Monday, 27 November 2023

Future Epics Mapped

I've had a few requests for the "Maps" of the contents of Future Epics that I've done for The Epic Collection Speculation, Discussion, Admiration and Obsession Facebook Group to be collected in one place. So I've been through the ones I can find and compiled them here.

This will need a little tidying up so bear with as the format varies a little bit depending on my original source. Some of these are straight lists of issues, others include some working a try to hit the target of 20 ish 22 page issues per book (24 ish 17 page issues for material first printed in the late 70s)

I've divided this up into sections: here's some links to make navigating to each title easier

X-Epics
Two Books Per Year Epics
One Book Per Year Epics
Modern Epics
Epics Not Yet Started
Modern Epics Not Yet Started


X-Epics

X-Men
Wolverine
Deadpool
Excalibur
Generation-X
X-Factor
X-Force

Two Books Per Year Epics

Amazing Spider-Man
Avengers
* Heroes Reborn Avengers
* Heroes Return Avengers
Captain America
* Heroes Reborn Captain America
* Heroes Return Captain America
Daredevil
Fantastic Four
* Heroes Reborn Fantastic Four
* Heroes Return Fantastic Four
Hulk
Iron Man
* Heroes Reborn Iron Man
* Heroes Return Iron Man
Thor
* Heroes Return Thor

One Book Per Year Epics

Avengers West Coast
Blade
Defenders
Doctor Strange
Ghost Rider
Ghost Rider Danny Ketch
Guardians of the Galaxy
Hawkeye
Marvel Two In One
Micronauts
Moon Knight
Morbius
Namor, The Sub-Mariner
Punisher
Rom
Sgt Fury
She-Hulk
Silver Surfer
Thunderbolts
Venom

Modern Epics

Amazing Spider-Man
Black Widow
Captain America
Daredevil
Deadpool
Deadpool & Cable
Hawkeye
Hulk
Iron Man
Loki
Miles Morales - Spider-Man
New Avengers
Spider-Girl
Spider-Gwen
Spider-Man/Deadpool
Thor
Venom
Astonishing X-Men
New X-Men

Epics Not Yet Started

Alpha Flight
Cable
Captain Marvel
Cloak & Dagger
Dazzler
Eternals
Force Works
Inhumans
Marvel Universe
Nova
Power Pack
Silver Sable
Spectacular Spider-Man
Spider-Man
Spider-Woman
The Thing
War Machine
X-Man

Modern Epics Not Yet Started

Carnage

X-Epics


X-Men

Epics 1-10, to issue 175 & Annual 7, are either out or scheduled soon. So between there and Epic 12 we have:

Epic 11 Lifedeath
176-188
Kitty Pryde & Wolverine 1-6
I would have loved to see the unreprinted Marvel Team Up 135 (Kitty Pryde) in Epic 10 but was preoared for it's absence after the disappointment with MTU 117 & 118. Space, and the lack of MTU in recent Epics, probaby rules out the double sized Marvel Team Up 150 for Epic 11.

There's then FOUR Epics between Epics 12 & 17 which will run something like this:

Epic 13
199-210 Annuals 9 & 10
New Mutants Special Edition 1 and Annual 2

* An alternate solution would be to drop the New Mutants SE & Annual for Longshot 1-6

Epic 14 The Mutant Massacre
211-219 Annual 11
X-Men vs Avengers 1-4
X-Men vs Fantastic Four 1-4
Epic 15 Fall Of The Mutants
220-238
Hulk 340
Epic 16 Inferno
239-247 Annuals 12 & 13
X-Factor 37-39
And finally the much desired Epic 18 containing the majority of the Jim Lee run:
Epic 18: Xtinction Agenda
Uncanny X-Men 268-276 & Annual 14,
New Mutants 94-96 & material from Annual 6,
X-Factor 60-62 & material from Annual 5
Material From Fantastic Four Annual 23
We then have a block of Epics from 19-23 covering Uncanny X-Men #277-306 & annuals 15-17, X-Men #1-25 & annual 1 and X-Men Unlimited #1-2

Epic 24 Calcultions

(from October 1993) X-Men Annual 2 was published the same month as X-Men 25 that's in Epic 23. (2 issues worth)

(from November & December 1993) Bloodties is Avengers 368 & X-Men 26, Avengers West Coast 101, Uncanny X-Men 307 & Avengers 369. (6 issues worth, 8 total)

December 93: X-Men Unlimited 3 same month as X-Men 307, which is part of Bloodties & counted already, & X-Men 27, which isn't. (3 issues worth 11 total)

January 94: Events in Unlimited continues in X-Men 28 same month as Uncanny 308. (2 more issues, 13 total)

February 94: Uncanny 309 & X-Men 29 (2 issues, 15 total)

March 94: Uncanny 310 & X-Men 30 (2 issues worth, 17 total)

X-Men 30 is Scott & Jean's wedding which brings in X-Men The Wedding Album (17 pages, about an issue's worth, 18 total

Also March 94, the same month as Uncanny 310 & X-Men 30 is Unlimited 4, Nightcrawler, Rogue & Mystique (2 issues worth, 20 issues)

Epic 24 Contents:
Uncanny X-Men 307-310
X-Men 26-30
X-Men Annual 2
X-Men Unlimited 3 & 4
Avengers 368 & 369
Avengers West Coast 101
X-Men The Wedding Album
Shall we push on?

Epic 25 Calculations

April 94: Uncanny 311 & X-Men 31 (2 issues worth, 2 total)

May 94: Uncanny 312 & X-Men 32 (2 issues worth, 4 total)

June 94: Uncanny 313, Uncany Annual 18, X-Men 33 & Unlimited 5 (6 issues worth, 10 total)

July 94: Uncanny 314 & X-Men 34 (2 issues worth, 12 total)

August 94: Uncanny 315 & X-Men 35 (2 issues worth, 14 total)

May-August 94 is The Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix (4 issues worth, 18 total)

X-Men Annual 3 is same month as X-Men 37 (Uncanny 317) (2 issues worth, 20 total)

Epic 25 Contents:
Uncanny X-Men 311-315
Uncanny X-Men Annual 18
X-Men 31-35
X-Men Annual 3
X-Men Unlimited 5
The Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix 1-4
Epic 26 Calculations
Originally my Epic 26 took us all the way to Age of Apocalypse. However a flaw in my calculations was pointed out which meant Epic 26 had too much in it which has led to me splitting the remaining pre AoA material between two books and loading up with extras a bit.

The main add ins for this Epic are the other X-Book Phalanx issues which I originally left out. I feel happy including them because Life Signs (X-Factor, X-Fore & Excalibur) tells the story of the X-Men's rescue and Final Sanction (Wolverine & Cable) features Scott & Jean's return and Wolverine's first contact with the X-Men after Wolverine 75.

September 94: Uncanny 316 & X-Men 36 (Unlimited 6 is the same month but needs to be placed after Phalanx) (2 issues worth)
October 94: Uncanny 317 & X-Men 37 (2 issues worth, 4 total)
September & October 94: X-Factor #106, X-Force #38 & Excalibur #82 (6 issues worth, 10 total)
September & October 94: Wolverine (vol. 2) #85 & Cable #16 (4 issues worth, 14 total)
(from September 94) Unlimited 6 (same months as Uncanny 316 & X-Men 36 above)(2 issues worth, 6 total)
November 94: Uncanny 318 & X-Men 38 (2 issues worth, 18 total)
December 94: Uncanny 319 & X-Men 39 (2 issues worth, 20 total)

Epic 26 contents:
Uncanny 316 & X-Men 36
Uncanny 317 & X-Men 37
X-Factor #106
X-Force #38
Excalibur #82
Wolverine (vol. 2) #85
Cable #16
Unlimited 6
Uncanny 318 & X-Men 38
Uncanny 319 & X-Men 39

(20 issues worth)

Epic 27 Calculations:
Epic 27 meanwhile gained 2 issues of X-Factor, detailing Legion's activities immediately prior to Legionquest which are marked with the Legionquest branding. Cable 20, which I'd been itching to include anyway, shows what happens to the X-Men when the effects of Legion's deed hit and Wolverine 90 has his return to the mansion and confrontation with Sabretooth that sets up some post AoA material. The limited series were in anyway, I place them pre AOA and the Year of the Mutants Collectors' Preview nicely fills the space with similar material seen elsewhere of recent.

December 94: Unlimited 7 (2 issues worth)
November & December 94: X-Factor 108-109 (2 issues worth, 4 total)
January 95: Uncanny 320 & X-Men 40 (2 issues worth, 6 total)
February 95: Uncanny 321 & X-Men 41 (2 issues worth, 8 total)
February 95: Wolverine 90 & Cable 20 (2.5 issues worth, 10.5 total)

December 94-March 95: Bishop 1-4 same months as Uncanny 319-321 & X-Men 39-41 and Amazing 1 & Astonishing 1 (4 issues worth, 14.5 total)

January-April 95: Rogue 1-4 same months as Uncanny 320-321 & X-Men 40-41 and Amazing 1 & 2 & Astonishing 1 & 2 (4 issues worth, 18.5 total)

February 95: X-Men:Year of the Mutants Collectors' Preview #1 (32 pages, 1.5ish issues worth, 20ish issues total)

Epic 27 Contents:
Unlimited 7
X-Factor 108-109
Uncanny 320 & X-Men 40
Uncanny 321 & X-Men 41
Wolverine 90
Cable 20
Bishop 1-4
Rogue 1-4
X-Men:Year of the Mutants Collectors' Preview #1

(20 ish isues)

And *THAT* does bring us to Age of Apocalypse, with a clean break should X-Men print it in their Epics or skip over it to X-Men Prime and the Road to Onslaught.

Thus far none of Age of Apocalypse has appeared in regular Epics, and none of the Age of Apocalypse books appear in the Legacy numbering for the X-titles so, while I expect there to be Age of Apocalypse Epics, I don't think we'll see anything here, but a nice clean end of Epic break for it will be good.

From Age of Apocalypse to New X-Men is pretty well collected in big volumes and it's worth looking at these as potential Epics:

Epic A: Road To Onslaught One
Uncanny X-Men 322-326
X-Men 42-45 & Annual '95
X-Men Unlimited 8
And…. X-Men Prime 1
(432 pages)
Epic B: Road To Onslaught Two
Uncanny X-Men 327-328, Annual '95
X-Men 46-49
X-Men Unlimited 9
And…. X-Men/Clandestine 1-2 & Sabretooth (1995) 1
(440 pages)
Epic C: Road To Onslaught Three
Uncanny X-Men 329-332
X-Men 50-52
X-Men Unlimited 10
Wolverine 101
And…. Archangel 1, X-Men/Brood 1-2, Xavier Institute Alumni Yearbook
(448 pages)
Epic D: X-Men/Avengers: Onslaught One
Uncanny X-Men 333-335
X-Men 53-54
X-Men Unlimited 11
Cable 32-33
X-Man 15-17
X-Force 55
Avengers 401
Fantastic Four 415
And…. Onslaught: X-Men
(432 pages)
Epic E: X-Men/Avengers: Onslaught Two
Uncanny X-Men 336
X-Men 55
X-Factor 125-126
Wolverine 104
Cable 34-35
X-Man 18-19
X-Force 57-58
Hulk 444-445
And…. Amazing Spiderman 415, Green Goblin 12, Spider-Man 72, Iron Man 332
(448 pages)
Epic F: X-Men/Avengers: Onslaught Three
Uncanny X-Men 337
X-Men 56-57, Annual 96
Wolverine 105
Cable 36
Avengers 402
Fantastic Four 416 (Material from)
And…. Punisher (1995) 11, Thor 502, Onslaught: Marvel Universe, Onslaught: Epilogue, X-Men Road to Onslaught
(440 pages)
Epic G: X-Men: Onslaught Aftermath -
Uncanny X-Men 338-340, Annual '96-97
X-Men 58-61, Annual '97
X-Men Unlimited 12-14
X-Factor 130
And…. UXM -1, XM-1
(488 pages)
Up until this point I'm pretty happy with things that those are possible Epics.

However things start to go astray after that with book lengths, periods where books publish just one X titles and missing issues of X-Men Unlimited:

Epic H: The Trial of Gambit
Uncanny X-Men 341-350
X-Men 62-64
(400 pages)
* * * MISSING X-Men Unlimited 15-16
Epic I: Operation Zero Tollerance
Uncanny X-Men 346
X-Men 65-70
Wolverine 115-118
Cable 45-47
And…. Generation X 27
(448 pages)
Epic J: X-Men Blue 0 Reunion
Uncanny X-Men 351-359, Annual 98
X-Men Unlimited 17
And…. CEREBRO'S GUIDE TO THE X-MEN
(328 pages)
* * * MISSING X-Men Unlimited rest of 18, 19-20
Epic K: X-Men Gold 0 Homecoming
X-Men 71-79, Annual 98
X-Men Unlimited Material from 18
(336 pages)
* * * MISSING X-Men Unlimited 21
Epic L: Hunt for Professor Xavier
Uncanny X-Men 360-365
X-Men 80-84, 1/2
X-Men Unlimited 22
(368 pages)
Epic M: Magneto War
Uncanny X-Men 366-371
X-Men 85-91 & Annual 99
X-Men Unlimited 23 & material from 24
And…. X-Men: The Magneto War, Magneto Rex #1-3
(504 pages)
* * * MISSING X-Men Unlimited 23, rest of 24
Epic N: The Shattering
Uncanny X-Men 372-275
X-Men 92-95
And…. Astonishing X-Men (1999) #1-3
(288 pages)
* * * MISSING X-Men Unlimited 25
Epic O: Vs. Apocalypse Volume 1: The Twelve
Uncanny X-Men 376-377
X-Men 96-97
Wolverine 146-147
Cable 75-76
(312 pages)
Epic P: Vs. Apocalypse Volume 2: Ages Of Apocalypse
Uncanny X-Men 378 & Annual 99
X-Men 98
Wolverine 148
Cable 77
And…. X-51 #8, X-Men: The Search of Cyclops #1-4.
(288 pages)
* * * MISSING X-Men Unlimited 26
Epic Q: Powerless
Uncanny X-Men 379-380
X-Men 99
Wolverine 149
Cable 78
X-Force 101
(144 pages)
Epic R: Not Collected In Big Trades
Uncanny X-Men 381-386
X-Men 100-105
( pages)
* * * MISSING X-Men Unlimited 27 & 28
Epic S: Maximum Security
Uncanny X-Men 387
X-Men 107
X-Men Unlimited 29
And…. Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet, Maximum Security #1-3, Captain America (1998) #36, Thor (1998) #30, Bishop: The Last X-Man #15, Iron Man (1998) #35, Avengers (1998) #35, Gambit (1999) #23
(376 pages)
Epic T: Dream's End
Uncanny X-Men 388-390
X-Men 108-110
Cable 87
And…. Bishop 16
(192 pages)
* * * MISSING X-Men Unlimited 30
Epic U: Eve of Destruction
Uncanny X-Men 391-393
X-Men 111-113
(152 pages)
* * * MISSING X-Men Unlimited 31

Wolverine

There's a gap between Wolverine Epic 3, which ends issue 44, and Epic 6, which starts issue 69:

Epic 4
45-50 MCP 72-84 Weapon X, MCP 85-92 Blood Hungry (Cyber), Wolverine Reign of Terror
Epic 5
51-68 Punisher/Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Hearts of Darkness
Reign of Terror & Hearts of Darkness both have their sequels in later Epics, raising the probability of their inclusion. Blood Hungry's Cyber character reappears in the main Wolverine book in Epic 8 and DO YOU REALLY THINK THEY'LL LEAVE WEAPON-X OUT????

Epics 10 and 11 are a little more challenging, but the main series issues have an obvious split:

Epic 10
110-122, -1, Annual 97
+ ??

* 119-122 Not Dead Yet is Warren Ellis

Epic 11
123-132
Black Rio
+ ??

* 125-128 are Chris Claremont's return to the title

The backbone to Epic 11 is the previously published Wolverine Blood Wedding trade which collects 123-132 + Black Rio https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL130711

There's a PILE of extras around now that could go into these books

Wolverine Encyclopedia 1-2
48 pages each 4 issues worth
same months as Wolverine 107 & Wolverine 108
(wasn't this meant to be 4 issues?)

Mystique & Sabretooth 1-4, same months as Wolverine 108-111

What If 93 same month as Wolverine 109

The Spoon Job 12 pages from Marvel Shadows & Light same month as Wolverine 110

Marvel Fanfare v2 6 same month as Wolverine 110

Wolverine 117 leads into X-Men 70 (Operation Zero Tolerance)

Wolverine Doombringer 48 pages (2 issues worth) same month as Wolverine 118

Maverick 4 same month as Wolverine 119

Wolverine Days of Future Past 1-3 same months as Wolverine 119-121

Alpha Flight v2 9 & Uncanny X-Men 355 same months as Wolverine 123 & Wolverine 124

X-Men/Alpha Flight 1-2 (32 pages) 3 issues worth, same months as Wolverine 124 & Wolverine 125

What If 111 same month as Wolverine 127

Marvel Knights Wolverine/Punisher:Revelation #1-4 same months as Wolverine 139-142

Wolverine runs to 189 issues

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4083&page=gallery

Epic 14 concludes with issue 172 so the remaining Epic *seems* obvious:

Epic 15
173-189
That's a count of 17 issues but since 175 & 183 are double sized, it's the equivilent of 19 issues

That could *nearly* be Epic 15 by themselves. But I think there's enough extras around now for an extra Epic:

Wolverine/Elektra 3 issues, 56, 64 & 64 pages.
Same month as W 170-172.
About 9 issues worth.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9385&page=gallery

Wolverine/Hulk
Same months as 173-176
4 issus worth
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9428&page=gallery

Wolverine: Netsuke 1-4, 32 pages each, 6 issue equivalent,
same months as W 181-184
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9551&page=gallery

Wolverine: Xisle 1-5,
same month as W 189
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9702&page=gallery

Wolverine: Doop 1-2
month after W 189
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9713&page=gallery

Wolverine: Snikt 1-5
months following W 189 or the next Wolverine volume 1-5
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9715&page=gallery


Deadpool

Existing Deadpool Epics:

1 The Circle Chase
New Mutants #98
X-Force #2, 11, 15
Nomad #4
Deadpool: The Circle Chase #1-4
Secret Defenders #15-17
Deadpool (1994) #1-4
Material From
*Avengers #366
*Silver Sable & the Wild Pack #23
2 Mission Improbable
Wolverine #88
X-Force #47 & 56
Deadpool #1-9 & -1
Daredevil/Deadpool Annual '97
material from Wolverine Annual '95
3 Drowning Man
Deadpool 10-20
Deadpool And Death Annual '98
Heroes for Hire 10-11
Baby's First Deadpool Book
4 Dead Reckoning
Deadpool #0, 21-33
Deadpool Team-Up #1
Encyclopaedia Deadpoolica #1
5 Johnny Handsome
Deadpool 34-45
Black Panther 23
Wolverine (1988) 154-155
Heroes Reborn: Remnants (2000) 1
Fight-Man (1993) 1
Material From
* Wolverine Annual '99
Before the announcement of Epic 5 I said
Definitely two books left to complete the first Deadpool ongoing. Contents are pretty easy to guess given the Deadpool Classics & Companion:
Epic 5
Deadpool 34-49
Black Panther 23
Wolverine 154-155
Material From
* Contest of Champions II #2
* Wolverine Annual '99; (same month as Deadpool 36)
Epic 6
Deadpool 50-69
Since then the contents of Epic 5 have been released and the numbers indicate that Deadpool Epic 6 isn't enough to finish the run.

The original Deadpool volume is 69 issues

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8606

1 January 2007
69 September 2002

24 more standard issues to go post Epic 5

So after Epic 6 uses c 20 issues they'll be a few left to go into an Epic 7 with Agent-X, whose inclusion is hinted at by Fight Man being in Epic 5, somewhat out of chronological position.

Fight-Man 1
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=66757

June 1993

Agent-X 1-15 2002-2003
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9514&page=gallery

1 September 2002
15 December 2003

The place to split those Deadpool issues looks pretty obvious: 5 more issues would bring Agent-X up to strength and the last 5 issues of Deadpool are written by Gail Simone who writes large part of Agent-X. So I think we're now looking at
Epic 5
Deadpool 46-64
Epic 6
Deadpool 65-69
Agent-X 1-15
After that lies Cable & Deadpool which has it's own Modern Epic series.


Excalibur

Knowing Epic 5 59-75, Annual #1 and Epic 8 is Excalibur #104-115 & -1 that leaves 76-103 and Annual 2, all contained in Omnibus 3, to form the basis of Epics 6 & 7. I'll be surprised to see either of them during 2025 due to the delayed release of Omnibus 3 in September 2024

Excalibur Omnibus 3 1993-1996

Excalibur (1988) #68–103, Annual (1993) #1–2
X-Men Unlimited (1993) #4
X-Factor (1986) #106
X-Force (1991) #38
X-Man (1995) #12
Pryde and Wisdom (1996) #1–3
Material From
* Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #174
* Marvel Holiday Special 1996

1304 pages
September 10, 2024
https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302953737

Between the end of Epic 5 and the start of the Warren Ellis' run we have issues 76-82 & Annual 2. Ths material is mainly written by Scott Lobdell, with 76 & Annual 2 written by Richard Ashford who provided 4 of the issues in Epic 5, alongside a variety of artists. Of those issues I believe that only issue 82 (part of Phalanx Covenant: Life Signs) has been previously reprined in paperback.

Warren Ellis writes 83-103 and that's collected in the Warren Ellis Excalibur Visionaries:

1 Collecting EXCALIBUR (1988) #83-90 and material from X-MEN PRIME.
2 Collecting EXCALIBUR (1988) #91-95, X-MAN #12 and STARJAMMERS (1995) #1-4.
3 Collecting EXCALIBUR (1988) #96-103 and PRYDE AND WISDOM #1-3.
I think the 2 Epic gap left for Excalibur shapes up something like this:

Epic 6
76-86, Annual 2
X-Men Unlimited 4
X-Factor #106
X-Force #38
Material From
* Marvel Comics Presents 174
(20ish issues - The Annual, issue 82, and the X-Factor & X-Force are all double sized)

* Phalanx Covenant is Excalibur 82, X-Factor 106 & X-Force 38

* Age of Apocalypse is between issues 86 and 87, and Epics 6 & 7.

Epic 7
87-103
Pryde & Wisdom 1-3
(21 issues, 100 is Double Sized)

Generation-X

Epics 1, 2 & 3 are out. Epic 4 was announced but has been delayed in the reshuffle due to the writers/actors strike.

Epic 4 Pride & Penance
Generation X #33-47, 1/2
Generation X/Dracula Annual '98 #1
X-Men Unlimited #20
Generation X Holiday Special #1
That leaves 48-73 to be published from Generation X's main series http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4575&page=gallery.

With a little assistance that's 2 Epics:

Epic 5
Generation X 48-58
Generation X Annual '99
Generation X 59-62
Epic 6
Generation X 63-73
X-Men Unlimited 30
Generation X 74-75
X-Men Unlimited 34
Chamber 1-4

X-Factor

Epic 2 is a one volume gap that must contain 10-20 & Annual 2 - the equivalent of 13 issues. So it needs some extras to help make up the numbers

X-Factor has been Essentialled plus some of this volume has been in Mutant Massacre and Fall of the Mutants trades, so they'll be some hints there, but 12-17 & Annual 2 are uncollected in colour paperback.

Mutant Massacre gives us Thor 373 & 374 plus Power Pack 27. I'd argue that NONE of the rest of Mutant Massacre is necessary: X-Factor don't appear in those issues and their thread of the story is self contained here. Likewise the X-Factor issues and crossovers won't appear in the corresponding X-Men Epic.

Thor 378 is an Iceman appearance which was Essentialled. The Mutant Masscre Omnibus adds 377

Hulk 336 & 337 are appearances by Cyclops, Marvel Girl & Iceman.

So I think we can be reasonably certain of Epic 2's contents:

2 "Mutant Massacre"
10-20 & Annual 2
Thor 373-374, 377-378
Power Pack 27
Hulk 336 & 337
The publication of Ombnibus 1 in the middle of 2024 probably takes Epic 2 off the board for 2024 and maybe 2025 too :-(

Epics 5 & 6 need to contain 51-70, Annuals 5 & 6 and Prisoner of Love

X-Factor Annual 5 is Days of Future Present. At the very least that gives us X-Men Annual 14. FF Annual 23 & New Mutants Annual 6, which are prior to the X-Factor Annual, may come in to play if needed but don't feature X-Factor as such

On the other hand prior to this Forge & Banshee have already met Jean and the Beast in Uncanny X-Men 262-4 which has to be a strong candidte for inclusion.

