Marvel Imprints & Alternate Realities Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot

For the next two weeks, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted Marvel omnibus volumes every day! Today I’ll be looking at all of the omnibuses that don’t yet exist for Marvel’s Imprint & Alternate Reality comics.

This post explains titles and potential Marvel Imprints & Alternate Realities Omnibus Mapping for entries on the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot. You can vote right now (until 5 April 2024 @ midnight US ET) or watch our mega-length announcement stream reviewing every single voting option.

The tricky thing with this category is that Marvel’s Multiverse is infinite, which means there are always more alternate realty books we could uncover and figure out how to summarize for the poll. However, the alternate realities in this post represent the most-popular options from prior years of the poll. If you notice I’ve missed one, please comment!

Those alternate realities include Malibu Ultraverse, Marvel 1602, Marvel MAX, MC2, Ultimate Marvel, the many multiverses of What If, and several others listed below.

While Marvel’s history of publishing imprints isn’t quite so vast, there still have been 60+ sub-lines of Marvel Comics from the 1930s to the present day. Again, we didn’t capture 100% of these Marvel imprints! But, I think we did a good job of catching the biggest imprints that lasted the longest and had the most shared continuity (whether that was just with themselves or with the Marvel Universe as a whole).

Those imprints include Crossgen, Marvel 2099, Marvel UK, and New Universe.

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for my explanations. Or, if you’ve already voted, learn why the team behind the poll decided on these books and titles – including some of my mistakes and regrets as one of the editors of the options on the final poll.

Or… just find some great comics to read!

Remember: These mappings are just my suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes and build your personal reading list, but your vote on the poll is NOT an endorsement of my specific map. It’s a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period.

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CrossGen Omnibus Mapping: The Sigilverse

Marvel’s Crossgen imprint has already seen two omnibuses of its most-popular series, Sigil and Mystic. We could see the entire remainder of the so-called “Sigilverse” shared universe collected in just 11 books!

Krisis Regrets: I think I could have combined The Path and Route 66 into “Crossgen: The Forge – The Path & Route 66,” but we really tried to stay away from over-mapping the poll options. If the Path gets tons of votes and Route 66 doesn’t, Marvel can decide how to map it.

Crossgen: Crux Omnibus – Crux (2001) #1-33
Crossgen: Meridian Omnibus – Meridian (2000) #1-44
Crossgen: Negation Omnibus
- Negation (2001) #1-27
- Negation: Lawbringer (2002) #1
- Mark of Charon (2003) #1-5
- Negation War (2004) #1-2
Crossgen: Route 666 Omnibus – Route 66 (2022) #1-22
Crossgen: Ruse Omnibus
- Ruse (2001) #1-26
- Archard’s Agents (2003 A Most Convenient Murder, The Case of the Puzzled Pugilist, & Deadly Dare
Crossgen: Scion Omnibus – Scion (2000) #1-43
Crossgen: Sojourn Omnibus – Sojourn (2001) #1-34
Crossgen: The First Omnibus – The First (2000) #1-37
Crossgen: The Path Omnibus – The Path (2002) #1-23
Crossgen: Way of the Rat Omnibus
- The Way of the Rat (2002) #1-24
- The Silken Ghost (2003) #1-5
Crossgen Companion (including Brath, Chimera, Crossgen Chronicles, El Cazador, & Kiss Kiss Bang Bang)
- Brath (2003) #1-14
- Chimera (2003) #1-4
- CrossGenesis (2000) #1
- Crossgen Chronicles (2000) #1-8 [Some of which will necessarily be collected in the other omnibuses, but should still also be included here in full]
- El Cazador (2003) #1-6 & El Cazador: The Bloody Ballad of Blackjack Tom (2004) #1
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2004) #1-5
- Solus (2003) #1-8

Malibu Ultraverse Omnibus Mapping

Malibu’s Ultraverse remains in long term legal limbo, with Marvel employees staying mum on if we ever could see it reprinted. However, with books like ROM, Micronauts, and Godzilla hitting omnibus this year, nothing seems impossible!

This is by no means a comprehensive mapping of the Malibu Ultraverse – but, it does include the biggest, longest-running titles with omnibus-lengthed runs. I might have missed some obvious crossover issues or key appearances, as I’m not intimately familiar with these runs since I am still working on a collecting guide for them.

