Arguably the stand-out character from Marvel’s 2099 titles from the early ’90s, Miguel O’Hara wore a new costume and almost-defied the very thing that defined the original Spider-Man. The world of 2099 proved to be a corrupt, corporate-led world and Spider-Man 2099 stood against it! But under the pen of writer Peter David, things would never be as black and white as they first seemed!
While our 2099 WORLD OF TOMORROW reading order covers the future incarnations of Spider-Man, the Punisher, Doctor Doom and others, this reading order purely focuses on the original chronology of Miguel O’Hara – made famous by the incarnation appearing in the ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ film from 2023. But the comics version is very different!
Must Reads: Story arcs in bold in the Core List or marked with a ✔ in the Full Reading Order are must-read stories from this time period, along with any key related stories and often-forgotten tales that are worth a look.
Anthology Issues: When an issue contains multiple stories, the relevant story is denoted with square brackets. For example, [2/5] refers to the second story of the five stories in that issue, so you don’t need to read the other four.
Chronology: Every appearance of Spider-Man 2099 from the original Earth-928 reality from this period is included in chronological order, laying out their timeline rather than just the order the issues were released.
Spoilers: The issue/story overviews may include spoilers, so be warned!
Additional Note: While I’ve noted each of the four primary titles here as the first appearances of each character, Marvel previewed the first eight pages of Spider-Man 2099 in Amazing Spider-Man #365. This technically makes that ASM issue his first appearance.
Want to keep it simple? Here’s the core reading order without story descriptions, page-by-page breakdowns – just the stories:
- Spider-Man 2099 #1-10
- 2099 Unlimited #1 [1/2]
- Spider-Man 2099 #11
- Spider-Man 2099 Special #1 [1/3]
- 2099 Unlimited #2 [2/3]
- Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #12-14
- Captain Marvel (1999) #27-30
- 2099 Unlimited #3 [2/3]
- Spider-Man 2099 #21
- Spider-Man 2099 #15-16
- Thor Corps #3
- Ravage 2099 #15
- X-Men 2099 #5
- Doom 2099 #14
- Punisher 2099 #13
- Spider-Man 2099 #17-23
- Spider-Man 2099 Annual #1
- Ghost Rider 2099 #7
- 2099 Unlimited #9 [2/4]
- 2099 Unlimited #10 [2/3]
- Spider-Man 2099 #24-26
- Spider-Man Special #1 [3/3]
- Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man
- 2099 Unlimited #8 [2/3]
- Spider-Man 2099 #27–31
- 2099AD #1
- Spider-Man 2099 #32-41
- Doom 2099 #33
- Spider-Man 2099 #43-44
- Spider-Man 2099 #45-46
- Fantastic Four 2099 #8
- 2099: World of Tomorrow #1-8
These back-up stories reveal key moments in Miguel O’Hara‘s childhood, long before he became Spider-Man. Rather than reading these first, I’d recommend reading them as you his each of the issues they’re featured in as you read the main storyline as they contain major spoilers. Some spoilers may also be included below:
| Must Read | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances |
| Spider-Man 2099 #18 [2/2] (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #19 [2/2] (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #20 [2/2] (1994) Showing incredible potential, young Miguel O’Hara is sent to the Alchemax School for Gifted Youngsters; he meets Tyler Stone for the first time, unaware Tyler is his true biological father; Miguel takes a shine to fellow student Xina Kwan and clashes with bully Kron Stone. 1st appearance: Xina Kwan | |
| Spider-Man 2099 #22 [2/2] (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #23 [2/2] (1994) Miguel O’Hara is repeatedly bullied by Kron Stone; Miguel learns Kron is Tyler Stone’s son. | |
| Spider-Man 2099 #26 [2/2] (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #27 [2/2] (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #28 [2/2] (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #29 [2/2] (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #30 [2/2] (1995) George O’Hara demands Tyler Stone should make his son apologise for attacking Miguel; Nancy Stone makes it clear to Conchata O’Hara that she knows about her husband’s affair with her; Miguel takes a stand against Kron when he threatens Xina Kwan; Miguel runs away from school. | |
