I'm actually a big Spider-Man fan. I've read Ultimate Spider-Man and Miles Morales. I'm currently reading The Amazing Spider-Man comics and I'm up to issue #131 but I've noticed most issues are just 'filler issues'. I really want to catch up to Superior Spider-Man. So is there a good place to jump ahead to in The Amazing Spider-Man comics? I've been hearing 'Brand New Day' but I tried and I felt lost with most of the characters. Is there a good place to start possibly before Brand New Day? I just want to get past some of these filler issues, which I love, but I'd rather catch up and then go back and read them. I really appreciate this, thank you!!

I'm just going to copy this from the other thread, its a list of major stuff that happens, my favourites are bolded

I got pretty fed up during Gerry Conway's run as well, a lot of it is just silly, and repetitive IMO, Spidey also seems weaker.

I think the Death of Gwen Stacy is by far the best thing he ever wrote for Spider-Man.

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Roger Stern's run is one of the more well loved ones, so you can jump to there, following on from that Tom Defalco's run starts off really good, but goes into meltdown towards the end (apparently lots of arguments going on with editors behind the scenes).

J. M Demateis' run on Spectacular is interesting, more psychology focused, attempts to be more "mature"

David Michelinie's run is consistently solid.

Spider-Man

• Amazing Fantasy 15 - 1st appearance
• Amz 1 - 1st Chameleon
• Amz 2 - 1st Vulture
• Amz 3 - 1st Octopus
• Amz 4 - 1st Sandman
• Amz 6 - 1st Lizard
• Amz 9 - 1st Electro
• Amz 13 - 1st Mysterio
• Amz 14 - 1st Green Goblin
• Amz 15 - 1st Kraven
• Amz 18-19 - End of Spider-Man
• Amz 20 - 1st Scorpion
• Amz 24 - Spider-Man Goes Mad
• Amz 25 - 1st Spencer Smyth (Spider-Slayer)
• Amz 26-27 - Green Goblin Mob War saga
• Amz 31-33 - Master Planner Saga
• Amz 39-40 - The End of the Green Goblin
• Amz 41-43 - Horns of the Rhino
• Amz 46 - 1st Shocker
• Amz 47 - In the Hands of the Hunter
• Amz 50-52 - Spider-Man No More
• Amz 53-56 - Doc Ock Wins
• Spectacular Spiderman Magazine 2 - The Goblin Lives
• Amz 68-75 - Tablet of Time Saga
• Amz 78-79 - 1st Prowler
• Amz 87 - Unmasked At Last
• Amz 88-90 - Death of Captain Stacy
• Amz 96-98 - Harry Osborn is on Drugs
• Amz 100-102 - The Spider of the Man? 1st Morbius, Six-armed Spidey
• Amz 121-122 - The Death of Gwen Stacy
• Amz 129 - 1st Punisher, 1st Jackal
• Amz 136-137 - 1st Harry Osborn as Green Goblin
• Amz 143-150 - Clone Saga
• Amz 153 - The Longest Hundred Yards
• MTU 148-150 - Mystery of the Wraith, 1st Jean Dewolff
• Amz 176-180 - Bart Hamilton Green Goblin
• Amz 193-200 - Return of the Burglar Saga, 1st Black Cat
• Amz Annual 14 - The Bend Sinister, Dr Strange Team Up
• Amz 224 - Let Fly These Aged Wings
• Amz 226-227 - The Cat Came Back
• Amz 229-230 - Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut
• Spcr 73-79 - Owl/Octopus War
• Amz 238-239, Spcr 85, Amz 244-245, Amz 249-251 - Origin of the Hobgoblin
• Amz 240-241 - Origin of the Vulture (Finally)
• Amz 248 - The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man
• Secret Wars - 1st Alien Costume
• Amz 252-258 - Saga of the Alien Costume
• Amz 259-261 - Sins of my Father, MJs Origin, Hobgoblin Returns
  
• Amz Annual 18 - Jonah's Marriage
• Amz 267 - When Cometh the Commuter
• Amz 269-270 - Spider-Man Vs Firelord
• Spcr 108-110 - Death of Jean DeWolff
• Amz 271 - Whatever Happened to Crusher Hogan?
• Web 13 - Point of View
• Amz 277 - Cry of the Wendigo
• Spcr 25-31 - Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust
• Amz 290-292, Amz Annual 21 - Wedding to MJ
• Amz 293-294, Spcr 131-132, Web 31-32 - Kraven's Last Hunt
• Spcr 134-136 - Return of the Sin-Eater
• Amz 300 - 1st Venom (he appeared earlier in shadows, but only behind the scenes)
• Amz 315-317 - 2nd Venom
• Amz 334-339 - Return of the Sinister Six
• Amz 341-343 - Powerless
• Spcr 178-184 - The Child Within
• Spcr 186-188 - Funeral Arrangements
• Spcr 189 - The Osborn Legacy
• Amz 361-363 - 1st Carnage
• Spcr 194-196 - Death of Vermin
• Spcr 200 - Best of Enemies

I will call the Spider expert

@punyparker your knowledge is needed.

I personally started my catching up on Amazing Spider-Man with JMS's run. From there to OMD to Superior. I guess you could also start off with OMD but the few first stories are kind of 'meh' so it's up to you.

@collinharn:

J. Michael Straczynski's run,starting Amazing Spider-Man issue 471 is a great start to the Amazing comics.Excellent writing,and the "fill-ins" are not needed to understand the story.
And then go on.
I started just like you,for me,Spider-Man was only Ultimate,and then i was searching for an Amazing "door" to enter,and i found this.

I swear to God,i'm blushing.

Also, its best to stop reading Amazing ~1992 as Editorial started to make an extreme mess of things around then, and you get loads of over-long cross-over events and retcon after retcon due to lack of Editors providing any kind of guiding force or plan.

Spectacular was good up until 1993, mainly due to Dematteis doing his own thing.

If you just want to jump all of classic Spider-Man to get current, get Brand New Day and move onwards from there, Brand New Day is effectively a reboot to Spider-Man in all but name anyway.