History ComicBook / MarvelTheLostGeneration

* ArcherArchetype: Oxbow, of the First Line, is a fairly huge subversion of the norm; he's tall, super strong, easily angered, and not much of a braggart.

Most members are original creations, but the roster includes a few previously established characters who would have been active at that time, like [[Comicbook/TheEternals Makkari of the Eternals]], [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Yeti of the Inhumans]], an obscure Golden Age character named the [[BrainInAJar Eternal Brain]], and (it's at least implied) [[ComicBook/TheFrankensteinMonster Frankenstein's Monster]]. Other prominent guest stars include ComicBook/DoctorStrange, [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]], [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]], ComicBook/NickFury, [[Characters/AgentsOfAtlasOriginal Venus]], and the [[Characters/FantasticFourSupportingCharacters Watcher]]. Thanks to the time travel subplot, the ComicBook/FantasticFour gets a cameo; although a young, pre-FF Reed does get to actually interact with the plot.

The book was created to fill the [[ComicBookTime ever-widening gap]] between the Golden and Silver Ages in Marvel Comics continuity. The limited series is written so that the earlier events are set solidly in the forties, fifties, and sixties, but the dating of later events is deliberately left vague, to accomodate the fact that the Fantastic Four's space journey that officially marks the start of the Silver Age keeps getting set later and later. [[HeroicSacrifice Almost all the members of the First Line died]] ''just before'' the FF's flight (this is not a spoiler; we learn it in their first issue).

''Marvel: The Lost Generation'' is a Creator/MarvelComics limited series created by Creator/RogerStern and Creator/JohnByrne. The series tells the tale of superheroes active after UsefulNotes/WorldWarII but before the debut of the Fantastic Four, and principally of a team called the First Line.

''Marvel: The Lost Generation'' is a Creator/MarvelComics limited series created by Creator/RogerStern and Creator/JohnByrne. The series tells the tale of superheroes active after World War II but before the debut of the Fantastic Four, and principally of a team called the First Line.

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* BecomingTheMask: [[Characters/MarvelComicsSkrulls Effigy]] is a Skrull agent who got stranded on Earth, had to blend in, and eventually realized he liked it here and wanted to help protect the place, becoming a shape-shifting superhero. He kept the fact that he was an alien secret, however.

* YellowPeril: [[Characters/AgentsOfAtlasOriginal Jimmy Woo]]'s original arch-enemy the Yellow Claw appears prominently in one issue as a supervillain of the post-World War II world.

* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: [[https://www.cbr.com/marvel-lost-generation-first-line-heroes/ This summary]] of ''ComicBook/MarvelTheLostGeneration'' claims the Yankee Clipper reemerged from a time warp just before the First Line's fated mission to stop a Skrull invasion. What actually happened is that he returned ''after'' the First Line stopped the invasion at the cost of most of their lives.

* BeastAndBeauty: While there's [[BetterAsFriends no indication that there was anything romantic in it]], the beautiful Eternal [[Characters/TheEternalsEternals Pixie]] was Yeti's best friend in the First Line, and she could consistently calm him down when he was on the verge of losing his self-control.

* YellowPeril: [[ComicBook/AgentsOfAtlas Jimmy Woo]]'s original arch-enemy the Yellow Claw appears prominently in one issue as a supervillain of the post-World War II world.