If Peter Parker is the main Spider-Man, there are a lot of alternative versions of Spider-Man in the Marvel Universe. Miles Morales is one of the superheroes who wear the Spidey costume.
When the Peter Parker of the Ultimate Universe falls, the world needs a Spider-Man — and here comes Miles Morales! But what’s the secret behind his powers — and can he master them before the Scorpion strikes? Family life gets complicated as Miles learns the truth about his uncle Aaron, and Captain America comes calling when war breaks out! Miles shares a multiversal meeting of the Spider-Men with the Marvel Universe’s Peter Parker, but what tragedy could leave the young hero swearing never to wear the webs again? There’ll be familiar faces, heroic allies, deadly menaces, a startling return and a sprinkling of romance in the complete Ultimate Universe adventures of Miles Morales!
Created by Brian Michael Bendis et Sara Pichelli, Miles Morales made his first appearance in Ultimate Fallout #4 in August 2011 — in the Ultimate brand.
A young kid from Brooklyn on Earth-1610, he follows in the footsteps of Peter Parker in the Ultimate Universe before being made a character in the main Marvel Universe. He was also the star of the animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, but we are here today to retrace his comic book history, so let’s go!
Miles Morales Spider-Man Omnibuses
Before exploring the history of Miles one TPB after the other, let’s take a look at the list of omnibuses available for all the Omnibus Collectors out there!
- Miles Morales: Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 1
Collects Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2011) #1-28 And #16.1, Spider-Men #1-5, Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man #1-3, Ultimate Spider-Man (2014) #200, Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #1-12, And Material From Ultimate Fallout #4. - Spider-Verse/Spider-Geddon Omnibus
Collects Edge of Spider-Verse (2014) #1-5; Spider-Verse (2014) #1-2; Superior Spider-Man (2013) #32-33; Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #7-15; Spider-Man 2099 (2014) #5-8; Scarlet Spiders (2014) #1-3; Spider-Woman (2014) #1-4; Spider-Verse Team-Up (2014) #1-3; Free Comic Book Day 2014 (Guardians of the Galaxy) #1 (Spider-Verse story); Edge of Spider-Geddon (2018) #1-4; Spider-Geddon (2018) #0-5; Superior Octopus (2018) #1; Spider-Force (2018) #1-3; Spider-Girls (2018) #1-3; Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (2017) #311-313; Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider (2018) #1-4; Vault of Spiders (2018) #1-2; Spider-Geddon: Spider-Man Noir Video Comic (2018); Spider-Geddon: Spider-Gwen – Ghost Spider Video Comic (2018); Spider-Geddon: Spider-Man Video Comic (2018); Spider-Geddon Handbook (2018) #1. The Spider-Geddon part should be read after the second Miles Morales Omnibus. - Miles Morales: Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 2
Collects Spider-Man (2016) #1-21 And #234-240, Spider-Gwen (2015b) #16-18, Spider-Men Ii #1-5, And Generations: Miles Morales Spider-Man & Peter Parker Spider-Man. - Miles Morales: Spider-Man By Saladin Ahmed Omnibus
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018) #1-42, Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales #1-3, Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #81 And Miles Morales: The End — Plus Material From Free Comic Book Day 2019 (Spider-Man/Venom) #1, Incoming! #1, Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #49 And Miles Morales: Spider-Man Annual #1.
Spider-Man Miles Morales Comics Reading Order
Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man (2011–2013)
Miles Morales is the second Spider-Man to appear in Ultimate Marvel. He takes up the mantle after a tragedy, in the arc Death of Spider-Man.
- Ultimate Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Fallout
Collects Ultimate Comics Fallout #1-6 - Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol.1
Collects Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1-5 - Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol.2
Collects Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #6-10 - Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol.3
Collects Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #11-18. - Ultimate Comics: Divided We Fall, United We Stand
Collects Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #13-17, Ultimate Comics X-Men #13-18; & Ultimate Comics Ultimates #13-18
Courtesy of the multiversal machinations of Mysterio, the Marvel Universe’s friendly neighborhood Peter Parker meets Ultimate Comics’ new kid on the block, Miles Morales in the limited series Spider-Men!
- Spider-Men
Collects Spider-Men #1-5. Also collected in Spider-men: Worlds Collide. - Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol.4
Collects Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #16.1 & #19-22 - Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Vol.5
Collects Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #23-28
This is where Age of Ultron (Reading Order) takes place, a crossover storyline by Brian Michael Bendis, with artists Bryan Hitch and Brandon Peterson, for which Cataclysm is considered a sequel. You don’t have to read it, just know it ends with Miles out as Spider-Man when a flash of light echoed to reveal the arrival of Galactus of Earth-616 (as he displaced to the Ultimate Marvel universe).
