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Essential Reading Order: All-New All-Different Marvel

🕑 Added 2022-10-01 15:25:58 +0000 UTC

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Hi Will, yes and no. Marvel has never done a complete reboot or reset of their universe, so technically each era builds on the history of previous eras, but they are also designed as good entry points for new readers, particularly starting with Marvel NOW! in 2012. Every few years since then Marvel relaunches pretty much all of their series with new number 1 issues and creative teams that while may reference past events, are designed to tell new stories that don’t require a lot of knowledge of previous events to enjoy.

Will Byrne

Is each era considered self contained or do I have to read the previous era to get up to speed?

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Hi Markus, good catch. It is actually in Part 2 on the site, so I fixed it in this list. As for Sgt. Fury that’s a special case since those are WWII stories that take place decades before the rest of the Silver Age stories continuity-wise and I didn’t want to slow down the reading order by getting people distracted by 80 war comics that have really nothing to do with the Marvel Universe. I included the first 13 to give people a brief introduction to Nick Fury. I think that is the only example of something like that.

MarkusT1992

I compared the list you posted here with the full list on the site and noticed that Uncanny Avengers #1-4 in part 3 is on the list in this post but is missing on the site. On a site note: In the Silver Age reading order we have Sgt. Fury and his howling command up until #13 but the remaining issus are missing.