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Spider-Man Spider-Verse Reading Order (with all the sequels!)

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Now widely known thanks to the 2018 animated movie Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the “Spider-Verse” is not one of those concepts that Marvel introduced decades ago. In fact, it was conceived as a crossover event written by Dan Slott, with art by Olivier Coipel and Giuseppe Camuncoli, in 2014. An idea that was inspired by Slott’s work on the 2010 video game Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions.

Since then, the Spider-Verse has become way bigger than a simple crossover. It can now almost be considered a line of comics inside the Spider-Man publishing world. There have been sequels to the original crossovers, spin-off series, and short story anthologies. The whole concept has been used in every other media featuring Spider-Man.

Everything started years ago, during J. Michael Straczynski’s Coming Home story, when Morlun was introduced. He is a powerful being who hunts and consumes “Spider-Totems” (the essence of spider-powered heroes). When the first Spider-Verse event starts, Morlun is back with his horrible family, the Inheritors, who begin exterminating spider-characters throughout the multiverse to feed on their force. Every single Spider-Man ever is needed to save the day!

The Spider-Verse treats every alternate take on Spider-Man as part of a connected multiverse: classic Peter Parker, Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen (Gwen Stacy), Spider-Man 2099, Spider-Ham, Japanese Spider-Man with his giant robot Leopardon, and countless others. Now, there are constantly new Spider-Heroes introduced, ready to fight to save all the spiders.

Spider-Verse Comics Reading Order

Welcome to the Spider-Verse! The following guide is here to help you navigate, in order, every comic book–related Spider-Verse story. The must-read is the original Spider-Verse crossover (2014–2015). Everything that came after stems from it, though it had less impact on Peter Parker’s main continuity (except for Spider-Gwen).

Jumping Into The Spider-Verse:

  1. Before The Spider-Verse
  2. The Spider-Verse Crossover Event
  3. Spider-Gwen & The Web Warriors
  4. Spider-Geddon
  5. The End of The Spider-Verse
  6. The Spider-Society

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Before The Spider-Verse

One of the main appeals of the original Spider-Verse series for the fans was that the event was bringing back a lot of Spider-Men, A LOT. If you are a long-time reader of the series, you’ll probably remember some. If you are a hardcore fan, you’ll remember all of them. That said, not knowing the cartoon version or the Spider-Ham 2099 will not be an obstacle here. The story may be full of references, but a neophyte can read it and understand everything.

Still, there are a few stories you may want to read to prepare for entering the Spider-Verse. Marvel Comics crossover events are usually built upon old stories, and Spider-Verse is no exception. So, here is a list of what you can read before. It’s not obligatory reading, but it helps to understand what is at stake from the beginning.

The Spider-Verse Reading Order

This is the main event. The original Spider-Verse story was a 2014–2015 Marvel Comics crossover storyline in The Amazing Spider-Man by writer Dan Slott, centered on a multiversal hunt in which the immortal Inheritors traveled across realities to consume the life force of every Spider-themed hero. To resist extinction, dozens of alternate Spider-Men and Spider-Women united, led primarily by Peter Parker of Earth-616, alongside prominent figures such as Miles Morales, Miguel O’Hara (Spider-Man 2099), the recently discovered Cindy Moon (Silk), Anya Corazon, May “Mayday” Parker, Superior Spider-Man, and Gwen Stacy of Earth-65—later known as Spider-Gwen, one of the event’s most significant introductions.

The story drew in variants ranging from Kaine, Ben Reilly, and Spider-Woman Jessica Drew to more unusual incarnations such as Spider-Ham, Japanese Spider-Man with his giant robot Leopardon, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Punk, and the mech-piloting Peni Parker (SP//dr).

The Spider-Verse Omnibus Collection

Before we go into a more detailed exploration of the Spider-Verse crossover, know that Marvel a collected everything from the event and its sequel, Spider-Geddon, into one big omnibus book.

  • 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-Verse Collected Editions

To be clear from the start, you really only need two books to read the Spider-Verse Event in its entirety.

  • Amazing Spider-Man: Edge of Spider-Verse
    Collects Edge of Spider-Verse #1-5.
  • Spider-verse
    Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #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, and Material From Free Comic Book Day 2014 (Guardians Of The Galaxy) #1.

Those Spider-Verse stories are also available in other collected editions:

Spider-Man Spider-Verse Reading Order: Issue By Issue

In the lead-up to the crossover, several issues established important elements, including the introduction of Silk in The Amazing Spider-Man (Vol. 3) #4. These prelude stories are not required, but they provide additional context and are recommended for a fuller understanding of the event.

Prelude & The Edge of Spider-Verse

  • The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #4-5
  • Free Comic Book Day 2014 – Guardians of the Galaxy
  • The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #6
  • Superior Spider-Man #32-33
  • The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #7-8
  • Edge of Spider-Verse #1-5
  • Spider-Man 2099 vol. 2 #5
  • Spider-Verse Team-Up #1
  • Spider-Verse #1-2

The Main Spider-Verse Event

  • The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #9-10
  • Spider-Man 2099 v2 #6
  • Scarlet Spiders #1-2
  • The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #11
  • Spider-Verse Team-Up #2
  • Spider-Woman vol. 5 #1-2
  • The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #12
  • Spider-Man 2099 vol. 2 #7
  • Scarlet Spiders #3
  • The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #13
  • Spider-Verse Team-Up #3
  • Spider-Woman vol. 5 #3
  • Spider-Man 2099 vol. 2 #8
  • The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 3 #14-15
Spider-Verse: Warzones (2015) was a five-issue tie-in miniseries to Marvel’s Secret Wars crossover, written by Mike Costa with art by Andre Araujo. Set in the Battleworld domain known as Arachnia, it brought together alternate Spider-heroes such as Spider-Gwen, Spider-Ham, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-UK, and India’s Pavitr Prabhakar. Though separate from the main continuity of the original event, it revisited the concept of multiple Spider-heroes uniting against common threats, serving as a bridge that maintained the Spider-Verse premise during the multiversal collapse of Secret Wars.

