Let me say something about the Marvel Sliding Timescale that I'll be using in my Marvel Penultimate continuity. It's based on an off-hand comment Stan Lee made when asked about the apparent contradiction of elapsed time in the real world versus apparent time in the comics. He suggested that there should be a 3:1 ratio of the real world : the fictional time.
This seemed to me to be a great idea. My Penultimate continuity is about roughly following the Marvel storyline, but updating it to be more contemporaneous with our current experience. (Somewhat like the Marvel Ultimate reality, but with less wholesale reinvention of characters and storylines.)
To construct the timescale, I synchronized the publication of MHRP with the contemporaneous dates for the actual comics. Thus, the MHRP publication date of April 2014 coincided with the dates for comic titles from April to June 2014. And then I just worked back until I arrived at the date for the start of the Marvel Silver Age with Fantastic Four 1 1 in August 1961. Fortuitously, that made it neatly January 1995, which then corresponded to Marvel comic dates of July to September 1961.
You can certainly apply this method forward or backward in time as needed. Though dates in the past rooted in specific dates may require a real date instead. But only if narratively necessary. (Captain America being a WWII character is an example. It is inconceivable for him to be anything else otherwise.)
That's my idea. For what it's worth. Enjoy!
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