| Spider-Man 2099 #32 [2/2] (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #33 [2/2] (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #34 [2/2] (1995) Miguel O’Hara returns to the Alchemax School and demands something be done about Kron Stone; going against Tyler Stone’s wishes, Headmistress Angela Daskalakis decides to expel Kron. | |
| Spider-Man 2099 #38 [2/2] (1995) Tyler Stone comes to respect Miguel O’Hara and tells him he’ll be wathcing Miguel in the future. |
| Must Read | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances | Event / Crossover |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #1-10 (1992-1993) Miguel O’Hara‘s boss, Tyler Stone, drugs him with the highly addictive Rapture, forcing him to use one of his Alchemax experiments on himself as a cure; Miguel’s efforts are sabotaged and his DNA merges with that of a spider, transforming him into Spider-Man; Alchemax send Venture and the Specialist to apprehend Spider-Man’ the injured Spider-Man plummets into Downtown where he clashes with the Vulture; a number of Thorites begin dressing as Spider-Man as a form of worship; Miguel reaches a turning point as he decides what kind of Spider-Man he wants to be. 1st appearance: Spider-Man/Miguel O’Hara, Avatarr (unnamed, in shadow), Dana D’Angelo, Sgt Rico Estevez, Fenris Gang, Hikaru-Sama, Lyla, Karyn ‘Kasey’ Nash, Conchata ‘Connie’ O’Hara, Gabriel O’Hara, George O’Hara, Raff, the Specialist, Tyler Stone, the Throwbacks, Venture, Winston, Alchemax, Church of Thor, Downtown, the Public Eye, Stark-Fujikawa, Earth-928 | |
| 2099 Unlimited #1 [1/2] (1993) Spider-Man battles Mutagen, a geneticist with shapeshifting abilities intent on wiping out anyone and everyone with a genetic deformity. | ||
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #11 (1993) Spider-Man is pursued by a specially-enhanced Public Eye agent; Tyler Stone makes moves on Dana D’Angelo while Miguel is busy as Spider-Man. 1st appearance: Dr Jordan Boone, Thanatos (unnamed), Siege, SIEGE Unit | THE RISE OF THE HAMMER |
| Spider-Man 2099 Special #1 [1/2] (1995) Spider-Man battles the hideously mutated Man-Spider. | ||
| 2099 Unlimited #2 [2/3] (1993) Spider-Man defends a scientist whose work is threatened by Alchemax agents. |
| Must Read | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances | Event / Crossover |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #12-14 (1993) Thanatos takes Tyler Stone and Dana D’Angelo prisoner in return for use of the Virtual Unreality program, knocking scientist Jordan Boone into the VU portal in the process; Spider-Man rescues Boone and pulls a man called the Net Prophet from the portal; Net Prophet saves Spider-Man from Thanatos. 1st appearance: Synthia Food-Corp New identity: Justice/John Tenson of Earth-148611 as Net Prophet | THE RISE OF THE HAMMER |
| ✔ | Captain Marvel #27-30 (2002) Thanatos breaks out of Virtual Unreality; Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) & Starfox of Earth-616 arrive in the year 2099 in pursuit of Thanatos, allying with Spider-Man (Miguel O’Hara); Thanatos sends Spider-Man and Captain Marvel into the future Earth-9200, leading to a fight with the future Hulk (Bruce Banner, now calling himself the Maestro); when Thanatos is defeated, Spider-Man and Captain Marvel are returned to their own time before the Maestro can kill them. | |
| 2099 Unlimited #3 [2/3] (1992) Spider-Man has a rematch with Mutagen. | ||
| Spider-Man 2099 #21 (1994) The Maryjanes gang come into conflict with Spider-Man in Downtown. | ||
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #15 (1994) Miguel O’Hara and Dana D’Angelo take a tour of Valhalla when Thor and Heimdall arrive, announcing the demise of false heroes. 1st appearance: BloodSword, Heimdall, Thor/Cecil McAdam | THE RISE OF THE HAMMER |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #16 (pp.1-8) (1994) Miguel O’Hara is hurled from Valhalla and saves himself with his Spider-Man powers. | THE FALL OF THE HAMMER |
| Thor Corps #3 (1993) Ellene Gorko transports Thor (Dargo Ktor of Earth-8710) to Earth-928 where Spider-Man mistakes him for one of the ‘gods’ who attacked him on Valhalla, attacking him until he escapes the timeline | ||
