Stuff to read on Marvel Unlimited
Jul. 17th, 2014 11:54 pmMarvel Unlimited is Marvel's subscription-based digital comics service. It has an astonishing range of back issues available (as well as more recent issues) in an all-you-can-eat format.
What are the indispensable runs at Marvel? In rough order of importance, here are my top 10:
(I'm trying not to repeat characters or creators or else easy inclusions would be Ditko/Lee's Doctor Strange in Strange Tales; Gerber's Defenders and Man-Thing; Stern/Romita's Amazing Spider-Man; or Lee/Romita's Amazing Spider-Man. I'm also very partial to Peter Gillis's run on Doctor Strange, which spanned the final issues of the first Dr. Strange series, the 1980s Strange Tales split-book, and the first few issues of the second Dr Strange series. The Moench/Gulacy/Day/et al. Master of Kung Fu absolutely should be in the list, but it's not available through Marvel Unlimited.)
What are the indispensable runs at Marvel? In rough order of importance, here are my top 10:
- Ditko/Lee: Amazing Spider-Man #1-38, Annual #1
- Kirby/Lee: Fantastic Four #1-51, Annual #1-2
- Claremont/Cockrum/Byrne: X-Men, Giant-Sized #1, #94-150.
- Gerber/Brunner/Colan: Howard the Duck #1-27, #29, Annual #1, and the 2 short stories from Giant-Sized Man-Thing #4 and #5
- Simonson (w/Buscema): Thor #337-372
- Starlin's Warlock: Strange Tales #178-181, Warlock #9-15, Avengers Annual #7, Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2
- Englehart/Brown et al.: Avengers #105-141, Giant-Size Avengers #2-4
- Miller (w/Jansen) Daredevil #168-191
- Steranko's Nick Fury: Strange Tales #151-168, Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D #1-5,
- Priest/various artists, Black Panther #1-62
(I'm trying not to repeat characters or creators or else easy inclusions would be Ditko/Lee's Doctor Strange in Strange Tales; Gerber's Defenders and Man-Thing; Stern/Romita's Amazing Spider-Man; or Lee/Romita's Amazing Spider-Man. I'm also very partial to Peter Gillis's run on Doctor Strange, which spanned the final issues of the first Dr. Strange series, the 1980s Strange Tales split-book, and the first few issues of the second Dr Strange series. The Moench/Gulacy/Day/et al. Master of Kung Fu absolutely should be in the list, but it's not available through Marvel Unlimited.)