounts]

Dracula is finally forced to kill his son, Vlad Tepulus, who has spent his life trying to destroy his father. However, Dracula’s grandson has also sworn to destroy him, with the vendetta being passed down through the subsequent generations. [Tomb of Dracula #60]

### **1530**

Solomon Kane is born to a Puritan family in Devonshire, England.

When their Master dies of old age, members of the Chosen steal his body and place it within an “entropy globe” that returns him to a semblance of life. Unable to leave the globe, the Master continues to guide the development of the secret sect that tends to his physical needs. [Fantastic Four #146]

### **1531**

Georg von Frankenstein is killed while trying to save his true love from one of the dragons living beneath his castle. Georg’s brother Hans then inherits Castle Frankenstein and soon discovers there are other dragons inhabiting the caverns. [Savage Sword of Conan #22]

### **circa 1550**

The Ancient One joins an old order of sorcerers who are all dedicated to protecting the people of Earth from black magic. Eventually, his prowess becomes so great that he is visited by Eternity, the manifestation of the cosmos itself. He is the first human to receive such a visitation, and Eternity presents him with an amulet called the Eye of Agamotto, a powerful magical item created by Earth’s first human Sorcerer Supreme. Using the amulet, the Ancient One first battles Dormammu, the demonic ruler of a mystic realm known only as the Dark Dimension. Over the following centuries, the Ancient One successfully keeps Dormammu out of Earth’s dimension. [Date is speculative]

### **1553**

Returning to England after several years abroad, Solomon Kane saves the residents of Torkertown from a deadly ghost by helping it avenge its own murder. He also witnesses the severed hand of a condemned necromancer strangle the man who turned the sorcerer over to the king’s men. Kane then kills a couple of werewolves outside Torkertown. [Monsters Unleashed #1, Savage Sword of Conan #13–14]

While wandering through the mountains of France, Solomon Kane comes across a dying girl in the woods and vows to hunt down her killer, a notorious bandit known as Le Loup. Over the next few months, Kane kills off Le Loup’s band of thieves, then confronts the master criminal in his hidden lair. After a vicious swordfight, Le Loup escapes into the darkness. Kane distributes the stolen treasure among the local villages, then continues his relentless pursuit. [Marvel Premiere #33]

### **1554**

Solomon Kane tracks Le Loup to a remote African village, where he meets the sorcerer N’Longa. Having become the chieftain’s advisor, Le Loup arranges for Kane and N’Longa to be burned at the stake. However, N’Longa sends his astral form into the corpse of a human sacrifice victim and reanimates it long enough to assassinate the chieftain. Le Loup flees into the jungle, but Kane hunts him down and kills him in another swordfight. Feeling he has finally avenged the French girl’s death, Kane returns to Europe. [Marvel Premiere #34]

### **1559**

Wandering through the Black Forest in Germany, Solomon Kane escapes from a couple of serial killers, both of whom become victims of their own evil ways. Then, with the help of a fellow Englishman named John Silent, Kane battles the devil-worshiping mutant Baron von Staler, ending his series of ritual murders. [Savage Sword of Conan #18–19]

Hearing rumors of dragons, Solomon Kane visits Castle Frankenstein outside the German city of Darmstadt. Discovering that Baron Hans von Frankenstein is trying to appease the monster by offering human sacrifices, Kane forces the baron to accompany him into the caverns to slay the creature. Frankenstein panics and runs away, but Kane manages to kill the dragon and destroy its eggs. [Savage Sword of Conan #22]

Learning that the daughter of a friend has disappeared in Transylvania, Solomon Kane goes there to search for her. He is set upon by Turkish highwaymen, then attacked by a pack of werewolves. Kane is saved from the werewolves by Dracula, who invites the Puritan back to his castle. There, Kane discovers the missing girl has been turned into a vampire. After destroying her with a wooden stake, the outraged Kane battles Dracula and defeats him. However, since Dracula earlier saved his life, Kane feels honor-bound to let his foe go free. [Dracula Lives! #3]

### **1560**

Overcome with guilt at not having destroyed Dracula when he had the chance, Solomon Kane makes his way back to Transylvania. While passing through Romania, Kane is waylaid by a Roman-era succubus whom he inadvertently resurrects. Though he nearly falls victim to her seductive charms, Kane is able to destroy the succubus once and for all. Kane then returns to Castle Dracula and manages to stake the vampire with a wooden crucifix. However, Dracula is inadvertently revived hours later by Gypsy looters. [Savage Sword of Conan #25–26]

### **1566**

After searching for several years for a missing English heiress, Solomon Kane finds her living as a slave in the court of the savage Queen Nakari of the lost Atlantean colony of Negari, located in the mountains of Africa. Though captured, Kane escapes from the dungeons to prevent the Englishwoman from being sacrificed to the false god Nakura. Kane destroys the city’s idol, the Skull of Nakura, with his pistol, causing the mob to riot. In the ensuing violence, Nakari is killed by one of her own subjects. A sudden earthquake annihilates Negari, but Kane and the heiress make it out alive. After returning the heiress to England, Kane joins the crew of Sir Frances Drake and sails to the West Indies. [Savage Sword of Conan #34, 37, 39]

### **1588**

The Latverian nobleman Count Sabbat orders construction begun on a castle for his king, which will overlook the capital city of Haasenstadt. When the 110-room castle is complete, the royal family takes up residence there.

### **1590s**

Solomon Kane returns to Africa, where his old friend, the sorcerer N’Longa, presents him with the ancient magical artifact known as King Solomon’s Staff. The staff helps Kane and N’Longa wipe out a colony of African vampires. Kane takes the staff with him as he continues his wanderings. He soon comes upon the tribes of Bogonda, where he wipes out the last of the mythological harpies. Next, coming across a gang of Arab slavers, Kane learns more of the staff’s history from one of their number. Kane is then able to use the staff to destroy a shapeless demon that is accidentally freed from its imprisonment in an ancient crypt by the greedy slavers. [Kull and the Barbarians #2–3, Savage Sword of Conan #53–54, Marvel Preview #19]

### **1597**

Dracula’s diary is stolen and some of his vampiric weaknesses are discovered. Before he can retrieve the diary, though, it is transported to England. He is unable to track it down. [Dracula Lives! #12]

### **circa 1600**

Dracula moves his base of operations to the new Castle Dracula at Borgo Pass in Transylvania.

### **1606**

Dracula encounters Countess Elizabeth Bathory, a sorceress. Immune to his control, she proposes an alliance, but then double-crosses him. Dracula soon has his revenge and sees to it that the “Blood Countess” dies a horrible death. [Dracula Lives! #4]

### **circa 1610**

After a lifetime of wandering the world, Solomon Kane returns home to Devonshire, intending to live out his remaining days in peace. However, when he learns that his childhood sweetheart, Bess Morgan, has died, he leaves his hometown to resume his wandering. [Savage Sword of Conan #20, 162]

An alien from the extradimensional world known as “The Coconut Grove” visits Earth and meets the English playwright William Shakespeare. Shakespeare bases his character Ariel in his play The Tempest on this alien. [Fallen Angels #7] [Date based on historical accounts]

### **1618**

Sir Francis Bacon, an English mystic, writes the manuscript for his book New Atlantis. [Doctor Strange v.2 #17]

### **1623**

The Marquis de Rais translates The Thanatosian Tomes, a book of black magic. [Marvel Premiere #4]

### **1624**

The Dreamqueen encounters the astral form of Nanquato, the shaman of the Chickaqua Indian tribe, while he is searching through numerous dimensions for a god willing to end the drought that threatens his village. She tricks him into taking a magical totem back to Earth, through which she can torment Nanquato’s people with terrifying illusions and use their fear to build a bridge between the two realms. Though the Dreamqueen manages to pass a mystic weapon through the still-forming portal, Nanquato is killed by one of his tribe’s warriors before she herself can cross over to Earth. While the tribe buries their shaman alongside the mystic weapon in a cairn, Nightmare appears to the Dreamqueen and reveals that he foiled her plan by forewarning the warrior in a dream. He intends to keep her trapped in her pocket dimension, he reveals, so he can enjoy her suffering. [Alpha Flight #67]

### **1670**

An English religious leader, Caleb Starke, leads his sect to escape persecution by settling in a remote valley on the coast of Massachusetts. Their town is named Starkesboro in his honor. Eventually, an ancient totem is found that activates the residents’ latent genetic heritage from the Serpent Men, causing them to mutate into more reptilian forms and come under the domination of the demon Sligguth. [Marvel Premiere #4–5]

Rupert Kemp, England’s 7th Baron Darkmoor, turns to sorcery when his lover, Demelza, is burned at the stake as a witch. When he sells his soul to a demon passing itself off as “Satan” in exchange for power and immortality, the devil fulfills the bargain by arranging for Kemp to become a vampire. [Super Spider-Man and Captain Britain #235]

### **1685**

Braddock Manor is constructed in the countryside some miles northwest of London, England. [Mighty World of Marvel #16]

### **1691**

Dracula travels to America for the first time, visiting Salem, Massachusetts. He falls in love with a woman named Charity Brown, the first time he has felt such emotion for a woman since the death of his wife Maria. As a result, Dracula’s dealings with women begin to take on a more sensual tone. While in the area, Dracula turns a West Indian woman named Tituba into a vampire. [Dracula Lives! #1]

Cotton Mather, a servant of the ancient wizard known as the Dark Rider, arrives in Salem, Massachusetts. He seeks practitioners of magic so his master can feed on their mystical energies. To flush out his victims, Mather incites a wave of anti-witch hysteria. [Marvel Team-Up #42]

### **1692**

The combination of Tituba turning several other people into vampires and Cotton Mather’s rabble-rousing leads to the Salem Witch Trials.[Marvel Team-Up #41–44]

Feeling persecuted, a number of witches from New England decide to isolate themselves. Founding a small town in what is today Colorado, these practitioners of the occult name their town New Salem to remind them of the persecution they have suffered. [Fantastic Four #186]

### **1698**

A family of seafaring Dutch settlers in America begins construction of a mansion on the shore of Breakstone Lake, in the Salem Center area of New York. The mansion will remain in the family’s hands up to the present day.

## **PART SIX: THE AGE OF ELEGANCE**

### **1700 A.D.**

The Massachusetts Academy, a private preparatory school, is founded in Snow Valley, Massachusetts.

### **1749**

The Hellfire Club, a social organization for the elite of British society, is founded in England. It is a pleasure club that offers its members indulgences that violate the moral standards of society, but also serves as a means for its members to pool their resources to influence England’s political and economic matters. It is gradually overtaken by Mutants [Date based on historical accounts][X-Men: Hellfire Club #1-4(2000)]

### **1750s**

Dracula encounters the female pirate captain known as Hellyn deVill and foils her plan to steal a locket that once belonged to his wife Maria. Dracula exposes Hellyn as a witch hag and leaves her to the mercy of her pirate crew. [Dracula Lives! #7]

The Serpent Crown is stolen from Emperor Naga and taken to Antarctica by Lemurian rebels led by Pyscatos and his brother Bekkit. Once there, the rebels change themselves into pink-skinned air-breathers using a chemical formula discovered by Bekkit’s lover, Jhandark, and establish a settlement amongst the ancient technology maintaining Pangea. To reduce the sinister influence of the Serpent Crown, Bekkit encases it in a shielding substance that also disguises its serpentine form. Pyscatos and Bekkit then jointly govern their peaceful community for many years. Meanwhile, Naga sends out agents called Questers to search the oceans for his lost crown. Without it, he slowly begins aging again, which only increases his cruelty. [Sub-Mariner #10, Daredevil Annual #5]

### **1760s**

Spaceships from the planet Galador enter the area of space known as the Dark Nebula on a peaceful expedition. They are attacked by the Dire Wraiths, who use their sorcery to summon Deathwing, a mystical entity of enormous size and power, which consumes the Galadorian spaceships whole, leaving those inside burned and disfigured. The Prime Director of Galador then asks for volunteers to become cyborg warriors who can withstand the rigors of outer space to hunt down and punish the Dire Wraiths. Rom, the first to volunteer for the program, becomes one of the hundreds of Galadorians that risk their humanity to be transformed into Spaceknights. The organic remains of the cyborgs are kept preserved on Galador so that once the war is over, they can be returned to their original humanoid forms. In the major battle against the Dire Wraiths, the Deathwing is destroyed, along with the bulk of the Dire Wraith fleet. Rom, who distinguishes himself during the battle for his courage and bravery, warns the Prime Director that Galador cannot be safe until all Dire Wraiths are hunted down and banished to the extradimensional realm of Limbo. Rom and the other Spaceknights are ordered to seek out and destroy all Dire Wraith outposts and to use their technology to banish them from the universe forever.(ROM Spaceknight)

### **1762**

Dracula leaves his castle at Borgo Pass in Transylvania and relocates to France. During his absence, a number of noblemen such as Baron Grigori Russoff take over parts of his domain. [Tomb of Dracula #33]

### **1769**

Cagliostro, who has established himself as an important figure in the court of the French king Louis XV, is not pleased that Dracula is now moving in the same circles. Though he no longer possesses the Darkhold, Cagliostro hatches numerous plots to destroy Dracula, without success. [Dracula Lives! #3]

### **1770s**

A number of wealthy English immigrants set up the American headquarters of the Hellfire Club on Manhattan Island in New York.

### **1774**

Victor Frankenstein is born in Naples, Italy, to Alphonse and Caroline Frankenstein.

### **1775**

American diplomat Benjamin Franklin journeys from England back to Philadelphia by the time-traveling Doctor Strange and Clea.

### **1781**

When their second child, Ernest Frankenstein, is born, Alphonse and Caroline Frankenstein settle down at an estate in Geneva, Switzerland. They are joined by their young ward, Elizabeth Lavenza, an orphan from Milan, Italy. Victor and Elizabeth become very close, and the parents hope they will one day marry.

### **1785**

Dracula’s conflict with Cagliostro reaches its climax, and Dracula defeats the sorcerer’s spells and turns Cagliostro’s wife into a vampire. Cagliostro’s attempts at revenge come to nothing. [Dracula Lives! #5]

### **1787**

Victor Frankenstein becomes obsessed with the works of medieval alchemists such as Albertus Magnus, Cornelius Agrippa, and Paracelsus, especially their search for the “elixir of life.”

### **1789**

The French Revolution forces Dracula to flee France and he returns to Castle Dracula in Transylvania. He quickly regains control over most of his lost territory. Cagliostro also leaves France and searches for a means to cure his wife of vampirism. [Dracula Lives! #6]

After witnessing the power of lightning firsthand, Victor Frankenstein abandons the alchemists to take up the study of modern science.

### **1790**

William Frankenstein is born in Geneva, Switzerland, to Alphonse and Caroline Frankenstein.

### **1791**

Weeks after his mother dies of scarlet fever, Victor Frankenstein leaves Geneva to attend the University of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, where he is soon recognized as a brilliant student of chemistry and biology. One of his professors renews Victor’s interest in the alchemists, suggesting their esoteric wisdom could be combined with the scientific method to perform wondrous feats.

### **1793**

Victor Frankenstein discovers a means of reanimating dead tissue and begins constructing an eight-foot-tall human figure out of the parts of a dozen corpses. Believing he has discovered the key to immortality, he works obsessively on his secret project, driving himself to the point of nervous exhaustion. [Frankenstein #1]

### **1794**

Victor Frankenstein succeeds in animating his cadaverous creature. Horrified by what he has done, the young scientist rejects his creation, leaving it to wander off into the surrounding forests. Frankenstein’s Monster tries to scratch out a meager living there, but is shunned by all other humans as well. [Frankenstein #1]

### **1795**

In an attempt to make Baron Grigori Russoff give up his stolen land, Dracula kills Russoff’s wife Louisa. While attempting to rescue her from Castle Dracula, Russoff discovers she has died and kills Dracula by impaling him with a wooden stake. Russoff then rescues Lydia, a woman held prisoner at the castle. However, Lydia is a werewolf and eventually changes shape and bites Russoff, inflicting him with lycanthropy. Although Russoff’s children are already born, the disease is mystically transmitted to his descendants and awaits a supernatural catalyst to activate it. Dracula is later brought back to life, and goes about installing a number of death traps in his castle to deal with intruders. [Werewolf by Night #15]

### **1796**

When his youngest brother, William, is murdered, Victor Frankenstein leaves the University of Ingolstadt and returns to Geneva. He is horrified to discover that his Monster has committed the crime and framed the family’s servant-girl, Justine Moritz. Victor is consumed with guilt when Justine is executed, but he knows no one would believe his incredible tale. He retreats into the Alps, where the Monster confronts him and demands a mate. Giving in to the creature’s threats, Victor agrees to create a female monster. [Frankenstein #1–2]

### **1797**

Having set up a laboratory in a remote house on the Orkney Islands of northern Scotland, Victor Frankenstein assembles a female figure out of numerous dead women, some of whom are murdered by the Monster for their organs. However, fearing that he would be the creator of a monster race, Frankenstein destroys the creature moments after animating it. He flees to Ireland, but his vengeful Monster murders his traveling companion and frames Victor for the crime. Languishing in prison, Victor suffers another nervous breakdown. [Frankenstein #2]

### **1798**

Victor Frankenstein is released from prison due to his father’s efforts to clear his name. They return to Geneva, where Victor and Elizabeth are finally married. That night, however, the Monster sneaks into the bedroom and strangles Elizabeth to death. A few days later, Alphonse Frankenstein dies from the grief. Victor suffers another psychotic break, but soon pulls himself together and swears to hunt down and destroy his murderous creation. [Frankenstein #3]

### **1799**

Pursuing the Monster to the Arctic, Victor Frankenstein dies from exposure aboard the ship of Captain Robert Walton, to whom he tells his story. Distraught over his creator’s death, the Monster attempts suicide on the frozen wastes. However, he eventually comes across a remote tribe of Neanderthal-like people who accept him as one of their own. When the tribe is massacred by their enemies, the Monster drags their chief’s body ten miles across the ice to give him a proper funeral. However, the funeral pyre weakens the ice, sending Frankenstein’s Monster plunging into the Arctic Ocean, where he slips into suspended animation. [Frankenstein #3–4]

### **1800**

When Victor Frankenstein’s body is returned to Geneva, his brother Ernest becomes the new Baron von Frankenstein. He uses his inheritance to buy a remote 500-year-old castle in the Swiss Alps, where he takes up residence. The dilapidated structure then comes to be known as Castle Frankenstein.

### **circa 1801**

The Atlanteans encounter a group of Deviant refugees, who teach the Atlanteans the rudiments of technology.

In their Antarctic settlement, Bekkit marries Jhandark. They then take their children for an extended sojourn among the nations of the surface world, leaving Pyscatos to govern their people alone. Over the next several decades, Bekkit becomes a respected gentleman and associates with the most important scientists and statesmen of the age. Through him, his people come to be known to scholars as “the Ancients.” [Daredevil Annual #5]

The Uranian Eternals successfully verify their grand unified theory of everything. However, the answer to the meaning of life effectively eliminates all sense of intellectual challenge, and the Eternals become increasingly depressed and suicidal. However, because of their immortal nature, it is almost impossible for them to terminate their own existences. [Quasar #2]

### **1814**

A race of extraterrestrial explorers decides to test the human race before making first contact. Having observed the planet for decades, they create a sophisticated robot in the form of the Frankenstein Monster. However, after being sent down to Earth, the robot malfunctions and goes on a violent rampage. The aliens chase the robot into the Arctic, where the extreme cold forces it to shut down. Remorseful, the aliens cancel their mission and withdraw. Over time, a thick coating of ice forms around the inert robot. [Uncanny X-Men #40]

### **1818**

Having read the letters Captain Robert Walton sent to his sister, Margaret Saville, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Victor Frankenstein’s tale as Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus. [Frankenstein #13]

### **circa 1830**

Cagliostro comes to New Orleans, by way of Haiti, to steal the secrets of voodoo from the sorceress Marie LeVeau. He soon becomes her lover, and shares with her the secret of immortality, which he learned from the Darkhold. However, the spell he gives her is incomplete, and she continues to age at a very slow rate. [Dracula Lives! #2]

Abraham Van Helsing is born in the Netherlands.

### **1839**

Occult researcher Friedrich von Juntz publishes the book Unaussprechlichen Kulten (known in English as Nameless Cults), which contains much information about the Pre-Cataclysmic and Hyborian Ages, as well as various cults and the demonic entities they worship. [Marvel Premiere #4]

### **circa 1840**

The man who will one day be known as the Yellow Claw is born in mainland China. Growing up, he becomes a superb alchemist and uses a secret process to greatly extend his lifespan. Similarly, the man who will come to be known as Fu Manchu is born in China and is raised to be a master of many disciplines.

### **1848**

The Terror and the Erebus, two ships searching for a northern passage to the Pacific Ocean, become stuck in the Arctic ice. With supplies running low, Captain F. R. Crozier decides to lead the remnants of his crew south on foot to civilization. Many men die on the arduous trek. Finally, Crozier downs a potion to slow his bodily functions, hoping that his crew will abandon his body until his life functions return to normal with the spring thaw. Unfortunately, his men decide to bury him, and although Crozier is conscious, he is completely paralyzed. Crozier will remain buried alive for more than a century. [Alpha Flight #37]

### **circa 1850**

The undersea province of Skarka attempts an invasion of Atlantis. The invaders are repelled but the city of Atlantis takes heavy damage and Emperor Immanu is killed. The new Emperor of Atlantis, Thakorr, leads the population to the South Atlantic and founds a new capital city off the coast of Antarctica.

