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

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

Enjoy!

75. "The Death of Guardian" by John Byrne (Alpha Flight #12)

By 1984, death in comics was not exactly a foreign concept, but there still tended to be some familiar rules. For instance, while members of teams might die, there were almost always rogue members - either extraneous characters who could be lost easily or characters who turned bad. John Byrne turned that whole idea on its head with the finale of his first year as the writer/artist on Alpha Flight. James "Mac" Hudson, the heroic leader of Alpha Flight known as the Guardian, had just seemingly won the day by using the power pack on his super suit to overload his enemy (who had taken over the robotic suit of armor known as "Box"). However, by overloading his suit's power pack, he had only ten seconds to get it off of him before it exploded. He was just about to complete it when his wife (who had been abducted by the bad guys) walks in and distracts him and...





What a shocking ending for the time.

74. "The Death of Captain Stacy" by Stan Lee, Gil Kane and John Romita (Amazing Spider-Man #90)

George Stacy was a retired NYPD Captain whose daughter Gwen was in a sort of "will they or won't they?" flirtation with Peter Parker. Stacy actually helped to push his daughter to pursue a relationship with Peter. Stacy was a rarity in that he was a big proponent of Spider-Man. He also liked Peter and there were a few hints here and there that he knew that Peter WAS Spider-Man.

His time in the Spider-books was relatively brief, though (less than forty issues), as he ended up sacrificing himself to save a little boy from falling debris courtesy of a battle between Spider-Man and Doctor Octopus. Spider-Man, naturally, freaks out when he sees his girlfriend's father crushed by a pile of debris and as he heads his way to see if he can save him, he is in for quite a surprise...





73. "Galactus Falls!" by John Byrne (Fantastic Four #243)

The former herald of Galactus, Terrax, has taken the entire island of Manhattan hostage in an attempt to force the Fantastic Four to destroy his former master for him. The FF helps Galactus defeat Terrax, but the effort weakens Galactus and he decides to feed on Earth. The Fantastic Four try to stop him but luckily for them, since the fight is taken place in Manhattan (after Galactus returns the island to Earth) they have the aided help of Manhattan residents the Avengers and Doctor Strange (plus Spider-Man and Daredevil, but they're not as helpful when you're taking on Galactus). Thor and Doctor Strange disoriented Galactus, opening up an opportunity for Mr. Fantastic and the Thing to strike (the Thing at the time had devolved to his earlier mutated form as the result of a failed attempt to return Ben Grimm's humanity)...





72. "Frog of Thunder!" by Walt Simonson (Thor #365)

Thor's evil brother Loki is always scheming against Thor and in Thor #363, one of Loki's plots came to fruition as he casts a spell that results in Thor being transformed into a frog. Loki was hoping to keep Thor from being able to take over from their deceased father, Odin, as the head of Asgard, so Loki figured that a good way to do so was to get Thor out of the picture by turning him into a frog. After nearly two issues of adventures as just a frog (while Loki is trying to weasel his way into power in Asgard without Thor there to stop him), Thor manages to find Mjolnir while in his frog body. As it turns out, though, being a frog doesn't mean that Thor isn't still worthy...





71. "Bucky!" by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and George Roussos (Avengers #4)

As Captain America is reintroduced to the Marvel Universe in Avengers #4, the good Captain relates to the Avengers exactly how he came to be frozen in icy waters and what exactly happened to his old partner, Bucky. It's quite a doozy...



70. "Korvac kills and then resurrects the Avengers" by Jim Shooter, Dave Wenzel and Pablo Marcos (Avengers #177)

The former Guardians of the Galaxy villain Korvac traveled to the past where he gained great cosmic power and recreated himself as a man named…Michael. The Guardians travel back through time to capture Korvac. In the meantime, the cosmic being known as the Collector realizes that Korvac is a threat, so the Collector transforms his daughter, Carina, into a being powerful enough to combat Korvac. However, his daughter instead falls in love with Korvac/Michael, and the two go to Earth and begin living a quiet live in Queens, New York. The Collector then tries to capture the Avengers (and the Guardians) in an attempt to protect them from Korvac, but when Korvac finds out about his plot, he kills the Collector.

The Avengers travel to Queens where they discover Michael and Carina living quietly. After they confirm that he is, in fact, Korvac, the Avengers wage a tremendous battle that ends with the death of nearly all of the Avengers and the Guardians. But when he sees that his actions have caused Carina to doubt him, he allows himself to be killed by the remaining Avengers and uses his powers to restore the Avengers to life. Upon his death, Carina also pulls a Juliet and forces Thor to kill her, as well, and she dies hand in hand with Michael, as Moondragon lays some dumb guilt trip on Thor (seriously, Moondragon, this is why no one wants to hang out with you) as we see the iconic full page spread of the wake of an epic battle...





69. "There is no corpse" by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli (Daredevil #228)

This is the end of the second part of Miller and Mazzucchelli's masterpiece, Born Again. The Kingpin has discovered Matt Murdock's secret identity and has systematically destroyed his life. In this issue, Murdock is in a state of near insanity along with not being in the best physical condition exactly (he hasn’t been sleeping, etc.) and he foolishly decides to confront the Kingpin directly. He’s been dreaming of beating the Kingpin nearly to death all issue long, figuring that he will FORCE the Kingpin to give him his life back. It does not work as the Kingpin beats him senseless and then works out plans to murder him in such a way that it looks like MURDOCK murdered a cabbie. The Kingpin then just sits back and waits for the news of Murdock's body being discovered. There's just one hitch in his plan...