I’m very curious to see how these books do on the poll – can any of them crack the Top 60?!

Krisis Regrets: I probably should have included The Strangers (1993), which was 24 issues, and Prototype (1993), which was 19. However, everything past that was too brief to stand as its own omnibus and would need mapping to see how it could best fit together (or, simply fit in with some of these other omnibus-sized books). As long as these all garner a few votes, I’ll definitely work with the team to map more of the Ultraverse titles for next year!

Ultraverse: Firearm – Codename: Firearm (1993) #0-18 and Codename: Firearm (1995) #0-5
Ultraverse: Freex – Freex (1993) #1-18 & Giant-Size Freex
Ultraverse: Hardcase – Hardcase (1993) #1-26 & Hardcase Premiere Edition (and maybe the “Spine” crossover issues)
Ultraverse: Mantra –
- Mantra (1993) #1-24 & is Giant Size Mantra
- Lord Pumpkin / Necromantra (1995) #1-4 (Mantra stories, only)
- Mantra (1995) #∞ & 1-7
- Mantra – Spear of Destiny (1995) #1-2
- Issues of the “Spine” crossover
Ultraverse: Prime
- Prime (1993) #½, 1-26, & Prime: Gross and Disgusting
- Ultraverse Double Feature: Prime and Solitaire (1994) #1
- Power of Prime (1995) #1-4
- Prime (1995) #∞ & 1-15
- Prime / Captain America (1996) #1
- Prime vs. the Incredible Hulk (1996) #1
Ultraverse: Rune
- Rune (1994) #0-9 & Giant Size Run
- Rune (1995) #∞ & 1-7
- Rune/Silver Surfer (1995) #1
- Rune: Hearts of Darkness (1996) # 1-3
- Rune vs Venom (1996) #1
Ultraverse: The Night Man
- The Night Man (1993) #1-23 & The Night Man: The Pilgrim Conundrum Saga #1
  The Night Man (1995) #∞ & 1-4
  The Night Man vs Wolverine (1995) #1
  The Night Man/ Gambit (1996) #1-3
Ultraverse: UltraForce
- UltraForce (1994) #0 & 1-10
- Black September
  - UltraForce/Avengers (1995) Prelude [AKA UltraForce #11]
  - Avengers/UltraForce (1995) #1
  - UltraForce/Avengers (1995) #1
  - Black September (1995) #∞
- UltraForce (1995) #∞ & 1-15
- UltraForce / Spider-Man (1996) #1
- maybe also Ultraverse Year Zero: The Death of the Squad (1995) #1-4
- maybe also the four issues of The Phoenix Resurrection

Marvel 2099 Omnibus Mapping

As wild as this is to think about Marvel’s mid-90s line of Marvel 2099 is just four omnibuses away from completion now that Marvel has covered the original runs of Spider-Man 2099, X-Men 2099, and Ghost Rider 2099 in omnibus! Omar offered to sum these up for the poll, but I told him I already knew exactly what these four books would be. All of these titles are covered in my Guide to Marvel 2o99.

Marvel 2099: Doom 2099 – This would be a big book, at a minimum of 48 issues but possibly over 50! Hopefully Marvel wouldn’t cannibalize the mapping to push out an Ellis-only volume, as the other volume would likely wind up abandoned.

It would collect Doom 2099 (1993) #1-44; 2099 Special: The World of Doom (1995); 2099 A.D. (1995) #1, Apocalypse, & Genesis; elements from the “Fall of the Hammer” crossover (Doom skips Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #16, so it could be omitted, Ravage 2099 (1992) #14, X-Men 2099 (1993) #5, & Punisher 2099 (1993) #13), and potentially some issues or subplot pages from other titles during “World of Doom” and “After Doom.”

Marvel 2099: Punisher 2099
This would collect The Punisher 2099 (1993) #1-34 and potentially some elements from the “Fall of the Hammer” crossover (Spider-Man 2099 (1992) #16, X-Men 2099 (1993) #5, Doom 2099 (1993) #14, & Punisher 2099 (1993) #13)

Marvel 2099: Ravage 2099
This one would be a hard sell, since Ravage was the one all-original character in the 2099 line-up!