| ✔ | Spider-Man #16 (pp.9-22) (1994) Ravage 2099 #15 (1994) X-Men 2099 #5 (1994) Doom 2099 #14 (1994) Punisher 2099 #13 (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #17 (1994) Spider-Man, Ravage, the Punisher, Doom and the X-Men become allies against a common foe when the Aesir try to kill them all; the truth about the Aesir is revealed and Valhalla is claimed by one member of the group; Spider-Man heads downtown to stop Mjolnir from falling into the wrong hands during 1st appearance: BloodSword as BloodHammer | THE FALL OF THE HAMMER |
| Must Read | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #18 [1/2] (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #19 [1/2] (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #20 [1/2] (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #22 [1/2] (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #23 (1994) Spider-Man and Gabe O’Hara face a hacker called Discord in Cyberspace; Lyla tries to kill Dana D’Angelo; Miguel’s ex-girlfriend Xina Kwan comes back into his life; the cyborg Risque attempts to apprehend Spider-Man to prove she could do what her brother Venture couldn’t. 1st appearance: Xina Kwan New identity: Gabriel O’Hara as Firelight |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 Annual #1 [1/3] (1994) Church of Thor member Kenny recalls how key moments in his recent life were affected by Spider-Man and how becoming a Spiderite hasn’t made his life any better. |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 Annual #1 [2/3] (1994) Still seeking purpose, it’s Net-Prophet rather than Spider-Man who ends up saving Kenny. |
| ✔ | Ghost Rider 2099 #7 (1994) Ghost Rider clashes with Spider-Man when he mistakenly believes him to be working for Alchemax. |
| Spider-Man 2099 Annual #1 [3/3] (1994) Russian Cold War superhumans Red Dawn are revived in the year 2099 when they’re discovered by Alchemax; agent Chernobyl attacks Tyler Stone and rampages through Alchemax until he’s defeated by Spider-Man. | |
| 2099 Unlimited #9 [2/4] (1995) Miguel O’Hara recounts his origin and explains his Spider-Man powers. | |
| 2099 Unlimited #10 (1995) Spider-Man faces a shapeshifter at Woodstock 2099; mercenary cyborg Machina Jones investigates a murder; the teenage R-Gang outwit a Gargantuoid when it tries to claim the Locash District for Alchemax. | |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #24-25 [1/3] (1994) Spider-Man 2099 #26 [1/2] (1994) Stark-Fujikawa upgrade Kasey Nash with a cybernetic suit, empowering her so she can attack Alchemax as Payback; Venture returns seeking revenge on Spider-Man; Miguel O’Hara learns who his real father is; Miguel’s relationship with Dana D’Angelo is tested by Xina Kwan’s continued presence. New identity: Kasey Nash as Payback |
| Spider-Man 2099 Special #1 [3/3] (1995) Spider-Man pursues the serial killer Jumpcut. | |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man (1995) An experiment conducted by Fujikawa Industries on modern day Earth-616 causes the Spider-Man of that era (Peter Parker) to switch places with Spider-Man 2099; while modern Spider-Man meets 2099’s Vulture, Spider-Man 2099 has a run-in with Venom; after meeting Spider-Man 2211, they’re both returned to their own times. 1st appearance: Spider-Man 2211/Max Borne, Hobgoblin 2211/Robin Borne, Earth-9500, Fujikawa Industries |
| 2099 Unlimited #8 [2/3] (1995) Spider-Man tackles the revenge-fueled Data Pirate. | |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #27 [1/2] (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #28 [1/2] (1995) Miguel O’Hara agrees to accompany Xina Kwan on a trip to Nightshade where her friends have become the target of Alchemax’s Corporate Raiders; a former Public Eye sergeant who clashed with Spider-Man in the past is transformed into the monstrous Travesty and faces Spider-Man once again; their confrontation devastates Nightshade. 1st appearance: Rico Estevez as Travesty |
| Must Read | Title, Synopsis & First Appearances | Event / Crossover |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #29-31 (1995) After Nightshade is attacked by Looters, Spider-Man receives unwanted assistance from a 20th century android with possible Adaptoid tech called Flipside; Flipside activates the powers of Earth-616’s Spider-Man and Venom to emulate 2099’s Spider-Man’s abilities, but it the personality clash makes him psychotic; Tyler Stone moves in on Dana D’Angelo in Miguel’s absence; as his relationships with his family and friends fall apart, Miguel heads back towards New York and experiences strange hallucinations… | |
