Fitting in with the end of an era, we’ve completed our Spider-Man reading order to include up to the end run of the Amazing Spider-Man series. Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos closed of this long running[…]
Tag: Silver Age Back Issues
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.[…]
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[…]
Spider-Man Chronology ’66-’71: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 2
Welcome again, Marvelites! It’s Friday, and that means another installment of our Spider-Man chronology series, titled “The Indispensable Spider-Man”, comes your way. In this series, we list the most important issues of a particular era[…]
Spider-Man Chronology ’63-’66: Indispensable Spider-Man Pt 1
Welcome, Spider-Fans, to our latest, greatest feature on this humble site, the indispensable Spider-Man chronology ! Lots of blood, sweat and tears went into bringing you this essential Spider-Man reading order (actually, none of those[…]
Amazing Spider-Man Movie Source Material
The Amazing Spider-man movie is coming to theatres this summer to reboot the entire series. The reboot means we’ll probably be getting a origin story or two. Hey, maybe even three. If you’re looking to[…]
Spider-Man and the Green Goblin Essential Issues
Spider-Man and the Green Goblin Timeline There are many deadly foes of Spider-Man and the Green Goblin is most definitely one of them. Along with Doctor Octopus, he receives this title for be renowned[…]
Spider-Man Revealed! and Other Times Spider-Man is Unmasked
A History of Spider-Man Revealed! We recently featured on this blog an essential issue reading list for Spider-Man’s girlfriends (see the lists for Mary Jane, Gwen Stacy and Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat). All of[…]
Gwen Stacy Spider-Man Comic Book Essentials
Our last posts featured Spider-Man’s main squeeze Mary Jane, but it would be unfair to leave out his first love, Gwen Stacy. Some of the most important, iconic issues in the bronze age of comics[…]
Mary Jane Watson Comic Book Essentials Timeline
Mary Jane Watson (Sometimes Watson-Parker), is arguably the most important supporting character in the Amazing Spider-Man. Her history is spread out across decades of issues, as she weaves in and out of of Peter Parker’s[…]
List of Major Events in the X-Men Universe
IMPORTANT: An updated version of this post is available here. As companion to my recently launched X-Men Read Order and Graphical X-Men Timeline, I decided to pick up essential issues and their related storylines from[…]
Doc Ock Comic Book Essential Issues
The newly updated chronological spider-man reading order now features a listing of appearances of major characters, including Doctor Octopus. As a companion to this list, I’ve compiled a more concise listing of essential Doc Ock[…]