It would collect Ravage 2099 (1992) #1-33 and potentially some elements from the “Fall of the Hammer” crossover (Ravage only appears in X-Men 2099 (1993) #5, Doom 2099 (1993) #14, & Punisher 2099 (1993) #13).

Marvel 2099 Companion (including Hulk, Fantastic Four, Unlimited, World of Tomorrow, & Manifest Destiny)
This is the “everything else” book that could complete the original 2099 line, plus even collect some of its reduxes.

This would collect 2099 Unlimited (1993) #1-10, Hulk 2099 (1994) #1-10, Fantastic Four 2099 (1996) #1-8, 2099: World of Tomorrow (1996) #1-8, and 2099: Manifest Destiny (1998) OGN.

That’s 37 issues, though Unlimited and the OGN would push it to over 40 issues worth of content. To that, Marvel could optionally add its the 10 issues from its pair of mid-00s returns to the setting from Marvel Knights 2099 (Black Panther 2099 (2004) #1, Daredevil 2099 (2004) #1, Inhumans 2099 (2004) #1, Mutant 2099 (2004) #1, & Punisher 2099 (2004) #1) and Timestorm 2009/2099 (Timestorm 2009/2099 (2009) #1-4, Timestorm 2009/2099: Spider-Man (2009) #1, & Timestorm 2009/2099: X-Men (2009) #1).

Marvel UK Omnibus Mapping

I am probably one of just a few dozen fans in the entire world who not only owns every single issue of the early-90s Marvel UK imprint, but also owns enough extras that I can build my own custom bindings of each title complete with all of its tie-ins!

Seeing any of this collected once seemed completely improbable, but we saw a Knights of Pendragon omnibus in 2022 that was demanded by virtually nobody on the entire internet – so, who knows what’s possible when it comes to Marvel UK Omnibus volumes!

First, these two books technically precede the 90s continuity and weren’t meant to exist in Marvel 616 continuity (though one of them became adopted, sort0f):

Marvel UK: Death’s Head, The Original Years
This is a tricky book, since Death’s Head made some appearances in licensed books published by Marvel UK before he was cemented as his own character – and Marvel probably wouldn’t shell out for those reprint rights just for the mildly popular Death’s Head!

That said, this could include the High Noon Tex one-page intro script; material from Transformers UK (1984) #113-114, 117-118, 120, 133-134, & 146-151; material from Dr. Who Magazine (1979) #135; Dragon’s Claws (1988) #4-5 & 6 (AKA Goldilux); Death’s Head (1988) #1-10; Death’s Head: Body In Question (1990) #1; and material from the Life & Times of Death’s Head trade paperback and Incomplete Death’s Head #1-12 (which reprinted material in this list beginning with Dr. Who Magazine, also adding material from Dr. Who Magazine (1979) #140 & 173, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #76, & The Sensational She-Hulk (1989) #24).

Krisis Regret: Dragon’s Claws (1988) is too short to be its own omnibus, but could probably be combined with Death’s Head since he appears in three of the 10 self-contained issues.

Marvel UK: Night Raven (1979 – 1985)
This has already been printed as a 275-page trade paperback. I don’t think there is anything other than behind-the-scenes material that could be added to expand it. Despite that, there is demand for this omnibus every year

That book collect Night Raven material from Hulk Comic (1979) #1-20; Savage Action (1980) #1-4, 6, 8, 12-15; Marvel Super-Heroes (UK) (1979) #382-386 & 389-395; The Daredevils (1983) #6-11; The Mighty World of Marvel (1983) #7-17; The Savage Sword of Conan (UK) (1977) #85-92; and Captain Britain (1985) #10-12

Then, we come to the early-to-mid 90s run of original characters who were a part of the Marvel Universe!

Marvel UK: Dark Angel
Originally known as Hell’s Angel until a copyright dispute, I’ve always been enamoured with Shevaun Haldane. She had a super-cool design and a personality that distinguished her from a lot of the more-disposable Marvel UK characters.

