Hi! Welcome to the first chapter of the Silver Age of Marvel comics!
This is the dawn of the superhero comics of Marvel, and there are so many amazing moments in these stories (and so many iconic characters first appear here, it’s crazy). Be aware though, that this is not my recommended starting point - I recommend starting in the modern age with the Prologue and when you feel like having a break from that you can go over here and have some old school fun. But of course, you do you!
If you have any feedback on this or any other part of the site, feel free to let me know in the comments :) //Tommy
Chapter 0ne: Assemble 1961 - 1966
1 Nov 1961
“The Fantastic Four”
1 Jan 1962
“The Man in the Ant Hill”
1 Jan 1962 - 1 Mar 1962
“The Skrulls from Outer Space”
“The Menace of the Miracle Man”
1 May 1962 - 1 Jul 1962
“The Coming of the Hulk”
“The Terror of the Toad Men”
1 May 1962 - 1 Jul 1962
“The Coming of the Sub-Mariner”
“Prisoners of Doctor Doom”
1 Aug 1962
“Spider-Man”
1 Aug 1962 - 1 Sep 1962
1 Sep 1962
“Captives of the Deadly Duo”
1 Sep 1962
“Return of the Ant-Man”
1 Sep 1962
“Banished to Outer Space”
1 Oct 1962 - 1 Nov 1962
“Prisoners of Kurrgo, Master of Planet X”
“Prisoners of the Puppet-Master”
1 Oct 1962 - 1 Nov 1962
“The Challenge of Comrade X”
“Trapped by the Protector”
1 Oct 1962 - 1 Nov 1962
“Trapped by Loki, the God of Mischief”
Journey into Mystery (1952) #85
“On the Trail of the Tomorrow Man”
1 Oct 1962 - 1 Nov 1962
“The Flaming Fury Strikes Back”
“Prisoner of the Wizard”
1 Nov 1962
“The Monster and the Machine”
1 Dec 1962
“Betrayed by the Ants”
1 Dec 1962 - 10 Jan 1963
“The End of the Fantastic Four”
“The Return of Doctor Doom”
1 Dec 1965 - 1 Jan 1963
1 Jan 1963 - 1 Feb 1963
1 Jan 1963 - 1 Mar 1963
1 Mar 1963
“The Chameleon Strikes”
1 Mar 1963 - 1 Apr 1963
10 Feb 1963 - 10 Mar 1963
1 Apr 1963
“Sandu, Master of the Supernatural”
10 Apr 1963
“Red Ghost and his Indescribable Super-Apes”
1 May 1963
“Duel to the Death with the Vulture” & “The Uncanny Threat of the Terrible Tinkerer”
10 May 1963
“Sub-Mariner, and the Merciless Puppet-Master”
1 Jun 1963
“The Mysterious Radioactive Man”
1 Jun 1963
“On the Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man”
1 Jun 1963 - 1 Jul 1963
“The Creature from Kosmos”
“The Terrible Traps of Egghead”
10 Jun 1963
“The Mad Thinker and his Awesome Android”
1 Jul 1963 - 1 Aug 1963
“The Wizard and Paste-Pot Pete”
& “Dr. Strange, Master of Black Magic”
“Fighting to the Death with the Asbestos Man”
& “Face to Face with the Magic of Baron Mordo”
2 Jul 1963 - 10 Aug 1963
10 Jul 1963 - 1 Sep 1963
“The Strangest Foe of All Time… Doctor Octopus”
“Nothing Can Stop… the Sandman”
1 Sep 1963
“X-Men”
1 Sep 1963
“The Coming of the Avengers”
1 Sep 1963
“Midnight on Massacre Mountain”
1 Sep 1963 - 1 Oct 1963
