Timeline · 13 story eras
The story,
mapped.
Browse all 374 books by story era. A creator’s run stays together even when it spans several eras. Each dossier explains where its stories fit and lists reading checkpoints for crossovers. Marvel time is elastic, and many large books straddle events. The timeline gives each book its place in the big story; each book’s reading checkpoints give the practical order.
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After the Multiverse
A rebuilt universe finds new hands for old hammers: symbiote gods uncovered, an immortal Hulk, and all ten realms at war.
Era 11 · 38 books · 5 owned
- Thor by Jason Aaron Omnibus Vol. 2The saga picks up mid-stride and carries Asgard through the War of the Realms to the far end of Thor’s story.
- Spider-Gwen OmnibusGwen Stacy’s complete original Earth-65 run, including the Spider-Women and Sitting in a Tree crossover movements, precedes the 2018 Ghost-Spider continuation.
- Doctor Strange by Aaron & Bachalo OmnibusMagic itself comes under siege in the freshly rebuilt universe.
- Vision: The Complete CollectionVision builds an artificial suburban family in the immediate aftermath of Secret Wars.
- Guardians of the Galaxy by Al EwingRocket (2017) is earlier backstory; the main Guardians run follows through the Empyre, King in Black and Last Annihilation period alongside Ewing’s S.W.O.R.D.
- Doctor Strange by Donny CatesLegacy-numbered Doctor Strange follows the Aaron/Bachalo phase. The Loki/Bats chapters lead into the collected Damnation core, well before MacKay’s later death-and-return cycle.
- Infamous Iron Man by Bendis & MaleevDoom’s attempted heroism follows Secret Wars and Tony’s Civil War II absence; Invincible Iron Man #593–600 resolves the story after Infamous #12.
- Fantastic Four by Chip Zdarsky: Fate of the FourBen and Johnny search other worlds for the missing Richards family while the Fantastic Four are separated.
- Doctor Strange: Fall SunriseStrange’s dreamlike quest stands apart from the surrounding modern solo runs.
- Ultimates by Al Ewing: The Complete CollectionEwing’s Ultimates treat post-Secret-Wars cosmic problems as systems that can be repaired.
- U.S.Avengers by Al EwingSunspot’s American Intelligence Mechanics team survives Secret Empire and rescues Cannonball before No Surrender.
- Avengers: No Surrender / No Road Home OmnibusThe gathered Avengers face a cosmic contest before Immortal Hulk’s solo launch; the later No Road Home sequel follows the early Hulk stories.
- All-New Wolverine by Tom Taylor OmnibusLaura Kinney inherits the Wolverine name before the later symbiote era begins.
- Marvel Cosmic Universe by Donny Cates Omnibus Vol. 1Thanos, the Silver Surfer, and the Inhumans anchor the cosmic corner after the universe’s rebuild.
- Black Widow & Captain America by Waid & Samnee OmnibusNatasha goes on the run from her own agency, paired with a Captain America road trip through a country that has lost faith in him.
- Immortal Hulk OmnibusBruce Banner comes back wrong, in a horror-tinged run that stretches into the King in Black period.
- Spider-Man by Chip Zdarsky OmnibusPeter’s double life squeezed from both ends, with his oldest friendships and his worst secrets in the balance.
- Miles Morales: Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 2After Secret Wars, Miles begins his Earth-616 life under Bendis before Saladin Ahmed’s longer Brooklyn-centered continuation.
- Spider-Man by Tom TaylorTaylor’s neighborhood stories follow Peter’s everyday efforts to help the people around him.
- Miles Morales: Spider-Man by Saladin Ahmed OmnibusMiles settles into Brooklyn as a hero in his own right, through a symbiote onslaught and a crisis much closer to home.
- Venomnibus by Cates & StegmanEddie Brock uncovers the symbiotes’ true history, then rides Absolute Carnage straight into King in Black.
- Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider OmnibusGwen starts splitting her life between her own world and this one, and pays for the commute.
- Spider-GeddonThe returned Inheritors drive the crisis surrounding Ghost-Spider #1–4; read those opening chapters alongside the event.
- Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson: Army of OneKamala joins the Avengers but must define a version of heroism that remains her own.
- Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson: Game OverJersey City, online identity, and political division test Kamala’s local idealism.
- Ms. Marvel by G. Willow Wilson: Something NewWilson closes Kamala’s foundational run with new friends, old wounds, and a reaffirmed community.
- The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl OmnibusDoreen Green solves super-problems with empathy, computer science, and carefully deployed squirrel power.
- Howard the Duck by Zdarsky & QuinonesThe core 2015–2016 detective run is followed by the 2019 and 2023 Howard codas collected in the same book.
- Gwenpool OmnibusGwen’s early misadventures lead into her West Coast Avengers membership and the reality-bending events of Strikes Back.
- Moon Knight by Lemire & Smallwood: The Complete CollectionMarc Spector confronts the borders between identity, illness, gods, and constructed reality.
- Black Bolt: Hard Time — The Complete CollectionThe silent king is stripped of power in a cosmic prison and learns fellowship among its forgotten inmates.
- Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates OmnibusCoates follows Priest with a Wakandan political revolution and an intergalactic second movement.
- Daredevil by Charles Soule OmnibusSoule follows Waid and establishes the Fisk/Matt status quo inherited by Zdarsky.
- Captain Marvel by Kelly Thompson Omnibus Vol. 1Thompson’s sustained Carol Danvers run begins here; this first volume ends at Captain Marvel #26.
- Runaways by Rainbow Rowell OmnibusRowell reunites the original cast long after Vaughan; read both creator runs as uninterrupted blocks rather than filling every intervening appearance.
- Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Vol. 1: Anchor PointsKate opens a detective agency in Los Angeles after her adventures with Clint, finding a community through her first cases.
- Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Vol. 2: MasksKate’s investigation turns toward her family and Madame Masque, testing the friendships built through her agency.
- Hawkeye: Kate Bishop Vol. 3: Family ReunionClint joins Kate in Los Angeles as the family mystery and the detective series reach their conclusion.