Comic Book Herald

A Comic Book Reading Order Guide For Beginners & Fans

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Dave founded Comic Book Herald in 2011 and has written a lot about comics since that time. See for yourself below!

Black Widow Comic Book Reading Order

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As the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s lone female Avenger (at least initially), Natasha Romanova has never had a larger profile or more eager fan base. The complicated Black Widow has a challenging, hard-to-trace Marvel comics continuity, worthy of her former days as a Soviet Spy.

The potential confusion for new readers with Black Widow is exacerbated by the fact that Marvel has literally never committed to a Black Widow solo title longer than 20 issues (even launching two separate solo titles that lasted a mere three issues!).

Nonetheless, below you’ll find a proper Black Widow reading order for the best double agent in the Marvel Universe. [Read more…] about Black Widow Comic Book Reading Order

Book Review!: “The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture”

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In the age of the internet (slightly fewer cullings than the Age of Apocalypse), there’s an inversion of an old TV trope. Whereas we’ve all known the old “1,000 channels but nothing good on TV,” we now have 1,000,000 tweeted articles, but nothing to read. As always, this is an overstatement, but the value of intelligent, witty, interesting articles increasingly stands out. [Read more…] about Book Review!: “The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture”

1960s Marvel Comics In Review – Every Series Ranked! Character Reading Orders!

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If you’ve been a part of the My Marvelous Year reading club since Jan 1. 2016, you know full well that we have now covered an entire decade of Marvel Comics, plowing through the 1960s in eight weeks.

If this is the first you’re hearing of My Marvelous Year, we’re reading 10 Marvel stories published during one calendar year each week. So the first week of 2016 we read Marvel Comics published during 1962 (plus Fantastic Four #1 in November 1961), the second week of 2016 we read Marvel Comics published during 1963, and so on. We just finished the 1960s and will start the 1970s on 3/4/16! You can sign up here! [Read more…] about 1960s Marvel Comics In Review – Every Series Ranked! Character Reading Orders!