The Original Spider-Man Hobgoblin Saga When Roger Stern took over the writing duties of Amazing Spider-Man, he introduced a new villain from the ashes of the Green Goblin in order to keep things fresh. Along[…]
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Category: Essential Comics Lists
Spider-Man and the Green Goblin Essential Issues
Spider-Man and the Green Goblin Timeline There are many deadly foes of Spider-Man and the Green Goblin is most definitely one of them. Along with Doctor Octopus, he receives this title for be renowned[…]
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Spider-Man Revealed! and Other Times Spider-Man is Unmasked
A History of Spider-Man Revealed! We recently featured on this blog an essential issue reading list for Spider-Man’s girlfriends (see the lists for Mary Jane, Gwen Stacy and Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat). All of[…]
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Spider-Man and the Black Cat Comic Book Essentials
Continuing on the theme of essential issues of Spider-Man love interests (see the Mary Jane Watson and Gwen Stacy posts), the next logical essential issues list subject is Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat. Spider-Man and[…]
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Gwen Stacy Spider-Man Comic Book Essentials
Our last posts featured Spider-Man’s main squeeze Mary Jane, but it would be unfair to leave out his first love, Gwen Stacy. Some of the most important, iconic issues in the bronze age of comics[…]
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Top 5 Mary Jane Watson Battles
An addendum to to yesterday’s Essential Mary Jane Watson Comics Timeline, here are other interesting issues featuring MJ. Being Spider-Man’s main squeeze naturally means being a major target for his rogues gallery. The following issues[…]
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Mary Jane Watson Comic Book Essentials Timeline
Mary Jane Watson (Sometimes Watson-Parker), is arguably the most important supporting character in the Amazing Spider-Man. Her history is spread out across decades of issues, as she weaves in and out of of Peter Parker’s[…]
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How Old Is Peter Parker / Spider-Man?
According to Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 3) #1, published in April 2014, Peter was bitten by the spider 13 years ago, and it was previously established he was around 15 at the time. He is likely[…]
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List of Major Events in the X-Men Universe
IMPORTANT: An updated version of this post is available here. As companion to my recently launched X-Men Read Order and Graphical X-Men Timeline, I decided to pick up essential issues and their related storylines from[…]
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X-Men Reading Order now includes custom filters
The Personalized X-Men Reading Order Our popular X-Men reading order has been updated, gaining the same features as our Spider-Man reading order, which features columns containing creators, characters and storylines. These lists also now have[…]
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Doc Ock Comic Book Essential Issues
The newly updated chronological spider-man reading order now features a listing of appearances of major characters, including Doctor Octopus. As a companion to this list, I’ve compiled a more concise listing of essential Doc Ock[…]
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Spider-Man Collection Essentials Outside Core Titles
Rereading my Spider-Man collection the other day, I noticed how few issues would be deemed essential outside of the core titles. Unlike X-Men, with some many related titles, had cross-overs between those, making your ability[…]
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