Miller was brilliant the way that each issue would be dark and yet at the end, there'd be some awesome moment to give you reason to come back next month.

68. "The Silver Surfer is Born!" by Stan Lee, John Buscema and Joe Sinnott (Silver Surfer #1)

In this issue, Lee, Buscema and Sinnott deliver the origin of the Silver Surfer. He was a young man named Norrin Radd on a seeming utopian world that had lost its sense of adventure. When they are about to be devoured by Galactus, Radd volunteers to find some way of stopping Galactus. He succeeds by offering himself up as Galactus' herald in exchange for Galactus leaving his world alone. Galactus then transforms him into the Silver Surfer in a stunning two pages...





67. "Steve Rogers Takes the Super Soldier Serum" by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby (Captain America Comics #1)

One of the most striking Golden Age origins took place in Captain America Comics #1, courtesy of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, as we learn how Captain America came to be...





Sadly, a German spy kills the Dr. Reinstein in the next moment. Cap kills the German, but the end result is the same - there will be no more super soldiers after Steve Rogers.

66. "Spider-Man Frees Himself From the Grave" by J.M. DeMatteis, Mike Zeck and Bob McLeod (Web of Spider-Man #32)

"Kraven's Last Hunt" begins with Kraven the Hunter incapacitating Spider-Man and burying him alive. Kraven then takes over as Spider-Man to show how he is a superior being to Spidey. Spidey, meanwhile, is hallucinating while buried alive. Ultimately, his love for Mary Jane allows him to anchor himself to his humanity and allow himself to make a move to be free...





65. "Doctor Strange Meets Eternity" by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee (Strange Tales #138)

While long form storytelling was not completely foreign to comics by the mid-1960s, it was still more than a bit unusual, and yet Steve Ditko devoted SEVENTEEN issues to an epic story arc involving the cosmic being known as Eternity. Halfway through the story (which involved the villainy of Baron Mordo AND the Dread Dormammu!), Strange comes across Eternity, whose design by Ditko is amazing today but I can only imagine how striking it must have been at the time...





64. "The Human Torch Fights the Sub-Mariner!" by Bill Everett and Carl Burgos (Marvel Mystery Comics #8)

A whole new world of possibilities became open to Marvel readers (well, Timely Comics at the time) when Marvel's superheroes FIRST crossed over with each other in Marvel Mystery Comics #8. Like any good meeting of Marvel heroes, their initial interactions were as adversaries, as Namor was being a jerk (as was his wont) and the Torch showed up to stop him. In a unique twist, The Sub-Mariner's creation, Bill Everett, drew the fight from Namor's perspective while Human Torch's creator, Carl Burgos, drew the fight from the Torch's perspective. I'll include both...









63. "The Avengers Visit Hell's Kitchen" by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli (Daredevil #233)

Alan Moore, Steve Bissette and John Totleben had already done a similar approach in the pages of Saga of the Swamp Thing, but it still was a memorable sight when Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli saw the Avengers get drawn into Daredevil's battle in Hell's Kitchen in the finale of Born Again. Miller and Mazzucchelli beautifully captured what it would feel like to walk among superheroes like the Avengers, while also making sure that the Avengers seem as out of place as possible in Daredevil's gritty world (although something about Daredevil's foe, Nuke, draws Cap into that world)...





62. If He Be Worthy..." by Larry Lieber, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott (Journey Into Mystery #83)

We see the origin of the second of the Avengers "Big Three" show up here, but just as an aside, Iron Man's origin missed the list.

Anyhow, Doctor Donald Blake is on vacation in Europe when some alien stone men show up ready to conquer the Earth (don't you just hate it when Stone Men interrupt your vacation?). Blake finds a cave to hide and in it he discovers something quite peculiar...





61. "Spider-Man lets a robber get by him" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (Amazing Fantasy #15)

Peter Parker has gained superpowers from a radioactive spider bite and is now using his powers to become a celebrity. Peter is so wrapped up in looking out for himself that he figures out that he isn't responsible for helping others. After all, it's not like having powers mean he has to help people, right? So when a robber runs past him, what's it to him?



It's not like that will come back to haunt him, right? What are the odds? This is Manhattan and he lives in Forest Hills! So long as there isn't any gangster loot hidden at his house he's golden!

60. "Spider-Man Gets a New Costume" by Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck and John Beatty (Marvel Super-Hheroes Secret Wars #8)

This is an odd one. Spider-Man getting a brand new costume was obviously a huge deal and it is a big moment in Marvel history. However, the costume debuted MONTHS before we actually see how he got it in the pages of Secret Wars (the entirety of Secret Wars took place between issues of most of Marvel's titles - only a couple of books actually devoted a full issue to events that took place while the heroes were away during Secret Wars). So it is interesting how the moment he got it in the pages of Secret Wars is still the most memorable moment involving Spider-Man getting the new black costume. Anyhow, here it is...

Isn't it kind of funny that they find a device that can fix clothes and Hulk's like, "Nah, I'm good with torn purple pants"?





59. "Daredevil stands up to Namor" by Wally Wood and Stan Lee (Daredevil #7)

One of the all-time classic examples of a Marvel hero standing up to seemingly overwhelming odds (another famous one involving Spider-Man and the Juggernaut failed to make the list, probably because it was hard for people to pin down a single moment of what was basically a two-issue long fight), Namor comes to the surface world to try to pursue a legal claim for the surface world. When the lawyer he hires, Matt Murdock, explains that he doesn't have a case, Namor causes havoc in the city until he is arrested. His plan is to use his time in court to make a counter-claim against the government. However, while in prison awaiting trial he discovers that his jerk Warlord Krang has started a revolt against Namor in Atlantis. He must go back to his world, but the U.S. Army tries to stop him. He tears through them. Daredevil decides that he must try to keep Namor from injuring innocents so he takes Namor on and it's a wonderfully illustrated battle by a comic book legend, Wally Wood, that ends with Namor being so impressed by Daredevil's bravery that he decides to avoid fighting and return to his world surreptitiously...





