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7. The Absence Of Marvel Heroes Throughout The 1950s
For the longest time, one of the great unaddressed plot holes of the big two was the fact that there was this completely blank space of time between the Second World War and the Silver Age of comics where there were no superheroes, despite the heroes from the war still being allegedly around. Well, in the year 2000, Roger Stern decided to address this with an entire series called Marvel Lost Generation.
Lost generation is exactly what you think it is: there is a lot of time in the Marvel universe between the last adventure of Captain America and the arrival of the Fantastic Four, and this series is all about filling in the gap of what happened in all that time.
Not only does it show off brand new characters exclusive to this series, but it also shows what happened to other characters who didn't get the continuation that Cap and Bucky would eventually get.
Lost Generation isn't the best comic of its day - not by a longshot in some areas - but it does exactly what it set out to do: make the Marvel universe feel more alive by addressing one of the biggest holes in its narrative.