MAXIMUM CARNAGE

Multimedia tie-ins aren’t just a function of shared movie universes. One of Marvel’s most inexplicably beloved summer crossovers is “Maximum Carnage,” a bloated mash-up of symbiotes and the bigger Marvel Universe, and it was eventually converted into a (justifiably) beloved beat-em-up video game, which you can grab for your vintage SNES for about $40. This game rocks—go buy it.

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House of X #2

House of X #2 was arguably the biggest continuity shift in decades of reboots and relaunches in the X-Men universe. But it was good, and that means it’s going to hang around in collectors’ minds. Copies of this issue are a steal at $15, and if you snag a variant, you can make bank getting it graded.

The Clone Saga

Spider-Man is kind of the gold standard for event comics that mess with his continuity. Here we get the start of a widely loathed story that attempts to rework his continuity.