58. "Spider-Man Reveals His Identity to the World" by Mark Millar, Steve McNiven and Dexter Vines (Civil War #2)

Marvel's Civil War storyline involved the concept of a Superhuman Registration Act, where superheros would have to register with the government to be active superheroes (the whole thing started when the New Warriors were battling with the villain Nitro and he exploded, killing over 300 people in Stamford, including a school filled with children). Captain America and a bunch of superheroes felt that it was too much of an invasion of their privacy so they went on the run. Spider-Man, who had been working with Tony Stark for awhile at the time, stuck with his boss and friend, Iron Man, who decided to be the spokesperson for the Act. Iron Man convinces Spider-Man to make a bold statement by revealing his identity to the world, which he did in Civil War #2...





Like a few other moments on this list (including the very first moment we revealed, the death of Guardian), this story was later overturned and the genie was put back in the bottle, as it were, but the original moment still stood out.

57. "Dark Phoenix Destroys a Planet" by John Byrne, Chris Claremont and Terry Austin (X-Men #135)

The Phoenix, Jean Grey (later revealed to be a cosmic being who BELIEVED that she was Jean Grey), had snapped and become the evil Dark Phoenix. However, her corrupted being took a turn for the REALLY bad when she ended up destroying a star, leading to the destruction of a nearby planet of asparagus people...





This moment of genocide is what ultimately led to Jim Shooter believing that Jean Grey had to die before the Dark Phoenix Saga was over.

56. "The Introduction of Venom" by David Michelinie, Todd McFarlane and Bob McLeod (Amazing Spider-Man #299)

Spider-Man's aforementioned black costume turned out to be an alien symbiote. Spidey ended up getting rid of it but it escaped and eventually bonded with another person, some jerk named Eddie Brock. At the end of Amazing Spider-Man #299, we finally see Brock and the alien together (calling themselves Venom) in a chilling scene where Spider-Man's wife, Mary Jane, comes home and sees quite a frightening sight...





That's one hell of an introduction.

Go to the next page for #55-36!

55. "You shouldn't have signed it" by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli (Daredevil #227)

The basic concept of Born Again is that Matt Murdock's former girlfriend, Karen Page, has fallen on hard times and finds herself selling Matt's identity as Daredevil for drug money. The information finds its way to Daredevil's arch-nemesis, Wilson Fisk - the Kingpin. Fisk then uses his great resources to systematically destroy Matt Murdock's life. He gets him dis-barred, he takes all of his money, everything. However, Kingpin couldn't help but go one step further, so he blows up Murdock's townhouse. Up until this point, everything had been pretty slick and subtle - this? Anything but subtle, and somehow, Kingpin ends up giving Matt a reason to fight...





What a way to start a storyline, right? So perfect.

54. "Storm stabs Callisto in the heart" by Chris Claremont, Paul Smith and Bob Wiacek (Uncanny X-Men #170)

The worst part of this one is that my own rules prevent me from spotlighting the amazing moments before and after the MAIN moment. The concept is that a group of underground mutants known as the Morlocks (made up of mutants who can't "pass" as human like Storm, Colossus and Kitty Pryde) have first kidnapped Angel and then Kitty Pryde, as well. Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler go to help their friends (they were a little short on team members at the time as Cyclops and Wolverine were both away from the team). They soon find themselves stuck with only one way out - someone has to fight the Morlock leader to the death in a knife fight. Storm volunteers. In a bad ass opening, Calissto tosses her a knife and Storm (in a brilliant Paul Smith panel) smoothly plucks the knife out of the air. Nightcrawler and Colossus are all like "Daaaaang" but they know Storm has vowed never to take a life.

During the fight, though...





The Morlocks have a healer who saves Callisto's life (Storm obviously knew that that was a likely result - but she had to do it knowing that it MIGHT not work and she really WAS killing Callisto). As Storm leads her friends away, Nightcrawler is all, "I never thought you'd actually do that" and Storm is all, "Neither did Callisto. That was her mistake." Daaaaaaaaang.

Paul Smith is one of the top action artists in the business.

53. "Spider-Man reveals his identity to a sick kid who's a fan of his" by Roger Stern, Ron Frenz and Terry Austin (Amazing Spider-Man #248)

This is another one where I'm limited by my own page restrictions. The moment everyone voted for is when Peter reveals his identity to the "kid who collects Spider-Man," a kid who was being spotlighted in a column in the Daily Bugle about being such a big Spider-Man fan. Spider-Man visits them and they bond and have a good time but the kid really wants to know who Spider-Man is. Peter gives in...





The twist, which seems pretty apparent reading the above pages, so I'm not too upset about skipping the reveal, is that the kid is sick from leukemia and only has a few weeks to live. Great story in a bit of an odd issue (two short stories by Stern in one issue).

