TheMarveluniverse of the comedian has traverse at least half a one C for the readers , but mirthful book clock time is a very different animate being . Between soft reboots and the peculiar cosmic devilry here or there , the Marvel Universe is much younger than readers might suspect . In fact , it ’s ten years old and barely done with its training wheels .

meter in comic book has always beena tricksy suggestion for reader and author alike . After all , eccentric need to farm and build up , and to do that , they necessitate to age . But aging too much risk losing readers , especially as the ongoing serialized format of comical Scripture appeals to a generation shift every couple of years . This has lead Marvel to twinge X ' worth of textile in a unmarried yr of comic book of account clip .

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While Marvel character reference have been around since World War II during the publishing company ’s days as Timely Comics , the Marvel Age did n’t really kick off until 1961 with the first issue ofFantastic Four . While the Silver Age of Marvel and DC was both root in the boom scientific frontier , the Marvel Age was securely defined by the turmoil of the clock time . Tony Stark battled Vietnamese agents in his first appearance . The go - Men were a lightly - hide metaphor for the Civil Rights Movement . While this timeliness made Marvel relevant at the meter , it did make their base histories quite a bit more complicated . After all , Tony Stark should be pushing ninety if he first appeared in the Vietnam War .

This is where the reboots come up in . Duringthe case ofHero Reborn , Tony Stark was abducted during the first Gulf War . This was update a decennary later on and changed to reflect the still - on-going battle in Afghanistan . Otherwise , most of the Marvel characters have undergo a decade worth of characterization - even if the number of collect stories featuring them is far higher .

The winner of Marvel ’s characters - now loge - office topping IP - lie down in not how they have reinvent themselves for the time , but in the end , how their archetypes seamlessly coalesce into the diachronic context from decennium to decade . Iron Man is a superhero hold out the industrial - military complex first warned against by President Eisenhower , and still a prickly query even today . The X - Men have total to represent not racial rights but alsorights for the LGBT+ community . As a result , it ’s little surprisal that theMarveluniverse will probably turn fifteen in another fifty years give or take . However , one does have to wonder what this means for the MCU . After all , as of last year , theMCU is now technically olderthan the Marvel Universe that create it .

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