Marvel Cinematic Universe - Timeline

Well that's annoying. Agents of Shield aired one new episode tonight, and is now off for another month. Seriously, ABC? We just had 3 weeks of repeats/other crap, and now this? Lame.

I'll update the timeline for it once I've downloaded it and watched it on my PC, due to all the re-treading on the episode itself.
 
I appreciate Roey Barda bringing up the idea of this all inclusive list of official MCU tie-in comics. Great questions. I have some as well.

Captain America - The First Avenger #1-2
Iron Man - I Am Iron Man #1-2
Iron Man 2 #1-2
Thor #1-2
Captain America - The First Avenger: First Vengeance #1-4
Iron Man 2 - Public Identity #1-3
Iron Man 2 - Agents of SHIELD #1
The Avengers - Prelude: Fury's Big Week #1-4
The Avengers - Prelude: Black Widow Strikes #1-3
Iron Man 3 - Prelude #1-2
Thor - The Dark World: Prelude #1-2
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (AoS Twitter page)
Captain America - Homecoming #1
Captain America - The Winter Soldier: Infinite #1
Guardians of the Galaxy - Prelude #1-2
Guardians of the Galaxy - Infinite #1

I agree with all of these up to the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (AoS Twitter page), as well as Captain America - Homecoming #1, Captain America - The Winter Soldier: Infinite #1, and Guardians of the Galaxy - Infinite #1.

All of the other comics clearly have the "Official MCU tie-in comic" stamp (or were later released in a collection with the MCU stamp and told to us were canon). I noticed that the CA:TWS Prelude collection does not have the stamp, at least in this image. Has anyone seen any other images, or the actual comics themselves, to see if they have the official MCU stamp?

And the Agents of SHIELD monkey comic, while it can fit into the story... I want to point out that the list on here has been very selective in making sure that only those comics with the official stamp are considered canon / in continuity with the films, television show, and one-shots.

Here is the exchange between wyokid and Will Corona Pilgrim. Captain France laters tells us that the comic, The Avengers - The Avengers Initiative, among many others, is inspired canon aka not continuity with the rest of the MCU. Yet Fred Van Lente tweets that is IS. Unless I'm missing something?

I think that sticking with those comics that have the official MCU stamp is the safest bet. I would love to hear others opinions on the issue, and again, I may just be missing something obvious about all of this. Thanks!
 
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Aaah, glad some other are interested ^^

@freshmaker: Fred Van Lente is (mainly) a comic book writer, whereas Will Corona Pilgrim (MCU creative, research and development manager) is one of the big head of the MCU, helping mainly to create and keep the cohesive universe we know now. He knows, like Kevin Feige, what will come, what direction they will take for characters, etc.

There are 3 Canons (based on Will C. Pilgrim quotes): the MCU-Canon, and the two other non-canon (Inspired (the comics which can be in at the time where they are released, but don't work with future movies (like for example, the story of Thor and Malekith in Captain America & Thor: Avengers, and Agnostic (the video games and their comics)).

When Will C. Pilgrim (or other MCU big heads) ask writers like Fred Van Lente, Peter David, Christopher Yost, etc, to create a new MCU comics, the writers don't know if their work will be canon or not. That's why they think all they do is canon.

An interesting fact is that Will Pilgrim was thanked for the Amazing Spider-Man movie comics..

I've just asked Will for the AoS drawing, and the infinite comics; but nothing appear on his twitter yet.
 
So, if I want to buy all the MCU canon comics... should I buy the TPB or just each comic individually?
(I havn't read any of them yet)
 
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Roey Barda said:
So, if I want to buy all the MCU canon comics... should I buy the TPB or just each comic individually?
(I havn't read any of them yet)
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I advice you to take the tpb because there are few errors in the individual comics.

For example, in Fury's Big Week #1, the date when Cap is fighting HYDRA soldiers is 1943. It was corrected to 1945 in the tpb.

