Two of the greatest obstacles that comics have in reaching readers are exposure and cost. Fortunately, the internet has provided remedies for both. There are now a plethora of comic books that can be read in full online, completely legally (at least, 99% of them) and at absolutely no cost. Here I have endeavored to collect as many of these as possible, now totalling over 300 full issues and stories, in one place.
Whether you have been meaning to try a new title, or if you've never read a comic in your life, there's still something here for everyone. Follow a link or two or three. Some comics that I especially recommend carry an asterisk, but I haven't come close to reading everything here. Maybe you'll find something you enjoy.
If you know of more comics I could include, or discover that any of these links have gone bad, please e-mail me .
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DC | Marvel | Image | Dark Horse | Oni | Alias | Newsarama Daily | Vertigo/Wildstorm/ABC | Independents | Non-Fiction
Last Updated January 1, 2008
- Added nearly twenty Newsarama-hosted issues to the Image and Independents sections.
DC Comics - May require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Vertigo Comics
Wildstorm Comics
Image's Online Comics
Oni Press
Blue Monday: The Kids are Alright #1
Borrowed Time #1
Courtney Crumrin & the Night Things #1
Damned #1
Free Scott Pilgrim
Hopeless Savages: B-Sides
Leading Man #1
Little Star #1
Local #3
Love as a Foreign Language #1
Love Fights #1
Maintenance #1
Northwest Passage #1
Polly & the Pirates #1-2
Queen & Country
Wasteland #1
Whiteout #1*
Whiteout: Melt #1
Dark Horse E-Comics
Newsarama Daily
Alias Comics
Tokyopop
Warp Graphics
Elfquest: Graphic Novel #1: Fire & Flight
Elfquest: Hidden Years #1
Elfquest: Dreamtime #1
Elfquest: The Jury
Elfquest: Rogue's Curse
Xanth: Return to Centaur
Buffy: The Vampire Slayer Ecomics
Golden Age Public Domain Comics
Marvel Comics - Go to Marvel Digital Comics for unlinked issues.
4 #1, 25
A-Next #1
Agents of Atlas #1
Alpha Flight #1
Amazing Fantasy #1
Amazing Fantasy #16
Amazing Fantasy - Mastermind Excello #15
Amazing Spider-Girl #1
Amazing Spider-Man #30, 86, 206, 265, 509, 515
Amazing Spider-Man #509 Amazing Spider-Man #516 Anita Blake #1
Annihilation: Silver Surfer #1
Ares #1
Astonishing X-Men #1
Astonishing X-Men Saga #1
Avengers #500 Avengers #51, 147
Avengers (2nd) #1
Avengers and Power Pack Assemble! #1
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes #1
Black Panther #1 Black Panther #14, 19
Black Panther (1977) #1
Blade #1
Books of Doom #1 Cable/Deadpool #1, 7, 30
Captain America #1*
Captain America #3 Captain America #7, 18, 22, 400
Captain America #29 Champions #1
Civil War: Front Line #1
Civil War: X-Men #1
Claws #1
Contest of Champions #1
Criminal #1 *Daredevil #16 Daredevil #82, 88
Daredevil: Father #1 Daredevil: Redemption #1 Decimation: House of M - The Day After #1
Defenders #1
District X #3 Doctor Strange: The Oath #1
Eternals (Vol. 1) #1
Eternals (Vol. 2) #1
Exiles #84
Fantastic Four #514 Fantastic Four #334, 527, 538
Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan #1
Fantastic Four: First Family #1
Fantastic Four: The End #1
Franklin Richards: Son of a Genius in Tons of Fun
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1, 5
Fury: Peacemaker #1
Generation M #1
Ghost Rider #1
Guardians #1 Heroes for Hire #1
Incredible Hulk #78 Incredible Hulk #84, 103
Infinity Gauntlet #2
Invaders #1 Iron Man #86 Iron Man #225
Last Hero Standing #1-3, 5
Last Planet Standing #1
Loki #1 Madrox #1 Magician Apprentice #1
Marvel 1602: New World #1
Marvel Age Fantastic Four Tales #1 Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four #9, 13
Marvel Knights Spider-Man #4 Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #1, 13, 17, 21
Marvel Adventures The Avengers #5
Marvel Age Spider-Man #1
Marvel Boy #1
Marvel Knights Spider-Man #4
Marvel Romance Redux: Love is a Four-Letter Word #5
Marvel Team-Up #15, 19
Marvel Zombies #1
Mary Jane #1 Mary Jane: Homecoming #1
Moon Knight #1
New Avengers: Illuminati
New Excalibur #1, 8
New Mangaverse #1
New Mutants #8
New Thunderbolts #1
New Thunderbolts #5 New Warriors #1
New X-Men #28
Nextwave #1
Origin #1
Powerless #1 Punisher vs. Bullseye #1
Punisher: Red X-Mas #1
Punisher War Journal #1
Red Prophet #1
Runaways (Vol. 1) #1*, 7, 13
Runaways 2 #1
Secret Wars #1, 8
Sensational Spider-Man #23, 28
Sentinel #7
Sentry #1
Shanna: The She-Devil #1 Savage She-Hulk #1
She-Hulk #1, 8
She-Hulk #5 She-Hulk (Vol. 2) #1
Silver Surfer #1
Spider-Girl #22, 39
Spider-Man 2099 #2
Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Year One #1 Spider-Man and Power Pack #1
Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane #1, 6, 11
Spider-Woman: Origins #1
Squadron Supreme #1
Starbrand #1
Stoker's Dracula #3
Strange #1 Strange Tales #101, 110
Thor #131, 283, 292
Thor #80 Ultimate Fantastic Four #7 Ultimate Nightmare #1
Ultimate Spider-Man #1, 72, 86, 97
Ultimate Spider-Man #60 Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #1
Ultimate X-Men #46 Ultimate X-Men #50 Ultimate X-Men #55 Ultimate X-Men #66
Ultimate X-Men #72
Uncanny X-Men #448 Uncanny X-Men #455 Uncanny X-Men #451, 466
Underworld #1
Universe X #1
Warlock #1 Weapon X: Days of Future Now #1
Web of Spider-Man #1
What If: Magneto and Professor X Had Formed the X-Men Together?
