Spider-Man is one of the most popular superheroes of all time,
but if you've never read any of his comics then this is a video for you! WOOF WOOF! Hey guys,
it's me, Marcus AKA The Maddogg and we're back with another video! The first title that i'm
going to recommend is actually the first comic that i ever bought because it's none other than
ultimate spider-man and for me i do think this is a great jumping on point no matter where you're at
with your spider-man journey i'm not as much of an idiot as a looking sound so i understand that
a lot of people know the origin story of peter parker but it might be the case that you do still
want something that you can follow beginning to end this was set outside of the regular marvel
universe continuity so you don't have to worry about knowing what's going on in the marvel
universe at the same time and pretty much every major milestone that happened for peter parker
is included somewhere in this run it's got great art from mark bagley and also stuart eminen and
david lafawente it's got a great sense of humor and quirky dialogue and i just think that if you
are new and you've never read anything spider-man before then this is probably gonna be the safest
bet i know that some people absolutely hate this but at the end of the day if it's gonna help you
get into comics and i'm gonna recommend it first because it worked for me it's also a series that
i've already talked about on this channel so if you're still not sold on it i'd recommend checking
out that video next up i'm gonna be recommending something that once again is illustrated by mark
bagley because it's spider-man live story but maybe you don't want something that's going to
take a significant amount of time to read and you just want something quick and easy that's
going to catch you up on who peter parker is this is probably going to be the best bet because chip
sadowski is one of those guys whose name just seems to be appearing everywhere lately and in
just six or so issues this manages to condense everything that's happened to peter parker
in one book you can easily blast through this in a weekend it felt like zadarski was understanding
that people may not know where spider-man's at but the same time if you already know a little
bit then this will probably help you to fill in some of those gaps and it's just got great art
throughout this could kind of just be sold as like a refresh of course on who peter parker is
but maybe you're watching this video and saying to yourself that you want a longer spider-man run
that goes on for years but you do want it to be connected to the main marvel universe that was an
option that i did seem to miss out on me where to start marvel comics so i'm gonna try and rectify
this now with spider-man brand new day now i've said this before but it always seems to be the
case that people have to hate whatever the modern run of spider-man is and then once the writer
leaves all of a sudden they missed them dan slot was no exception because when this book was coming
out people really did not like this and there's still some people who do hate it now or maybe
they do have some valid criticisms but at the same time this was a jumping on point for new readers
so in the wake of one more day they knew that they needed to bring peter parker back to the streets
not as a prostitute although that is a book that i'd probably pick up and if you want a long
long run then this definitely is the one for you but i think if you're a new reader maybe you're a
teenager like i was when i was first getting into spider-man it's worth getting something that was
printed after the 2000s and this is going to be one of the ones that i'd recommend the art
it changes throughout the run it's not always consistent but there is some real high points to
it and i think it's just a great book that a lot of people would enjoy even if it is a bit daunting
when you first hear how many issues there is but maybe you like the sound of that but it's a bit
too long for what you're looking for at the mini then it might be a bit of a risk and you might
need to know a little bit about his rogues gallery but i would definitely recommend spider-man the
gauntlets this was basically an event that wasn't an event and you had four writers who were doing
four different series that all came together for one overarching plot and yeah like i said it's
difficult today to find somebody who doesn't know the origin story of peter parker to know why he
was bitten by a spider to hear that his uncle ben was shot and if you didn't know well spoilers and
even people who haven't read a spider-man comic before might know widely about his rogues gallery
and you just want to see him fight a bunch of them this is exactly what the golem lit is it went on
for a good number of issues but at the same time it wasn't too long you get great appearances from
rhino mysterio and it is pretty much exactly what it says on the 10. it's the comic book
equivalent of the gauntlet from gladiators because spider-man's just got to go through all these
villains and at the same time it never really feels like it is entirely connected it's just
that peter parker's having a really bad stretch of time when everybody's just trying to kill you but
if you are somebody who wants to go further back to the beginning but maybe you don't really like
the silverage style of storytelling one that i would definitely recommend is the untold tales
of spider-man this was a title that was written by kirbusig that was released in the 90s and he is
pretty much just filling in the gaps from the 60s so when spider-man was starting to find his feet
and all these rogues were appearing out of nowhere there's a load of little stories that this book
tells it's one of them as well that you can pretty much jump in and out of whenever you want so i do
think it'd be great if you don't really have the time for a full run this was collected in omnibus