This would primarily collect Hell’s Angel (1992) #1-5 and Dark Angel (1992) #6-16. I’d also argue that it should double-dip the Knights of Pendragon omnibus to include all of Mys-Tech Wars (1993) #1-4, since it was primarily a crossover with Dark Angel. Also, Dark Guard (1993) #1-4 was really Dark Angel’s team, so it belongs here even more than it does below in Death’s Head II or Motormouth & Killpower. Finally, the resolution of Dark Angel’s story was only ever printed in black-and-white in Italian (I’m not joking!) in Marvel Top 6: Wild Angels (1996) OGN – so we’d need to get that translated!

Dark Angel is in Battletide (1992) #1-4, but I think that should stay in the Killpower volume, below. That last OGN also featured Wildthing, so we could put Wildthing (1993) #1-7 as a little treat.

Marvel UK: Death’s Head II
I love this stupid, ugly character – often drawn beautifully by Liam Sharp!

This would primarily collect 23 issues of Death’s Head II (1992) #1-4, Death’s Head II 2 #1-16, Death’s Head II & The Origin of Die-Cut #1-2, and Death’s Head Gold.

He also made a lot of guest appearances across the line, including in Warheads (1992) #5-7 and Black Axe (1993) #1-3

I think it also makes sense for it to collect a further 20 issues from Die Cut vs. G-Force (1993) #1-2, Die Cut (1993) #1-4, Death Wreck #1-4, Death3 #1-4, Death Metal #1-4, and Death Metal vs. Genetix (1993) #1-2. Death’s Head doesn’t appear in these issues, but they all relate directly to him.

It could add appearances in Mys-Tech Wars (1993) #3-4 (though I’d argue this belongs in Dark Angel), Battletide (1992) #1-4, Battletide II (1993) #1-14, Knights of Pendragon (1992) #14-15, and Dark Guard (1993) #1-4 (again, better in Dark Angel). Death’s Head II is enough of a presence in Battletide that it could make sense to double-dip it here as well in Motormouth & Killpower instead, below.

Marvel UK: Motormouth & Killpower
This book would be on the slimmer side, collecting only Motormouth (1992) #1-5, Motormouth & Killpower (1992) #6-12, and Killpower: The Early Years (1993) #1-4.

However, it could add Mys-Tech Wars (1993), #1-4, Battletide (1992) #1-4, Battletide II (1993) #1-14, and Dark Guard (1993) #1-4, which all starred Killpower. These could be double-dipped across all of these books, but there’s a case to be made that at least the Battletide issues should be exclusive to this volume to fill it out.

Marvel UK: The Gene Pool (Genetix, Gun Runners, & Gene Dogs)
The #1 choice of literally no one on the planet, the “Gene Pool” sub-line of Marvel UK included Codename: Genetix (1993) #1-6, Gene Dogs (1993) #1-4, and Gun Runner (1993) #1-6. You’d also add Death Metal vs. Genetix (1993) #1-2, obviously.

Krisis Regret: This is only 18 issues and I doubt it will get votes, so I should’ve just lumped it into Marvel UK Companion. I over-tuned this one thanks to my own obsessiveness.

Marvel UK: Warheads
This would collect the 16 issues of Warheads (1992) #1-14 and Warheads: Black Dawn (1993) #1-2.

Krisis Regret: Again, I should’ve just assumed this would be part of the Companion – or, at least, combined it with Gene Pool! Next year I will simplify this.

Marvel UK Companion (mini-series, including Black Axe, Super Soldiers, Shadow Riders, & Wild Thing)
This is an “everything else” volume that would collect 27 issues of its own, including Black Axe (1993) #1-7, Supersoldiers (1993) #1-8, Shadow Riders (1993) #1-4, Plasmer (1993) #1-4, Digitek (1992) #1-4.

We could add the contents of “The Gene Pool” and “Warheads” to that for a single companion volume at a hefty 61 issues – testing the limits of a single book!

However, we’d be abandoning Wild Thing (1993) #1-7 (if it’s not in Dark Angel, above) and Cyberspace 3000 (1993) #1-8 (though it is set in the future so not in continuity with the rest of the line, to the best of my knowledge).

Thus, I think we probably need two companion volumes that incorporate all of this material alongside “The Gene Pool” and “Warheads.” That is how we’ll present it on the poll next year.

Marvel Ultimate Universe Omnibus Mapping

See my Guide to Ultimate Marvel Comics for existing collections of all of this material!

