Tuesday, July 30, 2019

Essential Black Panther Reading Order

TLDR Summary

  • Fantastic Four #52-53
  • Panther's Rage
  • Priest Run, volume 3
  • Hudlin Run, volume 4 and 5
  • Doom War
  • Liss Run, Man Without Fear/Most Dangerous Man Alive
  • Fantastic Four #607-608
  • Hickman's New Avengers, Infinity, Time Run's Out, Secret Wars
  • Coates Run, volume 6 and 7


Detailed Reading Order

Origin Story
  • Fantastic Four #52-53

Panther's Rage
  • Jungle Action #6-18

Priest Run 
  • The Client (Black Panther, vol 3, #1-5)
  • Enemy of the State (Black Panther, vol 3, #6-12)
  • The End (Black Panther, vol 3, #13-15)
  • Uptown (Black Panther, vol 3, #16-17)
  • Killmonger's Rage (Black Panther, vol 3, #18-20)
  • Killmonger's Reign (Black Panther, vol 3, #21-25)
  • Sturm Und Drang (Black Panther, vol 3, #26-30)
  • Seduction of the Innocent (Black Panther, vol 3, #31-33)
  • Gorilla Warfare (Black Panther, vol 3, #34-35)
  • The Once and Future King (Black Panther, vol 3, #36-37)
  • Return of the Dragon (Black Panther, vol 3, #38-40)
  • Enemy of the State II (Black Panther, vol 3, #41-45)
  • Saddles Ablaze (Black Panther, vol 3, #46-47)
  • The King is Dead (Black Panther, vol 3, #48-49)

Hudlin Run 
  • Who is the Black Panther (Black Panther, vol 4, #1-6)
  • House of M (Black Panther,vol 4, #7)
  • Wild Kingdom (X-Men #175-176, Black Panther, vol 4, #8-9)
  • Bad Mutha (Black Panther, vol 4, #10-13)
  • Bride of the Panther (Black Panther, vol 4, #14-18)
  • Civil War (Black Panther, vol 4, #19-25)
  • Four the Hard Way (Black Panther, vol 4, #26-30)
  • Little Green Men (Black Panther, vol 4, #31-34)
  • Back to Africa (Black Panther, vol 4, #35-38)
  • See Wakanda and Die/Secret Invasion (Black Panther, vol 4, #39-41)

Hudlin/Mayberry Run
  • Deadliest of the Species (Black Panther, vol 5, #1-6)
  • Power (Black Panther, vol 5, #7-11)
  • Doom War #1-6

Liss Run
  • The Man Without Fear (Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #513-518)
  • The Man Without Fear: Fear Itself (Black Panther: The Man Without Fear #519-524)
  • The Kingpin of Wakanda (Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive #525-529)

Re-Powered
  • Fantastic Four #607-608

Hickman/New Avengers Run
  • Avengers, vol 5, #1
  • Everything Dies (New Avengers, vol 3, #1-6)
  • Infinity #1-6
  • Infinity (New Avengers, vol 3, #7-12)
  • Avengers, vol 5, #28 
  • Other Worlds (New Avengers, vol 3, #13.INH-17)
  • Avengers, vol 5, #29
  • Avengers, vol 5, #34
  • Perfect World (New Avengers, vol 3, #18-23)
  • Time Runs Out Vol 1 (Avengers, vol 5, #35-37; New Avengers, vol 3, #24-25) [not in NA #24, Av #36]
  • Time Runs Out Vol 2 (Avengers, vol 5, #38-39; New Avengers, vol 3, #26-28)
  • Time Runs Out Vol 3 (Avengers, vol 5, #40-42; New Avengers, vol 3, #29-30)
  • Time Runs Out Vol 4 (Avengers, vol 5, #43-44; New Avengers, vol 3, #31-33)
  • Secret Wars #1-9

Coates Run
  • A Nation Under Our Feet (Black Panther, vol 6, #1-12)
  • Avengers of the New World (Black Panther, vol 6, #13-18, #166-171)