52. "Cap's Kooky Quartet is born!" by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers (Avengers #16)

Almost all of the Avengers decide to leave the team while Cap is on his way back from a mission of vengeance against Baron Zemo (the guy who Cap thinks killed his partner, Bucky). Cap manages to bury Zemo without crying about it all issue long, but his return trip is delayed by Zemo's men so it takes a while for Cap (who brought Rick Jones along for the ride, because, well, I dunno - it's actually pretty irresponsible of Cap) to get back to New York. He arrives just in time to learn that Iron Man, Thor, Giant Man and Wasp are all leaving the team and their replacements are three former supervillains. What I love about this story is that it is just SO outlandish and it really puts the lie to anyone who tries to tell you "Character X can't be an Avenger." THREE SUPERVILLAINS, PEOPLE! And they make up the bulk of the team! Anyhow, Cap takes it all in stride and they are introduced to the world...





51. "Kitty Pryde takes a stand for mutantkind" by Chris Claremont and Brett Anderson (Marvel Graphic Novel #5 - God Loves, Man Kills)

All graphic novel long, this jerky anti-mutant preacher named William Stryker has been causing all sorts of unrest in the country with his hatred of mutants. He has even caused a group of militant supporters known as "purifiers" to begin hunting mutants down. It's all quite grim stuff. Xavier was willing to debate Stryker on national television, but Stryker used the opportunity to kidnap Cyclops and Xavier and brainwash Xavier into hating all mutants, which Stryker will use with some device to amplify Xavier's telepathy to wipe out all of mutantkind. The X-Men's arch-foe, Magneto, is forced to team up with the remaining members of the team to rescue Xavier before this happens. In the end, they end up confronting Stryker on national television and Kitty Pryde gets to give one of her good ol' Kitty Pryde speeches after Stryker talks some crap about Nightcrawler...





Great stuff by Claremont and Anderson.

The "blam," by the way, was from the gun of a cop who shoots Stryker to stop him from shooting an unarmed girl.

50. "Daredevil is Born Again!" by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli (Daredevil #232)

Matt Murdock was slowly putting the pieces together in his life along with his old girlfriend, Karen Page, whose drug addiction had led to Matt's current predicament (she sold information about his secret identity for drugs and the info eventually made its way to the Kingpin). He had helped her through her withdrawal and things were slowly getting better when the Kingpin decided that he needed to get rid of Murdock, so he sent a killer dressed as Daredevil after them. Matt succeeded in taking out the impostor. So the Kingpin then arranged to have a government operative named Nuke sent to Hell's Kitchen to start attacking it and raining havoc down on Murdock's neighborhood. This was finally too much for Murdock, and he used the fake costume to return to duty as Daredevil in a breathtaking sequence by David Mazzucchelli...





49. "Doom Steals the Beyonder's Power!" by Jim Shooter, Mike Zeck and John Beatty (Marvel Super-Heroes Secret Wars #10)

The concept behind Secret Wars was that a powerful being known as the Beyonder pulled a bunch of Earth's superheroes and supervillains on to a "Battle Planet" and told them to go fight each other and he'd reward the winners. Most of the supervillains were cool with that idea, but Doctor Doom had other plans. He slowly but carefully plotted against the Beyonder and then made his move, striving to take control of the Beyonder's amazing powers. The Beyonder seemingly kicked Doom's ass, but when he was examining the seemingly out of commission Doom, Doom found a way to turn the situation around, leading to this dramatic moment...





48. "Norman Osborn is the Green Goblin!" by Stan Lee and John Romita (Amazing Spider-Man #39)

John Romita was thrown into the deep end when he took over as the artist on Amazing Spider-Man with this famous issue, where the identity of Spider-Man's foe, the Green Goblin, was revealed.





47. "The Thing Takes on Doctor Doom Solo!" by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Vince Colletta (Fantastic Four #40)

The Fantastic Four had lost their powers a few issues earlier and then Doctor Doom took over control of their headquarters, the Baxter Building. With Daredevil's help, the FF slowly fought their way back into control of their own home. Along the way, Mister Fantastic was able to use a device to slowly, one by one, return the powers of the members of the team. But after returning his powers, the Invisible Girl's powers and the Human Torch's powers, it was still not enough to stop Doom. So he felt obligated to use the device on Ben Grimm, despite Ben not exactly being thrilled with the idea of returning to become the Thing. But the greater good theory was invoked and the Thing returned to battle and, as you might imagine, the Thing was not a happy camper and he took his frustrations out on Doom in a brutal battle with the tyrant...





46. "The Death of Ultimate Spider-Man" by Brian Michael Bendis, Mark Bagley and Andy Lanning (Ultimate Spider-Man #160)

Brian Michael Bendis had been writing the adventures of Ultimate Peter Parker for nearly a decade when he brought Peter's story to an end with this dramatic storyline where the Ultimate Green Goblin was terrorizing Peter's family and friends. Peter tried everything he could against the powerful creature but ultimately, it was his girlfriend, Mary Jane, who turned the tide by hitting the Goblin dead on with a van. Peter then picked up the van with the last of his strength and used it to pummel Goblin, securing the victory. However, tragically the gas tank of the van then exploded, fatally wounding Peter. His Aunt May and his friend Gwen Stacy and all of his neighbors gathered around as Peter passed away...





45. "Phoenix Becomes Dark Phoenix!" by John Byrne, Chris Claremont and Terry Austin (Uncanny X-Men #134)

The villain known as Mastermind had used his powers of deception to slowly corrupt the Phoenix so he could use her to become a King of the Hellfire Club. Eventually, her X-Men teammates rescued her from his clutches, but he had messed with her head so much that she was too far gone - he had effectively turned her evil, which was dramatically revealed to her teammates while they were flying her home...





