BRONZE AGE
1970-1979
Green Lantern #76, 4/70, DC
(Begins Green Lantern/Green Arrow series by Denny O'Neil & Neal Adams)
Detective Comics #400, 6/70,
DC (1st Man-Bat)
Superman's Pal, Jimmy Olsen
#133, 10/70, DC (1st Silver Age Newsboy Legion)
Forever People #1, 2-3/71,
DC (1st Forever People)
New Gods #1, 3/71, DC (1st
New Gods)
Mister Miracle #1, 3/71, DC
(1st Mister Miracle)
Savage Tales #1, 5/71,
Marvel (1st Man-Thing)
House of Secrets #92, 6/71,
DC (1st app. Swamp Thing by Bernie Wrightson)
Amazing Spider-Man #101,
10/71, Marvel (1st Morbius the Living Vampire)
Marvel Feature #1, 12/71,
Marvel (Origin and 1st app. Defenders)
All Star Western #10,
2-3/72, DC (1st Jonah Hex)
Tomb of Dracula #1, 4/72,
Marvel (1st app. Dracula)
Marvel Spotlight #2, 6/72,
Marvel (1st app. Werewolf by Night)
Marvel Spotlight #5, 8/72,
Marvel (Origin and 1st app. new Ghost Rider)
Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth
#1,10/72, DC (Origin/1st Kamandi)
Iron Man #55, 2/73, Marvel
(1st. app. Thanos & Drax the Destroyer)
Shazam #1, 2/73, DC (1st
revival of Captain Marvel since mid 50s)
Amazing Spider-Man #121,
6/73 Marvel (Death of Gwen Stacy)
Amazing Spider-Man #122,
7/73, Marvel (Death of Green Goblin I)
Marvel Spotlight #12, 10/73,
Marvel (1st solo Son of Satan)
Marvel Special Edition #15,
12/73, Marvel (1st Master of Kung Fu)
Amazing Spider-Man #129,
2/74, Marvel (1st Punisher)
Astonishing Tales #25, 8/74,
Marvel (1st Deathlok)
Incredible Hulk #181, 11/74,
Marvel (1st story app. of Wolverine)
Giant Size X-Men #1,
Summer/75, Marvel (1st New X-Men; intro Nightcrawler, Storm, Colossus &
Thunderbird)
X-Men #94, 8/75, Marvel (New
X-Men team begins)
All Star Comics #58, 1-2/76,
DC (1st Power Girl)
Marvel Spotlight #32, 2/77,
Marvel (1st Spider-Woman)
Black Lightning #1, 4/77, DC
(1st Black Lightning)
Cerebus #1, 12/77, Aardvark-Vanaheim
(1st app. Cerebus)(B&W)
X-Men #108, 12/77, Marvel
(1st important Byrne work)
Daredevil #158, 5/79, Marvel
(Frank Miller begins work on Daredevil; his 1st important work)