REAL-WORLD TIMELINE OF THE MOLECULE MAN’S COMIC APPEARANCES

COMMENTS ON ALTERNATE REALITIES, FLASHBACKS, AND HANDBOOKS COMMENTS ON 616 APPEARANCES

1963 FIRST APPEARANCE

1964

1965

1966

1967

616 APPEARANCES 1968 IMPRISONED IN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE BY THE WATCHER 616 FLASHBACKS 1969

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE APPEARANCES 1970

1971 HANDBOOKS

1972 616 APPEARANCE AND HANDBOOK IN SAME ISSUE

1973 616 APPEARANCE AND FLASHBACK IN SAME ISSUE

1974 FLASHBACK AND HANDBOOK IN SAME ISSUE

1975

1976 WAND-POSSESSION ERA, STARTING WITH THE “SON OF” 1977 MOLECULE MAN (REALLY JUST THE MOLECULE MAN) 1978

1979

1980

1981

FIRST ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE VERSION (FRED HEMBECK) 1982 END OF WAND POSSESSION; DECIDES TO SEE THERAPIST

FIRST MAJOR HANDBOOK (OHOTMU VOL. 1) 1983

1984 SECRET WARS I & II: MEETS VOLCANA; GAINS POWER TO CONTROL EVERYTHING; 1985 “KILLS” BEYONDER; OTHER HEROES THINK HE IS DEPOWERED 1986

1987

1988 COSMIC CUBE RETCON

1989

1990 RETURNS TO EARTH; VOLCANA BREAKS UP WITH HIM; CAN ONLY CONTROL ORGANIC MOLECULES AGAIN 1991

1992

1993 PUPPET MASTER/ARON

1994 BATTLES KOSMOS-BEYONDER; CONTROLS ALL MATTER/ENERGY AGAIN

1995

UNPLUGGED WEDDING & DOC SAMSON: 1996 THE LOW POINT AND TEMPORARY END OF APPEARANCES AT SOME POINT DURING THIS PERIOD, PROBABLY IN THE MID-90S, HE CREATED “THE HOLE” IN AFRICA IN A FIGHT ARTIST DOES “REIMAGINING” SKETCHES, NOTABLY AFTER HIS LOW POINT 1997 WITH ATOM-SMASHER. THE REFERENCE TO THIS, IN 2012, DOESN’T SAY WHEN, OR WHICH ATOM-SMASHER, BUT IT “WHAT IF” WITH AN ACTUAL SON 1998 MUST HAVE BEEN ATOM-SMAHSER III. ATOM-SMASHER I WAS ACTIVE IN 1977 ON THE WEST COAST OF THE U.S. 1999 AND DIED AFTER ONLY A FEW ISSUES. ATOM-SMASHER II WAS SIMILARLY ONLY ON THE WEST COAST OF THE U.S. 2000 AND DIED AFTER ONE ISSUE. REECE’S MIND WAS STUCK AT SOME POINT IN HERE HE IS IMPRISONED IN THE RAFT IN HIS WAND IN THE EVERGLADES WHILE THE FIRST AT- 2001 OM-SMASHER WAS ACTIVE, AND HAD JUST DECIDED TO BECOME PEACEFUL AND SEE A THERAPIST IN NEW JERSEY 2002 DURING THE SECOND ATOM-SMASHER’S TIME. EVEN IN GENERAL, REECE WAS EITHER STUCK IN THE WATCHER’S 2003 DIMENSION, STUCK IN HIS WAND, OR HAD BECOME PEACEFUL FROM THE END OF HIS FIRST APPEARANCE UP 2004 THROUGH HIS RETURN FROM THE COSMIC CUBE. ONLY AFTER HE RETURNED FROM THE CUBE, AND MARSHA 2005 BREAKS OUT OF RAFT IN NEW AVENGERS; CAPTURED IN FANTASTIC FOUR FOES BROKE UP WITH HIM, DID HE RETURN TO VIOLENCE AND INSTABILITY, AND ALSO ONLY THEN DID HE HAVE THE FREE FIRST “TRUE” ALTERNATE UNIVERSE (MARVEL ADVENTURES) 2006 TIME TO GET IN FIGHTS LIKE THIS ONE WITH AT- IS IN THE RAFT OM-SMASHER. ATOM-SMASHER III FITS THIS TIME-LINE: HE 2007 WAS ACTIVE STARTING IN 1992-3. HE STARTED VIOLENT- LY, BUT BECAME PEACEFUL AFTER HIS FIRST APPEARANCE. 2008 BREAKS OUT OF RAFT AGAIN DURING SECRET INVASION HE WAS NEVER SEEN AGAIN AFTER THAT, BUT WAS NOT KILLED, SO PRESUMABLY AT SOME POINT LATER HE KILLED BY CLYDE WYNCHAM IN AN ALTERNATE FUTURE 2009 FOUGHT REECE. HIDES OUT IN DINOSAUR, COLORADO; DEFEATED BY SENTRY 2010

2011

LOCATION AND ACTIONS UNKNOWN-- 2012 HOW SOON DOES HE MEET DOOM?

2013

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE FEATURING HIS SON, BASED ON TV EPISODE 2014 INCURSIONS, SECRET WARS 2015, MARVEL NOW: WORKS WITH DOOM TO KILL ALTERNATE MOLECULE MEN; 2015 DESTROYS BEYONDERS; RESTORES 616 REALITY; MEETS WITH GALACTUS AND RESTORES THE MAKER 2016

2017