Marvel Omnibus/Oversized Hardcover Discussion Part V

[DrGregatron]

Most likely to sell to people who bought OHCs 1-12, not the omnibus.

Not the USM vol 1 omnibus? Just to buyers of OHCs 1-12? Wouldn't that drive most collectors to the point of insanity?

[Shinobi100]

Early 90s material likely to be HC'd sometime in the not too distant future:

- PAD/McFarlane Hulk
- PAD/Keown Hulk
- PAD/Frank Hulk
- Infinity Gauntlet
- Infinity War
- Infinity Crusade
- Operation Galactic Storm
- Maximum Carnage
- Michelinie/Larsen ASM


Less likely, but possible

- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Hama/Silvestri Wolverine
- Michelinie/Bagley ASM
- Darkhawk
- Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch)
- War Machine
- Thunderstrike


As evidenced by the New Warriors Omni, any series in the Classic TPB line has a chance at the Omniboob treatment. Thunderstrike's TPB wasn't really part of the Classic line, but I'll always hold out hope for the Everyman Avenger

[Omnibus]

Less likely, but possible

- Guardians of the Galaxy

I would say that is a slam dunk with the movie being made.

[Omnibus]

Ok so we know CGN is having a 50% off sale on Omnibuses starting on the 21st.

IST....is doing 45% off sale for November and December.

Did TOW do a Black Friday sale last year?

[DrGregatron]

Ok so we know CGN is having a 50% off sale on Omnibuses starting on the 21st.

IST....is doing 45% off sale for November and December.

Did TOW do a Black Friday sale last year?

Didn't ToW do a 50% off sale? I didn't order anything then, but I think they might have.

[rmfwfu]

Didn't ToW do a 50% off sale? I didn't order anything then, but I think they might have.

They did have some sort of sale, but from looking at my orders, they had a 10% off coupon around that time that I used to pre-order some items.

[rmfwfu]

Shinobi, I think Thunderbolts by Busiek would be in that first section too

[CrazyOldHermit]

Not the USM vol 1 omnibus? Just to buyers of OHCs 1-12? Wouldn't that drive most collectors to the point of insanity?

I think by now it is clear that the DoSM omnibus is what we're getting instead of OHC Vol 13. I think it is likely that years from now when the USM omnibus line gets to that point we'll get the same material repackaged in a different omni (hopefully one with just the USM relevant bits).

[DonEMC]

Don, couldn't the argument be made that this is a positive move - that it's finally sinking in to them how much of a glut on the market they create by PHC-ing everything and following up with a TPB so soon afterwards?

We've been through two years of these heavy inventory-slashing sales every quarter as Marvel liquidates stock. It's not good for them or for retailers or for the market. They made a point in the Hachette catalog of pointing out for all the new HC that it would not be until 2014 until they appeared in trade. It feels to me like they're saying to the retailers: Order these with confidence, because they will be unique long enough to sell through, and people will be hunting for them and/or hungry for the TPBs.

I don't think it says Marvel is even close to confident that their new stuff will be so great that the PHCs will sell through. If they are that confident in Marvel NOW, then why not release everything in PHCs the way they've done for the last few years? Retailers I've spoken with believe this is a sign of the times and that the glut on HCs and TPBs had to come to an end sooner or later and the proof that Marvel was TOO confident already is in the cutout sales that Marvel has been doing lately.
What we're going to get now is overpriced HCs for the main titles and overpriced TPBs for the rest of the line.
I can't see Marvel scaling back on its more profitable HCs and TPBs and NOT cutting back on its omnibus line.

[DonEMC]

Early 90s material likely to be HC'd sometime in the not too distant future:

- PAD/McFarlane Hulk
- PAD/Keown Hulk
- PAD/Frank Hulk
- Infinity Gauntlet
- Infinity War
- Infinity Crusade
- Operation Galactic Storm
- Maximum Carnage
- Michelinie/Larsen ASM


Less likely, but possible

- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Hama/Silvestri Wolverine
- Michelinie/Bagley ASM
- Darkhawk
- Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch)
- War Machine
- Thunderstrike


As evidenced by the New Warriors Omni, any series in the Classic TPB line has a chance at the Omniboob treatment. Thunderstrike's TPB wasn't really part of the Classic line, but I'll always hold out hope for the Everyman Avenger

Where are you getting your information? All of the "less likely" group has had its HCs and TPBs sent to the cutout bins over the last year. I hardly think Thunderstrike will get anything more than it already has.
And I can honestly say that I think it's crazy to believe all that early 1990s stuff will be HC'd in the near future.

