Thread:Nausiated/@comment-32978104-20171031220110/@comment-4651179-20171101225431

I'm sorry to chime in but I'll have to disagree with that. Marvel does make retcons. One of the examples I can think of off the top of my head is Ulysses Klaw's origin (he went from being a physicist that hired assassins to being an assassin himself). Another one is the status of Deadpool's parents. Before Duggan's run established Deadpool was brainwashed to kill his mother and father in Canada, one issue had him reconnect with his estranged father. There's also Star-Lord's origin (and even hair color), but I'm not familiar enough with it to comment further about it.

These are examples of retcons that doen't simply update a story's details (like Iron Man's origin being retold from happening in Vietnam to Afghanistan) or has the kind of "the original narrator recalled it wrong" excuse, etc.

As for this specific instance, the current official position on Reed and Sue's first meeting is that she was roughly Reed's age (or at least not as young). This is even touched upon in the letters page of.

As Tom Brevoort puts it: "[We] made a conscious decision to modify and update [Reed and Sue's first meeting] somewhat, keeping the essence of the situation the same (Reed meets Sue while he's in college, and boarding at Sue's Aunt's house) but discarding the inappropriateness of a college-age man eyeing a twelve-year old girl."