i need help!!

[makaveli]

i want to start reading marvel comics and i need a site or something that gives me a timeline so i can read all the marvel comic books by order.
pls help me i looked in every site i could find.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Google Marvel Chronology Project.

But if ya really wanna read in order, why don'tcha try followin' those little numbers in the corners? Not just fer decoration anymore! Seriously, it doesn't get more complicated than that, and story arcs will usually tell you what part it is in the books...typically on the covers.

 

[Elijya]

ok, waitasec:

EVERY MARVEL COMIC, in order?

you do realize that there are in the region of 20,000 seperate Marvel comics? and that not one single person I've ever heard of have read them all?

WHY would you want to do this? why not just read the good ones? or the ones that look interesting to you?

it's like saying "I want to watch every single movie in the order they were made" well, then we'd have to start you off in the late 1800s and start with all the silent films, then we get to the talkie pictures, then in the 60s color becomes common place, and then in the 70s and 80s it becomes cheaper and easier to make films so 100 times as many are produced... it's just a wee bit ridiculous

where are you counting on getting all these anyway? the large majority of the golden age books from the 40s have never even been reprinted, you'd have to spend thousands of dollars to get the original copies.

The books from the begining aren't even really that good, at least not by today's standards. I've read thousands of comics, and while I appreciate the golden age, it's a struggle to get through them, they're just quite bad most of the time.

 

[WOLVERINE25TH]

Actually, the silent films would be fairly easy since like more than half of the really early ones have been destroyed. Give or take, never been good with numbers.

 

[GAMBIT™]

Good luck with that

 

[Elijya]

I'd be happy to point you in the direction of some good places to start reading, whether it be new or recent comics or if you really want I can direct you where and how to read books from the 40s or 60s the easiest and cheapest. But the goal of reading them all, or all in order, is, well, outlandish.

 

[Themanofbat]

I'd be happy to point you in the direction of some good places to start reading, whether it be new or recent comics or if you really want I can direct you where and how to read books from the 40s or 60s the easiest and cheapest. But the goal of reading them all, or all in order, is, well, outlandish.

Well, I think he's just limiting himself from Fantastic Four #1 upwards...

Which would be an interesting idea because from 1961 to about 1995, it was a pretty cohesive Universe.. even with their horror titles (Man-Thing, WereWolf by Night, Tomb of Dracula, etc...) mixing in with their Super-Hero line.

Even with current Essentials available and a nice hefty back issue purchase, it's do-able in the sense that you can read storylines that take place roughly in the same time frame as others, but there would be some intense research & study for that as well.

Of course, you couldn't stomach the 60's to the mid 80's stuff....

 

[Elijya]

yeah, if you wanna start with Fantastic Four #1 and keep reading FF as long as you like, there's the Essentials, the Masterworks, and the CD-Rom, that's easy to get you started on. But if you want to do strict "in order", it would be something like (and this is NOT the correct order, I'm just guessing):

#1 FF #1
#2 FF #2
#3 FF #3
#4 FF #4
#5 FF #5
#6 Hulk #1
#7 FF #6
#8 Hulk #2
#9 FF #7
#10 Tales of Suspense #38
#11 Hulk #3
#12 FF #8
#13 Tales of Suspense #39
#14 Journey into Mystery #86
#15 Amazing Fantasy #15
#16 FF #9
#17 Hulk #4
#18 Tales of Suspense #40
#19 Journey into Mystery #87
#20 FF #10
#21 Hulk #5
#22 Tales of Suspense #41
#23 Journey into Mystery #88
#24 FF #11
#25 Hulk #6
#26 Amazing Spider-Man #1

etc. etc. and so on and so on, with more and more titles being added, and you'd have to jump from one to anotehr to another to another over and over again since they all, technicly, happen in between each other.

So, assuming you didn't actually buy the original copies which would run you thousands of dollars, you'd have to get about a dozen books that reprint the old stories to start with, and read one chapter in one, then read one chapter in another, then one chapter in another, then the second chapter in the first book, then the second chapter in the second book, and so on.

The sensable thing to do would be to read, say the first 30 issues of the Fantastic Four, which is available in one volume, then jump to the first thirty issues of whatever interests you next, say Spider-Man, then Avengers, Hulk, Captain America, etc. But really, the goal of reading everything strictly in order is daunting even if you're already a major fan.