Reddit reviews Secret Wars

• (The Original) Secret Wars
  
• Emperor Doom
  
• Fantastic Four: Unthinkable
  
• Books of Doom

> I remember my cousins telling me about Dr Doom. He always seemed really cool, what do you know about him?

hahah EVERYTHING. Here is my recommendations for Doom

Starting point:

• Books of Doom is a modern re-telling of the origins of Dr. Doom. You will get his tragic childhood, his path to greatness, and his eventual rise to ruler of Latveria.
  
  
• Fantastic Four #246-247 "This Land is Mine": Now that you have seen the origin and backstory for Dr. Doom see all that he has done for his country and what it would be like without his gentle guiding hand
  
  Must Reads:
  
  
• Doomwar: Dr. Doom wages a war against Black Panther. Behold the planning, genius, and power of Dr. Doom as he out plans one of Marvels most genius heroes. This story also gives an in depth view of why Dr. Doom believes he is doing the right thing and why all heroes that oppose him are the true villains.
  
  
• Emperor Doom: Have you ever wondered what would happen if the bad guys won? This story will show you just how evil and terrible it is when Doom takes over the world....oh wait..you mean it's not bad at all? Wow it turns out Dr. Doom is a man of his word, (as always) and might just be doing more good for the world than expected.
  
  
• Secret Wars: Besides just being an awesome book you can also witness Dr. Doom's genius as he plays people like pawns and confronts a god in his home turf.
  
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• Fantastic Four 67-70 and Fantastic Four 500: the "Unthinkable" arc: This story will show the full power of Dr. Doom's magical abilities and to what lengths he will go to punish the Fantastic Four. This is a great battle between Reed and Dr. Doom.
  
  
• Fantastic Four 562-569: "Marquis of Death": This story has to be the longest revenge ever sought in fictional history. Dr. Doom's master returns to see how his star pupil is doing and he isn't pleased. This story will strike fear in the enemies of Doom when you see both the extent of his power and the extreme resolve and willpower of Dr. Doom

Second to last arc of the 90's Animated Series. As others have said, this is an adaptation of the original Marvel event: Secret Wars. This was episodes 9-11 of the show's fifth and final season. When the three part Secret Wars arc ended, it led directly into the two-part series finale (which was a better Spider-Verse than Slott's actual Spider-Verse story).

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I’m assuming you probably heard or read a lot of these already but their worth repeating on the chance that you haven’t.

• The first four volumes of Superman/Batman are probably the best stand alone team up stories those two characters probably ever had. Between the four they deal with the kind of stories that only superhero books have done well. Things like multiple universe, massive crossovers, time travel, and introductions of legacy characters. They are also just damn good reads.
  
  
• Kingdom Come is another story that really could only be done well in a superhero book. If you haven’t read it then you really need too.
  
  
• Volume One and Volume Two of DC: The new Frontier are timeless superhero stories that really exhibits what makes them so special.
  
  
• All Star Superman shows what a modern version of a Silver Age story would like. This has the special sauce that made comics good back in the 60s and 70s and its one of the best Superman stories ever told.
  
  
• Superman: Red Son best example of an Elseword or Alternate universe story. Really good.
  
  
• Marvel’s Secret Wars should be required reading. Kind of like how Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mockingbird is in public schools. It’s a corner stone for comics.
  
  
• Crisis On Infinite Earths: If Secret Wars is Catcher in the Rye then Crisis is War and Peace. It is a tuff read for a new reader but it is masterpiece in terms of craft, storytelling, and the weaving of continuity.
  
  
• Identity Crisis was mentioned before but I’ll repeat it because it is the superhero story the deals with issues typically never addressed in superhero books. It is controversial for some of the things that happen but ultimately very good book.
  
  
• Superman: Our Worlds at War is probably a bit difficult to find at the point but it is a massive phone book size trade that show what a good multi author/artist collaborative crossover event can be like.
  
  
• The Long Halloween and Dark Victory are two timeless Batman stories. I don’t care for Batman comics but these books are so good that even I like them.
  
  
• Astro City just started back up again so a new printing of the first story should be just around the corner. It is a celebration of everything that make superhero comics great. Keep an eye out for this one.
  

See, there's two Secret Wars, right? I found this one that has no author listed (at least easily) and then when I was in Barnes & Noble there was a different Secret Wars that looked more up to date, and I'm guessing is the 2015 version.

So I did a little digging and saw that there was a old secret wars and then secret wars II and then your list when ends with the recent secret wars. So I ordered the first secret wars

I understand why you are weary to ask for specific books, but there are some books that are important to the marvel universe or comics in general which would be pretty safe bets.

For Instance:

• Marvels, which is the history of the marvel universe through the eyes of a reporter for the Daily Bugel. Shows events from the Namor and the original Human Torch, to Captain America, to the X-Men, to Spiderman, to Galactus. Really cool depiction of the marvel universe.
  
• The Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos tries to take over the universe. Very well recieved event that the 3rd and 4th Avengers movies will be "based" on.
  
• Secret Wars, much older than the other books so much campier style, but it was (I believe) the first big crossover book from any publisher. Its also where spiderman gets the black suit that turns into venom and great moments throughout.
  
• Annihilation (All three books), Was a relaunch of Marvel's Cosmic line and sets up for all of the cosmic books for many years to come. Very cool book. Can read with no prior knowledge whatsoever.
  
• Watchmen, Good book, very important to the comic medium itself. Published by DC but not set in that universe.
  
• The Dark Knight Returns, Again published by DC but very important to Batman and comics in general. And who doesn't love Batman.
  
• Any charcter has at least one trade that is good standalone and is important to the character, but without knowing your preferences I can't recommend specifics
  
  Even if these arn't your absolute favorite books, they are relevant to the history and there is a pretty high chance that you will want to read them at some point.

If nothing else, get this Punisher TPB. It's not a superhero type comic, but it's excellent work.

If you enjoy the superhero type stuff, take heed of the other suggestions here and pick up stuff on the big crossover events. I'd suggest even going as far back as Secret Wars, but the newer stuff gives you more immediate insight into the current events. The crossovers show lots of different characters and can help you find specific titles to check out in case the characters intrigue you.

Even so, check out stuff from other publishers. My first suggestion would be Transmetropolitan.

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