Reading Chronologies

So, you'd like to start reading comic books - but don't know where to start?

To help you along, we've put together some reading lists of some of the most popular characters. Enjoy!

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SPIDER-MAN READING LIST

SPIDER-MAN: One More Day

SPIDER-MAN: Brand New Day Volume 1

SPIDER-MAN: Brand New Day Volume 2

SPIDER-MAN: Brand New Day Volume 3

SPIDER-MAN: Kraven's Last Hunt

SPIDER-MAN: New Ways To Die

SPIDER-MAN: Crime and the Punisher

SPIDER-MAN: Death and Dating

SPIDER-MAN: Election Day

SPIDER-MAN: 24/7

SPIDER-MAN: American Son

SPIDER-MAN: Died in your Arms Tonight

SPIDER-MAN: Red-Headed Stranger

SPIDER-MAN: The Return of the Black Cat

SPIDER-MAN: The Gauntlet Book 1

SPIDER-MAN: The Gauntlet Book 2

SPIDER-MAN: The Gauntlet Book 3

SPIDER-MAN: The Gauntlet Book 4

SPIDER-MAN: The Gauntlet Book 5

SPIDER-MAN: The Grim Hunt

SPIDER-MAN: One Moment in Time

SPIDER-MAN: Origin of the Species

SPIDER-MAN: Bog Time

SPIDER-MAN: Matters of Life and Death

SPIDER-MAN: The Fantastic Spider-Man

SPIDER-MAN: The Return of Anti-Venom

SPIDER-MAN: Spider-Island

SPIDER-MAN: Flying Blind

SPIDER-MAN: Trouble on the Horizon

SPIDER-MEN: The End of the Earth

SPIDER-MAN: The Lizard – No Turning Back

SPIDER-MAN: Danger Zone

SPIDER-MAN: Dying Wish

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN: My Own Worst Enemy

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN: A Troubled Mind

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN: No Escape

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN: A Necessary Evil

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN: Superior Venom

SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN: Goblin Nation

SPIDER-MAN: The Parker Luck

SPIDER-MAN: Spider-Verse Prelude

SPIDER-VERSE

SPIDER-MAN: The Graveyard Shift

SPIDER-MAN: Spiral

 

HULK READING LIST

WORLD WAR HULK

HULK: Red Hulk

HULK: Red and Green

HULK: Hulk No More

HULK: Hulk vs. X-Force

HULK: The Fall of the Hulks Prelude

HULK: The Fall of the Hulks

HULK: World War Hulks

INCREDIBLE HULK: Prelude to Planet Hulk

INCREDIBLE HULK: Planet Hulk

INCREDIBLE HULK: Son of Banner

INCREDIBLE HULK: Fall of the Hulks

INCREIBLE HULK: World War Hulks

INCREDIBLE HULKS: Dark Son

RED HULK: Scorched Earth

RED HULK: Planet Red Hulk

INCREDIBLE HULKS: Planet Savage

TOTALLY AWESOME HULK: Cho Time

TOTALLY AWESOME HULK: Civil War II

 

GRANT MORRISON BATMAN READING LIST

BATMAN: Gothic

ARKHAM ASYLUM: A Serious House on Serious Earth

BATMAN: Batman and Son

BATMAN: The Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul

BATMAN: The Black Glove

BATMAN: R.I.P.

FINAL CRISIS

BATMAN: Time and the Batman

BATMAN AND ROBIN: Batman Reborn

BATMAN AND ROBIN: Batman vs. Robin

BATMAN AND ROBIN: Batman Must Die

BATMAN AND ROBIN: The White Knight

BATMAN: The Return of Bruce Wayne

BATMAN INCORPORATED

BATMAN INCORPORATED: Demon Star

BATMAN INCORPORATED: Gothan’s Most Wanted

 

CAPTAIN AMERICA READING LIST

 CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Winter Soldier – The Ultimate Collection

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Red Menace – The Ultimate Collection

CIVIL WAR

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Civil War

FALLEN SON: The Death of Captain America

THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Death of the Dream

THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Burden of Dreams

THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Man Who Bought America

CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Man With No Face

CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Road to Reborn

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Reborn

CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Two Americas

CAPTAIN AMERICA: No Escape

STEVE ROGERS: Super-Soldier

CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Trial of Captain America

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Prisoner of War

FEAR ITSELF

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Castaway in Dimension Z Book 1

