Is Civil War the most expensive crossover of all time?

[maczero]

I was in the book store the other day and started browsing the Civil War tpb's. It looks like you'd spend close to $200 for the trades. Anyone have an idea what was the total cost of all the CW comics & tie-ins?

[StoneGold]

I'm pretty sure Infinite Crisis, if you include all the side things, had more books. Inflation sucks, don't it?

[jackolover]

I was in the book store the other day and started browsing the Civil War tpb's. It looks like you'd spend close to $200 for the trades. Anyone have an idea what was the total cost of all the CW comics & tie-ins?

I have 170 books with CW and CW related material @ $US3 = $US510

[agrich]

I guess if it's actually important to you to get all the various tie-ins, it'd at least be in the top 2. Me, I'd skip the lousy Frontline series and just stick with the main series and then maybe the tie-ins featuring characters you like a lot (Spider-man, or Cap, or whoever).

[Chiasm]

I wonder how it ranks if you adjust for inflation.

I recall Acts of Vengance was spread across numerous books including all three or four various Avengers books and then many others as well.

Then of course there is Secret Wars II.

[Ullar]

probably i have a short box full of all the CW/COW/Death of Cap books

[Magneto Rocks]

I dunno... I don't think you can count Initiative books, but counting just "Civil War", "Road to Civil War" and "Civil War Epilogue", it's pretty damn steep. Moreso if we throw in the 12 (I think?) "Spider-Man Unmasked" books and the Casualties of War books.

Then again, Infinite Crisis was also pretty ridiculous, especially when we consider you'd HAVE to include the 24 issues of the "Prelude to Infinite Crisis" series, plus a 6 issue JLA prelude arc, plus a prelude special, then you have TIE INS to all those miniseries, then you have Identity Crisis which is absolutely critical to understanding Infinite Crisis, then you have tie-ins to IT, etc-

... then of course you discover that Infinite Crisis is only the middle act.

So DC's Crossover That Never Ends is in fact by far the most expensive, encompassing about 5 years worth of DC books, but narrowing it down more I'd say either Civil War or Infinite Crisis, yeah.

[overcomebyfumes]

So DC's Crossover That Never Ends is in fact by far the most expensive, encompassing about 5 years worth of DC books, but narrowing it down more I'd say either Civil War or Infinite Crisis, yeah.


...but then if you expand it into Marvel's "crossover that never ends", I mean, you could look at Avengers: Dissassembled, Wolverine: Enemy of the State, Bendis' Secret War, House of M, Civil War, World War Hulk, and the upcoming Skrullmageddon as all chapters in a bigger story.

That gets a little pricey.

pax.

[DaeJi]

...but then if you expand it into Marvel's "crossover that never ends", I mean, you could look at Avengers: Dissassembled, Wolverine: Enemy of the State, Bendis' Secret War, House of M, Civil War, World War Hulk, and the upcoming Skrullmageddon as all chapters in a bigger story.

That gets a little pricey.

pax.

Except those are not part of a whole, larger plan but separate events that merely feed into each other.

[agrich]

Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that World War Hulk could have happened without Civil War. There's really not any required reading from Civil War (or even Road to Civil War) for the Hulk series.

I really don't feel that I missed much by not reading "Enemy of the State," nor do I feel I gained much by reading the barely comprehensible mess that was Secret War.

[Badfish40oz]

It is annoying. The tie-ins complimented the main series so well . .

[Craig T. Nelson]

Decimation tpb are more expensive than the civil war tpb I picked up.

[Magneto Rocks]

...but then if you expand it into Marvel's "crossover that never ends", I mean, you could look at Avengers: Dissassembled, Wolverine: Enemy of the State, Bendis' Secret War, House of M, Civil War, World War Hulk, and the upcoming Skrullmageddon as all chapters in a bigger story.

That gets a little pricey.

pax.

Not comparable. It's easy to read WWH without Civil War, CW without House of M, to read House of M without Avengers Disassembled, etc, etc.

As opposed to DC where I know from personal experience Infinite Crisis #1 is utterly incomprehensible without ALL the lead-in series, which in turn are hard to understand without Identity Crisis, and on it goes.

[jackolover]

The tie-ins [to CW]complimented the main series so well . .

That's what I found. The trades by themselves made less sense, when read in isolation. But interspersing the Tie-ins, issue to issue, made CW such a great read.

[agrich]

That's what I found. The trades by themselves made less sense, when read in isolation. But interspersing the Tie-ins, issue to issue, made CW such a great read.

I think it depends which ones you read. Reading the Thunderbolts tie-ins and a couple of the New Avengers tie-ins made me enjoy Civil War more. Reading the Frontline series and the Spider-man ones made me enjoy it less. That's probably true of most crossovers, I guess.

[phantom1592]

To answer the question. NO. Civil war is not the most expensive crossover of all time.






It just the most expensive crossover... SO FAR!

[XPac]

It's probably the most expensive MARVEL event. Though as others have elluded to, I think the DC cross overs are overall bigger.

Marvel states openly that you only have to read the main title of the event... you don't NEED the rest. That's a bit harder with DC events... especially now with their weekly books counting up and down to their events.

[IamtheRock3]

I dont know some of these stories have pretty good reacaps

Where you dont NEED to read the pass events leading to it

[jackolover]

I think it depends which ones you read. Reading the Thunderbolts tie-ins and a couple of the New Avengers tie-ins made me enjoy Civil War more. Reading the Frontline series and the Spider-man ones made me enjoy it less. That's probably true of most crossovers, I guess.

You hit the nail on the head, agrich. I found some trades made better sense than the the big 3 - CW, ASM, and FL.

[overcomebyfumes]

CW managed to completely burn me out on cross-overs.

I will NEVER attempt to buy all the issues of a cross-over again. Never.

pax.

[jackolover]

CW managed to completely burn me out on cross-overs.

I will NEVER attempt to buy all the issues of a cross-over again. Never.

pax.

Too late now