Printed at this time but set earlier is Marvel Fanfare 50

X-Factor 60-62 are X-Tinction Agenda which gives us Uncanny X-Men 270-272 (and 273? which strongly features Scott & Jean) & New Mutants 94-96

X-Factor 69 & 70 give us X-Men 280 which takes place between the two

That lot divides up quite neatly:

Epic 5:
X-Factor 51-59, Annual 5 & Prisoner of Love
X-Men Annual 14,
Uncanny X-Men 262-4,
Marvel Fanfare 50

Epic 6:
X-Factor 60-70, Annual 6,
Uncanny X-Men 270-272 (273?) & 280
New Mutants 94-96

The end of the X-Factor run also *SEEMS* to divide up quite neatly into
Epic 10
X-Factor 112-130

Epic 11
X-Factor 131-149, -1

However there are a number of one shots and limited series that fans would like included:
XSE 1-4 with Shard and Bishop. 1 Same month as X-Factor 128.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=8562

Sabretooth & Mystique 1-4. #1 same month as X-Factor 129
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=8574

Strong Guy Reborn. 35 pages. Same month as X-Factor 137
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=121447

XSE (1998 series) which is more Bishop than Shard. #1 same month as X-Factor 141 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8653&page=gallery

Sabretooth one-shot Back To Nature 1998. 48 pages. Same month as X-Factor 144
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=121644

X-Men Unlimited 21
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=120356

X-Factor 2002 1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9451
http://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Factor_Vol_2

Madrox 2004/5 1-5
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9956&page=gallery


X-Force

X-Force Epics 5 & 6 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4128 We know Epics 4 & 7

4 Toy Soldiers 1993-1994 X-Force #27-39, Annual #3; Cable #6-8; New Warriors #45-46

7 Zero Tolerance 1997-1998 X-Force #66-84, -1

So we need 40-65, 50 is double sized so that's 27 issues worth

Then there's the annuals:

X-Force & Cable 95 same month as 49
X-Force & Cable 96 same month as 59
X-Force & Cable 97 same month as 67
another 6 issues worth, 33

And now for what we'd like:

Deadpool II same months as 37-40 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4170

another 4 issues worth, 37

Domino same months as 52-64 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8600

another 3 issues worth, 40

which gives us
Epic 5:
X-Force 40-52
X-Force & Cable 95
Deadpool II 1-4
Material From:
* X-Men Prime
Epic 6:
X-Force 53-65
X-Force & Cable 96 & 97
Domino 1-3
Both 20 issues worth.
Predicting upwards of Epic 8 Armageddon Now is difficult: 116-129 are a huge change of direction and the last 14 issues are collected in various X-Statix collections which will at some point become Epics - will they also be collected here? 14 issues would need Bumping up.

That leaves 101-115 & Rough Cut 1 as definites for Epic 9.

101 is X-Force's Powerless issue
102-108 are Warren Ellis, they with 109 have been collected in Counter-X 1 100-113 Rage War
114-115 are Epilougue

All Standard Size

The Rough Cut is a reprint of 102 - not sure what, is any, extras are in it?

So you'd be looking at 5 issues worth to round that out

There's a six issue 2004/5 X-Force series

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10039&page=gallery

There's a four issue 2005 X-Force Shatterstar series

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10147&page=gallery

But rather frighteningly you add ALL that together a rather neat solution DOES pop out

Epic 9
X-Force 101-119, Rough Cut 1
Epic 10
X-Force 120-129, X-Force 2004 1-6, X-Force Shatterstar 1-4

Two Books Per Year Epics


Amazing Spider-Man

There's a block of Epics missing for Amazing Spider-Man:

Epic 12
207-223 Annual 14 and Annual 15 (Punisher & Doc Ock)
(21 issues worth - 3 x 16 page, 18 x 22 page)

* 207-223 & Annuals 14-15 are the O'Neill Run. ASM switches from 17 to 22 pages with issue 210

Epic 13
224-241 Annual 16 (Captain Marvel)
(20 x 22 page issues worth)

* 224 is the start of Stern's run which runs to 252 in Epic 14

Epic 14
242-258 Annual 17 PP 85
(20 x 22 page issues worth)

* Peter Parker 85 is an essential part of the Hobgoblin story cover dated December 1983 the same month as ASM 247

That takes us up to Epic 15, the second ASM Epic released which is followed by a one volume gap: the notorious Epic 16
Amazing Spider-Man 273-288,
Spectaular Spider-Man 111 (which follows on from ASM 273)
Marvel Graphic Novel 22: Hooky.
This is almost certainly the number 1 most wanted Epic Collection!

ASM 273 feeds into Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man 111 so that's probably in there too. ASM 279 is part of the Missing In Action crossover with Spectacular 117 and Web Of 16-18. That could well make a contribution to ASM Epic 16 but I see it more as Web Of's event. Unfortunately the mapping I have for Web Of makes it a little difficult to fit in the ASM & Spectaculr issues at that stage.

My hopes of the UK exclusive Spider-Man story from issues 607-610 of the weekly appearing there are receding

Epics 17-26 are all out. Beyond Epic 27 The Clone Saga.... MORE Clone Saga.

I've looked at what makes up the Clone Saga previously at http://philsotherthings.blogspot.com/2023/06/spider-man-clone-saga.html which lists which issues are in which named chapter and how Omnibuses & The Complete Epic books collected it previously.

There's 11 Complete Epics, 5 entitled Clone Saga and 6 Ben Reilly. These books are, in general, approaching Epic Length but not quite there or on the shorterside for an Epic and Epic Collection 27 (456 pages) is bigger than Clone Saga Complete Epic 1 (424 pages) so I expect Epic Collections to complete the Clone Saga in less books than it took the Complete Epics with 9 or 10 volumes being my current guess.

Clone Saga is in Amazing Spider-Man issues 394-418 & Annual 96.

Amazing Spider-Man runs to issue 441 & Annual 98 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=3985

419-441, -1 & Annual 97-98 still remain to be collected post Clone Saga. Just into 2 Epics.

Amazing Spider-Man keeps itself to itself for a year post Clone Saga but then goes crossover happy again:

432 Spider-Hunt

434 & 435 Identity Crisis

440 The Gathering of Five

441 Endgame

They ALL pull in a load of other Spider title issues, so let's put them in and list it all in order:
419
420
421
421
422
423
424
-1
425
426
Annual '97
427
428
429
430
431

Spiderhunt:

* Sensational Spider-Man 25
* 432
* Spider-Man 89
* Spectacular Spider-Man 255
433

Identity Crisis:

* Sensational Spider-Man 27
* 434
* Spider-Man Spider-Man 91
* Spectacular Spider-Man 257
* Sensational Spider-Man 28
* 435
* Spider-Man Spider-Man 92
* Spectacular Spider-Man 258
436
Annual '98 #1
437
438
439

The Gathering of Five:

* Sensational Spider-Man 32
* 440
* Spider-Man 96
* Spectacular Spider-Man #262
* Sensational Spider-Man 33
The Final Chapter:
* 441
* Spider-Man 97
* Spectacular Spider-Man 263
* Spider-Man 98
Chapter One 0, 1-12

Unless I've missed something 419 to the end of Spiderhunt is 21 issues Call that Epic X
Amazing Spider-Man 419-432, -1, Annual 97
Sensational Spider-Man 25
Spider-Man 89
Spectacular Spider-Man 255
433 to the end of the Gathering is exactly 20 issues: Epic Y
Amazing Spider-Man 433-440
Sensational Spider-Man 27-28, 32-33
Spider-Man 91-92 & 96
Spectacular Spider-Man 257-258 & 262
That leaves the following for Epic Z:
The Final Chapter:
Amazing Spider-Man 441
Spider-Man 97 & 98
Spectacular Spider-Man 263

(4 issues worth)

Spider-Man Chapter One 0-12

(14 issues worth, double sized 12)


Avengers

With Epics 11 & 13 released, Epic 12 now has to contain 210-226 & Annual 11: Mantlo's one issue, the entire Shooter II run through to the issue before the Stern run starts.

I make that 19 issues worth - I had thought they could have bulked it up with Jocasta's fate in MTIO 92 & 93 (Jocasta & Machine Man) but I now think it looks moe liklely that Vision & Scarlet Witch 1-4, which I had expected to be in Epic 13, will be in Epic 12.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4049&page=gallery
1 cover dated November 1981 same month as Avengers 225
4 cover dated February 1982 same month as Avengers 228

Epic 11

Avengers 210-226 & Annual 11
Vision & Scarlet Witch 1-4

23 issues worth

That leaves issues 238-263 and Annuals 13 & 14 to be divided between Epics 14 & 15 and bulked up.

Epic 14

Avengers 238-248 & Annual 13
Marvel Fanfare 14 (Vision story)
Marvel Team Up 142 Captain Marvel & 143 Starfox
West Coast Avengers 1-4

20 issues worth

* There's no way that it'll be included but it's worth noting Secret Wars occurs between issues 242 & 243

Epic 15
Avengers 249-263 & Annual 14,
Fantastic Four Annual 19,
Fantastic Four 286

21 and a half issues worth

There's now an 11 volume block from Epic 16-26 ending with Avengers 388.
EPIC 27
Avengers 389-392
Last Avengers Story 1-2
Iron Man #319-323
Avengers:The Crossing
Force Works #16-28
War Machine #20-21

(20 issues worth)

EPIC 28
Avengers #393-396
Force Works #19-20
War Machine #22-23
Iron Man #324-326
Avengers: Timeslide
Age of Innocence - The Rebirth of Iron Man (Double Sized)
Captain America 449
Thor #496
Force Works #21 & 22

(20 issues worth)

EPIC 29
Avengers 397-402
FF 414-415
Uncanny X-Men 335-336
X-Men 55
Hulk 445
Onslaught X-Men 1
Onslaught:Marvel Universe
Black Knight: Exodus


Avengers

Heroes Reborn Avengers

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8568&page=gallery

1 November 1996
12 October 1997
13 is an unreprintable intercompany crossover

Original Trade is 336 pages
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT062223

Throw in the Heroes Return Limited Series

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8657&page=gallery

4 issues, originally traded at 96 pages

432 pages looks a decent Sized Epic

The new printing is larger:

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/NOV228055
Avengers (1996) #1-12,
Fantastic Four (1996) #12,
Iron Man (1996) #6 And #12,
Captain America (1996) #12
Material From
* Fantastic Four (1996) #6
* Captain America (1996) #6.
496 pages. Also rasonable for an Epic


Avengers

Heroes Return Avengers

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=121776

1-84, 500-503, Finale

MOST of this has already been collected in thickish trades which look decent templates for Epics starting with the Kurt Busiek Avengers Assemble trades:
1
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT100700
Avengers (1998) #1-11, Avengers Annual 1998,
Iron Man (1998) #7,
Captain America (1998) #8
Quicksilver #10.
408 Pgs

The extras here are Live Kree & Die
- 1 Iron Man (Vol. 3) #7
- 2 Captain America 8
- 3 Quicksilver 10
- 4 Avengers (Vol. 3) #7

2
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/NOV110651
Avengers (1998) #12-23, #0 And Annual '99
And Avengers (1998) #1 Rough Cut.
432 pages
3
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/FEB120651
Avengers (1998) #24-34 And Annual 2000
And Thunderbolts #42-44.
408 Pgs
4
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR120729
Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet,
Maximum Security #1-3,
Avengers (1998) #35-44 And Annual 2001.
432 pages
5
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL120685
Avengers (1998) #45-56 And #1 1/2
Avengers: The Ultron Imperative.
416 pages
ALL of those look reasonable sized for Epics, between 400 and 500 pages.

However lets's throw a couple of flies into that ointment:

Avengers Forever
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=8884

1 same month as Avengers 11
12 same month as Avengers 25

TPB collects that in 328 pages

Avengers Celestial Quest
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9342

1 same month as Avengers 46
8 double sized same month as Avengers 53

TPB collects that in 216 pages

Judging by the same month issue numbers Avengers Forever looks like it might slot in at the start of Epic 2, throwing everything after that up 8 or 9 issues. That would shunt the last 8 or 9 issue into a potential Epic 6 which would be topped off by Celestial Quest

The previous Avengers Geoff Johns Complete Collections look sub par lengthwise for Epics

1
Avengers (1998) #57-63,
Vision (2002) #1-4,
Thor (1998) #58
Iron Man (1998) #64.
312 pages

The extras here are Standoff http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8828
- 1 Thor 58
- 2 Iron Man 64 same month as Iron Man 7
- 3 Avengers 63

2
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9193 4 1: September 2000 same month as Iron Man 32
Avengers (1998) #64-76.
304 pages
However 77-84, the Chuck Austin run, are not collected in big trades (8 issues)

500-503, Finale are in Avengers Modern Epic 1 - would they be in the last Avengers Epic as well?

500 37 pages
501 22 pages
502 22 pages
303 34 pages
Finale 37 pages
About 7 issues worth.

Put the Johns run, Austen Run and Disassembled together and you have what looks like a further 41 issues or about two Epics worth.

So potentially you're looking at 8 books to do the Heroes Return Avengers in Epics.

There's a fair few limited series durng this run:

Avengers Universe 1-6 is a reprint title
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9032&page=gallery
Avengers Infinity 1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9029
1 same month as Avengers HR 32 and A Universe 2
4 same month as Avengers HR 35 and A Universe 5
all standard size
Hawkeye Earths Mightiest Marksman
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/story.php?storyid=166338
39 pages
same month as Avengers HR 9
In Hawkeye Epic 4 Shafted
Domination Factor: Avengers 1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=16272
1 same month as Avengers HR 22, Domination Factor FF 1 & FF 23
4 same month as Avengers HR 25, Domination Factor FF 4 & FF 26
all standard size
Also Domination Factor: Fantastic Four
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=8974
1 same month as Avengers HR 22, Domination Factor FF 1 & FF 23
4 same month as Avengers HR 25, Domination Factor FF 4 & FF 26
all standard size
Avengers:Casebook 1999 #1
same month as Avengers HR 25
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=123851
Ant-Man's Big Christmas
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=123853
48 pages
same month as Avengers HR 25
Avengers Two: Beast and Wonder Man 1-3
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9086&page=gallery
1 same month as Avengers HR 28
3 same month as Avengers HR 30 & Avengers 2000
all standard size
Icons: Tigra
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9350
1 same month as Avengers HR 52 & A Celestial Quest 7
4 same month as Avengers HR 55
all standard size
Avengers/ Thunderbolts: Best Intentions
Avengers/Thunderbolts (2004) #1-6
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9884&page=gallery
1 same month as Avengers HR 80
6 same month as Avengers HR 500
all standard size

Captain America

Two consecutive Cap Epics to go pre Onslaught, with all the material in the 17 page issue era, so it's a straight split down the middle:

Epic 7
201-222, Annual 3-4
Epic 8
223-246, Hulk 232
Hulk 232 follows on from Cap 230: both issues are also in Hulk Epic 9 Kill or Be Killed


Heroes Reborn Captain America

Heroes Reborn Captain America

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8566&page=gallery

1 November 1996
12 October 1997
13 is an unreprintable intercompany crossover

Original Trade is 336 pages
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP062174

Throw in the Heroes Return Limited Series
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8657&page=gallery
4 issues, originally traded at 96 pages

432 pages looks a decent Sized Epic

The new printing adds to just the limited series:

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR201116
Captain America 1-12
Fantastic Four (1996) #12
Avengers (1996) #12
Iron Man (1996) #12
Material From
* Heroes Reborn #1/2.
488 pages also makes a decent size Epic as a straight reprint


Heroes Return Captain America

50 issues of Heroes Reborn Captain America.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8791&page=gallery

1 January 1998
50 February 2002

Double Sized 1, 12, 25
18 1.5
50 Triple sized

Iron Man/Captain America 98
Captain America/Citizen V '98 #1 between 13 & 14
1999 between 21 & 22
2000 between 35 & 36
2001 between 46 & 47

TOTAL 65.5 issues worth

Notable stories
5-7 Power & Glory
8 Live Kree & Die part 2
- 1 Iron Man (Vol. 3) #7
- 2 Captain America 8
- 3 Quicksilver 10
- 4 Avengers (Vol. 3) #7
9-12 American Nightmare
13-19 Red Skull
25-27 Twisted Tomorrows
36 Maximum Security
45-48 America Lost
The early half of that is in the Captain America: Heroes Return Complete Collections
1
Captain America (1998) #1-12
Iron Man/Captain America Annual 1998
Captain America/Citizen V Annual 1998
416 pages
978-1302923242
2
Captain America (1998) #13-24, Annual 1999
368
978-1302931711
and most of that was in Premiere Harcovers
To Serve and Protect
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC100649
1-7
American Nightmare
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN110822
8-13, Annual 98
Red Glare
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY110724
14-19
Material From:
Captain America Spotlight
The first Complete Collection looks like our first post Heroes Return Epic. The second looks a little short.

Captain America has a number of complications between Heroes Return and Avengers Disassembled, the first of which is the 12 issues of Sentinel of Liberty

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8839&page=gallery

Double Sized 6, 12

TOTAL 14 issues worth

1 September 1998 same month as Cap Heroes Reborn 9
12 August 1999 same month as Cap Heroes Reborn 20

There was a harcover of this series which also included the Sentinel of Liberty Rough Cut
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG100679
360 pages
Obviously you couldn't drop 360 pages into Epic 2, and pulling the Red Skull story in 13-19 back into Epic 1 probably isn't an option. The Red Skull story was 200 pages when collected in Red Glare.... I wonder if there's a solution that involves splitting Sentinel of Liberty over Epics 1 & 2?

While Heroes Reborn Cap runs there's a few Cap related Limited Series and specials:

Fury/Agent 13 1998
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8809
1 June same month as Cap HR 6
2 July same month as Cap HR 7
US AGENT 2001
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9278
1 August same month as Cap HR 44
3 October same month as Cap HR 46
Captain America/Nick Fury:The Otherworld War #1
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=126017
October same month as Cap HR 46
64 pages
Some of those could well contribute

There's 3 issues of Captain America: Dead Men Running between the Heroes Reborn & Marvel Knights Captain America series. I'd put a slight question mark against them DEFINITELY being included because they are just a 3 issue limited series but that they are, for just 3 months, the only Captain America series does attract me to including them.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9416&page=gallery

1 March 2002 month after Cap HR 50
3 May 2002 month before Cap MK 1

There are 32 issues of the Captain America series with the Marvel Knights branding
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9450

1 June 2002
32 December 2004

Double Sized 1

TOTAL 33 issues worth

1-3 Enemy
4-6 Warlords
7-11 The Extremists
12-16 Ice
17-20 Captain America Lives Again
21-25 Homeland
27-28 Requiem
29-32 Super Patriot
There are a number of limited series duing the Marvel Knights run, the first of which is rather significant and will be in the Epics if I have my way:
Captain America: The Truth Red, White & Black #1-7 (2002-3)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9518
1 month after Cap MK 6
7 same month as Cap MK 13
all standard size
Captain America: What Price Glory #1-4 (2003)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9677
Same month as Cap MK 11, all standard size
Captain America/Wolverine #1-4 (2004).
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9894
All same month as Cap MK 23, all standard size
Captain America: Red, White & Blue (2007)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/guide.php?page=tpb&tpbid=126852
100 pages of new material
Month between MK Cap 5 & 6
14 issues of Captain America & The Falcon
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9879

1 same month as MK Cap 24
8 same month as MK Cap 32
9 same month as Cap Brubaker 1
12 same month as Cap Brubaker 6

That's collected in Captain America and the Falcon by Christopher Priest
Captain America and the Falcon (2004) #1–14
328 pages
978-0785195269 =-

I make that 125.5 issues before we start counting extra

well on way to 6 more epics


Daredevil

Epic 8
155-177
(23 issues worth)

* 158 is Miller's first issue drawing. I would LOVE to have got this Epic starting from there but couldn't)

* 167 is Daredevil's August 1980 where the book switches from 17 back to 22 page issues - see http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=calendar&month=8&year=1980&sort=alpha

* 170 is the last issue with a 2 month gap before it

Epic 9
178-196
(20.5 issues worth)

* 191 is Miller's last issue

* 194 is O'Neil's first issue

Epic 10
197-216
(20 issues worth)
Epic 11 Born Again
217-233 (contains Born Again)
Marvel Graphic Novel Love & War (63 Pages)
(20.5 issues worth)

* 226 is O'Neil's last issue.

* Miller writes 219 as a one off then 227-233

You can argue about the precise breaks between books but I don't think there's more than an issue or 2's room for change!


Fantastic Four

All the missing FF Epics pre Onslaught are in one big block:

Epic 12
215-231 Annual 14, 15 & 16
Peter Parker Spectacular Spider-Man 42
(24 x mainly 17 page issues. 22 Pages as of 225)
Epic 13
232-250
(21.5 x mainly 22 page issues. 236 54 pages, about 2.5 issues)

232 is the First Issue of Byrne Run

Epic 14
251-265, Annual 17
Avengers 233
Thing 2, 10
Alpha Flight 4
(21 x 22 page issues. 250 37 pages, about 1.5 issues)
Epic 15
266-279, Annual 18
Thing 23
(17 x 22 page issues)

PLUS one of
* Epic Illustrated 26-34's Last Galactus Story
Written & Drawn by John Byrne
Begins same month a FF 271
"Ends" same month as FF 287 - story is unfinished
60 story pages + 1 cover
OR

* Marvel Graphic Novel Revenge of the Living Monolith

Heavily features the FF
Out same month as 283 but set prior to 278
80 pages
OR

* Marvel Graphic Novel She Hulk

Written by John Byrne
Put same month as 284 but, again, set prior to 278
72 pages
Epic 16
280-295 Annual 19
* Avengers Annual 14 Material From:
* Secret Wars 2 issues 2
(20.5 x 22 page issues)


Heroes Reborn Fantastic Four

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8560&page=gallery

1 November 1996
12 October 1997
13 is an unreprintable intercompany crossover

Trade is 336 pages
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY180991

Throw in the Heroes Return Limited Series
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8657&page=gallery
4 issues, originally traded at 96 pages

432 pages looks a decent Sized Epic


Heroes Return Fantastic Four

The Heroes Return volume of Fantastic Four has it's issue 1 dated Jan 1998

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=8778&page=gallery

It runs 1-70 then, from September, 2003 500-588, the longest Heroes Return title and the only one to revert to the original numbering.

In that run are the following specials & annuals

1/2 between 9 & 10
1998 between 14 & 15
1999 between 24 & 25
2000 between 31 & 32
2001 between 45 & 46
Special between 533 & 534
Aannual 32 between 580 & 581
The Fantastic Four: Heroes Return Complete Collections look like they've mapped out first four post Heroes Reborn Epics for us:
1
Fantastic Four (1998) #1–15, ½, Annual '98;
Iron Man (1998) #14 (Fantastic Four 15 leads into IM 14)
504 pages
March 26, 2019
978-1302916237
2
Fantastic Four (1998) #16–32, Annual 1999-2000
496 pages
March 24, 2020
978-1302923402
3
Fantastic Four (1998) #33–45,
Inhumans (2000) #1-4
Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (2001) #1
456 pages
August 24, 2021
978-1302930752
4
Fantastic Four (1998) #46–59, Annual 2001,
Thing & She-Hulk: The Long Night (2002) #1
448 pages
November 29, 2022
978-1302945930
*IF* things play out like I've mapped that would take us to 30 Fantastic Four Epic Collections.

We can be pretty confident that at least this far will be in the classic Epics: The start of Iron Man, Cap and Thor Modern Epics virtually make it certain their Heroes Reborn/Return material is in Classic Epics. New Avengers Modern Epics insinuate the same thing about Heroes Reborn/Return Avengers too so I see no reason why Fantastic Four should be the odd one out.

However at some point Fantastic Four material will need to cross the line and be Modern Epic collections. The earliest possible point is the start of the Waid/Wieringo run in Fantastic Four 60.

Fantastic Four 60 is cover dated October 2002. At this point Daredevil, New X-Men and Spider-Girl are well into material in their Modern Epics

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=10&year=2002&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=on&collectionex=null

There is a run of Fantastic Four by Waid and Wieringo Complete Collections but the page count is a little short. If they were Classic Epics I'd say the mapping would need changing. If they're Modern Epics then I'm less sure as there are a few shorter books out there already

1
Fantastic Four (vol. 3) #60–66;
Avengers #400
208 pages
978-0785156550
2
Fantastic Four (vol. 3) #67–70, 500–502
160 pages
978-0785156581
3
Fantastic Four #503–513
272 pages
978-0785156574
4
Fantastic Four #514–524
256 pages
978-0785156611
There is also a Fantastic Four by Waid & Wieringo Omnibus. The contents & page count suggest a 2 Epics split for material would be appropriate for Epics traditional lengths:
Fantastic Four (vol. 3) #60–70, 500–524, 500 Director's Cut
896 pages
978-1302913823
So 1-524 (1-70, 500-524 - effectively 1-95 or 430-524) have appeared in Complete Collections.

Higher than that gets a bit woobly for big book collections for a couple of years.

525-6 written by Karl Kessel, effectively a fill in

527-541 are written by JMS
* JMS is another point mooted, less loudly, for the transition to Modern Epics
* 536-537 are in Thor Modern Epic 1 Reborn
* 538-543 are Fantastic Four's Civil War issues (includes first 2 McDuffy issues) and the general feeling is Civil War is Modern Era
* Surfer Requiem 1-4 also by JMS is around that time (541 Dec 2006, Requiem 1 May 2007, if we're looking for a boost)

542-553 are written by Dwayne McDuffy

554-569 are Mark Millar & Bryan Hitch (Bryan Hitch Pencils to 568)

Miller & Hitch is another strong contender as the Transition Point to Modern Era Epics. This run has been Omnibused with a few extras which are probably worth considering for the Epics

Fantastic Four by Millar & Hitch Omnibus

Fantastic Four #554–569, Annual #32;
Fantastic Force (2009) #1–4;
Marvel 1985 #1–6
784 pages
978-1302949716
That's somewhere between an Epic and a half and two Epics worth of material in the Omnibus by pages count
Kessel is 2 issues
JMS is 15 issues
Turner is 12 issues
Miller is 16 issues

Plus, from the Miller Hitch Omnibus: Annual #32; Fantastic Force (2009) #1–4; & Marvel 1985 #1–6, another 12 issues.