So if you don't want to become crazy, prefer the tpb ^^

But if you are a hard fan like me, take all versions lol
 
Captain France answered perfectly. There's really nothing else I can add, at least until Mr. Pilgrim responds concerning the Infinite comics.

As for the AoS one-page comic, again, there's no reason not to include it, in terms of continuity. And I have a feeling we may see the hologram monkey addressed in the future. Even if not, it still fits.
 
Thanks for the response, Captain France. Looking forward to hearing what Will Pilgrim tweets back!

Currently released MCU comics in TPB:

Avengers: Road to Marvel's The Avengers
Iron Man - I Am Iron Man #1-2
Iron Man 2 - Public Identity #1-3
Iron Man 2 - Agents of SHIELD #1
Captain America - The First Avenger: First Vengeance #1-4

Marvel's The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week
The Avengers - Prelude: Fury's Big Week #1-4

Marvel's the Avengers: Black Widow Strikes
The Avengers - Prelude: Black Widow Strikes #1-3

Marvel's Iron Man 3 The Movie Prelude
Iron Man 2 #1-2
Iron Man 3 - Prelude #1-2

Marvel's Thor: The Dark World Prelude
Thor #1-2
Thor: The Dark World - Prelude #1-2

Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier Prelude
Captain America - The First Avenger #1-2


Anything I'm missing?
 
How come "Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier Prelude" doesn't have an MCU stamp?
(And thanks again for your answers)
 
That's also one of my questions about the Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier Prelude TPB, Roey Barda. Why doesn't it have the MCU stamp? We know that the single issue Captain America: The First Avenger Adaptation #1-2 both had the stamp, and they are included in the TPB. Perhaps the image on amazon is not the actual cover image for the TPB?

The Wikipedia page has many comics that are not MCU official comics. The Collection editions list has the 6 collected editions that I posted above, as well as:

Iron Man: I Am Iron Man, which includes the many of the comics that are not official MCU canon, as well as Iron Man: I Am Iron Man #1-2 (also found in Road to Marvel's Avengers).

Captain America: First Vengeance, which includes Captain America: First Vengeance (also found in Road to Marvel's Avengers).

The Avengers Initiative, which includes two unofficial stories.

Also, DIrishB, the reason I think that the monkey AoS comic should not be included is because it does not carry the Official MCU stamp. I think that some of these stories, whether they be novelizations, video games, or comics not carrying the official stamp on them, could fit in the MCU continuity, that is not reason enough to include them. Is there another reason that I'm missing? Is it because the monkey comic came from the official AoS twitter page? That was the only other reason I could think of to possibly include it, and even then, it still doesn't meet the requirement of having the stamp, which (imo) is reason enough not to include it.
 
I'm having a headache :(
This is pissing me off, why can't Marvel just realese an official list of the canon comics? *sigh*
 
freshmaker said:
Thanks for the response, Captain France. Looking forward to hearing what Will Pilgrim tweets back!

Currently released MCU comics in TPB:

Avengers: Road to Marvel's The Avengers
Iron Man - I Am Iron Man #1-2
Iron Man 2 - Public Identity #1-3
Iron Man 2 - Agents of SHIELD #1
Captain America - The First Avenger: First Vengeance #1-4

Marvel's The Avengers Prelude: Fury's Big Week
The Avengers - Prelude: Fury's Big Week #1-4

Marvel's the Avengers: Black Widow Strikes
The Avengers - Prelude: Black Widow Strikes #1-3

Marvel's Iron Man 3 The Movie Prelude
Iron Man 2 #1-2
Iron Man 3 - Prelude #1-2

Marvel's Thor: The Dark World Prelude
Thor #1-2
Thor: The Dark World - Prelude #1-2

Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier Prelude
Captain America - The First Avenger #1-2


Anything I'm missing?
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How come "Captain America - Homecoming" and "Captain America - The Winter Soldier: Infinite" are not in any of them?
 
Captain America - The Winter Soldier: Infinite is in the Winter Soldier Prelude TPB. Not sure about the Homecoming issue.

