Reddit reviews Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection Book 1 (Ultimate Spider-Man (Graphic Novels))

Ultimate Spider-man is a good starting point as it was a modern update of the mythos and a complete reboot. Its where Miles is originally introduced before the Ultimate Universe was ended and Miles was brought over to Marvels main line continuity (616).

You could read from the very beginning with Peters origin and stories, or skip ahead to Miles' series with this

Or, you could just start with Miles's first series in 616 by Bendis. First trade is this one

I'm not sure what reading order you looked at (I'm sure it would probably be fine), but this book is a good start for Miles imo

That is the novel cover right?

That is Miles Morales.

His story starts here: https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection/dp/0785197788/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1505736656&sr=8-3&keywords=miles+morales

That is in the Ultimate Universe, which is now gone though. He has moved over to the main marvel universe though.

That story starts here essentially: https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Man-Miles-Morales-Vol-1/dp/0785199616/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1505736656&sr=8-2&keywords=miles+morales

cracks knuckles


For Aquaman skip almost everything and start with the four Geoff Johns volumes from the new 52. These are called vols 1-4 and have the subtitles of The Trench, The Others, Throne of Atlantis, and Death of a King. They are excellent. I can also recommend the two Jeff Park volumes that come after (5 and 6). I can't speak for anything after that.

Green Arrow, the easiest spot to start is with Green Arrow Year One and then read Rebirth forward. There are a few other good runs(Kevin Smith, Metzler, Winnick, Lemire) but Year One and rebirth will be the easiest place to jump in.

The last three are the most complicated:

Superman has different places to start depending on what you are looking for.

If you want to read about the various Origin's superman has had then you can read: Superman for all seasons, Superman:Birthright, Superman: Secret Origin, Superman: American Alien (A greg miller rec).

If you want to read Superman as an established hero, there are two good places to jump on board: Geoff Johns run that starts with Last Son of Krypton is really good. Otherwise, start with Superman:rebirth which is a really great run so far.

And for some just overall good Superman stories: Kingdom Come, Superman:Secret Identity, All-Star Superman.

Batman...Oi.

Do you want to read older books or newer books?

For older books you have the always timeless Batman Year One, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Batman:The Long Halloween and it's sequel Dark Victory.

If you want to read more recent books, then it just depends how far back you want to start reading.

You can go all the way back, you can go back to the 90's and read Knightfall, you can go back to the early 00's and read Cataclysm/No Man's Land, or you can jump in 2006's Batman and Son when they introduced Damien Wayne. To do that, you'll just read the Batman books by Grant Morrison.
If you want to get got up to modern Batman the fastest, just start with the New 52 run as other's have mentioned that starts with Batman vol 1: The Court of Owls.


Spider-Man, you have to decide what kind of stories you want. Do you want Peter Parker in High School? Then read Ultimate Spider-man. It's a seperate universe from the normal marvel universe, but it is really good. It also leads to Miles Morales who is, in my humble opinion, the best Spider-Man ever.

Do you want to read crazy Peter Parker in his late 20's becoming a High School teacher? Read the run that starts here:
https://www.amazon.com/Amazing-Spider-Man-Ultimate-Collection-Book/dp/0785138935/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502988383&sr=8-1&keywords=spider-man+by+jms

Do you want to start with Peter as an adult, but Single? Jump in with Spider-Man: Big Time.
I personally, think Big time is the best place in the normal continuity to start. Dan slott wrote some good stories and it feels the most like the pop culture Spider-Man people know.

Lastly two things. If you want to read about Miles Morales, you can just start with the Miles Morales Ultimate Collection:
https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection/dp/0785197788/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1502988492&sr=1-3&keywords=miles+morales

But if you really want a cool story, there is a Spider from another universe named Spider-Gwen who takes the spider-man story you know and twists it on it's head:
https://www.amazon.com/Spider-Gwen-Vol-0-Most-Wanted/dp/0785197737/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502988539&sr=8-1&keywords=Spider-Gwen+0
Spider-Gwen and Miles are my personal favorites.

And let us know if you want to read cool comics that aren't about Superheroes. Because that is where the really great writing is.

For most comics if you want print graphic novels, go with Amazon. If you want print issues, find a local store. If you want digital, go to Comixology.com which does not have the problem of if the given book or issue is in print.


The important thing to remember is that a lot of us comic readers that started before the movies made them mainstream, didn't have internet resources, so we just jumped into random stories that sounded interesting and filled in our knowledge gaps as we went forward. Even now I don't know everything and never will. And I've been reading comics for over ten years.

Start with his first series in Ultimate Spider-man, and marvel has recently re-released it:

https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection/dp/0785197788/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=miles+morales+comics&qid=1568477894&sr=8-2

well if your child loves Miles Morales this is where they started

List of collected editions.

It's a very long run (approx. 200 issues if you count the retitled volumes like Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man and Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man). There are a lot of volumes and many of them are probably out of print so you might have trouble finding new copies of all of them. The 14 hardcovers are probably your best bet, or you can get the 6 Premier Hardcovers that cover the first half and then finish it off with whatever regular hardcovers contain the stories that weren't covered in the PHs. The trades might be harder to find.

EDIT:

Here's trade lists for Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man, which is the first Miles Morales volume. The second, Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man, was collected in two regular sized trades, and was packaged along with Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man in this Ultimate Collection series, which is three volumes long.

Which big book do I start off with if I want to start reading about Miles Morales? There are so many options...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0785197788/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?qid=1456957173&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=ultimate+comics+spiderman&dpPl=1&dpID=51h8tw0nWdL&ref=plSrch

I started with the straczynski-Run, which i really liked, but I think they are hard to get right now.

Spider-Man: Big Time Ultimate Collection

The Big Time Collections 1-4 are pretty good and directly lead into superior Spider-man.

Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection Book 1 (Ultimate Spider-Man (Graphic Novels))

Miles Morales Ultimate Collection 1-3 are really good. But there are spoilers for the original Ultimate Spider-man.

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Spider-Verse

Spider-verse is fun, but probably confusing for newer readers.

• Runaways Vol. 1
  
  http://marvel.com/comics/issue/15061/runaways_2003_1
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Runaways-The-Complete-Collection-Volume/dp/0785185585
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Runaways-Volume-1-Pride-Joy/dp/0785157328
  
  
• Superman: Secret Identity
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Superman-Secret-Identity-Kurt-Busiek/dp/1401204511
  
  
• Ultimate Spider-Man
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection-Vol/dp/0785124926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459087368&sr=8-1&keywords=ultimate+spiderman
  
  http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection/dp/0785197788/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1459087368&sr=8-5&keywords=ultimate+spiderman
  

Worldwide is the relaunched series after the Macroevent "Secret Wars" Marvel launched in 2015. Be advised that the trades and omnibuses for Hickman's Fantastic Four are mostly sold out. This is a list of the individual issues to read digitally. The reading order for that (massive, MASSIVE story) is:

-Fantastic Four#570-574

-Fantastic Four #575-578

-Fantastic four #579-582

-Fantastic Four #583-588

-FF #1-5

-FF #6-11

-Fantastic Four #600-604

-FF #12-16

-FF #17-23

-Fantastic Four#605.1, 605-611

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Now. There is this thing called [the Ultimate Universe] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_Marvel). It was supposed to be a universe where superheroes started appearing in the early 2000s with a more modern twist. Ultimate Spider-Man was one of those few. If you want the most complete experience, read this series as well as it gives some insight into the Ultimate Universe, which comes into play very late in Hickman's run, aside from being awesome. The big paperbakcs which I am about to list are only up to Volume 6 and #71, and the series goes all the way into #160. There's the normal sized paperbacks, but these are more convenient. Get any version you want.

-[Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1] (https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection-Vol/dp/0785124926/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484517908&sr=8-1&keywords=Ultimate+Spider-Man+ultimate+collection)

-[Vol. 2] (https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection-Vol/dp/0785128867/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F5BA8S6HG5EZ97T08T0A)

-[Vol. 3] (https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection-Vol/dp/0785149198/ref=pd_bxgy_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F5BA8S6HG5EZ97T08T0A)

-[Vol. 4] (https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection-Book/dp/0785184376/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F5BA8S6HG5EZ97T08T0A)

-[Vol. 5] (https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection-Book/dp/0785192891/ref=pd_sim_14_4?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F5BA8S6HG5EZ97T08T0A)

-[Vol. 6] (https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection-Vol/dp/0785196323/ref=pd_sim_14_5?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F5BA8S6HG5EZ97T08T0A)

The series after that is based on....another character that I don't wanna spoil. He appears in Secret Wars and is a great character. It spins out of #160 and I suggest it be read after reading that issue.

-[Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1] (https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection/dp/0785197788/ref=pd_sim_14_10?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=F5BA8S6HG5EZ97T08T0A)


-[Vol. 2] (https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection/dp/0785197796/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GK1R3JSPAJJN1WHJVZZE)


-[Vol. 3] (https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection/dp/078519780X/ref=pd_bxgy_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GK1R3JSPAJJN1WHJVZZE)

These Avengers books by Hickman set in this universe are small but crucial to a character in Secret Wars:

-[Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates Vol. 1] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/ULTIMATE-COMICS-ULTIMATES-BY-HICKMAN-TP-VOL-01/JUN120729)

-[Vol. 2] (https://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Comics-Ultimates-Jonathan-Hickman/dp/0785157190/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=)

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-[Avengers Vol. 1: Avengers World] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/AVENGERS-TP-VOL-01-AVENGERS-WORLD/NOV130721)

-[New Avengers Vol. 1: Everything Dies] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/NEW-AVENGERS-TP-VOL-01-EVERYTHING-DIES/DEC130780)

-[Avengers Vol. 2: The Last White Event] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/AVENGERS-TP-VOL-02-LAST-WHITE-EVENT/JAN140797)

-[Infinity] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/INFINITY-TP/JUN140730)

Note that Avengers Vols. 3, 4 and New Avengers Vol. 2 are already collected in the Infinity paperback

-[New Avengers Vol. 3] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/NEW-AVENGERS-TP-VOL-03-OTHER-WORLDS/DEC140956)

-[Avengers Vol. 5: Adapt or Die] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/AVENGERS-TP-VOL-05-ADAPT-OR-DIE/DEC140957)

-[Avengers Vol. 6: Infinite Avengers] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/AVENGERS-TP-VOL-06-INFINITE-AVENGERS/APR150933)

-[New Avengers Vol. 4: A Perfect World] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/NEW-AVENGERS-TP-VOL-04-PERFECT-WORLD/APR150934)

-[Avengers: Time Runs Out] (http://www.instocktrades.com/TP/Marvel/AVENGERS-TIME-RUNS-OUT-HC/JAN160924)

-[Secret Wars] (http://www.bookdepository.com/Secret-Wars-Jonathan-Hickman-Esad-Ribic/9781846536892?ref=grid-view)

Sorry, I might have misunderstood you! If you're looking for Miles' origin (and not worried about current storylines) you want the very beginning with Ultimate Comics Spider-Man [your first link] (https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Morales-Ultimate-Spider-Man-Collection/dp/0785197788/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484838972&sr=8-1&keywords=miles+morales).

If you want to just jump in, you can start with the other one. My link with all the titles is in release order, so check the Comixology links to confirm titles and trade covers and then you can pick up the big physical books. :-)

I'm not sure if the Gwen trades contain the bios, sorry.