What If: Sgt. Fury #14
Wolverine (Vol. 2) #1, 17, 20, 31, 36, 42
Wolverine: Origins #6
X-23 #1
X-23 #2 X-Factor #1, 7, 8, 13
X-Force #1 X-Men #49, 104
X-Men: Apocalypse/Dracula #1
X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1
X-Men: Fairy Tales #1
X-Men: First Class #1
X-Men: Kitty Pryde: Shadow & Flame #1
X-Men: Phoenix: Endsong #1
X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong #2 X-Men: The 198 #1
X-Men: The End #1 X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl #1
XIII Chapter #1
Young Avengers #1 Young Avengers #7
Non-Fiction
The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation
Action Philosophers - By Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey.
The Mathematical Cartoons of Larry Gonick - Technically strips, but from the creator of the Cartoon History books.
My Very First Flag - Jeff Smith's contribution to DC's 9/11 tribute book.
Social Security Comics - Six public service comics issued by the Social Security Administration in the 1950s and 1960s.
Tales From the Public Domain: Bound By Law? * - An educational graphic novel on copyright, fair use, and the public domain.
Independents
The Agency #1 - Top Cow.
Atomika #1 and Atomika #4 - Russian superheroics.
Captain Confederacy #1-10 - Five pages a week of the alternative universe hero.
Devi #1 - Virgin Comics.
Drafted #1 - Devil's Due.
Fathom: Kiani #1 - Aspen Comics.
Feather #1-5 - A fantasy comic by the creator of Marvel's "Eden's Trail."
Free Scott Pilgrim #1
Fillmore! - An original story based on the late, lamented Disney series.
First Born #1 - Top Cow Comics, by Ron Marz and Stjepan Sejic.
Girl Genius #1 - Feminism meets steampunk, courtesy of Phil Foglio. Read the entire first *volume* online for free.
Gon - The silent adventures of a cute little T-Rex.
"Heroes" Graphic Novels - From the hit NBC TV series.
John Woo's 7 Brothers #1 - Warning: mature subject matter and language.
Jungle Girl #0 - Dynamite Entertainment.
Kabuki #1-4 - New pages added daily.
Licensable Bear TM - From the marketing genius of Nat Gertler.
The Lone Ranger #3 - Part three of the legendary lawman's origin.
The Matrix - Numerous
visions of the Wachowski brothers' universe, from such esteemed folks as Neil Gaiman and Bill Sienkiewicz.
Max Hamm, Fairy Tale Detective in "Just Right" *
Mr. Scootles #1
Owly - The adventures of Andy Runton's cute little owl.
Aw Nuts!
Bee Nice
Breakin' the Ice
Gone Swimmin'
Hangin' Up to Dry
Helping Hands
Let's Go Fly a Kite
Missin' You
Splashin' Around
Proximity Effect #1-2 - Top Cow.
Ramayan 3392 A.D. #1 - Virgin Comics.
Red Sonja #1 - Dynamite Entertainment.
Season of the Witch #1
Shrugged #1 - by Michael Turner. Aspen Comics.
Sidekick: Super Summer Sidekick Special #1 - by Paul Jenkins.
Snake Woman #1 - Virgin Comics.
Soulfire #1 - by Jeph Loeb and Michael Turner. Aspen Comics.
The Spirit * - Will Eisner's origin of his classic pulp creation.
Supernatural Law - Beware the creatures of the night - They have lawyers!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Vol. I) #1-7 - Also includes the one-shots Donatello #1, Mike #1, Raphael #1, and Fugitoid #1.
Western Tales of Terror #3: Fool's Ransom - A short story by Jay Faerber.
Witchblade #80 , #81 , #82 , #83 , #84 , and #85 - The entire "Witch Hunt" story arc, by Ron Marz and Mike Choi.
Zot: Hearts & Minds - Scott McCloud's science hero returns in this online-only adventure.
If you're interested in reading more current comics, you can check out the first 4 pages of numerous brand-new issues at Mile High Comics' FirstLook , which maintains an archive of previews from the last six weeks.
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