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I would suggest reading any crossovers that involve the main series your character is in. If it's small oneshot crossovers, I would read them if you know the character has a really big role or if you know the other character/characters in the crossover are characters that people play in RP commonly.

The above anon is right, wiki's can be helpful, but don't just read the wiki. Use the wiki and then try to look up the comic if you can to actually read it. You don't have to read it all, but I'd say definitely actually read the comics if you get a canonmate that the wiki says your character interacted with in a crossover or in a team book at some point. One of my biggest annoyances as a comic book player was playing with someone who interacted with my character for a very long time on a team, but since the issues were pretty old the player didn't bother to read them. They just looked over the wiki and tumblr scans. That meant they didn't get that our characters actually had a pretty big past together.

My suggestion there would be if you enter a game with people from the canon already there, use the wiki to see if your character has interacted with those characters, and then try to find those issues and actually read them. OR ask the players there! I would NEVER mind if someone PM'ed me and said that they were new to comics and wanted some suggestions or to discuss the relationship! In fact, if someone did that I'd probably be happy to give them any issues they interacted in.

Which is another thing I'd suggest with characters that have been around a while, discuss things with any canonmates that come in and be open. If you don't think you've read something with them, go ahead and admit that. I'd like to think that more often than not the other player would be happy to help you out or discuss things. If you have any friends that you know are really into comics you might want to consider talking to them too.

With backstories, it's best to just pick the one being used in recent canon UNLESS you're planning on playing the character from really far back. If there are two conflicting ones that are used, pick the one that seems most plausible or the one used most. You could even go with the one you like more or just talk to any canonmates and see what they use first. Good luck anon!

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