I make that 57 issues worth, all but 3 Epics
Kessel, JMS and the 2 Turner Civil War issues in one Epic

Turner and the start of Miller/Hitch in the next

Rest of Miller Hitch in the third

The next run starts the following issue and is the first point that everyone agrees should be in Modern Epics. Since it closes out the volume started with Heroes Return I should look at it here.

Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four run starts with a prelude in Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #1–5.

Dark Reign: Fantastic Four
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12311&page=gallery
March-September 2009
Same month as Fantastic Four 563-569
I can't see any interaction between the Fantastic Four and Dark Reign in the main title, and suspect they got the Limited Series cos Millar/Hitch didn't want to break their storyline. So that means there's no reason why it shouldn't go in between the end of Miller/Hitch at 569 and the start of Hickman at 570.

Hickman's run has had some nice chunky Complete Collections and they place it at the start of the first book:

Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Complete Collections

1
Dark Reign: Fantastic Four #1–5;
Fantastic Four (1998) #570–578
Material From
* Dark Reign: The Cabal One-Shot
384 pages
978-1302913366
2
Fantastic Four (1998) #579–588;
FF (2011) #1–5
432 pages
978-1302919634
3
Fantastic Four (1998) #600–604;
FF (2011) #6–16
480 pages
978-1302926687
4
Fantastic Four (1998) #605–611;
FF (2011) #17-23
368 pages
978-1302933586
I see those four Complete Collections just being rejacketed... as Modern epics but they have taken us into further Fantastic Four volumes:

The Fantastic Four volume that starts with Heroes Return ends with 588 in April 2011
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8778&page=gallery

FF is a second Fantastic Four series started in the wake of 588
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12240&page=gallery
1 May 2011
23 December 2012

Fantastic Four itself resumes with issue 600 and runs to issue 611
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13275&page=gallery
600 January 2012 same month as FF 12
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=1&year=2012
611 December 2012 same month as FF23
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=12&year=2012

We have 605.1 and Annual 33 in there as extras

I *PRESUME* the missing 11 issues between Fantastic Four 588 & 600 are the 11 issues of FF published in that time period?

So....

1 Epic for Heroes Reborn
4 Epics to Heroes Return Fantastic Four issue 59.
2 Epics for Waid/Wieringo
3 Epics for Kessel/JMS/Turner/Miller & Hitch
2 Epics for Hickman to finish out the Heroes Return volume and start FF
2 more Epics for the rest of Hickman's run on FF and Fantastic Four


Hulk

There's two big Hulk gaps, the first of which is most of the Mantlo run

Epic 10
245-261, Annual 9
(250 double sized, 22 pages as of 253)
Epic 11
262-277, Annual 10 & 11
Epic 12
278-296, Annual 12
The 15-18 gap *EXACTLY* matched the Peter David Visionaries books:

However I suspected the Epics won't quite be those books paired up..... as Epic 15 proved

15 Ground Zero
331-346
Marvel Graphic Novel The Big Change
331 is the first McFarlane issue
345, which is double sized, contains the Ground Zero event and is McFarlane's departure for Amazing Spider-Man
346, the Erik Larsen drawn trial issue following Ground Zero.
I've got 16-18 down as:
Epic 16
346-362
Web of Spider-Man 4
Fantastic Four 320
Avengers Annual 17 (main story)
Marvel Comics Presents 26
(Possibles:
* Fantastic Four 320, between Hulk 349 & 350
* Wolverine 7 & 8, same months as Hulk 355
* Marvel Fanfare 47, same month as 362)
Epic 17 "Countdown"
363-380, Annual 16 (Lifeform)
Marvel Comics Presents 49
(Possibles:
* Amazing Spider-Man 328, same month as Hulk 365
* Fantastic Four 347-349, same months as Hulk 376-8)
Epic 18
381-396, Annual 17 (Subterranean Wars)
X-Factor 76
We *KNOW* from Epics 22 & 24 that Epic 23 will be issues 449-459, -1 & Annual '97.

Omnibus 4 very much suggests that the Peter David written Incredible Hulk: Hercules Unleashed (1996) #1 & Heroes Reborn: The Return (1997) #1-4, which heavily features the Hulk, will provide the material to bring that book up to strength.

After that we have the Late 90s Hulk:

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=8925

IF the volume number on the Hulk Modern Epic we have is correct then we think the Modern Epics start from Hulk 34 at the start of the Bruce Jones run.

Pre Bruce Jones is 40 issues worth, 2 Epics on the nose. The bad news is it breaks in the middle of the Dogs of War story.


Iron Man

Three books to go at the start, something like this

Epic 8
116-136
Epic 9
137-156
(140 is the issue which returns to 22 pages, 150 is double sized)
The middle/later part of the run has TWO one volume gaps in there:
Epic 12
196-214 & Annual 8
Epic 19
298-309 & Annual 15
Tales of Suspense 1 shot ??
(300 is double sized, Tales of Suspense is triple sized, same month as 312)
Epic 20 takes you up to the end of issue 318 and Epic 21 The Crossing which came out May 2023 collects 319-324 Avengers (1964) 390-394 Avengers: The Crossing (1995) 1 Force Works (1994) 16-20 War Machine (1994) 20-22 which is the first 18 parts of The Crossing. The rest is in Iron Man Epic 22 Age of Innocence which collects Iron Man #325-332, War Machine #23, Avengers: Timeslide #1, Avengers #395-396, Age Of Innocence: The Rebirth Of Iron Man #1, Onslaught: Marvel Universe #1 & Iron Man: The Legend #1

That completes Iron Man volume 1 which ran to issue 332.


Heroes Reborn Iron Man

Heroes Reborn Iron Man

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8567&page=gallery

1 November 1996
12 October 1997
13 is an unreprintable intercompany crossover

Original Trade is 336 pages
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP062175

Throw in the Heroes Return Limited Series

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8657&page=gallery

4 issues, originally traded at 96 pages

432 pages looks a decent Sized Epic

The new printing adds to just the limited series:

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR201113

Iron Man (1996) #1-12,
Avengers (1996) #6 And #12,
Fantastic Four (1996) #12,
Captain America (1996) #6 (B Story) And #12
Material From
* Heroes Reborn #1/2.
504 pages also makes a decent size Epic as a straight reprint


Heroes Return Iron Man

Heroes Return Iron Man ran February 1998 to December 2004.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8780&page=gallery

Double Sized 1, 13, 25, 50

There SHOULD have been two Iron Man: Heroes Return Complete Collections: they look likely to form the basis for the first two Heroes Reborn Epics:
1
Iron Man (1998) #1–14;
Captain America (1998) #8;
Quicksilver #10;
Avengers (1998) #7;
Iron Man/Captain America Annual '98;
Fantastic Four (1998) #15
504 pages
2
Iron Man (1998) #15–25;
Iron Man Annual '99;
Thor (1998) #17;
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #11;
Juggernaut: The Eighth Day (1999) #1;
Iron Man: The Iron Age (1998) #1-2
504 pages
UNPUBLISHED
There's also a Complete Collection of the later Mike Grell run:

Iron Man by Mike Grell: The Complete Collection

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/FEB210690
Iron Man (1998) 50-69
512 pages
But unless some material gets added to issues 26-49 I can't see the Grell book being rejacketed as an Epic, it looks like it's be split between Epics 4, which looks like it should start early/mid 40s, and 5, which should start early/mid 60s

There's a couple of Omnibus covering the early part of the run:

Iron Man by Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen - 1998-2000
Iron Man (1998) #1–25,
Captain America (1998) #8,
Quicksilver #10,
Avengers (1998) #7,
Iron Man/Captain America Annual 1998,
Fantastic Four (1998) #15, Annual 1999,
Thor (1998) #17,
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #11,
Juggernaut: The Eighth Day,
Iron Man: The Iron Age #1–2
1,024 pages
Iron Man: The Mask in the Iron Man - 2000-2001
Iron Man (1998) #26–49, 1⁄2, Annual #1–2
688 pages
I've got some of the issues for this title broken up by story:
8 Live Kree & Die part 2
- 1 Iron Man (Vol. 3) #7
- 2 Captain America 8
- 3 Quicksilver 10
- 4 Avengers (Vol. 3) #7
9-10 Revenge of the Mandarin
FF 15 leads into IM 14
18-20 Machinery of War
21-22 Eighth Day
- 1 Iron Man 22
- 2 Thor 17
- 3 Iron Man 22
- 4 Peter Parker Spider Man 11
- 5 Juggernaut 1
26-30 The Mask in the Iron Man
31-32 The Sons of Yinsen
33-35 Power
37-40 Remote Control
42-25 The Big Bang Theory 25 DS
(1/2 between 24 & 25)
46-48 The Frankenstein Syndrome
50 DS
51-52 Jane Doe
53-55 Book of the Ten Rings
56-58 Sympathy for the Devil
59-61 In Shining Armour
62-63 You Can't Always Get...
64 Standoff part 2
- 1 Thor 58
- 2 Iron Man 64
- 3 Avengers 63
65-69 Manhunt
70-72 Vegas Bleeds Neon
73-78 Best Defence
79-82 The Deep End
84-85 Turf War (Disassembled Prologue)
86-89 The Singularity (Disassembled)
The annuals occur thus:
Iron Man Cap 1998 between 12 & 13
1999 between 19 & 20
2000 between 32 & 33
2001 between 45 & 46
The title finishes with issue 89 cover dated Dec 2004

I think this looks c109 issues worth or between 5 & 6 Epics worth

There's a couple of limited series in that time:

Iron Man:The Iron Age
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8828
1: August 1998 same month as Iron Man 7
2: September 1998 same month as Iron Man 8
Iron Man:Bad Blood
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9193 4 1: September 2000 same month as Iron Man 32
4: December 2000 same month as Iron Man 35
Iron Age is VERY likely for inclusion, both Complete Collection and Omnibus used it.

The 35 issues and 1 annual of the 2005-2009 series looks like being Iron Man Modern Era Epics 1 & 2

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10100&page=gallery
.... and we already know what Modern Epic 3 is.


Thor

Thor has 3 Epics left to go pre Heroes Return reboot consisting of the entire Walter Simonson Thor run:

Epic 13
337-353 Annual 12
(Avengers 249?)
Epic 14
354-367 Annual 13
Baldar 1-4
Epic 15
368-382
Marvel Graphic Novel: Whom Gods Would Destroy

Heroes Return Thor

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=8826&page=gallery

85 issues, 4 annuals

Heroes Return Thor is pobably the easiest of the 5 Heroes Return series to look at for Epics: it's been thoroughly collected more than once, Thor's material has been collected through to when his title reverted to Journey Into Mystery and to the end of the Asgardian Adventures within, there's no Heroes Reborn possibly affecting the start of Return and we've got Thor Modern Epic 1 telling us that starts from the JMS run.

Thor's previous collections are "an eclectic mix" which overlaps in places

First we have 4 numbered volumes published after the fact in 2009 & 2010

1
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL090627
1-8
Peter Parker: Spider-Man #2.
2
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC090626
9-13 And Thor Annual 1999.
3
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR100687
14-17,
Iron Man #21-22
Peter Parker: Spider-Man #11
Juggernaut: The Eighth Day.

The extras in volume 3 are Eighth Day

- 1 Iron Man 22
- 2 Thor 17
- 3 Iron Man 22
- 4 Peter Parker Spider Man 11
- 5 Juggernaut 1
4
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP100718
18-25 And Thor Annual 2000.
The later issues were published in trade more contempary to their original publication
1 Death Of Odin
39-44
2 Lord Of Asgard
45-50
3 Gods On Earth
51-58
Avengers #63
Iron Man #64
Marvel Double Shot #1
4 Spiral
60-67
5 The Reigning
68-74
6 God & Men
75-79
7 Disassembled
80-85
All of these were then recollected in the early 2010s
Thor Vs Thanos
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG130874
18-25 And Thor Annual 2000.
Across All Worlds
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP100719
26-35
Death Of Odin
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC100685
36-43 And Thor Annual 2001.
Lord Of Asgard
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR110763
44-50
Gods On Earth
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR110689
51-58
Iron Man (1998) #64
Avengers (1998) #63.

The extras here are Standoff

- 1 Thor 58
- 2 Iron Man 64
- 3 Avengers 63
Spiral
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY110766
59-67
Material From
* Marvel Double-Shot #1.
Gods & Men
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN110762
68-79.
Ragnaroks
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL171203
Thor (1998) #80-85
Thor: Blood Oath #1-6
Stormbreaker: The Saga Of Beta Ray Bill #1-6.
There's been two big Omnibuses of the Thor Heroes Reborn material
Omnibus 1
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR171132
Thor 1-35 And Rough Cut,
Silver Surfer/Thor Annual 1998,
Thor Annual 1999-2000,
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #2 And #11,
Iron Man (1998) #21 (B Story) And #22,
Juggernaut: The Eighth Day.
Omnibus 2
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR180845
Thor 36-85 And Annual 2001,
Iron Man (1998) #64,
Avengers (1998) #63
Material From
* Marvel Double-Shot #1
So we're on pretty firm ground what NEEDS to be collected here:
Thor 1-85, Annuals 1998, 1999, 2000 & 2001
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #2 And #11
Iron Man (1998) #21 (B Story), #22 & #64
Juggernaut: The Eighth Day
Avengers (1998) #63
And Material From
* Marvel Double-Shot #1
That's somewhere in the region of 100 issues worth: 5 Epics

There's also a number of Limited Series that can serve as potential extras should Marvel need to manipulate things a bit

Godstorm 3 issue Limited Series from Busiek and Steve Rude
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9338
1 same month as Thor HR 41
3 same month as Thor HR 43
Thor: Viking 5 issue Max Limited Series
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=9743&page=gallery
1 same month as Thor HR 66
5 same month as Thor HR 70
Thor: Son of Asgard 12 issue Limited Series
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=9882&page=gallery
1 same month as Thor HR 75 & 76
9 same month as Thor HR 85 last issues Dec 2004
12 same month as Stormbreaker 1 March 2005
Loki (2004) 4 issue Limited Series
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9937
1 same month as Thor HR 82
4 same month as Thor HR 84
Stormbreaker 6 issue Limited Series
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=10139&page=gallery
1 March 2005 same month as Son of Asgard 12 and three months after Thor Heroes Return finishes
6 August 2005

One Book Per Year Epics


Avengers West Coast

8 95-102

Epic 8 has just 7 issues of AWC in it but it's actually 8.5 issues worth thanks to 100 having 55 pages of story

Avengers 101 is part of Bloodties so that will bring with it X-Men #26, Uncanny X-Men #307 & Avengers 368-369, the last of which is double sized. Another 5 issues worth bringing us up to 13.5 issues

Most of Epic 8's AWC issues were previously collected in the Death of Mockingbird tpb which collects Avengers West Coast #92-100 & 102; Spider-Woman (1993) #1-4; material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #143-144.

Spider-Woman LS, 4 issues, starts same month as AWC 100

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=5137&page=gallery

Material from MCP 143-144 is a Scarlet Witch story, 2 x 8 pages, same month as AWC 101

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=12&year=1993&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=null&collectionex=null

Three more possibles

US Agent LS, 4 issues, starts same month as AWC #95

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4109&page=gallery

Scarlet Witch LS, 4 issues, starts same month as AWC 102

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4861&page=gallery

AWC 102,it's last issue, is January 1994

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=1&year=1994&sort=alpha

MCP: 159 to 161 Hawkeye - same month as Force Works 1.
Will be in Hawkeye Epic 4

I think we're probably looking at

AWC 95-102
X-Men #26
Uncanny X-Men #307
Avengers 368-369
Spider-Woman LS 1-4
MCP 143-144
Scarlet Witch LS 1-4
Which is just over 22 issues worth. Big, but not impossible.

I've seen it suggested that Force Works is collected in Avengers West Coast Epics. Force Works is 22 issues so you're looking at an Epic and a bit so twinning it with the remaining AWC material is A solution but to my eye that looks like it'll be packed with it's non The Crossing crossovers to bring it up to Two Epics of it's own and leave Bloodties and the LS to finish up AWC.


Blade

One Blade Epic has been announced but not yet scheduled, presumably waiting for his film to get a new release date:

Blade Epic 2 Nightstalkers

Tomb of Dracula (1991) 1-4
Nightstalkers (1992) 1-6
Ghost Rider (1990) 31
Material From:
Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) 1
That Material From is probably the 10 page Nightstalkers story "On the Wings of Angels" http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/story.php?storyid=129998

The books looks a little thin but the Tomb of Dracula Issues are all double sized http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4729

Nightstalkers 1 is also double sized
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4794&page=gallery
12 of it's 18 issues remain for Epic 3, all standard size.

Nighstalkers 7 is the first issue not in Epic 2, May 1993 same month as Doctor Strange 53 & Ghost Rider 37

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=5&year=1993&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=on&collectionex=null

Issue 18 is April 1994, same month as Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme 64, Ghost Rider 48 & Midnight Sons Unlimited 5

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=4&year=1994&sort=alpha

However I'm aware, from having mapped Ghost Rider, that Nightstalkers gets mixed up in various 90s mystic crossovers as Blade's appearances list shows

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Eric_Brooks_(Earth-616)/Appearances)

Soon after Nightstalkers finishes Blade's first own series starts:

Blade: The Vampire Hunter 1-10, all standard size.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=5194

Starts July 1994, same month as Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme 67, Ghost Rider 51 & Midnight Sons Unlimited 6

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=7&year=1994&sort=alpha

Ends April 1995, same month as Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme 76 & Ghost Rider 60

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=4&year=1995&sort=alpha

*IF* they wanted to they could stick the remaining Nightstalkers with Blade, the Vampire Hunter to form one vanilla Epic albeit a bit on the large side.

But here's a 40 page Blade Special in 1998
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=121867

Followed by a 3 issue Limited Series the same year
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8805&page=gallery

A 6 issue MarvelMax Limited Series in 2002
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9365&page=gallery

And 12 issue Limited Series in 2006
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10802&page=gallery

This last series is collected in the Blade by Marc Guggenheim Complete Collection along with the Wolverine vs. Blade Special (2019) #1. That could be Modern Epic 1 or it could get 2002's issues added on.

I think we're looking at at least 2 more Classic Epics but I don't think it'll be as all in as I suspect Ghost Rider is.

However the one Blade Epic we know of is volume 2 so we probably should stick the Blade: The Early Years Omnibus contents in front of us to work out Epic 1

https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302950231

Tomb Of Dracula (1972) #10, #12-14, #24, #30, #41-43, #45, #51, #53 And #58;
Marvel Preview #3;
Fear #24;
Doctor Strange (1974) #61-62 And #67
Material From
* Tomb Of Dracula (1972) #17-19, #21, #44, #46-50 And #52;
* Vampire Tales #8-9;
* Marvel Preview #8;
* Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #64.
720 pages and none of it in Epic 2!

So we're looking to loose a third of that to make it fit an Epic..... but what third?


Defenders

THREE
GS5 [32 pages main strip +?17? pages for Nighthawk DD appearance]
26-29 [GotG]
[the Guardians of the Galaxy story from Marvel Super-Heroes #18 ?? printed in MMW4]
30-40
Annual 1
41
Marvel Treasury Edition #12 [28 pages]
42-45
[material from F.O.O.M. #19 ?? printed in MMW6]
FOUR
46-67 (24)
[Marvel Treaasury edition 16, same month as 59, reprints Marvel Feature 1, Defenders , 13 & 14]
FIVE
68-91 (24)

Doctor Strange

Epics 6 & 7 will complete the 70s/80s Doctor Strange and gather his Strange Tales Appearances. I suspect it'll look like this:

Epic 6
Doctor Strange 52-73
Epic 7
Doctor Strange 74-81
Marvel Graphic Novel: Into Shamballa
Strange Tales 7
Material From:
* Doctor Strange stories from Strange Tales 1-6 & 8-19
March 2022's Doctor Strange Marvel Masterworks, volume 10, collected Doctor Strange #58-73 https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302933203 so the next Masterworks, probably in 2024, takes the Epic 6 material off the board for early 2025.

Epic 12 is now a 1 volume gap:

Doctor Strange Sourcerer Supreme 62-75 & Annual 4.
Midnight Sons Unlimited 6
About 19 1/2 issues worth


Ghost Rider

Original Series:

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4040
81 issues

If memory serves this one is not my work but I failed to take note of who's it was and where I got it: apologies. It was created when we thought Ghost Rider Danny Ketch Epic 1 was Ghost Rider Epic 6, was on the money for Epic 2 so as yet I see no reason to see a need to change things

Epic 3
Ghost Rider 29-50
Marvel Team Up 91
Epic 4
Ghost Rider 51-65
Marvel Two In One 80
Avengers 214
Marvel Super-Heroes Fall 1992
Epic 5
Ghost Rider 66-81
Amazing Spider-Man 274
New Defenders 145-146
Team America 11

Ghost Rider Danny Ketch

1990s Series:

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4163
93 issues, 2 annuals, a -1 and a Finale plus crossovers aplenty

Danny has an Omnibus and an Epic for the earliest parts of his run:

Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Omnibus Vol. 1

https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302959753

Collecting

Ghost Rider (1990) #1-24
Spider-Man (1990) #6-7
Marc Spector: Moon Knight #25
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #28
Punisher War Journal (1988) #29-30
Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts Of Darkness
Material From:
Marvel Holiday Special (1991) #1
Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #64-71 And #90-118.
Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Epic Collection 1: Vengeance Reborn

https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302954055

Collecting

Ghost Rider (1990) #1-12
Marc Spector: Moon Knight #25
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #28

Material From

Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #64-71
So the following Epics may look like this:
Danny Ketch 2:
Ghost Rider 13-27,
Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher:Hearts of Darkness #1,
X-Men 9
Material From Marvel Holiday Special #1 & X-Men 8
Danny Ketch 3:
Ghost Rider 28-33,
Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance 1-4,
Morbius: The Living Vampire #1,
Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins #1,
Nightstalkers #1,
Ghost Rider/Captain America: Fear #1,
Material From: Marvel Superheroes 9
Danny Ketch 4:
Ghost Rider 34-39,
Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance 5-11,
Web of Spider-Man 95-96
Material From: Midnight Sons Unlimited 1 & 2
Danny Ketch 5: Midnight Massacre/Road To Vengeance: Missing/Legacy of Blood:
Ghost Rider 40-43, Annual 1,
Spirits of Vengeance 12-16,
Nightstalkers #10,
Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins #11,
Morbius: The Living Vampire #12,
Midnight Sons Unlimited #3,
Blaze:Legacy of Blood #1-4
Danny Ketch 6: Siege of Darkness:
Nightstalkers #14-15
Ghost Rider 44-45
(Material From ?) Marvel Comics Presents #143-146
Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins #15-16
Morbius: The Living Vampire #16-17
Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #60-61
Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance #17-18
Midnight Sons Unlimited #4
Danny Ketch 7:
Ghost Rider 46-52,
Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance 19-23,
Blaze 1-2,
Material from Midnight Sons Unlimited 5-6
Danny Ketch 8:
Ghost Rider 53-60, Annual 2,
Blaze 3-9,
Ghost Rider/Punisher/Wolverine: Dark Designs
Material from Midnight Sons Unlimited 7-8
Danny Ketch 9:
Ghost Rider 61-75,
Blaze 10-12,
Material from Midnight Sons Unlimited 9, Ghost Rider Crossroads
Danny Ketch 10:
Ghost Rider 76-93, -1, Finale

Guardians of the Galaxy

Previous the original Guardians of the Galaxy stories were colleted in the Guardians of the Galaxy: Tomorrow's Avengers CC's.

1 Marvel Super Heroes (1967) #18, Marvel Two-In-One (1974) #4-5, Giant-Size Defenders #5, Defenders (1972) #26-29, Marvel Presents #3-12.

2 Thor Annual #6, Avengers #167-168, 170-177, 181, Ms. Marvel (1977) #23, Marvel Team-Up #86, Marvel Two-in-One #61-63, 69.

