And I thought the FF omnibus was big. :eek:

This bad boy is 9 POUNDS! My UPS guy warned me how heavy it was.....I love the book but damn is it hard to read!

It's too big. I mean, I can barely read the Uncanny X-Men book. There's no way you can read this without putting it down on the table. I'm cool with that, but I prefer reading on my recliner. Oh well.

Anyone notice how much the Uncanny X-Men book is getting on ebay. I don't like speculation with comics, but holy cow, I sure wish I bought multiple copies of some of these.

Looks like FF volume 1 is on the rise as well.

(Joke) Headline: "Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus banned on all flights due to it's 'deadly weapon' status".

:lol:

(you all are great...very informative...post pics...very kewl)

I think you can buy One Onibus and never had to buy another comic book for the rest of your life.

Today's solicits has an Amazing Fantasy Omnibus..... 416 pages for $75 (hopefully $37.50 in DCBS)

not for long

http://p206.ezboard.com/fmarvelmaste...cID=8353.topic

It was indeed. I was on the fence but at that price why skip one in the run!

Great thread, thanks for the info on the new one coming out. I saw the Omnibus' (Omnibii?) in passing in the past, but usually at $100 apiece I had no trouble walking right by them. But for these prices, and for what you get, I may have found the way I'll be picking up these issues now! I've always debated on the Masterworks, but never picked one up, and I started on the Essentials (great prices) until I realized I wanted them in color, the way they're supposed to be. The only draw-back to the Omnibus like others have said is the *huge* size of it. I'll probably be picking up some of the second printings!

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I have been collecting these as they come out and was figuring they were going to chronicle every major Spider-Man appearance or at least every major SM title all encompassed in each volume. I was hoping for chronological releases of issues such as Marvel Team-up and eventually Peter Parker The Spectacular Spider-Man, Web Of Spider-Man, etc.

We are now on a Volume 5 release. Appears these are just mainly including only The Amazing SM series. Anyone read anything about this or was also hoping for the same thing I was hoping for? :(

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That's exactly what I was hoping for but I don't believe that is in Marvel's plans. They are collecting all of Amazing. They have put out Spectacular and Web in various Epic trades, I believe.

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Omnibus at both Marvel and DC have been very inconsistent in regards to chronology. Both companies have focused themselves in getting out major storylines or doing artist/writer themed ones. The recent Spider-Man Omnibus re-releases have focused on the either going chronologically by Amazing Spider-Man (vol 1-5 omnibus) and including some stories here and there from other sources like Marvel Treasury Edition, issues of Nova and Marvel Special Edition. Then there's the McFarlane/Michelinie Omnibus re-release that focuses on the Venom storyline. The popularity of Omnibuses (at least the Marvel ones) leads me to believe that they will tackle some of the Web of Spider-Man and Spectacular Spider-Man stuff at some point, but there are so many forgettable stories on both of those runs that I wonder if Marvel believes that's worth the effort in collecting those issues.

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Marvel is usually pretty good about labeling things properly, so since the omnibus line was The Amazing Spider-Man it wasn't expected to collect any other Spidey titles. There's certainly enough of Marvel Team-Up and The Spectacular Spider-Man in the Marvel Masterworks line that they could start issuing them in omnis as well (if you aren't aware, the Masterworks releases are generally when Marvel does their restoration work), but I would still expect the series to be collected separately.
The main exceptions are when the omnibus collects work by a creator, like how the Spider-Man by Roger Stern omni included his Amazing and Spectacular issues, or by storyline, like the Clone Saga and Ben Reilly omnis.

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I know there were some solid stories in Spectacular over the years, but is anyone really clamoring for a Web of Spider-Man omnibus?

Generally speaking, I think the Epic Collection is the line that really prioritizes completeness. While there have been any number of random omnibuses due to movie tie-ins and what have you, the main priority of that line is collecting the flagship titles, runs by major creators and events.
​​​​I can see an argument for the omnibuses being more complete, but at a certain point you start to water down the product with subpar material.

Somewhat related, I happen to collect x-men omnibuses and the early volumes only collect the main x-men title because that's all there was. Later volumes (which are more event focused) include long runs of X-Factor and New Mutants. I'm reading through my books right now and am at Fall Of The Mutants and all I want to do is read X-Men, but I'm hung up on Louise Simonson New Mutants. Ugh. I mean I could skip those issues because they're irrelevant to the x-men strand of the story, but they're in the book, so I feel compelled. It's basically brought my reading to a complete halt.

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I've got the first 4 Amazing Spider-Man Omnibi, and I love them! I won't be buying the 5th, however. I've got all of those issues collected in the Masterworks editions, so I'm pretty much set from there.

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So, The Amazing Spider-Man Volume 6 omnibus just came out and they did the most bizarre thing.

It covers the following issues: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #181-205 & ANNUAL (1964) #13, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL (1979) #1 and WHAT IF? (1977) #1, #7, #19 and material from WHAT IF (1977) #8

They just put out a Spectacular Spider-Man Volume 1 Omnibus not long ago which include the Annual for that series. They have already shown they are not going to collect every Spider-Man appearance or issue in order (which is what I had originally hoped for) so why in the world would they waste space and put in an annual that has nothing to do with this omnibus and was already in a related recently released omnibus???

Annoying.

And by the way, Web Of Spider-Man Volume 1 Omnibus is coming this August.

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That seems weird if there wasn’t a story tie-in.

