Fear Itself Marvel Reading Order | Trade & Crossover List (2024)

We Have Nothing to Fear… But OMG SIN HAS A THOR HAMMER

Fear Itself is all about Odin’s greatest failure, with Thor-like Hammers falling to earth and possessing all those chosen worthy. The Marvel Universe really gets it handed to them, marking the end of several notable heroes for at least 12 seconds at a time.

In the history of the Marvel age of events, Fear Itself is likely to go down as an outlier. It’s the first major event following the Bendis-led arc that began with Avengers Disassembled and more or less ends with Siege. It’s also theonlyMarvel event named after a famous historical quote, even though at the time Marvel was promising more of these types of events in the future. The fact that Marvel stopped withFear Itselfwill probably provide some indication as to the success and critical reception of the event.

Nonetheless, there are some good ideas presented here, confronting both heroes and readers with their greatest fears and the impact they can have on our society.

It’s worth noting before you begin that Fear Itself is followed by a mini-event entitled Shattered Heroes. This essentially just deals with the aftermath of Fear Itself and an issue by issue reading order has been included.

The reading orders below include first a collection of all relevant trades, followed by an issue by issue reading order list. With the trade reading orders, I generally recommend knocking out the primary issues first, but I realize it’s often more fun to jump around issue by issue. With these orders you can do both.

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Fear Itself Trade Reading Order

Fear Itself (Book of the Skull #1, Fear Itself #1-#7)
Invincible Iron Man: Fear Itself (#504-#509, Shattered Heroes: Iron Man)
Fear Itself: Spider-Man (#1-#3, Fear Itself: FF, Fear Itself: The Worthy)
Journey Into Mystery: Fear Itself (#622-#636)
Fear Itself: The Home Front (#1-#7)
Fear Itself: Thunderbolts (#158-#162)
Avengers: Fear Itself (Avengers #13-#17, New Avengers #14-#16)
Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt (#1-#6)
Fear Itself: Avengers Academy (#15-#20)
Fear Itself: Wolverine/New Mutants (#1-#3, New Mutants #29-#33)
Fear Itself: Secret Avengers (#12.1, #13-#15, Fear Itself: Black Widow #1)
Fear Itself: Hulk/Dracula (#37-#41, Hulk vs. Dracula #1-#3)
Fear Itself: Heroes For Hire (#6-#12)
Fear Itself: Ghost Rider (#1-#5)
Fear Itself: Black Panther, Man Without Fear (#519-#523)
Fear Itself: Deadpool/Fearsome Four (Deadpool #1-#3, Fearsome Four #1-#4)
Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Force/The Deep (#1-#3, The Deep #1-#4)
Uncanny X-Men: Fear Itself (#540-#544)
Fear Itself: The Fearless (#1-#12)
- Technically we’re hitting Shattered Heroes range here.
Fear Itself: Shattered Heroes (Cap, Iron Man, Thor one-shots- #7.1, #7.2, #7.3)

Issue by Issue Fear Itself Reading Order List

Fear Itself: The Book of the Skull #1

Fear Itself: Sin’s Past #1

Fear Itself #1

Fear Itself: The Home Front #1

Journey Into Mystery #622

Invincible Iron Man #503

Fear Itself: Spider-Man #1

Fear Itself: The Worthy #1

Fear Itself #2

Journey Into Mystery #623

The Avengers #13

Herc #3

Thunderbolts #158

Fear Itself: The Home Front #2

Invincible Iron Man #504

Invincible Iron Man #505

Fear Itself: Deadpool #1

Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt #1

Fear Itself: Wolverine #1

Fear Itself: Wolverine #2

Secret Avengers #13

Iron Man 2.0 #5

Iron Man 2.0 #6

Fear Itself #3

Herc #4

Fear Itself: FF #1

Alpha Flight #1

Fear Itself: Youth in Revolt #2

Thunderbolts #159

Avengers Academy #15

Shattered Heroes Reading Order List

Avengers #18

Fear Itself: The Fearless #1

Avengers Academy #21

Fear Itself: The Fearless #2

Journey Into Mystery #631

Battle Scars #1

Incredible Hulk #2

Avengers #19

Avengers Academy #22

Fear Itself: The Fearless #3

Invincible Iron Man #510

The Mighty Thor #8

Defenders #1

Fear Itself: The Fearless #4

Avengers Academy #23

Journey into Mystery #632

Battle Scars #2

Invincible Iron Man #511

Avengers #20

Fear Itself: The Fearless #5

The Mighty Thor #9

Captain America #6

Avengers Academy #24

Defenders #2

Journey into Mystery #633

Captain America #7

Battle Scars #3

Avengers #21

Invincible Iron Man #512

The Mighty Thor #10

Journey into Mystery #634

Invincible Iron Man #513

The Mighty Thor #11

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We Have Nothing to Fear… But OMG SIN HAS A THOR HAMMER

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