That's all now been collected in the first two Epics which take us slightly further
1 Marvel Super Heroes (1967) #18, Marvel Two-In-One (1974) #4-5, Giant-Size Defenders #5, Defenders (1972) #26-29, Marvel Presents #3-12, Thor Annual #6

2 Avengers #167-168, 170-177, 181, Ms. Marvel (1977) #23, Marvel Team-Up #86, Marvel Two-in-One #61-63, 69 & Guardians of the Galaxy (1990) #1-6

That takes us into the 90s Guardians of the Galaxy

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=4084

1-62, 4 annuals

That's been thoroughly collected in two series

By Jim Valentino

1 - 328 pages
Guardians of the Galaxy (1990) 1-7
Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #1
Fantastic Four Annual #24
Thor Annual #16
Silver Surfer Annual #4
(The annuals are the Korvac Quest)
2 - 336 pages
Guardians of the Galaxy (1990) #8-20
3 - 312 pages
Guardians of the Galaxy (1990) #21-29
Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #2 (System Bytes)
Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) #18
In The Year 3000
1 - 320 pages
Guardians of the Galaxy (1990) #30-39
Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #3
Material From Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #134
2 - 376 pages
Guardians of the Galaxy (1990) #40-50
Galactic Guardians #1-4
Material From Guardians of the Galaxy Annual (1991) #4
3 - 352 pages
Guardians Of The Galaxy (1990) 51-62
Material From Guardians Of The Galaxy Annual 4
Which leaves the following still to be collected in the Epics:
Guardians of the Galaxy (1990) 6-62,
Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #1-4
Fantastic Four Annual #24
Thor Annual #16
Silver Surfer Annual #4
Galactic Guardians #1-4
Material From
* Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #134.
Best part of 4 more Epics

Hawkeye

Epics 1 & 2 are out:

Epic 1 The Avenging Archer
Hawkeye #1-4
Avengers #16, 63–65, 189, 223
Marvel Team-Up #22, 92, 95
Captain America #317
Material From
* Tales of Suspense #57, 60, 64
* Marvel Tales #100
* Marvel Fanfare #3, 39
* Marvel Super Action #1
Epic 2 The Way of the Arrow
Solo Avengers #1-20
Avengers Spotlight #21
Epic 4 was scheduled for July 2024 but was delayed in the reshuffle that followed the Writers and Actors strike
Epic 4 Shafted
Hawkeye (vol. 2, 1994) #1-4
Hawkeye (vol. 3, 2003) #1-8
Hawkeye: Earth's Mightiest Marksman #1
Avengers #502
The Pulse #10
New Avengers #26, 30
Young Avengers Presents #6
Material From:
*Marvel Comics Presents #159-161
So we know the timeframe for Epic 3, and the collection of the first half of Solo Avengers/Avengers Spotlight in Epic 2 very much suggests Epic 3 will finish that off with the remaining 17 issues plus some extras. The timeframe suggests:
Avengers Spotlight #22-38,
Material from Avengers West Coast #100?
Vicous Circle Material from:
Force Works Vol 1 12
War Machine Vol 1 15
Iron Man Vol 1 317
The release of Hawkeye Modern Epic 1, with material following on from Epic 4, confirms Hawkeye Epic Collections will be just four volumes.

Marvel Two In One

Epic 3: 37-52, Annual 2-3, Avengers Annual 7 (22 x 17 page issues worth)

Epic 4: 53-68, Annual 4-5

(20 x mainly 17 page issues worth)

* 53-58 are Project Pegasus and can't be split. Position Annual 4, same month as issue 5 either before or after this.

* 61-63 is the story with Her, Moondragon & Starhawk and can't be split

* 64-67 are the Serpent Crown Affair

Epic 5: 69-85, Annual 6
(20 x 22 page issues worth)

* 83 & 84 are an Alpha Flight 2 parter.

* 69 is the first issue after the reversion to 22 page issues (69 & 70 are both 21 pages though) in Nov 1980 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=11&year=1980&sort=alpha

* 75 is double sized

Epic 6: 86-100, Annual 7
(18 x 22 page issues worth, see below for options to bring that to 20 issues)

* 99 is Rom, rights may prevent a reprint but the recent Omnibus suggests otherwise now

The book is 2 issues short on the MTIO issues. I can see two options to make this up:

EITHER
* Contest of Champions 1-3, same months as MTIO 88-90
OR
* Marvel Team-Up Annual 5: Spider-Man, The Thing, Scarlet Witch, Doctor Strange & Quasar features Serpent Crown and sequel to 64-67 (same month as MTIO 93) plus Marvel Fanfare 15's That Night?, published a few months after MTIO ended but probably not enough room for accommodating in The Thing Epics.
Contest of Champions came to mind first but I'm liking the second option more as time goes on.
And because I know someone will ask: YES, I think there will be The Thing Epics.


Micronauts

http://www.mikesamazingworld.comfeatures/series.php?seriesid=4137&page=gallery

1-59, annual 1-2
Jan 79-Aug 84

So far we know the first book:

Micronauts The Original Marvel Years Epic Collection 1 They Came From Inner Space

https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302960612

Micronauts (1979) #1-20 & Annual (1979) #1

The main series divides into three parts when it comes to issue lengths:
Part 1:

17 pages is the standard 1-22 (up to October 1980, which is the point all Marvel books increased from 17 pages to 22 as a standard) most of which is in Epic 1

Double sized annual 1 betwen 12 & 13, which is in Epic 1
Double sized annual 2 betwen 21 & 22, which will be very early in Epic 2

Part 2:

22 pages is the standard 23-37 (November 1980-January 1982)

Double sized issue 35

Part 3:

With issue 38 Micronauts goes Direct Market Only, as do Moon Knight and Ka-Zar the Savage. Micronauts is given extra story pages, as is Ka-Zar, and operates at c30 pages for the rest of it's run, about 1 and a half standard issue lengths per issue of Micronauts

38 29 pages
39 27 pages
40 29 pages
41 32 pages
42-44 29 pages each
45-46 30 pages each
47-48 29 pages each
49 31 pages
50 30 pages
51 31 pages
52-55 30 pages each
56 31 pages
57 47 pages
58 32 pages
59 31 pages
Miconauts has already been collected in Omnibus form and missing from there, we believe for content related reasons, and thus likely missing from the Epics are X-Men Micronauts 1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.comfeatures/series.php?seriesid=4148&page=gallery

This runs same month as Micronauts 56 to the month after Micronauts 57, and samemonths as Uncanny X-Men 177-180

Micronauts is rebooted as Micronauts: The New Voyages which returns to newstand distribution:
http://www.mikesamazingworld.comfeatures/series.php?seriesid=4182&page=gallery
01 Jan 2020
Cover dated October 1984-May 1986, and one of the books killed off in the massacre prior to New Universe starting.
20 issues looks like an Epic by itself.

So to complete the original Miconauts volume, without including X-Men vs Micronauts, we're talking about collecting issues 21-59 and annual 2

That's the equivilent of just over 49 x 22 page issue, or just over 16 per book

At this point in my calculations I made a mistake, and included X-Men Micronauts.

I ended up with

Epic 2
Micronauts 21-37, Annual 2
Epic 3
Micronauts 38-50
Epic 4
Micronauts 51-59, X-Men vs Micronauts 1-4
All were c17 issues worth in length and the volume breaks were hitting major milestones for the series - between 37 & 38 is where the series goes DM only and 50 is a significant number.

Bad words were said when I realised my mistake

Then two things occurred to me:

Epic 4 was probably mapped originally with X-Men vs Micronauts in place. We know X-Men vs Micronauts was intended for Omnibus 3 as Chris Claremont was on the original creators list for that book. There is one previous incidence we know of an Epic loosing content after Marvel mapped the series and that was Marvel Two-In-One discovering they couldn't print issue 21 - we have the full cover for that book with the contents on the back including issue 21 and the blurb mentioning Doc Savage. That was already a short book, and it was even shorter when it lost issue 21, sub 400 pages, and yet Marvel didn't add to it to preserve the mapping for future volumes. That route may well be taken here even if it does give us a book with the equivilent of 13 x 22 page issues in.

However since this involves a book late on in the series and the next Epic, Epic 5 The New Voyages, I've originally mapped as the entire series of 20 issues, I suspect that they'll pull the first 3-4 issues forward into Epic 4

So.....

Epic 2
Micronauts 21-37, Annual 2
Epic 3
Micronauts 38-50
Epic 4
Micronauts 51-59, Micronauts: The New Voyages 1-3
Epic 5
Micronauts: The New Voyages 4-20

Moon Knight

Moon Knight v3 aka Marc Spector Moon Knight
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4189&page=gallery
June 89-March 94
22 pages except for

4 21
18 23
19 24
20 23
25 40 (Ghost Rider)
26 23 (26-31 Scarlet Redemption)
32 24
33 23
(35-38 Punisher Blood Brothers)
First 7 issues are in Epic 4, 8 - 25 are in Epic 5.

Couple of Omnibuses drop big hints at the Epic contents:

MOON KNIGHT: MARC SPECTOR OMNIBUS VOL. 1 https://prhcomics.com/wp/book/?isbn=9781302950378 which collects

Marc Spector: Moon Knight (1989) 1-34,
Amazing Spider-Man (1963) 353-358,
Moon Knight: Divided We Fall (1992) 1,
material from Punisher Annual (1988) 2
So in the Omnibus, but not Epics 4 & 5 we have:
Marc Spector: Moon Knight (1989) 26-34, (henceforth abbreviated as MSMK)

Amazing Spider-Man (1963) 353-358, same months as MSMK 32-34

Moon Knight: Divided We Fall (1992) 1, same month as MSMK 39

So
Epic 6
Marc Spector Moon Knight 26-38
ASM 353-358 Round Robin
26-31 are called Scarlett Redemption
35-38 are the Punisher Blood Brothers storyline

Round Robin in Amazing Spider-Man (1963) 353-358, 1991's double shipping issues of ASM, are the same months as MSMK 32-34

Epic 7 is out
Marc Spector: Moon Knight #39-51
Moon Knight: Divided We Fall #1
Moon Knight Special #1
Web of Spider-Man #93-94
Material From:
* Marvel Comics Presents #152-154
Also out is MOON KNIGHT: MARC SPECTOR OMNIBUS VOL. 2 https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302956899 which collects
Marc Spector: Moon Knight #35-60,
Moon Knight Special #1,
Web Of Spider-Man (1985) #93-94,
Moon Knight (1998) #1-4,
Moon Knight (1999) #1-4,
Black Panther (1998) #20-22
Material From
* Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #152-154.
Which means:
Epic 8

Marc Spector Moon Knight 52-60, 9 issues worth

Marc Spector finishes 1994 with issue 60

Moon Knight's 4 issue LS from 1998 is Resurrection War

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=8783

4 issues worth, 13 in total

The 1999 Moon Knight 4 issue LS is High Strangers

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=8918

Another 4 issues worth, 17 in total

(Black Panther was on issue 4 when that LS finished http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=2&year=1999&sort=alpha&variantex=on )

Black Panther (1998) #20-22

3 issues worth, 20 issues, job done!


Morbius

Will there be Morbius Epic Collection Volumes 3 and 4...?

Many seem to think Morbius is a two and done finished line, like Black Panther, Black Widow, Iron Fist (also could be another), and Ms. Marvel.

Morbius the Living Vampire Vol 1 ran 32 issues from 1992 to 1995.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=4463

Well within the Epic timeline, and would complement eventual late volumes of Ghost Rider featuring the Danny Ketch run, as well as the released Darkhold Complete Collection.

Here's the prospective rundown of contents below. Could it fit in two volumes?

Morbius the Living Vampire #1-32,

Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme #10, 52-53+,

Spider-Man #13-14,

Peter Parker Spider-Man #77-78,

Nightstalkers #8-9,

X-Man #24,

Material From:

* Midnight Sons Unlimited #1-2,
* Marvel Comics Presents #144-145,
* Strange Tales: Dark Corners #1
+Does all of Vampiric Verses from Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #14-18 get double dipped with the Doctor Starnge Epics? And the appearance in Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme #20?

Based on the trends for choosing the Epic covers, I would bet on this being the one for Vol 3.


Namor, The Sub-Mariner

Epic 1 is

Fantastic Four (1961) 4, 6, 9, 14, 27, 33;
Fantastic Four Annual (1963) 1;
Strange Tales (1951) 107, 125;
Avengers (1963) 3-4;
X-Men (1963) 6;
Daredevil (1964) 7,
Tales to Astonish (1959) 70-76
and Epic 3 is Sub-Mariner #4-27

So 2 is

Tales to Astonish #77-101
Tales of Suspense #80
Sub-Mariner/Iron Man #1
Sub-Mariner #1-3

Possibly Captain Marvel 4, same month as Sub Mariner 4, could go in Epic 2 as well?

Tales to Astonish #77 is cover dated March 1966 he same month as Amazing Spider-Man 34, Avengers 26, Fantastic Four 48 & X-Men 17.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=3&year=1966&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=null&collectionex=null

Tales to Astonish #101 is cover dated March 1968 he same month as Amazing Spider-Man 58, Avengers 50, Fantastic Four 72 & X-Men 42.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=3&year=1968&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=null&collectionex=null

Sub-Mariner/Iron Man #1 is cover dated April 1968 he same month as Amazing Spider-Man 59, Avengers 51, Fantastic Four 73 & X-Men 43.

That month Tales of Astonish is retitled Incredible Hulk with issue 102 and Tales of Suspense is retitled Captain America with issue 100.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=4&year=1968&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=null&collectionex=null

Sub-Mariner #1 is cover dated May 1968 he same month as Amazing Spider-Man 60, Avengers 52, Fantastic Four 74 & X-Men 44.

Iron Man and Marvel's Space-Born Superhero Captain Marvel both started that month.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=5&year=1968&sort=alpha

Sub-Mariner #3 is cover dated July 1968 he same month as Amazing Spider-Man 62, Avengers 54, Fantastic Four 76 & X-Men 46.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=7&year=1968&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=null&collectionex=null

Issues 1-3 are the start of the 60s/70s Sub-Mariner volume
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=3992&page=gallery

72 issues, 2 annuals and 4-49 are reprinted in Epics 3-4

Here's a quick look at the remaining material and I'll measure everything against Fantastic Four so we know where we are:

SM 1 is same month as Fantastic Four 74

50 21 pages
51-52 20 pages
53 12(new)+8(reprint SM1955#41)
54 10(new)+6(new)+4(reprint SM1955#39)
55-61 20 pages
62-64 14+6(all new)
65-66 14+5(all new)
67-70 19 pages
71-72 18 pages

We can ignore the 2 annuals, both Tales to Astonish reprints.

23 issues to go after issue 49, mostly 20 pages or under

Marvel Masterworks collected the remaining issues like this

7 The Sub-Mariner #50-60
8 The Sub-Mariner #61-72 and Marvel Spotlight #27
Extras in that period:
Fantastic Four 147-149.... Sub Mariner is bimonthly by Fantastic Four 148: Fantastic Four 148 is the same month as Sub Mariner 71 and SM 72 is the last issue.

Marvel Spotlight 27 same month as Fantastic Four 169 & SVTU 5

I think Epic 5 will be just the remaining issues and the Marvel Spotlight
Epic 5
50-72
Marvel Spotlight #27
To give you some idea of when Epic 5 is Sub Mariner 50, the first issue in Epic 5 was cover dated June 1972 the same month as Fantastic Four 123 and Sub Mariner 72, the last issue in the volume, is the same month as Fantastic Four 150 & Defenders 15.

Sub Mariner appears in The Defenders from time to time from Namor Epic 4 onwards here onwards but I'm struggling to think of anything essential there that says "REPRINT ME" in Namor trades.

Of the pre man title setup matertial for The Defenders we're past the point of including Doctor Strange (1968) 183 & Incredible Hulk (1968) 126, which have connections to Sub-Mariner 22 and Sub-Mariner 34-35 will be in Epic 4 anyway.

Sub Mariner's next regular home is Super Villain Team Up. Now this has been Complete Collected in a rather nice volume everyone should own - would Epics go again in a different book just for the proportion of the issues that Namor's in?

This question makes any attempt to speculate on Epic Contents from this point and above this point nigh on impossible until we know if any of SVTU is going to get printed again in Namor Epics. But, for the record.

Giant Size SVTU

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4546&page=gallery

1 same month as Fantastic Four 156
2 same month as Fantastic Four 159

SVTU

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4033&page=gallery

1 same month as Fantastic Four 161
SM in 1-13
13 same month as Fantastic Four 185
You Probably also want Avengers 154 & 155 either side of SVTU 9

Namor then falls into disuse a bit: I'm sure there's more than a few appearances I'm forgetting so help me out!

His first major appearance of the 80s I can remember is in Alpha Flight 4, the same month as Fantastic Four 260 : Namor is also in last 2 pages of Fantastic Four 260 and first 2 of 261 either side of Alpha Flight 4. It's significant because it's here he meets Marina.

He's then in a couple of panels of Alpha Flight 12 same month as Fantastic Four 268 and Alpha Flight 14-16 same months as Fantastic Four 270-272.

The 4 issue Sub Mariner Limited Series follows the same months as Fantastic Four 270-273 - I believe it's never been collected.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4096&page=gallery

This is probably the next thing after The Sub-Mariner #72 and Marvel Spotlight #27 we can be sure will be collected in Namor Epics.

There's then a period Namor is an Avenger - 262-293, with absences. Obviously collecting all of them is a no go but I'd suggest the following are significant:

Namor Joins the Avengers 262 same months as Fantastic Four 285
Namor returns to Atlantis to save Marina in Alpha Flight 39 & Avengers 272 same month as Fantastic Four 295
Namor marries Marina Alpha Flight 40 same month as Fantastic Four 296
Marina dies Avengers 291-293 same months as Fantastic Four 314-316

Namor then "dies" in Iron Man Annual 10 same month as Fantastic Four 329
Namor is revealed to be alive in Fantastic Four Annual 22 same month as Fantastic Four 333

The Saga of the Sub Mariner is a 12 issue retelling of previous Sub Mariner tales. Does it get included or not?
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4116&page=gallery
1 same month as Fantastic Four 320
12 same month as Fantastic Four 331

And finally we get to the 1990s Namor, which was started with John Byrne writing & drawing. That's had 2 classics, petering out after getting to issue 18, and an Omnibus https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR190937 which collects

Namor The Sub-Mariner #1-40 And Annual #1-2

Material From
* Incredible Hulk Annual #18

* Silver Surfer Annual #5

* Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Annual #2.
1 same month as Fantastic Four 339
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4824&page=gallery
62 issues. 4 annuals
62 same month as Fantastic Four 400 & Fantastic Four Atlantis Rising Collectors Preview....
12 & 50 is the only double sized issues I can spot

Annual 1 is the third part of Subterranean Wars and the only one Namor appears in

Annual 2 is the second part of Return of the Defenders along with Incredible Hulk Annual #18 (part 1), Silver Surfer Annual #5 (part 3) & Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Annual #2 (part 4)

Namor 47 & 48 crosses over with Fantastic Four 385 & 6 as part of the Earthbound thread of the Starblast event
Starblast https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Starblast_(Event)
The primary event is told in Starblast #1-4 and Quasar #54-56.

1995's Atlantis Rising looks like a decent inclusion if the Epics need something to round Namor's last volume off nicely?

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Atlantis_Rising

Fantastic Four: Atlantis Rising 1
Fantastic Force 8
Fantastic Four 401
Fantastic Force 9
Fantastic Four 402
Fantastic Four: Atlantis Rising 2
That gives us 4 neat volumes to collect the 1990s Namor:
Epic W
1-18, Annual 1

21 x 22 page issues

Epic X
19-36, Annual 2

20 x 22 page issues

Epic Y
37-51, Annual 3, Fantastic Four 385-386

20 x 22 page issues

Epic Z
52-62, Annual 4,
Fantastic Four: Atlantis Rising 1 & 2
Fantastic Force 8 & 9
Fantastic Four 401 & 402

21 x 22 page issues

There is a small fly in the ointment - 1998's Hulk/Sub Mariner annual http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=122052. Yes it's the Hulk's annual but Sub Mariners in the title.

So I've got

an 8 issue Epic 4 that needs 12 or more issues

a 4 issue Limited Series

a 12 issue Limited Series

2 issues of leftover annual

possibly the rest of the Return of the Defenders annuals

and an unknown ammont of material in between!


Punisher

EPIC 1

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 81-83

* The missing Epic 1's contents are practically a given, thanks to the Essential and Omnibus agreeing

Epic 6:
49-62, Annual 5 (System Bytes),
Summer Special 1 & 2 (same months as Punisher 51 & 67)

(21 issues worth)

* There's a number of options here but later on, when the other extras dry up a bit, very much indicates the specials come in to play

Missing out here are:

* Punisher:P.O.V. #1-4 same month as Punisher 50-54
* Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher:Hearts of Darkness #1 same month as Punisher 60
* Punisher: Bloodlines 64pg same month as Punisher 60
* Punisher: Blood on the moor 60pg same month as Punisher 60
Epic 7 Capital Punishment has been out for MANY years
63–75
Punisher: G-Force
Punisher: Die Hard in the Big Easy
Marvel Graphic Novel No. 74 - Punisher/Black Widow: Spinning Doomsday's Web
Epic 8 Survival/Firefight:
76-84, Annual 6
Holiday Special 1 & 2 (same months as Punisher 74 & 86)
Summer Special 3 (same month as Punisher 81)
Wolverine and the Punisher:Damaging Evidence 1-3 (same months as Punisher 83-85 & Wolverine 74-76)

(All but 20 issues worth)

* The major thing to miss out here is Blood and Glory, a 3 issue Cap/Punisher LS same month as Punisher 71-73. It came down to a choice between Blood & Glory and Damaging Evidence - Blood & Glory is in Cap Epic 18 Blood & Glory whereas Wolverine/Punisher Damaging Evidence isn't in the appropriate Wolverine Epic (either 6 Inner Fury or 7 To The Bone)

Epic 9 Suicide Run:
85-93,
War Journal 61-64,
War Zone 23-25.
Summer Special 4 (same month as Punisher 92)

(20.5 issues worth)

* Getting all of Suicide Run in One Epic is the major driver behind the entire mapping with this book starting at it's start. https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Suicide_Run That dictates the shortened length of main book material in Epic 8, whose start we know from Epic 7, and brings the Summer/Holiday specials in as the only concurrent material I could identify. In turn that means a home needs to be found for the prior/later specials.

Epic 10 Countdown:
94-104, Annual 7,
War Journal 79-80,
War Zone 41,
Punisher Holiday Special #3 (same month as Punisher 98)

(19 and a bit issues worth)

* This book finishes with the Countdown crossover https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Countdown_(Story_Arc).

Missing out:

Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher Dark Designs, same month a Punisher 99

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=2&year=1995&sort=alpha
If the first one misses out there's no problem with this missing out too

Punisher Year One 1-4 same months as 97-100

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=5199


Rom

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4133&page=gallery

75 issues
4 annuals

1-11 are 17 pages & are all in Epic 1
12+ are 22 pages as a standard

Power-Man & Iron Fist 73 is between 22 & 23

24 is double sized (38 pages)

Annual 1 is published betewen issues 35 & 36 - Rom Omnibus 2 places it between 31 & 32

MTIO 99 is the same month as Rom 42 - Rom Omnibus 2 places it between 48 & 49

Annual 2 is published between 46 & 47 - Rom Omnibus 2 places it between 48 & 49

50 double sized - Rom Omnibus 2 places it after issue 50

Hulk 296 same month as 55 (and just before it)

59 last Sal Buscema
60 first Steve Dikto

Annual 3 between 60 & 61

Annual 4 between 72 & 73

Rom Epic 1 is scheduled
https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302961084

Rom 1-20

432 pages

I'd have expected a couple more issues

There's 55 issues remaining of Rom. 2 are double sized, 57 issues worth.
3 bonus issues - Power Man/Iron Fist 72, Marvel Two In One 99 and Incredible Hulk 296 - 60 issues worth.
4 double sized annuals, 68 issues worth

Right in no man's land between 3 & 4 Epics.

Crucially Epic 1 is a bit short, 17.58 22 page issues worth, so if we aimed for a similar number for the subsequent Epics we'd be talking 4 Epics of 7 issues worth as opposed to 3 Epics of 23, 23 & 22 issues worth

So something like

Epic 2:
21-35
Power-Man & Iron Fist 73
Epic 3:
36-48
Annuals 1-2
Marvel Two In One 99
Epic 4:
49-60
Annual 3
Incredible Huk 296
Epic 5:
61-75
Annual 4
All 17 issues each
My excel model for mapping has Rom laid out in release order, I'm aware that the Omnibuses place things differently. So there could be a couple of issues swapped between volumes to accomodate annuals being set better. I'd love to get Epic 5 starting from Dikto's first issue as well. But essentially I think this is it.


Sgt Fury

Sgt Fury

Epic 1 The Howling Commandos
Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #1–19
Epic 2 Berlin Breakout
Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos #20-36 and Annual #1-2
Sgt Fury has one of the more complicated publishing histories for a single title.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=3996&page=gallery

Up to issue 79 it's all new material

80-82, even numbered issues, are reprints. 2 issues of reprints

85-95, odd numbered issues, are reprints. 6 issues of reprints, 8 total

99-113, odd numbered issues, are reprints. 8 issues of reprints, 16 total.

120 is the last issue with new content.

120-16 = 104 issues with new content out of 167

The vast majority of the issues are 20 pages, especially after those in Epic 1.

Next count the annuals

Annual 1 (same month as issue 22) has a 15 page original story + reprints. 105 issues
Annual 2 (same month as issue 33) has a 24 page original story + reprints 106 issues
Annual 3 (same month as issue 45) has a 43 page original story, call that 2, 108 issues
Annual 4 (same month as issue 57) has 52 pages original stories, call that 3, 111 issues
Annual 5 (same month as issue 69) has no original material and is all reprints
Annual 6 (month between issues 79 & 80) has a 10 page original story + reprints. We'll generously call it 1. 112 issues
Annual 7 (month between issues 91 & 92) has no original material and is all reprints.
38 issues worth in Epics 1 & 2. 74 issues worth left

Looks like another 4 Epics, and there a few Howling Commandos appearances elsewhere that can help bring that up to strength:

Epic 3
37-53,Annual 3, Capt. Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders #1
(20 issues worth)
Epic 4
55-70,Annual 4 (&5), Capt. Savage and his Leatherneck Raiders #11
(20.5 issues worth)
Epic 5
71-98 (99), Annual 6 (&7)
(20.5 issues worth)
Epic 6
100-120, Combat Kelly 1-4, What If? #14 "What If Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos Had Fought World War II in Outer Space"
(19.5 issues worth)


She-Hulk

1
The Savage She-Hulk #1-19
MTU 107 (same month as She-Hulk 18)
2
The Savage She-Hulk #20−25
Marvel Two-in-One #88
Avengers 221
FF275

Marvel Graphic Novel Vol. 16: The Aladdin Effect http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=65188

Marvel Graphic Novel Vol. 17: Revenge of the Living Monolith http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=65189

Marvel Graphic Novel Vol. 18: She-Hulk http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=65190

5
Senasational She-Hulk 31-50

Silver Surfer

Epic 2 will be Silver Surfer #1-18 from 1968-1970
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=3990

Here's the main 1980s Silver Surfer volume which will make up Epics 10-12:
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4080&page=gallery

Surfer Epic 10, which starts with Silver Surfer 86, should have very similar content to Thor Epic 21 Blood and Thunder, which collects Thor (1966) 468-475, Thor Annual (1966) 18, Silver Surfer (1987) 86-88, Warlock Chronicles (1993) 6-8, Warlock and the Infinity Watch (1992) 23-25, loosing the post crossover Thor (1966) 471-475 & Thor Annual (1966) 18 but gaining something like Silver Surfer (1987) 89-96: 93-96 is the four part Down to Earth story so needs to be clustered together. This is probably the least likely candidate for the next Surfer Epic due to the BIG double dip with 2022's Thor Epic 21.

Silver Surfer Epics 11 & 12 would then start with annual 7, cover 97-122 and include the Silver Surfer Ashcan. My suspicion is the split will be between 110 and 111, when George Perez starts writing. I've seen it suggested that the Lunatik stories from Marvel Comics Presents 172-5 boost Epic 11 and the Surfer stories from Cosmic Adventures Unlimited 1-5 are in Epic 12 but neither quite bring either book to full strength.

After this book the Surfer has a number of appearances here and there which take him up to & past Annihilation and into the modern era:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Norrin_Radd_(Earth-616)/Appearances

Marvels Comics: Fantastic Four Vol 1 1
Captain Marvel Vol 4 8
Avengers: Infinity Vol 1 1
Captain Marvel Vol 4 9-11
Incredible Hulk Vol 2 19
Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet Vol 1 1
Iron Man Vol 3 35
Maximum Security Vol 1 2-3
Defenders Vol 2 1-5
Wolverine: Son of Canada Vol 1 1
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine Vol 1 6-7
Fantastic Four Vol 3 46
Black Panther Vol 3 35
Defenders Vol 2 8-10
Defenders Vol 2 9
Avengers: Celestial Quest Vol 1 2
Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Comics Magazine Vol 1 11-12
Fantastic Four Vol 3 49
Black Panther Vol 3 38
Defenders Vol 2 11-12
Captain America Vol 3 50
The Order Vol 1 1-6
Infinity Abyss Vol 1 2
Infinity Abyss Vol 1 6
Marvel Double Shot Vol 1 3
Marvel Universe: The End Vol 1 4-6
Alias Vol 1 22
Silver Surfer Vol 5 1
Alias Vol 1 25-26
Silver Surfer Vol 5 2-12
X-Statix Vol 1 26
Silver Surfer Vol 5 13
She-Hulk Vol 1 8
Silver Surfer Vol 5 14
Cable & Deadpool Vol 1 9-11
Hercules Vol 3 1
Defenders Vol 3 1-5
Captain Universe: Silver Surfer Vol 1 1
She-Hulk Vol 2 3
Annihilation: Prologue Vol 1 1
Annihilation: Silver Surfer Vol 1 1-5
Incredible Hulk Vol 2 94-95
Annihilation Vol 1 1-2
Annihilation Vol 1 5
Stan Lee Meets Silver Surfer Vol 1 1
Incredible Hulk Vol 2 101
Annihilation Vol 1 6
Annihilation: Heralds of Galactus Vol 1 2
Fantastic Four Vol 1 543-546
Fantastic Four Vol 1 550
Silver Surfer: In Thy Name Vol 1 1-4
Silver Surfer v5 is 14 issues published in 2004-5

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9744

It's the first thing on that lit of appearances that absolutely definitely needs to be in a Silver Surfer Epic, either Classic or Modern.

Issue 1 is dated September 2003 the same month as ASM V2 55, Avengers 69, FF 500 and New X-Men 144

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=9&year=2003&sort=alpha

By this point New X-Men, Daredevil, then on issue 49, and Spider-Girl, 62, are definitely into their Modern Epics. Venom, on issue 4 of the Daniel Way run, and Wolverine, issue 3 of the Rucka run, almost certainly are too.

Captain Universe: Silver Surfer 1 is the last issue of the 5 issue 2006 limited series with various heroes wielding the Captain Universe Powers

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10505&page=gallery

Annihilation Silver Surfer is 4 issues published in 2006

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=10592

This leads into the main Annihilation series featuring the Surfer & Galactus

Annihilation is 6 issues published 2007-8

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10395&page=gallery

Silver Surfer In Thy Name is 4 issues published in 2008

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10924

Those will probably form the backbone of the next couple of Silver Surfer Epics. The question is are they Epics 15 & 16, Epic 15 and Modern Epic 1 or Modern Epics 1 & 2?


Thunderbolts

4 42-52, Avengers 31-34, Thunderbolts:Life Sentences #1 (18 issues worth)

5 53-64, Citizen V and the V-Battalion 1-3, Citizen V and the V-Battalion:The Everlasting 1-4 (20 issues worth)

6 65-81 (18 issues worth)

That in turn would land us right for doing New Thunderbolts in 2 Epics, classic or modern
7 or M1 Avengers vs Thunderbolts 1-6, New Thunderbolts 1 (82) -14 (95) (20 issues worth)

8 or M2 New Thunderbolts 15 (96) - 18 (99), Thunderbolts 100-109, Zemo: Born Better 1-4

And THAT sets up the Ellis run as either Modern 1 or 3:
Civil War:Choosing Sides #1: Venom: "Switching Sides" 9 pages
Civil War:The Initiative #1 9 pages
Penance 1-5 (Jenkins)
110-115
Desperate Measures #1 (Jenkins)
116-121

(nearly 19 issues worth)


Venom

Venom Epics 2 & 4 between them clearly define the majority contents of Epic 3 which will be the third printing in Epics of Maximum Carnage

The Maximum Carnage core in every printing is:

Amazing Spider-Man #378-380
Web of Spider-Man #101-103
Spider-Man #35-37
Spectacular Spider-Man #201-203
material from Spider-Man Unlimited #1-2
In it's previous usages:
ASM 25 Maximum Carnage adds Spider-Man/Punisher/Sabretooth: Designer Genes (1993)

Carnage 1 Born in Blood adds Amazing Spider-Man #361-363 & material from Annual 28)

We suspect Venom Epic 3 will probably also contain:
Venom: Funeral Pyre (1993) 1-3 (same months as ASM 380-382)
Daredevil (1964) 323, (same month as ASM 384)
Material from Silver Sable & the Wild Pack (1992) 18-19 (same months as ASM 383 & 384), Venom subplot pages
This material was in VENOMNIBUS 1

Later VENOMNIBUS help define later Epics from Original Epic 6 onwards. As yet uncollected from VENOMNIBUS 2 we have

Planet of the Symbiotes Material From
* Amazing Spider-Man Super Special, (June 95, ASM 402)
* Spider-Man Super Special, (Jul 95, ASM 403)
* Venom Super Special, (Aug 95, ASM 404)
* Spectacular Spider-Man Super Special, (Sep 95, ASM 405)
* Web Of Spider-Man Super Special (Nov 95, ASS1 - ASM 406+1)
Web of Carnage collects Planet of the Symbiotes in pages 144-264, 121 pages, 5 1/2 standard issues
Material from:
* Spider-Man Holiday Special 1995 (10 page. 1/2)

Venom: Along Came A Spider #1-4, (Jan-May 96) - 4
Venom: The Hunted #1-3, (May-July 96 - 38, 39, 38) 5 and a bit

At 16ish issues that looks a little short of par but we know where Epic 7 startes and what's in it. About the only thing I can find to boost it up is Spider-Man 2099 Meets Spider-Man 1.

Venom Epic 7 The Hunger contains:

Venom: The Hunger #1-4, (Aug-Nov 96) 4 Venom: Tooth And Claw #1-3, (Nov 96-Jan 97) 3
Venom: On Trial #1-3, (Mar-May 97) 3
Venom: License To Kill #1-3, (Jun-Aug 97) 3
Venom: Seed Of Darkness #-1, (Jul 97) 1
Venom: Sign Of The Boss #1-2, (Sep-Oct 97) 2
Spider-Man: The Venom Agenda, (Jan 98, 38) 2
Venom: The Finale #1-3, (Nov 97-Jan 98) 3

Venom: The Finale makes a nice landing point for the classic Epics albeit but there is this material from Venomnibus 3 which predates the 2003 Venom series:

Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #9—10, 12 (A-story), 16—17;
Nova (1999) #7;
Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #12 (A-story), 19;
Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #1—5;
Is this enough for Venom Epic Collection 8? Could something else bring it closer to the magic 20 issues?

These are, according to Marvel Wiki's List of Eddie Brock appearances at https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Edward_Brock_(Earth-616)/Appearances, all of Venom's appearances between Finale and the Venom in Modern Epic 1:

Venom: The Finale Vol 1 3

Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 8
Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 9
Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 10
Nova Vol 3 6
Nova Vol 3 7
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 12
Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 12
Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 13
Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 16
Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 17
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 19
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 2 22
Peter Parker: Spider-Man Vol 1 22
Daredevil/Spider-Man Vol 1 4
Defenders Vol 2 10
Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 2 1
Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 2 2
Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 2 3
Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 2 4
Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 2 5
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 500

Venom Vol 1 11


Modern Epics


Amazing Spider-Man

Amazing Spider-Man 1999-2013 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8896&page=gallery

I really avoided looking at ASM Modern epics for a long time cause there's too much stuff to comfortably process. But while looking at Wikipedia's Ultimate/Complete Collection table at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Ultimate_Collection,_Complete_Epic_and_Epic_Collection_lines#Ultimate_Collections/Complete_Collections I noticed that some of the ASM CCs for this period lined up with each other. Then I got hunting in the rest of the table and compiled a list and put it into order by the ASM issues involved..... and that was quite amazed when I looked at how complete it was and the size of the books involved.

So I gave each book entry on the list an Epic number and this is what I got for Amazing Spider-Man Modern Epics

Epic 1 - Coming Home = Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski 1

Amazing Spider-Man #30–45
(392 pages)

Epic 2 - Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski 2

Amazing Spider-Man #46–58
Amazing Spider-Man #500–502
(416 pages)

Epic 3 - Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski 3

Amazing Spider-Man #503–518
(408 pages)

Epic 4 - Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski 4

Amazing Spider-Man #519–528
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #1–4
Marvel Knights Spider-Man #19–22
(480 pages)

Epic 5 - Amazing Spider-Man by J. Michael Straczynski 5

Amazing Spider-Man #529–545
Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #24
The Sensational Spider-Man #41
Spider-Man: One More Day Sketchbook
Marvel Spotlight: Spider-Man – One More Day
(536 pages)

Epic 6 - Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day 1

Free Comic Book Day 2007
Amazing Spider-Man #546–564
Spider-Man: Swing Shift - Director's Cut
(520 pages)

Epic 7 - Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day 2

Amazing Spider-Man #565–577, Annual (2008) #1
Secret Invasion: Amazing Spider-Man #1–3
(512 pages)

Epic 8 - Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day 3

Amazing Spider-Man #578–591
Spider-Man: Presidents' Day Special #1
Spider-Man: Fear Itself (2009) #1
Amazing Spider-Man: Extra #2–3
Material From:
* Amazing Spider-Man: Extra #1
(504 pages)

Epic 9 - Amazing Spider-Man: Brand New Day 4

Amazing Spider-Man #592–601, Annual #36
Spider-Man: The Short Halloween
Dark Reign: Mr. Negative #1–3
Amazing Spider-Man: American Son Sketchbook
Material From:
* Amazing Spider-Man Family #7
(504 pages)

Epic 10 - Amazing Spider-Man: New Ways To Live

Amazing Spider-Man #602–611
Spider-Man: A Chemical Romance
Spider-Man: The Root of All Annoyance
Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom — New Ways To Live #1–3
Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Jackpot #1–3
Material From:
* Web of Spider-Man (2009) #1
* Amazing Spider-Man Family #6
(480 pages)

Epic 11 - Spider-Man: The Gauntlet 1

Dark Reign: The List - Amazing Spider-Man #1
Amazing Spider-Man #612–626, Annual #37
Material From:
* Web of Spider-Man (2009) #2–5
(520 pages)

Epic 12 - Spider-Man: The Gauntlet 2

Amazing Spider-Man #627-637
Grim Hunt: The Kraven Saga #1
Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Black Cat #1-4
Material From:
* Web of Spider-Man (2009) #6-7
(504 pages)

Epic 13 - Two Smaller Trades Not In Complete Collections

Spider-Man: One Moment in Time TPB

Amazing Spider-Man #638-641
(152 pages)

Spider-Man: Origin of the Species TPB

Amazing Spider-Man #642-647

Material From:
* Web of Spider-Man 12
(232 pages)

(384 pages total)

Epic 14 - Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time by Dan Slott 1

Amazing Spider-Man #648–662, 654.1
(520 pages)

Epic 15 - Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time by Dan Slott 2

Amazing Spider-Man #663–676
Amazing Spider-Man Infested #1
Free Comic Book Day 2011
Spider-Island: Deadly Foes #1
Spider-Island Spotlight
(448 pages)

Epic 16 - Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time by Dan Slott 3

Amazing Spider-Man #677–687, 679.1
Daredevil #8
Amazing Spider-Man: Ends of the Earth #1
Avenging Spider-Man #8
(352 pages)

Epic 17 - Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time by Dan Slott 4

Amazing Spider-Man #688–697
Avenging Spider-Man #11
Alpha: Big Time #1–5
(360 pages)

Epic 18 - Superior Spider-Man 1

Amazing Spider-Man #698–700
Superior Spider-Man #1–16
(512 pages)

Epic 19 - Superior Spider-Man 2

Superior Spider-Man #17–31, Annual #1–2
(440 pages)


Black Widow

Journey Into Mystery #517-519 from 1998 IS LAST THING IN in original Epic 2

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=3980&page=gallery

So we know anything after this point and before the material in Modern Epic 3 is a candidate for Modern Epics 1 & 2. A search on Mike's gives us the following series with Black Widow in the title:

Black Widow Marvel Knights 1-3 1999-1999
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8966
Collected in Marvel Knights Black Widow CC

Black Widow: Web of Intrigue 1 1999
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8968
Reprints Black Widow stories from 1983's Marvel Fanfare 10-13, which have been reprinted in Black Widow Epic 2: The Coldest War

Black Widow Marvel Knights 1-3 2001-2001 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9192
Collected in Marvel Knights Black Widow CC

Black Widow:Pale Little Spider Marvel Max 1-3 2002-2002 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9351
Collected in Marvel Knights Black Widow CC

Hawkeye 7-8 June & July 2004
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9811
Due to be collected in Hawkeye Epic 4 Shafted

Black Widow "Homecoming" Marvel Knights 1-6 2004-2005 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10064
Collected in Welcome to the Game

Black Widow 2 "Things they say about her" Marvel Knights 1-6 2005-2006 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10402
Collected in Welcome to the Game

Black Widow & the Marvel Girls 1-4 2010-2010 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12111
Collected in Black Widow & the Marvel Girls

Black Widow:Deadly Origin 1-4 2010-2010 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12067
Writer: Paul Cornell
Penciller: Tom Raney
Collected in Widowmaker

Black Widow Saga Marvel Digital 1 2010 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24547
Collected in Widowmaker

Enter the Heroic Age #1: Coppelia (8 pages) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/story.php?storyid=213710
Same month as BW ongoing 2
Material From is collected in Widowmaker

Iron Man Kiss and Kill: Iron Widow (22 pages)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/story.php?storyid=348229
Same month as BW ongoing 3
Material From is collected in Widowmaker

Black Widow ongoing 1-8 2010-2011 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14175
Writer: Marjorie Liu
Artist: Daniel Acuna
Writer: Duane Swierczynski
Penciller: Manuel Garcia
Collected in Widowmaker

Widowmaker 1-3
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=14717
Collected in Widowmaker

Fear Itself:Black Widow 1 2011 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14799
Collected in Widowmaker

Marvel's the Avengers:Black Widow Strikes 1-3 2012-2012 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14045
Marvel Cinmatic Universe, Collected in Marvel's the Avengers:Black Widow Strikes TPB

Captain America & Black Widow 636-640 2012-Feb 2013
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10102&page=gallery
Collected in Captain America and Black Widow TPB

I think the material already collected in the Marvel Knight, Welcome to the Game & Widowmaker Black Widow Trades - https://www.previewsworld.com/Search?mode=A&q=black%20widow&Category=3 - looks the most likely to be in the Epics:
Marvel Knights https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/FEB239197
Black Widow (1999) #1-3,
Black Widow (2001) #1-3
Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #1-3
(224 pages)
Welcome to the Game https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191139
Black Widow (2004) #1-6
Black Widow: The Things They Say About Her #1-6
(288 pages)
Widowmaker https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/NOV190983
Black Widow: Deadly Origin #1-4,
Black Widow (2010) #1-8,
Widowmaker #1-4,
Fear Itself: Black Widow,
Black Widow Saga
Material From
* Enter The Heroic Age #1
* Iron Man: Kiss And Kill.
(464 page)
That's aproximately 40 issues worth, about 2 Epics. Marvel Knights & Welcome to the Game are 512 pages combined, Widowmaker trade is 464 pages by itself.
Epic 1
Black Widow (1999) #1-3,
Black Widow (2001) #1-3
Black Widow: Pale Little Spider #1-3
Black Widow (2004) #1-6
Black Widow: The Things They Say About Her #1-6
(512 pages)
Epic 2
Black Widow: Deadly Origin #1-4,
Black Widow (2010) #1-8,
Widowmaker #1-4,
Fear Itself: Black Widow,
Black Widow Saga
Material From
* Enter The Heroic Age #1
* Iron Man: Kiss And Kill.
(464 pages)
After that is the run in Modern Epic 3 by Edmonson & Noto
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=17956
Epic 3
All-New Marvel Now! Point One (2014) 1 (Black Widow story)
Black Widow (2014) 1-20
Punisher (2014) 9
The Waid Samnee run is up next

Black Widow Marvel 1-12 2016-2017 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19755

That's got a slim Complete Collection:

Black Widow by Waid and Samnee
Black Widow (2016) #1-12
(272 pages, March 17 2020)
That will start, and form the majority of, Epic 4 but there's room for a bit more material still.

Infinity Countdown:Black Widow 1 (30 pages) 2018 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22054

Black Widow 1-5 2019-2019
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22827

Web of Black Widow 1-5 2019-2020
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23685

Black Widow:Widow's Sting 1 2020
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24374

Marvel's Black Widow Prelude 1-2 2020
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24230

Black Widow 1-15 2020-2022
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24692


Captain America

We know about TWO Captain America Modern Epic Collections already:

1 The Winter Soldier
June 2024
Captain America (2004) 1-17
Captain America 65th Anniversary Special (2006) 1
Captain America: Winter Soldier Director’s Cut (2014) 1
2 The Death Of The Dream
October 2024
Captain America (2004) 18-30
Captain America 25 Director's Cut
Winter Soldier: Winter Kills (2006)
Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America (2007) 1-5
Unlike New Avengers the Cap Modern Epics that we know of bear little resembelance to the Captain America Complete Collections:
Captain America: Winter Soldier
Captain America (vol. 5) #1–9, 11–14
Captain America: Red Menace
Captain America (vol. 5) #15–21;
Captain America 65th Anniversary Special
Captain America: The Death of Captain America
Captain America (vol. 5) #22–42;
Winter Soldier: Winter Kills

The Fallen Son material is absent there and is also absent from the Omnibus printings.

Still to come for Cap Modern Epics from the volume written by Ed Brubaker:

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10102&page=gallery

31-50
601-619, 615.1
Captain America & Bucky 620-628 (628 is Brubaker's last issue)
Captain America & Hawkeye 629-632
Captain America & Iron Man 633-635, 635.1
Captain America & Black Widow 636-640
Not all of that got a Complete Collection, with the 629-640 matterial missing out on a Complete. Do the slimline trades offer us anything to see how it was collected? They're quite instructive for the two Epics we have:
Winter Soldier 1 1-7
Winter Soldier 2 8-9, 11-14
Red Menace 1 15-17 and the Captain America 65th Anniversary Special

Red Menace 2 18-21
Captain America: Civil War 22-24 & Winter Soldier: Winter Kills
Death of Captain America 1: Death of the Dream 25-30
[Fallen Son: Death of Captain America]

Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America 1-5
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=11038
1 June 2007, month after Cap 26
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=6&year=2007
5 August 2007, same month as Cap 27
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=8&year=2007
I've blocked off Winter Soldier 1 & 2 and Red Menace 1: That's your Epic 1 right there

Epic 2 is Red Menace, Cap: Civil War, Death of Cap 1 & Fallen Son.

Still to come:

Death of Captain America 2: Burden of Dreams 31-36
Death of Captain America 3: Man Who Bought America 37-42
Man With No Face 43-48
Road to Reborn 49-50 and #600-601.
[Reborn]
Captain America: Reborn #1-6
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14014&page=gallery
1 Septermber 2009 same month as Cap 601
6 March 2010 same month as Cap 602
Two Americas 602-605 and Who Will Wield The Shield? One-Shot.
No Escape 606-610
[Steve Rogers:Super-Soldier]
Steve Rogers Super Soldier 1-4 & Annual 1
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=14468
1 Septermber 2010 same month as Cap 608
4 December 2010 same month as Cap 611
Annual 1 June 2011 same month as Cap 617
Escape from the Negative Zone Annual Crossover:
1 Uncanny X-Men Annual #3
2 Steve Rogers Super SoldierAnnual 1
3 Namor:The First Mutant Annual #1
Trial of Captain America 611-615 and #615.1.
Prisoner of War 616-619
Life Of Bucky Barnes 620-624
Old Wounds 625-628 & What If 4
Epic 3 then looks like Death 2, Death 3, Man with No Face and 49-50 from Road to Reborn, with at least two more Epics to complete the volumes.

The Captain America & ... material at the end, 620-640, looks like an Epic by itself.

Alongside the later part of that we have the second volume of Captain America written by Ed Brubaker

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13177&page=gallery

1 Sept 2011 same month as Cap & Bucky 620

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=9&year=2011&sort=alpha&variantex=on

19 Dec 2012 same month as Cap & Black Widow 638

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=12&year=2012&sort=alpha&variantex=on

That's collected in 4 Captain America by Ed Brubaker slim trades:

1 1-5
2 6-10
3 11-14 & 328
4 15-19
1 Epic's worth
Sewing Captain America & ... and Brubaker II together might be fun: is this Cap fans X-Men Epic Bishop's Crossing?

Following that we have Captain America by Rick Remender

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=16617&page=gallery

1 Jan 2013

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=1&year=2013&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&variantex=on

Same month as Captain America and Black Widow #639

25 Dec 14

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=12&year=2014&sort=alpha&variantex=on

That resets as All-New Captain America - Rick Remender 1-6, special.
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18359&page=gallery

1 January 2015.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=1&year=2015&sort=alpha&variantex=on

6 is June 2015, Special is July 2015 same month as Secret Wars starts.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=7&year=2015&sort=alpha&variantex=on

Starting the same month as All-New Captain America is Captain America & The Mighty Avengers 1-9
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18377&page=gallery
That also finishes just as Secret Wars starts, same month as Secret Wars issue 2, August 2015.