i know they also did complete collections of it and if you do want to see his original rogues
gallery and the way that they were first presented and i think this is going to be one of the best
modern ways to do that i say modern boys coming out pretty much the same time that i was born and
modern is not one thing that i feel but this doesn't carry the weight of whatever was going
on at the time you don't have to know about the clone saga or civil war or anything like that that
you might be a little bit intimidated by if you try to read another spider-man run but i do think
this is best of both worlds because you get to see spider-man when he was starting out but if you're
not really a fan of silverage storytelling then you don't really have to put up with that here
however maybe you are looking for a more classic style of spider-man storytelling and that's okay
because people are coming into comics looking for different things that's why i try and make
this list as robust as possible and one that i'd definitely recommend from the past is spider-man
by roger state again yes you do have to understand how spider-man came to be but at this point i feel
like we all just know that and after stan lee started off the character i feel like this is the
next major turning point for him i haven't read everything from the silver age so please do not
crucify me in the comments if i'm wrong on that one i was too busy not being born at that point
but i have read a lot of spider-man by roger stone and it is a title that i do really enjoy
i think it's got a lot of charm and a lot of heart to it and it's still easy to see
where the influence comes from today you also get to see the original characters like the hobgoblin
it's got that great story with the juggernauts so a lot of what people might love about modern
spider-man was already collected in this run by roger steve if that is the time period that you
like and you don't want a massive run i do think that you could possibly try getting into craven's
last hunt yep it does already have the black suit and there are a few characters within this and you
do need to know about where he's out with mary jane but this is also just a story about craven
going after peter parker it's tense it's dark it's atmospheric it doesn't feel like anything that
came before it and at the time it was a really daring take for spider-man comics i reviewed this
last year and i did quite enjoy it i do think it has some of those tropes that i don't really
appreciate about older books but i think it's cool this is a great spider-man story where you get to
see what makes peter parker a great hero you also get to see him go up against a villain that often
doesn't really get the spotlight that much but at this point he is pretty much the main character
and there's a reason why people still talk about this story arc and i do think it would be suitable
for new readers it's not suitable for people who are scared of rats though because there are a lot
of them in this boot jumping back to the more modern stuff now and for a new reader you could
jump into spider-man by nick spencer yep this did feature that god-awful costume in it but at the
same time we did realize that that was short-lived and after the dance slot run this book did a good
enough job of resetting peter parker so that he could be a more humble position the first story
arc alone was really interesting you had some interaction with like the sentinels and things
like that and that changes as the book goes on like it really does try a few different things
it just sets up a different dynamic as well he's back to needing a roommate so he ends up living
with boomerang i think as well if you listen to the general consensus on this run it today
isn't good but again like i said that normally just happens for whatever the current title is
and i think it's because it's so difficult now to tell a truly different spider-man story but this
did try its best i don't think i'm selling this at all but if you were a new reader that wanted
to jump into the most recent completed run you only need to know a little bit about what came
before so that you can start reading this and it is going to be collected in an omnibus so
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one would be on the list but if you want a freaky friday take on this character i would definitely
recommend the superior spider-man again written by dan slott so he is part of his run if you do
end up picking that up from the beginning but you can also just jump into this because spoiler alert
doc's consciousness is now in peter parker's body and it's weird because he does still want to be a
superhero but with his way of doing things so he is more cutthroat he is more brutal he doesn't
really have that emotional development that peter parker has and that we probably took for granted
he's also trying to maintain peter parker's social life so like i said if you do enjoy
stories where there's body swaps going on and if you're a fan of super sentai there's at least
one of those episodes in every single series this will be great for you and you can also just have
this as its own separate story to see if you do like dan slot's style of storytelling it's also
fantastic in this so it's worth checking out this book for that alone and it was just one of those
books where i was constantly wondering what was going to happen next and how there could be any
kind of happy ending to their story now another shorter more self-contained run i'm gonna go with
spider-man by todd mcfarlane he did also do the art for david michelini but i do think that that's
quite continuity heavy and you would actually need to know quite a bit going into that and even
though it's got the venom stuff i just don't think it's got enough to engage a new reader whereas
when this came out it was like a seismic shock throughout the comic book industry if the facts