This list of books almost comprehensively maps the original Marvel Ultimate Universe from start to finish. A few issues may not have an obvious home in these omnibuses, but these 11 books really might give us all a completed Ultimate Marvel bookshelf alongside of the omnibuses that are already released.

Ultimate Galactus Trilogy (including Ultimate Vision)
This would duplicate a long-out-of-print existing OHC that contains Ultimate Nightmare (2004) #1-5, Ultimate Secret (2005) #1-4, Ultimate Extinction (2006) #1-5, and Ultimate Vision (2007) #0, adding Ultimate Vision (2007-2008) #1-5

Ultimate Marvel: Ultimatum
This would recollect material from a number of separate Ultimatum-related collections for a single, complete story of this event that marked the end of the first phase of the Ultimate Universe.

It would include Ultimate Origins (2008) #1-4, March on Ultimatum (Ultimate Captain America (2008) Annual 1, Ultimate Fantastic Four/Ultimate X-Men Annual (2008) #1, Ultimate Hulk (2008) Annual 1, Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) Annual 03, Ultimate X-Men/Ultimate Fantastic Four Annual (2008) #1), March on Ultimatum Saga (2008) One-Shot, Ultimates 3 (2008) #1-5, Ultimatum (2009) #1-6, and Ultimatum Requiem (Ultimatum: Spider-Man Requiem (2009) #1-2, Fantastic Four Requiem (2009) #1, and X-Men Requiem (2009) #1).

It could also add 12 tie-in issues from the Ultimatum Companion – Marvel Spotlight: Ultimatum (2008) #1, Ultimate Fantastic Four (2004) #58-60, Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #129-133, Ultimate X-Men (2001) #98-100.

Ultimate Comics: Cataclysm & The End (2013 – 2015)
This would duplicate the existing oversize hardcover of Cataclysm: The Ultimates’ Last Stand, the collect anything from the end phase of Ultimate Marvel that didn’t map into another omnibus before resolving with Ultimate End (2015).

The Cataclysm material is Hunger #1-4 and followed by Cataclysm: The Ulimates’ Last Stand 1-5, Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man 1-3, Cataclysm: Ultimate X-Men 1-3, Cataclysm: Ultimates 1-3, Cataclysm 0.1, Survive 1. Available in oversized hardcover

Then, it would include material from All-New Ultimates (2014-2015) #1-12 (which could be in the X-Men book, below) and Ultimate FF (2014) #1-6.

Finally, the book would resolve with Ultimate End (2015) #1-5 (probably supported from some excerpted material from Hickman’s Avengers: Time Runs Out and Secret Wars (2015) #0).

Ultimate Fantastic Four Vol. 1
Ultimate Fantastic Four Vol. 2
This pair of volumes would collect Ultimate Fantastic Four (2004) #1-60 & Annual 1-2

You could argue they should also include Ultimate FF (2014) #1-6, but that’s so divorced from this run that I think it really belongs in the Cataclysm/End book, above.

Ultimate Marvel Team-Up (2001-2002)
This would collect Marvel Team-Up (2001-2002) #1-16 and Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) Special 1.

That’s pretty slim. However, it probably should also collect Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra (2003) #1-4 and Ultimate Elektra (2004) #1-5, which are preludes to this series.

Krisis Regret: I totally missed the Daredevil/Elektra connection to this series. I should’ve included them here and not in the Companion, which likely caused people to split votes!

Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 5
I still don’t understand why this book needs to exist since Miles Morales already has an omnibus, but Omar keeps talking about it! I guess if you know, you know!

Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates (2010 – 2015)
This is a catch-all volume to make sure we don’t lose any Ultimates material from the post-Ultimatum years of Ultimate Marvel.

It would collect Ultimate New Ultimates (2010) #1-5, Ultimate Captain America (2011) #1-4, Ultimate Avengers vs. New Ultimates (2011) #1-6 (which is also in Death of Ultimate Spider-Man), and Ultimate Comics Ultimates (2011) #1-30. From that final series, the first 12 issues of which would double-dip the new Ultimate Marvel by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus.

That’s 45 issues, to which we could also choose to add All-New Ultimates (2014-2015) #1-12 – but, I think it fits better in the Cataclysm/End book, above.