Post Secret War we have Captain America Sam Wilson by Nick Spencer

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19122&page=gallery

1 Dec 2015

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=12&year=2015&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&variantex=on

25 October 2017

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=10&year=2017&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&variantex=on

Early in that run Captain America Steve Rogers by Nick Spencer starts
1 July 2016 same month as Sam Wilson 9

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=7&year=2016&sort=alpha&variantex=on

19 Sept 2017

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=9&year=2017&sort=alpha&variantex=on

same month as Sam Wilson 24

By this point Secret Empire has intervened, which changes things for Cap and probably needs to be included:
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=20854

0 June 2017

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=7&year=2017&sort=alpha&variantex=on

10 October 2017

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=10&year=2017&sort=alpha&variantex=on

Omega November 2017

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=11&year=2017&sort=alpha&variantex=on

The Sam Wilson title, now named just Captain America and starring Steve Rogers, then resumes with issues 695-704
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19122&page=gallery

695 January 2018

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=1&year=2018&sort=alpha&variantex=on

704 Aug 2018

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=8&year=2018&sort=alpha&variantex=on

Then we have Captain America Ta-Neshi Coates 1-30, 2 annuals
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22149&page=gallery

1 Sept 2018

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=8&year=2018&sort=alpha&variantex=on

30 September 2021

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=8&year=2021&sort=alpha&variantex=on

It then gets a bit complicated again starting with Captain America 0 in June 2022
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=262548
Following that we have Captain America:Symbol of Truth 1-14 (Sam Wilson)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=27308&page=gallery
1 July 2022
14 August 2023
(issues 12 & 13 are part of the Cold War crossover)
At the same time we have Captain America:Sentinel of Liberty 1-13 (Steve Rogers)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=27588&page=gallery
1 August 2022
13 August 2023
(issues 12 & 13 are part of the Cold War crossover)
Captain America and the Winter Soldier Special http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=28094&page=gallery
Jan 2023 (same month as SOL 6/SOT 7) Captain America Cold War Alpha & Omega bookend the Cold War crossover
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=3491&page=gallery
Alpha June 2023
Omega August 2023
Cold War is followed by Captain America 750 in September 2023....
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=283180
.... and Captain America Finale in October 2023
Finale http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=283180
And after that comes the current Captain America by JMS
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=28871&page=gallery
1 November 2023
These runs are collected in a relatively complete series of Omnibuses:
CAPTAIN AMERICA BY ED BRUBAKER OMNIBUS VOL 01
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL072222
Captain America #1-25
Captain America 65th Anniversary Special
Winter Soldier: Winter Kills.
CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS DEATH CAPTAIN AMERICA
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/FEB210666
Captain America (2004) #25-42.
CAPTAIN AMERICA LIVES OMNIBUS
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR230945
Captain America (2004) #43-50
#600-601
Captain America: Reborn #1-6
Captain America: Reborn Digital Prologue.
CAPTAIN AMERICA TRIAL OF CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR230947
Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield?
Captain America (2005) #602-619, #615.1
Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier #1-4
Captain America (2011) #1-10.
CAPTAIN AMERICA RETURN OF THE WINTER SOLDIER OMNIBUS
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR230913
Captain America
Bucky #620-628
Fear Itself #7.1: Captain America
Winter Soldier (2012) #1-14
Captain America (2011) #11-19
Fear Itself: Book Of The Skull.
The 2011 Brubaker II series is spit over 2 volumes. Captain America & .... 629-640 misses out again here.
CAPTAIN AMERICA REMENDER OMNIBUS
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN210719
Captain America (2012) #1-25
Winter Soldier: The Bitter March #1-5
All-New Captain America: Fear Him #1-4
All-New Captain America #1-6
Hail Hydra #1-4.
CAPTAIN AMERICA BY NICK SPENCER OMNIBUS VOL 01
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL220953
Captain America: Sam Wilson #1-17
Captain America: Steve Rogers #1-11
Avengers Standoff: Welcome To Pleasant Hill
Avengers Standoff: Assault On Pleasant Hill Alpha
Avengers Standoff: Assault On Pleasant Hill Omega
Civil War II: The Oath
Material From
* Free Comic Book Day 2016: Captain America.
CAPTAIN AMERICA BY NICK SPENCER OMNIBUS VOL 02
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/NOV230677
Captain America: Sam Wilson (2015) 18-24
Captain America: Steve Rogers (2016) 12-19
Captain America (2017) 25
Secret Empire (2017) 0-10
Secret Empire Omega (2017) 1
Generations: Sam Wilson Captain America & Steve Rogers Captain America (2017) 1
Material From
* Free Comic Book Day 2017 (Secret Empire) 1
* Not Brand Ecch (2018) 14
CAPTAIN AMERICA BY TA-NEHISI COATES OMNIBUS
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN230992
Captain America (2018) #1-30
Material From
* Free Comic Book Day 2018 (Avengers/Captain America).
The Symbol of Truth/Sentinel of Liberty/Cold War Material hasn't yet been collected in Omnibuses:
CAPTAIN AMERICA SYMBOL OF TRUTH TP VOL 01 HOMELAND
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP221126
Captain America (2022) #0
Captain America: Symbol Of Truth #1-6.
CAPTAIN AMERICA SYMBOL OF TRUTH TP VOL 02 PAX MOHANNDA
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR230972
Captain America: Symbol Of Truth #6-11.
CAPTAIN AMERICA SENTINEL OF LIBERTY TP VOL 01 REVOLUTION
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT221023
Captain America (2022) #0
Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty (2022) #1-6.
CA PTAIN AMERICA SENTINEL OF LIBERTY TP VOL 02 THE INVADER
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR230933
Captain America & The Winter Soldier Special
Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty (2022) #7-11.
CAPTAIN AMERICA TP COLD WAR
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY231085
Captain America: Cold War Alpha (2023) #1
Captain America: Symbol Of Truth (2022) #12-13
Captain America: Sentinel Of Liberty (2022) #12-13
Captain America: Cold War Omega (2023) #1.
CAPTAIN AMERICA COLD WAR AFTERMATH TP
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL230833
Captain America: Symbol Of Truth #14
Captain America (2023) #750
Captain America: Finale
There is a large quantity of material with the Captain America name on it that isn't in the Omnibuses or trades:
Iron Man/Captain America:Casualties of War (2007) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10860
Captain America:The Chosen (2007-2008) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10919
Captain America Theater of War (2008-2010) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13645
Captain America:White (2008-2016) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13569
Captain America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13931
Captain America Poster Book (2009) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14009
Daredevil & Captain America:Dead on Arrival (2009) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12284
Captain America:Fighting Chance (2009) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14007
Captain America:Who Won't Wield the Shield? (2010) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14349
Siege:Captain America (2010) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14352
World War Hulks:Wolverine Vs. Captain America (2010) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14467
Captain America:The 1940s Newspaper Strip (2010) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14425
Captain America/Black Panther:Flags of Our Fathers (2010) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14047
Avengers, Thor & Captain America:Official Index to the Marvel Universe (2010-2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14393
Captain America:Forever Allies (2010-2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14570
Captain America:Patriot (2010-2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14603
Captain America:A Little Help (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24513
Captain America:America's Avenger (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14862
Captain America and Thor:Avengers (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15227
Captain America Comics:70th Anniversary Edition (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14807
Captain America Poster Book (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14010
Captain America:Rebirth (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14863
Captain America 70th Anniversary Magazine (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14732
Captain America:The Fighting Avenger (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14823
Symantec/Captain America (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=28260
Captain America:First Vengeance (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14450
Captain America:The Korvac Saga (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13661
Captain America Corps (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13927
Captain America:Hail Hydra (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14660
Captain America:Man Out of Time (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14683
Captain America:First Vengeance (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24514
Art of Captain America (2011-2016) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14895
I Am Captain America (2012) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=16529
Captain America:Living Legend (2013-2014) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14795
Captain America:Homecoming (2014) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18026
Death of Wolverine:Deadpool & Captain America (2014) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18368
Marvel's Captain America:The Winter Soldier Infinite Comic (2014) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24562
Marvel's Captain America:The First Avenger Adaptation (2014) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17730
All-New Captain America:Fear Him Infinite Comic (2014) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24519
Captain America Featuring Road Force Infinite Comic (2015) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25613
Captain America:Peggy Carter Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18718
All-New Captain America:Fear Him (2015) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18704
Captain America:Road to War (2016) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19978
Captain America:Serpents Unite (2016) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20536
Captain America 75th Anniversary Magazine (2016) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20361
Marvel's Captain America:Civil War Prelude Infinite Comic (2016) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24667
Marvel's Captain America:Civil War Prelude (2016) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19494
Captain America and the Invaders:Bahamas Triangle (2019) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23435
Marvel Action Classics:Captain America (2019) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24819
Wolverine and Captain America:Weapon Plus (2019) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23682
Captain America:Von Strucker Gambit (2020) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25540
Empyre:Captain America (2020) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24620
Captain America Anniversary Tribute (2021) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25020
King in Black:Captain America (2021) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25009
Captain America:All Die Young (2021) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25444
United States of Captain America (2021) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25455
Captain America/Iron Man (2022) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=26233
Captain America:Unforgiven (2023) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=28590


Daredevil

Daredevil 1999-2012

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8877
1-119, an annual, 500-512. Ish. See below....

The contents of Epic 2 tell us that the main contents Epic 1 must then be 1-15..... but what else?

There's a couple of possibilities:

Darkdevil 1-3
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9210&page=gallery
1 November 2000, the month after Daredevil 13 - 14 wasn't until March 2001!
3 January 2001, the same month as Daredevil/Spider-Man 1 & Daredevil Ninja 2

Daredevil/Spider-Man 1-4 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9227&page=gallery 1 January 2001, the same month as Darkdevil 3 and Daredevil Ninja 23
3 April 2001, the same month as Daredevil 15

Daredevil Yellow 1-5
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9270
1 August 2001 same month as DD 19
5 Jan 2002 same month as DD 27

Or the book could, like the forthcoming Astonishing X-Men Epic, run a bit shorter than we've been used to up until now?

We know the contents of Epics 2-4 & 6

Epic 2 Underboss
16-31

Daredevil: Ninja 1-3 (Bendis)

* 16-19 Wake Up (Bendis)

* 20-25 are mainly written by Bob Gale

20 Redsuit Lawsuit plus the 5 page My Brother's Keeper by Stan Lee
21 A Fellow of Infinite Jest
22 Legal Questions
23 Making Offers
24 Ruminations over Manhttan
25 Who is that masked man?
26-31 Underboss (Bendis)
Epic 3 Out
32-50

* 32-37 Out

* 38-40 Trial of the Century

* 41-45 Lowlife

* 46-50 Hardcore

Daredevil 50 was published October 2003

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=10&year=2003&sort=alpha&variantex=on

Epic 4 King of Hell's Kitchen
51-65; What If Karen Page Had Lived?
* 51-55 Echo (writen by David Mack) (5 issues worth)

* 56-60 The King of Hell's Kitchen (5 issues worth, 10 total)

* 61-64 The Widow (4 issues worth, 14 total)

* 65 The Universe (double sized, 16 total)

Epic 6: The Devil in Cell-Block D
82-94, Annual (2007) #1
* 82-87 The Devil in Cell-Block D

* 88 The Secret Life of Foggy Nelson

* 89-92 The Devil Takes a Ride

* 94 Our Love Story

* Annual 1 Devil May Care (38 pages, written by Ande Parks)

So Epic 5 we now know to be 66-81, plus possible extras
66-70 The Golden Age (5 issues worth)
71-75 Decalogue (75 double sized) (6 issues worth, 11 total)
76-81 The Murdock Papers (6 issues worth, 17 total)
These options spring to mind for extras:
The first, written by Bendis and featuring Daredevil is the five issue Secret War

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9896

Issue 1 cover dated April 2004 same month as Daredevil 57
Issue 5 cover dated December 2005 same month as Daredevil 78

Then we have the six issue Daredevil Father (26, 30, 31, 28, 25 & 27 pages, 167 pages just over 7.5 issues worth)

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9923&page=gallery

Issue 1 cover dated June 2004 same month as Daredevil 59
Issue 6 cover dated February 2007 same month as Daredevil 92

Daredevil: Redemption 1-6 (2005)

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=10041

Issue 1 cover dated April 2005 same month as Daredevil 70
Issue 6 cover dated August 2005 same month as Daredevil 74

Captain Universe/Daredevil 1 (2005)

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=132789

cover dated January 2006 same month as Daredevil 79, DD Punisher 6 & DD Father 5

Finally the six issue Daredevil vs Punisher

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10210&page=gallery

Issue 1 cover dated September 2005 same month as Daredevil 75
Issue 1 cover dated January 2006 same month as Daredevil 79, Caotain Universe DD 1 & Daredevil Father 5

Bendis last issue is Daredevil 81 published March 2006 at which point Bendis' New Avengers was on issue 15

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=3&year=2006&sort=alpha&variantex=on

I missed out on the Bendis Daredevil the first time round and only picked them up in the Ultimate Collections after I started reading the title under Ed Brubaker, who I'd been enjoying on Captain America. Brubaker's first issue of Daredevil is 82 Cover Dated April 2006. He writes 82-119 & 500, just over the ammount of issues needed for another 2 Epics.

Left to collect for Brubaker we have 95-119 & 500

I suspect the next book, Modern Epic 7 is probably 95-106 + Daredevil: Blood of the Tarantula

* 95-99 To the Devil, His Due

* 100-104 Without Fear

* 106 Sympathy for the Devil

* Daredevil: Blood of the Tarantula (June 2008, published between 106 & 107, Writer Ande Parks, 34 pages)

Leaving 107-119, 500 for Modern Epic 8 and having the Andy Diggle run in Modern Epic 9
107-110 Cruel & Unusual

111-115 Lady Bullseye

116 On the Costa da Morte

117-119, 500 The Return of the Kingpin

Andy Diggle is 501-512, just 12 standard size issues. Do we need to include the Shadowlands event limited series in here to bring it closer to strength and so the story flows properly?
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12257
5 issues, 4 standardish, one slightly oversized.

Many Modern Epics, New Avengers in particular, have left out several events so far.

513-529 & 523.1 is Black Panther Man Without Fear/Most Dangerous Man alive. YMMV if this gets collected in DD Modern Epics but it is effectively a book all by itself.

Deadpool


Deadpool

Deadpool Modern Epic 5 In Wade We Trust has been announced and this clarifies the situation with Deadpool Modern Epics considerably.

Modern Epic 5 collects Deadpool (2012) #1-14, 20, 26 448

Deadpool (2012) 1-55
01 Jan 2013
55 Jun 2015
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17107

This was Collected In: Deadpool by Posehn and Duggan

1 Deadpool (2012) #1–14, 20, 26 - 384 pages
2 Deadpool (2012) #15–19, 21–25; Deadpool: Dracula's Gauntlet #1–7 - 424 pages
3 Deadpool (2012) #27–34; Hawkeye vs. Deadpool #0–4 - 384 pages
4 Death of Wolverine: Deadpool & Captain America #1; Deadpool (2012) #35–45; Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos #1–4 and material from Deadpool Annual (2016) #1 - 376 pages
Since Deadpool by Posehn and Duggan 1 has the same contents as Epics 5, albeit in fewer pages, it looks likely that Epics 6-8 will be the same as Deadpool by Posehn & Duggan 2-4

Prior to 2012's Posehn & Duggan book we had Deadpool (2008) 1-37
01 Nov 2008
37 Dec 2012
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=11864

That was collected In: Deadpool by Daniel Way

1 Deadpool (2008) #1–12; Wolverine: Origins #21–25; Thunderbolts #130–131; Deadpool Saga - 472 pages
2 Deadpool (2008) #13–31 - 464 pages
3 Deadpool (2008) #32–49 and #33.1, 49.1 - 448 pages
4 Deadpool (2008) #50–63 - 320 pages
And they look quite like our modern Epics 1-4

2015's Secret Wars takes place between the 2012 and 2016 Deadpool volumes

Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars 1-4
01 Jul 2015
04 Oct 2015

Collected In: Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars TPB

Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars 1-4 128 - pages
Deadpool (2016) 1-36
01 Jan 2016
36 Nov 2017
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19600

Collected In: World's Greatest

1 Deadpool (2015) #1-7 And #3.1: Tres Punto Uno - 264 pages
2 Deadpool (2015) #8-13 And Deadpool: Last Days Of Magic #1 - 232 pages
3 Deadpool (2015) #14-20, #21 (A Story) And #22-25 - 272 pages
4 Deadpool (2015) #21 (B Story) And #26-29, Spider-Man/Deadpool #15-16 And Deadpool & The Mercs For Money #9-10 - 248 pages
5 Deadpool (2015) #30-36 And Deadpool Secret Comic Variants. 248 pages
Despicable Deadpool (2017) 287-300
287 Dec 2017
300 Jul 2018
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=21437

Collected In: Despicable Deadpool HC

Despicable Deadpool 287-300, secret comic variants from Deadpool 23-25, 30-36 and Despicable Deadpool 287-296 - 384 pages
Deadpool (2018) 1-15
01 Aug 2018
15 Oct 2019
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22157

Collected In: Deadpool by Skottie Young TPBs

1 Deadpool 1-6 - 136 pages
2 Deadpool 7-12 - 136 pages
3 Deadpool 13-15, Annual 1 - 112 pages

Total - 384 pages

Deadpool (2020) 1-10
01 Jan 2020
10 Mar 2021
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24212

Collected In: Deadpool by Kelly Thompson

1 Deadpool (2019) #1-10 - 256 pages
Deadpool (2023) 1-Current
01 Jan 2023
Current
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=27987 As a bare minimum ALL of those HAVE to be in Deadpool Modern Epics.

Simple? Oh no. Because in the Modern Era Deadpool has many shorter titles and one shots.

The first ten volumes of Deadpool Classics was a huge help mapping the original Deadpool Epics. I had a note of those in my text file but, knowing Cable & Deadpool came next and wasn't in there, I hadn't looked at the contents of the remaining 13 volumes. I expected to find them reprinting the Deadpool series after Cable & Deadpool. I was wrong:

11 Merc With A Mouth:
Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth (2009) #1-13
Lady Deadpool #1.
12 Deadpool Corps:
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #1-5
Deadpool Corps #1-12
Deadpool Family #1.
13 Deadpool Team Up:
Deadpool Team-Up (1998) #1
Deadpool Team-Up (2010) #899-883.
14 Suicide Kings:
Deadpool: Games Of Death
Deadpool: Suicide Kings #1-5
Deadpool #900 And #1000
X-Men Origins: Deadpool
Marvel Digital Holiday Special #2
Material From
* Marvel Spotlight: Deadpool.
15 All Rest
Captain America: Who Won't Wield The Shield #1
Cable (2008) #25
Deadpool & Cable #26
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #38
Deadpool Annual (2011) #1
Incredible Hulks Annual #1
Wolverine/Deadpool: The Decoy #1
Fear Itself: Deadpool #1-3
Deadpool Corps: Rank And Foul #1.
16 Killogy
Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe #1-4
Deadpool Killustrated #1-4
Deadpool Kills Deadpool #1-4
17 Headcannon
Deadpool: Wade Wilson's War #1-4
Deadpool Pulp #1-4
Night Of The Living Deadpool #1-4
Return Of The Living Deadpool #1-4.
18 Deadpool vs Marvel
Deadpool Vs. X-Force #1-4
Deadpool Annual (2013) #1-2
Deadpool Vs. Thanos #1-4
Deadpool Vs. Carnage #1-4
Hawkeye Vs. Deadpool #0-4.
19 Make War Not Love
Deadpool Bi-Annual #1
Deadpool's Art Of War #1-4
Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars #1-4
Mrs. Deadpool And The Howling Commandos #1-4.
20 Ultimate Deadpool
Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #91-94; Heroes Reborn: Remnants; Exiles (2001) #5-6
#12-13 And #66-68; Venom/Deadpool: What If?; 5 Ronin #1-5; Marvel Adventures Super Heroes (2010) #4; Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man: Web-Warriors #8
Material From
* J2 #11
* Secret Wars: Battleworld #3
* Secret Wars Too #1.
21 DVX
Deadpool & Cable: Split Second #1-3
Deadpool Vs. Gambit #1-5
Deadpool: Too Soon? #1-4
Material From:
* Gwenpool Special #1
* Gwenpool Holiday Special: Merry Mix-Up #1.
22 Murder Most Fowl
Deadpool The Duck #1-5
Deadpool Vs. The Punisher #1-5 And Deadpool Kills The Marvel Universe Again #1-5.
23 Mercs For Money
Deadpool & The Mercs For Money (2016A) #1-5
Deadpool & The Mercs For Money (2016B) #1-8
Deadpool: Back In Black #1-5.
Lots and lots of short Deadpool series but NONE of the major Deadpool series are represented here!

Here's how the shorter series divide up between the main books, starting with those published during the Daniel Way Deadpool:

Deadpool (2008-2012)
1: Nov 08
37: Dec 12
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=11864

Collected In: Deadpool by Daniel Way

Deadpool:Games of Death (2009)
1: May 09
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13884
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 14

Deadpool:Suicide Kings (2009)
1: Jun 09
5: Oct 09
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12115
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 14

Deadpool:Merc with a Mouth (2009-2010)
1: Sep 09
13: Sep 10
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14011
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 11

Deadpool Poster Book (2009)
1: Dec 09
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14138
Collected In:

Marvel Spotlight Deadpool (2009)
1: Dec 09
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=132981
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 14

Deadpool Team-Up (2009-2011)
900: Dec 09
883: May 11
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14089
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 13

Deadpool Corps:Rank and Foul (2010)
1: May 10
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14325
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 15

Prelude to Deadpool Corps (2010)
1: May 10
5: May 10
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14268
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 12

Deadpool Corps (2010-2011)
1: Jun 10
12: May 11
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13213
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 12

Deadpool:Wade Wilson's War (2010)
1: Aug 10
4: Nov 10
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14242
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 17

Lady Deadpool (2010)
1: Oct 10
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13214
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 11

X-Men Origins Deadpool (2010)
1: Oct 10
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=153089
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 14

Deadpool Pulp (2010-2011)
1: Nov 10
4: Feb 11
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14343
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 17

Deadpool Max (2010-2011)
1: Dec 10
12: Oct 11
Deadpool MAX X-Mas Special #1: Feb 2012
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12283
Collected In: Deadpool Max HC

Deadpool Family (2011)
1: Jun 11
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14661
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 12

Fear Itself:Deadpool (2011)
1: Aug 11
3: Oct 11
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14026
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 15

Wolverine/Deadpool:The Decoy (2011)
1: Sep 11
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13820
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 15

Deadpool Max II (2011-2012)
1: Dec 11
6: May 12
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15269
Collected In: Deadpool Max HC

Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (2012)
1: Oct 12
4: Oct 12
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14700
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 16

Deadpool (2013-2015)
1: Jan 13
55: Jun 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17107

Collected In: Deadpool by Posehn and Duggan

2013-2015:

Deadpool Killustrated (2013)
1: Mar 13
4: Jun 13
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15257
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 16

Deadpool Kills Deadpool (2013)
1: Sep 13
4: Dec 13
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14701
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 16

Deadpool:The Gauntlet (2014)
1: Mar 14
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17949
Collected In:

Night of the Living Deadpool (2014)
1: Mar 14
4: May 14
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14715
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 17

Deadpool Vs. Carnage (2014)
1: Jun 14
5: Aug 14
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15256
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 18

Deadpool Vs. X-Force (2014)
1: Sep 14
4: Nov 14
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18235
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 18

Deadpool:Dracula's Gauntlet (2014)
1: Sep 14
7: Oct 14
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18228
Collected In: Deadpool by Posehn and Duggan

Hawkeye Vs. Deadpool (2014-2015)
1: Nov 14
4: Mar 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18451
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 18

Death of Wolverine:Deadpool & Captain America (2014)
1: Dec 14
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18368
Collected In: Deadpool by Posehn and Duggan

Deadpool's Art of War (2014-2015)
1: Dec 14
4: Mar 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18045
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 19

Return of the Living Deadpool (2015)
1: Apr 15
4: Jul 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19008
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 17

2015's Secret Wars takes place between the 2013 and 2016 Deadpool volumes. We have no idea of Marvel's Modern Epic plans for Secret Wars titles yet but....

Deadpool's Secret Secret Wars (2015)
1: Jul 15
4: Oct 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18871

Collected In: Deadpool Classic 19

Late 2015:

Mrs. Deadpool and the Howling Commandos (2015)
1: Aug 15
4: Nov 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19061
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 19

Deadpool Vs. Thanos (2015)
1: Nov 15
4: Dec 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19271
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 18

Deadpool (2016-2017)
1: Jan 16
36: Nov 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19600

Collected In: World's Greatest

2016-2017:

Deadpool & Cable:Split Second (2016)
1: Feb 16
3: Apr 16
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19606
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 21

Spider-Man/Deadpool (2016-2019)
1: Mar 16
50: Jul 19
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20017
Collected In: Spider-Man/Deadpool Modern Epic Collections.

Deadpool and the Mercs for Money (2016)
1: Apr 16
5: Aug 16
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19773
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 23

Deadpool:Last Days of Magic (2016)
1: Jul 16
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20091
Collected In: World's Greatest

Deadpool:Masacre (2016)
1: Jul 16
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20086
Collected In:

Deadpool V Gambit (2016)
1: Aug 16
5: Nov 16
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20001
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 21

Deadpool and the Mercs for Money (2016-2017)
1: Sep 16
10: Jun 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20324
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 23

Deadpool:Too Soon? (2016-2017)
1: Dec 16
4: Mar 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20372
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 21

Deadpool:Back in Black (2016-2017)
1: Dec 16
5: Feb 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20331
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 23

Deadpool the Duck (2017)
1: Mar 17
5: May 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20559
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 22

Deadpool Vs. the Punisher (2017)
1: Jun 17
5: Aug 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20685
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 22

Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again (2017)
1: Sep 17
5: Nov 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=21121
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 22

Despicable Deadpool (2017-2018)
287: Dec 17
300: Jul 18
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=21437

Collected In: Despicable Deadpool HC

2017-2018:

Deadpool Vs. Old Man Logan (2017-2018)
1: Dec 17
5: Apr 18
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=21428
Collected In:

You Are Deadpool (2018)
1: Jul 18
5: Jul 18
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22009
Collected In:

Deadpool:Assassin (2018)
1: Aug 18
6: Oct 18
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=21937
Collected In:

Deadpool (2018-2019)
1: Aug 18
15: Oct 19
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22157

Collected In: Deadpool by Skottie Young

2018-2019:

Secret Agent Deadpool (2018)
1: Sep 18
6: Nov 18
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25617
Collected In:

Cable/Deadpool Annual (2018)
1: Oct 18
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22541
Collected In:

Black Panther Vs. Deadpool (2018-2019)
1: Dec 18
5: Apr 19
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22530
Collected In:

Absolute Carnage Vs. Deadpool (2019)
1: Oct 19
3: Dec 19
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23669
Collected In:

Deadpool (2020-2021)
1: Jan 20
10: Mar 21
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24212

Collected In: Deadpool by Kelly Thompson

2020-2021:

Deadpool:The Variant Covers (2020)
1: May 20
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24647

Collected In: World's Greatest

Deadpool:Nerdy 30 (2021)
1: May 21
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25021
Collected In:

Deadpool:Black, White & Blood (2021-2022)
1: Oct 21
4: Jan 22
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25667
Collected In:

Deadpool:Bad Blood (2022)
1: Jun 22
4: Oct 22
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=27075
Collected In:

Deadpool (2023)
1: Jan 2023
Ongoing
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=27987

Collected In:

2023+

Deadpool:Badder Blood (2023-2023)
1: Aug 23
5: Nov 23
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=28668
Collected In:
I do not want to think how many volumes ALL of that would take up.

