DC Reading Orders
Welcome to the DC Universe. We will try to help you navigate the history of DC Comics and provide you with several options on how to tackle the enormous number of comics. If you are interested in a certain event head over to the Event section and start reading. If you have a particular character you would like to read about head to the Character section and choose one of the many Character Reading Orders. If those options don’t seem complete enough for you and you want to read thousands of comics covering the breadth of the DC Universe head to the DC Master Reading Order and dig in.
Starting Points
DC wants you to read their comics. To help facilitate this they have tried to make easy jumping-on points. There are several good starting points to begin reading DC comics.
If you want the most complete look at the DC Universe there is really only one place to start, way back at the beginning. Honestly this isn’t recommended for everyone. If you choose this you will experience all the events and learn about all the characters but it comes at the cost of reading thousands and thousands of issues. If this is what you want to do we have you covered. Just head to the DC Master Reading Order and start reading.
An alternative to reading everything in the Master reading order would be to choose the characters you are interested in and reading their individual Character Reading Orders up to one of the other Starting Points and then continuing on from there.
Crisis
One of the unique features of the DC Universe is the Crisis events. These are events with major consequences for the entire DC multiverse and usually there is a new status quo after each event.