are correct this is the best-selling spider-man title of all time and i'm gonna guarantee that
some of them were probably new readers anytime you see a new issue number one it's probably
going to be a good chance for a new reader to jump on which is probably the reason why marvel
does it so often but this pretty much was todd mcfarlane being allowed to do whatever he wants
and the art is just insane but this knew what it was at the time and it was created to bring new
eyes to this title because of that and the fact that there's an amazing crossover with wolverine
i would definitely recommend this i haven't read it in years though so i can't really speak to the
quality of it and maybe it's not that great now but when i was younger it was pretty good as well
maybe you don't want a spider-man centric book and he does appear in quite a lot of crossovers
and team-ups and the one that i would definitely recommend is the new avengers okay on the surface
this might sound like a bad choice for new readers because of the fact that you would have to kind of
know what happened in avengers disassembled but the fact of the matter is that spider-man is a
key component of this without really being the center of attention and you might prefer seeing
him as part of an ensemble maybe you can't really stand him and find him quite annoying if he's just
on his own kind of like people with well me so if there's one team book that i could recommend
to you it'd definitely be this one it's written by brian michael bendis there's an array of great
artists throughout the title i do have one other team up that i mentioned but i'm going to save
that one for the end another one that i'd also recommend even though it did prove to be quite
controversial in certain parts but it's going to be spider-man by j michael strozinski this also
had john romita jr when he was at his absolute peak of his game and not now when everything's
a little bit but for a while this was the modern spider-man one that would be suggested for new
readers and with good reason immediately out of the gate it takes a bit of a risk with this
storyline with ezekiel and it's going back for the history of what it means to be spider-man
and that was quite interesting and then as it goes on you have all these different crossovers
there was one that was called the other and yes it does end with one more day which i
know a lot of people don't like i was a bit too young at the time to really hate on it but this
was another run that went on for years and there were a lot of hidden gems of stories throughout
this the bad does often overshadow the good so if you've heard about this and maybe are interested
in it i just suggest giving it a go and seeing if it's for you because honestly when it comes
to comics no matter what you love somebody out there hates it and will tell you constantly
now in my way to stop videos and only make it a point that i don't recommend the very starting
point for any character often because of the fact that times have changed and i don't really think
it's too accessible but when it comes to golden and celebrated superheroes i think the one that is
still most readable today is probably spider-man the only thing that i would say is that a lot of
those early issues they do like to just remind you every single issue of spider-man's origin story so
this isn't really a bingeable series but if maybe you've got an issue or two in your here and there
i do think that this is something that you could pick up and obviously as this series develops it
just gets better and better and i think stanley really found his group with this character so
even though i personally wouldn't recommend a lot of other silverage titles i do think that
if you know that you like that style spider-man would probably be the best one to go to one quick
massive shout out as well it's not a comic but i have to give some respect to that 90s animated
shirt this was the reason why i loved spider-man and wanted to start reading him in comics so if it
wasn't for this who knows if i'd be here today and i mean talking about comics not living like it's
not that extreme and i think this is all available on disney plus so maybe check out a few episodes
especially if maybe you've got a kid that you want to get into spider-man i think maybe don't start
them off with a comic but start them off with this series and then they'll be able to read
some of the other pics in this list one book that i just completely forgot to mention when i was
recording which proves that either a i was really tired when i was doing the filming or b i'm just
not good at this youtube thing it's none other than spider-man blue by jeff loeb and tim sayles
this comes part of their colors collection where they also did daredevil yellow and hulk grey and
they also did captain america white but honestly i don't think i've heard anybody mention that book
but spider-man blue looked to the earlier years of peter parker's life when he was together with gwen
stacy and he was also starting out as spider-man again and he might feel like i've been saying
this about a lot of books but it's perfect if you know a little bit about spider-man maybe you know
a lot about what was going on with him in the 60s but maybe you don't want to read a full decade's
worth of comics then i think these five issues will be perfect for you the arts phenomenal which
you would expect with tim sale if you've read something like batman the long halloween then
you already know what you're working with and it's a really sweet book that actually has quite a sad
ending so if you're looking for something a bit different you want something on the more emotional
side of spider-man books which doesn't really feel like a sentence that i'd hear many people saying
definitely be worth checking out and i felt like i had to mention this even if it meant going back
