Spider-Man Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot

Until April 5, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted Marvel omnibus volumes every day! Now that we’re through with mapping mutants, we have one major Marvel hero left to tackle: Spider-Man!

This post explains titles and potential Spider-man 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.

Spider-Man has a truly staggering amount of material – at points, he has half as many issues each month as the X-Men, and they’re the whole of Homo Superior! Peter Parker is just one guy!

I don’t think we achieved quite the perfect full coverage we did with our X-Men poll options, but I don’t know if any Spider-Man fan will be truly disappointed with nearly three dozen omnibus options listed below for Spider-Man’s comics – both in and out of continuity.

As for Spider-Man’s Amazing Friends (and enemies, including a particularly venomous one), see the next post!

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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Spider-Man Omnibus Mapping: The 70s

Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 6
The Amazing Spider-Man classic Vol. 5 omnibus left off with issues #180 & Annual 11, taking us through 1978 and perfectly obeying the “3 Masterworks = 1 Omnibus” rule.

That means our next omnibus would collect Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #181-212, Annual 12-15, Spectacular Spider-Man Annual 1, and material from Mighty Marvel Comics Calendar 1978.

That would take us out of the 1970s and into 1981. The next omnibus would begin to double-dip the material in Spider-Man by Roger Stern, which clearly will exist as a creator-centric omnibus and not a key book in a shelf of complete, unbroken Spider-Man runs.

Marvel Team-Up Vol. 1
I’m surprised we haven’t yet seen this omnibus!

Would this obey the “3 Masterworks” rule and collect Marvel Team-Up (1972) #1-30, Daredevil (1964) #23, and Giant-Size Spider-Man (1974) #1-3?

I suspect this could be a Bronze Age omnibus line that gets slightly more aggressive in its mapping. This title has 150 issues, and it might be more attractive to Marvel to tackle that in four omnibuses rather than five. If that’s the case, this could also include Marvel Team-Up (1972) #31-40 and Giant-Size Spider-Man (1974) #4-5.

Spider-Man by Claremont and Byrne (Team-Up/Amazing)
A lot of people request this omnibus each year, which is why we made it a poll option. However, I just don’t think it’s a good idea – both the Team-Up and Amazing lines will get here eventually!

This would collect Claremont’s work on Team-Up from Marvel Team-Up (1972) #57-70, 74-77, 79-86, 88-89, & 100, which would be spread across the next 2-3 volumes of pure Team-Up omnibuses. Some of this was already in a Spider-Man by Byrne omnibus, but not all of it!

Krisis Regrets: We shouldn’t have put “Amazing” in the title of this – all of Byrne’s Amazing Spider-Man work is already collected in Spider-Man by John Byrne Omnibus (2019).

Spider-Man Omnibus Mapping: The 80s and 90s

Spectacular Spider-Man Vol. 2
This omnibus would entirely double-dip the Spectacular material in the Roger Stern omnibus (which collected #43-61), but that’s fine – it’s the only way we’re going to get a complete, unbroken run of Spectacular Spider-Man in omnibus on our shelves!

This will collect Spider-Man (1976) #43-79 & Annual 2-3.

Web of Spider-Man
Web of Spider-Man doesn’t have any Masterworks yet, so we don’t have an existing map and breakpoint to rely on.

I think it makes sense for this to collect Web of Spider-Man (1985) #1-34 (which would end right after Life in the Mad Dog War), or #1-43 (which would take us up to Amazing Spider-Man #300). Either way, it would also include Annual 1-4.

Krisis Regrets: This should have said “Vol. 1 (1985 – 1988)”

Spider-Man Black Costume Saga Aftermath
Let’s start with what we know: Later this year we’re getting a “Complete Black Costume Saga” omnibus.

That book will collect Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #252-263 & Annual 18; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #141-150 & Annual 7; Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #90-100 & Annual 4; and Web of Spider-Man (1985) #1.

This book would collect the next swath of material. How much? It depends on if it just focuses on Amazing Spider-Man or if it collects all three major titles.

A book just of Amazing Spider-Man could reasonably plug the gap entirely to Amazing Spider-Man by David Michelinie & Todd McFarlane Omnibus, which starts with Amazing Spider-Man #296. That means collecting fewer than 40 issues from #264-295 with Annuals included.

