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Marvel Reading Orders

Welcome to our Marvel Comics Reading Orders Guide, a page dedicated to helping you navigate into the Marvel Universe, primarily by exploring the history of your favorite characters, but also with crossover events and other specific Marvel periods. We’re specialized in reading orders by trade paperbacks, but you’ll also find issue-by-issue orders for events.

New guides are published regularly, so come to check out Comic Book Treasury often!


Don’t know where to start? Check out our 25 Best Marvel Comic Books to Read to discover some of the best stories Marvel has to offer!

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Marvel Timeline, Events & Eras

Marvel Timeline/Era Guide:

Other Realities:

  • Earth-X Comics (Earth-9997 or the Alex Ross Universe) (Coming Soon!)
  • Marvel 2099 Comics (Earth-928, home of Miguel O’Hara)
  • Marvel Zombies Comics, a Reading Order to the most famous Infected Zombie World of Marvel
  • Ultimate Marvel Comics (with Spider-Man Miles Morales, Fantastic Four, X-Men, The Ultimates)

You can also take a look at the DC Comics Reading Orders.

For more information about characters and storylines, check out our Comic Book Mini Encyclopedia Index Guide!

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Marvel Characters & Team Guides

Explore the Marvel Universe with reading guides covering a specific character (or a specific period in a character’s history).

The Spider-Man Universe

An introduction for many characters

Peter Parker/Spider-Man from Earth-616

Allies, Enemies and members of the Spider-Verse

Spider-Teams

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The X-Men Universe

Solo X-Men

X-Men Teams

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The Avengers

All Marvel Teams/Family

Marvel Solo Characters