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Castaway in Dimension Z Book 2

INFINITY

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Loose Nuke

CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Iron Nail

CAPTAIN AMERICA: The Tomorrow Soldier

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Hail Hydra

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Steve Rogers – Hail Hydra

CAPTAIN AMERICA: Steve Rogers – The Trial of Maria Hill

 

THE DARK TOWER READING LIST

THE DARK TOWER: The Gunslinger Born

THE DARK TOWER: The Long Road Home

THE DARK TOWER: Treachery

THE DARK TOWER: The Fall of Gilead

THE DARK TOWER: The Battle of Jericho Hill

THE DARK TOWER: The Journey Begins

THE DARK TOWER: The Little Sisters of Eluria

THE DARK TOWER: The Battle of Tull

THE DARK TOWER: The Way Station

THE DARK TOWER: The Man in Black

THE DARK TOWER: The Prisoner

THE DARK TOWER: The House of Cards

THE DARK TOWER: The Lady of Shadows

THE DARK TOWER: Bitter Medicine

THE DARK TOWER: The Sailor

 

GREEN LANTER/GREEN LANTERN CORPS READING LIST

GREEN LANTERN: Rebirth

GREEN LANTERN: No Fear

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Recharge

GREEN LANTERN: Revenge of the Green Lanterns

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: To Be a Lantern

GREEN LANTERN: WANTED – Hal Jordan

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: The Dark Side of Green

GREEN LANTERN: The Sinestro Corps War

GREEN LANTERN: Tales of the Sinestro Corps

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Ring Quest

GREEN LANTERN: Secret Origin

GREEN LANTERN: Rage of the Red Lanterns

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Sins of the Star Sapphire

GREEN LANTERN: Agent Orange

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Emerald Eclipse

BLACKEST NIGHT

BLACKEST NIGHT: Green Lantern

BLACKEST NIGHT: Green Lantern Corps

BLACKEST NIGHT: Tales of the Corps

BLACKEST NIGHT: Black Lantern Corps

BLACKEST NIGHT: Rise of the Black Lanterns

BRIGHTEST DAY

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Revolt of the Alpha Lanterns

GREEN LANTERN: Brightest Day

GREEN LANTERN: Emerald Warriors

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: The Weaponer

GREEN LANTERN: War of the Green Lanterns

GREEN LANTERN: Sinestro

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Fearsome

GREEN LANTERN: The New Guardians – The Ring Bearer

GREEN LANTERN: Revenge of the Black Hand

GREEN LANTERN: The End

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: The Alpha War

GREEN LANTERN: Dark Days

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Willpower

GREEN LANTERN: A Test of Wills

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Rebuild

GREEN LANTERN: The Life Equation

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Uprising

GREEN LANTERN: Renegade

GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Reckoning

GREEN LANTERN: Reflections

GREEN LANTERNS: The Rage Planet

HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS: Sinestro's Law

GREEN LANTERNS: The Phantom Lantern

 

BATMAN (MODERN) READING LIST

BATMAN: The Court of Owls

BATMAN: Night of the Owls

BATMAN: The City of Owls

BATMAN: Death of the Family

THE JOKER: Death of the Family

BATMAN: Zero Year – Secret City

BATMAN: Zero Year – Dark City

BATMAN: The Graveyard Shift

BATMAN: Endgame

BATMAN: Superheavy

BATMAN: Bloom

BATMAN: Epilogue

BATMAN: I Am Gotham

BATMAN: Night of the Monster Men

BATMAN: I am Suicide

 

FLASH READING LIST

FLASH: Wonderland

FLASH: Blood Will Run

FLASH: Rogues

FLASH: Crossfire

FLASH: Blitz

FLASH: Ignition

FLASH: The Secret of Barry Allen

FLASH: The Rogue War

INFINITE CRISIS

FLASH: The Wild Wests

FLASH: Lightning in a Bottle

FLASH: Full Throttle

FINAL CRISIS

FINAL CRISIS: The Rogues Revenge

BLACKEST NIGHT: Flash

FLASH: Rebirth

FLASH: The Dastardly Death of the Rogues

FLASH: The Road to Flashpoint

FLASHPOINT

FLASHPOINT: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Flash

FLASH: Move Forward

FLASH: The Rogues Revolution

FLASH: Gorilla Warfare

FLASH: Reverse

FLASH: History Lessons

FOREVER EVIL

FOREVER EVIL: The Rogues Rebellion

FLASH: Out of Time

FLASH: Savage World

FLASH: Zoom

FLASH: Full Stop

FLASH: Lightning Strikes Twice

FLASH: The Speed of Darkness

 

WONDER WOMAN READING LIST

WONDER WOMAN: Who is Wonder Woman?