Instead, this could act as a sort of “Line-Wide Spider-Man” omnibus line, just collecting the next year of each of Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #264-274 & Annual 19, Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #101-110 & Annual 5, and Web of Spider-Man (1985) #2-11 & Annual 1, along with Marvel Graphic Novel 22: Amazing Spider-Man – Hooky OGN.

Your vote can be for either of those two maps!

Spider-Man by David Michiliene, Mark Bagley Vol. 2
The first Michelinie/Bagley omnibus out this year collects through Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #375 & Annual 26.

This next volume would finish taking this through the start of the Clone Saga by collecting Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #376-393 & Annual 27-28, plus ALL of Maximum Carnage (Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #201-203, Web of Spider-Man (1985) #101-103, Spider-Man (1990) #35-37, and material from Spider-Man Unlimited (1993) #1-2), plus Spider-Man/Punisher/Sabretooth: Designer Genes (1993) OGN, Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #211, Web of Spider-Man (1985) #112, Spider-Man (1990) #45, and Amazing Spider-Man: Ashcan [Edition] (1994) #1.

It’s wild that we don’t have a Maximum Carnage omnibus yet, and I’m sure this would sell HUGELY with that material included.

Krisis Regrets: We misspelled David Michelinie’s name! That’s embarrassing (for us!). Also, we should have said “(including Maximum Carnage)” to make clear what this collects.

Amazing Spider-Man Identity Crisis (Post Clone Saga)
Spider-Man Gathering of the Five/Final Chapter
The Clone Saga comes to a close in Amazing Spider-Man (1963) with issue #418.

That means this would collect Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #419-441, -1, & Annual 30/1997!

Of course, that’s not very many issues. If we want to collect the entire Spider-Man line from this period, we’d need Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #242-253 & -1, Spider-Man Team-Up (1996) #6-7, Spider-Man #76-88, -1, & Annual 1997, The Sensational Spider-Man #12-24 & -1, Spider-Man Unlimited (1993) #15-17, X-Man (1995) #24 (& 35?), Spider-Man: Venom (1998), Marvel Team-Up (1997) #1-7, Spider-Man/Kingpin: To The Death.

But, wait – that’s only the extra comics we’d need through ASM #431! And Identity Crisis doesn’t even happen until #434-435.

Then (starting at ASM #432) we’d continue to Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #254-263, Spider-Man (1990) #88-98, Spider-Man Unlimited (1993) #18-22, and Sensational Spider-Man (1996) #25-33, Spider-Man: Hobgoblin Lives #1-3, Legacy of Spider-Man, and Spider-Man: Revenge of the Green Goblin #1-3.

Krisis Regrets: We made a mistake on these poll titles. There’s no way to get to Identity Crisis directly from Clone Saga unless you skip all of the other titles, in which case that book would also include Gathering of the Five. Gathering of the Five would obviously collect all of the titles, since it is so late in the run, but we’d need a book to come before it. If we hadn’t said “Identity Crisis” in the title of that first book, this would make sense. We’ll improve this mapping for next year.

Spectacular Spider-Man by J. M. DeMatteis
Beginning in 1991, J. M. DeMatteis wrote Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #178-203 & Annual 13-14, then returned for #217, 223, 241-257, -1.

(He also wrote Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #131-132 in 1987, which we could include in this as a special treat.)

Would this omnibus collect just the DeMatteis issues, which straddle the Clone Saga? Or, would this just leap far ahead in the Spectacular Spider-Man omnibus line to try to seamlessly collect a chunk of issues from #178-216 to meet up with the Clone Saga omnibus?

I can’t tell you what your vote should stand for – it could be for either of those two maps!

Spider-Man Next Chapter (Mackie, John Byrne, John Romita Jr.)
Some of this material has been collected in a “Spider-Man by John Byrne” omnibus, but that also reached back for older material.

Instead, this would perfectly collect three existing “The Next Chapter” trades. That means it would collect Collects The Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #1-19, Annual 99, & Annual 2000, Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #1-19 & Annual 99, Thor (1998) #8, and Spider-Woman (1999) #9.