| 2099AD #1 (1995) Doom and his Black Cabinet assess potential opposition when he makes his move on America; Doom locates the GhostWorks and negotiates using Ghost Rider in his search for an alien artefact that can restore life; the Punisher and Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Theatre of Pain and Halloween Jack converge on the artefact. | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM | |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #32-33 (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #34 [1/2] (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #35-37 (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #38 [1/2] (1995) Spider-Man 2099 #39-41 (1996) Spider-Man and the mystic Strange face a horde of zombies in Mexico City; Doom gives Miguel O’Hara control of Alchemax; a mutate bonds with Kron Stone, transforming him into Venom and killing one of Miguel O’Hara’s closest friends; Spider-Man has his final showdown with Venom and is attacked by a new threat called the Goblin; Miguel O’Hara’s role as Alchemax CEO become more complicated; Spider-Man is drawn into the Vulture’s latest schemes in Downtown. 1st appearance: Strange/Jeannie, Venom Symbiote New identity: Jennifer D’Angelo as the Goblin, Kron Stone as Venom | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM |
| Doom 2099 #33 (1995) 2099AD Apocalypse #1 (1995) Spider-Man cameo; Spider-Man watches as Doom’s Environmental Maintenance Platforms fall from the sky. | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM | |
| 2099AD Genesis #1 (1996) Spider-Man cameo; Spider-Man watches as change sweeps over America. 1st appearance: Daredevil/Eric Nelson, Dust | 2099 GENESIS | |
| 2099AD Apocalypse #1 (1995) Spider-Man cameos; Spider-Man finds out Herod‘s forces have forced Doom out of Washington and killed the Punisher. | ONE NATION UNDER DOOM | |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #42 (pp.1-6) (1996) Miguel O’Hara struggle with his role at Alchemax, as well as his complicated family issues. | |
| Fantastic Four 2099 #2 (1996) Spider-Man cameo; Miguel O’Hara witnesses the Fantastic Four’s return, first hand. | 2099 GENESIS | |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #42 (pp.7-22) (1996) Spider-Man meets Boru – the representative of the striking Alchemax workers from Downtown – only to discovers he’s an animalistic superhuman. | |
| Doom 2099 #39 [2/2] (1996) Spider-Man cameo; when Doom travels back in time to undo the damage done to his beloved Latveria; Spider-Man is among those sensing ghe energy he’s using. | RAGE AGAINST TIME | |
| Fantastic Four 2099 #4 (1996) Spider-Man helps the Fantastic Four when they raid Alchemax and break into Stark-Fujikawa. | 2099 GENESIS | |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #43-44 (1996) The Goblin returns and reveals their identity; Tyler Stone finds out who shot him; Miguel O’Hara helps clear the Fantastic Four of their alleged crimes; the oceans begin to rise, flooding the surface. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END |
| Fantastic Four 2099 #6 (1996) Spider-Man cameo; Spider-Man watches the Human Torch fly past on his way to the Baxter Building. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END | |
| ✔ | Spider-Man 2099 #45-46 (1996) Fantastic Four 2099 #8 (1996) 2099: World of Tomorrow #1-8 (1996-1997) Spider-Man takes on the Goblin and Vulture in the flooded Downtown; Spider-Man seeks a means of escaping planet Earth when the Phalanx invade; the surviving heroes lead humanity into the future. | LAST STAND AT WORLD’S END |
See how Spider-Man’s saga fits into the original Marvel 2099 universe:
The divergent 2099 timelines featuring the future Spider-Man will be explored in future reading orders:
- 2099, 2019-Present: The Unified Timeline
- DOOM 2099, 1992-1997: The Future is Doomed
- SPIDER-MAN 2099, 2013-2020: The Divergent Earth-928 Timeline
| Title, Issue Number & Synopsis | Event / Crossover |
| Symbiote Spider-Man #1-5 (2024) Kron Stone escapes incarceration and seeks revenge against Spider-Man as Venom; Doom is still acting as President in this arc, conflicting with Earth-928 continuity, clearly marking it as an alternate universe tale. | |
| Exiles #72, 75-76, 84, 99 (2006-2007) Spider-Man 2099 #5 (2014) Earth-6375: The mutant Proteus of Earth-58163 jumps to the future, arriving in the year 2099 and creating a divergent timeline; the Spider-Man of this timeline joins the Exiles in their pursuit of Proteus across realities; Spider-Man eventually returns to Earth-6375 after his stint with the Exiles; Spider-Man is eventually murdered by the Inheritors (during SPIDER-VERSE, 2015). | |
