He was introduced in #6 of Amazing Spider-Man, along with his son, who was age 10 in when introduced back then, Marvel has since stated that Peter is 25 and that he started his career at 15, or at least was at the time of the event I'm going to talk about next (slight tangent, we know this to be false, people have proven with hard chronologies, one that are absurdly lenient in favor of the sliding time scale, granting every exception possible, that Peter would be approximately 32 or 33 by the time he dies in #700), however Billy never seemed to age despite everyone else doing it, presumably because he's a rebel that way, until in Amazing Spider-Man #631 he is killed by his rampaging father, Billy being at the ripe old age of 13. There are other characters who have their entire concept tied directly into family members and children, let's look at the Spider-Man villain the lizard, part of his character is the tragedy of what this does to his family and his son, it was a huge part of him.

Unfortunately for Marvel they can't freeze a lot of things into their iconic state, for example Magneto is heavily tied into the holocaust, sure you could hand-wave it away like with other characters, but it would take so much away that it isn't funny. Is this a better system?Д®verything I've read and seen indicates that 'Marvel Time' is more akin to 4 real years to each in-story year, at least with major characters, side characters are a problem, especially those with children. (Instead they have a whole different set of issues, like continuity confusion and Superboy-Prime punching the universe). Have their characters reached ages and characterizations that to advance beyond them would diminish them in someway? If so,В should Marvel simply freeze them in immortal youth until the end of time rolling and altering their previous history to support it? Is that preferableВ or is this a sign that from a creative standpoint, the MU is stagnant and it's time for a CRISIS like soft reboot? Speaking of DC, I would argue that because they have a history that is all their own and perfom soft reboots every decade or so, do not suffer from the same issues as Marvel.

I guess what I'm really wondering is whether or not the Marvel Universe has reached a critical impasse. Flash Thompson has, over the course of endless retconning, fought in every major American conflict since Vietnam. Tony Stark was now kidnapped by Afgani guerillas instead of Vietnamese. History gets more and more compressed and therefore confused. And the longer the current Marvel universe continues the worse it gets. Because the Marvel Universe shares a version of history that mirrors our own the lack of progressionВ is noticable. In fact their have been repeated efforts to reset these characters into older characterizationsВ (ie OMD and World's Most Wanted). No one has really grown or changed during this period. Their characterization has also remained immobile for pretty much the last decade (which coincides, not coincidentally I think, with the rise of Joe Quesada as E-I-C). I'm not just saying that they haven't gotten older. Jubilee is still 17 and Franklin Richards can't seem to make it past his 7th birthday.

Tony Stark had been in his mid thirties for twice as long. It seems like no one has aged in the Marvel U since the early 90's.В Peter Parker has been in his mid to late twenties for twenty years. These characters grew older and matured over the life of the book.В They got married, had kids and those kids started to grow up. For instance, Johnny Storm was a fresh-faced teenager when he started out and by the end of the seventies he was a twenty-something experienced adventurer. It used to be that characters got percepitbly older as a book went on. But the Marvel Universe is out of control. And that's fine, because let's face it, nobody wants to read about the exploits of a 65 year old Spider-Man on a regular basis. Ok, we all know that time does not move at the same pace in comics as in the real world. I'm sure there are more than a few topics about this but I couldn't find them so.

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