and recording some extra audio and also because it included yellow and where to start daredevil
and gray in the where to start hulk there is another jumping on point for peter parker that
i do think i could recommend but it's also a great jumping on point for mars morales and that brings
me nicely onto the title this boot because it is just called spider-man and this was the first time
that the ultimate version of miles and rallies and the peter parker the 616 came together if you know
a little bit about either character and want to start reading the other then this is 100 the boot
that you need it was only five issues long and it did have a sequel it was written by brian michael
bendy so he had a great understanding of who both of those characters were mostly because you know
he created miles morales i can't really say too much about this without spoiling the end of
ultimate spider-man but for something that's short and fun and it's quite heartwarming throughout i
definitely recommend giving this a chance but if you're dead set on reading something that
isn't peter parker i'd definitely recommend miles morales the ultimate spider-man this was actually
part of the ultimate universe so it is sat outside of that main continuity kind of like what i said
with ultimate spider-man at the beginning of this video but if you want miles more rallies 80 star
and honestly in my opinion pretty much at his best it's not even that old like it's quite impressive
how popular miles morales has become already in just a decade or so and you could read stuff like
ultimate fallout but i do think you'd be pretty safe just jumping into this he has got a different
power set and at this point in the book he did actually have a personality that was different
from peter parker instead of now where he's pretty much just the same character he also do a good job
of giving miles morales his own villains to go up against while still respecting the rogues gallery
that peter parker had so you do get to see stuff like the evolution of venom he is quite closely
attached to the prela storyline and you can still easily pick this up the re-releasing both of these
volumes so you can pre-order them already like i said organic price books you know where to go but
again maybe you don't want it to be connected to the ultimate universe so you can just jump into
the spider-man miles morales storyline this was set after secret wars so miles morales now was
in the main 616 universe so you do get to see him interacting with other characters like the regular
eddie brock he also crosses paths with novak and the rest of spider-man's rogues gallery along with
peter parker it is still quite accessible to a new reader so you don't have to worry if you haven't
read the ultimate universe and then this would help you catch up pretty quickly to where we're
at today and you could start jumping into some of these more modern runs another spider-man that i
can't forget is spider-man 2099 but there's two ones that you can read there's the original from
the 1990s and there was also one that was released in 2015. these were both written by peter david so
you definitely know that you're in good hands it is more sci-fi it doesn't follow peter parker and
you also do get to see his rogues gallery evolve or maybe just have different airs to it and if you
do like more sci-fi and futuristic stories then don't worry you can still jump into spider-man
and this is definitely what i'd recommend or maybe you're really interested in ben reilly
as spider-man and even though i haven't read his full run from the 90s one that i definitely would
recommend is this 2015 series that was also written by peter david so even if you don't
know who this character is but maybe you know you don't really want to jump into any of those other
spider-man this would be the title for you it's also set in las vegas so if you may be bored of
seeing new york being everywhere then give this a go and it's mostly a story about ben and kane
discovering who they are and why they want to continue with spider-man it does feel separated
from everything else so i think it would be great if you're a completely new reader and it's only
about seven or so years old so it would be really accessible to a new reader and i'd recommend
checking this out no my last pick because i've been filming for over two hours and i am really
losing my voice because i keep stuttering through everything it's a little bit of a gimmick title i
don't really think it's massively going to help you jump into any other spider-man boots but i
absolutely enjoyed the astonishing spider-man and wolverine that was written by jason aaron
this was only six or so issues long it proper throws you in at the deep end with logan
and peter just being thrown into the savage land they both think they're gonna die they both can't
stand being with each other spider-man is still just as annoying as he always is and wolverine's
got as little patience as you'd probably expect but the end of the day that's why we should read
comics and i don't get why people get so serious about it because i will also say that i would
recommend pretty much anything that is going to help you get into comics at the end of the day
this is a fantastic medium spider-man's a great character these are just the ones i'd recommend
based on what i've read and i haven't had enough time on this earth to read absolutely every single
spider-man comic that's ever been released so [ __ ] it if you know you like wolverine and you
know you like spider-man why not give this a go and at the end of the day just have fun with it
make sure you're reading comics that you enjoy don't just follow the hype don't jump on the
bandwagons i've made that mistake so many times so if you're just getting into comics or just getting
into spider-man please learn from my mistakes and just make sure that you have a great time
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