- With the help of Doctor Strange and the Avengers, Spider-Woman is able to return to her body, but without any superpowers.
- Spider-Man encounters the Arranger, the Kingpin's hiring agent and later competitor.
- J. Jonah Jameson marries Marla Madison.
- When Spider-Man reveals his secret identity as Peter Parker to the Black Cat, she disappoints him by preferring his masked identity.
- The Black Cat makes a deal with the Kingpin to obtain her own super-powers.
- Odin lifts Thor's enchanted identity as Donald Blake, while Lady Sif joins Beta Ray Bill on a quest.
- When Kitty Pryde is kidnapped by the Morlocks, the power-canceling mutant, Leech, appears.
- Kitty Pryde meets the mutant communications expert Doug Ramsey (later Cypher).
- Colossus' now mystically-powered sister Illyana joins the New Mutants as Magik.
| Avengers 240, 241
Marvel Team-Up 138
Amazing Spider-Man Annual 18
Spectacular Spider-Man 87
89
Thor 340
Uncanny X-Men 179
The New Mutants 13
14 |
- A being calling itself the Beyonder pits heroes (the Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Hulk) and villains (Galactus, Doctor Doom, the Absorbing Man, the Molecule Man, etc...) against each other on an artificial planet ("Battleworld").
- Doom creates the super-villains Titania and Volcana.
- A new Spider-Woman, based out of Denver, surfaces.
- Spider-Man gets a new "black" costume (also known as the "symbiote costume").
- Doom and the Beyonder vanish during their final battle. The Molecule Man transports the villains off Battleworld, while Reed Richards sends the heroes back to Earth using alien technology. Ben Grimm stays behind on Battleworld and She-Hulk takes his place in the Fantastic Four.
| Secret Wars 1
3
7
8, Amazing Spider-Man 252
12
|
- Susan Richards suffers a miscarriage due to radiation complications.
- The Inhumans' leader, Black Bolt, marries Medusa.
- Wyatt Wingfoot meets She-Hulk for the first time and decides to spend more time with the Fantastic Four. Johnny Storm begins spending more time with Alicia Masters. The FF defeat the giant alien conqueror, Terminus.
- On an alternate Earth, Reed finds his long-missing father, Nathaniel Richards. Rama-Tut is revealed to be a descendent of Reed's father.
| Fantastic Four 267
Annual 18
269, 270
(271) 272, 273 |
- The sorcerer (female) Dire Wraiths attack the science (male) Dire Wraiths in a Wraith civil war.
- Dire Wraiths are revealed to be related to the Skrulls. The Torpedo is killed by the Dire Wraiths.
- The Wraith War begins as ROM engages SHIELD and the government in his battle against the Dire Wraiths.
- The space knight Starshine is turned back into the human Brandy Clark.
| ROM 48
(49) 50
51-53
Annual 3 |
- Captain America encounters the Red Skull’s daughter, Mother Superior, and her Sisters of Sin. The Skull seemingly dies from self-administered poison.
| Captain America (290) 293-300 |
- Due to the influence of Nightmare, Bruce Banner loses control of the Hulk and his savage personality resurfaces.
- When Banner chooses to eliminate his own personality rather than live inside the Hulk, Dr. Strange exiles the Hulk to a mystic "crossroads" where he begins exploring other dimensional worlds.
| Incredible Hulk 296-298
299-301
|
- The New Mutants battle Emma Frost’s mutant students, the Hellions (including Thunderbird (2, later Warpath) and Empath).
- Rachel Summers appears from the alternate future where mutants are persecuted and killed (by Sentinels).
- The techno-organic alien, Warlock, joins the New Mutants in order to escape his father, the Magus. Doug Ramsey (later Cypher) uses his mutant communication skills to help.
- A teleporting mutant rock star, Lila Cheney, takes an interest in Cannonball.
| The New Mutants (15) 16
18, UXM 184
(18) 21
Annual 1 |
- The X-Men and the Micronauts ally with Baron Karza to battle Professor Xavier's evil psychic double, the Entity.
- Guardian (James MacDonald Hudson) is seemingly killed when Alpha Flight is attacked by Omega Flight. Box betrays Omega Flight.
- A friend of Hudson's, Box, contacts Madison Jeffries, a transmutational mutant who can reshape metal and plastic into his own parts.
- Wolverine takes guardianship of the Japanese orphan girl Amiko Kobayashi.
- The X-Men meet Forge, a Native American cyborg mutant with the power to invent mechanical technology. One of his devices is accidentally used to remove Storm's mutant powers.
- Kitty Pryde changes her codename to Shadowcat while in Japan with Wolverine.
- Storm leaves the X-Men to return to Africa.
- Nightcrawler visits Crystalium by accident.
| The X-Men and the Micronauts 1-4
Alpha Flight (11) 12
16
Uncanny X-Men
181
184-186
Kitty Pryde & Wolverine 5
UXM ANN 8, UXM 189
Crystar, Crystal Warrior 6 |
- Spider-Man encounters a gangster named the Rose (later revealed to be the son of the Kingpin).
- Spider-Man is stalked by Puma, an American Indian global CEO and hunter/assassin.
- Peter learns that his new black costume is actually a living symbiote. Mary Jane Watson reveals that she has always known that he is really Spider-Man.
- Spider-Man returns to his red and blue costume.
| Amazing Spider-Man 253
256, 257
(257) 258
Spectacular Spider-Man 96 |
- Hawkeye and his new wife Mockingbird create the West Coast Avengers with Tigra, Wonder Man, and Iron Man (as James Rhodes).
- Starfox reunites with his long lost relatives, the Eternals. After a battle with Maelstrom, most of the Eternals leave for outer space.
| Avengers 243-245,
West Coast Avengers 1
AV (246) 247, 248
|
- Daredevil encounters the savage Micah Synn, who is eventually defeated by modern life in New York City.
| Daredevil 202-214 |
- Tony Stark realizes he needs to gets sober after helping to deliver a drunk woman's baby in the snow.
- Rhodey (as Iron Man) encounters the new Brothers Grimm.
- Stark begins creating a new suit, and Rhodey begins resenting him.
| Iron Man 182
(187) 188
191
|
- With the Donald Blake enchantment now removed, Thor takes a new identity as Sigurd Jarlson.
- Thor battles Malekith the Accursed who unleashes the Casket of Ancient Winters.
- Surtur and his army of fire-demons escape from Muspelheim and attack Asgard through Earth. (Hercules rejoins the Avengers and they help Thor fight Surtur's fire-demons).
- Odin and Surtur disappear into Muspelheim while battling to the death.
| Thor 341
(341) 344-348
348-350 (AV 249)
351-353 |
- The mysterious Cloud abandons the Secret Empire to join the Defenders.
| Defenders 127-130 |
- Four pre-teen children (from the Power family) gain their powers from a dying Kymellian horse-alien and name themselves Power Pack. They repel the invading Snarks (Z'nrx).
- Ka-Zar and Shanna encounter the Nuwali, the alien original creators of the Savage Land.
- The Micronauts engage in final battle with Baron Karza, who has destroyed all of Homeworld. Marionette kills Baron Karza.
- The Jack of Hearts learns that he is half-alien and leaves Earth.
- Namor the Sub-Mariner is dethroned, but Atlantis is admitted to the United Nations.
| Power Pack 1-4
Ka-Zar the Savage 34
Micronauts 58
Jack of Hearts 1-4
Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner 1-4 |
