As we close the door on our Marvel NOW! Reading Order with our final update (the original Marvel NOW!, that is), let’s have a look back and take stock on what would be the best[…]
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Category: Essential Comics Lists
Spider-Man (Earth-616) Sliding Timescale
A timeline documenting Peter Parker’s 14 years as Spider-Man employing a floating timeline (sliding timescale) up to 2014 [The following is guest post from friend of the site Anthony Lieu. Enjoy!] Hey there, True Believers. You[…]
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Superman New 52 Reading Order online
We’ve been busy in the new year. we now have a New 52 Superman family reading order. Any corrections or recommendations can be sent through the comments on this post, on the reading order page[…]
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Chronology of Events in Wolverine Comics
The second in our series of timelines of major of events in Wolverine comics, this one in chronological order to help you situate all the events revealed to have occur over the decades of Wolverine[…]
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Timeline of Events in Wolverine Comics in Reading Order
Our previous timelines have been huge hits for this site (see Spider-Man and X-Men), so it’s only natural to give the people what they want, and who would they want more than Wolverine? This character[…]
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Best Wolverine Stories of All Time
Wolverine is probably one of the most published superheroes in modern times. In addition to his numerous solo series, he is a prominent member on multiple X-Men teams as well as more recently the Avengers.[…]
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10 Must-Read Iron Man Comics – 2013 edition
Where to Start Reading Iron Man Welcome to another installment of 10 Must-Read Comics! With these lists, we distill the essence of the character into 10 comics, either single issues or collected editions, which will[…]
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Timeline of Events in Spider-Man Comics – 1963-2012
Similar to our popular X-Men Timeline of Events, we’ve gone ahead and done one for the Ol’ Webhead himself. This list details the major happenings that have a lasting effect on Peter Parker, which are[…]
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Avengers Reading Order Now Added
It’s here, Marvelites! The complete 616 Avengers reading order! Well, it might not be complete yet, but we’re getting started at least. It contains stories from since it’s launch in 1960’s all the up to[…]
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Timeline of Events in X-Men Comics – 1963-2012
Below you will find a listing of major events in X-Men. This list will help you get up to date on how the X-Men got where they are today and how they came to be.[…]
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10 Must-Read Spider-Man Comics – 2012 Edition
Our latest longbox-diving feature on this site is “10 Must-Read Comics”. Unlike our comic book reading orders, or the latest indispensable reading order, this feature boils down the character down to ten comics, whether a[…]
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Best Superman Stories of All Time
We’re continuing our focus on Superman here at Comics Back Issues by counting down the top 25 best Superman stories of all time. We’ll be using our methodology used for other Top 25 lists, that[…]
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