WONDER WOMAN: Love and Murder

WONDER WOMAN: The Circle

WONDER WOMAN: The Ends of the Earth

WONDER WOMAN: The Rise of the Olympians

WONDER WOMAN: Warkiller

WONDER WOMAN: Contagion

WONDER WOMAN: The Odyssey Book 1

WONDER WOMAN: The Odyssey Book 2

FLASHPOINT: The World of Flashpoint Featuring Wonder Woman

WONDER WOMAN: Blood

WONDER WOMAN: Guts

WONDER WOMAN: Iron

WONDER WOMAN: War

WONDER WOMAN: Flesh

WONDER WOMAN: Bones

WONDER WOMAN: War-Torn

WONDER WOMAN: A Twist of Fate

WONDER WOMAN: Resurrection

WONDER WOMAN: The Lies

WONDER WOMAN: Year One

  

THOR READING LIST

THOR by J. Michael Straczynski Book 1

THOR by J. Michael Straczynski Book 2

THOR by J. Michael Straczynski Book 3

SECRET INVASION

SECRET INVSION: Thor

THOR: The Latverian Prometheus

SIEGE

THOR: Siege

THOR: Siege – Aftermath

THOR: The Trials of Loki

THOR: The World Eaters

MIGHTY THOR by Matt Fraction Book 1

MIGHTY THOR by Matt Fraction Book 2

MIGHTY THOR by Matt Fraction Book 3

THOR: GOLD OF THUNDER  – The God Butcher

THOR: GOD OF THUNDER – The Godbomb

THOR: GOD OF THUNDER – The Accursed

THOR: GOD OF THUNDER – The Last Days of Midgard

ORIGINAL SIN

ORIGINAL SIN: Thor and Loki – The Tenth Realm

THOR: GODDESS OF THUNDER

THOR: Who Holds the Hammer?

SECRET WARS

MIGHTY THOR: Thunder in Her Veins

MIGHTY THOR: The Lords of Midgard

MIGHTY THOR: The Asgard/Shi'ar War

THE UNWORTHY THOR

 

SUPERMAN READING LIST

SUPERMAN: Up, Up, and Away

SUPERMAN: Back in Action

SUPERMAN: Camelot Falls Book 1

SUPERMAN: Camelot Falls Book 2

SUPERMAN: Last Son

SUPERMAN: Redemption

SUPERMAN: 3-2-1- Action

SUPERMAN: The Third Kryptonian

SUPERMAN: Escape from Bizarro World

SUPERMAN AND THE LEGION OF SUPER HEROES

SUPERMAN: New Krypton Book 1

SUPERMAN: New Krypton Book 2

SUPERMAN: New Krypton Book 3

SUPERMAN: New Krypton Book 4

SUPERMAN: The Last Stand of New Krypton Book 1

SUPERMAN: The Last Stand of New Krypton Book 2

SUPERMAN: War of the Supermen

SUPERMAN: The Return of Doomsday

SUPERMAN: The Reign of Doomsday

ACTION COMICS: Superman and the Men of Steel

SUPERMAN: What Price Tomorrow?

ACTION COMICS: Bulletproof

SUPERMAN: Secrets and Lies

ACTION COMICS: At the End of Days

SUPERMAN: Fury at the World's End

SUPERMAN: H’el on Earth

SUPERMAN UNCHAINED

SUPERMAN: The PSI-War

ACTION COMICS: Hybrid

SUPERMAN: Under fre

ACTION COMICS: What Lies Beneath

SUPERMAN: Doomed

SUPERMAN: The Men of Tomorrow

ACTION COMICS: Under The Skin

SUPERMAN: Before Truth

ACTION COMICS: Truth

SUPERMAN: American Alien

SUPERMAN: The Son of Superman

ACTION COMICS: The Path of Doom

SUPERMAN: Full House

ACTION COMICS: Welcome to the Planet