I've just been going thru the whole of MARVELS 3, and revising my chronology accordingly. Busiek abandons the chronology for this period as laid out in the Official Marvel Indexes for the Avengers & FF. This pretty much renders everything written here null and void. Most importantly, MARVELS 3 places A 30-31 concurrently with FF 45-50, as well as establishing that Tony Stark must have been held for some time by the Mandarin, and was his prisoner during the Galactus event. This is evident from the time-line established in MARVELS 3 for Senator Byrd.michel wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 11:42 amI'm inclined to agree with your PS, because of Marvels #3. Attuma's flood happens during A 27 and MARVELS 3 (6 - 9:1). You have FF 48 (14 - 20) just after A 27 (1 - 20:3), the stones in the sky happen in MARVELS 3 (13:3) and up. But where do you put the flames in the sky from FF 48 (8:3 - 13) and MARVELS 3 (11:2 - 13:2), and the period shown in MARVELS 3 (9:2 - 11:1)? If you have it before the flood and A 27, then you have MARVELS 3 (9:2 - 13:2) before MARVELS 3 (6 - 9:1).
This is a complete review of MARVELS 3 and how it meshes with existing comics (listings in italics not covered by MARVELS 3)..
[Caveat: This list takes MARVELS 3 completely at face-value. A deeper scrutiny may reveal flaws or errors in Busiek & Ross's presentation of events (or Phil Sheldon's in-story presentation).]
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Avengers 19-20
Avengers 21 (1 - 20:2) [The Mayor talks to Cap]
Marvels 3 (1 - 3) [the Avengers have been declared a public menace and the Mayor’s about to order them to disband]
Avengers 21 (20:3 - 20:6) [The Mayor declares the Avengers to be a public menace]
Avengers 22 (1 - 11:3)
Tales of Suspense 72 (1 - 8:4)
Avengers 22 (11:4)
Avengers 22 (11:6)
Tales of Suspense 72 (8:5 - 12:5)
Avengers 22 (12 - 20) [The Mayor declares the following Sunday to be Avengers Day; Cap temporarily quits the Avengers]
Marvels 3 (4:1 - 4:2) [Avengers Day ceremony]
Tales of Suspense 72 (12:6 - 12:9)
Tales of Suspense 73 (1 - 11) [Senator Byrd threatens to return to SI with a subpoena]
Tales of Suspense 73 (12) ~ Avengers 48 (11)-FB
Marvels 3 (4:3 - 4:5) [Senator Byrd publicly demands to know Iron Man’s identity, and issues a subpoena for Tony Stark to appear before his Investigative Committee]
Tales of Suspense 74 [Senator Byrd has his subpoena]
Tales of Suspense 75
Tales of Suspense 76 [Stark is abducted by the Mandarin]
Strange Tales 145 [Fury captures The Druid]
Marvels 3 (5) [Phil watches footage of Nick Fury taking down the Druid]
Avengers 23-25
Amazing Spider-Man 29-33 [Peter begins classes at ESU][September, unless these are summer classes]
Tales to Astonish 76 (6 - 12) [Namor crowned Sovereign of Atlantis]
Tales to Astonish 77
Tales to Astonish 78 (1 - 7:3:1)
Avengers 26 (1 - 4)
Tales to Astonish 78 (7:3:2 - 8:1) ~ Avengers 26 (5:1 - 5:6)
Avengers 26 (5:7 - 20)
Avengers 27 (1 - 4)
Marvels 3 (6 - 8:3) [Phil Sheldon is spending the day at the zoo with his family, when the waters begin to rise]
Avengers 27 (5 - 20:3) [coastal centres begin evacuations]
Marvels 3 (8:4 - 9:1) [Phil Sheldon listens to reports on the radio of how the Avengers saved the day]
Tales to Astonish 78 (8:2 - 12)
Tales to Astonish 79-80
Amazing Spider-Man 34 (1 - 3:2)
Amazing Spider-Man 47 (2:3 - 2:6)-FB
Amazing Spider-Man 34 (3:3 - 7:2)
Marvels 3 (9:2) [Framing shot of NYC]
Amazing Spider-Man 34 (7:3 - 8:3) [Disguised as Spider-Man, Kraven heckles JJJ]
Marvels 3 (9:3) [JJJ shakes his fist at Spider-Man (actually Kraven in disguise)]
Amazing Spider-Man 34 (8:4 - 9:3)
Alias 23 (15 - 22)
Amazing Spider-Man 34 (9:4 - 20)
X-Men 19
Untold Legend of Captain Marvel 1-2
Untold Legend of Captain Marvel 3 (1 - 30)
Uncanny X-Men 286 (6)
Daredevil 10-11 [DD vs The Organizer; NY pre-elections]