### **1852**

Spencer Keen, the son of a noted chemist who works at a midwestern college, is exposed to a mysterious form of blue energy when his father’s laboratory is destroyed by a tornado. He is thrown into suspended animation and buried along with the many victims of the natural disaster. [Mystic Comics #1]

### **1856**

Dracula has his first encounter with Abraham Van Helsing, a Dutch university professor visiting Transylvania. Dracula turns Van Helsing’s wife Elisabeth into a vampire, but with the help of a group of vampire hunters, Van Helsing destroys her immediately. [Dracula Lives! #3]

### **1862**

In Vienna, Dracula becomes infatuated with an American student named Annabelle St. John. He sails to the United States to court her at her home in Virginia. After saving her family from an attack by Union soldiers, Dracula turns Annabelle into a vampire and she returns to Transylvania with him. However, Dracula eventually tires of his latest undead bride. [Tomb of Dracula Magazine #6]

### **late 1860s**

Dracula and his daughter Lilith negotiate a truce, agreeing never to cross paths again. [Giant-Size Chillers #1]

Matt Hawk, a young lawyer in Tombstone, Texas, comes under the tutelage of an aged gunfighter, Ben Dancer. Hawk learns to be a superior gunslinger, as well as an accomplished horseback rider and master of the lasso. However, Dancer warns Hawk to keep his accomplishments secret, fearing that if they became public knowledge he would be challenged by no end of gunslingers looking to make a name for themselves. Hawk decides to assume the masked identity of the Two-Gun Kid whenever he has to use his guns. As the Two-Gun Kid, Hawk battles a number of criminals. [Two-Gun Kid #60]

### **early 1870s**

Blaine Colt, son of a murdered rancher from Abilene, Wyoming, avenges his father’s death. However, a member of the murderer’s gang tells the local sheriff that Colt murdered his boss in cold blood. Colt fears that no one would believe that he had challenged his father’s murderer to a fair fight and flees the town. Now calling himself Kid Colt, he wanders the American southwest as an outlaw. Nevertheless, Kid Colt uses his extraordinary skills as a gunfighter to aid the poor and defend the innocent from criminals. [Kid Colt, Outlaw #11, Kid Colt #1-4(2000)]

Johnny Bart, known as the Rawhide Kid, dedicates himself to fighting evildoers. He seeks out some of the worst criminals in the American West and defeats them. During one of his adventures, the Rawhide Kid injures one of his opponents in a duel. Despite evidence that it was a fair fight, the local sheriff still insists on arresting him. The Rawhide Kid flees in protest and from that time on is considered an outlaw. Despite this, the Rawhide Kid continues to fight crime and bring evildoers to justice. [Rawhide Kid #17, Rawhide Kid #1-5(2003)]

Frontier schoolteacher Carter Slade uncovers a plot by land baron Jason Bartholemew to kill homesteaders. Carter is gunned down by the killers but is found by a boy named Jamie Jacobs. Before Jacobs can get Slade to town for medical treatment, they are discovered by Sioux Indians. When the Sioux shaman, Flaming Star, meets Slade, he becomes convinced that Slade is the champion foretold by the gods. Flaming Star restores Slade to health and provides him with phosphorescent dust from a meteor that enables Slade to become the mysterious Phantom Rider. In his new identity, Slade brings Jason Bartholemew to justice, then goes on to become the most successful masked crimefighter of the Old West. [The Ghost Rider #1(1967)]

A young man of Cheyenne heritage, called Johnny Wakely by his white adoptive parents, encounters the Native American god Owayodata and is charged with becoming the legendary champion called Red Wolf. Alongside a wolf named Lobo, Red Wolf fights against injustice and oppression. [Marvel Spotlight #1]

The events of *Blaze of Glory #1-4*

The Inhuman Agon is elected to head the Inhumans’ Genetics Council, and thus becomes ruler of the Inhumans. During his reign, Agon discovers that fellow council member Phaeder is performing illegal experiments on clones. Phaeder is barred from the Council. After faking his own death, Phaeder exiles himself from Attilan. [Marvel Two-in-One #72]

Having grown elderly, Bekkit takes his family home to the Antarctic settlement of the Ancients. When he arrives, he is shocked to find his people have taken on reptilian features. Bekkit is dragged before Pyscatos, who has donned the Serpent Crown and become a Set-worshiping tyrant. When Bekkit refuses to bow down and worship Set, Psycatos kills him. Then, realizing what a monster he has become, Pyscatos sends Jhandark and her children back out to sea in their submarine before overloading the ancient dynamo that provides their settlement with power. The resulting explosion causes an avalanche that wipes out the Ancients and buries the Serpent Crown under tons of ice and snow. [Daredevil Annual #5]

Hearing of a fabulous treasure unearthed from an ancient Indian burial ground, a gunfighter known as Pariah travels to the town of Whispering Wells, New Mexico. When he arrives, Pariah finds everyone in town dead. In the saloon, he discovers the skeleton of the prospector, still clutching a large, glowing gemstone. Pariah takes the gemstone, but it proves to be a mystic crystal that houses demonic spirits. The spirits keep Pariah alive long after his body has become a desiccated husk, but he provides insufficient lifeforce to allow them to leave the remote ghost town. [Hulk #268]

### **1873**

Thor, Hawkeye, and Moondragon journey back in time to battle Kang the Conqueror. The three heroes of the future team up with the Two-Gun Kid, Kid Colt, the Rawhide Kid, the Phantom Rider, and the Ringo Kid to defeat Kang. The Two-Gun Kid and Hawkeye become fast friends, and he travels with the three superheroes to the 20th century. [Avengers #141–143]

### **1874**

The Two-Gun Kid returns from the 20th century and resumes his life as before.

### **1875**

Loki, Asgardian god of mischief, arranges for the theft of the golden apples of Idunn, fruit which the Asgardians eat to retain their youth and immortality. Without the apples, the gods begin to grow old and die. However, the troll whom Loki employed to steal the apples has a change of heart and smuggles the apples to Earth, waiting for the thunder god Thor to find him. Thor recovers the apples and returns with them to Asgard. [Thor #370]

Lionell and Lillian von Loont, a couple from England, are riding through the Transylvanian Alps when their carriage hits a bump and runs off the mountain road. Lionell is killed, and Lillian roams the Balkan woods for days before stumbling across the village ruled by Esteban Diablo. Taken in and cured of her injuries by Diablo, she and Diablo soon fall in love. Diablo reveals his alchemical secrets to her and begins training her in his sorcerous ways. [Alpha Flight #21]

### **1876**

Fed up with Diablo’s tyrannical rule, a number of peasants imprison him within a massive crypt. The elixir of immortality which has kept Diablo alive for centuries allows him to survive entombment, and he will remained trapped for nearly ninety years. Lillian von Loont, witnessing the imprisonment of her lover, kills Diablo’s servant who had betrayed him. Lillian then makes her way back to England, using her dead husband’s fortunes to set up her own alchemical lab. [Alpha Flight #21]

The Phantom Rider teams up with his brother, Marshal Lincoln Slade, against the criminal Reverend Reaper. After being pursued into a cave, Reaper sets off a sequence of explosions that cause a cave-in. However, Reaper himself is caught in one of the explosions and is killed. Lincoln Slade escapes serious injury, but the Phantom Rider is mortally wounded. Near death, the Phantom Rider reveals his true identity to his brother and asks him to take his place. Lincoln Slade becomes the second Phantom Rider, but also slowly begins going mad. [Western Gunfighters #6]

The West Coast Avengers appear when their time machine becomes damaged and can only move them backwards in time. The Two-Gun Kid is thus reunited with his friend from the future, Hawkeye. Meanwhile, the new Phantom Rider falls in love with the Avenger called Mockingbird, and when the team is about to leave this time for the past, he seizes her from their time machine and knocks her out. The Avengers are unable to stop their dematerialization. The Phantom Rider then uses an Indian potion to make Mockingbird fall in love with him. Two-Gun Kid and the Rawhide Kid, realizing what Phantom Rider has done, attack him but are defeated by Mockingbird. Once the potion wears off, however, Mockingbird realizes she has been raped and attacks Phantom Rider. During the battle, she lets the Phantom Rider fall from a cliff to his death. Shortly afterwards, all the West Coast Avengers return to their proper time. [West Coast Avengers #18–23]

### **circa 1880**

Dracula is slain by a retired American marshal who uses a shotgun to pump the vampire full of silver buckshot. [Dracula Lives! #13]

### **1883**

Doctor Strange, Nick Fury, and Dum-Dum Dugan travel through time to prevent an Apache sorcerer known as Redblade from creating an army of superhuman warriors and changing the course of history. [Marvel Fanfare #49]

Denis Nayland Smith is born in England. [Master of Kung Fu #18]

### **1884**

The Great Beasts remain trapped behind the dimensional barrier, but one of them, Ranaq the Devourer, can manifest on Earth by taking possession of a human host. Ranaq possesses a citizen of Calgary, Alberta, Canada named Zebediah Chase, but is defeated by time-traveling members of Alpha Flight, with help from Chase’s teenage friend Lucas Stang. [Alpha Flight #19]

Silvio Manfredi is born in Sicily.

### **1885**

Seminary student Caleb Hammer begins to turn his back on religion when his wife Thea is mistakenly killed by a drunken gunman. Hammer travels to Chicago to visit his brother Issak. [Marvel Premiere #54]

Winston J. Kranpuff is born. [Solo Avengers #11]

### **1886**

Lillian von Loont, experimenting in her alchemical lab, discovers the secret of transforming lead into gold. Realizing this is the secret to immortality, Lillian journeys back to Transylvania to take revenge on those who had imprisoned Diablo. Over the next few years, Lillian travels the world to track down those who had imprisoned her lover. Eventually, she sets up residence on Tamarind Island off the coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, where she will become known as Gilded Lily. [Alpha Flight #21]

When the Chicago police attack striking factory workers, a riot erupts and Issak Hammer is killed. Failing to save his brother, Caleb Hammer is devastated by the loss. [Marvel Premiere #54]

### **1888**

Caleb Hammer joins the Pinkerton Detective Agency, but a disastrous early case leads him to eschew the use of guns. [Marvel Premiere #54]

### **1889**

Dracula is finally resurrected, but the many minute particles of silver lodged in his body greatly weaken him, causing him to age rapidly if he goes too long without ingesting a large quantity of blood. [Tomb of Dracula Magazine #3]

Adolf Hitler is born in Austria-Hungary to Alois and Klara Hitler.

### **1890**

The international crime syndicate known as the Maggia first comes to the attention of the American public, having expanded their sphere of influence from Europe.

Caleb Hammer is consumed with guilt when his attempt to frighten two fugitives out of their hiding place leads to the murder of an epileptic boy. [Marvel Premiere #54]

The ruthless financier and rapacious explorer Ambrose Carpathian brings a treasure chest from the Amazon jungle back to his mansion in New York City following an expedition of which he is the sole survivor. The chest contains a swarm of carnivorous insects that Carpathian wishes to exploit using magic rituals conducted by his secret society, the Arcane Order of the Night. The swarm consumes a dozen people in the neighborhood, reducing them to desiccated skeletons in seconds, before Carpathian realizes the insects are too difficult to control. He traps the swarm inside the treasure chest and buries it in a shallow vault under his mansion’s basement floor. [Spectacular Spider-Man #170]

Montgomery Falsworth is born in England to Lord and Lady Falsworth.

### **1892**

Wishing to relocate to London, England, Dracula hires a British attorney, Peter Hawkins, who dispatches his junior partner, Jonathan Harker, to Transylvania. Once all the papers have been signed, Dracula leaves Harker trapped in his castle and sails to England, where he takes possession of Carfax Abbey. Dracula begins feeding off a young socialite, Lucy Westenra, who is a friend of Harker’s fiancée, Mina Murray. Westenra’s strange symptoms prompt her friend Dr. John Seward to call in his former mentor, Professor Abraham Van Helsing, who recognizes the work of a vampire. Once Westenra becomes a vampire herself, Van Helsing recruits her fiancé, Arthur Holmwood, his American friend Quincey Morris, and Dr. Seward to destroy her. Meanwhile, Harker escapes from Castle Dracula, and Murray travels to Transylvania to help him recover from his ordeal. Before returning to England, the couple marries. However, Dracula targets Mina as his next victim and forces her to ingest the vampiric ichor in his veins, placing her under his mental domination. Van Helsing and his friends vow to hunt down Dracula and destroy him, prompting Dracula to abandon his plans and retreat to Transylvania. The vampire hunters pursue him, and Morris is killed battling Dracula’s gypsy servants. Wearied by the particles of silver still imbedded in his body, Dracula tricks his enemies into thinking they have destroyed him. Later, Dracula finds that Van Helsing invaded his castle and destroyed his last three undead brides, including Annabelle St. John, and swears vengeance. [Dracula Lives! #5–11, Legion of Monsters #1, Tomb of Dracula Magazine #3]

Ben Parker is born in Brooklyn, New York.

Karl Kaufman is born in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

### **1893**

Phineas T. Horton is born.

John Falsworth is born in England to Lord and Lady Falsworth.

### **1894**

May Reilly is born in Brooklyn, New York.

Quincy Harker is born in London, England to Jonathan and Mina Harker.

### **1895**

Arnim Zola is born on Weisshorn Mountain in Switzerland.

Gregor Russoff is born in Transylvania to Baron Russoff, a descendant of Baron Gregori Russoff.

Leonard McKenzie is born.

### **1896**

The English writer Bram Stoker writes a novel about Dracula.

Nathaniel Richards is born.

### **1897**

Learning that Dracula has been resurrected, Abraham Van Helsing returns to Castle Dracula, finds the vampire lying in his coffin, and drives a wooden stake through his heart. Later, Dracula’s coffin is moved into a remote cave. The entrance to the cave is then sealed by a massive stone in hopes that Dracula will remain trapped within forever. [Tomb of Dracula #1–2, Tomb of Dracula Magazine #3]

Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula is published.

The Daily Bugle, a New York City newspaper, is founded by William Walter Goodman.

George Stacy is born.

Buster Henderson and Elaine Willoughby are born in Christiansboro, Virginia.

### **1898**

Frankenstein’s Monster is revived from suspended animation by Captain Robert Walton’s great-grandson, but before the expedition can leave the Arctic, their ship strikes an iceberg and sinks. The Monster saves Walton and two members of his crew from drowning, but they all soon freeze to death on the icy wastes. The Monster builds a raft that carries him to Norway, where he rescues a beautiful woman who has been tied to the mast of a burning boat. The woman, called Lenore, convinces the Monster that her townspeople have been possessed by demons. However, the Monster soon discovers that Lenore is, in fact, a werewolf and is forced to kill her. [Frankenstein #1–5]

In search of his creator’s descendants, the Monster makes his way south to Castle Frankenstein in Switzerland, only to find it has been abandoned for twenty years. The castle has been taken over by a Colonel Blackstone, who is using a demonic giant spider he found there to turn captured men into zombies to serve him. Blackstone takes the Monster prisoner, but he breaks free, flooding the castle in the process. Blackstone and his zombies are drowned, as well as the spider-demon. From there, the Monster wanders east into Transylvania, where he is taken in by a gypsy caravan. He travels with them for several weeks, until one of the gypsies tricks him into removing the boulder that stands in front of the cave in which Dracula is buried. The gypsy revives Dracula, but the Frankenstein Monster kills her and is then able to drive a wooden stake through Dracula’s heart. During the battle, the Monster’s vocal cords are paralyzed. [Frankenstein #6–9]

The Monster is then found by Vincent Frankenstein and his hunchback servant, Ivan. They smuggle the Monster into London, England, but when he realizes they mean to betray him, the Monster attacks them. After a brutal battle, Ivan is about to behead the Monster with a sword when Frankenstein shoots him in the back to stop him. The Monster goes after Frankenstein with the sword, only to be shot twice in the chest. When he recovers, the Monster drags himself out of the laboratory and wanders north through Great Britain until he falls off a cliff into the North Sea. The frigid waters throw him back into a state of suspended animation. [Frankenstein #10–12]

Basil Frankenstein is born in London, England, to Vincent and Lenore Frankenstein. Lenore dies in childbirth and, holding Vincent responsible, her lady’s maid Betty shoots Vincent in the heart, killing him. Betty then takes the baby out of the country and raises him as her own son. [Frankenstein #11]

Having immigrated to the United States with his family, Silvio Manfredi joins the New York branch of the Maggia.

Winston J. Kranpuff manifests the mutant ability to project his mind into another person’s body. He uses this power to “possess” people purely for personal gain and eventually becomes one of the world’s richest men. [Solo Avengers #11]

### **1899**

Johann Schmidt is born in Germany to Hermann and Martha Schmidt. His mother dies in childbirth and his father tries to drown him, but the attending physician intervenes. When his father commits suicide soon after, Schmidt is sent to a crowded orphanage. [Captain America #298]

Dracula is revived yet again. He tracks down Abraham Van Helsing and kills him. Dracula’s body will soon reject the minute traces of silver that weaken him, restoring him to full strength. [Tomb of Dracula #20]

### **1900**

Isaac Christians is born in Christiansboro, Virginia, to Ezekial and Mary Christians.

Wolfgang von Strucker is born in Bavaria, Germany, the son of a Prussian nobleman.

Fah Lo Suee is born to the international criminal mastermind Fu Manchu and his Russian-born wife.

## **PART SEVEN: THE MODERN ERA**

### **1902**

Adrian Toomes is born on Staten Island in New York City.

Samuel James North is born.

Gus Mustin is born.

### **1903**

In Madrid, Spain, Death manifests in human form in an attempt to destroy Dracula once and for all. However, each time Death arranges for Dracula to be killed, the vampire is resurrected. Finally admitting to having no power over the undead, Death offers Dracula a truce. Even so, Death notes that there are still plenty of vampire hunters out there.

### **1904**

Thaddeus E. Ross is born.

Philip Masters is born in Dragorin, Transia, near Wundagore Mountain.

### **1905**

Karl Amadeus Mordo is born in Varf Mandra, Transylvania, the son of a Transylvanian nobleman named Nikolai and his wife Sara, the daughter of German Viscount Heinrich Krowler. All three adults are practitioners of black magic.

A member of the mystical race of the Neuri discovers a family of gypsies trapped in the snow and uses his powers to save their lives. However, the greedy family takes the Neuri prisoner so they can exploit his magical abilities. In time, the family members start killing each other off, until only two brothers remain. The Neuri will remain their prisoner for the next 70 years.

Ivan Kragoff is born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Vernon Van Dyne is born.

### **1906**

Johann Schmidt flees from the crowded orphanage, intending to live by his wits on the streets. However, he soon proves to be inept at both begging and thieving and is often victimized by older boys. Schmidt takes refuge in lightless cellars and crypts, sometimes spending weeks at a time in total darkness. He becomes fascinated by the strange visions his mind conjures up in the dark.

### **1907**

Heinrich Zemo is born at Castle Zemo in Germany, the son of a German nobleman.

David Fortunov is born in New York City.

Justin Hammer is born in Surrey, England.

Aaron Soames is born.

### **1908**

The exiled Inhuman Phaeder discovers a colony of Deviants and falls in love with Morga, a Deviant considered ugly by her race’s standards but quite attractive to Phaeder. They soon have a son, Maelstrom. Phaeder and Maelstrom will eventually leave the Deviants and begin traveling the world incognito.

Ulysses Klaw is born in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands.

Howard Stark is born.

### **1910**

John Falsworth, embittered that his older brother Montgomery has become the new Lord Falsworth and inherited the bulk of their father’s estate, travels throughout Europe seeking his fortune.

Ben Parker gets a job at a Coney Island amusement park. He hopes to woo May Reilly, though she thinks of him as just a friend.

Having been a recluse since accidentally causing the death of his brother, Isaac Christians begins to come out of his shell and befriends Buster Henderson and Elaine Willoughby.

Philip Masters and his parents immigrate to America from Transia when Philip is six years old.

Acting on the orders of her father, Viscount Krowler, Sara Mordo kills her husband Nikolai. She then takes her son Karl Amadeus back to Germany, where Krowler tutors the boy in the black arts of sorcery.

### **1911**

May Reilly is aggressively courted by the debonair small-time crook Johnny Jerome. May’s friend Ben Parker confronts them after Jerome kills a shopkeeper during a robbery. Thus learning of his criminal activities, May refuses Jerome’s marriage proposal, so he flees. Outside, Jerome is shot in the leg by the police and taken into custody. May turns to Ben Parker for comfort and soon falls in love with him.

Sir Denis Nayland Smith, an agent of the British government stationed in Burma, first crosses paths with the international criminal mastermind Fu Manchu, beginning a lifelong rivalry between them.

Sergei Kravinoff is born in Tsaritsyn, Russia.

### **1912**

Stephen Strange is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Eugene and Beverly Strange. They are a very well-to-do family.

Dracula finally exacts his revenge on Jonathan Harker by killing him and his wife Mina. Their son, Quincy Harker, dedicates his life to destroying all vampires.

### **1913**

May Reilly marries Ben Parker at a church in Brooklyn, New York.

Timothy Aloysius Cadwallader Dugan is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Luchino Nefaria is born in Rome, Italy.

Frank Hall is born in Banff, Alberta, Canada.

### **1914**

John Falsworth, making his way through Transylvania, seeks out Dracula. Falsworth believes he might find some way to enslave Dracula and bend the vampire to his will. However, Dracula easily overcomes Falsworth and drinks his blood. Falsworth dies and, three days later, rises from the dead as a vampire. Dracula then sends Falsworth back to London to wreak havoc on the country from which Dracula had fled decades before.

With the outbreak of World War I, the British government asks Montgomery, Lord Falsworth to assume the costumed identity of Union Jack. His one-man commando-style tactics are extremely successful against the German army.

The vampire John Falsworth, in order to help destroy England, offers his services to the German government. The Germans give the vampire the code-name Baron Blood and a bat-like costume with which to terrify his victims. Baron Blood soon becomes the Germans’ greatest secret weapon, murdering a number of top British army officials.

Ernest St. Ives is drafted into the army and sent to fight in France. He reluctantly leaves his wife and daughter behind, vowing to return to them one day.

J. Jonah Jameson is born in New York City.

Herbert Edgar Wyndham is born in Manchester, England.

Eugene Judd is born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

### **1915**

Nick Fury is born in New York City to Jack Fury and wife.

Michael Twoyoungmen is born on the Sarcee Indian Reservation outside Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

### **1916**

Dawn Fury is born in New York City to Jack Fury and wife. Some months later, Jack leaves his family and travels to England, intent on becoming a fighter pilot in the war, unaware that his wife is pregnant with their third child.

Bruce Dickson is born.

Basil Sandhurst is born in Kittery Point, Maine.

Roger Willis is born to Eric Willis, the immortal guardian of the Casket of Ancient Winters, an Asgardian artifact.