44. "Tony Stark Overcomes the Demon in the Bottle" by David Michelinie, Bob Layton and John Romita Jr. (Iron Man #128)

It's interesting looking back at the Demon in the Bottle storyline and noting that so much of it was resolved in just a single issue (this later led to Denny O'Neil having Stark relapse, as he felt that resolving a character's alcoholism should have taken a lot longer, story-wise). With the help of his girlfriend, Bethany Cabe, Tony Stark manages to get sober. However, the previous issue he had forced his friend and butler, Edwin Jarvis, to leave his employ. Upon leaving, Jarvis had sold his stock in Stark International. In this issue, Stark learns that SHIELD had been buying up stock in his company and with the stock they got from Jarvis they now had a controlling interest in his company! He had been at odds with SHIELD for some time now over his desire to get out of the munitions business and now they were in charge of his own company!! So this was the biggest test to his new-found sobriety. Could he handle it?





I forgot how relatively soon John Romita Jr. left Iron Man.

43. "The debut of Wolverine" by Len Wein, Herb Trimpe and Jack Abel (Incredible Hulk #180)

Right in the middle of an otherwise pretty ordinary fight between the Hulk and the beast known as the Wendigo, a new character made his debut...





42. "Spider-Man vows for revenge against the Green Goblin" by Gerry Conway, Gil Kane and John Romita (Amazing Spider-Man #121)

The Green Goblin has just killed Gwen Stacy and readers were shocked by both the death of Peter Parker's girlfriend and the rage that this elicited from Peter, which was unlike anything we had seen from him before...



Of course, the point of the next issue was to see how Peter could turn away from thoughts of only revenge.

41. "Doctor Doom Steals the Power Cosmic from the Silver Surfer" by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott (Fantastic Four #57)

The Silver Surfer had been stuck on Earth for only seven issues when Doctor Doom invited him to Latveria in this issue, only to use the opportunity of the Surfer's visit to shockingly attack the Surfer and seemingly make the ultimate power move...





This led to an awesome later scene of Doom riding the Surfer's surfboard while blasting the Fantastic Four.

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.

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.

Go to the next page for #35-16!

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...





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.

30. "Even an Android Can Cry" by Roy Thomas, John Buscema and George Klein (Avengers #58)

In Avengers #57, the Avengers are attacked by an android known as the Vision. The Vision was created by the evil robot Ultron and the Vision is doing quite a fine job of kicking the Avengers' collective ass when he manages to break free from the programming of his "father" and he helps to save the Avengers. The next issue, the Avengers gather together to determine whether they should allow their newfound ally to join the team.

In the end, they decide to make him a member and he handles the news in adorable fashion...





29. "Cap Stands Off Against Thanos" by Jim Starlin, Ron Lim and Joe Rubinstein (Infinity Gauntlet #4)

In Infinity Gauntlet #4, Captain America helps to lead a team of some of the most powerful Marvel Superheroes (plus Doctor Doom) to try to stop the mad Titan Thanos. Thanos toys with them one by one, killing them in various fashions (sucking Wolverine's skeleton out of his body, blowing Quasar's quantum bands up, flat out knocking Iron Man's head off, stuff like that). It's a gruesome scene and soon there is only one combatant left - possibly the least powerful member of the group, Captain America. But he is undeterred...





As we see on the next page (and a little on these pages), Cap's plan was that the heroes were only there to distract Thanos so that the Silver Surfer would have the chance to swoop in and steal the Infinity Gauntlet off of Thanos' hand. The plan almost worked, too! But it didn't. Cap gets a few punches in and then Thanos kills him (of course, eventually the Infinity Gauntlet IS recovered from Thanos and the cosmic reset button is hit).

28. "The Debut of the All-New, All-Different X-Men" by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum (Giant-Size X-Men #1)

This is another odd one in that I don't know precisely what people are talking about when they voted for the formation of the All-New, All-Different X-Men, so I figured I'd go with the first time they all gathered together as a team...



27. "With Great Power..." by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (Amazing Fantasy #15)

You could make a good case that this moment should be combined with the moment where Spider-Man discovers that the murderer of his beloved Uncle Ben was the robber he let go by earlier in the day, but A. Plenty of people listed both on their lists as distinct moments B. It really does seem to be a distinct moment and, perhaps most importantly, C. Adding the votes of this one to the votes for the other one wouldn't change the placing of the other one. So here we go, with Peter walking home after learning the lesson that will define his career as a hero...



26. "Reed and Sue Get Married" by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Vince Colletta (Fantastic Four Annual #3)

Beginning a long tradition of superhero weddings that are interrupted by some sort of ruckus, the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm takes place only after Doctor Doom sends pretty much every supervillain the Marvel Universe had at the time after our heroes, who are aided by, well, pretty much every superhero the Marvel Universe had at the time. In the end, the Watcher lends Reed a device that wins the day and Reed and Sue are able to get married in peace, although Stan Lee and Jack Kirby are barred from attending the event...





25. "Xorn is Magneto!" by Grant Morrison, Phil Jimenez and Andy Lanning (New X-Men #146)

Early in his run on New X-Men, Grant Morrison introduced a new mutant from China known as Xorn. A healer, Xorn was a pacifist who became a beloved teacher to the young students at Xavier's. However, it turns out that Xorn was slowly turning the youth of Xavier's against the X-Men and in New X-Men #146 we see him make his move and that the peaceful Xorn was actually Magneto in disguise!





