Comics Back Issues

Hot Mary Jane Watson Art : Who Does It Best?

We’re completing Mary Jane Watson Week (see Essential Mary Jane Watson issues and Top Mary Jane Watson Battles) on one of the most important subjects: artwork. Mary Jane went through a few transformations since her[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Spider-Man Reading Order Updated

My personal Spider-man reading order I posted has been getting some good feedback. I’ll be continuing to improve on it, adding in more info regarding particular storyline reading order. If any of you out there[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Read Order for Spider-Man Now Searchable

Today’s update on the read order for Spider-Man core titles contained some major goodies! it contains much more information, such as featured characters, year of publication, comic book age (bronze, modern, etc.) and major creative[…]

A History of Jim Lee Comic Book Reboots

Launching a new #1 issue isn’t foreign to Jim Lee. As news comes dripping out over the latest titles to be included in DC Comics’ latest relaunches, this time affecting the complete line and totaling[…]

The Secret Origin of the Modern Spider-Man Look

Looking back through my Spider-Man back issue reading journey, I am discovering for myself the contribution each writer and artist had in bringing the Spider-Man look and tone out of the Silver Age, through the[…]

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[…]