Ultimate X-Men Vol. 3
This will collect Ultimate X-Men (2001) #75-100, though it could get fancy and extend to include Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk (2006) #1-6, which occurred just prior to this run and were not in the OHC line of this title.

Ultimate Comics X-Men (2010 – 2013)
This would collect the post-Ultimatum X-Men material from Ultimate X (2010-2011) #1-5, Ultimate Comics X-Men (2011-2013) #1-33, and Ultimate Comics Wolverine (2013) #1-4.

It could optionally include All-New Ultimates (2014-2015) #1-12, since that team was lead by Kitty Pryde – but, I think it fits better in the Cataclysm/End book, above.

Ultimate Marvel Companion (Ultimate Adventures, Ultimate Daredevil & Elektra, Ultimate Elektra, Ultimate Iron Man 1 & 2, Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk, Ultimate Human)
This would be a grab-all book to collect anything not included the books above. I’m sure I’ve missed a few things! I didn’t mention it in the poll listing, but it could also collect Ultimate Power (2006-2008) #1-9.

New Universe Omnibus Mapping

Marvel’s New Universe was the company’s first attempt to launch a completely new line of books with a shared continuity. These books had a solid pedigree of creators behind them and all lasted multiple years, so fans of a certain age still have nostalgia for them – or, at least, some curiosity.

Add to that the fact that Hickman tapped Star Brand & Nightmask for his Avengers run and I think there is some sustaining interest in these titles! We could knock out the entire line in just five books!

New Universe: DP 7 – D.P.7 (1986) #1-32 & Annual 1 and Untold Tales of The New Universe: D.P.7 (2006) #1
New Universe: Justice – Justice (1986) #1-32 and Untold Tales of The New Universe: Justice (2006) #1
New Universe: Psi-Force – Psi-Force (1986) #1-32 & Annual 1 and Untold Tales of The New Universe: Psi-Force (2006) #1
New Universe: Star Brand & Nightmask
- Nightmask (1986) #1-12
- Star Brand (1986) #1-19 & Annual 1
- Spitfire and the Troubleshooters (1986) #5
- Marvel Graphic Novel: The Pitt (1987) OGN SC
- Untold Tales Of The New Universe: Nightmask (2006) #1
- Untold Tales Of The New Universe: Star Brand (2006) #1
New Universe Anthology (Kickers Inc., Mark Hazzard, Spitfire) – This would be a sizable book, topping 40 issues before even adding the “Untold Tales” material.
- Kickers, Inc. (1986) #1-12
- Spitfire and the Troubleshooters (1986) #1-9 & Codename: Spitfire (1987) #10-13
- Mark Hazzard: Merc (1986) #1-12 & Annual 1
- The Draft (1988) OGN
- The War (1989) #1-4
- Optionally, “Untold Tales of the New Universe” material, which would double-dip from the individual books but could be nice to have all in one place as it was originally collected in paperback back in 2006:
  - Amazing Fantasy (2004) #18-19
  - New Avengers (2005) #16
  - Untold Tales Of The New Universe: D.P.7 (2006) #1
  - Untold Tales Of The New Universe: Justice (2006) #1
  - Untold Tales Of The New Universe: Nightmask (2006) #1
  - Untold Tales Of The New Universe: Psi-Force (2006) #1
  - Untold Tales Of The New Universe: Star Brand (2006) #1

Marvel What If? Omnibus Mapping

What If? is Marvel’s official home to multiversal shenanigans. Learn about the titular “What If?” questions behind all of these issues in my Guide to What If?

What If?: Into the Multiverse, Vol. 3 (1995 – 1998)
This is a straight-forward book Marvel is sure to collect! It will include the remainder of the 1989 series with What If…? (1989) #76-114 & -1

What If?: Into the Multiverse, Vol. 4 (2004 – 2013)
Marvel revived the What If? title starting in 2004, but switched over to releasing a series of 5-6 one-shot issues each year. That reflected the change in the comics market – it was much easier to sell a new #1 with an explicit “What If” scenario in the title rather than an ongoing anthology series.

Marvel much later released a What If? (2010) #200, which accounted for the original 47 issues, the 1988 one-shot, and the 114 issues of the 1989 series. That means there are roughly 38 issues to include in this volume – plus, some What If? mini-series that followed issue #200 prior to Marvel Now. See the Guide to What If? if you want to know the title of every one of those one-shots!

