Marvel Changes Its History with a Fictional War

Characters such as The Punisher and Tony Stark will no longer have origin stories tied to real-life conflicts.

The comic book Marvel Universe has, for decades now, had an unofficial rule that the period of time between the debut of the Fantastic Four and “today” spans about around 10-12 years, rather than the 50-plus years of real time publishing, in order to keep the characters young enough to continue to have adventures on a regular basis. That’s become a problem over the years — but a new comic book series has found an unexpected solution.

Inside the comic, the Siancong War — named after an Asian country which “resisted communist takeover” at some undisclosed time in the past — is described as a “decades-long” war that involved “nations both from the west and the east.” Siancong — or “Sin-Cong,” as it was originally called, first appeared in 1965’sNo. 18, where it was portrayed as a Communist state ruled by the villainous Commissar, in one of Marvel’s many 1960s stories centering around the threat from Communism.

As Marvel continues to shift the timeline of its earliest comic book stories forward, it may need to employ more narrative tricks like the creation of the Siancong War. If nothing else, with everything fromNo. 1 forward taking place in the 21st Century, there may need to be an explanation about how the Cold War stretched decades past its conclusion in the real world.Sign up for Heat Vision's weekly newsletter for all things comics, sci-fi and more.

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