Spider-Gwen & The Web Warriors

Spider-Verse was a huge success and spun off multiple characters and concepts into their own series, most notably Spider-Gwen, whose debut in Edge of Spider-Verse #2 quickly led to an ongoing title set in her native Earth-65.

At the same time, the multiversal team established during the event continued their adventures in Web Warriors, which brought together Spider-UK, Spider-Ham, Spider-Man Noir, and others to safeguard the Web of Life and Destiny.

Alongside these, new runs of Spider-Woman and Silk further developed the alternate Spider-heroes introduced in and around the crossover. The two spider-powered women soon teamed up with Spider-Gwen for their own mini–Spider-Verse crossover titled “Spider-Women.”

  • Spider-Women
    Collects Silk (vol. 2) #7-8, Spider-Gwen (vol. 2) #7-8, & Spider-Woman (vol. 6) #6-7.

And soon, another Spider-Man crossover event brought back a lot of spiders together: Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy. But this was not Spider-Verse related, except for Spider-Gwen’s apparition.

Spider-Geddon: The Spider-Verse Sequel

Just when Dan Slott ended his decade-long run on the Amazing Spider-Man, Marvel Comics decided to go back to the Spider-Verse. Written by Christos Gage and Dan Slott, with art by Jorge Molina, Carlo Barberi and others, the Spider-Geddon event centers on the Inheritors’ renewed attempt to consume Spider-Totems and explores the ongoing consequences of the multiversal network established in the original crossover, while also giving prominence to team dynamics and multiversal strategy among the Spider-heroes, with Miles Morales pushed to the center of the action, instead of Peter Parker..

Spider-Man Spider-Geddon Reading Order: Issue by Issue

  • Edge of Spider-Geddon #1-4 (prelude)
  • Spider-Geddon #0 (prelude)
  • Superior Octopus #1 (prelude)
  • Spider-Geddon #1
  • Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man #311
  • Spider-Geddon #2
  • Spider-Girls #1
  • Spider-Gwen – Ghost-Spider #1
  • Spider-Force #1
  • Vault of Spiders #1 (optional)
  • Spider-Geddon #3
  • Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man #312
  • Vault of Spiders #2 (optional)
  • Spider-Force #2
  • Spider-Force #3
  • Spider-Geddon #4
  • Spider-Gwen – Ghost-Spider #2
  • Spider-Girls #2-3
  • Spider-Gwen – Ghost-Spider #3
  • Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man #313
  • Spider-Geddon #5

Like Web-Warriors previously, the limited 6-issue series Spider-Verse (2019) was a follow-up to the crossover that revolves around the new multiversal adventures of Spider-People. Following Spider-Geddon, the story focuses on Miles Morales. The series brings together multiple Spider-heroes from alternate realities like Spider-Man Noir, SP//dr, Webslinger, Spider-Ma’am, and all the other Spider-People and Spider-Sonas. It was mainly written by Jeb MacKay, but he was joined by Christos Gage, Taran Killam, and Ryan North on one or more issues. On the art, we had Pere Pérez, Zé Carlos, Sheldon Vella, Stacey Lee, Arthur Adams, Dike Ruan, Carlos Lopez, and many more, as each universe is drawn in a different style.

The End of The Spider-Verse

In 2022, Dan Slott went back to the Spider-Verse to put an end to it (with artist Mark Bagley). At least, to the saga he started eight years earlier. The End of the Spider-Verse is a 7-issue miniseries that reunites Spider-heroes from across the multiverse to face a threat that could unravel the Web of Life and Destiny itself. Morlun is back, and he is not alone. Shatra is also here (she was introduced by JMS in The Life & Death of Spiders storyline).

It was launched around Spidey’s 60th Anniversary and put Peter Parker back at the center of the web, but it was, as usual, helped by a lot of Spider-Heroes: Miles Morales, Spider-Gwen, Spider-Man 2099, Araña (Anya Corazón), Madame Web (Julia Carpenter), Silk (Cindy Moon), Spider-Punk, Spider-Man Noir, Spider-Woman (May Parker), Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew), Spider-UK (Zarina Zahari), and many more.

Before the End of the Spider-Verse event, new Spider-People were introduced in a new Edge of Spider-Verse miniseries.

The Spider-Society

The End of the Spider-Verse was not the end of the multiversal adventures of the Spider-Heroes. Marvel Comics made The Edge of Spider-Verse miniseries a yearly event, 5 new issues in 2023 and 5 more in 2024, each introducing new heroes or revisiting familiar ones.

Then, the Spider-Society was formed. Writer Alex Segura and Scott Godlewski, this miniseries is focused on the creation of a team of Spiders fighting to save the multiverse once more. And more recently, Spider-Man, Spider-Ham, and more Spiders went against alternate versions of Venom from the… Venomverse.

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