I think the Deadpool Modern Epics COULD well be just be the main titles plus extras as and when needed, and SOMETHING ELSE is done with the other series.

Already the largest of those other series, Spider-Man & Deadpool, has it's own 3 volume Epic line. I could see both the Mercs for Money series, plus the rest of the Till Death Do Us... material from Deadpool and Spider-Man & Deadpool, forming a "done in one" Mercs for Money Epic.

Deadpool and the Mercs for Money (2016) 1-5
1: Apr 16
5: Aug 16
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19773
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 23

Deadpool and the Mercs for Money (2016-2017) 1-10
1: Sep 16
10: Jun 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20324
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 23

Deadpool (2016-2017) 28-29
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19600

Spider-Man/Deadpool (2016-2019) 15-16
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20017

Deadpool Classic 23, which collected both Mercs for Money series, plus the 5 issue Back in Black by the same author, runs to 432 pages. Sub Back in Black for the 4 Till Death Do Us... issues from Deadpool and Spider-Man/Deadpool an you're looking as a c410 page trade, OK for an Epic

I think both Deadpool Max titles together look like another single Epic.

Deadpool Max (2010-2011)
1: Dec 10
12: Oct 11
Deadpool MAX X-Mas Special #1: Feb 2012
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12283
Collected In: Deadpool Max HC

Deadpool Max II (2011-2012)
1: Dec 11
6: May 12
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15269
Collected In: Deadpool Max HC

The Hardcover collecting both series and the X-Mas Special is 448 pages which is an ideal length for an Epic.

Deadpool Kills Epic Collection?

Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (2012)
1: Oct 12
4: Oct 12
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14700
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 16

Deadpool Killustrated (2013)
1: Mar 13
4: Jun 13
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15257
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 16

Deadpool Kills Deadpool (2013)
1: Sep 13
4: Dec 13
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14701
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 16

Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe Again (2017)
1: Sep 17
5: Nov 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=21121
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 22

Deadpool VS Epic Collections?
Deadpool Vs. Carnage (2014)
1: Jun 14
5: Aug 14
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15256
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 18

Deadpool Vs. X-Force (2014)
1: Sep 14
4: Nov 14
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18235
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 18

Hawkeye Vs. Deadpool (2014-2015)
1: Nov 14
4: Mar 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18451
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 18

Deadpool Vs. Thanos (2015)
1: Nov 15
4: Dec 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19271
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 18

Deadpool V Gambit (2016)
1: Aug 16
5: Nov 16
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20001
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 21

Deadpool Vs. the Punisher (2017)
1: Jun 17
5: Aug 17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20685
Collected In: Deadpool Classic 22

Deadpool Vs. Old Man Logan (2017-2018)
1: Dec 17
5: Apr 18
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=21428
Collected In:

Black Panther Vs. Deadpool (2018-2019)
1: Dec 18
5: Apr 19
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22530
Collected In:

Absolute Carnage Vs. Deadpool (2019)
1: Oct 19
3: Dec 19
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23669
Collected In:

2 books worth there

Or they *COULD* just lump all the extra series together, kind of like what the later Deadpool Classics did.


Deadpool & Cable

Cable & Deadpool 1-51 2004-2088

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9831

1 May 2004
50 April 2008

That's been collected as Deadpool & Cable Complete Collections (YES THE NAME REVERSAL WINDS ME UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!) that looked a lot like Epics even before this series was announced. Now it has been we can see Epic 1 matches Ultimate Collection 1
1
Cable & Deadpool #1–18

424 pages

2
Cable & Deadpool #19–35

416 pages

3
Cable & Deadpool #36–50
Deadpool/GLI: Summer Fun Spectacular

424 pages

There's enough space in that last volume for the 33 page July 2010 epilogue from Cable 25: Two Mutants & a Baby
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=136964
And indeed the 32 page follow up in issue 26
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=158807

Hawkeye

There's one Hawkeye Modern Epic on the runway already:

Hawkeye Modern Epic 1 The Reunion

https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302956530
Jul 2024

Collecting:
New Avengers: The Reunion (2009) 1-4
Hawkeye & Mockingbird (2010) 1-6
Widowmaker (2010) 1-4
Hawkeye: Blindspot (2011) 1-4
Hawkeye & Mockingbird Sketchbook (2010) 1
material from
* Dark Reign: New Nation (2008) 1
* Enter the Heroic Age (2010) 1

This is a reprint of the Hawkeye: Avenging Archer thick trade

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC140950

Hawkeye: Blindspot is cover dated April-July 2011

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=14666

That's AFTER Dark Reign:Hawkeye Marvel 45413 2009-2010 which we presume misses out

Blindspot is 3/4 of the way down this page listing Hawkeye appearances, with Matt Fraction's Hawkeye v4, the next named Hawkeye series, on the next page:

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Clinton_Barton_(Earth-616)/Appearances?from=%C2%A02008-07++20080507+Secret+Invasion+Vol+000001+5000200%0ASecret+Invasion+Vol+1+2

It's *TEMPTING* to jump straight to Fraction's Hawkeye but there's a couple of things in the intervening space that look like they should be included:

Avengers Solo 1-5
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=14259

Dec 2011-April 2012

Captain Americe/Hawkeye 629-632
These are in the later part of the volume that started with Brubaker's first issue and the Winter Soldier Arc

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10102&page=gallery

Cover Dated June - August 2012

It's worth looking at Hawkeye's appearances between Blindspot & Fraction to see if anything else stands out. I've marked the issues we've already talked about.
* Hawkeye: Blind Spot Vol 1 4 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Hawkeye:_Blind_Spot_Vol_1_4

Daken: Dark Wolverine Vol 1 9.1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Daken:_Dark_Wolverine_Vol_1_9.1
New Avengers Vol 2 13 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/New_Avengers_Vol_2_13
Avengers Vol 4 14 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_14
Avengers: The Children's Crusade Vol 1 6 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_The_Children%27s_Crusade_Vol_1_6
Iron Age Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_Age_Vol_1_1
Fear Itself Vol 1 4 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself_Vol_1_4
Captain America Vol 6 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America_Vol_6_1
Avengers Vol 4 15 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_15
Hulk Vol 2 37 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Hulk_Vol_2_37
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 666 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_666
Secret Avengers Vol 1 15 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Avengers_Vol_1_15
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 667 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_667
Fear Itself Vol 1 5 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself_Vol_1_5
Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Spider-Island:_Cloak_%26_Dagger_Vol_1_1
Avengers Vol 4 16 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_16
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 668 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_668
Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Spider-Island:_Deadly_Hands_of_Kung_Fu_Vol_1_1
New Avengers Annual Vol 2 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/New_Avengers_Annual_Vol_2_1
Spider-Island: Avengers Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Spider-Island:_Avengers_Vol_1_1
Fear Itself Vol 1 6 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself_Vol_1_6
Ghost Rider Vol 7 3 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost_Rider_Vol_7_3
New Avengers Vol 2 16 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/New_Avengers_Vol_2_16
Avengers Vol 4 17 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_17
Avengers: The Children's Crusade Vol 1 7 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_The_Children%27s_Crusade_Vol_1_7
Thunderbolts Vol 1 163.1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Thunderbolts_Vol_1_163.1
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 670 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_670
Wolverine Vol 4 16 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Wolverine_Vol_4_16
FF Vol 1 10 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/FF_Vol_1_10
Avengers Vol 4 18 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_18
Fear Itself Vol 1 7 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself_Vol_1_7
Fear Itself: The Fearless Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself:_The_Fearless_Vol_1_1
Invincible Iron Man Vol 1 509 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Invincible_Iron_Man_Vol_1_509
Journey Into Mystery Vol 1 629 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Journey_Into_Mystery_Vol_1_629
Avengers Academy Vol 1 20 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_20

* Avengers: Solo Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_Solo_Vol_1_1

FF Vol 1 11 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/FF_Vol_1_11
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 673 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_673
Avengers Academy Vol 1 21 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_21
Fear Itself Vol 1 7.1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself_Vol_1_7.1
Avengers Origins: Vision Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Origins:_Vision_Vol_1_1
Avenging Spider-Man Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avenging_Spider-Man_Vol_1_1
Point One Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Point_One_Vol_1_1
Avengers Academy Vol 1 22 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_22
Avengers Vol 4 19 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_19
Avengers Origins: The Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Origins:_The_Scarlet_Witch_%26_Quicksilver_Vol_1_1

* Avengers: Solo Vol 1 2 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_Solo_Vol_1_2

Fantastic Four Vol 1 600 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fantastic_Four_Vol_1_600
Avengers: The Children's Crusade Vol 1 8 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_The_Children%27s_Crusade_Vol_1_8
Avengers: Ultron Quest Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_Ultron_Quest_Vol_1_1
Avengers Academy Vol 1 23 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_23
Carnage, U.S.A. Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Carnage,_U.S.A._Vol_1_1
Ghost Rider Vol 7 7 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost_Rider_Vol_7_7
Avengers Vol 4 20 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_20

* Avengers: Solo Vol 1 3 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_Solo_Vol_1_3

Captain America Vol 6 6 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America_Vol_6_6
Mighty Thor Vol 2 9 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Mighty_Thor_Vol_2_9
Avengers Academy Vol 1 24 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_24
Avengers Annual Vol 2 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Annual_Vol_2_1
Fear Itself: The Fearless Vol 1 6 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself:_The_Fearless_Vol_1_6
Captain America Vol 6 7 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America_Vol_6_7
Carnage, U.S.A. Vol 1 2 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Carnage,_U.S.A._Vol_1_2
Avengers Vol 4 21 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_21
Fear Itself: The Fearless Vol 1 7 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself:_The_Fearless_Vol_1_7
Ghost Rider Vol 7 8 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost_Rider_Vol_7_8

* Avengers: Solo Vol 1 4 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_Solo_Vol_1_4

Secret Avengers Vol 1 21.1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Avengers_Vol_1_21.1
Harley-Davidson / Avengers Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Harley-Davidson_/_Avengers_Vol_1_1
Avengers Academy Vol 1 25 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_25
Secret Avengers Vol 1 22 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Avengers_Vol_1_22
Avenging Spider-Man Vol 1 4 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avenging_Spider-Man_Vol_1_4
Avengers Academy Vol 1 26 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_26

* Avengers: Solo Vol 1 5 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_Solo_Vol_1_5

Secret Avengers Vol 1 23 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Avengers_Vol_1_23
Avengers Vol 4 23 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_23
Avengers: The Children's Crusade Vol 1 9 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers:_The_Children%27s_Crusade_Vol_1_9
Fear Itself: The Fearless Vol 1 10 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself:_The_Fearless_Vol_1_10
Avengers Assemble Vol 2 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_Vol_2_1
Avengers Vol 4 24 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_24
Carnage, U.S.A. Vol 1 4 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Carnage,_U.S.A._Vol_1_4
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 682 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_682
Fear Itself: The Fearless Vol 1 11 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself:_The_Fearless_Vol_1_11
Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 9 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Uncanny_X-Men_Vol_2_9
Avengers Vol 4 24.1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_24.1
Avenging Spider-Man Vol 1 5 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avenging_Spider-Man_Vol_1_5
Daken: Dark Wolverine Vol 1 23 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Daken:_Dark_Wolverine_Vol_1_23
Secret Avengers Vol 1 24 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Avengers_Vol_1_24
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 683 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_683
Avengers vs. X-Men Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men_Vol_1_1
Avengers vs. X-Men: Infinite Vol 1 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men:_Infinite_Vol_1_1
Fear Itself: The Fearless Vol 1 12 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Itself:_The_Fearless_Vol_1_12
Avengers Assemble Vol 2 2 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_Vol_2_2
Carnage, U.S.A. Vol 1 5 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Carnage,_U.S.A._Vol_1_5
New Avengers Vol 2 24 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/New_Avengers_Vol_2_24
Secret Avengers Vol 1 25 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Avengers_Vol_1_25
Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 10 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Uncanny_X-Men_Vol_2_10
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 684
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_684
Avengers Vol 4 25 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_25
Avengers vs. X-Men Vol 1 2 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men_Vol_1_2
Battle Scars Vol 1 6 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Battle_Scars_Vol_1_6

* Captain America and Hawkeye Vol 1 629 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America_and_Hawkeye_Vol_1_629

Captain America Vol 6 10 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America_Vol_6_10
Avengers Academy Vol 1 29 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_29
Avengers vs. X-Men Vol 1 3 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men_Vol_1_3
Avengers Assemble Vol 2 3 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_Vol_2_3

* Captain America and Hawkeye Vol 1 630 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America_and_Hawkeye_Vol_1_630

Hulk Smash Avengers Vol 1 2 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Hulk_Smash_Avengers_Vol_1_2
Avengers vs. X-Men Vol 1 4 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men_Vol_1_4
Hulk Smash Avengers Vol 1 3 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Hulk_Smash_Avengers_Vol_1_3
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 686 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_686

* Captain America and Hawkeye Vol 1 631 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America_and_Hawkeye_Vol_1_631

Hulk Smash Avengers Vol 1 4 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Hulk_Smash_Avengers_Vol_1_4
Wolverine & the X-Men Vol 1 11 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Wolverine_%26_the_X-Men_Vol_1_11
Avengers vs. X-Men Vol 1 5 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men_Vol_1_5
Uncanny X-Men Vol 2 13 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Uncanny_X-Men_Vol_2_13
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 687 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_1_687
Avengers Assemble Vol 2 4 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_Vol_2_4

* Captain America and Hawkeye Vol 1 632 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Captain_America_and_Hawkeye_Vol_1_632

Avengers Academy Vol 1 32 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_32
Avengers vs. X-Men Vol 1 6 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men_Vol_1_6
Avenging Spider-Man Vol 1 8 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avenging_Spider-Man_Vol_1_8
Avengers vs. X-Men Vol 1 7 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men_Vol_1_7
Avengers Assemble Vol 2 5 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Assemble_Vol_2_5
New Avengers Vol 2 28 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/New_Avengers_Vol_2_28
Avengers Academy Vol 1 33 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_33
Avengers Vol 4 28 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Vol_4_28
Secret Avengers Vol 1 29 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Secret_Avengers_Vol_1_29
Venom Vol 2 21 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Venom_Vol_2_21
X-Men: Legacy Vol 1 270 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/X-Men:_Legacy_Vol_1_270
Harley-Davidson / Avengers Vol 1 2 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Harley-Davidson_/_Avengers_Vol_1_2
Avengers Academy Vol 1 34 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_Academy_Vol_1_34
Avengers vs. X-Men Vol 1 9 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avengers_vs._X-Men_Vol_1_9

* Hawkeye Vol 4 (Fraction) 1 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Hawkeye_Vol_4_1

Matt Faction's Hawleye 1 is cover dated October 2012 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=178286

22 issues, 1 annual

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17109

It's Omnibus/Saga Of CC are both 552 pages, which would be a BIG Epic. It might be tempting to split the run in two pairing the first half with the Avengers Solo & Captain America/Hawkeye issues

Slimline trades split Hawkeye up thus:

1 My Life As a Weapon
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC218515
1-5
2 Little Hits
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR130726
6-11
3 LA Woman
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY140930
14, 16, 18, 20 and Annual 1
4 Rio Bravo
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT140937
17, 12-13, 15, 19 and 21-22
That suggests that splitting the Fraction run between 11 & 12 would be a good point - pair the first 11 issues with the 9 from Avengers Solo & Captain America/Hawkeye leaving 11 issues - 12-22 - and a annual for the next Epic ready to be mated with some later Hawkeye

Following the Fraction Hawkeye we have these series with Hawkeye in their names:

Hawkeye Vs. Deadpool (Gerry Duggan) November 2014-March 2015
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18451
0-4
All-New Hawkeye (Jeff Lemire) May-November 2015
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18848
1-5
All-New Hawkeye (Jeff Lemire) Jan-June 2016
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19482
1-6
Hawkeye - Kate Bishop (Kelly Thompson) Feb 2017-May 2018
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20642
1-16
Hawkeye:Freefall (Matthew Rosenberg) March-November 2020
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24215
1-6
Hawkeye:Kate Bishop (Marieke Nijkamp) Jan-May 2022
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=26235
1-5
If the Fraction run takes us into Epic 3, then this lot should complete Epic 3, start Epic 4 and probably begin Epic 5.


Hulk

Late 90s Hulk:

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=8925

Pre Bruce Jones is 40 issues worth, 2 Epics on the nose. The bad news is it breaks in the middle of the Dogs of War story.

IF the volume number on the Hulk Modern Epic we have is correct then they're the last two original Epics and Modern Epics starts from Hulk 34

Epic 1
34-49
Hulk Wolverine: Six Hours (also by Bruce Jones) 1-4
(20 issues)
Epic 2
50-69 (Dark Hearts, Dark Minds, Hidden in Plain Sight, Split Decisions, Dead Like Me)
(21 issues)

* A possible I've not managed to include, Hulk Gray, is 5 issues long starts same month as Hulk 62 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=128300

Epic 3
70-87
Hulk/Thing Hard Knocks
(23 issues)

* 70 if the first issue with the Marvel Knights branding, 76 is the last.

* After issue 76 the main title is suspended during Hard Knocks, also written by Bruce Jones who leaves after it finishes

* Peter David returns for issues 77-87.

* Don't like the length but can't fix that without loosing Hard Knocks or causing knock on issues elsewhere as 2 and 4 look perfect

Epic 4 Planet Hulk
88-105 Peace In Our Time/Planet Hulk
(18.5 issues)

* Planet Hulk Handbook will boost that out

Epic 5 World War Hulk
106-111 (Warbound)
World War Hulk prologue
World War Hulk 1-5
(17.5 issues)
I'm sure World War Hulk can supply "something" to boost that up
Hulk 2008-2013

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=11195&page=gallery

Issue 1 is Jan 2008 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=3&year=2008&sort=alpha&variantex=on

The series is initially written by Jeph Leob http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/creator.php?creatorid=199.

Loeb writes to 25

After that it's Jeff Parker, who's written some Hulk stuff previously http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/creator.php?creatorid=2095

Parker writes the rest of the run, which with issue 57 becomes Red She Hulk for it's last 10 issues, which may or may not be collected in Hulk Epics and may or may not end up in She-Hulk epics

And from that series is the Hulk Modern Epic we know

Epic 6 Who Is The Red Hulk?
Hulk #1–12
King-Size Hulk #1
Material From
* Incredible Hulk #600
* Wolverine #50
Now that's IDENTICAL to Hulk by Jeph Loeb Complete Collection 1 so we COULD make an assumption that the next book will be similar to Hulk by Jeph Loeb Complete Collection 2
Epic 7
Hulk #13–24
Fall of the Hulks: Gamma #1
This is probably not a good move.... After this point it's gets a bit messy

From Sep 2009, the month before Hulk 13, we have Incredible Hulk 600-635. which finishes the same months as Hulk 38 & 39

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=13200

This is the main piece of parallel running and that's going to need some more work to figure quite how it crosses over & dovetails together

From issues 42 & 43 of Hulk we have Incredible Hulk by Jason Aaron running at the same time

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13201&page=gallery

Issue 1 is Dec 2011

That has a Complete Collection

Incredible Hulk by Jason Aaron 1
Incredible Hulk #1-7, 7.1, 8–15
Fear Itself #7
(376 pages)
Then we have Indestructible Hulk by Mark Waid

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17110&page=gallery

Isssue 1 is Jan 2013

That too has a Complete Collection

Indestructible Hulk by Mark Waid 1
Indestructible Hulk #1-20, Annual #1
(504 pages)
That's followed by 16 issues of the Waid/Duggan Bagley Hulk

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18115&page=gallery

Issue 1 is Jun 2014

Also in a Complete Collection

Hulk by Mark Waid and Gerry Duggan
Hulk (2014) #1–16, Annual #1
Original Sin #3.1–3.4
That's followed by Hulk's Secret War War Zones title Planet Hulk 5 issues

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18854&page=gallery

Issue 1 is Jul 2015

Then we have Totally Awesome Hulk 1-23

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19747

Issue 1 is Jan 2016

From issue 13 of Totally Awesome we have Hulk 1-11 starring Jennifer Walters which becomes She-Hulk 159-163 for it's last five regular issues, finishing longside issue 714 of Pak's Incredible Hulk.

There's later an annual opposite Immortal Hulk 4

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20570&page=gallery

Issue 1 is Feb 2017

I don't see this in Hulk Epics either, again probably She-Hulk Epics?

Totally Awesome Hulk is followed by Greg Pak's Incredible Hulk 709-717

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=21205&page=gallery

709 is Dec 2017

Pak's Incredible Hulk is followed by Ewing's Immortal Hulk

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22135&page=gallery

Issue 1 is August 2018
Issue 50 is December 2021

Immortal Hulk has had an Omnibus https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302949976

Immortal Hulk (2018) #1-50
Immortal Hulk: The Best Defense (2018) #1
Defenders: The Best Defense (2018) #1
Absolute Carnage: Immortal Hulk (2019) #1
Immortal Hulk (2020) #0
Immortal She-Hulk (2020) #1
King in Black: Immortal Hulk (2020) #1
Gamma Flight (2021) #1-5
Material From
* Immortal Hulk: Time of Monsters (2021) #1
* Avengers (2018) #684
Which should rovide some cluee to the overall shape of Epics collecting Immortal Hulk

Immortal Hulk is followed by the recently concluded Cates Hulk book

I will not be surprised to see Immortal Hulk get Epics sooner rather than later as it's a VERY popular series with no larger paperback collctions,

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=26148

That is a LOT of titles, several at the same time.


Iron Man

Iron Man Modern Epic 3-5 have been announced containing the first 3/4 of the the 2011-2012 volume

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=11197&page=gallery

That suggests that Modern Epics 1 & 2 are the previous Iron Man run, later retitles Iron Man Director of SHIELD, which was on issue 29 when Invincible Iron Man started.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10100&page=gallery
In Turn this suggests the Heroes Return Iron Man will be in the original Epic Collections.....

Invincible Iron Man (Fraction and Larroca) runs for 61 issues made up of issues 1-33 then a renumbering 500-527

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=11197&page=gallery
So far we have the following collected in Modern Epics:
3 World's Most Wanted
Invincible Iron Man (vol. 2) #1-19
496 pages
4 Stark Disassembled
Invincible Iron Man (vol. 2) #20-33;
Iron Man: Requiem #1;
Rescue #1;
Free Comic Book Day 2010 Iron Man/Thor
488 pages
5 The New Iron Age
Invincible Iron Man (vol. 2) 500 (A story), #500.1, 501-509;
Invincible Iron Man Annual (2010) #1;
Fear Itself (2011) #7.3: Iron Man
416 pages
The next book should polish off the material in the 2011-2012 volume previously collected in
Invincible Iron Man TP Vol 09 Demon 510-515
Invincible Iron Man TP Vol 10 Long Way Down 516-520
Invincible Iron Man TP Vol 11 Future 521-527
So
Epic 6
510-527
(360 pages of story)
At around the same time (Invincible Iron Man 518-523) we have Captain America & Iron Man 633-635
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10102&page=gallery
Do they go in Cap Epics or Iron Man Epics? Both? Neither?

Epics 7 & 8

Next up is the 2013-2014 Kieron Gillan written series

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15317&page=gallery

1-28, 20.INH, Annual 1, Special

Special crosses over with Uncanny X-Men Special #1 & Nova Special #1

That split in two should fill two Epics

Beyond that I see the following major series:

2015 Superior Iron Man 1-9
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18473

2015-2016 Invincible Iron Man 1-14
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19236

2016-2016 International Iron Man 1-7
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19997

2016-2017 Infamous Iron Man 1-12
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20521

2017-2018 Invincible Iron Man 1-11, 593-500
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20571

2018-2020 Tony Stark:Iron Man 1-19
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22543

2020-2023 Iron Man 1-25
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24810

2023-Present Invincible Iron Man 1-Current
www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=28173

Plus a load of limited series, one shots and specials:

www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/search.php?searchtype=series&searchtxt=iron%20man


Loki

There are two Loki Modern Era Epic Collections released from the start of the run:

1: Journey Into Mystery
Siege: Loki (2010) 1
Journey Into Mystery (2011) 622-636, 626.1
2 Everything Burns
Journey into Mystery #637–645
Exiled #1
New Mutants #42–43
The Mighty Thor #18–22
Material From
* A+X 5
Journey into Mystery
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=10967

Journey into Mystery is what was the JMS Thor
Ran 1-12, then renumber to 600
Becomes JiM with 622
Runs to 655

Journey into Mystery CCs
1
Journey into Mystery #622–636, 626.1
392 pages
2
Journey into Mystery #637–645
Exiled #1
New Mutants #42–43
The Mighty Thor #18–22 and Annual #1
456 pages
So we've lost the Thor Annual 1 and material from gained A+X 5

Everythin Burns concludes Loki's run in Journey into Mystery https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Everything_Burns

The remaining issues 646-655 collect Sif stories. Could they be collected here? In A Thor Modern Epic? Or will they go homeless?

