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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Tag: Essential Comics Lists
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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Spider-Man Timeline ’96-’98: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 13
Well, folks, this will be the last time we blog on the Indispensable Spider-Man timeline for this year. The period covered in our final spans between the tail end of 1996 to the end of[…]
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Spider-Man Timeline ’95-’96: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 12
Our penultimate Indispensable Spider-Man has landed! Yes, we will be ending our listing of the essential issues in the Spider-Man timeline soon, as we will be taking a loooooong break after the next installment, which[…]
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Chronological Spider-Man ’94-’95: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 11
The Indispensable Spider-Man continues again with this week’s installment. Just as last week’s group of Chronological Spider-man issues was perhaps one of the best runs ever, we delve into one of most notoriously self-indulgent runs. This[…]
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Chronological Spider-Man ’91-’94: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 10
Confession here, Spider-Friends; this is perhaps one of my favorite Chronological Spider-man runs ever. There are two reasons for this; first, because of the great story of the rise and fall of Harry Osborn, and[…]
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Spider-Man Chronology ’84-’87: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 7
The great Copper Age of Spider-Man continues in our 7th installment of the Indispensable Spider-Man, featuring issues in the Spider-Man chronology published in between roughly 1984 and 1987. Just like the previous installment that also[…]
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Spider-Man Chronology ’82-’85: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 6
It’s a great time to be a Spider-Man fan! In this edition of the Indispensable Spider-Man, we look at issues roughly between 1982 and 1985, which contains some of Spider-Man’s best stories. Nothing Stops the[…]
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Spider-Man Chronology ’79-’82: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 5
Hello Again, True Believers! The Indispensable Spider-Man returns once again this week, bringing you just the essential issues of the Spider-Man chronology between 1979 and 1982. You’ll notice that we are compressing the number of[…]
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Spider-Man Chronology ’75-’79: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 4
Thanks for “swinging” on by again, Spider-Fan! It’s time for another installment of our amazing, spectacular, sensational, deadly foe-y and, most importantly, essential – no, wait – indispensable (!) Spider-Man Chronology. This week, we look (mostly)[…]
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Spider-Man Chronology ’71-’76: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 3
Merry Marvelous Salutations, comic fans! As the week draws to a close, we bring you another installment of the Indispensable Spider-Man, this time featuring the Spider-Man chronology from ’71-’76. (No, you didn’t miss anything; Marvel hasn’t published[…]
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