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Every Spider-Verse Omnibus Mapped | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 20, 2025 by krisis 4 Comments

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for Marvel Omnibus fans – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Spider-Verse omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

What do I meant by “Spider-Verse”? Every Spider-Hero other than Spidey himself, whether that’s from our own reality or the multiverse! Plus, several of his foes… who are sometimes anti-heroes in their own right.

For the next two weeks, I’ll be covering Marvel’s entire publishing history by mapping missing omnibus volumes to fill in every gap in your Marvel oversize shelf! That’s all leading to the kickoff of the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot on Near Mint Condition on April 28, 2025.

The Spider-Verse of friends and foes of Peter & Miles has very few omnibuses to represent it – basically, Spider-Gwen is the only other hero to score her own book! But, there’s also plenty of material from the many Spider-Women (including Jessica Drew, Julia Carpenter, Mattie Franklin, & Silk), multi-verse Spiders (including Spider-Ham, Spider-Girl, & Spider-Man Noir), plus allies (like Slingers, Arana, & Spider-Boy) and villains (like Doc Ock, Green Goblin, & Kraven).

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for a list of books vetted by a gang of the biggest mapping nerds on the internet with explanations from yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet.

Or, if you don’t care about omnibuses, just use this post to learn about Marvel’s history and find some great comics to read!

The book titles and mapping in this post were curated with the help of Steve Ellis (AKA DBZALLSTAR). Steve is a supporter of the charity Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) – which just successfully fought to have comics restored to library shelves just outside of my beloved Philly! If you love this post and have a bit of extra comics cash you can spare consider donating the CBLDF today!

Spider-Family & Venom Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot

April 4, 2024 by krisis

Until April 5, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted Marvel omnibus volumes every day! Now that we’ve mapped Peter Parker himself, it’s time to map the Spider-Man Family of Amazing Friends – and one very venomous enemy!

This post explains titles and potential Spider-Man Family & Venom Omnibus Mapping for entries on the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot. You can vote right now (until 5 April 2024 @ midnight US ET) or watch our mega-length announcement stream reviewing every single voting option.

This post covers Venom – both Eddie Brock & Flash Thompson, Carnage, Green Goblin, Jessica Drew as Spider-Woman, Mayday Parker as Spider-Girl, Spider-Ham, Silk, Doc Ock as Superior Spider-Man, and more!

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for my explanations. Or, if you’ve already voted, learn why the team behind the poll decided on these books and titles – including some of my mistakes and regrets as one of the editors of the options on the final poll.

Or… just find some great comics to read!

Remember: These mappings are just my suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes and build your personal reading list, but your vote on the poll is NOT an endorsement of my specific map. It’s a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period.

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Spider-Man Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot

April 4, 2024 by krisis

Until April 5, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted Marvel omnibus volumes every day! Now that we’re through with mapping mutants, we have one major Marvel hero left to tackle: Spider-Man!

This post explains titles and potential Spider-man Omnibus Mapping for entries on the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot. You can vote right now (until 5 April 2024 @ midnight US ET) or watch our mega-length announcement stream reviewing every single voting option.

Spider-Man has a truly staggering amount of material – at points, he has half as many issues each month as the X-Men, and they’re the whole of Homo Superior! Peter Parker is just one guy!

I don’t think we achieved quite the perfect full coverage we did with our X-Men poll options, but I don’t know if any Spider-Man fan will be truly disappointed with nearly three dozen omnibus options listed below for Spider-Man’s comics – both in and out of continuity.

As for Spider-Man’s Amazing Friends (and enemies, including a particularly venomous one), see the next post!

Or… just find some great comics to read!

New for Patrons: Spider-Ham Guide!

June 2, 2022 by krisis

I’m so happy to be getting my Crushing Comics guides back on track, and to kick that off I have a brief guide for a sentimental favorite to offer to all CK Patrons!

The Definitive Spider-Ham Guide

Spider-Ham on the cover of Spider-Man Annual 2019 #1

Long before I was a regular comic reader, I had a meager stack of comics from newsstands and spinner racks that sat on a slim bookshelf in my closet.

One was an old Conan comic from my father. Another was a random issue of Captain America.

The third was Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham (1985) #6.

Peter Porker The Spectacular Spider-Ham (1983) #6

Possibly my first ever comic book?

I don’t know why I had it. I think people in my family assumed I would really love Spider-Man because I shared his name, but at the time (and, to this day) I was much more interested in Wonder Woman.

That one issue (which I still have!) meant I’ve always had a soft, nostalgic spot for Peter Porker. I never expected he would appear in a comic again other than as a one-off joke about the silly excesses of the 80s… until Spider-Verse.

Spider-Verse brought almost every iteration of every spider-character ever back into play for a brief, somewhat-bloody event, which included this Spider-turned-Super-Pig from Earth-8311.

Spider-Ham survived the carnage (not THE Carnage – lower-case carnage) of the event, befriended Spider-Gwen, Spider-Gwen become a hit, and the event inspired one of the most successful and awarded animated movies of all time.

The rest is (recent) history!

This might lead you to wonder: are there many Spider-Ham comic books to read? Are they anything like the zany version of the character who was cartoony even for a cartoon in Into The Spider-Verse.

Well… that depends.