Comics

By today’s standards, these three television shows might make many of us shake our heads in bewilderment, but they are absolutely instrumental in establishing these characters as household names. And even today, they still retain that classic camp that is such a great part of superhero comics. This is the timeline of Batman ’66. What’s...

One of the more memorable collections of animated shows, these more recent treatments of Marvel superheroes gave us one of the more cohesive animated superhero universes in recent times. This is the Marvel Animated Universe from the 2010s.

Following the Convergence event and DC You, Rebirth started a new timeline that brought in the Watchmen. Read more about DC’s exciting new direction.

What started as a small, gritty realization of one of DC’s minor characters, the Green Arrow, has turned into a huge television universe. This is the Arrowverse episode viewing order (as well as a few books and comics), putting it all together.

This is the first major universe created around the X-men, featuring Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. This X-men Cinematic Universe is easily responsible for bringing the X-men to the public consciousness.

What started with a small, ambitious, B-character film in 2008’s Iron Man, has expanded to something so much larger and epic than anyone could have every imagined. This is the Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline.

One of the most critically-acclaimed animated shows of all time, the series was strong enough to warrant a re-boot years later.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been associated with comics since the beginning, even though they are more commonly associated with animated television. More recently, IDW began publication of their own line of TMNT comics, and that body of work constitutes one chronology. This is the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IDW timeline.

Men in Black is one of those rare franchises that was taken over by a medium that it did not originate in. It started out with just a few comic issues, many of which are nearly impossible to find today, but the films essentially took over and made the franchise its own. This is the...

Before the hugely successful television show, there was the hugely successful comic-book series. This Walking Dead timeline brings together that complete comic list and adds other canonical stories within the comics universe, such as the Telltale video games.