Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20121219004415/@comment-100066-20121219130759

I am reluctant to dive into this (not opposed, just reluctant) primarily because it will just be us expressing our opinion, but holding it up as fact. We are certainly knowledgeable about all things Marvel, but we are not official. I would hate for someone to find our info and claim it as truth.

However, it is certainly worthwhile as a categorization tool. I think that Peter Parker's years in high school and college set a nice break in the early Marvel years. Christmas issues can also be an indicator of years passing, although those get confused with real time December publishing schedules.

I would also suggest that Marvel-wide events can be used as temporal sign posts since they cut across all titles. I think that the Mutant Massacre was the first Marvel-wide event.

Providing references as to why we think events occur when they do would also be nice, but complicated. For instance, we might not be able to say what year it was in MA when someone first used an iPod, but we could definitely place it after the time when someone used a Walkman.

This is a heavy project indeed...