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Maybe there was. I guess I should have checked that before I started bitching. :lol:

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:lol:

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They've been tossing in semi-related issues haphazardly in many of their recent omnibuses. I think it's about padding the page counts so they can squeeze out a few more volumes from the hardcore collectors who buy everything. They've been even worse with the X-Men omnibuses.

Marvel screwed up the Black Costume Saga omnibus by omitting a critical page. Instead of fixing it they sent people who purchased it a PDF of the missing page.-rolleyes-

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Per Comics.org SSM Annual 1 does indeed continue the story from ASM Annual 13. The SSM omnibus also included ASM Annual 13.
What bugs me about ASM omnibus 6 is how small it is. The first four omnis included about 3.5 MMWs, the fifth contained 3, and this one isn't even three full MMWs.If they kept up with 3.5 per omni, omni 6 would have included up to MMW 21 and ASM 223, which would have dovetailed right into the Stern omnibus.

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The Omnibus that covers 1974-75 is missing the Giant-Size Spiderman issues.

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My god that would have pissed me off.

Yep, you are correct. Actually I looked back and that PPSSM omnibus actually included the ASM Annual in it as well.

I wish they had just gone with printing every Spider-Man appears in order. Then no duplication and you could just sit down and read all the stories back-to-back without having to have multiple issues scattered across various volumes.

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Marvel has become quite greedy in the past couple years with their hardcover publishing practices. Basically eliminating new deluxe hardcovers in favor of very small omnibuses, all of which still have $100 list prices despite low page counts. Not to mention publishing errors they basically ignore or refuse to correct, while also lowering the print quality of their omnibuses.

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That's because Giant-Size Spider-Man complemented Marvel Team-Up, not Amazing Spider-Man. They were included in the MTU MMWs, so if they are going to appear in an omni, it will be an MTU omni.

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I'm not an expert on Spider-Man, but could you even successfully map such a book? What does "in order" even mean? Published order? That wouldn't lend itself to a very good reading experience. And I don't think you could really collect by story order because the titles weren't really coordinated that meticulously. There was a loose continuity between books, but I didn't think you could ever truly make sense of them as one big story. And it just gets more complicated once more titles get added.
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Marvel Team-Up omnibuses would be welcome!

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Got to disagree with you on it not being a very good reading experience. "In order" would be published order. I did it as a kid and it wasn't complicated.

Why would published order by an issue? Anyway, doesn't really matter as they ain't gonna do it unless they get all the omnibuses out and then want to find a new way to milk the cow.

DC did it for a minute with their (since abandoned) Chronicles series for various super-heroes. It was great until they quit. :(

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Pretty sure they said this is coming in the next year or two. Which I would definitely pick up.

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I'd like to see an Omnibus of Robert Kirkman's run on MTU, with the story he wrote for Spider-Man Unlimited included.

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What do you know, Marvel Team-Up Omnibus vol. 1 is coming out this December:

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Glad to hear this. But we already know the Saturday Night Live issue is going to be a problem. Any other rights issues for Marvel Team-up? I can't remember if Conan, Master Of Kung Fu or any others that seem to drift in and out on rights, were in various issues.

And I was wrong with my old post about the Web Of Spider-Man Omnibus being released in August. It was actually released this week.

Three different covers:

https://media.instocktrades.com/large/SEP240932.jpg

https://media.instocktrades.com/large/SEP240934.jpg

https://media.instocktrades.com/large/SEP240933.jpg

I love me some Zeck, but the Vess cover speaks to me more for Web. Middle cover is Laroque.

I plan to probably collect all of the three main titles until they go up to McFarlane. I have his omnibus and will finish with him. They rest of the stuff I can just read online if I want to. I like having the stuff I grew up with to read physically.

Still wish they had gone through every appearance chronologically though, dammit.

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It looks like that omnibus doesn't include Giant-Size Spider-Man #3, with Doc Savage (it includes the first 3 MMWs, and that was in MMW 3). I remember when the MMW was released, it was mentioned that it might be the only time it was reprinted.
Other than that, the only issue skipped in the MMWs is the one with Red Sonja (even the SNL issue was released, even though it didn't seem like it was going to be)

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A few more coming up, Web of Spider-Man 2, Brand New Day 3 and Amazing Spider-Man 7


ASM 7 is even smaller than 6 was, but I guess they did it that way so that they wouldn't overlap with the Stern omnibus.

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What they did splitting up Amazing Spidey #6 and #7 omnibus like they did is sheer greed. Marvel's pricing tactics on omnibuses have gotten out of hand, especially how the printing quality keeps going down. I'm not sure how they plan to go forward with all the creator-focused Amazing Spidey volumes covering most of the post-Stern era.

No idea why Marvel and DC are pumping out so many omnibuses in 2025 and 2026 at the same time. Makes collecting more than a couple heroes almost impossible. DC's stuff takes sometimes years going out of print, while Marvel ones can disappear after a couple of months.

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Well, I sold my Stern one awhile back because I knew eventually, they would get to his stuff in the various consecutive omnibuses. I hope they don't fuck up that shit.

I plan to dump my Byrne FF omnibuses as well because they actually skip issues that Byrne was not involved in and that drives me nuts. I just plan to pick up his FF run when (if?) they get to them in the regular FF omnibuses.

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This might be a better spot for this than the Kickstarter thread: There's a collection of the Spider-man newspaper strip being Kickstarted soon (the first four years):

The Amazing Spider-Man Classic Newspaper Strips by Clover Press — Kickstarter

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That could fit in this, the KS thread, or the classic comic strip thread.

I think this route makes sense for classic strips considering how the market is drying up.