Marvel Studios is releasing an official Marvel Cinematic Universe timeline book in 2023 after Phase 4's confusing storytelling. The sprawling interconnected universe has been built on the base of a single canon, and that has created an obsession about how the different movies and shows are connected. Marvel made keeping track of the timeline trickier thanks to Avengers: Endgame's five-year time jump and the introduction of the multiverse. This has created a lot of debate in the fandom about what the correct MCU timeline looks like.

Confusion about the MCU timeline reached new heights in Phase 4, as YouTubers, the unofficial MCU wiki, and others attempted to piece together small clues for when various properties take place. The Disney+ MCU timeline further complicates matters, as it holds multiple inconsistencies. Now over five years after Kevin Feige said that an official timeline was being created for release, a new listing on Penguin Random House...