Here's my after-the-fact "World War Hulk Reading Order".
I saw a reading order on another site (I don't remember where) that was broken down by page. It wasn't complete and too nit-picky for me. This is the order I store mine in:
World War Hulk Reading Order:
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- Daily Bugle (2006-Present) - #9
Daily Bugle announces upcoming WWH, Iron Man, etc.
- Iron Man (2005-Present) - #19
this is the battle with Iron Man
- Iron Man (2005-Present) - #20
follows immediately after battle with Iron Man
- World War Hulk: Front Line - #1
we see Hulk battling Iron Man at the end of this book without a
conclusion
we witness the conclusion to the Iron Man battle
- Irredeemable Ant-Man (2006-Present) - #10
Ant-Man is in the Hulk during the Iron Man battle
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #107
we see the Iron Man battle then Hulk beats up Hercules
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #108
Hulk has just finished punching on Hercules
- Ghost Rider (2006-Present) - #12
Ghost Rider comes face to face with the Hulk. Must be post
Iron Man Battle
- Ghost Rider (2006-Present) - #13
the face off between Ghost Rider and the Hulk continues
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #11
the Hulk's forces have landed on Earth
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #12
Heroes for Hire get on Hulk's space ship
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #13
Heroes for Hire are prisoners on Hulk's space ship
- World War Hulk: X-Men - #1
Hulk goes after Xavier. This could go before Ghost Rider.
Doesn't really matter.
- World War Hulk: X-Men - #2
Hulk continues his questioning of Xavier.
- World War Hulk: X-Men - #3
Hulk demolishes all X-Men and leaves.
- World War Hulk: Gamma Corps - #1
This could go most anywhere. It's an introduction to the
Gamma Corps
- World War Hulk: Gamma Corps - #2
Origins of Gamma Corps members.
- World War Hulk: Gamma Corps - #3
No time reference for this one. hulk battles Gamma Corps and gets
his neck snapped. Must be before arena.
- World War Hulk: Gamma Corps - #4
Hulk recovers from his broken neck. Beats Gamma Corps and
heads out (for Avengers battle?)
Battle against She-Hulk and the Avengers then destroys the
Fantastic Four
- Avengers: The Initiative - #4
Hulk has already beat up Samson and the rest
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #109
Hulk tells Renegades to go away and starts building arena
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#2
Hulk's forces are on Earth and the 24 hours is just about up
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#3
Hulk has already defeated the FF
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #110
Hulk hasn't begun his arena battles.
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #14
Heroes meet in arena. It is empty; must be before arena battles.
- Heroes for Hire (2006-Present) - #15
This continues immediately after 14.
- Avengers: The Initiative - #5
Hulk is obviously not busy with arena battles. He beats up Avengers
Shadow Initiative.
Hulk finishes arena. Dr Strange confronts him and gets his hands
crushed. Dr Strange summons Zom.
Hulk defeats Dr Strange/Zom. Arena battles begin. Sentry takes
flight.
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#4
We see some arena battles from crowd perspective.
- Marvel Spotlight: World War Hulk
Good time to have a Spotlight.
- World War Hulk: Gamma Files
May as well think about different Gamma characters at this point.
- Punisher: War Journal (2007-Present) #12
Side story. Punisher fights aliens and evacuates civilians from New
York.
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#5
We see Sentry enter the scene.
Battle between Sentry and Hulk and conclusion to WWH.
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #111
Kind of a recap. We see the battle between Dr Strange/Zom and
Hulk as well as the battles between Hulk and Sentry. Then the
conclusion.
- World War Hulk: Front Line -#6
Another recap from a different perspective. Also we see aftermath.
Now we are in the Aftersmash:
I put this in Aftersmash because it felt right.
- World War Hulk Aftersmash
Follows immediately soon after WWH #5.
- Incredible Hulk (1999-2008) - #112
Follows sometime soon after WWH #5.
- Incredible Hercules (2008-Present) - #113
These can just keep going in order...
- Incredible Hercules (2008-Present) - #114
This is the last Aftersmash for Incredible Hercules. (It only
says it's Part of Aftersmash on the variant cover.) #115 carries
on the fun, but it's strictly Herc and Cho now.World War Hulk Aftersmash: Damage Control - #1
This could be read right after Aftersmash (or while your reading
Incredible Hercules.)
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Damage Control - #2
This is next.
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Damage Control - #3
This one finishes up this mini (it got kinda silly.)
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound - #1
This could be read right after Aftersmash (or while your reading
Incredible Hercules and Damage Control.)
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound - #2
Follows immediately after #1.
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound - #3
Amazingly, this comes after #3.
- World War Hulk Aftersmash: Warbound - #4
Yup. This one's next!
- World War Hulk AfterSmash: Warbound - #5
Now, we're done.
I really enjoyed WWH and the Aftersmashes as well. Aren't comics cool?
If anyone thinks the reading order should be different or if I missed something, I'd love to hear it.
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