Twitter: https://twitter.com/epicmarvelpod/status/119252272611359948Each entry below includes a link to the page in the Hachette catalogue and the Amazon UK page, both where known, and to the page on Mike's Amazing World of Comics for the title.
Star Wars: Legends Legacy v3
05 MayFantastic Four v5 By Ben Betrayed
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/star-wars-legends-epic-collection-legacy-vol-3/9781302923754/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302923757
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=13154
Star Wars: Legacy #37-40, 42-50; Star Wars: Legacy - War #1-6
Legacy Epic 4 would be the Legacy 2 series http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=17575
12 MayStar Wars: Legends The Rebellion v4
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/fantastic-four-epic-collection-by-ben-betrayed/9781302922030/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302922033
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3649&page=gallery
Fantastic Four #68-87, Annual 6, Material from Not Brand Echh #6-7
Epic 6 then becomes something like 88-107.Would be nice to end on 102, Jack Kirby's last issue, but that'd make Epic 6 really thin
26 MaySilver Surfer v9 Resurrection
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/star-wars-legends-epic-collection-the-rebellion-vol-4/9781302925055/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302925059
Star Wars: Rebellion #1-16;
Star Wars: Boba Fett - Overkill #1;
Star Wars: Boba Fett #1/2 and material from
Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic/Rebellion #0 and
Star Wars Tales #3, #15, #17 & #21
02 JunAvengers v5 This Beachhead Earth
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/silver-surfer-epic-collection-resurrection/9781302925079/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302925075
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4080&page=gallery
Silver Surfer (vol. 3) #76-85, Annual 6, Secret Defenders #9-10, Silver Surfer/Warlock: Resurrection #1-4
Silver Surfer is one of the more random Epics which jumps around all over the place! There's 6 out of what looks like 14 Epics released - the 80s/90s volume of the title ran to issue 146 and issue 137 in in Epic 13 - but only two are consecutive.Epic 7 is out already so Epic 8 is then 66-75, Annual 5, Return of the Defenders crossover and Homecoming Graphic Novel.
09 JunDaredevil v15 Last Rites
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/avengers-epic-collection-this-beachhead-earth/9781302921972/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302921975
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3986&page=gallery
Avengers #77-97, Incredible Hulk #140
FINALLY! Really annoyed me when a stand alone Kree Skrull war volume turned up January 2019 because it was obvious this was coming!
Epic 7 is out already so Epic 6 is then 98-114, Daredevil 99 & material from FOOM 5-7, which looks a little thin.
Epic 9 is also out already so we've known for a while that Epic 8 must be 129-148 and Giant Size Avengers 2-4.
So that's both the next two earlier Avengers known.... And we can have a good guess that Epic 10, well into the 17 page issues here so more per volume, looks something like 167-187, annual 8 and possibly Thor annual 6!
16 JunStar Wars: Legends The Empire v6
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/dg-chichester/daredevil-epic-collection-last-rites/9781302925635/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daredevil-Epic-Collection-Last-Rites/dp/1302925636
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3988&page=gallery
Daredevil #283-300. Annual 7
Bit of a surprise. I thought they'd be keeping back the rest of the Prince of Chichester's run to give them something to print in a few years. The simultaneous equations for DD Epics and Masterworks now get rather fun in a few years when both want to print c200 stuff at the same time.
16 JunConan Chronicles v4 Horrors Beneath The Stones
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/star-wars-legends-epic-collection-the-empire-vol-6/9781302925116/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302925113
Star Wars Agent Of The Empire - Iron Eclipse 1-5
Star Wars Agent Of The Empire - Hard Targets 1-5
Star Wars The Force Unleashed Graphic Novel
Star Wars The Force Unleashed II Graphic Novel
Material From Star Wars Tales 11, 15 & A Decade Of Dark Horse 2
16 JunX-Men v6 Proteus
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/conan-chronicles-epic-collection-tbd/9781302923273/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302923277
Conan: Road of Kings #1-12, Conan the Barbarian #1-6
07 JulNew Mutants v7 Cable
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/x-men-epic-collection-proteus/9781302922528/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302922521
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3987&page=gallery
X-Men #111-128, Annual 3, Marvel Team-Up #89, Incredible Hulk Annual 7
Exactly what I was expecting for X-Men issues so the MTU issue and Hulk Annual, which features The Angel, Iceman and Master Mold, are welcome bonuses!
Epic 7 then becomes the rest of the Byrne issues 129-143, Annual 4, and probably Marvel Two In One 68 & Bizarre Adventures 27.