That’s right around 40 issues, so we have to leave it there. That means we need one more book to meet the Spider-Man by JMS omnibus on the other side of this where it begins at Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #30. That next book would collect Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #20-29 & Annual 2001, Peter Parker: Spider-Man #20-34 & Annual 1, Spider-Man: Revenge of the Green Goblin (2000) #1-3, Spider-Man / Marrow, Spider-Man and Mysterio #1-3, Spider-Man: Lifeline #1-3 (AKA Spider-Man Universe #14-16), Spider-Man: Death and Destiny #1-3 (2000), Spider-Man vs. Punisher (2000) #1, Daredevil / Spider-Man (2001) #1-4, and Year In Review: Spider-Man (2000) AKA Peter & Mary Jane’s Spider-Man Scrapbook.

Webspinners Tales of Spider-Man
A vote for this is a vote to recollect a 400+ page paperback that collected Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man (1999) #1-18 and material From Shadows & Light (1998) #2-3. Because this series tells stories from different periods of time, it doesn’t make sense to lump it in with other books from this late-90s/early-00s era.

Spider-Man Omnibus Mapping: The 00s

Spectacular Spider-Man by Paul Jenkins
Paul Jenkins wrote the entire series of Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #1-27. When they were collected in trade, they also included Peter Parker: Spider-Man #39-41. That’s what you’d be getting with a vote for this book!

Spider-Man (Marvel Knights)
This would collect Marvel Knights Spider-Man (2004) #1-22.

If you think it would also continue through the title change to Sensational Spider-Man to collect the entirety of the next book on this list, I think that would be a fine use of your vote! There’s no real reason they need to be split in two.

Sensational Spider-Man
This would collect The Sensational Spider-Man (2007) #23-40 & Annual 1, Marvel Spotlight: Spider-Man (2007) #1, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Spider-Man: Back In Black Handbook (2007) #1, and Spider-Man Family (2007) #1-2.

That takes this title right up to the start of One More Day, which crosses through issue #41 – the final issue of this series.

Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (David/Taylor)
A vote for this book would be a vote to mash together two disparate series, collecting Peter David’s Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2005) #1-23 & Annual 1 (issue #24 was part of One More Day) and Tom Taylor’s Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2019) #1-14 & Free Comic Book Day 2019 (Spider-Man/Venom).

I think that actually makes a lot of sense! Both of these series had a light-hearted, local feel to many of their issues, and both of them would be on the short side to collect on their own.

Spider-Man Brand New Day Vol. 2
A vote for this omnibus is a vote to complete the Brand New Day period!

This would follow up the first volume by collecting Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #584-601 & Annual 36; Amazing Spider-Man: Extra #3; Spider-Man: The Short Halloween; Dark Reign: Mister Negative #1-3; Amazing Spider-Man: American Son Sketchbook; and material from Amazing Spider-Man Family #7.

That’s not nearly as big as the monstrous first volume of Brand New Day, which collected two-and-a-half trade paperback recollections. The contents above are only 1.5 of those collections, so I suspect this would also add all of a book called “New Ways to Live” that bridges from Brand New Day to “The Gauntlet.”

That book collected Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #602-611, Spider-Man: A Chemical Romance, Spider-Man: The Root of All Annoyance, Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-venom – New Ways To Live #1-3, Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Jackpot #1-3; and material from Web of Spider-Man (2009) #1 and Amazing Spider-Man Family #6.

Amazing Spider-Man Gauntlet
Voting for this book gets you the next chronological Spider-Man omnibus after the Brand New Day books, which would bridge the gap to Dan Slott taking over full-time with “Big Time.”

“The Gauntlet” storyline begins in Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #612.

This would collect Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #612-637 & Annual 37, Dark Reign: The List – Amazing Spider-Man #1; Grim Hunt: The Kraven Saga (2010) #1, Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Black Cat (2010) #1-4, material from Web of Spider-Man (2009) #2-7.

That’s 33 full issues and another 6 partial issues, which is omnibus-sized but leaves us just short of hitting the start of Big Time.

I think that means this also needs to collect a final portion of this run in Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #638-647 and Web of Spider-Man (2009) #8-12, which includes all of One Moment in Time. That’s another 15 issues, but it seems like Marvel has an appetite to go really big on these 2000-era Spider-Man omnibus

Amazing Spider-Man Big Time
This title is one of our biggest mistakes on the entire poll. It should say “AKA Dan Slot Vol. 1.”

WHY DIDN’T WE CALL IT THAT?

There’s no way to get all of Dan Slott’s pre-Superior run into a single omnibus that reaches Amazing Spider-Man #697, so we’ll need to break this run into two.

