From 'Marvel Comics' to 'Howard the Duck,' with plenty of heroes, villains and monsters in between.
marking the occasion in a number of ways
, including promotional partnerships with retailers like Disney Store, Box Lunch and Amazon, as well as events at comic book stores, but there’s another way for fans to celebrate: By reading a lot of Marvel comic books. Below is a list of 80 selections of runs from the company’s eight-decade history to read and enjoy, with genres from romance to superheroes, monster stories to westerns. It’s a quick guide to Marvel’s publishing output, but not intended as a comprehensive history nor definitive “Best Of” list; instead, it’s simply 80 good reads from the back pages of one of the biggest comic book companies of all time.
Each of the selections below is available digitally and on Marvel’s Marvel Unlimited subscription service.The comic that started it all — kind of. There are familiar faces to be found in this mammoth debut — the original Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner — but this is a very different, very pulpy version of the universe that fans have come to love.
comic, the very first Spider-Man story reads more like a monster comic than a superhero story, and that’s what gives it its edge. Well, that and Steve Ditko’s charmingly unheroic, downbeat artwork.Considering what the X-Men would become, the original incarnation of the team never quite comes together; despite that, there’s so much potential to be found in this first issue, which introduces Professor X, Magneto and some really strange ideas about what magnets can actually do.
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