### **1917**

Karl Kaufman, an American citizen of German heritage and an experienced pilot, assumes the costumed identity of the Phantom Eagle so that he can fight in the war without endangering his parents, who are now living in Germany. He fights heroically for the Allies and becomes known as one of the greatest aerial pilots of the time.

Later, the Phantom Eagle encounters the Hulk, who has been sent back in time by Kang the Conqueror.

Union Jack and the Phantom Eagle team up with the French adventurer known as La Chevalier Cramoisi (the Crimson Cavalier) and a duo of British adventurers, Sir Steel and Silver Squire, as Freedom’s Five to fight the German forces. They work together occasionally throughout the remainder of the war. One of their greatest adversaries is Baron Blood, who always manages to escape them.

Isaac Christians grows heartsick when his beloved Elaine Willoughby marries Buster Henderson and, lying about his age, joins the U.S. Army to prove himself as a soldier. However, on his first day in combat, Christians flees from the battle, only to be caught in the woods by a German infantryman. As fate would have it, he is saved by Henderson, whose own unit has been massacred. They take refuge in a farmhouse, which is soon surrounded by enemy soldiers. Henderson charges out the door and dies in a hail of bullets, while Christians stands frozen with fear. Rescued by American forces, Christians is ashamed of his cowardice. A few months later, he receives word from home that his mother has died.

Now the latest Baron Russoff, Gregor marries a girl named Maria, the daughter of another Transylvanian noble family.

Sergei Kravinoff is brought to America by his parents, who are fleeing the Bolshevik takeover of Russia. The formerly aristocratic family is forced to live in poverty. His mother will eventually go insane.

Gus Mustin lies about his age to join the U.S. Army and is sent to fight in Europe. During his first battle, he is exposed to an experimental chemical weapon which triggers a latent mutation. He is soon given a medical discharge and sent home to his family farm. A few months later, he discovers he has gained superhuman strength. His father convinces him to keep his abilities a secret.

Ernest St. Ives, the sole survivor of his unit, is caught in an explosion that sends him plummeting into an ancient subterranean cavern. He lands in a pool of strange fluid just as mustard gas comes billowing into the chamber. The interaction of the two chemicals grants St. Ives a kind of immortality and makes any contact with his skin lethal. He interprets his experience as having fought off Death itself.

Elizabeth “Betsy” Ross is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dino Manelli is born in Italy. While he is still a child, his family immigrates to the United States.

Bentley Wittman is born.

Jake Fury is born in New York City to Jack Fury and wife.

**March 10th:** James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is born in Indiana

**August 15th:** Howard Stark is Born.

### **1918**

During the last few weeks of the war, Union Jack investigates a number of murders caused by Baron Blood. During their ensuing fight, Union Jack wounds the vampire with a silver dagger. Baron Blood then flees the country.

Jack Fury is killed in combat.

Near the end of the war, the Phantom Eagle attempts to get his parents out of Germany. However, before he can take to the skies, he is discovered by the German pilot Hermann von Reitberger, who shoots the Phantom Eagle and his family to death. However, through unknown means, the Phantom Eagle’s spirit remains on Earth, determined to have revenge on Reitberger. One week after his death, the Phantom Eagle appears in the skies in a ghost plane and shoots down Reitberger. However, Reitberger survives the crash but is now too frightened to fly. For decades, the Phantom Eagle’s spirit will haunt Reitberger, who will always manage to find some means of escape.

With the end of the war, Union Jack is officially retired by the British government. Lord Falsworth accepts the decommissioning of his costumed identity and eventually marries.

Disgusted by the war, Nathaniel Omen, a submarine captain, convinces his crew to leave the surface world behind to live in the ocean’s depths. Over time, their vessel is greatly enlarged and equipped with advanced technology. Omen also finds a way to genetically engineer his crew’s offspring to better survive in the deep-sea environment. Their submarine will not surface again for nearly fifty years.

Gabe Jones is born in New York City.

Izzy Cohen is born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irving and Selma Cohen.

William Nasland is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Wilson Fisk is born in New York City.

Boris Bullski is born in Makeyevka, Ukraine.

Cornelius van Lunt is born.

Gregory Russoff is born in Transylvania, eldest son of Baron and Baroness Russoff.

**May 8th:** Irish American Immigrant Joseph Rogers is killed in a mustard gas attack during the First Word War.

**July 4th:** Steve Rogers is born in New York to Irish American Immigrants Joseph and Sarah Rogers.

### **1919**

Paul Destine, a young man with psychic abilities, joins a traveling carnival and uses his powers as the show’s mentalist. While researching psychic phenomena, Destine learns of the race known as the Ancients, whom he believes were also mind-readers. Seeking to find the lost site of the Ancients’ civilization, Destine signs up with the Oracle, an American ship commanded by Leonard McKenzie which is on an expedition to Antarctica. After reaching Antarctica, Destine and McKenzie discover the remains of the Ancients’ city. While trying to free some artifacts from the ice, Destine inadvertently triggers an avalanche. McKenzie escapes unharmed and, believing Destine to be dead, returns to his ship. However, Destine survives and discovers the disguised Serpent Crown nearby. Placing the Serpent Crown on his head, Destine finds his injuries instantly healed. The crown also greatly increases both his physical strength and psychic powers. Using one of the Ancients’ devices, Destine places himself in suspended animation in order to allow his psychic powers to grow and develop.

Meanwhile, clearing a path through the ice fields off Antarctica using dynamite, McKenzie and the Oracle inadvertently cause damage to the undersea city of Atlantis. The Atlantean princess Fen is assigned to organize a search party to investigate the cause of the explosions. However, Fen is very adventurous and undertakes the mission alone. Taking with her a potion which allows her to breathe air for up to five hours at a time, Fen heads for the surface. Boarding the ship out of curiosity, Fen is discovered and brought to Captain McKenzie. After learning that the blasts were not meant as an act of war, Fen becomes attracted to McKenzie. She spends the next few months aboard the Oracle with him, and the two are soon married. The Atlanteans become very concerned about Fen’s long absence and search for her. Emperor Thakorr, discovering that his daughter is aboard the Oracle, assumes Fen is a prisoner. Thus, the Atlanteans attack the ship, killing most of the crew. Believing Leonard McKenzie to be among the dead, the distraught Fen returns to Atlantis.

Discharged from the military, Isaac Christians cannot face returning home to Virginia and instead makes his way to Paris, France, where he becomes obsessed with a prostitute named Germaine. When his lover eventually abandons him, Christians goes into a profound depression.

When Ernest St. Ives finally returns home from the war, his wife embraces him before he can stop her. She dies instantly due to his touch of death. His daughter screams in horror, and St. Ives flees, never to return.

Having spent the war in prison, Johann Schmidt is released and finds a job doing menial labor for a Jewish shopkeeper. Schmidt becomes obsessed with his employer’s daughter Esther when she shows him a small kindness. Overcome with lust, Schmidt makes clumsy attempts to woo her. When Esther spurns his sexual advances, Schmidt kills her with a shovel. He flees into the night, experiencing euphoria for the first time in his life.

Robert Frank is born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Dr. Emil Frank and wife.

Jeff Mace is born in Brooklyn, New York.

Maynard Tiboldt is born in Vienna, Austria, to circus owners Fritz and Lola Tiboldt.

Elihas Starr is born in Queens, New York.

### **1920**

Fen gives birth to Namor, a mutant hybrid of Homo sapiens and Homo mermanus. Namor, which means “Avenging Son,” is accepted by the Emperor despite the fact that he is half “air-breather.”

Leonard McKenzie recovers from his injuries and returns to the United States, but the story he tells is dismissed as the ravings of a disturbed mind. Unable to secure work, he is soon driven into bankruptcy. He is unaware that Fen was pregnant at the time of their separation.

Isaac Christians leaves France and wanders Europe before moving east to India, where he becomes the disciple of a guru called Vishnu Dass. Experiencing a spiritual awakening, Christians travels throughout the region with his guru, ministering to the poor.

A small plane crossing the Atlantic Ocean enters a fog bank and strikes the floating island of Aerie, home of the avian Inhumans who seceded from Attilan long ago. The crash has only one survivor, an infant boy. The Bird-People’s leader, King Aerivar XVIII, decides to raise the boy as one of their own and declares him to be the Heir of Cheiros. Called Red Raven because of his bright red hair, the boy is given artificial bat-wings and an anti-gravity pack so he can join his adopted family in the sky.

Viscount Heinrich Krowler meets Adolf Hitler, a fervent member of an obscure nationalist group in Germany. Krowler comes to believe that Hitler has great potential as a politician.

Percival Pinkerton is born in England.

Madeline Joyce is born in Washington, D.C.

Louise Grant is born in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Wilbur Day is born in New York City.

### **1921**

Baron Gregor Russoff obtains the Darkhold scrolls from the sorcerer Taboo and binds them back into book form. He also begins translating it and transcribes much of its content into his ancestor Grigori’s diary, which he then uses as his own diary. His studies of the evil tome cause him to be afflicted by the ancestral curse of lycanthropy, and he begins turning into a werewolf. He is able to hide this from his wife Maria, though it causes a growing rift between them. Furthermore, Gregor begins spending more and more of their money on his dark pursuits, causing financial hardship for the family.

Edwin Jarvis is born.

Robert Ralston is born in Louisville, Kentucky.

**April 9th:** Margaret “Peggy” Carter is born, presumably in Engnland to Harrison and Amanda Carter.

### **1922**

While in the Himalayas, Isaac Christians receives a letter from home informing him that his father has died and he is needed to take over the family business. Christians is reluctant to leave his guru, but Vishnu Dass convinces him to take what he has learned back to Virginia. After hiking out of the mountains, he makes his way back to Christiansboro, where he continues to read books on mysticism and the occult.

Reed Richards is born in Central City, California, to Nathaniel and Evelyn Richards.

Victor von Doom is born in Latveria to Werner and Cynthia von Doom.

Jonathan Juniper is born.

Birth of Cain Marko in Berkeley, California to Kurt and Marjory Marko.

### **1923**

Viscount Krowler sends Karl Amadeus, now Baron Mordo, to Tibet to become the disciple of the legendary sorcerer known as the Ancient One. Though he is aware of Mordo’s corrupt nature, the Ancient One hopes he can teach Mordo a better way.

Otto Octavius is born in Schenectady, New York.

Norman Osborn is born in Hartford, Connecticut.

Leland Owlsley is born.

Anthony Druid is born.

### **1924**

Harris Moore is born in New York City.

Michael Morbius is born in Greece.

Jason Wyngarde is born in England.

Alexander Gentry is born.

Miles Warren is born in Brooklyn, New York.

In Italy,Young biochemist Maria Vaselli is threatened by Mussolini´s regime to continue super soldier work.

### **1925**

Benjamin J. Grimm is born in New York City to Daniel and Elsi Grimm.

Jacqueline Falsworth is born to Lord and Lady Falsworth.

Klaus Voorhees is born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Nathan Garrett is born in London, England.

Jimmy Woo is born.

### **1926**

Logan, a mutant with animal-like senses and a rapid healing factor, leaves his home in Canada to sail around the world. In midwinter, his ship barely survives an intense storm as it moves through the Drake Passage beneath the southernmost tip of South America.

Upon graduation from the United States Military Academy, Thaddeus Ross marries Karen Lee, the daughter of a U.S. Army captain.

While in Rome, Dracula runs afoul of local gangster Big Nick Diablo, who sends a succession of hitmen out to kill him. However, the mobsters are unfamiliar with vampires, so their bombs, knives, and Tommy guns prove ineffective. Dracula turns the assassins into vampires along with Big Nick’s bodyguards, then orders them all to rip their boss to shreds.

Cain Marko is born in Berkeley, California, to Kurt and Marjory Marko.

Calvin Zabo is born in Trenton, New Jersey.

Peter Petruski is born in Gary, Indiana.

Samuel Smithers is born in London, England.

Gregor Shapanka is born in Szombathely, Hungary.

Dirk Garthwaite is born in New York City.

Christopher Summers is born to Phillip and Deborah Summers.

Birth of Benjamin Grimm in Lower Manhattan, New York, New York, to Daniel and Elai Grimm.

Birth of Charles Xavier in New York, New York to Brian and Sharon Xavier.

### **1927**

When Joseph Rogers dies, his wife Sarah struggles to support herself and her young son Steve.

Logan arrives in China where he meets a young woman named Rose. They have an adventure that leads them into a futuristic city in another dimension, possibly K’un-Lun.

Ted Sallis is born in Omaha, Nebraska.

Chen Lu is born in Lanzhou, China.

### **1928**

Herbert Edgar Wyndham, now a London-based geneticist, begins experiments on cellular mutation and artificial evolution. Wyndham is invited to the International Conference on Genetics held in Geneva, Switzerland. There, he meets Jonathan Drew, an American zoology student at Yale University. Also at the Geneva Conference are Wladyslav Shinski of Poland and Arnim Zola of Switzerland, as well as the German scientists Abraham Erskine and Basil Frankenstein. After the conference, Wyndham is given a blueprint for breaking the genetic code by Phaeder, the exiled Inhuman. The blueprints are the essential ingredient Wyndham needs to continue his research in artificial evolution. Wyndham is eventually successful in artificially evolving a dog into humanoid form. However, the dog-man quickly escapes from Wyndham, and when spotted by local villagers, it is shot and killed.

Jessica Drew is born in London, England, to Jonathan and Merriem Drew.

Leaving their two sons in a Transylvanian boarding school, Baron and Baroness Russoff close up their ancestral castle and move to their estate in the small neighboring country of Transia, land which includes Wundagore Mountain. Gregor leaves the bound scrolls of the Darkhold in the castle library, but takes with him his diary, into which most of the spells have been copied.

Fred Raymond, an expert on flameproofing, is working for Phineas T. Horton, who is conducting experiments with asbestos. Shortly after leaving Horton’s employ, Raymond marries Nora Jones, a scientist who had been exposed to radium. Nine months after their marriage, Nora gives birth to a mutant son, Thomas “Toro” Raymond. As Thomas grows up, his parents will discover that he is immune to fire.

Leonard Samson is born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Leopold Stryke is born.

Norbert Ebersol is born in Dayton, Ohio.

Carl Creel is born in New York City.

Sebastian Shaw is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Valentina Allegra de La Fontaine is born in Italy.

Erik Magnus Lehnsherr is born. Raven Darkholme is born.

Birth of Reed Richards in Central City, California to physicist Nathaniel Richards and his wife Evelyn.

### **1929**

Namor is raised by his mother, Fen, and his grandfather, Emperor Thakorr. Namor is openly adored by the Atlanteans, especially his playmate and companion Dorma, who will secretly grow to love Namor. However, some Atlanteans become jealous and secretly hostile towards Namor, not only because he is the future heir to the throne but also because he is a hybrid between Homo sapiens and Homo mermanus. A small number, such as his childhood friends Meranno and Byrrah, resent his pink skin, but they normally keep their feelings to themselves, fearing the Emperor’s wrath.

In Philadelphia, Stephen Strange’s family is fairly well insulated from the effects of the stock market crash. As the Great Depression begins, they remain wealthy and comfortable. The family members feel little sympathy for the less fortunate.

Evelyn Richards dies.

J. Jonah Jameson begins working as a copy boy in the offices of the Daily Bugle.

Jonathan Drew’s wife Merriem inherits a small piece of land in the nation of Transia, near Wundagore Mountain. Learning that large tracts of adjacent land are for sale by Baron Gregor Russoff, Drew purchases the land to add to their estate. Included in the land is Wundagore Mountain itself.

Phillip Masters discovers radioactive clay at Wundagore Mountain.

In China, Logan meets a young man named Chang. They are photographed together on a pier in front of a three-masted sailing ship.

Charles Xavier is born in New York City to Brian and Sharon Xavier.(comic)

The man known as Magnus is born in Poland.

Moira Kinross is born in Scotland to Lord and Lady Kinross.

Samuel Sterns is born in Boise, Idaho.

Milos Masaryk is born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.

Peter Corbeau is born.

### **1930**

Stephen Strange graduates from high school and enters the University of Pennsylvania, intent on becoming a medical doctor.

Nick Fury and his friends routinely brawl with the notorious Yancy Street Gang, enabling Nick to develop his signature no-holds-barred fighting style.

Herbert Wyndham and Jonathan Drew begin construction of a small research laboratory on Wundagore Mountain in Transia. During construction, the two discover deposits of uranium. They decide to mine the ore to finance the construction of their research station. Now with nearly unlimited funds, they contract German astrophysicist Horace M. Grabsheid to design their “Citadel of Science,” asking him to make the facility space-worthy.

One night, Drew’s daughter Jessica is frightened by the appearance of Baron Gregor Russoff in his werewolf form. Investigating, Wyndham is contacted again by Phaeder, who has trained a number of Moloid Subterraneans to serve in both the mining of the uranium and the construction of the citadel.

Logan travels to Japan, where he becomes close friends with a man named Bando Saburo. From Bando, Logan learns to appreciate Kabuki theater.

Wilson Fisk earns fifteen dollars by setting fire to a factory, committing his first murder in the process.

One of Merlyn’s chosen guard leaves Otherworld and takes up residence on Earth, where he assumes the identity of James Braddock.

Robert Bruce Banner is born in Dayton, Ohio, to Brian and Rebecca Banner.

Sean Cassidy is born at Cassidy Keep in Ireland.

Jericho Drumm and his twin brother Daniel Drumm are born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Owen Reece is born in New York City.

Zebediah Killgrave is born in Rijeka, Yugoslavia.

Bruno Horgan is born in Queens, New York.

Emil Blonsky is born in Zagreb, Yugoslavia.

Jonathan Powers is born in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Henry Peter Gyrich is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

**December 18th:** Birth of Robert Bruce Banner in Dayton, Ohio to Brian and Rebecca Banner. Brian Banner became jealous over the amount of time and attention his wife gave to his son. He also began to worry that his own work in radiation experiments may have resulted in Bruce being a mutant. Over time his increasing anger and paranoia resulted in occasional bursts of violence, and Brian Banner began physically abusing his wife and young son.

### **1931**

Six months after the Subterraneans begin working for Herbert Wyndham and Jonathan Drew, Jessica Drew collapses from radiation poisoning. She is placed in a cryogenic tube to slow down her cellular damage, and Jonathan administers a treatment he has devised from spider extract. However, because the treatment will take months to be effective, Jonathan decides to keep her in stasis so that the radiation poisoning won’t do any more damage to her. Within the stasis tube, Jessica ages at an extremely slow rate. Upset about her daughter’s condition, Merriem Drew goes for a moonlit walk and is killed by the werewolf Gregor Russoff. Wyndham discovers her body but tells Jonathan that she must have died in a fall. Jonathan has been suspicious of the Subterraneans and Wyndham doesn’t want him to conclude that they had attacked Merriem. While searching for Merriem’s killer, Wyndham is attacked by the werewolf, but the sunrise causes the creature to retreat. Jonathan, distraught over the death of his wife and his daughter’s sickness, returns to England, leaving Jessica’s care to Wyndham.

Now alone, Wyndham experiments with treating Jessica with his prototype genetic accelerator. He realizes her course of treatment will span many years. Worried about further werewolf attacks, Wyndham constructs a suit of silver-plated armor to protect himself. A month later, the werewolf enters the citadel and kills one of the Subterraneans. Wyndham manages to capture and contain the beast, but the death of one of their own causes the Subterraneans to abandon the citadel, which is near completion. After Gregor Russoff returns to human form, Wyndham offers to take responsibility for restraining Russoff’s bestial alter-ego in exchange for the opportunity to study his bizarre condition. Gregor agrees and soon reveals to Maria that he has a “sickness” and is going to stay at the Citadel of Science for treatment. Although she remains living in the house nearby, he never sees his wife again. He arranges for his eldest son, Gregory, to assume the baronetcy upon his maturity. Then, he withdraws completely from the outside world. Ultimately, Wyndham’s studies of Gregor prove inconclusive. Nevertheless, Gregor remains in Wyndham’s care, helping him put the finishing touches on the research facility.

Logan begins to study the martial arts under a ninja master named Ogun, whom he soon comes to regard as a father-figure. In the process, Logan becomes an enemy of The Hand, a cult of ninja assassins.

Walter Langkowski is born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

### **1932**

Industrialist Howard Stark has a mansion constructed at 890 Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Steve Rogers befriends a neighborhood boy named Arnie Roth. More physically robust than Steve, Arnie frequently defends him from bullies. With his father dead and his mother working long hours, Steve spends a great deal of time with the Roth family.

Agon, head of the ruling Inhuman Council of Geneticists, makes significant advances in the prediction of Terrigen effects on Inhuman genes. Agon convinces his wife, Rynda, to expose herself to Terrigen while pregnant. Agon and Rynda also persuade their brothers and sisters to expose their children to Terrigen while in utero. Months later, Blackagar Boltagon is born to Rynda. In infancy, Black Bolt demonstrates energy manipulative powers which he is too young to control. To protect the citizens and the city of Attilan, he is placed within a soundproof chamber. Within the chamber, he will be educated and learn how to control his powers, but this will take many years.

Wilson Fisk, now the leader of a small gang of criminals, rapidly increases his power base through his organizational skills. He eventually becomes successful enough to invest in legitimate businesses.

Fu Manchu develops his Elixir Vitae, a life-prolonging serum that begins to reverse his aging process. He shares the serum with his daughter, Fah Lo Suee.

James MacDonald Hudson is born in London, Ontario, Canada.

William Baker is born in Queens, New York.

Curt Connors is born in Coral Gables, Florida.

Seth Voelker is born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

St. John Allerdyce is born in Sydney, Australia.

Rachel Van Helsing is born.

**January 10:** Abraham Erskine, having heard of Vaselli´s research, begins working in a German University on the Super Soldier Serum separately (presumably inspired by reports of the death of Hugo Danner at this time).

### **1933**

Ben Grimm witnesses his older brother Dan getting killed in a street gang fight. Dan’s criminal activities as the leader of the Yancy Street Gang provided the bulk of the family’s income, due to his father being an underemployed alcoholic. Thus, Dan’s death causes great financial as well as emotional hardship.

David Fortunov, a private detective based in Los Angeles, California, becomes a celebrity as an adventurer-for-hire under the name Dominic Fortune.