24. "Beta Ray Bill Is Worthy!" by Walter Simonson (Thor #337)

Walter Simonson began his legendary run on Thor with a storyline introducing an alien race flying by Earth. Nick Fury and SHIELD believe that this is an invasion, so they enlist the help of Thor to see what's what. The race is guarded by a being known as Beta Ray Bill. He believes Thor is attacking his people (as it turns out, the race are all in stasis while Beta Ray Bill finds a new home for his people) and they battle. During the fight, Thor is separated from his hammer long enough to transform into his Don Blake human identity. Beta Ray Bill knocks him out but now figures he has to take on more opposition, so he searches for a weapon...





Simonson's initial idea, that someone OTHER than Thor could be worthy of wielding his hammer, was a true game changer. What an awesome idea.

23. "Kraven Finishes His Last Hunt" by J.M. DeMatteis, Mike Zeck and Bob McLeod (Amazing Spider-Man #294)

The idea behind Kraven's Last Hunt is that the aging Kraven the Hunter feels that he has to prove himself superior to the one person he has never been able to do so in the past - Spider-Man. First he defeats his old foe, buries him alive and then he takes over as Spider-Man and becomes a vicious vigilante. He feels, though, that he has proven himself to be better than Spider-Man. So when Spider-Man escapes and confronts Kraven, Kraven explains to him that there is no need for further conflict, as he has already proven everything he needs to prove. Spider-Man, still in a bad state from being buried alive for long, waringly concedes, with the intent to return later to bring Kraven to justice. However, with his "victory" now finished, Kraven has other ideas for what to do with his life...





22. "The Formation of the Avengers" by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers (Avengers #1)

The evil Loki tried to cause some mischief by manipulating some Marvel heroes into conflict with the behemoth known as the Hulk. In the end, the heroes realized that they were being duped and instead teamed up with the Hulk to defeat Loki. With the battle over, they had a novel idea...why not form a team?



21. "No More Mutants" by Brian Michael Bendis, Olivier Coipel and Mark Morales (House of M #7)

The House of M was the result of a mentally unstable Scarlet Witch being convinced by her brother, Quicksilver, that the problems with the world were caused by the fact that mutants are a hated minority. So she used her reality-altering powers to create a new world where mutants rule the land (her father, Magneto, is in charge, hence the House of M). Slowly but surely, though, a number of heroes realize that this world is not their own and try to fight back and get the real world back. During the final battle, Magneto learns what Quicksilver did and turns on his son.

Wanda does not take this well. And you don't want to upset an unstable reality-altering person...





Doctor Strange was able to cancel out her powers to a certain extent, so some mutants remained, but otherwise, Wanda's simple three word statement wiped out mutantkind for years and reshaped the X-Universe for years to come.

20. "Bruce Banner Gets Caught in a Gamma Bomb Explosion" by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Paul Reinman (Incredible Hulk #1)

Man, these early Marvel origins are awesome. So much pathos, so much characterization and it is all done in so few pages. Paul Reinman really had a way of making Kirby's art look really weird - in a good way. The horror of Bruce Banner's screams is, to borrow a term, incredible.





19. "Captain Marvel Dies" by Jim Starlin (Marvel Graphic Novel #1)

Jim Starlin had a great run on Captain Marvel, which kicked off his whole series of cosmic Marvel stories. In 1982, he brought that chapter of his career to a close with this graphic novel, where we see Captain Marvel slowly succumb to cancer. In the end, Captain Marvel is joined by his old enemy, Thanos, to finally embrace death...





Captain Marvel and Warlock got such great sendoffs (and they're quite similar, too). Sadly, Warlock's missed the Top 75 (it was relatively close to making it - probably somewhere in the low 80s).

18. "Skurge's Last Stand" by Walter Simonson (Thor #362)

Skurge the Executioner was, for years, basically just a glorified henchman for the Enchantress. His place in comic book history was forever altered when Walter Simonson had the disillusioned brute join forces with Thor to help rescue some humans who were trapped in Hel. They were near escaping across the Gjallerbru bridge but Hela's forces were bearing down on them. Someone had to hold off the attackers while the others escaped. Obviously, Thor volunteered for the suicide mission. Skurge knocked him out, though, and took his place. There is a great moment that I sadly don't have space for where Skurge collects the various weapons from the other members of the mission and smiles, as he awaits the oncoming forces. He then begins firing on the horde of vile attackers.

Then we get the following...





Stunning.

You know a death is awesome when no writer dares to overturn it (the same, I suppose, goes for Captain Marvel).

17. "Fantastic Four Steal a Rocketship and Get Bombarded With Cosmic Rays" by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and George Klein (Fantastic Four #1)

Has Marvel ever done a story where Ben Grimm complains about Sue Storm cajoling him into doing the ill-fated space mission?

This moment contains two iconic panels - the four friends racing in the dead of night to steal the ship and the ship getting bombarded with cosmic rays (which is "the" moment for the countdown, by the way).





16. "Jean Grey Becomes the Phoenix" by Chris Claremont, Dave Cockrum and Sam Grainer (X-Men #101)

X-Men #100 has an awesome ending where the X-Men have rescued their captured friends and escaped from a space station but their space shuttle has been damaged enough that no one can pilot it without dying, as there is a solar flare going on. Jean Grey pulls a Skurge and volunteers for the mission, pulling the information on how to fly the shuttle from the astronaut who piloted the X-Men to the space station. Jean uses her powers to try to keep the radiation out but by the time the issue ends, it seems like her powers are failing and she is getting a full dose of radiation (similar to the cosmic rays that hit the FF).

The next issue shows the shuttle crashlanding (but at least all in one piece) and then we see what happened to Jean...





The story was later retconned that a cosmic being known as the Phoenix switched places with Jean during the flight down to Earth.

Go to the next page for #15-1!

