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Today I am back on Near Mint Condition to announce the results of the first ever Most-Wanted DC Finest Poll – organized with the participation of DC Comics! The poll received over 3,000 votes, so we’ve got a significant amount of data telling us what fans want to see the most from the DC Finest line – including new volumes for existing titles and brand new title lines.
Tune in for us to announce the top results from both parts of the poll.
Did you love my Marvel Omnibus Fantasy Draft, where I did a deep dive into the data of Marvel’s complete history of omnibus releases so we could play a guessing game about what they might release in 2027? Well, due to popular demand by CK viewers, now I’m back with the same game for DC. It’s the first ever DC Omnibus Fantasy Draft!
To put this together, I carefully tracked and tagged EVERY omnibus ever released by DC – noting releases dates, featured characters, years covered, and more. With that data, I created a model of what a typical year of DC omnibus releases looks like. Then, based on that model, I made my own predictions for the 52 omnis DC might release in 2027.
There has never been a more comprehensive look at DC’s history of omnibus releases! Plus, you can benefit from all of my research by playing the home version of the game and building your own ballot!
Near Mint Condition announced a Marvel omnibus reprint for March 2027 that really took me by surprise: Deadpool by Joe Kelly Omnibus.
The Deadpool by Joe Kelly omnibus was originally published in 2013. It collects the first three years of Deadpool (1997), the first ongoing series for the Merc With a Mouth. That portion of the run was written entirely by Joe Kelly, with Christopher Priest taking over in the following issue.
From a timing perspective, this reprint makes sense. This new printing of Deadpool by Joe Kelly will arrive 14 years after the original omnibus. Finding copies of the original printing for sale could be a tough task.
The thing that surprises me is picking this Deadpool omnibus – or, really, any Deadpool omnibus, since Marvel has seemed allergic to printing any oversize Deadpool for several years running aside from Deadpool & X-Force Omnibus in 2025 (which is really just X-Force Omnibus Vol. 2 with a clever marketing title).
If we were going to see any Deadpool solo omnibus be reprinted, my money would have been on the Deadpool by Posehn & Duggan Omnibus – a run that was instantly recognized as a modern classic and which pairs well with his MCU persona and joke density.
However, the x-factor here (lower case x-factor, not the X-Team) is Joe Kelly. Joe Kelly is currently helming Amazing Spider-Man (2025) for Marvel, and it has been consistently one of their top-selling titles as well as one of the best-written. It is a long-established fact that when an author is current active at Marvel, chances of their material hitting omnibus is significantly higher. [Read more…] about Marvel Omnibus Reprint: Deadpool by Joe Kelly
Near Mint Condition announced another new Marvel omnibus coming in January 2027, and to me this one makes perfect sense: Marvel Team-Up Omnibus Vol. 2.
For those not in the know, Marvel Team-Up (1972) was essentially the original secondary Spider-Man title. Almost every issue featured Spider-Man teaming up with a different Marvel character (although Human Torch took over for Spidey a limited number of times).
That didn’t necessarily mean that every issue was a one-shot story. There were some multi-issue storylines, with guest stars tagging in and out as the team-up while the story continued.
With Marvel Team-Up Omnibus Vol. 1 out in December 2025, Marvel finally started collecting this Spider-Title in oversize format. That book covered 1972 to 1975, which put this omnibus line a full decade behind the main omni line for Amazing Spider-Man (1963).
That’s why I had this book at #22 on my 2027 Marvel Fantasy Draft Ballot. With other Spider-Title omnis converging on a point in the 80s that is very well collected, it makes sense for the next classic Spider-Man omnibus to instead be something that is under-collected. [Read more…] about Marvel Omnibus Announcement: Marvel Team-Up Omnibus Vol. 2
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