Many of you have been asking for a Brightest Day reading list. I’ve done a little research and come up with this so far – but I bet it will change as books come out and we have a chance to check the continuity.

I’ve put the issues of the main miniseries in bold.

Historical Reading:

Justice League International

Crisis On Infinite Earths

Preludes:

Cry For Justice

Blackest Night

Fall Of Green Arrow

Rise of Arsenal

Brightest Day:

1. Green Lantern Corps 47

2. Justice League: Generation Lost 1

3. Power Girl 13

4. Justice League: Generation Lost 2

5. Brightest Day 0

6. Green Lantern 53

7. Green Lantern Corps 48

8. Brightest Day 1

9. Green Lantern 54

10. Green Lantern 55

11. Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors 1

12. Brightest Day 2

13. Brightest Day 3

14. Green Lantern Corps 49

15. Green Lantern Corps 50

16. Green Lantern Corps 51

17. Green Lantern Corps 52

18. Justice League: Generation Lost 3

19. Justice League: Generation Lost 4

20. Justice League: Generation Lost 5

21. Booster Gold 33

22. Booster Gold 34

23. Justice Society of America 40 (Ends right before JLA 44)

24. Justice League of America 44

25. Justice League of America 45

26. Titans: Villains for Hire Special 1

27. Justice League of America 46

28. Justice Society of America 41

29. Brightest Day 4

30. Brightest Day 5 (July 8)

31. Brightest Day: The Atom Special 1

32. Flash Secret Files 2010

33. Flash 1

34. Flash 2

35. Flash 3

36. Flash 4

37. Action Comics 890 (Non-essential – not sure where to place 891-894, none marketed as crossovers)

38. Justice League of America 47

39. Justice Society of America 42

40. Titans 24

41. Titans 25

42. Justice League: Generation Lost 6

43. Brightest Day 6 (July 21)

44. Brightest Day 7 (August 4)

45. Birds Of Prey 1

46. Birds Of Prey 2

47. Birds Of Prey 3

48. Birds Of Prey 4

49. Birds Of Prey 5

50. Flash 5

51. Justice League of America 48

52. Justice League: Generation Lost 7

53. Justice League: Generation Lost 8

54. Justice League: Generation Lost 9

55. Green Arrow 1

56. Green Arrow 2

57. Green Arrow 3

58. Brightest Day 8 (August 18)

59. Brightest Day 9 (September 1)

60. Green Arrow 4

61. Green Lantern 56

62. Green Lantern 57

63. Green Lantern 58

64. Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors 2

65. Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors 3

66. Untold Tales of Blackest Night 1

67. Brightest Day 10 (September 15)

68. Brightest Day 11 (October 06)

69. Titans 26

70. Titans 27

Unplaced as of yet:

Brightest Day 12 (October 20)

Brightest Day 13 (November 3)

Brightest Day 14 (November 17)

Brightest Day 15 (December 1)

Brightest Day 16 (December 15)

Brightest Day 17 (January 5, 2011)

Brightest Day 18 (January 19, 2011)

Action Comics 891

Action Comics 892

Action Comics 893

Action Comics 894

The series will go on till at least until Brightest Day 18 – so obviously we’ve got a lot to go before this list is complete. I’ll update it as I can.

Forum threads on this topic are available at The Green Lantern Corps Message Board and the DC Comics Message Boards. I highly recommend checking them out, as forum users Blue Lantern Superman and Munkeypunk have gone through a lot of very interesting reasoning in compiling their lists. Thanks to Munkeypunk especially for the idea of listing good prerequisite reading.

Neither list is fully up to date or complete, unfortunately – and they conflict in a couple key places. Of course, the comics themselves conflict in a couple places. I’ve done my best to sort them out, along with my own feelings about the continuity. I also found these checklists at Third Eye, which tell us what month each set of issues comes in – not too helpful, unfortunately, since the reading order ends up quite different.

If you have any advice, please let us know! I’ll make the appropriate edits after getting your comment.

Hopefully this helps those of you who are having trouble with this one!