Has there been any information released as to what the contents of the Spider-Man Complete Alien Costume Saga 2 will be?
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Yep, I'm very much aware of that. As you probably know yourself, getting hold of the Spider-Man, Frontline and Underside OHCs at a decent price is a pain. What with Civil War being incorporated into the next Captain America movie and 2015 planning to be a Marvel "event year", it would be cool for Marvel to either reissue the OHCs or bring out a set which I would be pretty keen on purchasing. I only have the event OHC so I could always give that away as a gift to a friend.
Civil War would be perfect for one of these multi-volume slipcase sets.
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Not yet, but I bet it includes some of the ASM contents of the Ghosts of the Past Epic Collection, plus some M:TU and PP:SM added for completion's sake.
And I would expect the remaining ASM contents of the aforementioned Epic to be covered (and then some) in the eventual Complete Alien Costume Saga Book 3.
My actual question is how many Alien Costume books there will be...
I guess what wonder is this: is it basically a series containi g the black costume era, ending with ASM 300, when Peter goes back to the red and blue? I know nothing about any trades collecting issues of this period but as a person ho does buy older back issues, this is an era I want to read more from.
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That's what I assume, it'll be a series of books that will collect all the "Amazing", "Spectacular" and "Web of Spider-Man" issues between Secret Wars and the return to the red and blues. I'd estimate it could be collected in 5 or 6 books total.
The collected issues from this era that I know have been published are:
Complete Alien Costume Saga Book 1 (ASM #252-259, SSM #90-95)
Ghosts of the Past Epic Collection (ASM #260-272)
Secret Wars II Omnibus (ASM #273-274, WoSM #6)
Spider-Man vs. Silver Sable (ASM #279-281)
The Wedding (ASM #290-292)
Kraven's Last Hunt (ASM #293-294, SSM #131-132, WoSM #31-32)
Life in the Mad Dog Ward (WoSM #33, ASM #295, SSM #133)
Amazing Spider-Man by Michelinie and McFarlane omnibus (#296-329 -far beyond the return to the classic costume-)
There could also be some Marvel Team-Up issues or Spidey cameos in other titles that I'm not listing.
So this Complete Alien Costume Saga line might be intended to cover all of this era, plus the gaps that have not been collected elsewhere.
So I haven't been on here for about 2-3 months and looking at the first page I didn't miss much.
I just got Spider-Man Back in Black OHC for $17 shipped from MCS, pretty sweet deal! Now I'm pretty sure I have all the Spidey HCs I want.
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I just got DD MMW vol.7---didn't know Marvel had once again altered the spine dress!
I'm sure it was discussed somewhere but since DD is the only MMW series I get and am just playing catch up I'm just noticing.
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Which Star Wars omnibus to get? The one with dust cover being a re-rendering of the original art? Or the Greg Hildebrandt painting on the dust cover?
For those curious, for the month of November:
Omnibus
Fantastic Four By Hickman Omnibus HC Vol. 2 (at $125) moved 1,059 direct market units.
Marvel 75th Anniversary Omnibus HC - 759
Oversized Hardcover
Thor God of Thunder HC Vol. 1 - 1,550
Original Sin HC (at $75) - 496 (after moving 3,220 units in October)
Large TPB
Guardians of the Galaxy by Abnett and Lanning Complete Coll Vol. 2 - 3,898
Silver Surfer Epic Collection When Calls Galactus - 1,664
Runaways Complete Collection Vol. 2 - 1,543
Avengers Epic Collection Earths Mightiest Heroes - 1,381
Captain America Epic Collection Captain Lives Again - 1,256
Deadpool By Daniel Way Complete Coll Vol. 1 - 1,127
Wolverine By Aaron Complete Collection Vol. 4 - 866
The second Hickman FF managed to hit it's mark, I would wager. Depending on the print run size, that Marvel 75th Omni might hit the clearance racks eventually like all of these hodge podge Omnibuses seem to do (Marvel NOW, etc.). Crappy event OHCs continue to sell extremely well. Thor GOT OHC sold well so we should definitely see that get a Vol. 2 if not an Omnibus too if they go the Hawkeye route on it. I don't know if those Epic collection numbers are any good. I think they overprinted the first ones they released because they all hit clearance recently. Great numbers as usual on the DnA GOTG Complete Collection. Maybe Marvel will cave and give us an OHC or Omni verson of that in the future.