15. "We Would Have Words With Thee..." by Kurt Busiek, George Perez and Al Vey (Avengers #22)

Ultron has conquered an entire country with hundreds of versions of himself serving his commands while he takes his extended "family" hostage - Hank Pym (his "father"), Wasp (his "mother"/"wife"), Vision (his "son"), Scarlet Witch (the ex-wife of his "son"), Wonder Man (the man he based his "Son"'s mind on) and the Grim Reaper (Wonder Man's actual brother). The Avengers arrive and fight through massive hordes of Ultrons to save their friends. The Grim Reaper manages to escape, but Ultron is not impressed...





I love his reaction to Thor's entrance line. Sort of like, "Yeah? AND?"

An important thing to note is that George Perez was just doing breakdowns for this story. Al Vey was doing finishes. This is why the characters look slightly different than typical Perez work.

14. "Galactus Arrives on Earth" by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee and Joe Sinnott (Fantastic Four #48-49)

This is the first time the two pages I'm featuring are spread out over two issues. At the end of Fantastic Four #48, Galactus arrives and in the beginning of Fantastic Four #49, we see the iconic reaction shots of the FF to the arrival of a being who is here to devour the entire PLANET...





It's really impressive to nail a cliffhanger AND its follow-up so perfectly.

13. "The Thunderbolts Are Really the Masters of Evil!" by Kurt Busiek, Mark Bagley and Vince Russell (Thunderbolts #1)

One of the all-time great reveals is at the end of Thunderbolts #1, where the whole issue saw a new group of heroes seemingly step into the void left by the disappearance (and supposed deaths) of the Avengers and the Fantastic Four.

But, of course, they were not REALLY new heroes, but OLD villains, as so wonderfully explained at the end of the issue...





12. "The Death of Captain America" by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting (Captain America #25)

Civil War ended with Captain America in handcuffs, but the biggest shock of the event came in the aftermath of the war, as Captain America is brutally killed while being escorted from prison...





That's such an iconic shot by Epting.

Unlike a number of the deaths on this countdown, this one wasn't actually retconned, as writer Ed Brubaker always planned on revealing that Cap wasn't REALLY killed, but was rather the victim (along with his brainwashed girlfriend, Sharon Carter, who was really the one who pulled the trigger) of an elaborate plot by the Red Skull.

11. "Spider-Man No More!" by Stan Lee, John Romita and Mike Esposito (Amazing Spider-Man #50)

This issue has what I view as quite possibly the most iconic comic book cover of all-time. But the interior scene, where Spider-Man decides to give up on being Spidey, is almost as iconic itself...





Little known fact (except to readers of this blog, of course) - John Romita used Jeff Johnson and Terry Austin's cover for Wonder Man #18 as his inspiration for this scene.

10. "Face it, Tiger..." by Stan Lee and John Romita (Amazing Spider-Man #42)

For over TWENTY-FIVE issues, Mary Jane Watson had been a mystery to Peter Parker and readers. All he knew about her was that she was the niece of one of Aunt May's friends and that Aunt May wanted to set Peter up with her. The readers knew a little bit more, as they knew that she was apparently good looking (as Betty Brant and Liz Allan discover when they meet her in Amazing Spider-Man #25). Finally, in just his FOURTH issue on the title, John Romita was given the responsibility to giving this mystery woman a visual, and boy, did John Romita deliver! Stan Lee combined that visual with an iconic line that made this one of the most memorable comic book meetings in comic book history...





9. "Now it's my Turn!" by John Byrne, Chris Claremont and Terry Austin (X-Men #132)

The outlook wasn't brilliant for the X-Men five that day - they were all unconscious, betrayed by Jean Grey.

But before things got TOO grim for the loyal X-Men viewer - we learn that Wolverine survived and was in the Hellfire sewer.





Does John Byrne nail that last panel or does John Byrne nail that last panel?

8. "Peter Parker is Bitten by a Radioactive Spider" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (Amazing Fantasy #15)

One of the all-time great superhero origins...





7. "Magneto Pulls Out Wolverine's Adamantium" by Fabian Nicieza, Andy Kubert and Matt Ryan (X-Men #25)

For years, it was always pretty risky that the All-New, All-Different X-Men would fight Magneto considering one of them turned into a giant metal man and another had metal bones and claws.

This came to a head during Fatal Attractions, when Professor X decides he has to take Magneto out once and for all. He puts together a small team of X-Men to come with him, including Wolverine. Wolverine brashly takes on Magneto, but Magneto is NOT in a mood to be messed with...





6. "Spider-Man Lifts Heavy Machinery" by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee (Amazing Spider-Man #33)

This scene is so famous that it has spawned a multitude of imitators. It is hard to ever beat the original, though. Spider-Man manages to get the serum that can save a dying Aunt May's life, but he's trapped under a pile of machinery in a leaking underground base of Doctor Octopus and even if he were to somehow get out of this particular situation, Octopus left behind a squadron of guards to kill him. Things look hopeless, but then Spider-Man thinks about what will happen to Aunt May if he lets her down or what Uncle ben would say and, well, he gets an extra reserve of strength...





Ditko really outdid himself on this sequence. The whole thing is about five pages long, so you should search out the story to get the FULL effect of the scene (plus there's this awesome fight later in the issue where an exhausted Spidey just sort of zones out while fighting Octopus' henchmen and starts swinging wildly until he's the only one left standing - Ditko was on FIRE in this storyline).

