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Namor, The Sub-Mariner Silver Age Omnibus, Vol. 1 – The #56 Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus of 2017

May 11, 2017 by krisis

Namor, The Sub-Mariner 1968 0007The Namor, The Sub-Mariner Silver Age Omnibus, Vol. 1 is the #56 Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus of 2017 on Tigereyes’s Secret Ballot. 

Visit the Marvel Masterworks Message Board to view the original posting of results by Tigereyes.

What Is It? The Sub-Mariner (1968) was Namor’s first solo ongoing title after almost thirty years of starring in anthology series. It ran for 72 issues from  May 1968 to September 1974.

Before that, Sub-Mariner split Tales to Astonish (1959) with the Incredibly Hulk for 32 issues from #70-101 from August 1965 to  March 1968.

Past Ranking: This year is the book’s debut placement in the ballot results.

Creators: Written by Stan Lee and Roy Thomas (with Archie Goodwin and Raymond Marais) with pencils by Gene Colan and John Buscema (with Werner Roth, Marie Severin, & Dan Adkins), inks by Vince Colletta, Dick Ayers, and Frank Giacoia (with Dan Adkins & Jerry Grandenetti), and letters by Art ‘Artie’ Simek.

Probable Contents: Most Silver Age omnibuses collect the contents of three Marvel Masterworks volumes, so this volume would almost certainly contain Marvel Comics #1, Daredevil #7, and Tales To Astonish (1959) #70-101, Iron Man and Sub-Mariner #1, and The Sub-Mariner (1968) #1-13.

However, Marvel has recently shown a little bit of adventurousness when it comes to expanding the contents of their Silver Age omnibuses in Daredevil, Thor, Amazing Spider-Man, so it’s not a stretch to think this would include another 10-14 issues.

The question is – which 10-14 issues! Click to expand a discussion of further content for this volume.

On one hand, adding a 4th Masterworks to this one would mean this omnibus line could be done in two books – a great idea! In that case, the added issues would be The Sub-Mariner (1968) #14-25.

On the other hand, Namor has an extremely interesting, deliberate progression of guest appearances leading up to him gaining his own features in Tales to Astonish. These stories reintroduce him to the Marvel Universe and play with the line between his heroism and villainy. Then, the added content would be Fantastic Four #4, 6, & 9, Strange Tales #107, Fantastic Four #14 & Annual 1, Avengers #3-4, Fantastic Four #27, X-Men #6, Strange Tales #125, Fantastic Four #33, and material from Avengers #16, and then the already-included Daredevil #7.

Except… why not get us an omnibus that can do both? If we don’t really need the full dozen issues leading up to Namor’s starring turn in Daredevil #7 to lead to Tales to Astonish. We could make do with Fantastic Four #4, 6, 14 (excerpts), & Annual 1, Avengers #4 (excerpts), X-Men #6, Fantastic Four #33, Avengers #16 (excerpt), and then the already-included Daredevil #7. That’s just five extra issues, so maybe we could do this and add the fourth Sub-Mariner Masterworks!

Want to know why I chose some issues but not others? I cover them all, below!

The detraction of stuffing those issues into a first omnibus is that it means we would probably need two more omnibuses to collect the remaining five Masterworks. On the plus side, since they would easily fit, we could probably get all of Super-Villain Team-Up into the third omnibus! For a full mapping, check out my Marvel series still awaiting an omnibus from the Masterworks Era (1961 – 1980).

Can you read it right now? Yes! This run is entirely covered by the Sub-Mariner Masterworks volumes, which are out-of-print but not terribly expensive – Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3. For more details, see the Guide to Namor, The Sub-Mariner.Daredevil_1964_0007

Plus, Marvel Unlimited has the complete contents of Tales To Astonish, the single issue Iron Man and Sub-Mariner, and The Sub-Mariner (1968) #1-14.

The Details:

Namor, The Sub-Mariner was Marvel’s original anti-hero – the tempestuous prince of an undersea kingdom long past its halcyon days who takes out his unending aggression on the above-the-waves world of the surface dwellers.

You may not know this, but he was also the first major hero that Marvel unthawed in the Silver Age, although this unthawing was metaphorical rather than him being relieved from an actual block of ice like Captain America.

And, actually, it was Namor who was partially responsible for freeing Cap!

But now we’re getting ahead of ourselves. [Read more…] about Namor, The Sub-Mariner Silver Age Omnibus, Vol. 1 – The #56 Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus of 2017

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Fantastic Four, Gene Colan, John Buscema, Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus, Namor, Roy Thomas, Stan Lee

Marvel’s Most-Wanted Omnibuses of 2016 – #25 to 21

June 11, 2016 by krisis

Omnibus on ShelfIt’s time for the next set of results from the 2016 Secret Ballot for Marvel’s Most-Wanted Omnibus by Tigereyes. I covered #30-26 in the last installment.

This set of books is decidedly more classic than some of the ones we’ve seen so far, with all of the issues under consideration released by 1991. Unsurprisingly, that means we’ve seen all of these votes on past year’s of the survey. They’re all relative longshots save for one, but for a number of different reasons.

Marvel has released these oversized omnibus editions for over a decade now, with a staggering amount of their most-popular material now covered in the format – from Silver Age debuts to modern classics. Is your favorite character or run of issues already in an Omnibus? My Marvel Omnibus & Oversized Hardcover Guide is the most comprehensive tool on the web for answering that question – it features every book, plus release dates, contents, and even breakdowns of $/page and what movies the books were released to support.

And now, it’s the omnibuses that placed at #25 through 21! [Read more…] about Marvel’s Most-Wanted Omnibuses of 2016 – #25 to 21

Filed Under: comic books Tagged With: Ann Nocenti, Bill Mantlo, Bill Sienkiewicz, Collected Editions, Daredevil, Doug Moench, Frank Miller, Hulk, Jack Kirby, John Buscema, John Romita Jr., Loki, Marvel Comics, Moon Knight, Neal Adams, Omnibus, ROM, Sal Buscema, Stan Lee, Thor

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