[merrick97]

Early 90s material likely to be HC'd sometime in the not too distant future:

- PAD/McFarlane Hulk
- PAD/Keown Hulk
- PAD/Frank Hulk
- Infinity Gauntlet
- Infinity War
- Infinity Crusade
- Operation Galactic Storm
- Maximum Carnage
- Michelinie/Larsen ASM


Less likely, but possible

- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Hama/Silvestri Wolverine
- Michelinie/Bagley ASM
- Darkhawk
- Ghost Rider (Danny Ketch)
- War Machine
- Thunderstrike


As evidenced by the New Warriors Omni, any series in the Classic TPB line has a chance at the Omniboob treatment. Thunderstrike's TPB wasn't really part of the Classic line, but I'll always hold out hope for the Everyman Avenger

Where are you getting your information? All of the "less likely" group has had its HCs and TPBs sent to the cutout bins over the last year. I hardly think Thunderstrike will get anything more than it already has.
And I can honestly say that I think it's crazy to believe all that early 1990s stuff will be HC'd in the near future.

Agree with Don. How do you have any idea beyond the usual "Your guess is as good as ours" answer as to when stuff is likely to come out.

If you have inside info that's awesome, but I think it damages the credibility of the thread if you are posting a wish-list as a coming soon list and new people come in here and see that list and think it might be the real deal.

Just saying....

[ER Prest]

Ok so we know CGN is having a 50% off sale on Omnibuses starting on the 21st.

IST....is doing 45% off sale for November and December.

Did TOW do a Black Friday sale last year?

Did IST do something special for Black Friday last year?

[Shinobi100]

In reference to comments about my list of future early 90s HCs, I was basing it on Marvel's reproduction history. Maximum Carnage and Operation Galactic Storm both qualify as mega-events in the same vein as Atlantic Attacks and Acts of Vengeance, both of which have already received HCs. Other runs or storylines are likely to be HC'd due to the popularity of the creator/quality of the material. For this I'm talking about PAD's Hulk and Starlin's Infinity Trilogy, held by early 90s fans in the same regard as stories like Miller's DD and Simonson's Thor, which also received HCs.

I was a little torn on Guardians of the Galaxy. I wouldn't say it's a "slam dunk", because a movie release only guarantees one HC for its main characters, and the early 90s GotG doesn't have that popular creator/quality of content power as some of the newer GotG material. I would like to see the '90 series Omni'd up to the epic Galactus 25th issue spectacular, but you never know. Like someone mentioned previously, I don't even think the characters from the '90 series are in the movie.

And as for the other "less likely" to receive HC characters, like Thunderstrike and War Machine, I was really just recognizing other characters that have been part of the classic TPB line. There is not a SINGLE person that would've predicted a New Warriors Omni. And since there has been no mention of a new Warriors series, the only logical conclusion you can make is that they picked the Warriors because they've already got some of the material reprinted via the Classic line.

Oh, and Thunderbolts isn't early 90s. Anything post-Onslaught is dead to me, regardless of quality. So I only deal with pre-Onslaught topics

[DonEMC]

In reference to comments about my list of future early 90s HCs, I was basing it on Marvel's reproduction history. Maximum Carnage and Operation Galactic Storm both qualify as mega-events in the same vein as Atlantic Attacks and Acts of Vengeance, both of which have already received HCs. Other runs or storylines are likely to be HC'd due to the popularity of the creator/quality of the material. For this I'm talking about PAD's Hulk and Starlin's Infinity Trilogy, held by early 90s fans in the same regard as stories like Miller's DD and Simonson's Thor, which also received HCs.

I was a little torn on Guardians of the Galaxy. I wouldn't say it's a "slam dunk", because a movie release only guarantees one HC for its main characters, and the early 90s GotG doesn't have that popular creator/quality of content power as some of the newer GotG material. I would like to see the '90 series Omni'd up to the epic Galactus 25th issue spectacular, but you never know. Like someone mentioned previously, I don't even think the characters from the '90 series are in the movie.

And as for the other "less likely" to receive HC characters, like Thunderstrike and War Machine, I was really just recognizing other characters that have been part of the classic TPB line. There is not a SINGLE person that would've predicted a New Warriors Omni. And since there has been no mention of a new Warriors series, the only logical conclusion you can make is that they picked the Warriors because they've already got some of the material reprinted via the Classic line.

Oh, and Thunderbolts isn't early 90s. Anything post-Onslaught is dead to me, regardless of quality. So I only deal with pre-Onslaught topics

So, everyone, take everything Shinobi100 says as PURELY GUESSWORK AND WISHFUL THINKING. You have no crystal ball that allows you to see the future, nor do you have any way of knowing which stories will make it into HC.
Operation Galactic Storm books 1 and 2 are both currently STILL available as cutouts from Diamond. You can find them for $10 and under at a lot of shops, so I hardly doubt Marvel will put those into HC.
There are plenty of others that are in the CLASSIC line that you didn't mention, though. You only mention those that you like -- from your favorite era, the 1990s.

[CrazyOldHermit]

Oh, Shinobi...