5. "But Me...I'm Magic" by Frank Miller and Klaus Janson (Daredevil #181)

I know I bring this up every time I talk about this era of Daredevil, but so long as it continues to be true, I'll continue to talk about - Klaus Janson really gets short shrift when this era is discussed. Yes, Frank Miller was writing the comic and yes, Miller's layouts were extraordinary. I don't mean to take anything away from Miller's awesomeness on this series. However, the guy was "only" doing layouts! The actual pencils on this legendary issue are by Janson, not Miller. And I don't think Janson gets nearly enough credit for that.

Anyhow, this is the issue where Miller shocked the comic book world by killing off his breakout character, the assassin (and former girlfriend of Matt Murdock) Elektra. She is sent to kill Foggy Nelson but she just can't bring herself to do it, as she remembers him from when she was Matt's girlfriend. However, her moment of truth arrived at a bad time, as Bullseye shows up, ready to prove that HE should be the Kingpin's top assassin, not Elektra. And we then get a brilliantly executed five-page fight that ends rather tragically...





All throughout her appearances in the series, Elektra's trademark had been running people through with her sai (without breaking the clothing on the other side of the person's body) and here, it is used on her. Brutal.

The story has another classic moment that received a lot of support, as well, which was how Elektra dragged herself to Matt Murdock's doorstep to die in his arms. So stunning.

4. "Oh Wait, Don't I Know You From Some Place?" by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko (Amazing Fantasy #15)

It is hard to get over just how perfectly plotted out Spider-Man's origin was by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. They created such a beaitifully tragic hero and they did it in so few pages where it's practically like every other page deserves a spot on a list of the most memorable moments in Marvel history. It feels like every other panel in this issue has been homaged by later creators.

Anyhow, as we showed earlier on the countdown, while Spider-Man was riding high as a late night personality, using his powers for showmanship, he let a robber escape without stopping him for the police. That's how blind Spidey was to the plight of others and his responsibility for helping others. Later that night, he returns home to find out that his beloved Uncle Ben has been murdered. In a rage, he vows to beat the police to the gunman and bring him to justice. What he discovers when he finds the murderer shakes him to his very core...





Wow. Soooo good.

3. "The Famous Red, White Garb of...Captain America!" by Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and George Roussos (Avengers #4)

It's interesting, looking back at the history of the Marvel Age, just how long Stan Lee took to revive what was once the company's most popular character. Another Golden Age hero, Namor, was revived just four months into the Marvel Age. In that case, though, Namor served as a villain in the new universe, so it made more sense to use him. The Human Torch had already been coopted by Johnny Storm. So that left Captain America and a couple of years went by without his return. Finally, after a test issue where Captain America came back in an issue of Strange Tales (it turned out to be an impostor, of course), Lee finally bit the bullet and brought Captain America into the Silver Age in Avengers #4. The full introduction of Cap is three pages long and I've been holding myself to just two, so we'll have to stick with just one page after the main the moment, the point where Wasp recognizes the frozen guy that the Avengers rescued while trying to hunt Namor and the Hulk down (you gotta love early Avengers - by issue #3 they're already hunting down one of their founding members)...





I've read this scene roughly a gazillion times over the years and it still gives me chills how Cap just collects himself and is all, "Yeah, okay, Bucky's dead, I'm in the future, but screw it, I'm Captain goddamn America" (and yes, it makes Cap's reaction to killing a terrorist who was about to kill a bunch of innocent people even the sillier when you see Cap's reaction here).

2. "The Death of Jean Grey!" by John Byrne, Chris Claremont and Terry Austin (X-Men #137)

So Jean Grey had her mind warped to the point where she becomes Dark Phoenix and wipes out a whole planet of beings. The Shi'Ar decide to get involved and the X-Men are forced to fight the entire Imperial Guard to save their friend's life, who they feel is back to normal after Professor X placed a sort of psychic cap on her after the team fought Dark Phoenix themselves.

They're going along, getting their collective ass kicked by the much larger and more powerful Imperial Guard (but let me note, they're so awesome and so powerful but they seem to, like, never win a fight) when suddenly the blocks Xavier placed on Jean start to crumble and Phoenix returns!

Her teammates must now turn on her...



but ultimately, Jean decides that she cannot control the Phoenix force so she makes the ultimate sacrifice...



It's funny - the moment is awesome and unexpected (star characters in popular comic books just did NOT die in comics at the time, even in a title like X-Men where a member was killed off in their second mission) but looking back, Cyclops' exposition-heavy speech after the love of his life just incinerated herself is kind of funny.

This is the highest ranked moment on the list to later be retconned. It was later revealed that the Phoenix force was an independent cosmic being that made a deal with Jean way back in X-Men where it would save Jean's friends in exchange for Jean letting it take Jean's place and live life as a human being. So its "corruption" was really it losing traces of its copied humanity. So according to this retcon, it makes the sacrifice almost MORE noble, as it is one thing for Jean Grey to sacrifice herself for the good of mankind, it's a whole other thing for a COPY of Jean Grey to sacrifice itself for the good of mankind.

1. "The Death of Gwen Stacy!" by Gerry Conway, Gil Kane and John Romita (Amazing Spider-Man #121)

Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross made a point of framing the death of Gwen Stacy as the figurative end of the Silver Age, and it certainly does have that sort of feeling to it. It's such a momentous event that it is no surprise to see it ranked #1 on the list - it gets referenced CONSTANTLY. They even adapted it into the recent Amazing Spider-Man film franchise.





From the "Snap" to Spidey trying to convince someone (himself? God?) that Gwen isn't actually dead, that's still a painful thing to read. But an extremely memorable thing to read.

Okay, that's the list! Happy Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, Marvel! Here's to seventy-five more years of more memorable moments!