What are the definitive must reads for Marvel?

What are the definitive must reads for Marvel?
No specific franchise, just "The Best"

Death of Jean DeWolff and the sequel Return of the Sin-Eater

Diversity Pals No.1-6

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There's no such thing. Just stick to DC, that's where the masterworks are.

See:

All right, then what's the best in DC?

there are no definitive must reads for Marvel

anything they've ever published is dwarfed by DC

Daredevil Born Again
The Phoenix Saga
Days of Future Past
Infinity Gauntlet

>The Best
you'll find that at DC

Uncanny X-Force and Uncanny Avengers 1-22 for something more contemporary.

Miller's DD
Morrison's NXM. I don't even like it much, but it's pretty important.
Cosmic from Annihilation through War of Kings
DoFP
God Loves, Man Kills

>Not reading 'All-New, All-Different Diversity Pals No. 1-7 [Cancelled]

Samefag-kun, don't ya know you're supposed to wait until the thread gets more people in it?

Take your company war bullshit somewhere else. He's asking for Marvel's best works.

Earth X trilogy
Claremont's X-Men
Kid Loki saga
Dr Strange & Dr Doom: Triumph & Torment
Deadpool & Cable
Parker's Thunderbolts
Marvel Knights: Spider-Man
Ellis' Moon Knight
Punisher MAX
Reed's Ms Marvel
Rage of Ultron

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Nice shoop

Dark Knight Returns
Batman: Year One
Watchmen
All-Star Superman
Batman: The Long Halloween
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Kingdom Come
Superman: Red Son
Superman: For All Seasons
Sandman
Alan Moore's Swamp Thing
Morrison's Doom Patrol
Animal Man
Shade the Changing Man
Batman: The Killing Joke
Superman: For the Man Who Has Everything
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?
Multiversity

Marvels
Ruins
Annihilation

Pretty much this.

Daredevil: Born Again is one of the top three to five comics out there.

Must reads:

>Infinity Gauntlet/Watch
>Civil War
>Secret Invasion-Siege (Dark Reign era)
>Annihilation
>Thanos Imperative

As you down have Daredevil Born again on you're list I'm going to say that you're wrong.

But a lot of the books you mentioned are good.

But then other's are fucking terrible. And while Claremont is great some of the time, other times he's really not.

>/Watch
>>Civil War
>>Secret Invasion-Siege (Dark Reign era)
>>Annihilation
>>Thanos Imperative

Holy shit nigger? Do you have really bad taste or something?

No I just follow the story of marvel. I also like Guardians, both Novas, Iron Man, Dr. Strange, and FF.

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You're....

Oh my god. I just realised you're the literal target audience Marvel is trying to get since they've turned to shit! You're the type of person who enjoys their fucking bad events which lead to god knows how many good books getting canceled.

Also, as your stories didn't involve any X-Men (like Avengers vs X-Men) I'm guessing you don't like the X-Men because you're not meant too cause they aren't in the MCU.

Well done. You're a mouseketeer.

Not him but come on.
>But then other's are fucking terrible.
They're really not.
>And while Claremont is great some of the time, other times he's really not.
When someone recommend Claremont X-Men, I really don't think they're recommending his Alan Davis run, or X-Men Forever. It's pretty much understood its referring to his classic 17 year stretch, where you'd be hard pressed to say anything wasn't, at the very least, good.

Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four

To his credit many of the books in Dark Reign are quite respectable.

I think Dark Avengers might be Bendis's best work.
Utopia was good.
World's Most Wanted might be my favorite Iron Man tale.
Secret Warriors is fantastic, I'd consider it essential.

As for Secret Invasion and Siege themselves.
PAHAHAHAHA.

Annihilation is good, possibly "essential"

Civil War isn't essential, nor are Gauntlet and Thanos Imperative. Just meh really.

Ok kid, fuck off. I regret typing my deflecton.

Its embarassing how much more DC has

See? This is what I fucking mean?!

You mean the fact when you try really hard the only things that comes to mind for Marvel are Daredevil Born Again and some of Claremont's X-Men?

Yeah, it is pretty fucking embarrassing considering that Marvel has perfectly good characters.

>the only things that comes to mind for Marvel
But this thread proves otherwise.

If you're going to read Born Again, also read the Daredevil issue 181, one of the most famous comics of the series. And 191 as a follow up to that which is just as good.

What? No it fucking doesn't.

The only "must reads" for Marvel people have agreed upon are Born Again and Claremont's X-Men.

No one else has agreed on shit. At best there's been some "those aren't bad" responses to other thing. Bit something "not being bad" doesn't make it a "must read",

>No one else has agreed on shit
Annihilation and Infinity Gauntlet have shown up more than once ;^)

Do you think the Netflix series will adapt it at some point?

>34 posts
>not one mention of Kraven's Last Hunt
Shame. Shame. Shame.

Amazing Spiderman - The Death of Gwen Stacy, Kraven's Last Hunt, Clone Wars
Secret Wars
Fantastic Four - Galactus Trilogy
House of M
Avengers Disassembled
Avengers Kree/Skrull War
Planet Hulk
World War Hulk
The Ultimates
Ultimate Spiderman
Punisher MAX
All-New X-Men
New Avengers

This became a thread for fat autistic virgins to fight over their comics about 2 posts in, my friend.

