# Marvel Comic Book Reading Order? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-comic-book-reading-order/217911 "2003-12-09T14:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-comic-book-reading-order/217911/1 "2003-12-09T14:00:53Z")
Can anyone recommend somewhere on the web that gives a guide to how all the various Marvel comics relate to each other? I’ve been out of it for a while, and have no clue in what order I should tackle all the various Spider-man and X-Men comics. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-comic-book-reading-order/217911/2 "2003-12-09T18:27:05Z")
I don’t know what you mean. Do you mean all the current comics? That’s easy – basically, each current title is largely unconcerned with continuity from other books featuring the same character. The Ultimate books take place in a different universe which has only been around since Ultimate Spider-Man #1 launched a few years ago. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Sketch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Sketch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sketch)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-comic-book-reading-order/217911/3 "2003-12-09T21:40:19Z")
Isn’t it a bit more complicated than that? When I was reading marvel Spectacular and Amazing Spider-man (for example) had their own contuinity that didn’t affect eachother, unless there was a big event, which effects all the titles. Sometimes the titles affect eachother even when they aren’t the same character, recently Spider-man is right now in Ultimate Six and Ultimate Spider-man. So it’s sort of messy, my advice is to not worry about it and just focus on a few select titles, you don’t need to have all the possible information to get the story. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-comic-book-reading-order/217911/4 "2003-12-09T22:26:20Z")
If you’re worried about mainstream Marvel continuity, I’ve been working on a [website](http://members.aol.com/adamefrey/timeline.html) that chronicles the history of the _Earth X_ series. If you click on the “Modern Heroic Age” link, you’ll see the order in which a large number of modern Marvel books were published, publication dates and all. ---
**Author:** ![TStarnes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@TStarnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TStarnes)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-comic-book-reading-order/217911/5 "2011-01-30T01:29:08Z")
I have been working on something that you might find interesting. Its a reading order of all comics, and you can get a reading order of all comics related to a specific character. I had the same problem, and there aren’t a lot of tools out there for people like us starting cold. Check it out. [http://cmro.travis-starnes.com/](http://cmro.travis-starnes.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Jihi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jihi/32/17768_2.png) [@Jihi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jihi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-comic-book-reading-order/217911/6 "2011-01-30T01:49:02Z")
> [@TStarnes](#): > > I have been working on something that you might find interesting. [http://cmro.travis-starnes.com/](http://cmro.travis-starnes.com/) He might have been interested in it 7 years ago… ---
**Author:** ![TStarnes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e5b9ba/32.png) [@TStarnes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TStarnes)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-comic-book-reading-order/217911/7 "2011-04-29T02:24:32Z")
OK, didn’t see that. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marvel-comic-book-reading-order/217911/8 "2011-04-29T13:59:06Z")
> [@TStarnes](#): > > OK, didn’t see that. My bad. Still a cool project. Good luck with it!