- Cataclysm: The Ultimates’ Last Stand
Collects Hunger #1-4; Cataclysm #0.1; Cataclysm: The Ultimates’ Last Stand #1-5; Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man #1-3; Cataclysm: Ultimate X-Men #1-3; Cataclysm: Ultimates #1-3; & Survive #1.
Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man (2014–2015)
In the wake of the Cataclysm comes a new relaunch for the Ultimate line, named Ultimate Marvel NOW! and Miles Morales begins his second solo series, Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man.
But before, we have the 2014 Marvel event Spider-Verse written by Dan Slott in which all the Spider-Men are attacked by Morlun and his family, the Inheritors. To know more about it, you can consult our Reading Order.
- Spider-Verse
Collects Amazing Spider-Man #7-15; Superior Spider-Man #32-33; Spider-Verse #1-2; Spider-Verse Team-Up #1-3; Scarlet Spiders #1-3; Spider-Woman (2014) #1-4; Spider-Man 2099 (2014) #6-8; & Free Comic Book Day 2014 #1.- All the Spider-Verse-related stories are also collected in the Spider-Verse/Spider-Geddon Omnibus.
- Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Vol.1: Revival
Collects Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #1–5, Ultimate Spider-Man #200.
The All-New X-Men (aka the five original X-Men, brought from the past to the present written by Bendis) meet Miles Morales, the Ultimate Spider-Man in this crossover story.
- All-New X-Men Vol.6: The Ultimate Adventure
Collects All-New X-Men #31-36
- Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 2: Revelations
Collects Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man #6-12
This is the end of the line for the Ultimate Marvel imprint with the 2015 cross-over event Secret Wars. This is the destruction of the Marvel Universe as we knew it and various other alternate universes like the Ultimate one or the 2099 line and more. To know more, go to our Secret Wars reading Order.
- Secret Wars
Collects Secret Wars #0,#1-9, Free Comic Book Day 2015.
- Ultimate End
Collects Ultimate End #1–5
The Ultimate Universe ended after this event, with few characters from the Ultimate Universe moving to the new Earth-616, including, of course, Miles, and The Maker (Reed Richards).
The Ultimate Period is also collected in the Ultimate Collection
- Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection Book 1
Ultimate Fallout #4, Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1–12, Spider-Men #1–5 - Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection Book 2
Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #13–28 and #16.1 - Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection Book 3
Cataclysm: Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1–3, Ultimate Spider-Man #200, Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man #1–12
Spider-Man vol. 2. (2016–2017)
Miles Morales lives now in Earth-616. With Peter Parker’s blessing, he patrols New York City as Spider-Man. He also joins during a time the latest team of Avengers in All-New, All-Different Avengers, and later The Champions.
- Spider-Man: Miles Morales Volume 1
Collects Spider-Man (2016) #1–5 - All-New, All-Different Avengers Vol. 1: The Magnificent Seven
Collects All-New, All-Different Avengers numbers 1-6, Avengers 0 & Free Comic Book Day 2015.- Nova (Vol.6) #3-4
Collected in Nova Vol. 1: Burn Out
- Nova (Vol.6) #3-4
It didn’t take long for Miles to be part of an event in the main universe with Avengers: Standoff, a 2016 event in which the Avengers investigated the mysterious gated community of Pleasant Hill, trying to determine the nature of its involvement with S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Avengers: Standoff
Collects Welcome To Pleasant Hill Prologue 1, Assault On Pleasant Hill Alpha 1, Agents Of S.h.i.e.l.d. 3-4, Uncanny Avengers 7, All-new, All-different Avengers 7-8, New Avengers 8-10, Captain America: Sam Wilson 7-8, Uncanny Avengers 8, Illuminati 6, Howling Commandos 6, Assault On Pleasant Hill Omega 1 - All New, All Different Avengers Vol. 2: Family Business
Collects All New, All Different Avengers #7-12- Mockingbird (2016) #5
Collected in Mockingbird Vol. 1: I Can Explain - Unbelievable Gwenpool (2016) #5-6
Collected in Gwenpool, The Unbelievable Vol. 2: Head of M.O.D.O.K. To know more about Gwenpool, see our reading order!
- Mockingbird (2016) #5
From one event to another. After Standoff, another crisis for the superheroes with Civil War II, creating a conflict between Iron Man and Captain Marvel, with Miles on Tony’s side. For more information, go read our Civil War II Reading Order!
- Civil War II
Collects Civil War II 0–8, Free Comic Book Day 2016 - Spider-Man: Miles Morales Volume 2
Collects Spider-Man (2016) #6–11 - Champions Vol. 1: Change the World
Collects Champions (Vol.2) #1-6
No rest for the brave! It’s all hands on deck across the Marvel Universe to deal with the giant-size fallout in the event Monsters Unleashed!