>All-New X-Men
Vicious bait

I once read a comic with the Hulk in it.
Read that one, it was nice.

Well at least I'm not fat.
Also recommending the Claremont-Miller Wolverine story.

Everything with Ewing's name on it.

>No one said Silver Surfer Requiem and Parable
but why tho guys

Never read any Silver Surfer stuff, always thought the concept was a little too wacky for me.

>Silver surfer requiem
>good

The problem is that his name is "Silver Surfer"
and his alter ego is "Norrin Radd"
With only those two pieces of information he sounds like he'll be a rocket power character in space. Why do I remember that show
He's entirely not that.

>Silver Surfer
>Death on Skis
What the hell was Kirby smoking anyway?

I think he liked going outside.
Also space wizards.

I don't want to repeat too muchj of whats been said, so hopefully I'll be mentioning things that got only a few or no mentions

> God Loves, Man Kills

Written as a collected single story. If you're looking for wild crazy style villainy with big fights and powers, don't read this. It's a story about the ugliness of man. It's unfortunately far too short.

> New Mutants

The new mutants early stories were very good team and young adult stories. They do often feel like a spin off or side story to the bigger world, but it makes them feel more real and grounded than the outlandish X-men

> Fantastic Four

The original first few years are goofy, corny, and dopey but still fun in a cartoony way. It may feel childish at times but that's part of the fun. It'd be like saying a comedic movie won't make you laugh. For light hearted with a side of Doom, this is the best place.

> Future Imperfect

Don't just read this though. It's a great story but you it works better if you've read some Marvel. After you've ideally read some Hulk stories. Not too much, but enough to know him as he was written, not just in cartoons and movies. It has a bit of a heavy metal vibe and echos of "we are all guilty of the good we don't do"

>God Loves, Man Kills
Read this for the first time just last week. Stryker killing his baby and the very opening were pretty fucked up.

But what's essential Black Cat stuff?

Her vagina.

Silver Surfer: Requiem
Joe Kelly's Deadpool
Marvel Knights: Spider-Man
Hulk: Season One
Ultimate Spider-Man
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man
Ditko Lee Spider-Man
Punisher: MAX
Daredevil: Born Again
Daredevil - Bendis Run
Spider-Man: Kraven's Last Hunt
Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears
Road to Damnation
Alias
Daredevil: End of Days
Supreme Power
Ultimate Human
Ultimates 1-2
Thor: Vikings
Thor: Walter Simonson Run
Thor: JMS Run
O'Neill's Iron Man
Punisher Rucka Run
Future Imperfect
Death of Captain Marvel
X-Men: God Loves Man Kills
X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga
Old Man Logan
New Mutants by Sienkewicz
X-Force by Yost - Remender
Messiah Saga
Peter David Hulk Run
Elektra: Assassin
Marvel Knights Sentry
Age of Sentry
Eternals
Infinity Quest
Infinity Gauntlet
1985
War of the Kings
Annihiliation
Conquest
Brubaker Cap
Hawkguy
Hawkeye vol 1
Kooky Quartet Avengers
Thunderbolts
Busiek Avengers
Hickman FF
Lee Kirby FF
Byrne FF
Byrne She Hulk
DnA GoTG
Planet Hulk
Fallen Son
Nextwave
Runaways
Exiles
Fraction Iron Man
Fraction Iron Fist
Extremis
Demon in a Bottle
Secret Warriors
Steranko Shield and Nick Fury
Roger Stern Avengers
Bendisvengers (Just New Avengers)
Roger Stern Cap
Gruenwald Cap (Essential Cap)
Waid Cap
Age of Apoc
DoFP
Onslaught
Secret Wars
Thanos Imperative
Earth X
Immortal Iron Fist
Iron Man: Extremis
Iron Man: Armor Wars
Spencer's Superior Foes of Spider-man
Gerber's Howard the Duck
Gerber's Man-Thing
Stan Lee/Ditko/Romita Amazing Spider-Man
Conway Amazing Spider-Man
Roger Stern Amazing Spider-Man
Spider-Man v. Wolverine
Spider-Man: Blue
Korvac Saga
Kang Dynasty

Kirby Eternals or Gaiman Eternals?

Both

I've never actually read the Gaiman stuff, how is it?

It shits on lots of stuff Kirby introduced but it's still pretty GOAT nonethless.

Based user BTFOing DCucks.

Shits on? Like, retconning stuff or what?

Kind of.

>I am not Jack Kirby. And I am not even going to try and attempt that. What I’m going to try to do is essentially take the universe he created, the characters he created, the ideas that he created and strip them down and put them back together again. As far as I’m concerned, one of the great things about comics is that you’re always allowed to dump the bits you don’t like.

Well as long as it works, I don't care. Not like Kirby didn't make mistakes.
Maybe I'll get it for Christmas.

Future imperfect is great. Probably one of my favs

Incal and the Akira are probably Marvel too considering they got rights to publish them in the first place.

Lol no. Over half of that shit is well, shit.

