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Marvel’s Most-Wanted Omnibuses of 2016 – #50 to 45

June 6, 2016 by krisis

rsz_2016-06-06_095604One of my favorite comic community happenings of each year is when a message board member named TigerEyes announces that it’s time for the “Annual Secret Ballot: Marvel’s Most-Wanted Omnibus.”

For the uninitiated, what this means is that over a hundred of the biggest Marvel fans and collectors who like to chat each other up on the internet send in their picks for what Marvel material is most worthy of compiling into an oversize Marvel Omnibus Edition, massive tomes that sometimes run over 1,000 pages and up to 50 issues of collected comics.

Whether it’s causation or correlation, books from the secret ballot tend to get printed by Marvel. Here’s the breakdown from the first three years of the survey:

  • 2013 survey: 10 of 29 books were later printed as Omnibus (or are solicited).
  • 2014 survey: 12 of 52 books were later printed as Omnibus (or are solicited).
  • 2015 survey:  7 of  52 books were later printed as Omnibus (or are solicited).

That makes the secret ballot not only a fun exercise, but a useful straw poll to get an idea of what could be coming our way. In fact, the majority of omnibuses released in 2016 that are not from the past three years of comics are from the poll.

I’ll be tackling the results of the 2016 poll starting with this post, complete with likely contents, explanations, how to read the material right now, and the likelihood we’ll ever see the books in print.

Let’s get started! And, if you want to know more about all of the books that have been released to date, my Marvel Omnibus & Oversized Hardcover Guide is built on a database full of all of the information about these massive tomes so you can sort and filter them. It’s the only tool of its kind on the web!

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Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Avengers, cosmic, John Byrne, Marc Silvestri, Marvel Comics, Omnibus, Realm of Kings, Roger Stern, She-Hulk, Spectacular Spider-Man, Spider-Man, Survey, Wolverine

Collecting Fantastic Four comic books as Graphic Novels

The definitive, chronological, and up-to-date guide and trade-reading order on collecting Fantastic Four comic books via omnibuses, hardcovers, and trade paperback graphic novels. A part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics. Last updated November 2019 with titles scheduled for release through May 2020.


fantastic four 500There are hundreds of different collections of Fantastic Four, especially their original run from 1961 to 1996. However, there are a few specific formats of books that cover large portions of this title, and I’ll cover those first – Essentials, Epics, Masterworks, and Omnibuses.

The guide also includes solo series of Human Torch and Thing. [Read more…] about Collecting Fantastic Four comic books as Graphic Novels

Collecting Namor The Sub-Mariner comics as graphic novels

The definitive issue-by-issue collecting guide and trade reading order for Namor, The Sub-Mariner in omnibus, hardcover, and trade paperback collections. Find every issue and appearance! Part of Crushing Krisis’s Crushing Comics. Last updated October 2016 with titles scheduled for release through February 2018

Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner 1968 0007Namor. The Sub-Mariner. The King of Atlantis. He was Marvel’s first superhero, their first anti-hero, and their first mutant.

Namor has been around longer than the majority of people who will read this guide, and those seventy-odd years of life have seen him inhabit as many ongoing series as Wolverine!

If you enjoy Namor’s regal bearing and obstinate attitude, there are hundreds of comics to delve into – many of which have been collected into graphic novels. Namor has been a villain, an Avenger, an Invader, a Defender, and an X-Man.

This guide covers every one of those appearances, from the Golden Age to the present day! [Read more…] about Collecting Namor The Sub-Mariner comics as graphic novels

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