What titles should Marvel publish instead of the current lineup?

[skyvolt2000]

My list-

MAIN RULE-NO book is to be written for trades. If you can tell your story in 3-4-DO IT.

Back ups will eat up 4-6 pages

I will aim for 30 a month but no more than 40 (not counting Star Wars of Conan)

Monthly books

Amazing Spider-Man (Peter)
Spectacular Spider-Man (Miles)
Fantastic Four
Deadpool
Daredevil
Thor (Odin with Jane or Lady Sifi backups)
Uncanny X-Men
Wolverine (Logan)
Black Panther
Hulk (Bruce Banner with Cho backups)
Cap America (Steve with Falcon backups)
Iron man (TOny with Riri backups)
Ms Marvel
Carol Danvers
Avengers
Venom
GOTG
Dr Strange
Moon Knight
Inhumans
4 OPEN slots for ANYBODY (Including the guys with 6 month runs just to see if they can do 12 a year)

6 months only with only 6 active any any given time
Cho Hulk
Falcon
Riri Williams
X-Force
X-Factor
Runaways
New Warriors
Luke Cage
Spider-Gwen
Spider-Woman
Moon Girl
Squirrel Girl
Nova (Sam)
Nova (Rich)
If you have a tv show or movie-you get a 6 month run automatically

One shot or some type of book BELOW $7.99 (IDW does this a lot)
At least 4-7 a month.
The goal with this is at least every Marvel character gets a shot.
And it will be REQUIRED that half be POC, LGBT & female.
Also I will use this to test new talent or mix up teams.

The goal is make SOMEONE happy and I would provide a list AHEAD of time of whose 6 month run and one shots are coming out a YEAR ahead.

So for the store that has trouble selling POC books-they will know when they need to lower orders on Marvel and increase on others.

[comicscollector]

1-X-Men Gold.
2-X-Men Blue.
3-X-Men Red.
4-X-Force.
5-Amazing Spider-Man.
6-Spectacular Spider-Man.
7-Scarlet Spider.
8-Venom.
9-Wolverine (Logan)
10-Deadpool
11-Hulk.
12-Iron Man
13- Captain America
14- Thor
15-Daredevil
16- Doctor Strange
17-Black Panther.
18-Avengers.
19-West Coast Avengers.
20-Fantastic Four.
21-Shang Chi.Master of Kung Fu.
22-Ghost Rider.
23-Marvel Comics Present.
24-Silver Surfer.
25-Marvel Two in One.
26-New Warriors.
27-Black Cat.
28-Thunderbolts.
29-She Hulk.
30-Luke Cage & Iron Fist.
31-Guardians of the Galaxy & Adam Warlock.
32-Falcon.
33-Thanos.
34-Elektra.
35-Nova.
36-Man Thing.
37-Namor.
38-Defenders.
39-Punisher.
40-What If.
41-Mockingbird.

[Cel]

Crystar or nothin'!
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[DanMad1977]

Some of you guys post a ton of books Marvel should publish. Do you honestly think the sales situation would improve with so many books? Or is it just wishful thinking?

[Digifiend]

40ish isn't too many, they do about 70 now. DC does less in their DC Universe line (i.e. not Wildstorm, Young Animal, Hanna Barbera, Vertigo, etc) but only because a lot of what they do double ships (count those as two each and it's probably roughly the same amount).

[DanMad1977]

My taste would be around 10 books in the Marvel main universe. So i could read every Marvel book. With 40 or so, i just cant. Just a personal taste.

[KC]

Avengers
Young Avengers
Captain America
Invincible Iron Man
Mighty Thor
Black Panther
Sensational She-Hulk
Uncanny X-Men
X-Men
X-Force
Wolverine
Deadpool
Fantastic Four
Doctor Strange
Daredevil
Punisher
Heroes For Hire
Ms Marvel
Unbelievable Gwenpool
Amazing Spider-Man
Miles Morales: Spider-Man
Guardians of the Galaxy
Tales to Astonish (Every issue will be about a B-Z list character teaming-up with an A-list character)
Amazing Fantasy (Every issue will feature two stories. both stories will be about a character who does not appear in any of the other books)

[Fairyprincess]

Okay then......

