Spider-Man Villain Puma Reading Order

Puma is one of the most underrated Spider-Man villains out there, and I’m not just saying that because he’s my absolute favorite. This character has been involved in several great storylines over the course of the Wall Crawler’s existence and even owned the Daily Bugle for quite a while. So today on the Story Arc I’m just going to lay out the Puma’s character history and what issues you should read since sources like the Marvel Wiki don’t seperate appearances where he actually does stuff from background cameo appearances.

First Appearance

Puma’s first storyline has very little to do with why I like the character however it is still worth reading as one of the most important Spider-Man moments twists happened to be revealed in these issues

Issues:

Amazing Spider-Man #256

Amazing Spider-Man #257

Amazing Spider-Man #258

Appearance during Secret Wars 2

And now we get to the story that would begin to send Puma’s character on the path which would make him my favorite Spider-Man character as a villain who know Peter’s identity but had no interest in it. Amazing Spider-Man’s tie in issues for Secret Wars 2 brought back the Puma and used him in a genius way.

Issues:

Amazing Spider-Man #272

Spectacular Spider-Man #111

Amazing Spider-Man #273

Debt to Peter Parker

Nearly every story in this section is why I love the Puma. Puma’s status quo after Secret Wars 2 was as a villain who owed a debt to Peter Parker. Below is a list of issues where Puma appeared post-Secret Wars 2

Issues:

Spectacular Spider-Man #7

Web of Spider-Man #50

Avengers #304

Spectacular Spider-Man #151

Spectacular Spider-Man #154

Spectacular Spider-Man #156

Owner of the Daily Bugle

In a shocking turn of event, this minor Spider-Man villain a lot of you have never heard of actually bought the Daily Bugle in an attempt to settle his debt to Spider-Man. Here are all issues where Puma is shown as the Daily Bugle’s owner. Some of these appearances are major while others are small one page appearances.

Issues:

Spectacular Spider-Man #157

Web of Spider-Man #58

Amazing Spider-Man #326 (Mentioned, doesn’t physically appear)

Web of Spider-Man #59

Web of Spider-Man #60

Spectacular Spider-Man #161

Spectacular Spider-Man #163

Web of Spider-Man #65

Spectacular Spider-Man #166

Spectacular Spider-Man #167

Spectacular Spider-Man #168

Spectacular Spider-Man #169

Spectacular Spider-Man #170

Duel With Spider-Man

One of my favorite Spider-Man stories (and easily the best 90s Spider-Man story) was the grand duel to the death between the Spider and the Puma. If you are to read any Puma issue, read these ones.

Issues:

Spectacular Spider-Man #171

Spectacular Spider-Man #172

Eye of the Puma

After his duel with Spider-Man and selling the Bugle back to Jameson, Puma stopped appearing in Spider-Man issues until this storyline.

Issues:

Spectacular Spider-Man #191

Spectacular Spider-Man #192

Spectacular Spider-Man #193

Return of the Puma

After reading the events of Spectacular #193 I was personally unsure if Puma would ever return because of how obscure the character was as I approached the modern age. He did return though in a two issue storyline I consider to be his worst outing, however things do improve for him after this.

Amazing Spider-Man #395

Spectacular Spider-Man #218

Later 90s-Early 2000s Appearances

While I hesitate to say that there are any more major Puma storylines, the character did tend to pop up from time to time on the 90s and 2000s. Here are all Puma appearances around this time, not including background cameos.

Issues:

Spider-man Unlimited #15

Rampaging Hulk #6

Wolverine #167

Wolverine #168

Sensational Spider-Man #26

Sensational Spider-Man #27

Sensational Spider-Man #29

Sensational Spider-Man #33

Sensational Spider-Man #34

Punisher War Journal #4 (Minor appearance, 1 speaking line)

Modok’s 11

Puma was by technicality on a team book once with the Modok’s 11 Supervillain Team Up miniseries.

Issues

Modok’s 11 #1

Modok’s 11 #2

Modok’s 11 #3

Modok’s 11 #4

Modok’s 11 #5

Modern day Puma appearances

Once again, there aren’t really any stories in this era that I would call Puma storylines but he did appear as a supporting character in Marvel Divas as Black Cat’s boyfriend and has had minor appearances here and there in the Marvel Universe since then. Any appearance after Marvel Divas though is sadly a background cameo without a speaking line whenever a book wants to showcase a lot of villains, so I won’t bother listing them.

Issues:

Marvel Divas #1

Marvel Divas #2

Marvel Divas #3

Marvel Divas #4

Leave a Reply