Sorry about the lateness of this week’s giveaway (for Lex Luthor: The Unauthorized Biography). I’ll be contacting the winners for the previous ones tonight and announcing soon. The books will go out when I get a paycheck from work (just worked a 50 hour week! Here’s to not being broke forever!)
Update Edit: All holiday giveaway winners have been emailed! Check your inbox and spam folder!
I’ve added 74 more Marvel collections to the offline database. These are reflected on the main list, now at 2620 books!
1. X-Men and Spider-Man
2. X-Men: X-Tinction
3. Thing: Project Pegasus
4. The Thing: Project Pegasus Saga (fixed listing)
5. Marvel Europa
6. Marvel Europe
7. Origins of Marvel Comics
8. Son of Origins of Marvel Comics
9. Grandson of Origins
10. Bring On The Bad Guys
11. The Superhero Women
12. Marvel Holiday Special
13. The Best of What If?
14. Marvel Holiday Special 2004
15. Marvel Weddings
16. Amazing Spider-Man: The Wedding
17. X-Force and Spider-Man: Sabotage
18. Spectacular Spider-Man Facsimile
19. Best of Spider-Man
20. The Greatest Spider-Man and Daredevil Team-Ups
21. Spider-Man’s Greatest Team-Ups
22. Spider-Man’s Greatest Villains
23. Elektra: The Complete Saga
24. Fantastic Four / Spider-Man Classic
25. Incredible Hulk: Ghost of the Past
26. Greatest Battles of the X-Men
27. X-Men: The Movie
28. Avengers: Nights of Wundagore (Digest)
29. Conan Digest Vol. 1
30. Conan Digest Vol. 2
31. Conan Digest Vol. 3
32. Conan Digest Vol. 4
33. Conan Digest Vol. 5
34. Conan Digest Vol. 6
35. Amazing Spider-Man Digest Vol. 1
36. Amazing Spider-Man Digest Vol. 2
37. Amazing Spider-Man Digest Vol. 3
38. Captain America Digest
39. Doctor Strange: Master Of The Mystic Arts Digest Vol. 1
40. Doctor Strange: Master Of The Mystic Arts Digest Vol. 2
41. Fantastic Four Digest Vol. 1
42. Incredible Hulk Digest Vol. 1
43. Incredible Hulk Digest Vol. 2
44. Spider-Woman Digest Vol. 1
45. The Amazing Spider-Man
46. Doctor Strange: Master Of The Mystic Arts
47. The Fantastic Four
48. The Incredible Hulk
49. Marvel’s Greatest Superhero Battles
50. Marvel Team-Up Thrillers
51. The Fantastic Four Collector’s Album
52. The Amazing Spider-Man Collector’s Album
53. Incredible Hulk Collector’s Album
54. The Mighty Thor Collector’s Album
55. The Fantastic Four Return Collector’s Album
56. Here Comes… Daredevil Collector’s Album
57. Captain America: The Secret Story of Marvel’s Star-Spangled Super Hero
58. The Fantastic Four: The Secret Story of Marvel’s Cosmic Quartet
59. The Incredible Hulk: The Secret Story of Marvel’s Gamma-Powered Goliath
60. Spider-Man: The Secret Story of Marvel’s World-Famous Wall Crawler
61. Avengers: Origin of the Vision
62. Captain America Battles Baron Blood
63. Daredevil: The Man Without Fear
64. Fantastic Four: Featuring the Peerless Power of the Silver Surfer
65. Incredible Hulk: Featuring a Classic Tale by Harlan Ellison
66. Spider-Man: His Greatest Team-Up Battles
67. Spider-Man 2: Together With Thor, Havok, and the Man-Thing
68. The X-Men
69. Spider-Man: Matters of Life and Death
70. Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine
71. Spider-Man: The Complete Ben Reilly Epic Book 1
72. PunisherMax Vol. 2: Bullseye
73. Spider-Man: The Original Clone Saga
74. Osborn
These are mostly thanks to Oenglish on CBR who directed me to a great listing of older Marvel collections. The rest were from Amazon Recommendations after putting in that information. That strange picture is from the 1997 Marvel Superheroes Cookbook.
I’ll be focusing on reviews tonight after I send out the giveaway winners. I moved the recent two to backdate, intending to force me to keep posting at whatever pace necessary to catch up.
Oh, I created a slightly off topic / twitter style update thread on the forum – The Captain’s Log. I’ll post my more disjointed thoughts and progress there.
Marc wrote on at January 10, 2011 9:38 pm:
Nice find on that list! I was working on mine this morning and I know I don’t have some of these. I thought I was just tying up loose ends at this point, but I’ll have to go through each of these to see what’s what!
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you mean you already got dates and placements for all of the other ones? wow! I’ve only got about 850 placed? Something like that?
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Oh yeah, everything’s placed up through 2009 or so. The document is at about 90 pages now (including annotations, obviously). Lately I’ve just been adding in random or unplaced titles that I missed along the way, so that I don’t have to do it after the whole thing has been posted. I’m missing a some books from 2010 that came out after I originally started making the timeline, but they should be relatively easy to place when I get around to it.
Stuff from 2006 onward needs some fact-checking though…I think simply going by publication dates won’t work for certain things (event books like Civil War, for example) since several trades all ending in the same month were often meant to be read in a specific order. I’ve started sifting through single-issue shipping lists to try and sort some of it out, but I’m not sure how much patience I’m going to have for that in the long run, haha. Anyway, my first priority right now is everything before 2006, and that should be posted soon.
But yeah, some of these trades you have listed came completely out of left field for me. I’m going through that site you linked to right now…it’s a great resource, even if it’s a little out of date.
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Excellent! Are you willing to share your work again? That list you originally sent me was of immeasurable help in starting off this project. I’m starting to think I should link to your annotated list right in the header of the marvel list! In fact, I definitely will.
You’re right that we’ll probably have to do a lot of tweaking for modern events. I think I’ll try to get everything into general place and then worry about that – I’ve already got all the event tags in place so I can just go to each one and do a little research event by event.
Plus, site users should be able to help just by commenting! It’s worked a lot for the dc list.
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Of course, I can definitely send it to you. I’m actually working on it at the moment, so I’ll just send it before I go to bed after I’ve gotten some more work done on it.
I appreciate the linkage! I think it will be helpful for people to go back and forth between the two lists, since we’ll probably end up organizing things a little differently in some respects. Heck, I’m sure I’ll use your list as much as I’ll use my own!
Oh, and a quick side note: I came across a trade yesterday called “Punisher Invades the ‘Nam,” which I didn’t see on your list. There are varying accounts of its contents, but it seems to collect a handful of Punisher appearances from The ‘Nam.
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Thanks Marc! And I agree – I can’t really fit annotations on my list (nor do I really have the time for it), so it’s great to have that option.
I hadn’t heard of Punisher Invades – but I KNOW he had some appearances and it would make sense to collect em. I’ll look for it!
I can’t imagine doing this project without the internet. It’s just so damn supportive. :D
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that was easy:
Punisher Invades The ‘Nam
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Yep, that’s the one! Funny how it slipped both our notices until now…makes you wonder what else could be out there!
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I expect there will be a few more. I’m amazed that I’ve found so many since my initial public posting.
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