All New Marvel Collected Editions

[Hi-Fi]

I've ordered about 14 books from the "damaged" sale, and they've all been in better condition than Amazon's "new" books.

lol that's great to know. Maybe I should just risk it.

[TomSlick]

is the Ben Reilly Saga essential to the story?

I'd say yes since it finishes what was started and brings everything full circle.

[OldManBrian]

lol that's great to know. Maybe I should just risk it.

Obviously it's going to vary from book to book, but I bought a "damaged" recently oop omni a few months ago. I was expecting it would likely have some pretty dinged corners, etc. Turned out the only thing wrong with it was a hole not much bigger than a quarter in the shrink wrap on the back cover. There wasn't even a scuff on the dust jacket itself. I couldn't have gotten a better copy if I'd bought it undamaged.

[acnblj]

The promise with the Epics is that they will (eventually) collect everything chronologically up to a certain point (mid 90s?). Omnis of course are oversized HC books that can look gorgeous but you never know what is coming out in Omni or when. There is probably a case to be made for collecting both to get everything. But if you are really against doubling up, Epics are your best bet, but you will be patient either way. Every year they seem to release more. Omnis will miss some issues, Epics, if they live up to the promise, will not.

I ordered ASM Epic Collection- Great Power today. Really looking forward to reading it. Thanks for your help/suggestions.

[ER Prest]

I've ordered about 14 books from the "damaged" sale, and they've all been in better condition than Amazon's "new" books.

lol that's great to know. Maybe I should just risk it.

Basically what SJ said. Some I couldn't even tell what the damage was. Everything was in tolerance or better than I expected.

[The Flicker Fade]

Between masterworks, omnibus, epics, and the various Clone Saga/Alien Costume trades, you can have almost all of ASM on your shelves already. Just missing two MMWs leading up to the Stern omnibus, the epic immediately following it, three-ish epics leading up to the Clone Saga from where the Robin Bound epic ends, and like two epics before The Next Chapter . . . right?

Sounds like a lot, but it really isn't.

[Ivan P91]

is the Ben Reilly Saga essential to the story?

Absolutely. The 5 Clone Saga books and 6 Ben Reilly ones are, really, 11 books of the one long storyline. To read of Ben's time as Spider-Man, and to find out how the whole Saga wrapped up, you'll need them.

...and like two epics before The Next Chapter . . . right?

Between Clone/Ben Reilly Saga (ending at ASM #418) and Next Chapter there's a total of two runs totalling 18 issues uncollected (#419-431 and #436-439). The remainder is available in Identity Crisis, Spider-Hunt and The Gathering of Five.

[RickyMeister]

Does anyone here have the Infinity OHC and could tell me if its glued or sewn binding? Thanks

[Taral-DLOS]

The promise with the Epics is that they will (eventually) collect everything chronologically up to a certain point (mid 90s?). Omnis of course are oversized HC books that can look gorgeous but you never know what is coming out in Omni or when. There is probably a case to be made for collecting both to get everything. But if you are really against doubling up, Epics are your best bet, but you will be patient either way. Every year they seem to release more. Omnis will miss some issues, Epics, if they live up to the promise, will not.

Regarding the chronological range of Epic Collections, I just got the Wolverine Epic Collection Volume 12: Shadows of Apocalypse, and everything published in that one came out in 1999-2000. Not counting the Star Wars ones, that appears to be the "latest" so far (Daredevil goes to 1998, a few go to 1997).

I've been digging Epic Collections so far. I grabbed the three Wolverine ones (1-16, 87-100, and 133-149, plus a bunch more). The first volume includes some Marvel Comics Presents, and I should expect subsequent early volumes would as well. I like that they try to be comprehensive. I've also grabbed the first two Silver Surfer ones (I really like how Volume 1 is just his appearances in Fantastic Four) and the first X-Men one (which I bought on the cheap; I want to replace my three "Essential Classic X-Men" black and white volumes for Epics if possible, but not overspend doing it.)

It is hard to predict them, of course, but the thrice-annual Hachette catalogue gives us a good preview for the next many months. The catalogue for January-April 2018 should be out in the next couple of weeks, I should think.

[Balakin]

Does anyone here have the Infinity OHC and could tell me if its glued or sewn binding? Thanks

it's sewn but glued to the spine.

[RickyMeister]

it's sewn but glued to the spine.

Like this? IMG_1111.jpg

[OldManBrian]

Does anyone here have the Infinity OHC and could tell me if its glued or sewn binding? Thanks

It's also about to be reprinted in its entirety in the soon to be released Avengers by Hickman v1 omni. If you're thinking about buying it, I'd just wait for that omni. It will have a much better binding.

[RickyMeister]

It's also about to be reprinted in its entirety in the soon to be released Avengers by Hickman v1 omni. If you're thinking about buying it, I'd just wait for that omni. It will have a much better binding.

Already have all the other hickman avengers hardcovers else i would of got that

[AstonishingXMan]

Sorry if these were already mentioned, I missed a lot of posts on vacation, but some X-Book Amazon Fish!

CABLE: THE NEMESIS CONTRACT - 400 pages
Contains Cable #59 to something. Hopefully it fattens up a bit and we get Cable #59-72, Annual 1999, and X-Man #46-47 (crossover) and nearly every Cable issue will be collected up to the 2000 Revolution relaunch.

Also...

CABLE & X-FORCE: ONSLAUGHT RISING - 360 pages
Probably contains... Cable #32-36, X-Force #49-58 or something close to that.

[Balakin]

Like this? IMG_1111.jpg

worse because the spine is flat
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