“Dutch” Mallone, a gangster living in Forest Hills, Queens, New York, is arrested by Eliot Ness and charged with tax evasion. Mallone spends the rest of his life in prison, but it is long rumored that before he was arrested he stashed away millions of dollars. In fact, Mallone had hidden the money in one of the walls of his Forest Hills home. Mallone’s house will later be bought by Ben and May Parker.

Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party come to power in Germany.

Baron Heinrich Zemo, a young German scientist, offers his services to the Nazi government as a designer of new technology and weaponry for the military and intelligence services.

James Braddock meets his future wife, Elizabeth. Within a year, they are married.

Shanna O’Hara is born in Zaire, Africa, to American parents, Gerald and Patricia O’Hara. From her mother, Shanna receives an inhabiting spirit, an ancient mystical entity known as the Queen of the Pride, that lies dormant within her.

Quentin Beck is born in Riverside, California.

Paul Duval is born in Fontainebleau, France.

Eric Williams is born in Paterson, New Jersey, to Sanford and Martha Williams.

Johann Schmidt begins researching the Occult and learns about the Tesseract, beginning his search for it.

### **1934**

Horace M. Grabsheid and his infant son Robert immigrate to America following the death of his wife and daughter, for which he blames the Nazis. Grabsheid, a Jew, legally changes his name to Matthew Grayson. Concerned about raising his son in a world where such hatred and prejudice exist, Grayson begins monitoring radio waves from outer space. He also begins making plans to construct a rocket which will carry him and his son into orbit, planning to stay in space until the end of the coming world war, which he sees as inevitable. Eventually, Grayson makes radio contact with the Uranian Eternals. Still despondent after their discovery of a grand unified theory of everything, the Uranians are eager to hear news of their native planet. They then send Grayson the technical knowledge he needs to build a spaceship capable of interplanetary travel. The Eternals persuade Grayson to make the trip to Uranus, so they can study his mortal genes in hopes of discovering a method by which to terminate their own existence. Fearful of retribution from Nazi spies and believing Uranus to be a perfect society, Grayson begins construction of the spaceship in his own back yard.

Stephen Strange graduates from college and enrolls in the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.

Prince Namor of Atlantis sprouts fin-like wings on his ankles that, he soon discovers, grant him the ability to fly through the air.

J. Jonah Jameson becomes a full-time reporter for the New York Herald Journal-Express, but when he doggedly pursues a story on police corruption, William Walter Goodman pursuades him to return to the Daily Bugle. Six weeks later, Jameson is distraught when a young copyboy is killed by a bomb meant for Jameson, but Goodman convinces him to fight for what he believes in. Jameson confronts the corrupt police officer and endures a brutal beating in order to get a confession. Impressed, Goodman takes Jameson under his wing. Riding high on his success, Jameson marries his long-time girlfriend Joan.

Notorious gangster “Machine Gun” Martin escapes from prison only to stumble upon a Skrull slave ship. He is captured by the alien slaver and transported to the planet Kral in the Andromeda Galaxy. Martin’s bellicose antics inspire a fad among the Skrulls to imitate his “gangland” culture, and before long the practice has spread all across the planet.

Fritz Tiboldt, owner, manager, and ringmaster of Tiboldt’s Circus in Austria, becomes a staunch supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Brian Banner becomes convinced that his son Bruce is a mutant “freak” possessed of superhuman intelligence.

Natalia Alianovna Romanova is born in Stalingrad, U.S.S.R.

Medusalith Amaquelin is born on the island of Attilan to Quelin and Ambur of the Royal Family of the Inhumans.

Tania Belinskya is born in Leningrad, U.S.S.R.

Triton is born on the island of Attilan to Mander and Azur of the Royal Family of the Inhumans.

Max Dillon is born in Endicott, New York.

Ebenezer Laughton is born in Rhinebeck, New York.

MacDonald Gargan is born.

### **1935**

In Berlin, Johann Schmidt manages to get a job as a porter at a nice hotel. When Adolf Hitler comes to stay one night, the dictator sees in Schmidt a hatred for all mankind and decides to mold him into the perfect Nazi. Recognizing Hitler as a kindred spirit, Schmidt readily agrees to accept the Führer as his master. Impressed by the man’s ruthlessness, Hitler personally oversees Schmidt’s training as a Nazi agent and gives him a blood-red skull mask to wear. Codenamed the Red Skull, Schmidt is made into a symbol of Nazi power and intimidation, and is answerable only to Hitler himself.

Herbert Wyndham revives Jessica Drew from suspended animation for a period of one year to continue treating her for radiation poisoning. Since neither he nor Gregor Russoff have experience caring for young children, Wyndham hires a nurse from the local village to watch over Jessica between sessions in the prototype genetic accelerator. The nurse is disturbed by the nature of Wyndham’s experiments.

James Braddock purchases Braddock Manor, which the family had sold some years before, and moves in with his new bride.

Quincy Harker succeeds in destroying Lilith, daughter of Dracula. As a point of honor, Dracula attacks Harker at the opera, crippling him and nearly killing his wife, Elizabeth. Undaunted, Harker builds a wheelchair containing an anti-vampire arsenal. Due to her unique nature, Lilith spends the next three decades wandering England as a disembodied spirit.

American intelligence agents S.J. North and George C. Cooper join Chinese revolutionary Mao Zedong during the Long March of the Red Army.

Carol Danvers is born in Boston, Massachusetts, to Joseph and Marie Danvers.

Bobbi Morse is born in San Diego, California.

Gorgon is born on the island of Attilan to Korath and Milena of the Royal Family of the Inhumans.

**May 27th:** Birth of Anthony Stark in Long Island, New York to Howard and Maria Stark.

**September 14th:** Hearing Hitler will introduce Anti-semitic laws, Erskine attempts to flee Germany with his family but is captured by Schmidt and forced into aiding Vaselli with the Super Soldier Serum.

### **1936**

Reed Richards begins taking college-level courses at the California Institute of Technology.

Brian Banner murders his wife Rebecca, seriously traumatizing their young son Bruce. With his father committed to a mental institution, Bruce is taken in by his aunt.

Steve Rogers is left an orphan when his mother dies. With no other living relatives, he must struggle to get by on his own. Increasingly withdrawn, Steve drifts away from his more gregarious friend Arnie Roth.

Logan enters the final stage of his ninja training with Ogun, in which his sensei uses quasi-mystical psychic powers to imprint himself on his student’s mind. When the process threatens to overwhelm Logan’s personality, he rebels and breaks free of Ogun’s influence. Disillusioned, Logan leaves Japan, not expecting to ever return.

Baron Wolfgang von Strucker, a Prussian nobleman, is recruited by the Nazi government’s intelligence services.

Upon reaching the age of 18, Gregory Russoff becomes the new Baron Russoff, graduates from school, and returns to the family’s ancestral castle to live.

Henry Pym is born in Elmsford, New York.

Tony Stark is born on Long Island, New York, to Howard and Maria Stark.

Marc Spector is born in Czechoslovakia to Elias Spector and wife.

Walter Newell is born in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

John Jameson is born in New York City to Jonah and Joan Jameson.

Maximus is born on the island of Attilan to Agon and Rynda of the Royal Family of the Inhumans.

Helmut Zemo is born in Leipzig, Germany, to Baron Heinrich and Hilda Zemo.

David Cannon is born in Kansas City, Missouri.

Abner Jenkins is born in Baltimore, Maryland.

Georges Batroc is born in Marseilles, France.

Erik Josten is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Jamie Braddock is born in England to James and Elizabeth Braddock.

Karla Sofen is born in Van Nuys, California.

Giulietta Nefaria is born in Rome, Italy, to Count Luchino Nefaria and his wife Renata, who dies in childbirth. Count Nefaria arranges for his daughter to be raised in New York City by the wealthy financier Byron Frost, who launders money for Nefaria’s Maggia syndicate. She is renamed Whitney Frost and brought up unaware of her true parentage.

**February 12th:** Birth of Virginia Potts.

**February 13th:** Schmidt's forces in Italy capture a 14 year old teenager named Tadzio Di Santis in order to test the serum´s reliability. Vaselli and Erskine are horrified.

**October 15th:** Sarah Rogers dies of Tuberculosis.

### **1937**

Ben Grimm joins the Yancy Street Gang, despite what happened to his brother.

Logan and soldier-of-fortune Eugene Judd both fight in the Spanish Civil War. While there, they become friends with news correspondent Ernest Hemingway.

While exploring the Himalayas, Wendell Rand wanders into the extradimensional realm of K’un-Lun, where he saves the realm’s ruler, Lord Tuan, and his son from the dragon Shou-Lao the Undying. The dragon gravely injures Rand during its retreat, so Lord Tuan carries him into his city, where he is nursed back to health by the beautiful maiden Shakirah. Out of gratitude, Lord Tuan adopts Rand into his House of K’ai and names him as heir to the throne of K’un-Lun. Tuan’s son, a few years younger than Rand, is embittered by this decision, and his hatred for his adopted brother only grows when Rand and Shakirah are married. Within a year, they have a daughter, Miranda Rand-K’ai.

Dominic Fortune and his girlfriend, casino owner Sabbath Raven, travel to New York City, where they thwart a Nazi scheme to use comic books for fascist propaganda. Fortune is then hired by the Police Commissioner to rescue a socialite from undead mobsters. At a movie premiere in a Broadway theater, Fortune stops Baron Wolfgang von Strucker from assassinating a U.S. senator and reveals the film’s lead actor to be Nazi agent. Next, Fortune and Raven expose Hollywood child star Tiny Tina Timmons as a diminutive adult woman who is trying to have her ex-husband murdered.

Japan invades China, initiating the second Sino-Japanese War.

Biochemist Arnim Zola discovers a cache of Deviant scientific papers on genetic research in his ancestral castle in Switzerland. After deciphering the Deviant language, Zola begins experiments on creating artificial life.

John Kowalski, a Polish immigrant, has won the Medal of Honor while serving in the United States Marine Corps. However, he is framed for espionage and convicted of high treason by a military tribunal. Stripped of his citizenship, Kowalski is forced to return to Poland.

On Christmas Eve, Dominic Fortune saves the British ambassador from an assassin dressed as Santa Claus. His efforts are hampered by wealthy socialite Lamar Canfield, who is attempting to fight crime as a gun-toting mystery man called the Silhouette.

Matt Murdock is born in New York City to Jack and Grace Murdock.

T’Challa is born in the African kingdom of Wakanda to its chieftain, T’Chaka, and his wife N’Yami, who dies in childbirth.

Carl Lucas is born in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City.

Simon Williams is born in Paterson, New Jersey, to Sanford and Martha Williams.

Jennifer Walters is born in Los Angeles, California, to Morris and Elaine Walters.

Francis Castiglione is born in Queens, New York, to Mario and Louisa Castiglione.

Karnak is born on the island of Attilan to Mander and Azur of the Royal Family of the Inhumans.

David Angar is born in San Francisco, California.

### **1938**

Stephen Strange earns his MD and begins an internship at a major hospital. He meets another intern named Robinson, and they form a professional friendship, though Strange remains rather self-centered. Strange soon realizes he finds it difficult to care about his patients at all. Then, his mother dies after a long illness.

Back in California, Dominic Fortune prevents a power-hungry newspaper magnate from betraying the United States to the Japanese military, then stops a disgruntled movie star with a device that causes earthquakes. Fortune and Sabbath Raven then help Timothy “Dum-Dum” Dugan save his circus from being taken over by an unscrupulous businessman.

Matthew Grayson and his young son Robert leave Earth for the planet Uranus. Upon arrival, they are greeted by the Eternals with open arms. The Uranians secretly scan the Graysons, hoping to discover a key to ending their own immortal existence. The Eternals share with Grayson their knowledge of the grand unified theory of everything and provide him a fully-functioning laboratory. As he grows up, Robert Grayson becomes very close to a young female Eternal named Lilli.

Dane Whitman is born in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Elektra Natchios is born in Greece to Hugo and Christina Natchios.

Angelo Unuscione is born in Milan, Italy.

Arthur Parks is born in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Hannibal King is born.

Sharon Carter is born in Richmond, Virginia, to Harrison and Amanda Carter.

Maria Trovaya is born in Budapest, Hungary.

Charles Xavier and Raven Darkholme meet each other as children in Xavier's mansion. Raven is soon adopted as Charles' foster sister.

### **1939**

Private detective Thomas Halloway, a true renaissance man, dons a red and blue costume to fight crime as the Angel. Wishing to do more than he could as a gumshoe, Halloway uses his fighting skill and wide-ranging knowledge to smash numerous crime syndicates and other menaces to public safety.

Professor Phineas T. Horton, one of the pioneers in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, finally creates a fully-functional android in his Brooklyn, New York, laboratory, one which mimics virtually all of the organic functions of a human being, including independent thought. Horton intends to use the android to make himself wealthy. However, a flaw in the photo-electric solar cells which cover the android causes his skin to burst into flame upon contact with air, although the android remains unharmed. After revealing his creation to the public at a news conference, Horton is pressured into containing the android until a means can be found to control his flame. Horton reluctantly does so, sealing the android inside a tube submerged in concrete. However, Horton provides the android with audio devices so that he can learn of the human world. The android spends weeks thus trapped, until a crack in the concrete allows a small amount of oxygen to penetrate the capsule. Igniting his flame, the android frees himself. Inadvertently causing property damage as he explores the city, the android douses himself in a swimming pool. Called the Human Torch, the android soon learns to control his flame and becomes a successful crime-fighter. However, refusing to allow himself to be exploited for profit, the android distances himself from Horton. The Human Torch then establishes a human identity, naming himself Jim Hammond and entering the New York Police Academy. Horton is subsequently ostracized by the scientific community due to the destruction and panic that the Human Torch caused. Furthermore, claiming that Horton could not control his experiments, the government impounds his equipment and chemicals.

His internship completed, Stephen Strange enters a surgery program and is trained in neurosurgery, for which he demonstrates a great talent. His mentor is Dr. Kenneth W. Ward, a top neurosurgeon, part-time explorer, and collector of occult antiquities. Recognizing each other’s talents, they become close friends.

After the Nazis seize power in Czechoslovakia, Elias Spector takes his family and flees to America. They settle in a poor section of Chicago, Illinois.

Eugene Judd discovers the mystical Black Blade of Baghdad. Upon touching the scimitar, Judd releases the spirit of an ancient Persian sorcerer named Razor, who had been imprisoned within the sword centuries before by his fellow wizards. Razor attacks Judd, and Judd quickly learns that the weapon allows Razor to absorb a portion of his victim’s lifeforce, manifested physically as a shrinking in stature. Razor boasts that he can repeat the process until his victim vanishes into nothingness. However, Judd manages to use his own mystical knowledge to draw Razor inside his body and trap him there. Because Razor had struck Judd with the scimitar several times, Judd finds himself reduced to only 3 ½ feet tall. The presence of Razor within his body causes Judd incredible pain, but the mystical energies he has absorbed cause Judd to age very slowly.

Herbert Wyndham revives Jessica Drew again to continue her treatments. Unable to find any villagers willing to come to the Citadel of Science, Wyndham supervises her care personally. They develop a close father-daughter bond. At the end of the year, Wyndham places Jessica back into suspended animation, unaware that the cryogenic process completely erases her memory.

Gerald O’Hara accidentally kills his wife while trying to shoot a leopard and subsequently sends his traumatized daughter Shanna to live with relatives in the United States.

Brian Falsworth, the son of the Union Jack, disagrees with his father regarding Britain’s non-interference policy towards Nazi Germany, believing Hitler is doing good things for the German people. Brian goes so far as to travel to Germany with his friend Roger Aubrey, but is shocked to learn the truth about the Third Reich.

Adolf Hitler’s Germany invades Poland, kicking off World War II. The Nazis begin taking over Polish cities. Thousands of Poles, Jews, and Gypsies living in the area are rounded up and sent to Nazi work camps. The family of Magnus begins to fear for their lives. During the invasion, John Kowalski is killed, but his cursed spirit is damned to an eternity as Death's servant. Meanwhile, Baron Wolfgang von Strucker is transferred to full military service. Still in Germany when war is officially declared, Brian Falsworth and Roger Aubrey are arrested and sent to separate prison camps.

Newspaper reporter Mark Todd goes to China to cover the Sino-Japanese War. There, he stumbles upon a mysterious race of “Skull Men,” who grant him superhuman strength and an invulnerability to fire. Sickened by the carnage he has covered as a reporter, Todd renounces his philosophy of pacifism, dons a red costume and flaming skull mask and attacks the Japanese army as the Blazing Skull.

Fritz Tiboldt is asked by the German government to take his circus troupe to America. Traveling from city to city under the guise of an innocent circus, Nazi agents within the group perform assassinations on U.S. government officials. Fritz Tiboldt is soon nicknamed the Ringmaster of Death.

Meranno, childhood friend of Prince Namor and now an Atlantean research scientist, contacts the German government and betrays the location of the undersea city. The Nazis launch an undersea invasion of Atlantis, wiping out their primitive forces, destroying the Hall of Science, and leaving Emperor Thakorr in a coma. Namor, as acting emperor, banishes Meranno from the realm. Meranno then joins the Nazis, hoping they will provide him with the means to gain vengeance on Namor. After Emperor Thakorr revives, his stepson Byrrah convinces him to send Namor to the surface world. It is Byrrah’s ambition that Namor will never return. Subsequently, Prince Namor makes numerous attacks on the surface world, particularly targeting the city of New York. The New York newspapers dub him the Sub-Mariner.

The Red Skull becomes involved in subversive activities on American soil.

The American government, realizing that war against Germany is imminent, decides to come up with an American counterpart to the Red Skull and assigns Dr. Abraham Erskine to work on Operation: Rebirth, a project dedicated to creating perfect “super-soldiers.” However, fearing that the super-soldiers might one day turn against their creators, Dr. Daniel Schumann proposes Project T.E.S.S (Total Elimination of Super-Soldiers), which involves the creation of an army of robots to be activated only in the event the super-soldiers become a threat. Schumann’s proposal is accepted and he is reassigned to work on a prototype robot.

The widowed King T’Chaka of Wakanda remarries, taking Ramonda as his second wife. Within the year, their son Jakarra is born.

Susan Storm is born on Long Island, in Glenville, New York, to Franklin and Mary Storm.

Betty Ross is born in California to Thaddeus and Karen Ross.

Bill Foster is born in Los Angeles, California.

Will Talltrees is born in Wolf Point, Montana, to Thomas and Rebecca Talltrees.

Maximillian Q. Coleridge is born.

Mark Scarlotti is born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Anthony and Barbara Scarlotti.

**April 30:** The 1939 New York-Metropolis World’s Fair takes place. Howard Stark presents an experimental flying car. Professor Phineas Horton introduces his “Human Torch” android. Reporters Phil Sheldon, Clark Kent and Lois Lane and present. The Public demand he destroy it. he instead contains it underground until he is able to escape, eventually becoming a Hero. Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes attend as well.

**Late:** Namor the Sub Mariner begins attacks alongside the American shoreline.

### **1940**

The Human Torch, realizing he could make a better crime-fighter as his super-powered self than as a rookie beat cop, approaches New York Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine. While there, the Torch is introduced to policewoman Betty Dean. Commissioner Valentine appoints the Human Torch as New York City’s first legal officer without a uniform.

When his parents die suddenly, Ben Grimm leaves Yancy Street and his gang to move in with his estranged Uncle Jake and Aunt Alyce at their uptown apartment. Though he behaves like a juvenile delinquent at first, Ben eventually settles in and finds acceptance at his new high school by becoming the star of the football team.

Brian Xavier is killed in an atomic bomb test while working on the Manhattan Project. His colleague, Kurt Marko, marries Brian’s widow Sharon. Marko’s son Cain joins the family at the Xavier mansion in Salem Center, NY.

T’Chaka and Ramonda travel to South Africa to attend the funeral of her father. She remains behind when T’Chaka is summoned back to Wakanda on an urgent matter. A British hunting expedition has discovered the vibranium mound and requested permission to send samples back to England for analysis, so T’Chaka returns home to negotiate the terms. He decides to allow the foreigners to take some samples out of the country, hoping to learn more about the ore’s peculiar properties. However, Ramonda suddenly disappears and, despite his best efforts, T’Chaka is unable to find her. He eventually receives photographs of Ramonda in compromising positions with a white South African man, leading T’Chaka to believe she has betrayed him. He decides to never discuss the scandal with his sons T’Challa and Jakarra.

The British share the Wakandan ore samples with some American scientists, and the substance is dubbed “vibranium” due to its unique properties.

Ramonda is held prisoner by a South African official named Anton Pretorius, who will rape her on a regular basis for the next 34 years.

Using Deviant technology, the Atlanteans begin constructing their first warships. They also begin work on creating a giant, monstrous android that will be known as the Behemoth.

Robert Frank, a scientist who has gained superhuman speed in a bizarre incident involving cobra venom and mongoose blood, develops the costumed identity of the Whizzer and becomes a successful adventurer and spy-buster.

Bruce Dickson, a scientist exploring Mount Kalpurthia in the Himalayas, becomes separated from his expedition during a blizzard. Seeking refuge in a cave, the scientist discovers a portal to the ancient city of Kalahia. Dickson loses consciousness, and upon awakening, he discovers that the Kalahians have experimented on him, giving him the ability to make his own body paper-thin. Upon returning to the western world, Dickson establishes himself as the costumed adventurer the Thin Man.

Professor Philo Zog, an extremely wealthy and brilliant inventor, builds a large, powerful robot which he calls “Electro.” The robot is bulletproof, and can even withstand small artillery. It can run at over 100 m.p.h. It can leap into the sky and cover huge distances, and is possessed of tremendous strength. The robot can be summoned by means of a wireless transceiver. Concerned about crime and the degenerating world situation, Professor Zog recruits a dozen men, among them a capable agent named Dick Gardner, to serve as a vanguard against criminals and foreign subversives, using Electro as their main weapon. Zog’s valet, Mr. Burke, and his secretary, Wilkins, help manage and operate the organization.

The Sub-Mariner again attacks New York City in retaliation for the destruction of his home. The Human Torch engages the Sub-Mariner in a battle which causes extensive property damage to the city. Finally, the Torch promises Namor he will attempt to arrange a truce between the surface-men and the Atlanteans.