1) avengers (traditional. Cap, thor, ironman)
2) new avengers
3)global avengers (team build from members of alpha flight/mi:13/big hero 6 and other international teams)
4)west coast avengers

5) captain America
6)iron man
7)tales of suspense (captain america/ironman team up)
8) captain marvel
9)antman
10)black panther

11) amazing spiderman (peter)
12) spiderman (miles)
13) slingers (spiderman based street level team)
14) venom
15) untold tales of spiderman

16)fantastic four
17) marvel two-in-one (thing and human torch)
18) hulk
19)she-hulk
20)guardians of the galaxy
21)silver surfer
22)inhumans

23)doctor strange
24)midnight sons
25)daredevil
26)punisher

27)xmen
28)uncanny xmen
29)wolverine
30)deadpool
31)cable and the x force
32)new mutants

[JudicatorPrime]

Some of you guys post a ton of books Marvel should publish. Do you honestly think the sales situation would improve with so many books? Or is it just wishful thinking?

I wonder if anyone here would actually buy all of the titles on their list. All of them.

[skyvolt2000]

Some of you guys post a ton of books Marvel should publish. Do you honestly think the sales situation would improve with so many books? Or is it just wishful thinking?

I wonder if anyone here would actually buy all of the titles on their list. All of them.

No comics book fan does that. Nor should it be expected.

He doesn't exist. His budget will not allow it. His house won't allow him all those books to be stored. His interests will not allow it.

Same with store owners who hate POC, LGBT & women lead books. Who are more than wiling to forfeit profit to keep those books out of the store.


As for sales-from the behavior we have seen a lot of books would still suffer based on who is on the cover.

There is NOTHING that can be done for Moon Girl, Squirrel Girl & Falcon in the floppy market. Their success is outside of it.

If stores have no issue with tons of unsold X-Men & Cap America books-nothing Marvel can do about that.


Everyone will FIND something to complain about.

[Skedatz]

I wonder if anyone here would actually buy all of the titles on their list. All of them.

There's a reason I'm so broke. My spending habits are self destructive. I'd probably do the same here.

[Sneakronicity]

I wonder if anyone here would actually buy all of the titles on their list. All of them.

I guess that depends: are we listing the books we think Marvel *should* publish to reach a broad audience and make the most money, or books that we *want* them to publish and would personally read? I know for me even at the height of my comic buying days it was still only about 6 a month, and I have very specific tastes that likely don't appeal to many people. I always seemed to gravitate toward books that ended up getting derailed by events and eventually cancelled lol.

[Incognito]

AVENGERS
1. Captain America
2. Invincible Iron Man
3. The Mighty Thor
4. The Incredible Hulk
5. Ant-Man & The Wasp
6. Black Panther
7. Captain Marvel
8. Doctor Strange
9. Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes

SPIDERMAN
10. The Amazing Spider-Man
11. The Spectacular Spiderman (Miles Morales)
12. Spider-Man 2099
13. Spider-Gwen
14. Venom

X-MEN
15. Astonishing X-Men
16. Uncanny X-Men
17. X-Force
18. Generation X
19. Deadpool
20. The Wolverine (Logan – He’s coming back and it may cause some effect on Old Man Logan series.)
21. All-New Wolverine (Laura – The book can be retiled as ‘Astonishing’ or ‘Uncanny Wolverine)

COSMIC
22. Guardians of the Galaxy
23. Fantastic Four
24. Inhumans
25. Silver Surfer

MARVEL KNIGHTS
26. Daredevil
27. Black Widow
28. Hawkeye
29. Heroes for Hire
30. Defenders

YOUNG HEROES
31. Ms. Marvel
32. Runaways
33. Champions

Inspired by Professor Thorgi’s ‘‘Let's Relaunch Marvel Part 4 - Marvel Knights, Champions, and More – ediTHORGIals’’

ANTHOLOGIES
34. Amazing Fantasy – Younger superheroes (Silk, Gwenpool, America and Ironheart)
35. Journey into Mystery – Magic or Sci-Fi (Loki, Blue Marvel, Scarlet Witch and Nova(s) – Richard Rider & Sam Alexander)
36. Strange Tales – X-Men solo book (Cable, Storm, Gambit and Legion)
37. Tales of Suspense – Darker and street-level anti-heroes (Blade, Ghost Rider, Cloak & Danger and Winter Soldier)

MAX (18+)
38. Punisher
39. Moon Knight
40. Jessica Jones

STAR (All Ages)
41. Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
42. The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
43. Power Pack

[kilderkin]

Jane being Thor may get some hate in some forums, but the sales speak for themselves and she does really well.

Yep - I'd like her to stay around in some format if she stops holding mjolnir

She's had a great journey and whilst I want thor to be back to his old self she definitely has a place as a lead hero imo

[kilderkin]

Unworthy Thor should have his own book along side Mighty Thor.
Vision was the best title since Secret Wars and should continue.
Black Widow should return.
Silver Surfer should come back with a different creative team.
Scarlet Witch should get another solo.

surfer as a more serious space adventure book I'd like to see

A bit like it's volume 3 in the 90s

And adam warlock in a book