Spider-Woman 1 (10:1)
Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four II 1
Amazing Spider-Man 35
Amazing Spider-Man 133-FB
Amazing Spider-Man 148 (10:5)-FB
Original Sin 5 (14 - 16)
Daredevil 12
Fantastic Four 44 [Dragon Man takes off with Sue]
Fantastic Four 45 (1 - 4)
Marvels 3 (9:4) [Phil Sheldon sees footage of Dragon Man carrying away Sue Storm on tv]
Tales to Astonish 70/2 (4:4 - 10)
Tales to Astonish 71/2-74/2
Tales to Astonish 75/2 (1 - 7:5) [defensive measures are brought into play, keeping the Hulk at bay for several hours, while the T-Gun is transported to Washington]
Marvels 3 (10:1) [Hulk is buffeted by army mortar shells as he leaps over the Capital Building in Washington DC]
Tales to Astonish 75/2 (7:6 - 10) [as the Hulk lands outside the White House, the T-Gun is trained on him and fired]
Tales to Astonish 76/2-79/2
Daredevil 13
Daredevil 14 (1 - 12) [Ka-Zar arrested in London]
Marvels 3 (10:2) [The Times runs a story on Ka-Zar and Daredevil]
Daredevil 14 (13 - 20)
Journey into Mystery 124-125 [Hercules battles thugs]
Thor 126-127
Tales of Suspense 79/2-FB
Tales of Suspense 72/2-76/2 [Cap battles Batroc the Leaper]
Marvels 3 (10:3 - 11:1) [Phil Sheldon develops recent pics of Hercules battling some thugs (ref. JIM 125) and Captain America battling Batroc the Leaper (ref. TOS 75/2)]
X-Men 20-21
Avengers 48 (12:1 - 12:2)-FB
Thor 128
Avengers 27 (20:4 - 20:5)
Avengers 28-29
Thor 129-133
Tales of Suspense 77/2
Avengers 30 (1 - 2:4)
Fantastic Four 45 (6 - 8)
Tales of Suspense 78/2
Tales to Astonish 81
Tales of Suspense 79-80
Tales to Astonish 82
The Coming of Galactus
Avengers 30 (2:5 - 20)
Avengers 31 (1 - 10) [The Avengers head to South America to search for Goliath]
Fantastic Four 45 (9 - 20)
Fantastic Four 46-47
Fantastic Four 48 (1 - 9) [as the FF approach New York, they see what appear to be two suns rising in the sky, one of which appears to be getting larger, until it fills the whole sky with flame]
Fantastic Four 48 (10 - 20) ~ Marvels 3 (11:2 - 19:2) [Phil Sheldon witnesses the fire in the sky and makes his way thru the panicked crowds to the Bugle Building]
Fantastic Four 48 (10:1) ~ Marvels 3 (12&13:2) [As the Torch flies into the city, people begin blaming him for the fire in the sky]
Marvels 3 (12&13:3) [Phil Sheldon makes his way thru the panicked crowds to the Bugle Building]
Fantastic Four 48 (10:2-13) [the sky mysteriously clears; a distant star explodes, transforming into a super-nova, and Silver Surfer rides the shockwave across countless light-years, heading towards the Milky Way galaxy]
Fantastic Four 48 (14-17:1) [the sky becomes filled with orbiting debris; the Surfer penetrates the rocky barrier around the Earth]
Marvels 3 (12&13:4-15) [Phil Sheldon looks at the rocky covering in the sky, when the Silver Surfer appears]
Fantastic Four 48 (17:2) [Realizing that some power has attempted to conceal the planet from him, the Silver Surfer hurtles over New York]
Marvels 3 (16:1-16:3) [The Torch flies up to intercept the Surfer as the crowds cheer him from below]
Fantastic Four 48 (17:3-17:4) [The Silver Surfer deftly dodges the Human Torch]
Marvels 3 (16:4) [Phil Sheldon watches from the Bugle Building]
Fantastic Four 48 (17:5) [Landing on the roof of the Baxter Building, the Surfer signals Galactus, disregarding the FF and the Watcher, as they emerge on the roof; telling them the damage is done, the Watcher tells them they must plan their defense]
Marvels 3 (17:1) [The Thing creeps up behind the Surfer]
Fantastic Four 48 (18:1) [Ben belts the Surfer, sending him flying off the Baxter Building]
Marvels 3 (17:2) [La Guardia Air Traffic Control reports something moving in the sky]
Fantastic Four 48 (18:2-18:6) [The Watcher tells them to forget the Surfer, as the threat is Galactus, whose universe-spanning sphere he detects entering Earth’s atmosphere]
