Marvel Comics Unlimited!: Age of Apocalypse - Giant Crossover (Reading List)

This massive mid-1990s crossover event is one of the biggest events to ever occur in the Marvel Universe. The core story is that the son of Professor X, Legion, travels to the past to kill Magneto and fix the ongoing conflict between Magneto and both humanity and mutants. Unfortunately, Magneto was saved from death by Professor X, causing the timeline to collapse and instantly change, with Legion no longer existing and no person save time traveller Bishop aware of the consequences (or the “real” history).

There are many trade paperbacks in the AoA series, available at Amazon here.

A much more complete way to read the story is the hardback X-Men: Age of Apocalypse, but it retails for $125 (or $86.31 on Amazon), or you can enjoy the reading order below, assembled using resources from Amazon, Comic Book Herald and UncannyXMen.net.

We definitely have Uncanny XMen.net to thank for the unique understanding of which stories to read first inside the one-shot that starts the series, how the later (anniversary) issues factor in and so much more that adds fun to the story. Please read their post here for a detailed explanation of the crossover. At the bottom of this post is a complete listing of all the issues they’ve reported as relevant with hyperlinks to the Marvel Unlimited issues. Only a few are not available digitally at this point.

In my mind, the keep it simple listing of the story is the best approach to enjoying it, but this is just a tiny chunk of the issues seen as important to the more dedicated fans. Again, read the entire set found near the bottom of this post to get everything, including the 2005 additional stories.

Here’s my reading order: