The Kang Dynasty Reading List

Kang the Conqueror Reading List

Nathaniel Richards, a 31st-century scholar and descendant of Reed Richards' time traveling father Nathaniel, becomes fascinated with history and discovers the time travel technology created by Victor von Doom, another possible ancestor of his. He then travels back in time to ancient Egypt aboard a Sphinx-shaped timeship and becomes the Pharaoh Rama-Tut (while a variant of him is simultaneously recruited by the Time Variance Authority (TVA) as Chronomonitor #616), with plans to claim En Sabah Nur—the mutant destined to become Apocalypse—as his heir. The pharaoh's rule is cut short when he is defeated by the time-displaced Fantastic Four. An embittered Nathaniel Richards travels forward to the 20th century where he meets Doctor Doom, whom he believes might be his ancestor. He later designs an armor based on Doom's and, calling himself the Scarlet Centurion, pits the Avengers team against alternate-reality counterparts. He plans to dispose of all of them, but the Avengers manage to force him from the timeline.

Nathaniel then tries to return to the 31st century, but overshoots by a thousand years, discovering a war-torn Earth that uses advanced weapons they no longer understand. He finds it simple to conquer the planet, expanding his dominion throughout the galaxy, and reinvents himself as Kang the Conqueror. But this future world is dying, and so he decides to take over an earlier, more fertile Earth

• Captain America Comics #25 (1943) – First Appearance of the Microverse
  
  
• Fantastic Four (1961) #10, 19
  
• Fantastic Four (1961) Annual #2
  
• Avengers (1963) #8, 10-11, 16, 23-24, 69-71, 128-135
  
• Giant-Size Avengers (1963) #2-4
  
• Avengers (1963) #141-143, 200, 267-269, 281-282, 291-297, 300
  
• Incredible Hulk (1962) #156
  
• Marvel Preview #4 (1976) – The Time Travel Origins of the Microverse
  
• Thor (1966)  #243-245, 281-282, 371-372
  
• Micronauts #1 (1979) – First appearance of First Zone; Seazone, Aegypta, Polaria, and Dead Zone regions of the Microverse
  
  
• X-Men and the Micronauts (1984) #1-4
  
• Micronauts (1984) #1-20
  
• Fantastic Four (1961) #272-273, 323-325, 337-341
  
• Avengers West Coast (1989) #48, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 59-62
  
• What If…? (1989) #35-39
  
  
• Citizen Kang (1992)
  
  • Captain America Annual #11
    
  • Thor Annual #17
    
  • Fantastic Four Annual #25
    
  • Avengers Annual #21
    
  
  
  
• The Terminatrix Objective (1993)
  
• The Crossing
  
  • Avengers (1963) #393-395
    
  • Force Works (1994) #19
    
  • Iron Man (1968) #324, 325
    
  
  
  
• The Last Avengers Story (1995) #1-2
  
• Avengers Forever (1998) #1-12
  
• Avengers (1998) #41-55
  
• Avengers Annual #2001
  
• Young Avengers (2005) #1-6
  
• Avengers Classic (2007) #10
  
• Avengers (2010) #1, 5, 6
  
• Avengers Children’s Crusade (2010)
  
• Uncanny Avengers (2012) #9, 16, 22, 23
  
• Annihilators (2011) #3, 4
  
• FF (2013) #8-16
  
• Avengers (2013) #34
  
• Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (2015) #42
  
• Avengers (2017) #1-6
  
• Spider-Ham (2019) #1-5
  
• Doctor Doom (2020) #5-6
  
• Avengers: MechStrike (2021) #1-5
  
• Kang the Conqueror (2021) #1-5
  
• Fantastic Four (2018) #35
  
• Timeless (2021) #1; (2022) #1
  
• Avengers: War Across Time (2023) #1-5
  
• Avengers (2023) #1+
  
• Fantastic Four (2023) #700
  
• Ultimate Invasion (2023) 1-4
  

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