I suspect this first book would collect to the end of Spider-Island, which means its contents would be Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #648-673 & 654.1, Free Comic Book Day 2011 – Spider-Man, Venom (2011) #6-9 (part of Spider-Island), The Amazing Spider-Man: Infested (2011) #1, and Spider-Island: Deadly Foes (2011) #1.

That’s 34 issues. It could optionally add six issues of material not by Slott from this period, including Spectacular Spider-Man #1000, The Identity Wars crossover from Annual 38 to Deadpool & Hulk Annuals, Fear Itself: Spider-Man (2011) #1-3.

Then, a second volume would collect Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #674-697 & 679.1, Daredevil (2011) #8, Amazing Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth #1, and Avenging Spider-Man (2011) #8 (part of Ends of the Earth).

That’s just 28 issues. To that we could could add 25(!) non-Slott material from Amazing Spider-Man (1963) Annual 39, Avenging Spider-Man (2011) #1-7, 9-15, & Annual 1, which was effectively a team-up book (along with a crossover into Daredevil (2011) #11 and The Punisher (2011) #10), Avenging Spider-Man: Daily Bugle (2011) #1, Spider-Men (2012) #1-5 by Brian Bendis, and Spider-Man vs. Vampires (2010) #1. I’m not sure Marvel would have the appetite to put that much non-Slott material into a Slott omnibus rather than “Slott Companion” omnibus – but, we’ll see!

Spider-Man Spider-Island Saga
I have trouble picturing a Dan Slott Spider-Man omnibus including all of the 16 tie-ins to this event that that only tangentially include Spider-Man.

This would include the main story from Spider-Island: The Infested Prologues From Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #659-660 & #662-665, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #666-673, Venom (2011) #6-8, Spider-Island: Deadly Foes, and Spider-Island Spotlight.

To that it would add the contents of another 16 issues from a previous companion hardcover: The Amazing Spider-Girl #1-3, Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #1-3, Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu #1-3, Herc #7-8, Spider-Island: Avengers #1, Spider-Island: Spider-Woman #1, Spider-Island: I Love New York City, Black Panther #524, Spider-Island: Heroes For Hire.

Krisis Regrets: I think we could’ve more-explicitly mapped the Dan Slott omnibus period to indicate where would be contained within that run. However, even if we did, I think some folks would want this to have its own entry.

Spider-Man Omnibus Mapping: The 10s & 20s

Spider-Verse Companion
Y’all, two different people suggested this book in the pre-poll and I have no idea what it could contain.

I’ll take a shot, though! The original Spider-Verse oversize hardcover collected Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #7-15.

This could collect around that by including Collects Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #1-6 & Annual 1, 1.1-1.5, 16-18, & #16.1-20.1, The Amazing Spider-Man: Who Am I? Infinite Comic, Mark Waid’s Spider-Man: Family Business OGN (which has an impact on the next run), Superior Spider-Man #32-33, Spider-Man & The X-Men (2014) #1-6, Free Comic Book Day 2014 (Guardians of the Galaxy) #1 (Spider-Man story), the three Inhuman Error Specials (Amazing Spider-Man / Inhuman / All-New Captain America).

Whoa, that’s actually 33 issues and whole OGN! And, honestly, it includes tons of great material by both Slott and other authors.

I guess my question would be… why leave out #7-15? The original oversize hardcover line of this title included those issues with none of the Spider-Verse tie-ins. Spider-Verse wasn’t a direct crossover, so they still read just fine – they’re simply missing other context.

Krisis Regrets: Maybe we could give this a more helpful name next time? If I realized what it included, I would have called it “Amazing Spider-Man: Spider-Verse Companion by Dan Slott.” And, even that would be slightly confusing!

Spider-Man Worldwide
A vote for this book is a vote to collect Dan Slott’s post-Secret Wars material that began in late 2015.

This book would collect Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #1-32, 789-801, Annual 1 & 42, and Free Comic Book Day 2016 (Spider-Man Story)

That’s nearly 50 issues – some of them double- and triple-sized, so I doubt we can add anything else.

However, that leaves us with 32 additional issues for a “Worldwide Companion” volume! That would collect Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #1.1-1.5 (which were not by Slott – they were a totally separate mini-series), ASM & Silk: The Spider(fly) Effect #1-4, Civil War II: Amazing Spider-Man #1-4, Clone Conspiracy material (The Clone Conspiracy #1-5; The Clone Conspiracy: Omega; Silk #14-17; and Prowler #1-5), and Spider-Men II #1-5.