American civilian Nick Fury, a member of a stunt flying team, is hired by the British military to instruct commandos in the art of parachuting. Among his students is Sam Sawyer, an American lieutenant serving in the British army. Sawyer convinces Fury and his buddy Red Hargrove to accompany him on a search-and-rescue mission in Holland. While there, they meet Timothy “Dum Dum” Dugan, an American working as a circus strongman, who helps them escape from the Gestapo.

Victoria Murdock, better known as the Asbestos Lady, a criminal whose modus operandi involves fire, breaks into the home of Fred and Nora Raymond to force them to develop new ways she can use asbestos in her crimes. However, the Human Torch, suspecting the Asbestos Lady’s plans, witnesses the break-in and captures her gang. Unfortunately, the Asbestos Lady gets away. While at the Raymonds’ home, the Human Torch learns of their son Toro’s immunity to fire.

After nearly 90 years lying in suspended animation, Spencer Keen awakes. Upon clawing his way out of his grave, he finds he has become super-strong and basically invulnerable. He soon stumbles across a plot hatched by a half-Japanese, half-Polish scientist, Professor Maluski, to create a race of zombies to take over the world. After defeating Maluski, the bewildered Keen is hailed as a “superhero.” His efforts to explain himself are misinterpreted, and he is dubbed the “Blue Blaze” by reporters. Soon after, Keen battles an insane scientist named Barko, who has developed a freezing ray, and has him committed to an asylum.

Kevin Plunder is born in London, England, to Robert and Blanche Plunder (Lord and Lady Plunder).

The Asbestos Lady, obsessed with her failure to kidnap the Raymonds, causes a train the Raymonds are traveling on to derail. The train bursts into flames, killing Fred and Nora Raymond. However, their son Toro escapes unharmed. Toro is then taken in by a married team of circus fire-eaters. Hearing reports of a fireproof boy, the Human Torch realizes that it must be the son of the Raymonds. Approaching Toro at the circus, the Human Torch’s presence causes Toro’s mutant abilities to manifest, and he bursts into flame for the first time. The Human Torch then arranges to become Toro’s legal guardian and starts training him in the use of his powers. The two soon become a successful crime-fighting duo.

British Army Lieutenant John Watkins is on a boat in the English Channel when it comes under attack by a Nazi plane, which strafes the boat with machine gun fire. Watkins is hit and falls overboard. When the boat returnes to base, it is reported that Watkins is dead.

The family of Magnus is arrested by the Nazis and forced to stand at the edge of a pit with other families. Then, the Nazis begin shooting them. The terror of the incident prematurely activates Magnus’ mutant abilities, and he unconsciously uses his magnetic powers to change the paths of the bullets, avoiding harm as his family is killed around him. However, the experience so drains him that he falls unconscious. Believing him dead, the Nazis bury him along with the rest of his family, but the boy quickly regains consciousness and claws his way to the surface. The Germans are so astonished that he is alive that, instead of finishing their murderous act, they decide to send the boy to the new labor camp at Auschwitz.

A device invented by Dr. Enoch Mason summons the extradimensional creature named Aarkus, who will spend the next few years on Earth battling evil. The press dubs the mysterious being the Vision.

Red Raven decides to leave his home in the Aerie and explore the world of his birth parents. Appalled at social conditions among ground-dwellers, Red Raven decides to become a crime-fighter.

After many years of research and development, scientists Joel Williams and Joshua Williams, brothers, build a robot with a rubber body filled with an experimental gas, which they can operate by remote control. Their creation is dubbed “Flexo the Rubber Man” and it uses its great speed, astounding strength, and ability to fly to perform spectacular feats.

Dominic Fortune and Sabbath Raven break up a Nazi spy ring led by Wolfgang von Lundt. The couple then travels to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, where, after an argument, Raven disappears. Fortune’s efforts to search for her are hampered by the German bombing of the city, and he is soon evacuated with the other Americans there. Back in the United States, Fortune sinks into a severe depression.

The demon Mephisto manipulates a psychic who calls herself “Claire Voyant” into becoming an immortal killer who chooses evil men as her victims. She comes to be called the Black Widow.

Over the summer, the Blue Blaze becomes a sensation, and many local mobsters come to fear their super-strong, bulletproof foe. One such crime boss, called Dr. Gair, employs a Jewish astrologer and magician known as the Star-Gazer, who seemingly creates monsters and death rays to kill the Blue Blaze. However, the Blaze is triumphant and the villains end up dead, much to Spencer Keen’s satisfaction.

Dr. Myron MacLain begins working for the American government to develop a super-metal from which invulnerable tanks can be built. Months later, MacLain falls asleep while attempting to fuse his experimental enhanced steel with a sample of Wakandan vibranium. When he awakes, he discovers that he has succeeded due to some unknown factor having entered the mix, which he is subsequently unable to isolate or reproduce. MacLain pours his new alloy into a disc-shaped mold for testing and finds that, once it hardens, this metal is virtually impervious to harm. He devotes the next decade to trying to duplicate the process, without success.

John Watkins returns to England, having been rescued by a French fisherman and nursed back to health. His commanding officer is greatly surprised, but, since Watkins is legally dead, he is recruited to become a special agent to infiltrate Nazi-occupied countries in Europe and inspire the resistance. He agrees, is given a modified uniform and a mask, and adopts the identity of Citizen V—“V” for Victory. As Citizen V, Watkins returns to France and wages a one-man guerilla war against the Nazis, leaving his calling card—the letter V displayed in whatever manner presents itself—everywhere he goes.

The Williams brothers use the unspeaking Flexo mainly as a servant and to assist them with various research projects. However, when an unscrupulous scientist, a Dr. Murdock, tries to create a death-ray machine using stolen radium, Flexo is enlisted to halt the dangerous scheme. Later, Flexo again comes to the rescue when a German spy, Karl Damos, steals a torpedo-defense device the Williamses have developed for the Navy. Then Flexo is used to stop a series of arsons committed by a fascist calling himself the “Iron Duke.” Josh and Joel Williams, being Jewish, are very concerned about the situation in Europe, especially with Hitler and the Nazis having just conquered France, and they discuss using Flexo as a weapon against fascism. Having come to the attention of the Third Reich, Nazi agents kidnap the Williams brothers and take them to Germany, along with the formula for a new high-explosive they were working on. Flexo is instrumental in rescuing its creators from the Nazis and returning them to the U.S.

A brilliant young Assistant District Attorney named Carl Burgess, inspired by the heroic antics of the dashing Angel, dons a costume and stalks the night to fight crime as the Falcon. Although a pretty good brawler, Burgess proves no match for the city’s criminal element, and after only a few weeks, is beaten to death by a gang of hoods.

As autumn arrives, the Nazis gain their revenge on the Williams brothers by having them murdered. Unable to make Flexo work to serve their cause, the Nazis destroy the robot and burn down the Williams’ laboratory. All their research is lost.

In late autumn, the Blue Blaze battles a villain calling himself Dr. Vortex, who is intent on fanning the flames of war in Europe. Dr. Vortex proves to be a formidable foe, and their struggle is only ended when both men, locked in hand-to-hand combat, tumble into a flooded limestone quarry and drown.

The American government begins recruiting volunteers for the Super-Soldier project. Horrified at the newsreel footage of the war in Europe, Steve Rogers decides to enlist in the American army. However, he is ranked 4-F because he is weak and sickly. Rogers pleads to be accepted, and, overhearing Rogers’ fervent request, General Chester Phillips decides that the frail young man fits the profile as a candidate for Operation: Rebirth. General Phillips offers Rogers a spot in the project, and Rogers readily agrees.

Kyle Richmond is born in Mamaroneck, New York, to Arthur and Penelope Richmond.

Misty Knight is born.

**February 2nd:** Howard Stark demonstrates the properties of Vibranium, which his company has discovered in Africa. Stark is attacked by Hydra assassins, and accepts Colonel Chester Phillips’ proposal to join the Strategic Science Reserve.

**August:** Peggy Carter joins MI5.

**October:** Peggy Carter is loaned as an advisor to the Strategic Science Reserve.

**November 11th:** At Castle Kaufmann in the Bavarian Alps, Abraham Erskine injects Johann Schmidt with his Super Soldier Serum, but the serum horrifically transforms Schmidt, turning him into the Red Skull.

**November 13th:** Abraham Erskine and Maria Vaselli are rescued by Peggy Carter, who had infiltrated the compound disguised as a maid, taking the scientists to the Strategic Scientific Reserve (SSR) so he can produce America's Super Soldier with the aid of Howard Stark

**Late:** The New York Police Department deputizes the Human Torch and sends him to battle Namor the Sub Mariner. Peggy Carter ends the heroes fighting by revealing Namor’s Atlantis was bombarded by Germany and not America during the First World War as Namor had believed, shifting Namor’s vengeance.

### **1941**

Steve Rogers is flown to Washington DC, where he meets Dr. Abraham Erskine. After weeks of testing, Rogers is chosen to be the first test subject for the super-soldier process. Minutes after being subjected to the treatment, which includes an injection of the super-soldier serum and an exposure to high-energy “vita-rays,” Rogers emerges as physically perfect as a human being could be. However, a Nazi spy who had been observing the experiment then bursts into the laboratory, killing Dr. Erskine. Since Erskine had never committed the full formula to paper and his few notes are later stolen by Nazi spies, Steve Rogers proves to be the only person to benefit from Erskine’s genius. With the creator of the super-soldier serum dead, the government cuts off all funding to Operation: Rebirth.

With the demise of Operation: Rebirth, Project T.E.S.S. is cancelled as well. Professor Schumann, however, does not give up, but instead continues work on his prototype robot.

Janet Van Dyne is born in Creskill, New Jersey, to Vernon Van Dyne and wife.

The Sub-Mariner and the Human Torch team up for the first time, in order to stop the Axis Powers from constructing a tunnel under the Bering Strait and launching a ground invasion of North America.

Steve Rogers has a chance encounter with Arnie Roth, who has just joined the Navy. Roth is astonished by the change in his friend’s physique, but Rogers dodges his questions and makes an excuse to be on his way. About to start his new secret mission, Rogers feels duty-bound to close the door on his past.

Over the next three months, Steve Rogers undergoes rigorous training in many forms of martial arts, fighting techniques, gymnastics, and military strategy. Finally, Rogers is given the code name Captain America, and his first assignment is to stop the Nazi agent known only as the Red Skull. Rogers is also given a costume to both conceal his identity and make him a patriotic symbol, along with a bulletproof steel shield.

The Inhuman exile Phaeder and his son Maelstrom, traveling the world incognito, meet and share knowledge in genetics with Arnim Zola.

Dan Lyons journeys to a Blackfoot Indian reservation to take up the mantle of the elderly Indian hero who once saved his father’s life. After passing a battery of tests of strength, stamina, skill, and intelligence, Lyons is awarded the secret of the Black Marvel, which allows him to reach the pinnacle of human ability. He returns to New York City, designs a black, red, and gold costume for himself, and declares a one-man war against crime.

Inspired by the dashing hero known as the Angel, ham radio operator Jerry Carstairs puts on a blue-and-red costume and goes out to fight crime as the Thunderer, using a microphone/speaker gimmick to frighten his opponents.

Betty Barstow, secretary to private detective Dan Hurley, is on her way to a masquerade ball, dressed in a superhero-style costume, when she stumbles upon a crime in progress. The gang of crooks is so startled by her appearance that they are easily defeated by her martial-arts skills. Thrilled by the experience, she decides to continue as a costumed crime-fighter, and soon comes to be known as the Silver Scorpion.

Elton T. Morrow, a scientist doing research in Antarctica, discovers a giant azure diamond. En route back to America, Morrow’s boat is sunk by Nazi submarines. Gunfire shatters the diamond and hundreds of particles are embedded in Morrow’s skin. He floats half-conscious for days before being picked up by a British destroyer. Upon examination, Morrow discovers that his body has somehow absorbed the diamond particles into itself, giving his skin the hardness and durability of a diamond. Upon reaching America, Morrow becomes the costumed crime-fighter called the Blue Diamond.

United States Navy Lieutenant Peter Noble is a member of the crew of an American submarine that sinks during a training exercise. Desperate to survive, Noble takes an oxygen tank and abandons the ship as it sinks toward the ocean floor. However, rather than being crushed by the water pressure of the deep sea, Noble discovers that his body can withstand it. He soon finds that he can breathe underwater as well. Fearing that he is some kind of freak, Noble does not return to the surface world, but instead eventually happens upon the small undersea kingdom of Neptunia. Accepted by the blue-skinned denizens of Neptunia, Noble eventually becomes their leader.

Professor Zog’s organization is wildly successful, and Electro, painted bright red and yellow, is hailed in the press as “the Marvel of the Age.” However, the Third Reich soon decides to try to steal the secrets of Electro for their own purposes. In an explosive battle between the Nazi commandos and Gardner’s anti-crime syndicate, the robot is utterly destroyed, Professor Zog is killed, and his laboratory is blown up. The surviving foreign agents are jailed, but most of the members of Gardner’s group are killed. The remaining members decide to disband.

Madeline Joyce is visiting her uncle’s lighthouse, which he had recently converted into a science laboratory to study and experiment with electricity. Joyce is exploring the lab when lighting hits the building. Bombarded by thousands of volts of electricity, she is thrown into a week-long coma. Upon awakening, she quickly recovers from her wounds and discovers she has gained superhuman abilities. Her exposure to electricity endows her with increased vitality and the ability to negate gravity, giving her the ability to fly. Joyce decides to establish herself as a costumed crime-fighter. Calling herself Miss America, she quickly makes a name for herself as a spy-buster.

The Sub-Mariner, under the influence of an undersea temptress called Rathia, launches another military invasion of the surface world. The Atlanteans attack all over the globe, wreaking havoc on several continents. The Human Torch and Toro repel the Atlanteans from New York City, but are unsuccessful in completely stopping the Sub-Mariner. Finally, after the Atlanteans use whales and immense undersea turbines to create an enormous tidal wave which floods Manhattan, the Human Torch and the Sub-Mariner fight yet again. Namor finally throws off Rathia’s sinister influence and decides to call off the invasion.

During the summer, the indestructible vibranium-alloy disc created by Dr. MacLain is given to Captain America for use as his new shield. Rogers decides to keep the old one in his footlocker. Then, Rogers is assigned to Camp Lehigh as a cover for his activities as Captain America.

Nick Fury enlists in the United States Army. He is assigned to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and quickly rises to the rank of sergeant.

Reed Richards is recruited into the Army as a codebreaker.

Inspired by the exploits of Captain America, Daily Bugle reporter Jeffrey Mace assumes the costumed identity of the Patriot. The Patriot gains a solid reputation both through his successful exploits and his weekly news broadcasts.

Meranno, using a combination of Atlantean and Nazi technology, manages to greatly increase his natural strength. Meranno takes the code-name U-Man and begins fighting alongside the Nazis.

One day, while Captain America is changing in his tent, Camp Lehigh’s base mascot, James Buchanan Barnes, who goes by the nickname “Bucky,” barges in to see Steve Rogers removing his mask. Rogers immediately swears Barnes to secrecy, but the boy begs his idol to train him as his sidekick. For the next several months, Captain America secretly trains Barnes in many forms of unarmed combat.

A strange being dubbed an “ice elemental” is discovered in the Arctic and brought to the United States. The being, given the name “Jack Frost” by the scientists studying him, escapes from the research facility and soon becomes an outlaw and killer vigilante, dispensing his own brand of “cold justice.”

Larry Scott, the son of a convicted murderer who is set to be executed in the electric chair, is convinced that his father is innocent. Scott does everything he can to prove it and save his father’s life. Unfortunately, his efforts fail and his father is executed on schedule. The experience causes Larry Scott to become unhinged, and he dons a hooded cloak and a mask, takes up a scythe, and calling himself Father Time, begins killing criminals, vowing to “make time work against criminals instead of the innocent.”

In a prison camp, Brian Falsworth encounters Eric Schmitt, a German scientist who had been working on a variant of the Super-Soldier serum. Schmitt had successfully completed a version of the serum but kept it from the Nazis because of their rough treatment of him. Now dying, Schmitt turns the formula over to Falsworth, who drinks the potion and is immediately enhanced to physical perfection. He escapes from the camp, adopts a bizarre costume, and begins operating as the Mighty Destroyer, fighting the Nazis within their own borders. Meanwhile, Roger Aubrey has been turned over to the Institute of Nazi Science to be brainwashed and experimented upon. The Institute’s Colonel Dietrich erases Aubrey’s memory and manages to shrink him in size to less than one foot tall, intent on turning him into a super-agent for the Third Reich.

Captain America assesses Barnes as being worthy of joining him in combat, gives him a costume, and allows him to participate in missions as his sidekick Bucky. Then, Captain America and the Red Skull have their first encounter, and the two quickly become mortal enemies.

The demon Marduk Kurios, calling himself “Satan,” enters Earth’s dimension and disguises himself as a human in the hopes of siring half-human, half-demon children. He seduces and marries a young woman named Victoria Wingate.

Sharon (Xavier) Marko dies. Later, Cain Marko starts a fire in his father’s lab, causing the death of Kurt Marko. Both Cain and his stepbrother Charles Xavier are now orphans.

Clint Barton is born in Waverly, Iowa, to Harold and Edith Barton.

Franz Gerhardt dons a suit of armor and assumes the identity of Komtur, the Teutonic Knight. He comes into conflict with Captain America, the Human Torch, and the Sub-Mariner in three separate incidents while engaged in espionage for the Axis powers.

The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Almost immediately afterwards, America enters World War II. Lieutenant Sam Sawyer is reassigned to the United States Army Rangers. “Dum-Dum” Dugan enlists in the Army and joins Lt. Sawyer’s unit.

With America embroiled in the war, Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes largely abandon their military cover identities to participate almost full time in the war effort as Captain America and Bucky.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits Washington DC to engage in strategy talks with the American government. The Nazis, wishing to keep these talks from going ahead, send their own super-agent, Übermensch (a.k.a. Master Man), to assassinate Churchill. Captain America, Bucky, the Human Torch, Toro, and the Sub-Mariner learn of the plans and defeat Master Man before he can carry out his orders. Churchill is impressed with the superheroes, and urges them to set aside their differences for the duration of the war, banding together as the Allies’ unofficial “invaders.” The heroes agree to the proposal, and the Invaders remain together throughout the rest of the war.

Gus Mustin decides to become a superhero, but when he realizes that, though super-strong, he is not invulnerable, he changes his mind. He becomes frustrated that he has never found a way to use his special ability.

Wounded in combat in North Africa, Lt. Sam Sawyer is promoted to captain and assigned administrative duty.

General Chester Phillips orders Captain America to submit to a procedure to implant a package of false memories into his subconscious mind, just in case he should ever be captured by the enemy and tortured for information. The memories will remain dormant unless triggered by extreme trauma.

James Rhodes is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Heather MacNeil is born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, to Ramsey and Claire MacNeil.

Scott Lang is born in Coral Gables, Florida.

Jack Monroe is born in Naugatuck, Connecticut.

Drew Daniels is born in Amarillo, Texas.

Fred J. Dukes is born in Lubbock, Texas.

Emma Frost is born in Boston, Massachusetts.

Jasper Sitwell is born.

Edith Harker is born in London, England, to Quincy and Elizabeth Harker.

**1941:**

**March:** Steve Rogers becomes Captain America. Erskine and Vaselli are murdered by a spy named Heinz Krueger, preventing further super soldiers. Rogers becomes a propaganda weapon.

**December 7th:** Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor, causing America to enter World War II.

Captain America rescues many captured soldiers and reunited with his old friend Bucky Barnes, who becomes his sidekick in propaganda.

**December 11th:** Howard Stark is recruited into the Manhattan Project.

**Late:** Namor the Sub-Mariner betrays the Allies and attempts to destroy New York with a tidal wave but is halted by the Human Torch. Photographer Phil Sheldon photographs the moment but is hit with a flying brick from the battle and loses an eye. Namor vanishes for years following the battle. Prejudice against Mutants escalates when Namor is revealed to have been an atlantean variation.

**1943:**

Birth of T'Challa in the African nation of Wakanda to King T'Chaka and his queen N'Yami.

**1944:**

Johann Fennhoff is captured by Leviathan, agreeing to work for them.

While imprisoned at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp, Erik Lehnsherr's mutant powers start to manifest. Erik is experimented on by Sebastian Shaw.

**1945:**

**February 1st:** Arnim Zola is captured by Captain America, Bucky, James Howlett, Nick Fury and the howling Commandos.

Captain America and James Howlett attack a Concentration Camp, freeing among others a young mutant boy named Erik Lensherr, who uses his magnetic powers to save both himself and his Saviors.

**February 5th:** Captain America, Bucky, James Howlett, Nick Fury and the Howling Commandos attack a castle where Red Skull and Baron Zemo are preparing to launch a Nuclear Missile. Rogers and Barnes climb onto the launched Missile and fight Red Skull while on it. Schmidt is killed when he falls and is incinerated by the rocket jet engines. Barnes kicks Rogers off the Missile before it explodes, seemingly killing Barnes. Rogers falls into the waters of the Atlantic and is frozen.

**March 2nd:** Werner Reinhardt attempts to evacuate the HYDRA Research Facility in Osterlich and escape with numerous mysterious artifacts that HYDRA collected over the years. His base is attacked by the SSR troops led by Peggy Carter, Dum Dum Dugan, and Jim Morita. Reinhardt and his men are arrested and all the artifacts are confiscated by the SSR.

**May 19th:** The United States begin Operation Overcast, later renamed Operation Paperclip

**May 21th:** Werner Reinhardt is taken to a secret Strategic Scientific Reserve facility and interrogated by Peggy Carter. He attempts to offer his services to the SSR, even relaying information regarding the Obelisk and the Kree, but is instead sentenced to life imprisonment

James Howlett transfers from Europe to the Pacific by this time. Prior to August 9, he is imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp near Nagasaki.

