COMICS • COLLECTOR GUIDES
Deadpool is Wade Wilson, a Marvel mercenary with accelerated healing, weapons expertise and a deliberately irreverent relationship with superhero conventions. Created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, his films combine the X-Men world with comedy, action and later multiverse connections.
Start with the essential comics, follow the character through the movie library, then continue into related stories and live shop inventory.
Wade Wilson is a mercenary who enters an experimental program after developing cancer. The treatment gives him an extraordinary healing factor but leaves his body badly scarred and contributes to an already unstable, irreverent personality. Taking the name Deadpool, Wade works as a mercenary, antihero and occasional hero whose unpredictable behaviour hides a persistent search for purpose and connection.
Important comic-book milestones for the character and why each issue or story matters.
Major key · 1991New Mutants #98Major key — first appearance of Deadpool.Read collector guide →
Major key · 1993Deadpool: The Circle Chase #1Major key — first issue of Deadpool's first solo miniseries.Read collector guide →
Major key · 1997Deadpool #1 (1997)Major key — launch of the influential first ongoing Deadpool series.Read collector guide →
Minor key · 2004Cable & Deadpool #1Minor key — begins the long-running Cable and Deadpool partnership.Read collector guide →Additional source-material touchpoints from the movie guides below. Essential character keys already shown above are not repeated here.
Mercenary Wade Wilson hunts the man who tortured him and triggered his mutant healing factor. Its comic connection is a synthesis: familiar characters and ideas are combined into…
Wade protects a mutant boy from time-travelling soldier Cable and forms X-Force. Its comic connection is a synthesis: familiar characters and ideas are combined into a new cinematic…
Deadpool recruits a broken Wolverine to save his timeline from erasure. Its comic connection is a synthesis: familiar characters and ideas are combined into a new cinematic story.
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