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About Comics in Order

Decades of crossovers, relaunches and renumbering make it hard to know where to start with Marvel and DC.Comics in Order breaks the best runs into clear, numbered steps, and tells you exactly which collected edition to buy for each one.

Paperbacks or hardcovers

Paperbacks (trade paperbacks, or “TPBs”) usually collect five or six issues. They’re the cheapest way in and easy to try before you commit. Hardcovers, including oversized, deluxe and omnibus editions, collect much more at once. They cost more up front, often work out cheaper per issue, and look great on a shelf.

Choose your format once with the toggle and every reading order on the site will follow it.

How we build a reading order

Each order follows publication order unless a different order reads better, and we flag optional or parallel stories as we go. Editions go in and out of print, so if something looks wrong, tell us.

How the site is funded

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