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Marvel Omnibi On The Way For 2012

Published Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:00:19 -0600

Last updated Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:41:34 -0600

Thanks to Amazon, we have a glimpse of upcoming Marvel plans. Lots of the usual collections of current and classic comics, with a few surprises.

In July 2012, at 904 pages we have the Secret Warriors Omnibus, collecting all issues of this Brian Bendis/Jonathan Hickman series with Alex Maleev, Stefano Caselli, Alessandro Vitti, Ed McGuinness, Gianluca Gugliotta, Mirko Colak – and at that page count, probably a bit more besides.

There is also the Punisher by Rick Remender Omnibus at a mere and slightly more manageable 768 pages, collecting Remender's run on the Punisher title, with all the Franken Castle you can handle.

It sells for $200-400 right now. But if you can hold on till next August, the New X-Men Omnibus featuring the entire Grant Morrison run on the book, with work from Frank Quitely, Marc Silvestri, Ethan Van Sciver, Leinil Francis Yu and more, can be bought for a fraction of that, when Marvel finally gets around to reprinting all 1120 pages of it.

Also, in a slight change of pace, the fourth volume of the Counter X themed crossover from years ago, with Warren Ellis, Ian Edginton, Whilce Portacio and the like. The first three volumes were published back in 2008. The final fourth volume at the end of 2012. No, I have no idea why… probably something to do with X-Man: The Man Who Fell to Earth

Ditto for Hulk: From the UK Vaults reprinting the Marvel UK Hulk stories by the likes of Steve Moore, Steve Parkhouse, John Marshal, Kevin Gosnell, Steve Dillon, John Bolton, Paul Neary and Dave Gibbons. Not a bad bit of credit dropping there.

But there's also The Secret History of the Marvel Universe: Jack Kirby and the Moonlighting Artists at Martin Goodman's Empire… not from Marvel Comics, obviously. Here's the synopsis.

Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman had tentacles into a publishing world that might have made that era's conservative American parents lynch him on his front porch. Marvel was but a small part of Goodman's publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalistic story books (known as "pulps") and magazines, featuring sexually-charged detective and romance short fiction, and celebrity gossip scandal sheets. And artists like Jack Kirby, who was producing Captain America for eight-year-olds, were simultaneously dipping their toes in both ponds.

The Secret History of Marvel Comics tells this parallel story of 1930s/40s Marvel Comics sharing offices with those Goodman publications not quite fit for children.

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