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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