**August 9:** James Howlett saves Ichirō Yashida's life during the Nagasaki bombing.

**1946:**

**March 15th-16th:** Tired of being underappreciated by her misogynistic superior John Flynn, who gives her nothing more than paperwork to do because she is a woman, Peggy Carter, ignoring orders from the Strategic Scientific Reserve, single-handedly retrieves a vial of formula marked with the Zodiac emblem by fighting several guards. The next day, John Flynn reprimands Carter for not going through proper procedures in the Zodiac mission. However Howard Stark contacts Flynn, telling him that Carter is going to co-manage the newly created S.H.I.E.L.D. with him.(*Agent Carter*)

**March 18th:** Howard Stark returns home from his pleasure trip in Monaco and discovers that someone had cut a hole into the vault of his mansion and stole his inventions stored there. He puts the plans for S.H.I.E.L.D. on hold with no warning to Peggy Carter, who is left clueless and has to return to her work at the SSR.

**March 31th:** Birth of Eugene “Flash” Thompson, nephew of Jack Thompson.

**August 27th:** Birth of Peter Parker to Richard and Mary Parker.

**October 2nd:** Birth of Jessica Jones.

**April 18th-May 9th**: The events of *Agent Carter* Season one.

**1947:**

**July 10-27th:** The Events of *Agent Carter* Season Two.

**1949:**

**January:** Howard Stark recommences the plans to start S.H.I.E.L.D., this time with the help of Chester Philips and Rick Stoner. Peggy Carter ends her work at the Strategic Scientific Reserve and becomes one of the founders

**August 13th:** Dr. Wichserkopf Merkwürdigliebe (later having his name changed to Strangelove) and Arnim Zola are released from prison as part of Operation Paperclip. Strangelove would become Thingmaker´s advisor (and then Merkin Muffley´s and later Max Frost’s) while Zola is recruited into S.H.I.E.L.D. Some time later, Zola and some former HYDRA agents track down Bucky Barnes, who survived the drop and was taken into custody by Soviet Union soldiers. Since that moment, they had kept Barnes frozen and alive, but missing an arm. Once he was found by Zola and his agents, they take him into their custody

**September:** Now as a S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist, Zola begins rebuilding HYDRA from within S.H.I.E.L.D.. Bucky Barnes's memory is wiped and he is given a metal prosthetic arm. Barnes is kept cryogenically frozen and becomes a HYDRA assassin known as the Winter Soldier.

### **1950's**

**1950:**

Birth of Nicholas Fury Jr to Nick Fury Sr. and Nia Johnson. His mother later changes his name to Marcus Johnson to protect him.

Sebastian Shaw opens the Hellfire Club.

**Late:** With the outbreak of the Hun Chiu War, many of the former Howling Commandoes re-enlisted in the American military, and were reunited under Sergeant Nick Fury. After a successful mission in which the Howling Commandos destroyed an enemy MIG base across the 38th parallel, Fury was promoted to Second Lieutenant. Charles Xavier and Cain Marko enlist in the war as well.

**1956:**

Erik Lehnsherr has a short relationship with Ms. Maximoff resulting in the births of his children, Peter and Wanda however, Erik leaves before they born not knowing of their existence.

**1958:**

Chuck Chandler was piloting the experimental XF-13 rocket plane when he was captured by Skrull invaders, but Chuck escaped, damaging the Skrulls' warp drive in the process. The Skrull saucer exploded as Chuck flew away, exposing him to strange radiation. He crashed the XF-13 in the Mojave Desert, and when his younger, crippled brother Hal attempted to rescue him, Chuck disappeared. Hal, a research scientist, discovered that Chuck's image had been imprinted on the lenses of his glasses, and that Chuck had been transformed into a two-dimensional being. When Hal wore the glasses and concentrated, he triggered a dimensional shift that caused Chuck to materialize into a three-dimensional existence. In his new form Chuck wore a green and red bodysuit, and his normal strength, speed, and durability had been tripled. As the costumed 3-D Man, Chuck fought another group of Skrull agents.

The Agents of ATLAS are formed to rescue President Merkin Muffley from the Yellow Claw. They are disbanded after their only mission.

Emma Frost meets Sebastian Shaw and he convinces her to join the Hellfire Club.

### **1960s**

**1961:**

**January 27:**Plans are approved by President John F. Kennedy to build an underground bunker below the White House during its extensive renovation undertaken by his wife Jackie. The bunker, code-named "Cocoon", is designed to help the president's brother, Attorney-General Robert F. Kennedy, hone his mutant abilities. All funding for this project will be attributed to "private living quarters".

**October:** Tony Stark is captured by the Ten Rings, under the leadership of Wong-Chu, who is secretly working with Obadiah Stane. Stark is wounded by Stark Industries-manufactured weapons and captured. Fellow captive Ho Yinsen saves his life by attaching an electromagnet to his chest. Wong-Chu orders them to build weapons, but they instead build a battle suit powered by a miniature Arc Reactor.

**November:** To beat the Communists into space, scientist Reed Richards, sister and brother Sue and Johnny Storm, and pilot Ben Grimm fly into space in a rocket. In space, the four are bombarded by cosmic rays, granting them powers and becoming the Fantastic Four. They quickly become a sensation and move into the Baxter Building, a former government Think Tank Richards belonged to.

**1962:**

**January 1st:** During their 3 months of capture, Tony Stark and Ho Yinsen finish the armored suit they have been creating. Stark uses it to escape, but Yinsen is killed by the Ten Rings while saving him. Stark is later found by the United States Armed Forces and taken to West Germany, where he is checked out by army doctors and subjected to debriefings from the CIA, NSA, and others.

**January 3rd:** Returning to the U.S. and deeply affected by his experience, Tony Stark pulls Stark Industries out of the weapons business, terminating all military contracts. Hammer Industries maneuvers itself to pick up new contracts. Newspapers such as Daily Bugle mock this decision, its boss J. Jonah Jameson even doing so directly on his show "*Just the Facts*". Stark reveals to Obadiah Stane the Arc Reactor technology he developed to power the armor.

**January 4th:** Potts grimaces as she watches Jameson’s show mocking Stark's change in business plan, when she gets a call to go downstairs and help Stark. He asks her help in replacing his electromagnet with a newer arc reactor, and she squeamishly helps him with the operation, nearly causing him to go into cardiac arrest from a mistake she makes, but ultimately succeeding in the procedure. Stark then tells her to simply dispose of the old reactor, but she decides otherwise

**January 27th:** Hank Pym tests his shrinking technology and ends up in an Ant Hill. This experience convinces him to design a way to control Ants as well.

**February 13th:** Stark goes upstairs to see Obadiah Stane, and they discuss the dramatic drop in Stark Industries stock following Stark's change of heart in the business' motivations

**May 16th:** Under the threat of funding cuts, and Glenn Talbot attempting to buy his lab on behalf of General Ross, Bruce Banner tests the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project on an animal with mixed results. He is given a chance to test the Gamma bomb at a nuclear test site but he sees teenager Rick Jones, who has snuck into blast zone on a dare from his classmates, as the bombing test is unscheduled and being conducted in secret. Banner runs in to save him. He tells his ally, a disguised Igor Drenkov, to cancel the test, but Igor is a Soviet agent and allows the test to continue. Banner gets Rick to safety, but is blasted with a combination of Gamma Radiation and the serum Betty Ross developed based on Abraham Erskine's Super Soldier Serum. Banner wakes up screaming sometime later and appears fine but tests are scheduled on him.

A new janitor at the lab claims that he is Bruce's biological father, whom Bruce forgot. Bruce presumes the janitor was lying until he finds it was truth when he checks his own genes. Gamma pulses stored in Banner's amygdala which are released during high stress moments, will trigger a transformation. During one of the tests, Banner turns into the Hulk for the first time. Betty is injured and hospitalized.

**May 19th:** Bruce Banner visits Betty Ross at the hospital and Thaddeus Ross admits to Banner that the project is being developed as a weapon, not just defense. Banner becomes the Hulk again and goes in a rampage before escaping. Banner goes on the run. The military closes the lab building for a year and shuts down the Bio-Tech Force Enhancement Project. General Ross keeps some project data, while Betty also secretly holds onto data and remains at Culver University.

Through a phone call with his father, Bruce learns that the radiation unleashed something that was already in his DNA, and that David Banner plans to have Betty killed by his dogs, which now have similar powers to the Hulk thanks to David mutating them with gamma radiation. Bruce is then attacked by Talbot, who accuses him of going to General Ross behind his back to cut him from the nanomed research, leading to a third transformation into the Hulk. The Hulk seriously injures Talbot before going to save Betty. After being wounded in a lengthy struggle, he kills David's dogs and changes back into Bruce before being captured by the military the next morning.

**May 20th:** Bruce is kept under observation at a secret desert base, while Talbot intends to weaponize the Hulk's powers. Talbot subdues Bruce and places him in an isolation tank to trigger a transformation. David tries to recreate Bruce's failed experiment but using DNA from a mutated Crusher Creel, instead of turning into another Hulk he finds himself able to absorb any material he touches or energy to which he is exposed. He hands himself over to the military after lying to Betty and telling that he had accidentally murdered his wife in front of the child Bruce due to fury done by Ross's interference.

**May 21th:** David tries to taunt his son into transforming into the Hulk again but fails. He then decides to "go first" and bites an electrical cable, absorbing all the electricity in San Fransokyo. The electricity hits Bruce, triggering his own transformation. A brutal fight ensues between David and the Hulk, with David absorbing the Hulk's energy. It proves too much for David to handle, but when he himself transforms into a massive creature, he is killed by an Army missile. Bruce is presumed dead.

**August 16th:** Peter Parker is bitten by a genetically engineered spider while visiting an OSCORP demonstration. Osborn then requested Peter be followed and the remains of the Spider be retrieved. OSCORP'S attempts to recreate the success were conducted on teenager Cindy Moon, who was rescued by a man Ezekiel and placed in suspended animation within a bunker.

Osborn ordered an attempt on Peter's life to test the results of the experiment. Peter was almost hit by a car; when Peter jumped out of the way, Peter discovered he had somehow gained incredible strength, agility, and the ability to cling to walls, spider-like traits that he immediately associated with the spider bite.

**August 18th:** Encountering an ad offering a cash prize for staying in the ring for three minutes with professional wrestler Joseph "Crusher" Hogan, Peter decided this would be a good way to test his powers. Wearing a mask to avoid potential embarrassment in case he lost the match, Peter easily defeated his opponent. The fight promoter refused to pay him, claiming he did not stay in the ring three minutes, as a result an enraged Peter refused to stop the promoter from being robbed, claiming it was not his problem.

**August 19th:** TV producer Maxwell Shiffman, having observed the fight with Crusher Hogan and convinced him to go on television as an 'act.' The two arranged a deal in which Peter could be paid while remaining anonymously. Peter then designed a full costume and fabricating a fluid similar to a spider's web and wrist-mounted web-shooters, Peter first debuted stopping a crime on his school's campus. He then called himself Spider-Man, becoming an immediate sensation.

**August 24th:** Uncle Ben is been murdered by a Home Burglar, accompanied by Flint Marko during the robbery. Learning the police had the burglar responsible holed up in a warehouse, Peter changed to Spider-Man and easily captured him only to discover he was the same thief he had allowed to escape earlier. Filled with remorse, he realized that when someone has power, he has an obligation to use it responsibly, so he decided to become a superhero, remembering Ben Parker's words of "With Great Power comes Great Responsibility".

Norman Osborn performs human trials on himself and transforms into a Goblin like creature, going insane and causing an explosion at OSCORP, injuring his assistant Dr. Stromm and stealing experimental military weaponry modeled after Tony Stark's armor, including a Glider. He causes an explosion that nearly kills OSCORP Co Founder and Norman's subordinate Otto Octavius, as well las his son Harry.

Peter responded to the explosion at OSCORP and encountered a rampaging Green Goblin, the fight took them to the George Washington Bridge where finally the Goblin fell off the Glider into the waters as the police arrived. Peter went down and attempted to search for him but was forced to retreat after the Police fired on him. Norman Osborn would appear alive and well, having seemingly survived the Goblin attack at OSCORP.

**September:** Doctor Henry Pym successfully used his reducing serum to shrink a chair to doll size and used his enlarging serum to return it to normal size. Pym had been ridiculed months ago by his peers for his outlandish theories but has now perfected a pair of serums capable of changing the size of any object. He becomes the Superhero Ant Man.

**November 5th:** After eventually heading to South America, Bruce Banner starts to look for vascular plants that could inhibit radiation and therefore, find the key to cure his condition. He is approached by rebel militants who want to take medical supplies from the poor. Bruce faces the militants' leader, warning him that, "You wouldn't like me when I'm angry". His eyes turn green and the Hulk's roar is heard in the distance, this incident is his final one in 6 months.

**1963:**

**March 25th:** J. Jonah Jameson slanders Spider-Man, leading to the end of his show appearances.

Jameson's own son, astronaut John Jameson was involved in an accident involving a space capsule reentry. Spider-Man broke into a military base and then hitched a ride on a small airplane, and boarded the capsule during re-entry. Spidey then used his webbing to slow the descent and save John Jameson's life. Although he had saved John, Spidey was still blamed by J.J. Jameson for the accident. J.J. claimed the incident was staged and Spidey had sabotaged the craft. This caused a falling out between Jonah and his son which likely resulted in Jonah's hatred for Spider-Man only strengthening.

**1967:** Adam warlock bursts out of a cocoon after scientists on Earth create him. He then leaves to explore space and at one point is entrusted with the Soul Stone

**1974:** Thanos learned of the Infinity Stones. Thanos arrived on Earth, killing a family upon arriving except for a father. The father is rescued by the cosmic entity Kronos and becomes Drax the destroyer before being sent into space. Thanos located the cube while it was on Earth in SHIELD custody.He battled Captain Marvel(Mahr-Vell) and was defeated, however, he retreated with the Tesseract.

**1975-1976:** Thanos sent Gamorra to kill Adam Warlock and take the Stone. She seemingly does this as she returns with the Soul Stone.

**1976:** Thanos sends Gamorra after the Infinity Stone. The events of *Guardians of the Galaxy* take place*.*

**1979:** Tony Stark starts to relapse into crippling Alcoholism.(*Demon in a Bottle Storyline*). He passes the Iron Man Armor to James Rhodes after he donned it do defeat a Supervillain that had defeated Stark himself.

### **1980's**

**1982:** November 24th: Under Stark's direction, Pepper uncovers proof of Obadiah Stane's collaboration with the Ten Rings. Stark and Stane eventually come to blows in their respective armors. Stane is apparently killed by the detonation of Howard Stark's giant, industrial Arc Reactor. (1982 date is chosen to correspond with Iron Monger's first appearance).

### **1990's**

**1990:** Thanos obtains the last of the Infinity Stones. He teleports to Earth and fights Dr.Strange. During the battle, Strange senses that Warlock is alive and that he somehow transferred himself into the Soul Stone due to his connection to it. Strange frees Warlock but this leaves him open to Thanos stealing the Time Stone.

**1991:** The Events of *Infinity Gauntlet* happen. Thanos snaps his fingers and wipes out half the Universe. Warlock goes to recruit cosmic Beings to interfere in the battle. While an army of heroes fight Thanos and are defeated or killed. Thanos then fights the cosmic beings but when Thanos fights the being Eternity, who personifies the Universe, he defeats and replaces him, but Nebula takes advantage of this to steal the Infinity Gauntlet and undo Thanos’s snap. Adam Warlock confiscates the Gauntlet. Thanos is last seen on a planet, working on a farm with his armor being used on a scarecrow. Thanos regrets nothing except that he was thwarted in his scheme.

### **2000s**

**2008:**

**March 17th:** Stark tests his Mark III armor by flying to Afghanistan and forcing the Ten Rings out of Gulmira. As Iron Man escapes, he attracts the attention of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Fury Jr wants to try to call the Northrop T-38 Talons off via Edwards Air Force Base but after the Talons got no response via radio contact they already fired on Iron Man. Stark managed to escape from the Talons by destroying one of them.

**November 25th:** Tony Stark decides to do away with his cover story that Iron Man is his Bodyguard. he publicly reveals himself to be Iron Man. That night, Nick Fury Jr approaches Stark about joining the "Avengers Initiative", but he declines. Stark realizes the palladium core of his Arc Reactor is slowly poisoning him, and while he searches for a cure he keeps his condition a secret

## **In Progress**

### **1962:**

**March 27th:** Fisk murdered Mr. Big after discovering he had sold him out to Spider-Man. Fisk pulled Spider-Man's mask over Mr. Big and crushes his skull. The body was discovered and the news report that Spider-Man is a murder suspect. Peter did his research first and discovered Kingpin kept recordings of most of his conversations. Spider-Man quickly invaded the penthouse again and bagged as many Tapes as possible. After a skirmish with the Enforcers, and Fisk, Spider-Man escaped victorious and gave the tapes (apart from his unmasking) to Ben Urich, a reporter for the Daily Bugle. The published story forced Fisk to leave the country. Pete then invited Mary Jane over and revealed his identity as Spider-Man to her, apologizing for how he has inadvertently treated her. The two then make up and kiss, beginning their dating.

**March 29th:** Spidey's second heroic action came when he saved Norman Osborn from his former teacher Dr.Otto Octavius, who following the OSCORP explosion now and Metal arms fused into his body. The Bounty Hunter/Poacher Sergei Kravinoff challenges Spider-Man but is defeated with a single punch.

Jameson's own son, astronaut John Jameson was involved in an accident involving a space capsule reentry. Spider-Man broke into a military base and then hitched a ride on a small airplane, and boarded the capsule during re-entry. Spidey then used his webbing to slow the descent and save John Jameson's life. Although he had saved John, Spidey was still blamed by J.J. Jameson for the accident. J.J. claimed the incident was staged and Spidey had sabotaged the craft. This caused a falling out between Jonah and his son which likely resulted in Jonah's hatred for Spider-Man only strengthening.

**April 1st:** In West Germany, Tony Stark is on a business trip to make a partnership between Stark Industries and Gorani Insurance. He is stopped on the road by a policeman, who tells him that 15 million dollars’ worth of paintings have been stolen from a museum and describes the car of the thieves; he then lets Stark pass.

Later, Stark fixes the flat tire of a young woman. Further along the road he discovers a car matching the description of the car the policemen described earlier. Stark opens the trunk and finds all the paintings inside. The criminals return and open fire on Stark, but he fends them off with the glove of the Mark IV Iron Man armor. He manages to return the paintings to the museum and get to the meeting, where he meets the same woman whose tire he repaired.

The woman is Evetta Gorani, the heir to Gorani Insurance. Her father and Gorani Insurance's current president Michael Gorani explains to him that the the paintings he recovered were insured by Gorani, meaning Stark saved the company over one hundred million dollars. He successfully starts a business partnership with Gorani

**April 12th:** 158 days since his last "incident", having now settled in Rocinha, Brazil, Bruce Banner has an accident that causes a drop of his blood to fall into a soda bottle. He sends a sample of his blood to Samuel Sterns, who conducts further experiments with it outside of the analysis that Banner needs.

**May 8th:** Tony Stark appears before the Senate Armed Services Committee's Weaponized Suit Defense Program Hearings. These are chaired by Pennsylvania Senator Stern, who urges him to give the Iron Man suit, built six months ago, to the military, and calls Lt. Col. James Rhodes and Hammer Industries CEO Justin Hammer to testify against him. Stark refuses to surrender the suit, pointing out that although Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are working to replicate the technology, they are years away from being able to do so and most Russian superheroes such as Red Star and Krushhauer don’t wish to fight him. He also reveals Hammer Industries has had its share of failures, leading to the cancellation of Hammer Industries' contacts with the Department of Defense

**May 14th:** Thaddeus Ross' unit, having traced Bruce Banner to the bottling factory in Rio de Janeiro, raids Rocinha under the field command of Emil Blonsky. Bruce transforms into the Hulk, breaking his 190-day streak without "incident", then defeats the task force and escapes

**May 19th:** James Rhodes tries to negotiate a compromise between Tony Stark and the Pentagon. While Rhodes and Stark are arguing, Stark challenges Rhodes to try one of his Iron Man suits. Rhodes accepts and takes the Mark II, arguing with Iron Man during the flight. When they arrive back at Stark's Mansion and Rhodes gets his armor off, he makes it clear that he does not let Stark put him in the position to choose between their friendship and his duty. Saying at his departure, that they both know where that would end up

Tony Stark signs paperwork to transfer power to Pepper, and meets his new personal assistant, "Natalie Rushman"

Tony Stark updates his design log again, on "Day 189", recounting the opening of the Expo and saying that he believes he has sorted the delivery problem. Stark then finishes the assembling of his Mark V armor, and leaves to board a plane to Monaco for the Grand Prix de Monaco Historique. Part of the 1962 Formula One Race Season.

**May 20th:** At the Circuit de Monaco, Stark replaces American driver Ecurie Excelsior in Race 1. Ivan Vanko attacks him between turns 16 and 17 by the harbor. Vanko attempted to get revenge for his father´s death. The Soviet Union having claimed that Anton Vanko was shot by Stark´s technology, when in fact he was shot down by Soviet soldiers for defecting. Tony Stark attempted telling him the truth, but Ivan Vanko refused to believe him. Switching into a portable, lightweight Iron Man armor (Mark V) Stark defeats Vanko. Later that evening, Stark visits Vanko in prison before flying back to the United States of America with Pepper

**May 24th:** Senator Stern appears on news channels to support military control of the Iron Man armor.

Justin Hammer orchestrates Ivan Vanko's escape from prison to have him work on Hammer Industries' own weapon-suit program

Justin Hammer and Ivan Vanko arrive at the Hammer Industries Headquarters in New York City. Vanko begins revamping Hammer's own battle suit prototypes into unmanned, remote-controlled drones

Media speculation continues about Tony Stark's fitness to continue as Iron Man. James Rhodes tries to convince him to hand over the Iron Man suits to the United States Armed Forces, but he continues to refuse

**May 29th**: Nick Fury is informed that Tony Stark has 72 hours left to live due to his palladium poisoning.

Stark is inconsolable over his inability to solve his palladium poisoning dilemma and gets drunk, which leads to a confrontation with James Rhodes, who dons the Mark II Iron Man armor. The fight wrecks a portion of Stark's Malibu mansion, and Rhodes leaves with the Mark II suit. Tony Stark gives a Spider-Man a device to contact him, thinking the young hero has potential.

