Marvel character debuts
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Marvel character debuts
Order by the cover-date year of each character's first comic appearance. You place all 40 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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release years and dates
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How the Marvel character debuts timeline game works
Each card is a Marvel hero, villain or team, with a short description of who they are under the name, and the order is the cover-date year of their first comic appearance. The timeline opens with one character in place, year showing. Fit each new card into a gap. Get the gap right and the year appears; get it wrong and the character still moves to the right spot, but you lose a life. You have three, and ten correct placements in a row win one back.
The deck reaches from the wartime comics of the company's earliest days through the burst of creation that built the modern universe, then on through the street-level heroes, cosmic sagas and antiheroes that followed. That middle burst is crowded, with many famous names arriving close together. Movie fame is a poor guide: characters who became stars on screen were often minor figures in the comics for a long time.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 40 cards you might be dealt, with 12 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Namor Sub-Mariner, prince of Atlantis
- Captain America Steve Rogers, super-soldier
- Red Skull Nazi archvillain
- Fantastic Four Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben
- Hulk Bruce Banner, gamma-irradiated scientist
- Spider-Man Peter Parker, bitten by a radioactive spider
- Ant-Man (Hank Pym) Shrinking scientist
- Iron Man Tony Stark, armored inventor
- Doctor Strange Stephen Strange, master of the mystic arts
- Nick Fury Eye-patched spymaster of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Daredevil Matt Murdock, blind lawyer
- Black Widow Natasha Romanoff, Russian spy
- Green Goblin Norman Osborn on a goblin glider
- Silver Surfer Norrin Radd, herald of Galactus
- Black Panther T'Challa, king of Wakanda
- Kingpin Wilson Fisk, crime lord of New York
- Carol Danvers Captain Marvel, Air Force pilot
- Vision Synthezoid with a gem in his brow
- Luke Cage Unbreakable skin, Harlem
- Thanos The Mad Titan
- Blade Eric Brooks, vampire hunter
- Punisher Frank Castle, vigilante
- Moon Knight Marc Spector, avatar of Khonshu
- Star-Lord Peter Quill, space outlaw
- Black Cat Felicia Hardy, cat burglar
- She-Hulk Jennifer Walters, Bruce Banner's cousin
- Deadpool Wade Wilson, the merc with a mouth
- Carnage Cletus Kasady's red symbiote
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