Originally Posted by
Mary Jay
Well, I'm not comparing them to anyone really, I'm just going with the numbers here. They met in TTA #44 published in 1963 and started dating a bit after that. They got married in Avengers #59 published in 1968, and got divorced in 1982. They hooked back together in WCA, around issue 43 in 1989, and separated "on good terms" later, around 1991 (again, memory fails me). It was unclear if they were back together by the end of vol. 1 of the Avengers run, but I'd say yes, and it was around 1996. Through all the Avengers vol. 2 they were together (although Jan got killed in that "universe") and they were together from the beginning of the third volume of the Avengers (Feb. 1998) to the infamous 180 degrees turn by Austin beginning around 2004. Then came Disassembled and the mess Bendis did to the characters, and although their relationship wasn't good at that point, there was still a time between Disassembled and the beginning of the whole Skrull invasion when they were together, although it's impossible to put a number to it, so I won't take it into account.
So to round the numbers, they have been in a relationship for 29 years out of the 41 years they had been in publication up to 2004. From 2004 to 2009, Hank was replaced by a Skrull, then Jan died until 2012 (so that time shouldn't count IMO since one of them was clearly unavailable). Hank "died" in 2015 by the hands of Ultron. So since 2004 there was only a 3 year window where the two characters were existing at the same time in the comics. So, if we don't take into consideration the time that one character was existing while the other one was MIA, then they have 29 years together out of 44 years of parallel published history, which adds up to 66% of their published history has been with them in a relationship.
Wow... I really didn't mean this to sound like a lecture, I was just genuinely curious to do the math. I honestly wasn't expecting such numbers, I thought it would be less, to be frank...