| Spider-Boy Team-Up #1 (1997) Earth-12772: Diverging from his Earth-9602 counterpart (from the Amalgam Universe), Mig-El Gand is trapped in the Phantom Negative Zone and emerges in the year 2099; as Spider-Boy, he becomes a member of the Legion of Galactic Guardians 2099. | RETURN TO THE AMALGAM AGE OF COMICS |
| Secret Wars 2099 #1-5 (2015) Earth-23291: The remnants of the reality make up the 2099 Domain of Emperor God Doom‘s patchwork Battleworld; Miguel O’Hara is Baron of the 2099 Domain and controls the Avengers – a team assigned to hunting illegal superhumans. | SECRET WARS |
| Title, Issue Number & Synopsis | Event / Crossover |
| What The–?! #26 [1/15] (1993) Web Warriors #7-10 (2016) Spider-Ham: A Pig in Time #1 (2024) Earth-93726: Piguel O’Malley is knocked into a vat of Spider-Venom by Ducktor Doom 2099 and is transformed into Spider-Ham 2099; Spider-Ham 2099 meets ‘modern’ his Earth-8311 counterpart when he assists the universe-hopping Web-Warriors against antagonists from the Electro-Verse; Spider-Ham 2099 assists Spider-Ham of Earth-8311 again, this time against the Gobbler Army. | |
| Timestorm 2009-2099 #1-3 (2009) Timestorm 2009-2099: Spider-Man #1 (2009) Timestorm 2009-2099 #4 (2009) Spider-Man 2099 #5 (2014) Earth-96099: The Punisher, Spider-Man and the Avengers of Earth-616 meet their 2099 counterparts from Earth-96099; when some of them are switched in time by Alchemax (during TIMESTORM 2009-2099, 2009); the Spider-Man of this timeline is murdered by the Inheritors (during SPIDER-VERSE, 2015). | TIMESTORM 2009-2099 |
| 2099: Manifest Destiny (1998) Earth-96943: A possible future for the heroes of 2099 is revealed; Miguel O’Hara discovers the real cryogenically-frozen Captain America; Cap leads the Punisher, Strange, the Thing, former-members of the X-Men and others as a new team of Avengers; this was originally intended as the real wrap-up of the Earth-928 timeline. | |
| Avengers Forever #12 (1999) Spider-Man 2099 #5 (2014) Earth-98120: As a member of the Avengers, Spider-Man is pulled from the year 2099 to fight in the Destiny War; he’s later killed by Morlun (during SPIDER-VERSE, 2015). |
| Collected Edition Title | Collects… |
| Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus vol.1 | Doom 2099 (1993) #14 Punisher 2099 (1993) #13 Ravage 2099 (1992) #15 Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #1-46 X-Men 2099 (1993) #5 Spider-Man 2099 Annual (1994) #1 Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man #1 Spider-Man 2099 Special (1995) #1 |
| Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus vol.2 | 2099 Unlimited #1-3, 8-10 [part] Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #1 [part] Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #1 [part] Captain Marvel (1999) #27-30 Secret Wars 2099 #1-5 Spider-Man 2099 (2014) #1-12 Spider-Man 2099 (2015) #1-25 Superior Spider-Man (2013) #17-19 |
| Spider-Man 2099 vol.1 | Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #1-10 |
| Spider-Man 2099 vol.2 | 2099 Unlimited #1-3 [part] Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #11-14 Spider-Man 2099 Annual (1994) #1 |
| Spider-Man 2099 vol.3 (Classic) | Doom 2099 (1993) #14 Punisher 2099 (1993) #13 Ravage 2099 (1992) #15 Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #15-22 X-Men 2099 (1993) #5 |
| Spider-Man 2099 vol.4 (Classic) | 2099 Unlimited #8 [part] Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #23-33 |
| Spider-Man 2099 vs Venom 2099 | 2099 Unlimited #9-10 [part] Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #34-38 Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man #1 Spider-Man 2099 Special (1995) #1 |
| Collected Edition Title | Includes… |
| Fantastic Four/Doom 2099 Omnibus | Doom 2099 (1993) #14, 18, 33, 39 Fantastic Four 2099 #2, 4, 6, 8 Punisher 2099 (1993) #13 Ravage 2099 (1992) #15 Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #16 X-Men 2099 (1993) #5 |
| X-Men 2099 vol.1 X-Men 2099 Omnibus | Doom 2099 (1993) #14 Punisher 2099 (1993) #13 Ravage 2099 (1992) #15 Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #16 X-Men 2099 (1993) #5 |
Reading Order © Omniverse Comics Guide 2023
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