Marvels 3 (17:3-17:5) [As the ship comes into view, NASA sends the Bugle a Telex]
Fantastic Four 48 (19-20:2) [As they watch, Galactus’ ship opens, releasing testing devices which sample the atmosphere, then his gigantic ship comes to rest over the Baxter Building]
Fantastic Four 48 (20:3) ~ Marvels 3 (18-19:1) [Galactus steps out, declaring that the planet shall be drained of all elemental life, in order to sustain him]
Marvels 3 (19:2) [The crowd reacts to Galatus’ announcement]
Fantastic Four 49 (1-2) [The FF stand to one side as the Watcher speaks to Galactus, telling him this world contains intelligent life, but Galactus asks of what import that is to him]
Marvels 3 (19:3-19:4) [The crowd watch as the FF move closer to speak to Galactus, believing they’re about to attack]
Fantastic Four 49 (3) [When Galactus ignores him, Ben punches him in the ankle, causing Galactus to drop a capsule of insecticide on them]
Fantastic Four 49 (4:1) ~ Marvels 3 (20:1) [The capsule explodes in Ben’s face]
Fantastic Four 49 (4:2-5:3) [Reed wraps himself around Ben and rolls with him after Sue into the Baxter Building, while Torch flies up to challenge him, but Galactus shoots eye-beams at him]
Marvels 3 (20:2) [Torch is hit by the eye-beams]
Fantastic Four 49 (5:4-5:6) [The eye-beams douse Torch’s flame, contracting the electrons in his flame, and covering him with soot]
Marvels 3 (21:1-21:3) [The crowd watch as the Torch retreats]
Fantastic Four 49 (5:7) ~ Marvels 3 (21:4) [The Watcher tells Johnny to join the others, when Galactus asks what has become of his Herald]
Marvels 3 (21:5) [The crowd wonders what will happen now]
Fantastic Four 49 (6-7) [Johnny heads indoors to find Ben taking a bath, and Reed having a shave; as the Silver Surfer regains consciousness, he falls thru Alicia’s skylight and onto her couch, where Alicia tends to him]
Fantastic Four 49 (8:1-8:2) ~ Marvels 3 (22) [Reed, Ben and Sue watch as Galactus begins to assemble his equipment on the roof of the Baxter Building]
Marvels 3 (23) [The crowd wonders where the Avengers are, and notes that Spider-Man hasn’t been seen; as the shock wears off, Sheldon and the rest of the Bugle staff get back to work] [The Avengers are in South America (ref. Marvels Annotated 3/Avengers 31)]
Fantastic Four 49 (8:3-12:4) [Reed, Ben and Sue head up to the roof; the Watcher explains that Galactus is constructing an elemental converter, with which he will convert the oceans of the world into pure energy; meanwhile, Alicia attempts to connect to the Silver Surfer, stirring pity in him, as the Governor asks all citizens to remain in their homes, pre-empting all tv and radio in order to keep the public apprised of the situation; Galactus having erected a force-field around the Baxter Building, has made himself impervious to anyone attempting to attack him from the outside, leaving only the FF in any position to do anything; Galactus prepares to link the two igniters to activate his energy converter]
Fantastic Four 49 (12:6-14:2) ~ Marvels 3 (25-26) [the energy converter fails to operate, when Galactus sees Ben Grimm destroying the machine; taking Galactus by surprise, Ben knocks him off the ledge and he falls, but doesn’t hit the ground, instead standing suspended in thin air above the street]
Marvels 3 (27) [Phil Sheldon is in the crowd below as they look up at Galactus above them]
Fantastic Four 49 (14:3-18:2) [Signalling his starship, Galactus sends for the Punisher, a heavily-armed living robot, while the Watcher activates a time-space distortion device, with which he sends Johnny and himself to a far distant galaxy, to Galactus’ world-ship, a gargantuan space-station, where he tells Johnny they will find the device needed to battle Galactus; Ben attempts to battle the Punisher, but is no match for him, so Reed restrains the robot, allowing Ben to retreat]
