Quote Originally Posted by tinyJazz View Post
On a kinda related note, I'm still trying to get my head around the Marvel US/Marvel UK story order though. If I want to read everything in order, which reprints volumes should I be getting? sorry if this has been answered before.
The IDW's Classic trades (regular and UK versions) will (eventually) have everything and be pretty much close to reading order.

Their US reprints do some odd things, like put the GiJoe crossover and Headmasters limited series right at the end instead of when they happen in continuity, but are otherwise in straight forward order.

Their UK reprints are in publication/reading order and have good explanations where the UK stories fit in connection with the US stories. (Avoid the Best of Uk collections through, go for the big volumes James Roberts has helped put together)

The best thing to do is read the Marvel G1 stories based on the order they were published in the UK comics.

Or you can read the entire US run and then go back and see the "hidden tales" from the UK that fit between the gaps of the US.

Because the UK had to fit with US continuity there's nothing in the UK books that's particularly spoilt by reading the US run first. There's only two times that come to mind in the US comics (near the end when Furman takes over) that events in the UK book are hinted at.