21 JulBlack Widow v2 The Coldest War
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/new-mutants-epic-collection-cable/9781302925239/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302925237
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4050&page=gallery
New Mutants #86-94, Annual 5-6, New Mutants Summer Special, Material from X-Factor Annual 5, X-Men Annual 14
This REALLY surprised me as I was expecting Epic 3. We can now see a pattern:2016 Epic 1 Renewal - earlierBased on that we could predict:2018 Epic 6 Curse of the Valkyries - later
2019 Epic 2 The Demon Bear Saga - earlier
2020 Epic 7 Cable - later
2021 Epic 3 - earlier(32-45ish, Special Edition 1, Annual 3, X-Men Annuals 9-10)2022 Epic 8 "The End of the Beginning" - later(95-100, XTinction Agenda and Kings of Pain)2023 Epic 4 - earlier(46ish-54 - Claremont's last issue - Annual 3, Fallen Angels 1-8)2024 Epic 5 - haha, last one left!(55-70, Annual 4)
28 JulIron Man v4 The Fury of Firebrand
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/black-widow-epic-collection-the-coldest-war/9781302921309/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1302921304
Bizarre Adventures #25, Marvel Fanfare #10-13, Solo Avengers #7, Black Widow: The Coldest War, Punisher/Black Widow: Spinning Doomsday's Web, Daredevil/Black Widow: Abattoir, Marvel Comics Presents #135, Daredevil Annual 10, Nick Fury/Black Widow: Death Duty, Journey into Mystery #517-519
Exactly as expected, the rest of the Omnibus - https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/none/the-black-widow-strikes-omnibus/9781302921279/ - that wasn't printed in Black Widow v1 Beware the Black Widow.
11 AugWest Coast Avengers v3 Tales to Astonish
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/marvel-comics/iron-man-epic-collection-the-fury-of-the-firebrand/9781302922078/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Iron-Man-Epic-Collection-Firebrand/dp/1302922076
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3989&page=gallery
Iron Man #25-46, Daredevil #73
No real surprises
I was wondering if this was the quickest the same material - Iron Man 35–36 & Daredevil 73 - had appeared in two Epics following heir appearance in Daredevil Epic 4 A Woman Called Widow on November 6, 2019. Then I remembered the X-Factor 84-86 are in X-Factor Epic 8 X-Aminations, bookshop date November 26th 2019, and X-Force Epic 2 X-Cutioner's Song, bookshop date December 24th 2019!, just 4 weeks apart!
18 Aug
https://www.hachettebookgroup.biz/titles/none/avengers-west-coast-epic-collection-tales-to-astonish/9781302923167/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avengers-West-Coast-Epic-Collection/dp/1302923161
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4109&page=gallery
West Coast Avengers #25-37, Annual 2, Avengers Annual 16, Marvel Graphic Novel: Emperor Doom
Slightly annoyingly this falls just short of the collections of the Byrne material, which start from issue 42. But even if you lost Emperor Doom I don't think you'd have enough space for five issues plus an annual!
That makes Epic 4 38-52, annuals 3 & 4.... Possibly the 4 page Reunion story from Avengers West Coast #56 with the Android Human Torch & Captain America showing their first post resurrection meeting
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/story.php?storyid=137483
Issues 53-55 are part of Acts of Vengeance so they'd probably be all together, and having them all in Epic 4 takes them over the "20 times 22 page issue" rule I, and seemingly Marvel, work to.
So the Epics I was expecting to see and didn't are
Captain America v5
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3983&page=galleryMaster of Kung Fu v3160-180 something.
There's been no older Captain America Epic since 2017
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4014&page=galleryFantastic Four v19Something like 54-80.
The two previous MOKF Epics have been published in the summer
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3649&page=galleryMarvel Two In One v2
321-333, annual 22No newer FF Epic yet in 2020, the 2019 one was in the summer and this is an obvious hole between Epics 17-18 and 20-21.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4030&page=galleryIncredible Hulk v2320-34 ish, Annuals 1 & 2, FF Annual 11, Avengers Annual 7
Been a year since MTIO Masterworks v4 containing some of this material was published so I think that lets the Epics publish it too.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3984&page=galleryBlack Panther or Moon Knight449-464, -1, Annual 95
No Later Hulk in late 2019/early 2020 which is odd.
Hulk v1 goes up to 474. There's probably two later Hulk Epics left, but that's not enough material to fill them. I'd suggest v24 is 465-474 (which is double sized like 450), Annual 98 + Rampaging Hulk 1-6.
Both of these might be finished. Both have 90s material - Moon Knight and Black Panther, and in Moon Knight's case 80s material, that they might print.Sgt Fury v2
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3996&page=galleryX-Men v1820-40?
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3987&page=galleryStar Wars: Legends The Original Marvel Years v5
268-276 annual 14 and Extinction Agenda2019's newer X-Men volume was in the summer but traditionally they've been towards the end of the year.
I swing back and forth as to if this volume will include all of Days of Future Present: at the moment I'm thinking not, as the X-Men don't get involved to the end, which would enable it to be released soon after New Mutants v7: Cable.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4470&page=galleryThese all get carried forward as predictions for the Autumn/Winter 2020 Epic releases, which we should start to discover in February/March 2020.74-88, Annual 3, Return of the Jedi 1-4
Star Wars is 107 issues, that leaves 89-107 to make up Epic 5.