Fantastic Four 49 (18:3) ~ Marvels 3 (28) [The robot triples its power, throwing Reed off]
Fantastic Four 49 (18:4-19) [When Reed and Ben retreat within Sue’s force-field, Galactus returns the Destroyer to his ship]
Marvels 3 (29) [Finding the Midtown Tunnel filled with abandoned cars, Phil dismisses his cab and starts walking home]
Fantastic Four 49 (20) [Alicia tells the Silver Surfer that she senses he has the power to save them, but he tells her to defy Galactus is unthinkable, then he tells her that perhaps he has found something worth protecting, even though it means he must do battle with his Master]
Fantastic Four 50 (1-13) ~ Mighty Avengers II 9 (8-12) ~ Marvels 3 (30- 37) [The Silver Surfer confronts Galactus; Torch returns with the Ultimate Nullifier; Galactus retreats]
Marvels 3 (38 - 40) [Phil returns home to his family]
Avengers 31 (11 - 20) [The Avengers locate Goliath]
Avengers 32 (1 - 4:4) [and return home]
Marvels 3 (41) [Next morning, Phil plays with his kids; The papers report on Galactus and the return of Goliath and the Avengers, who were trapped outside the city during the crisis]
Fantastic Four 50 (14 - 16) [JJJ publishes an editorial in the Daily Bugle claiming that Galactus was a hoax]
Fantastic Four 50 (17:1 - 17:3) ~ Marvels 3 (42:1 - 42:2) [Walking the back alleys in a funk, Ben runs into a woman on a corner]
Fantastic Four 50 (17:4 - 20) [The woman runs off, terrified, leaving Ben even more morose; Torch and Wyatt Wingfoot enroll at Metro College]
Amazing Spider-Man 36 [Spidey vs the Looter]
Tales of Suspense 77 [While Iron Man is battling Ultimo, Senator Byrd has Stark’s defense contracts cancelled]
Tales of Suspense 78 (1 - 11) [Iron Man defeats Ultimo and escapes from the Mandarin]
Marvels 3 (42:3 - 43:4) [Pete brings Jonah photos of Spidey battling the Looter; Ben Urich tells Phil that Senator Byrd’s cancelled all of Stark’s defense contracts and that SI’s expected to start announcing plant shut-downs by the end of the week]
Tales of Suspense 78 (12) [Tony returns to Stark Industries to find the plant has been closed down]
Daredevil 15
Fantastic Four 51
Amazing Spider-Man 37
Daredevil 16-19
Amazing Spider-Man 38
Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man 1-3
Amazing Spider-Man 39-41
Tales to Astonish 80/2
Marvel Spotlight 32 (15:1 - 15:3)-FB
Marvel Spotlight 32 (6:2 - 7:6)-FB
Strange Tales 145/2
Tales of Suspense 79/2-81/2
Tales of Suspense 89/2 (2:4 - 3:1)-FB
Doctor Strange: The Last Days of Magic 1 (27 - 32)
Strange Tales 146
Strange Tales 146/2
Doctor Strange: The Last Days of Magic 1 (33 - 35)
Tales to Astonish 81/2-82/2
Captain America and the Falcon 175 (4:6 -5:1)
Tales to Astonish 83/2
Strange Tales 147-149
Fantastic Four 52-53 [Summer Break]
X-Men 22
Marvels 3 (43:5 - 45) [Phil Sheldon heads to the Masthead to have lunch with his family, who have spent the morning being shown around the Bugle by Jonah, and where Stan Lee is having a drink at the bar, when one of the Bugle reporters rushes in, telling Phil they’re on the first flight to Washington, as Count Nefaria’s imprisoned the whole city, and the X-Men were seen fighting him]
X-Men 23 [Count Nefaria encompasses Washington in a luminescent crystalline dome]
X-Men 24 (1 - 8:2) [Summer Break]
X-Men 24 (8:3 - 20)
X-Men 25 (1 - 8:3)
Fantastic Four 54-56 [Summer Break]
Fantastic Four Annual 4
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There just doesn't seem to be anywhere that Marvel Monsters: Monsters on the Prowl makes any kind of sense for all of the characters. MARVELS 3 has inserted a gap between pages 4 & 5 of FF 45. It can work for Thing and Mr Fantastic, and would explain why Sue and Torch aren't present, but i don't think that will work for Hulk, and it doesn't really work anywhere for Giant-Man.