1st Appearance | Origin Story | Main Publication History | Secondary Publication History | Key Storylines | Media Source Material | Key Issues | Compilations
by snowbi-wan, updated Jun 2019
MY HERO ACADEMIA is a popular superhero manga series begun in 2014 and serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. Izuku Midoriya is a boy born without superpowers in a world where 4 out of every 5 people have some kind of quirk (superpower). Most quirks are low level, while some produce high level superheroes (and villains). Izuku dreams of becoming a superhero himself even though he was born without powers. After a chance encounter with his super hero idol, All Might somehow shares his powers with Izuku. Izuku later enrolls in a high school for heroes in training where much of the ongoing story takes place. The franchise has expanded from the orginal manga to anime, film and video games.
The first appearance of a character in comic book form is often the most valuable issue featuring that character. It's a nice place to get started in My Hero Academia, if it's within your budget. For manga, we list the first appearance of the English language release in North America.
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Series beginnings are always great places to get started in comic books. Here is the Main Publication History for My Hero Academia comic books.
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In modern comic publishing, it's common (and expected) for individual comic book issues to be collected into compilations of trade paperbacks and/or hardcovers, as well as other special compilations. Unlike the individual source issues, the collected editions typically stay in print for long periods and are less 'collectible.' If individual issues are out of reach or are not of interest to you or if you just need reading copies, the following collected editions of My Hero Academia comic books are the most recent in-print editions and are the perfect alternative to get started right away with My Hero Academia. The following compilations are presented in a suggested reading order with softcover editions before any hardcover editions.
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![]() | Aug 2015 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 01 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Oct 2015 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 02 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Jan 2016 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 03 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Apr 2016 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 04 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Aug 2016 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 05 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Nov 2016 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 06 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Feb 2017 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 07 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | May 2017 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 08 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Aug 2017 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 09 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Nov 2017 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 10 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Jan 2018 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 11 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Apr 2018 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 12 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Jun 2018 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 13 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Jul 2018 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 14 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Oct 2018 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 15 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Dec 2018 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 16 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Feb 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 17 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Apr 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 18 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Jun 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 19 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Aug 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 20 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Oct 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 21 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Dec 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 22 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Feb 2020 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 23 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Jun 2020 | MY HERO ACADEMIA [2015-DIG] VOL 24 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Jul 2018 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES [2018-DIG] VOL 01 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Oct 2018 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES [2018-DIG] VOL 02 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Jan 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES [2018-DIG] VOL 03 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | May 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES [2018-DIG] VOL 04 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Jul 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES [2018-DIG] VOL 05 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Oct 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES [2018-DIG] VOL 06 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Jun 2020 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES [2018-DIG] VOL 07 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Aug 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: SMASH!! [2019-DIG] VOL 01 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Nov 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: SMASH!! [2019-DIG] VOL 02 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | Feb 2020 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: SMASH!! [2019-DIG] VOL 03 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | May 2020 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: SMASH!! [2019-DIG] VOL 04 | UNAVAILABLE | $8.49 | |
![]() | May 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: SCHOOL BRIEFS [2019-DIG] VOL 01 CURRENT PRINTING | ![]() | Go to Amazon | |
![]() | Jul 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: SCHOOL BRIEFS [2019-DIG] VOL 02 | UNAVAILABLE | $9.34 | |
![]() | Oct 2019 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: SCHOOL BRIEFS [2019-DIG] VOL 03 | UNAVAILABLE | $9.34 | |
![]() | Mar 2020 | MY HERO ACADEMIA: SCHOOL BRIEFS [2019-DIG] VOL 04 | UNAVAILABLE | $9.34 |
The flagship MY HERO ACADEMIA manga series is being adapted very faithfully as an anime series. The anime trails the manga by a couple story arcs.