- Monsters Unleashed
Collects Monsters Unleashed (2017A) #1-5. - Champions (2016) #6-9
Collected in Champions Vol. 2: The Freelancer Lifestyle (the other issues are Secret Empire tie-ins, see below) - Spider-Man/Spider-Gwen: Sitting in a Tree
Collects Spider-Man (2016) #12–14, Spider-Gwen (2015B) #16–18. To know more about Spider-Gwen, we have a reading order!- Also collected in Miles Morales: The Avenging Avenger!
- Spider-Man: Miles Morales Volume 3
Collects Spider-Man (2016) #15–21. Issue #20-21
Another big Marvel crossover with Secret Empire dealing with the revelation that Captain America is a sleeper agent and has covertly set the stage to establish the terrorist organization Hydra as the main world power. For the full event, go see the Secret Empire Reading Order.
- Secret Empire
Collects Secret Empire #0-9, Free Comic Book Day 2017 Defenders #1 - Champions (2016) #10-12
Collected in Champions Vol. 2: The Freelancer Lifestyle - Generations: Miles Morales Spider-Man & Peter Parker Spider-Man #1
Collected in Generations
The Avengers and the Champions face a new threat–The High Evolutionary, a twisted scientist determined to create a better world at all costs, sets the Earth on a collision course with destruction! But in this event, not everyone agrees on how best to combat the enemy.
- Avengers & Champions: Worlds Collide
Collects Avengers #672-674, Champions (2016) #13-15 - Champions Vol. 3: Champion For A Day
Collects Champions (2016) #16-18 and #1.MU. - Champions Vol. 4: Northern Lights
Collects Champions (2016) #19-21 and Infinity Countdown: Champions #1-2. - Spider-Men II
Collects Spider-Men II (2017) #1–5. Also collected in Spider-men: Worlds Collide. - Spider-Man: Miles Morales Volume 4
Collects Spider-Man (2016) #234–240- Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #799-800
Collected in Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 9: Worldwide - Shuri (2018) #6-7
Collected in Shuri: Wakanda Forever
- Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #799-800
- Champions Vol. 5: Weird War One
Collects Champions (2016) #22-27 and Champions Annual
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2018–present)
It’s a Fresh Start for Miles Morales and the other heroes (and villains) of Marvel, with this 2018 relaunch. Miles has a new solo series, is still a member of Champions, and lives some spider-verse adventures, in the main universe and beyond! But First, Miles is put front and center in:
Spider-Geddon is a Spider-Man event taking place in the Marvel comics universe and a sequel to the massively popular event Spider-verse. This time, Miles is the lead and we have a whole reading order dedicated to the event.
- Amazing Spider-Man: Spider-Geddon
Collects Spider-Geddon #0-5, Spider-Geddon: Vault of Spiders #1-2.- All the Spider-Geddon-related stories are also collected in the Spider-Verse/Spider-Geddon Omnibus
- Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 1: Straight Out of Brooklyn
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man #1–6
This is the beginning of Donny Cates’s run on Venom, where big things are going to happen for the symbiote with events that Miles will be part of and it begins with the arc ‘Web of Venom’.
- Venom by Donny Cates Vol. 1: Rex
Collects Venom (2018) #1-6. - Champions By Jim Zub Vol. 1: Beat The Devil
Collects Champions (2019) #1-5. Beware! Issue #5 is a War of the Realms tie-in!
In the Thor Event War of The Realms (Reading Order), our heroes must fight against a full-on invasion and defeat Malekith. Miles is part of what is called the Babysitters Club in The War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery story. You don’t have to read the main event for Miles as he is not part of it (though Jason Aaron’s run on Thor is well worth your time!)
- The War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery
Collects War of the Realms: Journey Into Mystery #1-5. - Champions (2019) #9-10
Collected Champions By Jim Zub Vol. 2: Give and Take- Ironheart #6
Collected in Ironheart Vol. 1: Those With Courage
- Ironheart #6
- Marvel Rising: Heroes of the Round Table
Collects Marvel Rising (2019) #1-5
Carnage, the psychotic offspring of Venom, has returned in the event Absolute Carnage, in which you can find Miles! See the full reading order.
- Absolute Carnage
Collects Absolute Carnage 1-5. - Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales
Collects Absolute Carnage: Miles Morales #1–3, Absolute Carnage: Weapon Plus #1. - Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 2: Bring on the Bad Guys
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man #7–10, Free Comic Book Day 2019 Spider-Man/Venom (Spider-Man story) #1 - Miles Morales Spider-Man Vol. 3: Family Business
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man #11–15
Like the Spider-Verse event gives us the really fun Web Warriors series, Spider-Geddon gives us Spider-Verse: Spider-Zero with Mile Morales finding himself at the center of a new multiversal adventure.
- Spider-Verse: Spider-Zero
Collects Spider-Verse (2019) 1-6
Miles Morales becomes Outlawed in this event that can be introduced as a young superhero Civil War when the United States passes a new law in the wake of a devastating tragedy. Go see our Reading order to know more about this story involving Miles, Ms. Marvel, and the Champions.