What The–?! (1988 – 1992)
This was more of a parody book than an actual What If, but it ran for an omnibus-length of issues!

This would collect What The–?! (1988) #1-26. I’m sure we could find plenty of other silly parody material from this period to stuff into this volume to thicken it up!

Marvel Alternate Realities Omnibus Mapping

I don’t claim to be an expert on Marvel’s Alternate Realities. In fact, I am a known hater when it comes to trips outside of the Marvel 616! However, based on prior polls, we know some of these books are in demand – however improbable it might be that we ever see them printed!

Fury (MAX) by Garth Ennis
This would collect Fury (2001) #1-6, Fury: Peacemaker (2006) #1-6, and Fury MAX (2012) #1-13, as well as a few of his appearances in Punisher MAX comics.

Krisis Regrets: I think we could have included a catch-all “Marvel Max Companion” volume that could include a number of out-of-continuity MAX series. We don’t need to map that exactly – people who want it know what they want it to contain.

Marvel 1602
This would be a complete collection of Marvel’s 1602 reality, originally conceived by Neil Gaiman. It would include all of Marvel 1602 (2003), Marvel 1602: New World (2005), Marvel 1602: Fantastick Four (2006), Marvel 1602: New World / Fantastick Four (2009), and Spider-Man 1602 (2009) – as well as optionally the Secret Wars series 1602 Witch Hunter Angela (2015).

Marvel Adventures Omnibus Vol. 1
This would be a catch-all collect of Marvel’s 00s all-ages universe.

This could begin to collect Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four (2005), Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four in Do Your Thing (2005), Marvel Adventures Hulk (2007), Marvel Adventures Iron Man (2007), Marvel Adventures Iron Man Custom Comic (2009), Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (2005), Marvel Adventures Spider-Man (2010), Marvel Adventures Spider-Man Custom Comic (2009), Marvel Adventures Super Heroes (2008), Marvel Adventures Super Heroes (2010), Marvel Adventures Super Heroes Custom Comic (2009), Marvel Adventures The Avengers (2006), Marvel Adventures Thor: Bringers of the Storm (2011), and Marvel Adventures Two-In-One (2007)

Marvel Mangaverse
I originally omitted this from the poll options, but was reprimanded by voters quickly enough to amend my mistake! This has already been collected together in a 2017 Complete Collection that is under 400 pages, so I’m not sure of its chances to become an omnibus – but, why not shoot for the stars!

It would include Marvel Mangaverse (2002), Marvel Mangaverse: Avengers Assemble! (2002), Marvel Mangaverse: Eternity Twilight (2002), Marvel Mangaverse: Fantastic Four (2002), Marvel Mangaverse: Ghost Riders (2002), Marvel Mangaverse: New Dawn (2002), Marvel Mangaverse: Punisher (2002), Marvel Mangaverse: Spider-Man (2002), and Marvel Mangaverse: X-Men (2002).

Marvel Noir Vol. 1 (X-Men Noir, Punisher Noir, Iron Man Noir ], ETC)
This would collect the entire Noir line from Daredevil Noir (2009) #1-4, Luke Cage Noir (2009) #1-4, Iron Man Noir (2010) #1-4, Punisher Noir (2009) #1-4, Spider-Man Noir (2008) #1-4, Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face (2009) #1-4, Wolverine Noir (2009) #1-4, Weapon X Noir (2010) #1, X-Men Noir (2008) #1-4, X-Men Noir: Mark of Cain (2009) #1-4 (but not Fantastic Four: Grimm Noir (2020) #1, a 616-Marvel comic, or Spider-Man Noir (2020) #1-5, which was not part of the Noir line).

These were previously collected in three paperbacks: Marvel Noir: Daredevil / Cage / Iron Man (328 pages), Marvel Noir: Spider-Man / Punisher (320 pages), and Marvel Noir: Wolverine and the X-Men (368 pages). That means this book would weigh in at about 1000 pages – a perfect omnibus size.

Note that if you want all of Spider-Man Noir – including his participation with Spider-Verse, you should vote for the “Spider-Man Noir” poll option.