I was hoping they would for season three.

But they didn't introduce Bullseye as the person who killed Electra. If they had they could have basically adapted Born Again scene for scene, including a cameo by the Avengers to take out Nuke.

>for shame Marvel
>for shame

Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four
Lee/Kirby Thor (you can easily skip the first dozen or so stories, as they're pretty generic and involve Thor fighting mobsters and shit)
Lee/Ditko Spider-Man
Lee/Ditko Doctor Strange
Jim Steranko's Nick Fury
Roy Thomas' Avengers
Roy Thomas' Conan comics
Kirby's 2001: A Space Odyssey comics
Most of what was released under the Epic imprint
Groo the Wanderer
Simonson/Simonson Thor
Peter David's Hulk
Kraven's Last Hunt
Joe Kelly's Deadpool
Marvels
Pretty much everything released under the Marvel Adventures imprint, ESPECIALLY the various Sumerak/Gurihiru Power Pack miniseries

shopped, faggot
that bar under is too long

>only two people posted Marvels

this board deserves pic related

What is this, 1939?

Marvel's isn't very good.

It just apes old stories from someone else's perspective and is INCREDIBLY boring.

return was shit tho.

>people actually posting anything made by Marvel
Marvel is a fucking joke of a company

they have never made anything good, they're best stuff is still worse than the worst stuff from DC

Comics have always been a shitty medium and the industry died for a reason.

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Marvel spotlight, marvel fanfare and marvel fanfare have decent stories as well based on various marvel characters. Tomb of Dracula was good as well, written by Conway one of the successors to Lee's Spidey. It featured Marvels supernatural side.

Marvel Two in One was basically marvel team up but with the Thing as opposed to the spidey centric one in the latter. It was also the better team up book with tons of memorable stories especially one where Thing had to fight the champion of the elders of the universe with the other heavyweights like hulk and thor.

ALSO OP Runaways is a must read, it won an Eisner Award and a bunch others. It truly is an underrated gem since it got cancelled like 3 times. Its about these kids who found out their parents were supervillains called the Pride. The pride made a deal with a Lovecraftian beast to destroy Marvel Earth in exchange for paradise for their 7 kids. Ofc some of its members are willing to betray the other for themselves. The kids ofc act like heroes trying to save the world.

if the industry dies, its almost entirely marvels fault

DC is still putting out good stories

There's some good recs in here. I'll add Longshot saves the Marvel Universe.

There's no reason to repost what's been posted already.

If you read either you're literally retarded.

Comics are a goddamn joke and unless you are used to all the shit happening in these everyone will laugh at them.
Even the '''''''''''''''''''''best''''''''''''''''''''''''''' stories in the whole industry are cringe material wuth a coat of pretentiousness.

Probs haven't read Claremont X-Men... or Runaways. Or anything by Simonson, Whedon, Vaughn or Stern

Stop trying to counter-bait.

For fuck's sake, I stopped going to /lit/ to avoid this kind of thing but it keeps hounding me.

Read Runaways, I still don't know why it's praised.

Same.

/lit/ is filled with fucking hate for everything. The are people on /lit/ who are going to tell you that if you like the Iliad you're a pleb. Even though most /lit/-fags begins posts with "start with the Greeks".

And I'm confident that the people who whinge about comics on fucing Sup Forums are /lit/ shitposters.

would say war of kings is fine too
and world war hulk
but overall it's a good job user

Marvel Comics Presents: Weapon X

Adding to the list. Not necessarily essential, but still good

Books of Doom
Remender's Venom
MODOK'S 11
Marvel Two-in-one
Doom 2099
Spider-man 2099

Anything by Busiek like his avengers and 4issue series Marvels

idk it won awards and got me into comics. Ur probs a fag.

I really really liked Dr Strange: Shambala
the art was brilliant

Vaughan is a divisive writer. I've yet to read anything from him that I enjoyed.

I know how you feel.

Add
Squadron supreme by mark Gruenwald
Infinity gauntlet
annihilation
Death of captain marvel
FF (jack Kirby and Stan lee's run also Jonathan hickman run )
Spider-Man JMS run
The night gwen Stacy died
Nextwave agents of hate
Armor wars
Avengers under siege
The Kree skrull war
Fury max
Moon knight by ellis

>Fury max
Been thinking of getting this. Old Man Fury is one of my favorite characters for whatever reason.

>X-Men: God Loves Man Kills
>X-Men: Dark Phoenix Saga
>Old Man Logan
>New Mutants by Sienkewicz
GOOD TASTE MON AMI

Because you never read them.

As expected from a DC fan

You should read it
Great stuff

I'll fit it in Septembers haul.

Idk Fury Max shouldn't be recommended. Stan Lee claimed it was trying to be to hardcore and edgy try hard bullshit once.

You tasteless fucks want a good Fury series read his Agent of SHIELD series byJim Steranko. That shit has everything. Cool spies, hot ladies, sexy fun and entertaining bad guys. It was way ahead of its time that marvel tried to actively censor it like this scene right here.

>Stan Lee claimed
Stan Lee claimed he invented the name Mjölnir himself, opinion discarded.