Time Machine for Marvel Comics

[Fred2]

Is there a Time Machine for Marvel Comics. (Especially for the 1970s)

Kind of like what you would find at Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics?

http://www.dcindexes.com/

[Red Oak Kid]

Is there a Time Machine for Marvel Comics. (Especially for the 1970s)

Kind of like what you would find at Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics?

http://www.dcindexes.com/

Not that I know of.

There is a site for Marvel Silver Age covers. But they don't have many 70s covers. Unless they have expanded since the last time I was there.

And I think I have found sites dedicated to specific Marvel titles like Spider-man, X-Men, and Star Wars.

But when searching for Marvel covers I usually go to the GCD.

[The Confessor]

Is there a Time Machine for Marvel Comics. (Especially for the 1970s)

Kind of like what you would find at Mike's Amazing World of DC Comics?

http://www.dcindexes.com/



I might be getting totally the wrong end of the stick here (since I'm not overly familiar with the DC Indexes site) but when you say "a Time Machine" do you mean a chronological guide to character specific events that have occured in Marvel comics?

If so, there's the excellent Marvel Chronology Project (http://www.chronologyproject.com), although it hasn't been updated since October, 2008 and some characters haven't had their chronology updated for a lot longer than that (Spider-Man for instance).

[spoon_jenkins]

I might be getting totally the wrong end of the stick here (since I'm not overly familiar with the DC Indexes site) but when you say "a Time Machine" do you mean a chronological guide to character specific events that have occured in Marvel comics?
Since the original poster hasn't return yet, I'll cut in.

There's a link at the DC Indexes site called Time Machine. It allows you to select a month and then see the covers of the all the DC comics that were released that month. So unfortunately I don't think the Marvel Chronology Project has any similar feature.

[Fred2]

Since the original poster hasn't return yet, I'll cut in.

There's a link at the DC Indexes site called Time Machine. It allows you to select a month and then see the covers of the all the DC comics that were released that month. So unfortunately I don't think the Marvel Chronology Project has any similar feature.

Yes, this is what I mean. A comparison of what other titles were available at the same time.

[earl]

One of the features I like about the mycomicshop.com site is that you can search by month and publisher very easy. If a book was published on Sept 77 and you click on the month it brings up all issues with covers from Sept 77.

You can also search by publisher and month too.

[MDG]

There's this one, but it only goes up to January '71.

http://www.samcci.comics.org/index.html

[The Confessor]

There's a link at the DC Indexes site called Time Machine. It allows you to select a month and then see the covers of the all the DC comics that were released that month. So unfortunately I don't think the Marvel Chronology Project has any similar feature.


Ah, I see. OK, my bad.

[InfoBroker]

There's this one, but it only goes up to January '71.

http://www.samcci.comics.org/index.html

Which is a great site, and actually predates Mike's DC site, but wow has Mike done a great job (herculean in scope). One not so tiny problem with the Marvel Silver Age site, as I've mentioned before, while they align the comics by cover date, those don't jive and align with what Marvel comical books were on the newstands for a given month. Marvel had both two and three month leads (and in 1971-1972 the spanned from two months to as much as five months), for their titles. Confusing for sure, and I'm better it has a lot to do with sneaking extra titles into their distribution limited years.

-jb the "historically picky" ib -

[Red Oak Kid]

Which is a great site, and actually predates Mike's DC site, but wow has Mike done a great job (herculean in scope).
-jb the "historically picky" ib -

Several years ago, Mike's site seemed to take forever to load on my computer. But now, for whatever reason, it loads quickly and I find myself going there first, when looking for DC books.

And the alphabetical list of DC titles is very helpful when my old brain fails me.

[IMJ]

So unfortunately I don't think the Marvel Chronology Project has any similar feature.

I love that website... what an undertaking there, eh?

[Loki]

Though it only covers the Timely and Atlas eras, up until roughly 1960, I heartily recommend Atlas Tales
http://www.atlastales.com/

If you want a monthly cover list, use the search function, asking for covers and setting a date range only covering the month you want. You'll get a list of titles, and the covers show in turn as you run your mouse over them.

[Sean Walsh]

Oh.

I kinda thought this was about Marvel maybe adapting THE TIME MACHINE by HG Wells as part of its Illustrated line. :-/

[Reptisaurus!]

Man, I wish. I was arranging my team-up book collection in chronological order because I'm a huge, HUGE nerd, and was trying to file my Marvel Team-Up and Marvel Two-In-One annuals by date... It's tough! (Although the ads in the annuals are more-or-less-sorta the same as the ads in the OTHER books from the same months, I think. So it's doable.) Mike's Amazing World made the strange DC stuff way, WAY easier.

[dan bailey]

I love that website... what an undertaking there, eh?

Indeed. I've mentioned a few times that it's almost certainly* the first comics-related site I ever bookmarked, around 6 years ago, when I started edging back into comics & found it particularly invaluable in formulating my goal to acquire every DC 80-Page Giant ever.



*Though there's an outside chance it was CBR, in the form of Scott Shaw!'s old "Oddball Comics" forum

[Fred2]

thanks for all the suggestions.

Yeah, the silver age marvel site is great, but it only goes up to 1971.

I kind of want to compare different titles going on in the same month.

Just to compare which story lines were going on at the same time.