Bruce Banner passes through U.S. customs, and there are reports of "atmospheric disturbances" in the Southwest region of the United States. Fury leaves S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters to meet Stark, carrying lithium to slow the palladium's effects, and orders Agent Jasper Sitwell to track Banner

**May 30th:** Jane Foster contacts Erik Selvig, who flies out to New Mexico to help her monitor the atmospheric disturbances. Her message is intercepted by S.H.I.E.L.D.

In Asgard, Thor's coronation is suddenly interrupted when Odin senses a break-in in his treasure room. The culprits are discovered to be Frost Giants, and the Destroyer kills them. Thor is enraged at what he sees as an act of war.

Natalie Rushman reveals herself to Tony Stark to be Natasha Romanoff, an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Rhodes’s superior General Meade orders Justin Hammer to upgrade the Mark II armor with new weaponry, but Rhodey secretly removes the suit's Arc Reactor.

Stark visits Potts at Stark Industries, where she mentions Hammer is hosting a presentation at the Stark Expo the next day. Returning home, Stark makes an intuitive breakthrough on how to fix his palladium problem through the creation of a new element theorized by his father and hidden in the layout of the Stark Expo.

Thor, Sif, Loki, and the Warriors Three travel to Jotunheim to seek justice for the actions of the Frost Giants. A fight breaks out between the Asgardians and Frost Giants, but Odin arrives riding Sleipnir to break up the fight

**May 31th:** Returning to Asgard, Odin berates Thor for his reckless actions, stripping him of his godly power and casting him out of Asgard.

Stark builds a small Particle Accelerator to create the element using equipment owned by Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S

17 days after the Ambush in Rio de Janeiro, Bruce Banner arrives at Culver University. He sees Betty Ross, but does not approach her.

Justin Hammer's Stark Expo presentation is hijacked by Ivan Vanko, who uses the drones to attack the crowd, including Peter Parker, who is there on a school trip and leaps into action as Spider-Man.

Tony Stark flies to the Expo to stop Vanko, defeating the Hammer Drones with the help of Rhodey (wearing the upgraded "War Machine" armor), the Black Widow, Happy Hogan and Spider-Man.

Vanko is killed in a suicide explosion that destroys the Oracle Pavilion, while Hammer is arrested for breaking Vanko out of prison. Stark flies Pepper Potts to safety, they kiss and start a romantic relationship. Rhodey decides to keep the War Machine armor for himself. Stark gives Spider-Man a way to contact him.

Before leaving Hammer Industries, Black Widow downloads all of the information stored on Hammer's mainframe and destroys the facility

Jane Foster, Erik Selvig, and Darcy Lewis detect a possible Einstein-Rosen Bridge in the nearby desert and discover the powerless Thor at its epicenter. He provokes Lewis with his aggressive behavior, but they subdue him with a tazer and take him to a local hospital

Banner goes to his old friend and pizzeria owner Stanley Lieber to hide out. Lieber offers him the pizza shop's upstairs spare bedroom. Unknown to Banner, Lieber is a human instructed by the alien race the Watchers to observe the growing super humans, having already established himself as the Fantastic Four’s mailman Willie Lumpkin.

**June 1st:** In Puente Antiguo, a local man discovers Thor's hammer, Mjølnir, in a crater about 50 miles west of the town. Unable to lift it, he calls several other people to give it a try including Leiber. Jane Foster helps Thor escape from the hospital where he is being held and takes him back to her workplace, giving him the identity of Donald Blake. S.H.I.E.L.D. quickly quarantines the area and erects a portable laboratory over the site to study Thor´s hammer.

Loki discovers his true heritage: Laufey, the King of the Frost Giants, is his real father. After confessing the truth Odin collapses and enters Odinsleep. Sif and the Warriors Three suspect Loki's treachery.

Thor and Foster head towards the site of the S.H.I.E.L.D. installation erected around Mjølnir. Thor sneaks in and tries to lift Mjolnir, but fails and is captured.

Loki appears before Thor, who is being held at the S.H.I.E.L.D. installation, and claims Odin is dead. Later, Erik Selvig goes to the installation and manages to convince S.H.I.E.L.D. to release Thor into his custody. Having studied Thor and found him to be human, Nick Fury allows this but has men keep tabs on the group. After a night of drinking with Erik Selvig, Thor explains the concept of the Nine Realms to Foster.

Bruce Banner poses as a pizza delivery man to get access to Culver University's computer labs and research database. On the way, he is accidentally seen by Betty Ross, and she has him stay the night at her home. Ross' boyfriend Leonard Samson secretly informs the military of Banner's whereabouts.

Emil Blonsky receives an unauthorized "low dose" injection of Bio Tech Enhancement Serum from Thaddeus Ross.

**June 2nd:** At Culver University, Betty Ross walks Bruce Banner to the bus station in the early morning. As they are crossing the campus, they are attacked by the Military and Emil Blonsky, who seems to adapt well to the Bio Tech Enhancement upgrade, but is still beaten by the Hulk, getting nearly every bone in his body pulverized. Natasha Romanoff witnesses Banner's transformation and Blonsky's enhanced performance from afar.

The Hulk escapes the Military with an unconscious Betty, hiding in a cave deep in the Smoky Mountain National Forest. News of the battle quickly spreads across news channels. Jack McGee, a student who witnessed and captured the fight on cell phone video, names the creature "an Incredible Hulk” in an interview with WHiH World News. His remarks are played repeatedly over the next several days.

Sif and the Warriors Three arrive on Earth to find Thor. Loki sends the Destroyer after them

Thor, Sif, and the Warriors Three return to Asgard, where Thor reveals Loki's plan to seize the throne. Unfortunately, in the ensuing battle between them, Thor is forced to destroy the Bifrost Bridge to prevent Loki from destroying Jotunheim and committing genocide against the Frost Giants. This action strands him in Asgard, unable to return to Earth. Loki falls into space and ends appearing in the Sanctuary.

The Destroyer attacks S.H.I.E.L.D. agents stationed at Puente Antiguo. Thor and his fellow Asgardians fight it, and during the battle, Thor proves himself worthy of his godly heritage and his powers are restored, allowing him to defeat the Destroyer

Tony Stark has a debrief with S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Nick Fury. He is offered an advisory position as a consultant for S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers Initiative, which he accepts on condition that Stern honors him with a medal for his services. Three hours later, Stern begrudgingly gives Stark his medal

**June 3rd:** Bruce Banner and Betty Ross hide out in a small town motel, as news of the previous day's battle continues to spread. Within 36 to 40 hours of sustaining his injuries, Emil Blonsky has fully recovered

Peter Parker arrives home, only to find Tony Stark in his apartment, talking to his aunt. Stark tells him that he has won the grant he applied for, subtly letting him know that he should go along with what Stark says, despite not knowing what he is talking about. Stark then goes to Parker's room explaining that he knows Parker is the new vigilante of New York, but when Parker denies this, Stark finds his hidden costume. Parker explains his powers, saying that he has the responsibility to protect people. Stark informs him that he needs his help, due to being busy as consultant for S.H.I.E.LD. and working on the Avengers Initiative, he needs help on protecting New York on his absence, giving Parker a new suit. So begins the "Stark" Internship. Parker keeps his job with the Daily Bugle.

**June 4th:** Banner and Betty Ross arrive in New York City, bypassing roadblocks at the Holland Tunnel by bribing a boat owner to take them across the Hudson River to lower Manhattan. They head uptown to meet with Mr. Blue, whose real name is Samuel Sterns. Sterns tries an experimental process to cure Banner, though it only succeeds in reversing the transformation, not ridding him of it completely

The military captures Banner, but Emil Blonsky forces Sterns to inject him with the blood products he developed from Banner's blood sample. The process mutates Blonsky into the Abomination, while Sterns is infected with Banner's blood through an open wound on his head, gaining his own mutation. Banner convinces Thaddeus Ross to let him try and stop the Abomination. The two creatures fight in Harlem, with Hulk defeating the Abomination and fleeing the scene immediately afterwards

Natasha Romanoff discovers the mutated Sterns in his laboratory, subdues him and takes him into custody

**June 24th:** Bruce Banner goes to Reed Richards for help in curing him of the Hulk persona. The Hulk goes on a rampage and fights the Fantastic Four before they are able to incapacitate him. After reverting back to Banner and temporarily delaying the transformation, Thunderbolt Ross's new "Hulkbusters" unit attacks the Baxter Building and escape with a comatose Banner. The Fantastic Four give chase to a military facility in the Nevada Desert. The Thing frees Banner, who transforms into the Hulk. After destroying most of the Hulkbusters, the Hulk escapes into the Desert. The Fantastic Four escape a Military lawsuit by claiming that the Hulk attacked them and that Ross's attack not he Baxter Building led to Banner's escape.

Secretly however, Banner remains in contact with Reed Richards, who aids him covertly for fear of having his government funding being cut. Richards feeds Banner information on Crusher Creel's location. Banner ignores Richards's request to wait, and chooses to confront Creel alone, though he seemingly seems to go along with the plan.

Pym begins working on a new set of abilities for his future partner utilizing wasp biology, but is interrupted by the arrival of Professor Vernon van Dyne and his young daughter, Janet. Pym recognizes them as Dr. Janos Trovaya and Maria Trovaya.

Prof. Van Dyne explains that they faked their deaths in Osterlich with the help of SHIELD to avoid further persecutions from communists.

Vernon asks Pym for his help in recreating the late Dr.Erdel's Zeta Beam technology, which would allow him to make contact with another galaxy. While Pym finds it interesting, he explains to van Dyne that his area of expertise is in Shrinking and Physics, not astronomy. Realizing Pym isn't interested in the project, van Dyne and his daughter leave, hoping to approach Reed Richards, who is busy with attempting to cure Banne rof the Hulk at this time.

Later that day, van Dyne attempts to use his Zeta Beam alone and inadvertently transports a creature from the planet Kosmos. The creature states that it is an escaped criminal. It uses its powers to kill Dr. van Dyne and then flees.

Donning his Ant-Man identity, Pym travels to the van Dyne house and finds that Professor van Dyne was killed by a heart attack. On his way back to his lab, Ant-Man learns from his ants that there were large traces of an alien form of formic acid, which frightens his ants.

Janet van Dyne arrives at Dr. Pym's lab, where Henry reveals to her his identity as Ant-Man and asks her to become his sidekick, the Wasp. Agreeing, Janet is implanted with wasp wings and antenna that she can use while shrunken down by Ant-Man's shrinking gas( new evidence suggests that Janet Van Dyne was actually a mutant and Pym claimed to have experimented on her with her consent so she would not face persecution).

As Ant-Man and Wasp, the duo arrive on scene where the creature from Kosmos is on a rampage. Before going into battle, Janet announces that she's in love with Hank, which he immediately dismisses, out of his fear of a second tragedy in his love life. Even with the aid of the military, and Ant-Man's army of ants they are unable to stop the monster's rampage

Realizing what he must do, Ant-Man and Wasp return to base where Ant-Man devises a compound to counteract formic acid. He then puts the compound into shotgun shells and, with the aid of his ants, succeeds in dispersing the creature by shooting it with a number of shells of the compound.

With the monster defeated, Ant-Man and Wasp return home, and become Superheroes.

**October 5th:** In the Arctic, a Russian oil team discovers the frozen Captain America. Eighteen hours later, S.H.I.E.L.D. agents are dispatched to the area, and study the body of Steve Rogers, who is still alive and cryogenically preserved in the ice.

**October 6th:** Clint Barton is sent to join Erik Selvig at S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility to assist with his research of the Tesseract.

**October 7th:** Steve Rogers' body is thawed out of the ice, and he is taken to New York City

**October 8th:** Rogers wakes up and tries to run away from S.H.I.E.L.D. Headquarters building but is stopped by Nick Fury in Times Square.

**October 10th:** Captain America’s survival is made public knowledge. While some believe it to be a hoax, many who saw Captain America in person claim its the same man. Rogers meets up with President John F. Kennedy, the two get along quite well do to both being World War II Veterans and rather sickly youths seeking t observe their country during the conflict. Kennedy convinces Steve to join Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. The two have their picture taken together.

**October 29th:** At school, Peter and Mary Jane reunite with Harry Osborn, who has recovered from the OSCORP incident. Aunt May allowed a reluctant Peter to go to Harry's where he was confronted with the Green Goblin. The Goblin claimed Spider-Man was part of his legacy because he had created him, therefore Spider-Man will do what the Goblin desired otherwise Aunt May and Mary Jane die. A shaken Peter returned home but Gwen Stacey turned up needing a place to stay, which the Parkers allowed

**October 30th:** Parker was covertly introduced to SHIELD Chief Nick Fury. Fury advised Peter to turn down the Goblin's offer and promised Peter they will capture the Goblin when he commits a crime. Grudgingly trusting them, Spider-Man confronted Norman, telling him he will never work for him. The Goblin captured Mary-Jane, dropping her off Manhattan Bridge. Spider-Man leaped after her, just managing to save her life. After ensuring Mary-Jane is safely transported away, a rage-fuelled Spider-Man severely beat the Goblin but SHIELD gunships interrupted and the Goblin escaped. Fury praises Spider-Man for handling Goblin but warns Peter that he will be part of SHIELD and the Avengers when he turns 18. Spider-Man left to meet Mary-Jane. She expresses her fear of being romantically involved with Peter and the two reluctantly break up.

**October 31th:** The Green Goblin begins a series of attacks on crime lord " Tombstone" who had assumed control of the Kingpin's empire while he was gone. Spider-Man followed the Goblin back to the OSCORP apartment, believing to have exposed him as Norman Osborn.

Peter, who already suspected Norman, followed the Goblin to the Osborn residence only to be shocked to discover Harry in the Goblin costume. Harry was confused, claiming to have blacked out and awoken with the outfit on. He also had an injured leg that he could not explain.

Norman walked in on the strange scene and discovered an empty vial of "Goblin Green" next to Harry. The substance, he explained, increased strength and intelligence, but was highly unstable and extremely addictive. Norman furiously accused Harry of having taken it for his own use, only for Harry to throw Norman across the room, screaming that he only did it to finally make Norman happy. He then nearly blacked out again and became dazed.

Norman offered to get him help, making Spider-man promised not to reveal Harry was the Goblin as Tombstone would have him killed. Spider-Man agreed.

### **1963:**

**January 19th:** As part of a training exercise, Hawkeye disguises himself as a spy and breaks into the Helicarrier to trick the Black Widow into thinking he is stealing information about the Avengers Initiative. After the exercise, Nick Fury tells them the Initiative will only be put into action when the world needs the team most.

**April 29th:** Curt Connors is forced to begin human trials on the Lizard DNA, but mutates into a lizard-like creature. Peter has dinner at Gwen Stacy's house.

**April 30th:** Loki makes a deal with Thanos to recover the Tesseract from S.H.I.E.L.D. in exchange for a Chitauri army to conquer Earth.

Realizing Loki is alive, Loki’s wife Sigyn tries to mentally communicate with him while he is in the Sanctuary. He refuses to respond to her, not wanting to endanger his wife, but she tells Thor and Odin he is still alive.

Peter finds out that Curt Connors is the Lizard, and warns George Stacy about him, then goes to track down Connors.

**May 1st:** Loki activates the Tesseract from within the Sanctuary. It teleports him to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Joint Dark Energy Mission Facility in the Mojave Desert, where S.H.I.E.L.D. is conducting Project P.E.G.A.S.U.S.

He steals the Tesseract and uses the Scepter given to him by Thanos to control the minds of several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, including Erik Selvig and Clint Barton.

They escape, and the Tesseract's energy destroys the base, beginning the Chitauri Invasion. In response, Nick Fury reactivates the Avengers Initiative

In Asgard, Heimdall sees Loki on Earth with the Tesseract, and informs Thor and Odin.

The Police corner Spider-Man and take off his mask and Captain Stacy discovers that Spider-Man is really Peter. The Lizard climbs OSCORP's tower. Gwen infiltrates OSCORP and creates a cure. Spider-Man then eventually disperses an antidote cloud instead, restoring Connors and earlier victims to normal, but not before the Lizard injures Captain Stacy. Captain Stacy requests Peter avoid Gwen, in order to keep her safe. While at first he avoids her, they decide to stay as friends.

**May 2nd:** S.H.I.E.L.D. transfers Jane Foster to Tromsø, Norway to continue her research. In Russia, in the local evening, Natasha Romanoff is extracting information from Georgi Luchkov while letting him believe he is interrogating her. Nick Fury calls one of Luchkov's henchmen and orders him to give Romanoff the phone or S.H.I.E.L.D.'s fighter jets will destroy the entire city block

Fury tells Romanoff that she is needed, and while she is reluctant to leave her current mission, she agrees when Fury mentions Barton has been compromised.

Bruce Banner discovers Crusher Creel in a Diner and speaks with him. Creel realizes Banner is the Hulk and attacks him, eager to see how he will fair in a fight. He makes the mistake of absorbing the properties of rock and Hulk smashes him just as General Ross's Hulkbusters arrive. S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives soon after, with Black Widow and Hawkeye. Ross ignores the orders to pull back his forces. When all seems lost Black Widow starts singing “Sun’s getting real low” at sunset to Banner, calming him down. Banner is taken into custody and agrees to help S.H.I.E.L.D. Unable to sleep, Steve Rogers goes to a boxing gym, where Nick Fury approaches him with a mission to retrieve the Tesseract. They also approach Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne. Pym, having feelings of inadequacy and worried about not being able to pull his weight being on a team with the Hulk, a Super Soldier and a Man in an Iron Suit. He begins experimenting on his Pym Particles further to allow him to grow as well as Shrink.

Tony Stark brings his miniaturized Arc Reactor online to power the newly opened Stark Tower in midtown Manhattan, built on the location of the former Pan Am Building. Nick Fury visits Stark Tower in the night and asks him to review Erik Selvig's research on the Tesseract, as well as confidential material concerning the potential members of the Avengers Initiative.

**May 3rd:** Steve Rogers, Natasha Romanoff, Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne and Bruce Banner meet on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Helicarrier, and are impressed when it not only takes flight, but employs retro-reflective powers to "vanish"

Erik Selvig tells the mind-controlled Clint Barton that he needs iridium. Barton and Loki make plans to go to Stuttgart to retrieve some of the element

Odin uses dark energy to transport Thor back to Earth. This leaves Odin very weak, later contributing to both his inaction against Malekith, and eventual death.

Banner sets to work tracking the gamma radiation the Tesseract gives off, while S.H.I.E.L.D.'s spy satellites find Loki in Stuttgart, Germany

Rogers and Romanoff travel to Stuttgart in a Quinjet to confront Loki, who is acting as a distraction as Hawkeye steals iridium to stabilize the Tesseract. Pym and Dyne attempt to stop him but fail, giving chase.

Captain America fights Loki in the street, but the unexpected arrival of Iron Man prompts Loki to surrender. Pym and Dyne continue to pursue Hawkeye but lose his trail.

On the way back to the Helicarrier, the Quinjet is ambushed by Thor, who takes Loki and tries to reason with him.

Iron Man pursues and fights Thor in a forest, but Captain America breaks up the fight and Thor agrees for Loki to be taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.  Loki attempts to escape while the heroes are distracted but is stopped by Natasha, Janet and Pym. On the Helicarrier, Loki is put in a cell designed to contain the Hulk. The Avengers debate about what to do with Loki, allowing him time to plot an escape

Loki's mind-controlled agents led by Hawkeye invade the Helicarrier and damage one of its engines.

While Iron Man and Captain America race to repair the engine before the ship crashes, Bruce Banner loses control, turns into the Hulk and goes on a rampage through the ship.

Pym and Wasp fly around Hawkeye to distract him, while Black Widow fights him. Black Widow informs Ant-Man about Hawkeye’s hearing aid due to an injury during a mission in which he was stabbed in the ear with one of his own broken arrows by a Psychopath he was tasked with capturing. Pym uses the device in his helmet used to communicate with Ants to release a high frequency that causes Hawkeye's ear to bleed and Black Widow to knock him out. It is revealed that the mind control prevented him from sleeping and the exhaustion caught up to him once he was knocked out.

Thor distracts the Hulk, while Fury and Maria Hill hold off the other mind-controlled agents. The Hulk jumps out of the Helicarrier to attack a hovering F-35 jet, but ends up falling from the sky and crashing towards the city below, forcing the other available Avengers to stop the Hulk’s rampage. Hank Pym, having damaged the device he used to communicate with ants, chooses now to reveal his new identity as Giant Man, but is defeated by the Hulk. Thor tries to stop Loki from escaping, but gets trapped in Loki's cell and ejected from the ship,landing in a field. The other Avengers are then forced to work on stopping the Hulk, allowing Loki to escape. The Hulk nearly kills Giant-Man, humiliating Pym and Hospitalizing him, Iron Man, and then Wasp when she attempts to crawl into his brain to sting him from the inside, and Captain America only makes him angrier by kicking him in the crotch. Thor arrives and defeats Hulk after taking the battle to the sky. Hulk crashes down in a crater. Banner wakes up and begins apologizing. Captain America offers him a hand up but then knocks him out, saying he hated doing that but he needed to not risk another Hulk transformation.

Following his escape from the Helicarrier, Loki commandeers Stark Tower. The mind-controlled Erik Selvig uses a machine powered by the Tesseract to open a portal into space, allowing the Chitauri to invade Earth, his purpose fulfilled, Selvig is freed from mind control and collapses.

The battle continues, as Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk(once Banner wakes up, convinces the SHIELD personnel guarding him to let him go and steals a bike to get their faster, before transforming back), Black Widow, and Hawkeye all work together to defeat the Chitauri invaders, with Pym and Dyne still injured. From the battle, enormous damage is caused to midtown New York City, and many lives are lost, but the Avengers save as many civilians as they can.

Despite Nick Fury's persistence and even Kennedy’s attempt to call off the strike, the World Security Council are not convinced the six heroes will be enough to stop the invasion, and launches a missile at New York City.

While the Avengers battle the invading forces, Iron Man tries to grab the missile and throw it through the portal, destroying the remaining Chitauri fleet, but apparently dying in the process. Starks suit fails and he falls back through the portal as Black Widow closes the portal. Hulk catches Stark to slow his fall, and wakes him from his unconsciousness.

