User blog comment:Warmachine375/Why Marvel Universe is being divided into different alternate universes?/@comment-3008558-20120517114505

Alternate universes have been a part of Marvel since the Squadron supreme first showed up in 1971. They're nothing new in Marvel comics or in fiction generally, but the majority of Marvel stories have always taken place on Earth 616 and still do. I don't really understand the problem, or indeed the point being made.