Original Marvel Years is usually published in the Summer. It might be that it's taking a break in 2020, like New Republic frustratingly did in 2019. It's absence can be perhaps explained by Star Wars: The Original Trilogy - The Movie Adaptations, due Jan 28 2020, which collects STAR WARS 1-6, 39-44 & STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) 1-4
They're joined by these new predictions, based on which titles had Epics out in Autumn/Winter 2019. Mostly they're next volume predictions.
Star Wars: Legends New Republic v5
Dark Empire, Dark Empire II, Dark Empire III & UnionThor v19That would make New Republic 6 all three Crimson Empire series plus the Crimson Empire and promised Rogue Squadron handbooks.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3980&page=galleryIncredible Hulk v5437-450 Annual 16 + Korvac Quest
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3984&page=galleryDoctor Strange v ??138-160 ish
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=4035Daredevil v5Who knows which volume this will be? Doctor Strange is one of the really random Epics along with X-Men, Silver Surfer and, to a lesser extent, Daredevil.
I'd love some Roger Stern Doctor Strange, but that's being done in Masterworks at the moment. V2, containing Strange Tales 147-168 & Doctor Strange 169-179, to plug that annoying gap maybe?
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3988&page=galleryX-Factor v9
87-110? Avengers 111
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4068&page=galleryPower Man & Iron Fist v4101-113, Annual 9, X-Force 38 & Excalibur 82
X-Factor ran to 149 issues: www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4068&page=gallery That means there's enought material for two more Epics after this.
v10 would then be something like 114-132.
125 is double sized. 124-126 are the sort of stand alone X-Factor/Onslaught thread. 20 issues, but there might be some scope for more Onslaughtv11: 133-149, -1No double sized issues. 18 issues total so you could bounce some from 10 to 11 to make room for Onslaught. Either way X-Factor looks 11 volumes.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4007&page=galleryAvengers v25: Bloodties108-125.
This completes Power Man & Iron Fist. I would not be at all surprised to see Power Man/Hero For Hire Epics start following this - the .
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=3986&page=galleryX-Force v3
Avengers 360-369, Annual 22, X-Men 26, Avengers West Coast 101-102, Uncanny X-Men 307Avengers very oddly had two newer volumes in 2019, something no other title has done. If they have had two volumes it's always been an older one and a newer one.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4128&page=galleryDefenders v120-33 (14 issues, equivalent to 15 as 25 is double sized) + the double sized annual 2 (2 issues, brings us to 17) and New Warriors 44-46 (3 issues, brings us to 20), incorporating the Child's Play crossover in those 3 New Warriors and the last 2 X-Force.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4006&page=galleryOf the Epics published in this period in 2019 Avengers West Coast and the earlier Fantastic Four volume have already been scheduled for 2020, Star Wars Legends The Menace Revealed has one volume left for it's Star Wars/Star Wars Republic issues to meet the start of Star Wars Legends The Menace Revealed so I think New Republic (at least 3 volumes left) is more likely and I don't know enough about Dark Horse's Conan to predict what Conan Chronicles might do, but I think it might be finished.The Sub-Mariner #34-35, Marvel Feature #1-3 and The Defenders #1-12 and Avengers #115-118
The Defenders #13+, Giant-Size Defenders #1 in Epic 2
FINALLY, these are the Epic collections that are fit into the one volume gaps. We know the issues of the named title which should be in each of these and perhaps a bit more:
Iron Man 12
196-214, annual 8Amazing Spider-Man 6
86-104Amazing Spider-Man 16
273-288 GN22: HookyAvengers 6
98-114, Daredevil 99Avengers 8
129-148, Giant Size 2-4Fantastic Four 19
321-333, annual 22Captain America 14
333-350, Iron Man 228Doctor Strange 2
Strange Tales 147-168, Dr Strange 169-179Silver Surfer 2
Silver Surfer v1 #1-18; The Fantastic Four Annual #5Silver Surfer 8
67-75 + GN: Homecoming, Annual 5Silver Surfer 14
139-146Wolverine 7
76-86, Cable 16 + ??X-Men 18
268-276, annual 14New Mutants 8
95-100, annual 7, XTinction Agenda and Kings of PainPunisher 1
This should look similar to Essential 1 so Amazing Spiderman 129, 134-135, 161-162,174-175, 201-202 and Annual 15, Giant Size Spiderman 4, Marvel Preview 2, Marvel Super Action 1, Captain America 241, Daredevil 182-184, Spectacular Spiderman 81-83Punisher 4
26-34, annual 3. GN Return to Big Nothing and GN: IntruderPunisher 6
49-62, annual 5 & Punisher Summer Special 1-2Power Man & Iron Fist 4
108-125
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