“The Icy Fingers of Jack Frost”
“The Crimson Dynamo”
10 Sep 1963 - 10 Oct 1963
“A Skrull Walks Among Us”
“Prisoners of the Pharoah”
1 Oct 1963 - 1 Nov 1963
1 Oct 1963 - 10 Nov 1963
“Marked for Destruction by Dr. Doom”
“Face to Face with the Lizard”
1 Nov 1963
“Challenged by the Human Cobra”
1 Nov 1963
“No One Can Stop the Vanisher”
1 Nov 1963
“Iron Man Battles the Melter”
10 Nov 1963
“The Mysterious Molecule Man”
10 Nov 1963
“The Space Phantom”
1 Dec 1963
1 Dec 1963 - 1 Jan 1964
“The Mysterious Mr. Hyde”
1 Dec 1963 - 1 Jan 1964
“The Human Top”
10 Dec 1963
“The Hate Monger”
10 Dec 1963 - 1 Jan 1964
1 Jan 1964
“Beware of the Blob”
1 Dec 1963 - 10 Jan 1964
10 Jan 1964 - 10 Feb 1964
“The Return of the Mole Man”
“The Master Plan of Doctor Doom”
1 Feb 1964 - 1 Mar 1964
“The Black Knight Strikes”
“Trapped by the Porcupine”
1 Feb 1964 - 1 Mar 1964
1 Feb 1964 - 1 Apr 1964
“The Return of Zarrko, the Tomorrow Man”
Journey into Mystery (1952) #101-102
“The Enchantress and the Executioner”
10 Feb 1964
“The Hands of the Mandarin”
1 Apr 1964
“The Origin of Daredevil”
1 Apr 1964
10 Apr 1964 - 1 May 1964
“Turning Point”
10 Jan 1964 - 1 Mar 1964
“Sub-Mariner”
1 Mar 1964 - 1 May 1964
“The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants”
1 May 1964
10 Apr 1964 - 10 May 1964
“The Hulk vs. the Thing”
10 Apr 1964 - 10 May 1964
“The Crimson Dynamo Strikes Again”
“The Black Widow Strikes Again”
1 May 1964 - 1 Jun 1964
“On the Trail of the Human Top”
“The Coming of the Magician”
1 Jun 1964 - 1 Jul 1964
“The Cobra and Mr. Hyde”
1 Jun 1964 - 10 Aug 1964
“The Evil Menace of Electro”
“The Owl, Ominous Overlord of Crime”
1 Jun 1964 - 10 Jul 1964
“The Menace of… Mysterio”
“The Green Goblin”
10 Jun 1964
”The Search for Sub-Mariner”
1 Jul 1964
“Sub-Mariner Joins the Evil Mutants”
1 Jul 1964
“On the Trail of the Amazing Spider-Man”
10 Jul 1964
“Masters of Evil”
10 Jul 1964
”We Have to Fight the X-Men”
1 Aug 1964
1 Aug 1964
“When the Grey Gargoyle Strikes”
1 Aug 1964
“Kraven, the Hunter”
“Duel with the Daredevil”
10 Aug 1964 - 1 Sep 1964
“The Uncanny Unicorn”
“Hawkeye, the Marksman”
10 Aug 1964 - 1 Sep 1964
1 Sep 1964
“The Return of the Blob”
10 Aug 1964 - 1 Nov 1964
“It Started on Yancy Street”
“The Final Victory of Dr. Doom”
Fantastic Four Annual (1963) #2
“The Dreaded Diablo”
“Death of a Hero”
1 Oct 1964 - 1 Nov 1964
1 Oct 1964 - 1 Dec 1964
“The Sub-Mariner Must Be Stopped”
& “Mordo Must Not Catch Me”
“Pawns of the Deadly Duo”
& “The Domain of the Dread Dormammu”
10 Oct 1964
“Killgrave, the Unbelievable Purple Man”
1 Nov 1964
“Unus, the Untouchable”
10 Oct 1964 - 10 Nov 1964
1 Nov 1964 - 1 Dec 1964
“Every Hand Against Him”
10 Oct 1964 - 10 Jan 1965
Notes: Read only the Hank and Janet stories here, we’ll get to the huge Hulk arc later in the guide.