Krisis Regrets: This should be titled “Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide by Dan Slott”

Spider-Man Gang War
This would collect all of the Gang War storyline that acted as a Phase II finale in Zeb Wells’ run on Amazing Spider-Man.

It would collect The Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #37-45, The Amazing Spider-Man Gang War: First Strike (2023) #1, Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #12-17, Luke Cage: Gang War (2023) #1-4, Spider-Woman (2023) #1-4, Daredevil: Gang War (2023) #1-4, Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu: Gang War (2023) #1-3, Jackpot (2024) #1, and Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity Comic Chapter #19-24

Krisis Regrets: Obviously we should have included Spider-Man by Zeb Wells Vol. 1 if we were going to include this! However, I think the rationale was that Marvel tends to rush out event omnibuses much faster than they collect whole new creator runs, so there’s a chance we could see this before a Zeb Wells omnibus line hits.

Spider-Man Omnibus Mapping: Alternate Realities

Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows
This would collect the alternate timeline Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows (2015) #1-5 launched in Secret Wars, a story from Spider-Verse (2015A) #2, and the subsequent ongoing Amazing Spider-Man (2016) #1-23.

I hadn’t done the math on this one before, so I had no idea it lasted a full 28 issues plus that extra story! That’s a respectable omnibus, and not the skinny-minnie book I was expecting.

Spider-Man (Mexican)
You know it was Omar who put this on the poll, right? WHO WOULD PUT THIS ON THE POLL OTHER THAN OMAR?!

This would collect Mexican Spider-Man (AKA El Sorprendente Hombre Araña) adventures from Amazing Spider-Man (MX) #123-185

Spider-Man Adventures
Spider-Man The Animated Series
We goofed! These are the same book, which would be Spider-Man Adventures (1994) #1-15 and The Adventures of Spider-Man (1996) #1-11.

It could also include the contents of a paperback called “Adventures of Spider-Man: Radioactive” which collected further cartoonish stories that are not in the same continuity as the issues above from Spider-Man Magazine (1994) #1-19 and Spider-Man Magazine Special (1995) #1-2

Spider-Man Gamerverse
This would collect series in the universe of the Playstation 4 game, which include Spider-Geddon (2018) #0, Spider-Verse (2019) #1, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Velocity (2019) #1-5, Marvel’s Spider-Man: City At War (2019) #1-6, and Marvel’s Spider-Man: The Black Cat Strikes (2020) #1-5, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 (2023) #1

Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane
This would collect the out-of-continuity romance book Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane (2005) #1-20 and Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane (2008) #1-5.

Spider-Man Noir
This would collect the complete adventures of Spider-Man Noir through 2019 as included in his Complete Collection plus his 2020 appearances

This book would include Spider-Man Noir #1-4, Spider-Man Noir: Eyes Without a Face #1-4, material from Edge of Spider-Verse #1, Spider-Geddon: Spider-man Noir Video Comic, material from Spider-Verse Team-Up #1, Spider-Verse (2019) #4-5, and Spider-Man Noir (2020) #1-5 (which continues directly from Spider-Verse #5)

Comments

CosmicVSTheWorld says

April 5, 2024 at 8:26 am

I feel as though Renew Your Vows should include the Spider-Geddon Spider-Girls 3 issue mini-series, Jody Houser writes it along with Renew Your Vows #13-23, and it includes Annie as a main character 🤔

- krisis says
  
  April 5, 2024 at 8:45 am
  
  I wasn’t sure if it should push into Spider-Verse content, but I think you raise a good point. When an event mini actually continues existing voicing and plot threads, then it ought to be included in a character/title omnibus.
  
Scott Putnam says

May 5, 2024 at 5:29 pm

Hey buddy!
I am loving the mapping here.
Looking forward to the Mark Bagley ASM vol 2 omnibus, Spectacular Spider-Man by J. M. DeMatteis and
Spider-Man Next Chapter (Mackie, John Byrne, John Romita Jr.) ((Which i would get the trades but are OOP!)))
be cool to get Bynre’s chapter one to go with that but i think i’ll have to get a custom bind maybe!

Thanks for all you do!

John F. Pannozzi says

May 21, 2024 at 12:10 am

I think the Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane Omnibus should also include Mary Jane (2004) #1-4 and Mary Jane: Homecoming #1-4.