Mapping the Marvel Universe in 6 Very Cool Charts

Mapping the Marvel beingness is not the benignant of happening 1 tin bash conscionable by snapping their fingers.

For starters, determination are many Earths retired determination successful the multiverse; determination are besides each kinds of mystical dimensions and different weird locations. But adjacent connected conscionable 1 mentation of Earth determination are galore points of interest, from the hometowns of fan-favorite heroes to fictional nations that beryllium lone successful comic books. Trying to find each Marvel-ous hangout successful New York City? Fuggedaboutit.

Still, for his latest publication of chill charts, that’s precisely what Tim Leong did: representation the Marvel universe. For his caller book, Marvel Super Graphic, Leong made a diagram of mystical planes, an illustration of the proximity of Kamala Khan’s New Jersey residence to Moon Girl’s Lower East Side lab, and adjacent a Mean Girls–esque illustration of who-sits-where successful the Empire State University cafeteria.

But that’s conscionable the beginning. Leong—who, afloat disclosure, erstwhile served arsenic WIRED’s plan director—filled Marvel Super Graphic with charts and graphics astir galore aspects of the Marvel comic publication universe. Check retired immoderate geographically-focused highlights from the publication above.

—Angela Watercutter