“The Beasts of Berlin”
“Now Walks the Android”
“Ant-Man versus the Wonderful Wasp”
“The Gangsters and the Giant”
1 Dec 1964
“Side-by-Side with Sub-Mariner”
10 Jan 1965
10 Dec 1964
“Spider-Man”
10 Feb 1965
1 Jan 1965 - 10 Feb 1965
“The Coming of the Scorpion”
“Where Flies the Beetle”
1 Jan 1965 - 1 Feb 1965
1 Feb 1965 - 1 Mar 1965
1 Mar 1965
“The Coming of Ka-Zar”
10 Feb 1965 - 10 Mars 1965
“The Castle of Count Nefaria”
10 Feb 1965 - 10 Apr 1965
Notes: Read only the Hank and Janet stories here, we’ll get to the huge Hulk arc later in the guide.
“When Attuma Strikes”
“The New Giant-Man”
“The Menace of Madam Macabre”
1 May 1965 - 1 Sep 1965
“The Triumph of Magneto”
“Where Walks the Juggernaut”
1 Apr 1965 - 1 May 1965
“Behold! A Distant Star”
“Defeated by the Frightful Four”
10 Apr 1965 - 10 May 1965
“Now, by My Hand, Shall Die a Villain”
“The Old Order Changeth”
10 Apr 1965
Notes: This takes place during the middle of Avengers #16, before the change of the team.
“In Mortal Combat with Sub-Mariner”
1 Mar 1965 - 1 Aug 1965
Notes: This takes place during the middle of Avengers #16, before the change of the team. Don’t read the second story further than #115.
“The Stronger I Am, the Sooner I Die”
Journey into Mystery (1952) #114-115
“The Trial of the Gods”
Journey into Mystery (1952) #116-117
“To Kill a Thunder God”
1 Jun 1965 - 1 Oct 1965
“A Blind Man Shall Lead Them”
“The Brutal Betrayal of Ben Grimm”
10 Oct 1964 - 10 Jan 1965
Notes: Now it’s finally time to read the Hulk story in these issues.
“The Incredible Hulk”
1 Mar 1965 - 1 Jul 1965
Notes: You can skip the Human Torch and Thing story in these issues.
“The Defeat of Dr. Strange”
1 May 1965 - 1 Aug 1965
“When Titans Clash”
& “The Red Skull Strikes”
“If I Fail, a World is Lost”
& “The Fantastic Origin of the Red Skull”
“Where Walks the Villains”
& “Lest Tyranny Triumph”
“If a Man be Mad”
& “The Sentinel and the Spy”
10 May 1965 - 10 Jun 1965
Notes: Only read the Hank and Janet stories at this point.
“The Hidden Man and his Rays of Doom”
“Peril from the Long-Dead Past”
10 May 1965 - 1 Aug 1965
“Spider-Man goes Mad”
“Captured by J. Jonah Jameson”
“The Man in the Crime-Master’s Mask”
10 Mar 1964 - 10 Jul 1965
Notes: Now it’s finally time to read the Hulk story in these issues.
“The Humanoid Horde Strikes”
10 Jun 1965
“Four Against the Minotaur”
10 Aug 1965 - 10 Mar 1966
Notes: Skip the Sub-Mariner story in #77 and just read the Hulk. The Sub-Mariner arc ends in #76 and you shouldn’t start the next until later.
1 Sep 1965 - 1 Nov 1965
Notes: Just read the first story of these issues.
“In My Hand… This Hammer”
1 Aug 1965 - 1 Jul 1966
Notes: Read both S.H.I.E.L.D. and Doctor Strange #135-144 and then read Doctor Strange only in the last two issues.
1 Oct 1965
“The Wedding of Sue and Reed”