- Incoming!
The end of this one-shot comic book leads to several events, including Outlawed (see below) - Champions Vol. 1: Outlawed
Collects Outlawed (2020) #1, Champions (2020) #1-5 - Champions Vol. 2: Killer App
Collects Champions (2020) #6-10 - Miles Morales Spider-Man Vol. 4: Ultimatum
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man #16–21
The Order of the Web is formed in The Amazing Spider-Man title, where Peter Parker must face Kindred—the mystery villain who has been plaguing Peter Parker’s life in the ‘Last Remains’ storyline from Nick Spencer’s run. And you guessed it, Miles is gonna help Petey, with other spider-heroes.
- Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 10: Green Goblin Returns
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #48, Spider-Man: The Sins of Norman Osborn (2020) #1, Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #49, Free Comic Book Day 2020 (Spider-Man/Venom) 1 (Spider-Man story). - Amazing Spider-Man by Nick Spencer Vol. 11: Last Remains
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2018) 50-55. - Amazing Spider-Man: Last Remains Companion
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2018) #50.LR-54.LR.
A sequel to Absolute Carnage, King in Black (reading order) is a Venom event, with Knull ready to conquer Earth with an army of hundreds of thousands of symbiote dragons at his command. This is totally optional for Miles Morales readers, as our young hero has a very limited presence in it. Just know that Miles Morales: Spider-Man #23 is a tie-in to this event.
- Miles Morales Spider-Man Vol. 5: The Clone Saga
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man #22-28 - Miles Morales Vol. 6: All Eyes On Me
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man #29-31, Miles Morales: Spider-Man Annual (2021) #1- The story of Miles Morales: Spider-Man #32 (not collected yet) continued in Amazing Spider-Man #81.
- Miles Morales Vol. 7: Beyond
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man #33-36, material from Miles Morales: Spider-Man Annual (2021) #1. - Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 8: Empire of the Spider
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man #37-42.
Miles Morales in the Spider-Verse! Our Spider is at the center of the last arc in Spider-Verse Unlimited Infinity Comic, before the third and final chapter in the Dan Slott’s Spider-Verse trilogy where, once again, all Spiders are in danger!
- Spider-Verse Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) #48-53
- Spider-Man Vol. 1: End of the Spider-Verse
Collects Spider-Man (2022) #1-7. The conclusion of this event introduces Spider-Boy.
Following the conclusion of Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Marvel launched a few months later Miles’ fifth solo series, by writer Cody Ziglar and artist Federico Vicentini. The young Spider-Man finds himself quickly embroiled in a crossover with Carnage!
- Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 1: Trial By Spider
Collects Collecting Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #1-5. - Marvel’s Voices: Spider-Verse
An anthology one-shot with two Miles Morales story. - Carnage Reigns
Collects Carnage Reigns Alpha, Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #6-7, Carnage (2022) #13-14, Red Goblin #5 And Carnage Reigns Omega. - Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 2: Bad Blood
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #8-12- Ultimate Invasion
Collects Ultimate Invasion #1-4. The start of the new Ultimate Universe. - Strange Academy: The Deadly Field Trip
Collects Strange Academy: Miles Morales (2023) #1, Strange Academy: Moon Knight (2023) #1 and Strange Academy: Amazing Spider-Man (2023) #1
- Ultimate Invasion
- Miles Morales: Spider-Man Vol. 3: Gang War
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #13-16 and Giant-Size Spider-Man (2024) #1. #14-16 are tie-ins to Marvel’s Gang War. This is optional for Miles. - Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar Vol. 4: Retribution [new]
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #17-20, Web of Spider-Man (2024) #1 (Miles Morales: Spider-Man story). - The Spectacular Spider-Men Vol. 1: Arachnobatics [new]
Collects The Spectacular Spider-Men (2024) #1-5, Web of Spider-Man (2024) #1 (The Spectacular Spider-Men story) - Another trade of Spectacular Spider-Men should be released in the future as the series is not over!
The skies have gone dark, the sun hiding its face from the carnage to come. The vampires have risen to drown the Marvel Universe in blood! This is the Blood Hunt event which has quite an impact on Miles! To read the complete stories, ties-in included, see our Blood Hunt Reading Guide! But for Miles, here’s the simple order: Blood Hunt (2024) #1-3 > Miles Morales: Spider-Man #21 > Blood Hunt (2024) #4 > Miles Morales: Spider-Man #22 > Blood Hunt #5. All of those issues are collected in:
- Blood Hunt [new]
Collects Blood Hunt (2024) #1-5. - Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Cody Ziglar Vol. 5 [2025]
Collects Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) 21-24, Miles Morales: Spider-Man Annual (2024) 1
The Story continues…