Murdock and Marvel: 2001 Part 1

Episode 53 - Murdock and Marvel: 2001 Part 1

The year 2001 has a dark shadow over it, and there are elements of this year that are pretty rough, because as the year closed comic books were trying to make sense of and deal with 9/11 just like the rest of America.  But the start of the year brought a lot of great entertainment and for the first time in years sales held steady (mostly) 

Preshow 

The Year in Comics 

Notable and Newsworthy

Sales & Industry Information

Beginnings & Endings

Eisner Awards

Dan's Favorite

The Year in Marvel

TOTAL SERIES: 176
TOTAL NEW SERIES: 127 
TOTAL ENDING SERIES: 117
THIS YEAR'S EVENT(S): Eve of Destruction (A cure for the Legacy Virus has been released, providing Magneto with a brand new army of healthy mutants ready to wage a final battle against humanity)
BEST SELLING COMICS: Heroes Special, Wolverine: The Origin, Amazing Spider-Man #36.  Outside those,  31 of the top 39 issues for the year had an “X-“ in their title, including 8-27.

Events & Happenings

New Titles (Ongoing and Limited)

New Characters

Series Ending

Who's in the Bullpen/Passings

• ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: J. Michael Straczynski

Dan's Favorite

 

Next week: 2001 Part 2 - The year in Daredevil 

 

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THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING CREATORS AND RESOURCES 

Music: Our theme music is by the very talented Lesfm.  You can find more about them and their music at https://pixabay.com/users/lesfm-22579021/. 

The Grand Comics Database: Dan uses custom queries against a downloadable copy of the GCD to construct his publisher, title and creator charts. 

Comichron: Our source for comic book sales data. 

Marvel Year By Year: A Visual History 

DC Comics Year By Year: A Visual Chronicle 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_based_on_English-language_comics 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Comics_superhero_debuts 

https://comicbookreadingorders.com/marvel/event-timeline/ 

https://www.comic-con.org/awards/eisner-awards/past-recipients/past-recipients-1990s/