How To: Start Reading Comics! (All of them) + Guides, Recs

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Getting into Marvel Comics can be an intimidating endeavor. Especially when you don't have anyone to hold your hand and walk you through it (and better believe, you need it). There's so much history and it can be difficult to figure out where to start on your own. But don't worry - we got you!

 

Below is a list of comics reading guides, introductory posts, and recs, sorted by categories. The list will be updated periodically; leave us suggestions in the comments.

General

How to do comics, Part I: Organizing by Amuly
How to do comics, Part II: Where to Start? by Amuly
How to do comics, Part III: Once You're In by Amuly
How to do comics, Part IV: Vocabulary by Amuly

How to Buy Comics: A Beginner's Guide by TheMarySue

Getting Comics on the Cheap by Amuly

Buying Cheaper Trades by vassalady

Complete Marvel Reading Order – a site that puts all 616 Marvel comics in the reading order, sorted by characters, events etc.

Marvel Comics Chronology from Disassembled to Siege by [source needed]

How to start reading Marvel Comics if you're only familiar with MCU by americachavez

Johnatan Hickman: The Marvel Saga (everything Hickman ever written) by ?

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Avengers

General

Totally subjective intro to Avengers comics by dawittiest

How to Start Reading Avengers Comics! by withironhands

How $#@! do I read New Avengers? by dawittiest

Hickmanvengers explained by americachavez

Best Order to Read Young Avengers by americachavez

Characters

Black Widow (Natasha Romanova)

Black Widow: Important comics by americachavez

Bucky Barnes

So you want to read about Bucky Barnes by historymiss

Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)

How-To Guide to read Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) by Amuly

I want to know more about Carol Danvers, what should I read? by americachavez

The Wasp (Janet van Dyne)

Where to start reading Janet Van Dyne (The Wasp) by [L]ornahs

Cosmic Marvel

Cosmic Marvel 2004-2011 Reading Guide by didyouknowcomics

Fantastic Four

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Inhumans

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Invaders

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Magic Marvel

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Spiderverse

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Street Heroes

Characters

Daredevil (Matt Murdock)

Daredevil 101 by pluckyredhead (poisonivory)

Daredevil Collected (a guide to Daredevil trades) by TheOtherMurdockPapers

Daredevil Vol. 1 Recs by dawittiest

Daredevil Volume 2 for Dummies by TheOtherMurdockPapers

Recommended stand-alone issues of Daredevil by TheOtherMurdockPapers

Entering Shadowland: A guide to Daredevil #111-#507 by TheOtherMurdockPapers

Supervillains

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Wakanda

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X-Men

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Younglings

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The Rest of The (Comics) Universe

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Ship-specific

Dennis Dunphy/Jack Monroe: who are they, why ship them, where to read them by Amuly


And more to come!