Marvel vs. Wildstorm
Speaking of shooting for the stars, with Wildstorm now a DC property it’s not incredibly likely we’d ever see this collection – plus, there’s just not that much material to collect. But, this always garners votes and we’d hear suggestions for it if we excluded it.

This could include Deathblow/Wolverine (1996), Backlash/Spider-Man (1996), WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Golden Age (1997), WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Silver Age (1997), WildC.A.T.s/X-Men: The Modern Age (1997), and X-Men/WildC.A.T.s: The Dark Age (1998).

Commenter Matt pointed out that I missed including Spider-Man / Gen13 (1996) #1, Gen13 / Generation X (1997) #1, Gen13 / Fantastic Four (2001) #1, plus all of the final issues of the Heroes Reborn series – Avengers (1996) #13, Captain America (1996) #13, Fantastic Four (1996) #13, and Iron Man (1996) #13 – all of which included WildStorm heroes!

Maybe I’m forgetting about something else (although I own it all!), but even with some of those issues being OGN-length this isn’t very much content.

Personally, I’d suggest going broader and including all of Image, so we can also pick up X-Force/Youngblood (1996), Badrock/Wolverine (1996), Ballistic/Wolverine (1997), Witchblade/Wolverine (2004), The Darkness/Wolverine (2006), Cyberforce / X-Men (2007), and all of the 1997 Top Cow crossover Devil’s Reign (Devil’s Reign 1/2: Silver Surfer/Witchblade (1997) #1/2, Weapon Zero/Silver Surfer (1997) #1, Cyblade/Ghost Rider (1997) #1, Ghost Rider/Ballistic (1997) #1, Ballistic/Wolverine (1997) #1, Wolverine/Witchblade (1997) #1, Witchblade/Elektra (1997) #1, Elektra/Cyblade (1997) #1, & Silver Surfer/Weapon Zero (1997) #1).

That material would fill this book out to a respectable omnibus length… although it would require negotiating rights with two additional studios (and I don’t think anyone wants to negotiate for Youngblood rights anymore).

Krisis Regrets: We should not have included this on the poll. It’s just a sliver of what are now more broadly considered to be Marvel/DC crossovers and DC is already omnibus-izing whatever they can of that material.

MC2 (Earth-982)
While the main star of MC2 was Spider-Girl, it included a number of other short-lived series that could be collected into a Marvel MC2 omnibus.

This could include, A-Next (1998), American Dream (2008), Avengers Next (2007), The Buzz (2000), Darkdevil (2000), Fantastic Five (1999), Fantastic Five (2007), J2 (1998), Last Hero Standing (2005), Last Planet Standing (2006), and Wild Thing (1999)

(I think material from Web of Spider-Man (2009) will wind up in a Spider-Girl volume, but I could be wrong.)

Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja (1989 – 1990)
This would collect Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja (1989) #1-16, a series set in an alternate future of the Marvel Universe.

Spidey Super Stories
This would collect Spidey Super Stories (1974) #1-57, all-ages tales produced alongside Children’s TV Workshop (Electric Company).

Supreme Power: The Complete Saga (2003 – 2011)
This would collect all of the Supreme Power material in one place for the first time!

It could include Supreme Power (2003), Supreme Power: Hyperion (2005), Supreme Power: Nighthawk (2005), Ultimate Power (2006), and Supreme Power (2011).

Comments

Matt says

April 1, 2024 at 9:12 am

Hi Peter.
Re the Wildstorm book, you have missed the gen13 titles (thats at least 4 titles), plus the Heroes Reborn issue 13s.

Re the chance of it happening, you make it sound like this is near impossible. But with Marvel and DC working together it now seems rather likely, albeit maybe as a DC publication rather than Marvel.
Same for the Aliens and Pred vs DC omni

- krisis says
  
  April 1, 2024 at 9:52 am
  
  Thanks for the catch, Matt! I’ll add those to the post. Honestly, finally getting the Heroes Reborn 13s hadn’t even occurred to me.
  
John F. Pannozzi says

May 20, 2024 at 11:28 pm

You missed Team X/Team 7 (1996) #1 for Marvel vs. WildStorm

John F. Pannozzi says

May 20, 2024 at 11:30 pm

And Generation X/Gen13 (1997) #1 is also missing.