Gwenpool Reading Order

At one point, Marvel Comics had fun with Gwen Stacy on the covers of a certain number of issues, delivering reimaginations of the famous Spider-Man character (because Spider-Gwen looks so cool). One of them was on the cover of Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars #2 in June 2015. At that time, Gwenpool was not in any story, but she was already a popular character.

Like Deadpool, Gwenpool is a fourth-wall-breaking character. Gwendolyn Poole was introduced as a character from ‘the real world’ who knew that she was living in a Marvel comic book. She got her own costume and started to use her knowledge to fight crime, believing that her actions were pretty much without any consequences. Of course, she had no training and mostly improvised. Since then, her backstory was retconned to help her find a real place in the Marvel Universe. Recently, Gwenpool came out as an asexual icon!

Gwenpool Comics Reading Order

Gwendolyn Poole, aka Gwenpool, is quite a young character and has not yet too many comic book appearances under her belt yet, all things considered. You’ll find most of her comics adventures from her first series to the Gwenpool Strikes Back miniseries in a nice Omnibus (more than 1000 pages!).

• Gwenpool Omnibus
  Collects The Unbelievable Gwenpool (2016) #1-25; Rocket Raccoon And Groot (2016) #8-10; Champions (2016) #5; Edge Of Venomverse (2017) #2; West Coast Avengers (2018) #1-10; Superior Spider-Man (2018) #7-8; Gwenpool Strikes Back (2019) #1-5; Material From Howard The Duck (2015b) #1-3; Gwenpool Holiday Special (2015) #1, Gwenpool Holiday Special: Merry Mix-Up (2016) #1 And Secret Empire: Brave New World (2017) #1.

Gwenpool Solo Series

After her first appearance on the cover of Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars #2 made her famous (drawn by Chris Bachalo), Gwenpool needed a place to start and this was in Howard the Duck (vol. 6) #1. Don’t worry about finding this three-part storyline as I did, Marvel collected it in one issue, The Unbelievable Gwenpool #0 with the Gwenpool Holiday Special that followed the Howard the Duck storyline. All of this is in the first book collecting her first solo series written by Christopher Hastings – also the best comic book featuring Gwenpool.

• The Unbelievable Gwenpool: Believe It
  Collects The Unbelievable Gwenpool #0–4. You don’t need to track down Howard the Duck and other stuff, everything is in this TPB.
  • Rocket Raccoon & Groot Civil War II
    Collects Rocket Raccoon & Groot #7-10. During the Civil War II event (reading order here), Gwenpool appeared in issues #8-10.
• The Unbelievable Gwenpool: Head of M.O.D.O.K.
  Collects The Unbelievable Gwenpool #5–10.
  • Gwenpool Holiday Special: Merry Mix-Up
    After issue#8, you can read this special (also collected in volume 3: Totally in Continuity), then jump into Champions!
  • Champions Vol. 1: Change The World
    Collects Champions (2016) #1-5.  Gwen appeared in issues #4–5 and kind of decides to join the team by herself, explosions follow. Also, you don’t need to read issue #4, she’s just at the end with a little teasing for the next issue.
• The Unbelievable Gwenpool: Totally in Continuity
  Collects The Unbelievable Gwenpool #11–15 and the Holiday Special.
  • Secret Empire: Brand New World #1
    Set during Secret Empire (reading order), there’s a really short and optional story in that book.

• The Unbelievable Gwenpool: Beyond the Fourth Wall
  Collects The Unbelievable Gwenpool #16–20.
• Gwenpool, The Unbelievable: Lost in the Plot
  Collects The Unbelievable Gwenpool #21-25.

Other notable but out-of-continuity stories

• Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe Again
  Collects Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe Again #1-5. Gwenpool is part of #2-4.
• Edge of Venomverse #2
  After nearly being killed Gwen merges with the Venom Symbiote in the second issue of the event series. The story continues in Venomverse, but Gwenpool is only in issue #4 of the 5-part story.
• Not Brand Echh #14

West Coast Avengers

A bold new era begins for the mightiest heroes to ever live on the Pacific Coast. That means Hawkeye (your favorite one, Kate Bishop)! Hawkeye (the other one, Clint Barton)! America Chavez! Kid Omega! Gwenpool! And a guy named Fuse! This is in this run written by Kelly Thompson that Gwenpool found a baby land shark and named him Jeff!

• West Coast Avengers Vol. 1: Best Coast
  Collects West Coast Avengers #1-6.
• West Coast Avengers Vol. 2: City of Evils
  Collects West Coast Avengers #7-10.
  • Superior Spider-Man Vol. 2: Otto-Matic
    Collects Superior Spider-Man (2018) #7-12. In issues #7-8, Otto Octavius teamed up with the West Coast Avengers during War of Realms (Reading Order).

Gwenpool Retconned

Failing to see a future for Gwenpool as she was, Marvel launched a miniseries to retcon the character, offering her a new place in the Marvel Universe with the mutants. But for now, she mostly did cameos during the Hickman era.

• Gwenpool Strikes Back
  Collects Gwenpool Strikes Back #1-5.
  • M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games
    Collects M.O.D.O.K.: Head Games #1-4. Gwenpool guest-starred in #2-3, but really in #3.
• Love Unlimited Infinity Comic #43-47
  Digital Comic Series available at Marvel Unlimited.