I did not add those on the list because we are still working on figuring out if those comics are official MCU canon / have the stamp.
 
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But according to Wikipedia there are 9 TPB http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_tie-in_comics#Collected_editions
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True, but CA-TFA First Vengeance is in two of those.

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That's also one of my questions about the Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier Prelude TPB, Roey Barda. Why doesn't it have the MCU stamp? We know that the single issue Captain America: The First Avenger Adaptation #1-2 both had the stamp, and they are included in the TPB. Perhaps the The Avengers Initiative, which includes two unofficial stories. Also, DIrishB, the reason I think that the monkey AoS comic should not be included is because it does not carry the Official MCU stamp. I think that some of these stories, whether they be novelizations, video games, or comics not carrying the official stamp on them, could fit in the MCU continuity, that is not reason enough to include them. Is there another reason that I'm missing? Is it because the monkey comic came from the official AoS twitter page? That was the only other reason I could think of to possibly include it, and even then, it still doesn't meet the requirement of having the stamp, which (imo) is reason enough not to include it.
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It doesn't feature the MCU stamp, but it was only a one-page comic that didn't include a cover, so that's likely why.



I should point out that if it appears to take place in the MCU I include them initially, at least until it's confirmed whether it's canon or not. So it's possible Homecoming and the CA and GotG Infinite comic may not be canon. Until we find out for sure I include them for completeness' sake.
 
Ok, so updated for "All Hail the King" and AoS episode "T.R.A.C.K.S.".

The AoS episode was a huge pain in the butt to place chronologically. I'm pretty sure its accurate but I plan on re-watching it once the DVDs come out for the season so I can double check.

If anyone is up for double checking my placements it'd be greatly appreciated.
 
This isn't confirmed by Marvel, but a reliable source claims MCU Phase 3 will consist of:

Ant-Man
Captain America 3
Thor 3
Dr. Strange
The Avengers 3

According to this source Guardians of the Galaxy 2 isn't in development...yet. Once it's released (and likely makes a lot of money), I'm sure they'll squeeze a GotG sequel into Phase 4.

And no Black Panther. :(
 
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This isn't confirmed by Marvel, but a reliable source claims MCU Phase 3 will consist of:

Ant-Man
Captain America 3
Thor 3
Dr. Strange
The Avengers 3

According to this source Guardians of the Galaxy 2 isn't in development...yet. Once it's released (and likely makes a lot of money), I'm sure they'll squeeze a GotG sequel into Phase 4.

And no Black Panther. :(
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Hmm when I first read this, I thought it was like, these ones are confirmed there may be more. Maybe that's not the case. But hey I can dream. It would be cool to have 3 new heroes instead of 2. But 2 isn't bad. Plus, they'll be introducing new side characters in the sequels too right?
 
Hmm, in my opinion:

Phase 2:
2014-04: Captain America: The Winter Soldier
(2014-05: The Amazing Spider-Man 2)
2014-08: Guardians of the Galaxy
2014-09: Agents of SHIELD - Season 2 (ABC)
2014-09: Agent Carter - Season 1 (ABC)
2015-05: Avengers: Age of Ultron

Phase 3:
2015-07: Ant-Man
2015-09: Daredevil (Netflix)
2015-09: Aka Jessica Jones (Netflix)
(2016-04: The Amazing Spider-Man 3)
2016-05: Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (or Thor: Ragnarok)
2016-07: Thor: Ragnarok (or Guardians of the Galaxy 2)
2016-09: Iron Fist (Netflix)
2016-09: Luke Cage (Netflix)
2017-05: Captain America 3 (or Doctor Strange)
2017-07: Doctor Strange (or Captain America 3)
2017-09: The Defenders (Netflix)
(2018-04: The Amazing Spider-Man 4)
2018-05: New Avengers

Phase 4:
2018:07: Black Panther

The dates not in bold are by me of course, and the titles are also not official.
I would put Black Panther for the first Phase 4 movie to calm the fan's hunger.
 
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