In honor of Marvel's seventy-fifth anniversary, we're doing a countdown of the most memorable moments in Marvel Comics history, based on YOUR votes!

Here are the latest results of the countdown! Be forewarned, these memorable moments WILL include some spoilers of old famous Marvel stories!

Enjoy!

40. "Green Goblin Meets His Maker" by Gerry Conway, Gil Kane and John Romita (Amazing Spider-Man #122)

The gist of this issue was whether Spidey would be driven to murder after the Goblin murdered Spidey's girlfriend. Peter comes close, as he is pummeling the Goblin over and over but he manages to stop himself, realizing that it would just make him the same as Goblin - a murderer. He decides prison is better for the Goblin. Well, the Goblin had other plans...





I love Spidey's response. Looking back, it was kind of weird to set up a future plot at that particular point. It's not like people weren't going to tune in for next issue after this monumental issue.

39. "Genosha is Destroyed" by Grant Morrison, Frank Quietly and Tim Townsend (New X-Men #115)

Grant Morrison's initial storyline on New X-Men involved the introduction of Cassandra Nova, a vicious villain who connives her way into taking control of an army of Sentinels and she then has them demolish the mutant nation of Genosha as Professor X can only look on helplessly as he sees and feels the millions of mutants being wiped out...





What a beautiful (while very messed up) designed page by Quitely.

38. "Hank Pym slaps his wife" by Jim Shooter, Bob Hall and Dan Green (Avengers #213)

In the previous issue, Yellowjacket, who was feeling insecure about his place on the Avengers, blasted an Avengers opponent from behind while Captain America was JUST about to get her to stand down peacefully. So Cap decides to court martial him. In this issue, Hank is basically having a breakdown over the charges and he comes up with a terrible plan, one that gets even worse when he reveals it to his wife, Janet...





To make matters worse, he can't even stop the robot when it attacks. The Wasp ends up having to stop it herself. Jim Shooter has famously noted that it was not intended to be such a dramatic slap like that, but whatever the original intent, the published piece has lived on in the memories of Marvel's fans AND creators ever since.

Go to the next page for #37-34!

37. "Professor X is a Jerk!" by Chris Claremont, Paul Smith and Bob Wiacek (Uncanny X-Men #168)

This moment is really just the opening splash page of the issue, but I figured I'd throw in the following page just to make it clear why Kitty Pryde feels Professor Xavier is a jerk...





36. "Mary Jane Makes a Stand and Closes the Door" by Gerry Conway, Gil Kane and John Romita (Amazing Spider-Man #122)

Almost certainly one of the reasons why Gerry Conway was okay with killing off Gwen Stacy is because of his enjoyment of the character, Mary Jane. This issue was a major leap forward for Mary Jane as a character, from background supporting character to major love interest, all based on how well she handles herself when Peter berates her following Gwen's death...



What a powerful scene. The scene was sort of bookended at the end of the Clone Saga, where Peter picks Mary Jane over the clone of Gwen and the door closes again, but this time likely because they were having sex.

35. "A Man Without Hope..." by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli (Daredevil #229)

This is the last Born Again moment to make the list (and there are a lot more great moments that DIDN'T make the list, like Ben Urich's defiance in the face of adversity). An issue after the Kingpin began to worry because there "was no corpse," he is freaking out even more, especially his fear that his unsuccessful attack on Daredevil might actually have turned a character who couldn't really do anything permanent against the Kingpin's crime empire into someone with so little to lose that the Kingpin might actually be in danger...



34. "The Winter Soldier is...Bucky?!?" by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting (Captain America #6)

This is an odd one. I always think that "the" moment in Captain America #14 when Cap uses the Cosmic Cube to restore Bucky's memory was the most notable "moment" in the Winter Soldier twelve-part storyline, but fans almost invariably voted for "The Winter Soldier is revealed to be Bucky." So I had to go back to #6 to find out when Cap knows for the first time that the deadly assassin known as the Winter Soldier was actually his old partner, Bucky (it is later confirmed through a leaked document document Cap reads from some Soviet sources). I suspect that people were mis-remembering the storyline a bit.





Just in case people were, in fact, misremembering how the storyline went, here's the other moment I noted, when Cap uses the Cosmic Cube to restore Bucky's memories...





Go to the next page for #33-31!

33. "Wolverine Saves Rogue's Life With a Kiss" by Chris Claremont, Paul Smith and Bob Wiacek (Uncanny X-Men #173)

Just two issues earlier, Rogue was introduced as the latest member of the X-Men and she was not particularly well-received. Just two issues later, Chris Claremont and Paul Smith made their move on making her one of the more popular X-Men characters. The X-Men travel to Japan for Wolverine's wedding. The Viper poisons their drinks, leaving only Wolverine and Rogue together to stop the Viper and the Silver Samurai (Storm is off on her own little adventure, as well). When the Viper is about to use her powerful ray gun to kill Wolverine's fiancee, Rogue shows that she DOES have the instincts of a hero, as she leaps in front of the blast to protect Mariko. Wolverine is shocked and impressed by her actions, so much so that he is willing to let her use her power absorption (on skin contact) power to gain his healing powers so that she can live (healing powers Wolverine really needed at that point as he had been injured in the battle, as well). It's such a wonderfully constructed sequence...





Especially the use of negative space!

32. "The Fantastic Four Forms" by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and George Klein (Fantastic Four #1)

The Fantastic Four are introduced already as a team, but we see their ill-fated space flight and how they got their powers and how they decided to form a team...





Of course, if you noticed something a bit odd when it came to naming themselves, comedian Norm Macdonald was right there with you with this classic bit about how they all came up with their names...

31. "The Sentinels Fry Wolverine" by John Byrne, Chris Claremont and Terry Austin (Uncanny X-Men #142)

This moment was immortalized on the cover of the issue, as while the Katherine Pryde of the future has traveled to the past to avoid her horrible present, her friends (the few surviving X-Men) take on the Sentinels in the future and it does not go well for them...



This made it all the more important for Katherine to succeed in her journey into her own body in the past (back when she was known as Kitty Pryde). Byrne and Austin really nail Wolverine's death there.

The fight actually goes on for two more pages, but I'm sticking with two pages per moment and the next page doesn't really make sense on its own, so I just went with Wolverine's death.

Check back tomorrow for the next ten!

In the meantime, feel free to express your disappointment if you so choose over what has been posted so far, but do not preemptively complain about stuff you think MIGHT be on the list or anything silly like that. Complaining is enough - you don't need to get it in ahead of time just in case. So no "there better not be ____ in the top ten!" or anything like that. Heck, I'd prefer you not spend time speculating period.

EDITED TO ADD: By the way, I made a transposition mistake on the list. Not a big deal, just a moment that should be #29 was accidentally #31 initially. I fixed it and I wouldn't even have mentioned it except for the fact that the moment was one that I used in the initial description for the piece on CBR's front page. So if you're coming here from CBR's front page and wondering why there's no Thanos moment on the list, that's why. It'll be on the list tomorrow.