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\\\"At some point in the mid-1960s, StanLee is said to have stated that, as a general rule of thumb, they were trying to keep the then-new MarvelUniverse on a one-to-three timeline -- every three years that passed in the real world would be a year of ComicBookTime. Deliberately or otherwise, Marvel actually managed to stick pretty close to that right up until the early 1990s when, during one of the X-Men\\\'s 30th Anniversary comics, Professor Xavier mused about the things he\\\'d been doing for the past 10 years -- starting with the founding of the X-Men. Considering it\\\'s been just over 15 years of ComicBookTime since the Comicbook/FantasticFour made their flight (or just over 16, by keeping the ratio strict), they could easily slip back into the 1:3 ratio just by cleaning up some problematic characters.\\\"

\\\'\\\'\\\'IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER:\\\'\\\'\\\' YourObedientSerpent posted the original version of this example, citing a \\\"Stan\\\'s Soapbox\\\" entry. \\\'\\\'He has since been unable to corroborate the existence of that entry, or Stan\\\'s original statement.\\\'\\\' As of December of 2011, \\\'\\\'\\\'every online reference to Marvel\\\'s one-to-three ratio ultimately refers back to this TV Tropes entry.\\\'\\\'\\\'

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