The Order

The reading order of Ultimate Marvel comics and trade paperbacks is up for an awful lot of discussion and many exhaustive and comprehensive lists are available online elsewhere. However, through my reading of them, I have decyphered my own version of the order, shown below. I should, at this point, raise the fact that there is a clear difference between a reading order and a chronology, especially as many issues frequently flit back and forth in time and some jump entire years in a couple of panels, some issues take place at the same time and, very rarely, some issues may contradict others. So, to stop any confusion, the list will simply deal with the best order in which the trade paperbacks are read.

1. Ultimate Iron Man – (collects Ultimate Iron Man #1-5)
2. Ultimate Iron Man II – (collects Ultimate Iron Man II #1-5)
3. Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra – (collects Ultimate Daredevil and Elektra #1-4)
4. Ultimate Elektra – Devil’s Due (collects Ultimate Elektra #1-5)
5. Ultimate Fantastic Four – Volume One: The Fantastic (collects Ultimate Fantastic Four #1-6)
6. Ultimate Fantastic Four – Volume Two: Doom (collects Ultimate Fantastic Four #7-12)
   
7. Ultimate Spider-Man – Volume One: Power and Responsibility (collects Ultimate Spider-Man #1-6).
8. Ultimate Spider-Man – Volume Two: Learning Curve (collects Ultimate Spider-Man #7-13)
9. Ultimate X-Men – Volume One: The Tomorrow People (collects Ultimate X-Men #1-6)
10. Ultimate Marvel Team-Up
    
11. Ultimate Marvel Team-Up
12. Ultimate Marvel Team-Up
13. Ultimate Spider-Man
14. Ultimate X-Men
15. Ultimate Spider-Man
16. Ultimate X-Men
17. The Ultimates – Volume One: Super-Human (collects The Ultimates #1-6)
18. Ultimate Adventures
19. Ultimate Spider-Man
    
20. The Ultimates – Volume Two: Homeland Security (collects The Ultimates #7-13)