January 13, 2017
Top 50 Marvel Comics Of 1974
To repeat the caveat I gave on the main 1970’s page [which has links to see other years within the decade], the list you are about to see involves no judgment or pricing data, but rather simply ranks the universe of Marvel comics published in 1974 by how many copies have passed through CGC’s doors to date — that’s it!
This exercise should tease out a very interesting list of “key” or otherwise interesting Marvel comics from 1974 but not necessarily an all-encompassing list (if very few copies were created for a given key, that restricted supply could keep the count of CGC submissions low). So without further ado, here below is a list of the top 50 most-submitted Marvel comics from 1974 (census numbers are as of year-end 2016). [Also see: top 50 D.C. comics of 1974; all key comics from 1974 ].
| Rank | CGC Count | Issue | Date | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 8,909 | Incredible Hulk #181 | 11/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 2. | 7,771 | Amazing Spider-Man #129 | 2/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 3. | 2,766 | Incredible Hulk #180 | 10/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 4. | 1,983 | Marvel Premiere #15 | 5/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 5. | 1,615 | Incredible Hulk #182 | 12/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 6. | 1,306 | Doctor Strange #1 | 6/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 7. | 1,090 | Astonishing Tales #25 | 8/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 8. | 1,061 | Amazing Spider-Man #136 | 9/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 9. | 1,038 | Amazing Spider-Man #135 | 8/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 10. | 639 | Amazing Spider-Man #137 | 10/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 11. | 606 | Amazing Spider-Man #128 | 1/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 12. | 548 | Man-Thing #1 | 1/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 13. | 530 | Amazing Spider-Man #134 | 7/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 14. | 530 | Savage Sword of Conan #1 | 8/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 15. | 515 | Amazing Spider-Man #130 | 3/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 16. | 462 | Marvel Two-In-One #1 | 1/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 17. | 455 | Captain Marvel #33 | 7/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 18. | 450 | Amazing Spider-Man #138 | 11/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 19. | 334 | Amazing Spider-Man #133 | 6/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 20. | 330 | Conan the Barbarian #37 | 4/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 21. | 326 | Amazing Spider-Man #132 | 5/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 22. | 326 | Amazing Spider-Man #131 | 4/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 23. | 264 | Amazing Spider-Man #139 | 12/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 24. | 257 | Giant-Size Super-Heroes #1 | 6/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 25. | 246 | Fear #20 | 2/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 26. | 243 | Giant-Size Avengers #1 | 8/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 27. | 239 | Thor #225 | 7/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 28. | 239 | Giant-Size Super-Stars #1 | 5/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 29. | 227 | Captain Marvel #32 | 5/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 30. | 221 | Special Marvel Edition #16 | 2/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 31. | 207 | Giant-Size Defenders #1 | 7/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 32. | 200 | X-Men #89 | 8/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 33. | 199 | Giant-Size Spider-Man #1 | 7/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 34. | 199 | Giant-Size Conan #1 | 9/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 35. | 194 | Spidey Super Stories #1 | 10/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 36. | 193 | Daredevil #111 | 7/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 37. | 191 | Captain Marvel #31 | 3/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 38. | 187 | Giant-Size Chillers #1 | 6/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 39. | 183 | Incredible Hulk #172 | 2/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 40. | 181 | X-Men #86 | 2/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 41. | 179 | Avengers #125 | 7/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 42. | 177 | Doctor Strange #2 | 8/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 43. | 176 | Marvel Premiere #16 | 7/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 44. | 161 | Human Torch #1 | 9/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 45. | 159 | Giant-Size Creatures #1 | 7/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 46. | 157 | Planet of the Apes #1 | 8/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 47. | 155 | Giant-Size Spider-Man #2 | 10/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 48. | 153 | Iron Man #66 | 2/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 49. | 153 | Incredible Hulk #175 | 5/74 | Marvel Comics |
| 50. | 148 | Tomb of Dracula #18 | 3/74 | Marvel Comics |
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More Top Comic Books of 1974
Also see: top 50 D.C. comics of 1974, more key comic books of 1974 outside of Marvel and DC, all key comics from 1974, or jump to this list of important comics from the 1970s. Or explore Lists of Key Comic Books by Year. Or jump to my blog’s home page.
Happy Collecting! 🙂
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