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Tie-in stacking for event one-shots

Event one-shots in Marvel NFT comics often assume you already met a thief in a smaller title or watched a satellite crash in a cosmic book. Tie-in stacking places those satellites around the one-shot without handing you the climax early.

We split tie-ins into three trays. Prelude issues introduce a motive, a stolen object, or a city-wide alarm. Concurrent issues show a second location during the same hour of story time. Aftermath issues deal with rubble, press conferences, and a character who missed the fight. Each tray is ordered internally by caption continuity, not by how loudly the cover shouts.

A common mistake is reading every street-level tie-in first because those drops felt cheaper or arrived in a bundle. That path often spoils the one-shot’s second act, when the stolen object is revealed. Our stack keeps that reveal on the page where the event book placed it.

You do not need every satellite. We mark optional character spotlights that never feed back into the main plot. Those can wait until you want a quieter night with a single protagonist. Call the desk if your tray is missing a prelude; we can note the gap instead of inventing a substitute chapter.