Loki is apprehended, with the Hulk finding him and beating him into submission, and the Tesseract is reclaimed, ending the Chitauri Invasion

Tired from the battle, the Avengers gather at a local shawarma restaurant recommended by Stark. While they have their lunch, War Machine arrives to help in the battle, having been delayed by an attack by the Mandarin's forces, only to discover they have already won.

**May 5th:** Thor returns to Asgard with the Tesseract and Loki. Odin sentences Loki to imprisonment.

Adrian Toomes works a job recovering chitauri technology. Damage Control is created and takes the job of many including Toomes, now dealing with damage caused by Superheroes and Supervillains and funded by Stark. Toomes and some of his coworkers have already smuggled out several Chitauri weaponry and begin to experiment with it.

The Other confers with his master about Loki's defeat, the loss of the Tesseract, and Earth's new protectors. He claims attacking Earth again would be an act of suicide. His master, Thanos simply turns and smiles, relishing in the challenge.

**August 11-12:** Iron Man and War Machine fight and defeat the Melter.

**September 7th:** Peter Parker returns to school following his summer holidays, now in his sophomore year. He tries to improve his superhero image by joining a team that isn't the Avengers as Fury rejects him for his age, though he continues to train with Captain America and Iron Man. Spidey intruded into the Baxter Building in a misguided attempt to talk to them, battling the Fantastic Four. Once the situation is cleared up, the team refused Spidey's entry after explaining to him that they did not get paid for their actions as they were a non profit organization and that they were a family, not an enterprise. Spidey understood this and left.

Later that day, the Russian criminal and master of disguise known as the Chameleon used Spider-Man's identity to steal defense missile plans. The Chameleon was not alone in this. The real Spidey was used by Chameleon as a pawn to escape the scene without problems. After managing to avoid capture by the police, Spider-Man caught Chameleon in a helicopter before he could reach a soviet submarine and handed him in to the authorities.

This victory would be followed by tragedy. While battling Dr. Otto Octavius, the battle caused a Chimney to collapse. Captain George Stacy leaped in to save a child from the falling debris, being horribly crushed. Spider-Man rushed him in the hospital but he died on the way there, before his death, George Stacy tells Peter to stay away from Gwen. He breaks up with her.

Spider-Man delivered Stacy to the hospital before fleeing but by then it was too late. The Daily Bugle accused Spider-Man of being a murderer but Reporter Phil Sheldon had his doubts. Sheldon investigated and discovered the police were aware Octavius, who was now in custody and whom Sheldon interviewed, was responsible as research revealed Metallic residue on the Chimney but without Spidey, they couldn't confirm his innocence. Gwen Stacy believes Spider-Man killed her father and grows to hate him.

**September 8th**: Sheldon tracks down Peter Parker, whom had taken excellent photos of Spider-Man and was rumored to know him personally. With the help of Lawyer Matthew Murdock they arrange a way for Spider-Man to testify without revealing his identity.

Parker tries to call Happy Hogan, but Tony Stark has distanced himself from Spider-Man publicly to protect his own image, and Hogan gives Parker the cold shoulder, making him feel betrayed while Captain America is more supportive. Tony does however, surprisingly and anonymously pay bail to prevent Spider-Man from being detained in police custody.

Peter Parker stops robbers wearing fake masks of the now famous avengers. While arriving home, his friend Ned Leeds finds out he is Spiderman.

**September 9th:** When overhearing Liz saying that she has a crush on Spiderman, Ned Leeds tells her that Peter knows him. Flash Thompson, dares Peter to tell Spidey to arrive in Liz´s party to prove he isn't lying.

Parker changes into his Spider-Man suit, but before he can return to the party, he sees flashes similar to the weaponry from the previous day. He leaves to investigate, and finds an arms deal in progress.

When his phone rings, Spider-Man's presence is revealed, leading to a confrontation with the arms dealers, Jackson Brice and Herman Schultz. The potential buyer, Hobie Brown, watches on as the dealers use their weaponry to fight Spider-Man. Eventually, their boss, the Vulture, swoops in to end the fight, taking Spider-Man with him

The parachute in the Spider-Man suit is engaged and pulls him away from the Vulture, but does not deploy well enough to allow him a gentle landing, and Parker falls into the Hudson River. He is saved from drowning by a remotely-controlled Iron Man armor.

Stark explains that he put a tracker in Parker's suit, as well as a heater, allowing him to dry off. He reveals that he is controlling the suit remotely as he is actually in India, and tells Parker to let other people handle the weapons situation, to "stay close to the ground," and to simply be a "friendly, neighborhood Spider-Man," for his own safety.

**September 12th:** During a technology class, Parker and Leeds remove the energy core, of Chitauri origin, from the destroyed weapon. As they are analyzing it, two of Toomes' goons arrive at the school, having traced its energy signature. Parker puts a tracking device on the shoe of one of the men.

Late at night, the tracking device stops moving, revealing the criminals are set up in Maryland. To get closer, Parker decides to rejoin the Academic Decathlon team, who are going to attend the national tournament in Washington, D.C.

**September 13th:**  Peter Parker arrives at the decathlon team bus before it leaves for Washington, D.C., and asks to rejoin the team. While Flash Thompson insists he should not be able to just rejoin, Mr. Harrington welcomes him back. The team travel to the capital, and on the bus, Parker gets a call from Happy Hogan, asking why he is leaving New York. However, he lets him off, deeming it to be "no big deal”.

Parker removes the tracking device from the Spider-Man suit while Leeds shuts off the Training Wheels Protocol that had been cutting off access to various capabilities of the suit.

Spider-Man sets off to find the criminals in Maryland. It transpires that in overriding the Training Wheels Protocol, he has also activated the suit's A.I., who Parker later comes to nickname "Karen". He struggles to get a handle on all the suit's capabilities as he tries to follow the criminals.

Spider-Man intervenes as the Vulture attempts to hijack a Department of Damage Control truck. While Spider-Man stops him, in the following fight, he gets trapped and left unconscious inside the truck. He eventually awakens inside the container, having arrived at the truck's destination: the Damage Control Deep Storage Vault

Spider-Man tries to entertain himself and test several new suit capabilities in the facility while he waits until morning, when the facility will likely next be unlocked. However, when Karen, the suit's A.I., informs him that the Chitauri object he found is explosive, he realizes he has to escape as soon as possible to warn Ned Leeds.

Parker wires his calculator into the security panel and systematically works through all the possible combinations, hoping to find the one which will unlock the facility as fast as possible.

**September 14th:** Peter Parker finally breaks out of the storage facility, too late to participate in the decathlon. Meanwhile, the Midtown School of Science and Technology team manage to win the championship, as Parker rushes back to Washington, D.C. to save Ned Leeds if the object explodes.

Spider-Man arrives just in time to save his friends, but begins to get scared as he reaches the top of the Monument, having never climbed that high before. He releases a Spider-Drone to assess the best way into the landmark, and Karen informs him that he has to break the window with a good amount of force.

A helicopter arrives, telling Spider-Man to back away. Instead, he deploys the "Web-Wings" to jump and glide over the vehicle, before shooting a web onto the bottom of the helicopter and using the momentum to swing at, and break, the window

Spider-Man shoots webbing to catch the elevator as it falls, saving his friends and teacher. As they leave the elevator, it breaks, and Liz falls. Spider-Man catches her with a web, and checks everyone is alright, before his web snaps and he drops down the elevator shaft, catching himself with another web before he can injure himself, but then escaping the scene.

**September 19th:** Peter Parker is given detention, but sneaks out and talks to Karen, asking her to review the footage from the past Friday, before the Washington incident, the night of Liz Toomes' party, hoping to find out who the potential buyer was at the deal he interrupted. Karen identifies him as Hobie Brown

**September 20th:** Spiderman finds Hobie Brown, who is just as kid. Brown informs him that there is a Staten Island ferry leaving at 11 AM on which a deal will be going down.

Spider-Man intercepts a delivery of arms to Mac Gargan on a Staten Island ferry. The Vulture then intervenes, however, and the resulting confrontation causes a blast which splits the boat

Spider-Man desperately webs the two halves together as fast as possible in an attempt to hold it together, but the webs soon begin to break. He holds webs attached to either side, trying as hard as he can to hold the boat together, when Iron Man arrives with technology to push the boat back together and seal it, saving the ferry.

Afterwards, Stark takes the Spider-Man suit from Parker, disappointed in his lack of responsibility, and hoping he will learn to be better.

**September 21th:** The principal talks to Peter Parker in his office about his recent truancy. When Parker leaves the office, Ned Leeds is waiting outside, expecting him to be expelled. Parker explains that he only has a set of detentions, but reluctantly resolves to not try to be Spider-Man for the time being, and simply work hard in school.

**September 22th:** Peter Parker invites to be his date to the homecoming ball, and she accepts

**September 23th:** When Parker goes to Liz's house to pick her up for the ball, her father greets him at the door, and Parker is shocked when he recognizes the man as the Vulture.

Adrian Toomes drives Parker and his daughter to the ball. On the way to Midtown School of Science and Technology, he recognizes Parker's voice, and deduces from Parker's conversations with Liz that he is Spider-Man. When Liz enters the ball, Adrian requests that Parker stay, so he can give him "the dad talk". He confronts Parker about his true identity, and says that he will let Parker go, as he saved Liz's life, but that if Parker ever interferes with his business again, he will kill him, and everyone he loves.

Peter Parker enters the homecoming dance, he approaches Liz, but realizes he cannot just ignore the crimes her father will be committing that evening, and runs out of the building, picking up his old homemade suit as he leaves.

Spiderman fights Shocker, defeating him with the help of Ned Leeds, who helps him track Adrian Toomes, then asks Flash Thompson for his car and phone, then drives looking for Vulture.

Peter Parker confronts Adrian Toomes, attempting to stop him from carrying out his heist. Toomes, however, collapses the warehouse they are in on top of Parker, burying him under rubble and leaving to catch his plane. Parker, at first overcome by self-doubt, finally manages to free himself from the rubble, just in time to attach a web to the back of Toomes' suit as his enemy flies away.

The automated plane that left Avengers Tower headed for the Avengers upstate headquarters is hijacked by the Vulture using a high altitude seal. Unbeknownst to him, Spider-Man attached a web to his back to follow him up to the plane, he breaks the seal, intervening with Vulture's hijacking. As the plane begins to veer off course, Spider-Man uses his webs to pull on the wings and redirect it to crash away from citizens and towards Coney Island.

Vulture continues to fight Spider-Man. Beaten down, Parker watches as the Vulture attempts to escape, but he realizes that Toomes' wings are malfunctioning and are going to explode.

He tries to warn him with no avail. The wings explode and Parker ventures into the flaming metal, carrying the barely conscious Toomes from the wreckage, saving his life.

**September 24th:** Peter Parker finds Liz Toomes in school crying at her father's arrest, and approaches her to apologize for leaving her at the homecoming ball. She accepts the apology, and explains that she is moving school. She tells Parker that she hopes he resolves whatever issues he seems to have going on in his life, and the two part ways.

Mr. Harrington appoints a new team leader to the decathlon team, Mary Jane Watson. Parker then gets a text from an unknown number, telling him to meet the sender in the bathroom, and he excuses himself from the meeting.

In the bathroom, Parker finds Happy Hogan, who congratulates him on his success with the Vulture and then explains that Tony Stark is awaiting Parker at the New Avengers Facility. When Parker arrives at the upstate facility, Stark greets him and praises him for his work. Stark then offers Parker a room I the tower and a new(er) Spider-Man suit with gold and black lining. He considers letting him into the avengers, but Peter declines, wanting to be more a local hero.

In prison, Adrian Toomes is approached by Mac Gargan, who says he heard a rumor that Toomes knows who Spider-Man is. Protecting Parker's secret, since he saved both him and his daughter's lives, Toomes says that if he knew who he was, he would already be dead.

**November 22nd:** Death of John F. Kennedy, publicly killed by the attempted assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, but the true reason of his death is so far unknown as is the assassin as multiple attempted killers where there, each firing and believing they were responsible. The Winter Soldier at some point had the command to kill him, but he had been beaten to it. Magneto himself is believed to be the cause(in reality he was trying to save Kennedy as he was a rumored Mutant himself and was a hug supporter for the rights of Mutants), but there are far more farfetched rumors about a Kennedy from an alternate timeline being the responsible one.

**December 20th:** James Rhodes' War Machine armor is painted in the colors of the American flag and re-named the "Iron Patriot ", in honor of Kennedy. Iron Patriot begins interfering in Communist conflicts around the world, coming into conflict with the Mandarin. Surprisingly, the Communist regime of Mao Tse Tung disowns the actions of the Mandarin, calling him the personification of a Racist Stereotype and hopes for his destruction.

### **1964:**

**February 22nd:** Terrorist attacks by the Mandarin escalate with the destruction of the TCL Chinese Theatre. Stark Industries security chief Happy Hogan is caught in the explosion and severely injured.

**February 23rd:** Green Goblin suddenly reappeared, manipulating events so that all the other crime bosses of New York were neutralized. After hearing Peter talk about wanting to help Liz's brother Mark after he began relapsing from his gambling addiction, partially due to his father being now in jail. Harry noted how easy it was for an addict to backslide and that only he could help himself. Mark, as it turns out, was also being manipulated by the Goblin, forcibly transformed into Molten Man and coerced into trying to kill Spider-Man. The Goblin admitted he did not want Spider-Man to realize that he was back.

Tony Stark's home in California is attacked and destroyed by the Mandarin's forces. He barely survives in a damaged suit.

**February 24th:** The Mandarin takes over China's Forbidden temple to declare himself Emperor. Iron Man confronts him but is no match due to the Mandarin's magical abilities accomplished through his ten rings. He is captured but is able to escape. The Mandarin abducts James Rhodes after defeating him and has a man kidnap President Esker Scott Anderson while wearing the Iron Patriot armor, intending to execute him on live Television.

**February 25th:** Iron Man rescues the President and defeats a henchman of the Mandarin wearing the Iron Patriot armor, which Rhodes reclaims. With the help of the Iron Legion, Tony Stark is able to seemingly kill the powerful Mandarin, though most of his suits are destroyed in the process.

**February 28th:** Stark is able to have the shrapnel in his heart removed and throws his Arc reactor into the sea.

**March 1st:** On the night of the play of Midsummer Night's Dream, somebody else dressed as the Goblin had kidnapped him, and he had only just managed to escape. He claimed to have not taken any Globulin Green in months, he had smashed the secret stash. Both Peter and Gwen advised Harry to go talk to Norman about the situation

**March 2nd:** Harry went to talk to Norman, and Peter showed up as Spider-Man, figuring that either one of them could actually be the Goblin, until the Goblin attacked their meeting, allowing Peter to see the supervillain and both Osborns at the same time. Norman suggested his assistant Donald Mencken must be the Goblin since he was the only other person who knew about the Globulin Green. But when Peter arrives at Mencken's apartment, the Goblin ambushed him with a gas attack. Harry, who had followed with Norman in a helicopter, dive-bombed the windows to save Spider-Man from an attack of poison gas. He continued to follow as the hero and villain fought throughout New York City, during which the Goblin is finally unmasked revealing him to be Norman. Harry became suspicious of the Norman sitting beside him and discovered that he is really Chameleon. The real Norman, in fact, had been the Green Goblin the entire time and merely found Harry passed out on Globulin and framed him, even twisting his ankle to provide the limp. The battle ended with Spider-Man apparently killing Norman, to Harry's horror.

**March 4th:** Norman Osborn's funeral, Harry blames Spiderman for his father´s death. Secretly Osborn survives.

**March:** Matt Murdock has trouble sleeping due to one of his neighbor's daughter crying as her father is abusing her. Murdock contacts the police to have him arrested; however, the man is able to get away with the crime as his wife claims he never committed the crime and his daughter does not reveal the truth.

The next night, seeing that the man would not face justice, Murdock dons a black eyeless mask and goes after the man. He manages to find him at the train yard where he works. Murdock severely beats him up and threatens that if he ever touches his daughter again, he would find him and possibly kill him. The man would spend the next month in the hospital, while Murdock would consider more acts of vigilantism

**September 13th:** Jessica Jones, former classmate of Peter Parker is in an accident with toxic waste that kills her family. She becomes a Superhero named Jewel.

**1965:**

 Jessica Jones confronts the Supervillain Zebediah Killgrave, AKA the Purple Man. The Purple Man uses his mind controlling abilities to take control of Jones, turning her into his prisoner.

**1970s**

**1972:**

**June 5th:** Lucas Cage escapes Seagate Prison after being experimented on while there, giving him super strength and durability.

**2002:**

Thanos teams up with Loki and gives him the Mind Stone, sending him to Earth with an army of the Chitauri. Several members of the Avengers are reassembled by SHIELD and Nick Fury Jr to fight and defeat Loki.(placing based off *The Avengers* film taking inspiration from *The Ultimates*).

**2005:**

**January:** Captain America is part of a SHIELD raid on *The Lemurian Star* to rescue hostages held by his old enemy Batroc the Leaper. Nick Fury Jr is then attacked and seemingly killed. Steve Rogers and Natasha Romanoff become fugitives and discover from a Supercomputer containing the brain of Arnim Zola before he is killed with a missile strike, that Hydra has taken over SHIELD. Cap and Natasha recruit Sam Wilson out of retirement and he helps them overthrow Hydra, including killing Donald Pierce and nearly killing Agent Rumlow.

**2013:**

**November:** The Convergence begins, causing the formation of portals connecting the Nine Realms. Erik Selvig detects signs of the event and travels to Stonehenge to research it. Selvig also contacts Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis to assist him in his studies. Jane Foster and Darcy Lewis arrive in London, but are unable to locate Erik Selvig. Erik Selvig discovered the previous location of the Pandorica at Stonehenge and tracks it down to the British Museum. He then tries to use his technology to replicate the Pandorica's energy but the resulting energy fries his brain, and he is found naked at Stonehenge. Thor's army, including Skurge, arrive in Vanaheim, and defeat the Marauders who have been terrorizing the area.

Heimdall loses track of Jane Foster when she slips into another realm. This goes to look for her, finding her when she returns to London. She is now possessed by the Aether and is taken to Asgard to attempt to remove it. The reappearance of the Aether causes Malekith and his army to awaken from their five thousand-year sleep. His second in command, Algrim, volunteers to become one of the Kursed to increase his strength.

As morning arrived on Asgard, the Dark Elf Algrim is arrested by the Asgardians. Once inside the dungeons, he uses his newly-gained strength to free the other prisoners, including Lorelei, the Enchantress. While Loki stays in his cell, he informs Algrim of the easiest route out of the dungeons. Malekith and the rest of the Dark Elves arrive in Asgard, and reuniting with Algrim they search for Jane Foster. Frigga hides Foster and makes a temporary duplicate of her. Malekith and Algrim confront Frigga in her chambers, but when they discover the duplicate of Foster is not real, they kill Frigga.

Witnessing his mother's death, Thor strikes Malekith with a lightning bolt from Mjølnir, leaving a permanent scar on the right side of his face. The Dark Elves retreat, finding no trace of Foster.

Late at night on Asgard, the Asgardians hold a funeral for all their fallen warriors. Thor asks Odin if he can get revenge on the Dark Elves for their attack. In deep sorrow for the loss of his wife, Odin refuses. Thor makes a plot against Odin's wishes with Heimdall, Sif, Volstagg, and Fandral to free Loki, who has knowledge of portals other than the Bifrost Bridge.

In the afternoon in London, Erik Selvig explains the Convergence to the patients in his mental ward, one of whom is the Watcher Informant.

Thor approaches Heimdall about a secret plan he wishes to enact to save Foster and Asgard. Heimdall agrees to help, and Thor makes plans with Sif and the Warriors Three.

Thor frees Loki from the dungeons and takes him to a ship the Dark Elves left behind. Taking Jane Foster with them, they abandon the ship and transfer onto a flying boat steered by Fandral. While Fandral jumps off the boat to fend off a group of Asgardian soldiers, Thor, Loki, and Jane fly through the portal and arrive in Svartalfheim.

Thor, Loki, and Jane devise a plan to make the Dark Elves think Loki will betray Thor. To gain the trust of the Elves, Loki uses magic to make them think he has stabbed Thor and cut his hand off. Malekith extracts the Aether from Jane, but while Thor tries to destroy the Aether by striking it with Mjølnir, it only reconstructs itself. Algrim stabs Loki in the chest, but he uses Algrim's own weapon to kill him. Loki survives the wound, but tricks Thor into thinking he is dead.

Thor and Jane travel around Svartalfheim and enter a cave.

Thor and Foster regroup with Lewis, Boothby, and Selvig. They deduce that the area where the Convergence will take full effect is Greenwich, meaning it will also be the area where Malekith tries to plunge the Nine Realms into eternal darkness.

In Svartalfheim, Loki finds a portal to Asgard and uses magic to trick Odin and claim the throne.

Thor, Jane Foster, Darcy Lewis, Ian Boothby, and Erik Selvig put four sensors around Greenwich. Malekith and his army arrive in the city and begin their assault.

Thor and Malekith fight, but constantly fall through portals to other realms. The Royal Air Force retaliate against the Dark Elves; two of their jets fly through a portal to Vanaheim, but eventually find their way back to Greenwich. During their battle, Thor and Malekith are briefly transported to Jotunheim, where a Beast follows them and becomes stranded on Earth. Malekith and his ship are involuntarily teleported back to Svartalfheim, and the wreckage of the ship crushes him. With the battle won, Thor says his goodbyes and returns to Asgard with the Aether.

Loki, disguised as Odin, tells Thor he did the right thing by disobeying him and offers him the throne of Asgard. Thor declines, preferring instead to stay on Earth with Jane Foster. The disguised Loki allows him go to Earth, leaving him with full control of Asgard.

Sif and Volstagg go to the museum of the Collector and request he keep the Aether safe, explaining the Tesseract is already being stored on Asgard and it may be dangerous to keep two Infinity Stones together in one realm. He accepts, but unbeknownst to them he is secretly collecting the six Infinity Stones. When the Asgardians leave, the Collector contacts Gamora, tasking her with finding the Orb.

Thor and Jane Foster reunite at her team's apartment in London.