Probably the best guide to what will go into Loki Modern Epics next is the Loki: God Of Stories Omnibus:

https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302952716

LOKI (2004) #1-4,
LOKI (2010) #1-4,
LOKI: AGENT OF ASGARD #1-17,
ORIGINAL SIN #5.1-5.5,
VOTE LOKI #1-4,
LOKI (2019) #1-5,
AVENGERS: LOKI UNLEASHED,
and material from
* ALL-NEW MARVEL NOW! POINT ONE
* WAR OF THE REALMS: OMEGA.

But that starts by asking a couple of questions about the first two items listed:
LOKI (2004) #1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=9937
1 September 2004 same month as Thor Heroes Return 82
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=9&year=2004
4 Novewmber 2004 same month as Thor Heroes Return 84 (penultimate issue)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=11&year=2004
LOKI (2010) #1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14629

1 December 2010 same month as Thor 616
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=12&year=2010
4 May 2011 same month as Thor 621, the last issue before the title became Journey into Mystery
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=5&year=2011

Both of these pre date the Journey into Mystery material already collected in Loki Modern Epics. Where will they go? Thor Epics and Thor Modern Epics? The abscence of the 2010 series in the Epics is especially mystifying.

The material after that looks to be the way forward for the Epics though:

Material From: ALL-NEW MARVEL NOW! POINT ONE 2014
Before the Truth Has Its Pants On - 8 pages
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/story.php?storyid=280111
March 2014
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=3&year=2014
LOKI: AGENT OF ASGARD 1-17
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18008
1 April 2014
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=4&year=2014
17 October 2015
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=10&year=2015
ORIGINAL SIN 5.1-5.5
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18215
5.1 September 2014
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=9&year=2014
5.5 November 2014
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=11&year=2014
VOTE LOKI 1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19746
1 August 2016
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=8&year=2016
4 November 2016
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=11&year=2016
Material From: WAR OF THE REALMS: OMEGA
Born Small - 8 pages
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/story.php?storyid=340341
September 2019
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=9&year=2019
LOKI (2019) 1-5
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23445
1 September 2019
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=10&year=2019
5 January 2020
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=1&year=2020
AVENGERS: LOKI UNLEASHED
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23440
30 page One Shot November 2019
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=11&year=2019
Released after the Omnibus is the Loki 2023 series:
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=28662
1 August 2023
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=8&year=2023
4 November 2023
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=11&year=2023


Miles Morales - Spider-Man

Miles Morales - Spider-Man Modern Era Epic Collection 1 Hero In Training

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man (2011) 1-12,
Spider-Men (2012) 1-5,
Material From
* Ultimate Fallout (2011) 4
https://prhcomics.com/book/?isbn=9781302961053
https://www.facebook.com/groups/epiccollection/posts/3800684310208852/

The books involved here are

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 1-28, 16.1, 200 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=15248

Spider-Men 45413 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15312

So from Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 13-28, 16.1, 200 are still to come

200 is collected in Miles Morales:The Ultimate Spider-Man:Revival TPB
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/story.php?storyid=512602

That also contains issue 1-5 of Miles Morales:The Ultimate Spider-Man

Miles Morales:The Ultimate Spider-Man 45627 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18256

Issues 6-12 are collected in Miles Morales:The Ultimate Spider-Man:Revelations TPB
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=194576

The OTHER Miles Morales Modern Epic which we know nothing about bar the title: Revivals and Revelations. The title almost certainly indicates that the majority of the contents here are the Revivals TPB and Revelations TPB, both above, smushed together and confirms, as Kurtis was told, that this is Miles Morales Modern Epic 3, not Modern Epic 2 as we first were told.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2246159295661369/posts/3811229532487663/

So

Miles Morales Modern Epic 3 Revivals and Revelations

Collecting Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 200

Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man 1-12

+ ??

That means Miles Morales Modern Epic 2 is Ultimate Comics Spider-Man 13-28, 16.1, 17 issues worth

In between Ultimate Comic Spider-Man 1-28 and issue 200 is Cataclysm: Ultimate Spider-Man #1-3

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15270
This was collected in the Ultimate Comics Spider-Man Omnibus with the series before and after it

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC170940

Does that go in Modern Epic 2 or 3? I'm thinking 3 for size.

Modern Epic 3 will take us up to the 2015 Secret Wars


New Avengers

The first New Avengers title is written by Brian Bendis http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=9964&page=gallery
1-64, 3 annuals, Finale

1 is cover dated January 2005
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=1&year=2005&sort=alpha&variantex=on

64 & Finale are cover dated June 2010
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=6&year=2010&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=on&collectionex=null

The Second New Avengers title is ALSO written by Brian Bendis
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13892&page=gallery
1-34, 1 annual
1 is cover dated August 2010
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=8&year=2010&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=on&collectionex=null

34 is cover dated January 2013
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=1&year=2013&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=on&collectionex=null

There are TWO New Avengers Modern Epic Collections so far:
1 Assembled
Avengers (1998) 500-503, 500 Director's Cut;
Avengers Finale (2004);
New Avengers (2004) 1-10, 1 Director's Cut;
New Avengers Most Wanted Files (2005)

* This is the same as Complete Collection 1

2 Civil War
New Avengers #11–25, Annual #1;
New Avengers: Illuminati;
Giant-Size Spider-Woman #1;
Civil War: The Confession.  
New Avengers Guest Starring the Fantastic Four

* This is the same as Complete Collection 2

That very much suggests that the first SEVEN New Avengers Modern Epics will have the same contents as the New Avengers by Brian Bendis Complete Collections:
1   
Avengers (vol. 1) #500–503, #500 (Director's Cut),
Avengers Finale,
New Avengers #1–10, #1 (Director's Cut),
New Avengers: Most Wanted Files   
504 pages
2   
New Avengers #11–25, Annual #1;
New Avengers: Illuminati;
Giant-Size Spider-Woman #1;
Civil War: The Confession,
New Avengers Guest Starring the Fantastic Four   
496 pages
3   
Civil War: The Initiative;
New Avengers #26–37, Annual #2;
New Avengers: Illuminati (vol. 2) #1–5   
496 pages
4   
New Avengers #38–54;
Secret Invasion: Dark Reign   
480 pages
5   
Free Comic Book Day (2009);
New Avengers #55–64, Annual #3;
Dark Reign: The List – Avengers One Shot;
New Avengers Finale
Material From
* Amazing Spider-Man #601
* Breaking Into Comics the Marvel Way   
408 pages
6   
New Avengers (2010) #1–16   
392 pages
7   
New Avengers (2010) #16.1, 17–34   
440 pages
There's a slight complication as alongside the 2nd New Avengers volume Bendis is also writing an Avengers title, no adjective

Avengers 1-34, 12.1, 24.1, Annual 1
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12251&page=gallery

1 July 2010
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=7&year=2010&sort=alpha&variantex=on

34 Jan 2013
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=1&year=2013&sort=alpha&variantex=on

That's been collected in 3 Complete Collections by itself

Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis   

1   
Avengers Prime #1–5;
Avengers (vol. 4) #1–12, Annual #1;
New Avengers Annual (vol. 2) #1;
504 pages
2   
Avengers (vol. 4) #12.1, 13–24;
Avengers Assemble : An Oral History of Earth's Mightiest Heroes   
480 pages
3   
Avengers (vol. 4) #24.1, 25–34;
Avengers Assemble (vol. 2) #1–8;
Avengers: Heroes Welcome #1
Material From
* AVX: VS #6
456 pages
*IF* it was just that, I'd say Avengers in a line by itself but after Bendis leaves both Avengers titles for the X-Men, Jonathan Hickman takes over and the numbering resets again

Hickman Avengers
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17108&page=gallery
1-44, 34.1, Annual 1

1 February 2013
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=2&year=2013&sort=alpha&variantex=on

34 Oct 2014 last regular issue
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=10&year=2015&sort=alpha&variantex=on

35 Nov 2014 1st Time Runs Out issue
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=11&year=2014&sort=alpha&variantex=on

44 June 2015
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=6&year=2015&sort=alpha&variantex=on

Hickman New Avengers 1-33, annual 1
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=16620&page=gallery
1 March 2013
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=3&year=2013&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=on&collectionex=null

23 October 2014 last regular issue
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=10&year=2014&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=on&collectionex=null

24 November 2014 first Time Runs Out issue
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=10&year=2014&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=on&collectionex=null

33 June 2015
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=6&year=2015&sort=alpha&variantex=on

The Hickman runs are closely related becoming tied together when Time Runs out starts and really need printing together as per the Avengers by Jonathan Hickman Complete Collections:
1   
Avengers (2012) #1-5;
New Avengers (2013) #1-6;
Astonishing Tales: Mojo World    
336 pages
2   
Avengers (2012) #6-17;
New Avengers (2013) #7
Material From
* Shang-Chi: Master of Kung Fu (2009) #1    
344 pages
3   
Avengers (2012) #18-23;
New Avengers (2013) #8-12;
Infinity (2013) #1-6    
512 pages
4   
Avengers (2012) #24-34;
New Avengers (2013) #13-23    
528 pages
5   
Avengers (2012) #35-44;
New Avengers (2013) #24-33    
528 pages
So does that mean the Bendis Avengers series also needs to be in New Avengers Epics?


Spider-Girl

Spider Girl's main series lasted 100 issues: http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8856&page=gallery

An admirable go was made of collecting it in Complete Collections:

Spider-Girl Complete Collection 1
What If? (1989) #105
Spider-Girl (1998) #½, 1–15, Annual '99
(456 pages, August 7 2018, 978-13029-1248-2)
Spider-Girl Complete Collection 2
Spider-Girl (1998) #16–32
(432 pages, August 13 2019, 978-13029-1844-6)
Spider-Girl Complete Collection 3
Spider-Girl (1998) #33-50
(448 pages, March 30 2021, 978-13029-2371-6)
Spider-Girl Complete Collection 4
Spider-Girl (1998) #51-67
(384 pages, April 12 2022, 978-13029-3479-8)
Thanks to the retirement of the Complete Collection branding Spider-Girl 68-100 remain uncollected, which would probably have been just two more books.

Modern Epic 1 is identical to Complete Collection 1, I suspect further Modern Epics will follow suite.

Spider-Girl has continued in various forms:

2006 follow up 1-30
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=10419

2009 digital Spectacular Spider-Girl
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=24683

2010 1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=14236

2010 Spider-Girl The End
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=157915

2011 1-8
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=14649

2011 Spider-Island: The Amazing Spider-Girl 1-3
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=14650

Spider Girls 2018 1-3
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=22639

A quick count up without checking lengths s=says 51 issues there, 2 1/2 to 3 Modern Epics.

So we're probably looking at NINE Modern Epics to collect Spider-Girl in total.


Spider-Gwen

Epics 1-2 collect up to issue 24 of the main Spider-Gwen series:

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19586&page=gallery

So from that series 25-34 are still to go. 10 issues, Half an Epic.

Beyond that the Spider-Gwen Ghost Spider Omnibus collects

Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #1-10
Spider-Geddon: Ghost-Spider Video Comic
Ghost-Spider #1-10 And Annual #1
King In Black: Gwenom Vs. Carnage #1-3
Web Warriors #1-11
Material From:
* Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #1.
And that's probably another Epic and a half, with the initial line of that material listing making the job very simple:
Epic 3
Spider-Gwen 25-34
Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider #1-10
Epic 4
Spider-Geddon: Ghost-Spider Video Comic
Ghost-Spider #1-10 And Annual #1
King In Black: Gwenom Vs. Carnage #1-3
Web Warriors #1-11
Material From:
* Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #1.


Spider-Man/Deadpool

Spider-Man & Deadpool

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=20017

50 issues + 1MU

Spider-Man & Deadpool Modern Epic 1 Isn't It Bromantic?
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUL230854
Spider-Man/Deadpool #1-14, 17–18, 1.MU
Missing from Epic 1 are Spider-Man & Deadool 13 & 14, which are two chapters of the Deadpool titles Till Death Do Us Crossove.

After Epic 1 are issues Spider-Man & Deadool 19-50.

Death Do Us was collected in the following trade:

DEADPOOL WORLDS GREATEST TP VOL 08 TIL DEATH DO US
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAY170956

1 Deadpool 28
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=197295

2 Spider-Man/Deadpool 15
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202786

3 Deadpool & The Mercs for Money 9
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=204677

4 Spider-Man/Deadpool 16
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202789

5 Deadpool & The Mercs for Money 10
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=204678

6 Deadpool 29
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=197298

Six lots of 20 pages issues
The remaining 32 issues of Spider-Man & Deadpool have all been collected in the Spider-Man & Deadpool numbered trades

The first trade contains the remaining issues written by Joshua Corrin, who wrote Marvel Spider-Man/Deadpool #1MU, in Modern Epic 1, and Spider-Man/Deadpool 15 & 16, the title's two parts of 'til Death Do Us... which we expect to be in Epic 2.

The other two issues, 21-22, are written by Elliot Kalan, who'd previously written Spider-Man and the X-Men 1-6

4 SERIOUS BUSINESS - 19-22
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT171005
19
No Laughing Matter
05 Jul 2017

20
No Laughing Matter Part Two
02 Aug 2017

21
One Night in Madripoor Makes Spider-Man Humble
06 Sep 2017

#22
It's a Murder, Murder, Murder, Murder World
04 Oct 2017

10 issues so far.

At this point Robbie Thompson takes over writing for the rest of the run. ALL issues are 20 pages except issues 123, which has a 3 page bonus story, and issue 50, which has 30 pages.

28 and a half to go

We know that that 23-32 are in Epic 2 and 33 to the 1.5 sized issue 50 should be in Epic 3.

Unfortunately it all gets a bit messy in he 20s and 30s with several different stories seemingly going on at once. Anyone able to tell me what's happening and if there is a convenient story break?

Here's how the trades collect the remaining issues... which is not 100% helpful!

5 ARMS RACE - 23-28
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN181051

23
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202801
Arms Race
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/story.php?storyid=362398
(No Title)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/story.php?storyid=362402
08 Nov 2017

24
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202805
Arms Race
22 Nov 2017

25
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202806
Arms Race
27 Dec 2017

https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Spider-Man/Deadpool_Vol_1_26

26
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202807
(Oldies Part 1)
10 Jan 2018

27
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202808
(Area 14 Part 1)
07 Feb 2018

28
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202809
(Area 14)
28 Feb 2018

6 WLMD - 29-33
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR180866

29
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202810
(Oldies Part 2)
14 Mar 2018

30
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202811
(Area 14)
28 Mar 2018

31
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202812
Arms Race
11 Apr 2018

32
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202813
(Oldies Part 3)
09 May 2018

33
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202814
(No Title)
23 May 2018

7 MY TWO DADS - 34-40
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP181017

34
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202815
(No Title)
13 Jun 2018

35
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202816
(No Title)
04 Jul 2018

36
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202817
(No Title)
18 Jul 2018

37
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202818
My Two Dads
08 Aug 2018

38
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202819
My Two Dads
05 Sep 2018

39
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202820
My Two Dads
26 Sep 2018

40
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=202821
My Two Dads
10 Oct 2018

8 ROAD TRIP - 41-45
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN191100

41
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224597
Road Trip
14 Nov 2018

42
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224598
Road Trip
28 Nov 2018

43
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224599
Road Trip
05 Dec 2018

44
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224600
Road Trip
16 Jan 2019

45
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224601
Road Trip
30 Jan 2019

9 EVENTPOOL - 46-50
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR190961

46
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224602
Road Trip
13 Feb 2019

47
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224603
Road Trip
13 Mar 2019

48
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224604
The Manipulator
27 Mar 2019

49
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224605
The Manipulator
10 Apr 2019

50
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=224606
The Manipulator
08 May 2019


Thor

JMS Thor runs 1 (Sept 2007) -12 (Jan 2009), then renumbers to 600 (Apr 2009) and the title continues as Thor to issue 621

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10967&page=gallery

So far we have:

Epic 1 Reborn from Ragnarok
Thor (vol. 3) #1-12, Thor #600
Fantastic Four #536-537
Material From:
* Dark Reign: The Cabal One-Shot
The existing Thor title became Journey into Mystery with issue 622, the same month as Fraction's new Thor Title starts, and then runs to 655.

Most of the back end of that run is in the Loki Modern Era Epic Collections

Loki Modern Era Epic 1 Journey Into Mystery
Siege: Loki (2010) 1
Journey Into Mystery (2011) 622-636, 626.1
Loki Modern Era Epic 2 Everything Burns
Journey into Mystery #637–645
Exiled #1
New Mutants #42–43
The Mighty Thor #18–22 Material From:
* A+X 5
The fate of Journey into Mystery 645-655, starring Sif, remains unrevealed....

So for Thor there's Thor 601-621, Giant Size Finale, 620.1 & Annual 1 to still be collected from this volume.

JMS writes to 603 (Nov 2009) and concludes his run with Thor Giant Size Finale, which contains one new standard length story and reprint

Thor Giant Size Finale
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=155083
Jan-10

Pete Milligan does annual 1 then Kieron Gillen starts his with 604 (Feb 201) till 614 (Nov 2010).

604-606 are the Latverian Prometheus
607-610 are Ragnarok
611-614 are The Fine Print
Alongside 606-609 (March to June 2010) the Siege Event occurs which probably should be in the Thor Modern Epics

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14082&page=gallery

Gillen's run has a Complete Collection

Thor by Kieron Gillen Thor #604–614; Siege: Loki, New Mutants #11
(312 pages)
I'd suggest that, minus the material in the Loki Modern Epics, forms the backbone of the next Epic
Epic 2
601-614, Annual 1
Thor Giant Size Finale
615 (Nov 2010) is Matt Fraction's first issue and he writes to 621 (May 2011) - all of which make up the World Eaters story.

After 621 is the point Fraction's Mighty Thor Starts

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14490&page=gallery
1 is June 2011 the same month as JIM 622 & Fear Itself 1
22 is Dec 2012 the same month as JIM 645 & Thor God of Thunder 1

So that's 1-22, 12.1, Annual 1 between 14 & 15

It's also when Fear Itself happens.

Fear Itself however is set AFTER Mighty Thor 1-6

Given that I'd suggest:

Epic 3
Siege 1-4 (4 issues worth)
Thor 615-621, 620.1 (8.5 issues worth)
Mighty Thor 1-6 (6 issues worth)
18.5 issues

* I could *possibly* see Chaos War Thor 1-2, the same months as Thor 617-618 going in here: it's contempary to the stories in and neatly fills the available space. But I'm not seeing it as essential.

Fear Itself then follows

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14035&page=gallery

The series consists of 1-7, 7.1-7.3

1 (44 pages) is June 2011 the same month as Mighty Thor 1 and JIM 622
7 (54 pages) is Dec 2011the same month as Mighty Thor 7 and JIM 629 & 630, with 7.1-7.3 following the next month

That's about 9 1/2 issues worth, 10 1/2 if you include 7.2 which deals with Thor's position at the end of the series and sets up issue 8 onwards on Fraction's Mighty Thor. 12 1/2 if you include 7.1 & 7.3.

Mighty Thor 7 is directly connected to Fear Itself and should be in here.

There's A LOT of Fear Itself Tie Ins that could bring this trade up to strength:

Fear Itself 1-7
Black Widow 1
Book of the Skull 1
Deadpool 1-3
Fearsome Four 1-4
Fellowship of Fear 1
FF 1
Hulk Vs. Dracula 1-3
Monkey King 1
Fear Itself Poster Book 1
Sin's Past 1
Fear Itself Sketchbook 1
Spider-Man 1-3
The Deep 1-4
The Fearless 1-12
The Home Front 1-7
The Worthy 1
Uncanny X-Force 1-3
Wolverine 1-3
Youth in Revolt 1-6
But I'd suggest bringing in the next 5 issues of Fraction's Mighty Thor - the Shattered Heroes arc - which brings the book up to 18.5 issues worth

So

Epic 4
Mighty Thor 1-12
Fear Itself 1-7, 7.1-7.3
That leaves Mighty Thor 12.1, 13-22 and Annual 1 still to go.

Mighty Thor 18-22 are part of the Everything Burn crossover with Journey Into Mystery 642-645.

So

Epic 5
Mighty Thor 12.1, 13-22 & Annual 1
Journey Into Mystery 642-645
And that's about 17 issues, which looks a reasonable amount for a modern Epic especially because right after this the Jason Aaron run starts.

Sorted? Possibly.

The problem is Thor has a LOT of one offs and LS around this time:

2008
Thor:Ages of Thunder 1 (2008, collected in Thor:Ages of Thunder) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12479

Thor:Reign of Blood 1 (2008, collected in Thor:Ages of Thunder) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13285

Secret Invasion:Thor 1-3 (2008-2008, collected in Secret Invasion:Thor) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=11896

Thor:The Truth of History 1 (2008, collected in Thor:The Trial of Thor) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13643

2009
Thor:Man of War 1 (2009, collected in Thor:Ages of Thunder) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13677

Thor:God-Size 1 (2009, collected in Thor:Ages of Thunder) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13794

Thor:Tales of Asgard 1-6 (2009-2009, collected in Thor:Tales of Asgard) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13969

Thor:The Trial of Thor 1 (2009, collected in Thor:The Trial of Thor) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13991

Thor & Hercules:Encyclopaedia Mythologica (Handbook) 1 (2009) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14015

2010
Thor Giant-Size Finale 1 (2010, should be collected in Thor Modern Epic 2) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14106

LOKI 1-4 (2010, missing from Loki Modern Epic 1) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14629

Thor and the Warriors Four 1-4 (2010, collected in Thor and the Warriors Four) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13980

World War Hulks:Spider-Man Vs. Thor 1-2 (2010) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14464

Thor the Mighty Avenger 1-8 (2010-2011, collected in Thor the Mighty Avenger Complete Collection) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13981

Thor:The Rage of Thor 1 (2010, collected in Thor:The Trial of Thor) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14573

Thor:First Thunder 1-5 (2010-2011, collected in Thor:First Thunder) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13983

Thor:For Asgard 1-6 (2010-2011, collected in Thor:For Asgard) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13984

2011
Chaos War:Thor 1-2 (2011-2011, collected in Chaos War Avengers) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13369

Iron Man/Thor 1-4 (2011-2011, collected in Thor/Iron Man:God Complex) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13202

Astonishing Thor 1-5 (2011-2011, collected in Astonishing Thor) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12308

Thor:Wolves of the North 1 (2011, collected in Thor:The Trial of Thor) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14346

Thor Poster Book 1 (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14692

Mighty Thor Saga 1 (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14580

Thor:Asgard's Avenger (Handbook) 1 (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14825

Thor:Whosoever Wields This Hammer (reprint with 6 page framing sequence) 1 (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14824

Captain America and Thor:Avengers 1 (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15227

Thor:Heaven & Earth 1-4 (2011-2011, collected in Thor:The Trial of Thor) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14150

Thor Goes Hollywood (film tie in) 1 (2011) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15249

2012
Thor:The Deviants Saga 1-5 (2012-2012, collected in Thor:The Deviants Saga) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14691
We're already past the material published in 2008 without any of the extra material being collected: I think this sets a precedent for the following books, especially for the material collected in Thor:Ages of Thunder & Thor:The Trial of Thor.

After this the MASSIVE Jason Aaron Thor run starts over multiple books

Thor God of Thunder
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17164&page=gallery
1 same month as Mighty Thor 22 & JIM 645 Dec 2012
25 Nov 2014

Original Sin
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=18215
0 June 2014 same month as Thor God of Thunder 21
8 Nov 2014 same month as Thor God of Thunder 25

Thor 2014
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18472&page=gallery
1 Dec 2014
8 July 2015, same month as Secret Wars 1 & 2

Thors 1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19054&page=gallery
1 August 2015, same month as Secret Wars 3
4 Jan 2016, same month as Secret Wars 7 & Mighty Thor 1

Mighty Thor (2015) 1-
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19601&page=gallery
1 Jan 2016, same month as Secret Wars 7 & Mighty Thor 4
22 Nov 2017
renumbers to 700 Nov 2017
706 June 2018

Mighty Thor at the Gates of Valhalla
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=219172
July 2018

Thor 2018
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22132&page=gallery
1 August 2018
16 October 2019

King Thor
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23691
1 Nov 2019
4 Feb 2020

Jason Aaron's entire run has been compiled in Thor by Jason Aaron Complete Collections:
Thor by Jason Aaron Complete Collection 1
Thor: God of Thunder #1–18
(432 pages, May 21 2019, 978-13029-1810-1)
Thor by Jason Aaron Complete Collection 2
Thor: God of Thunder #19-25,
Thor (2014) #1-8, Annual #1,
Thors (2015) #1-4
(448 pages, February 11 2020, 978-13029-2295-5)
Thor by Jason Aaron Complete Collection 3
Mighty Thor (2015) #1-19
(448 pages, April 13 2021, 978-13029-2387-7)
Thor by Jason Aaron Complete Collection 4
Mighty Thor (2015) #20-23,
Mighty Thor (2015) #700-706,
Unworthy Thor (2017) #1-5,
Generations: Unworthy Thor & Mighty Thor (2017) #1,
Mighty Thor: At the Gates of Valhalla (2018) #1
(368 pages, October 26 2021, 978-13029-2991-6)
Thor by Jason Aaron Complete Collection 5
Thor (2018) #1-16,
King Thor (2019) #1-4
(496 pages, April 19 2022, 978-13029-3163-6)
I'd suggest these are probably going to get reprinted as modern Thor Epic 6-10

Once again there are a number of one shots and Limited Series during this perio that may well fall by the wayside:

2013
Marvel Universe Thor Comic Reader 1 (2013) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17365

Thor:Crown of Fools 1 (2013) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15278

2016
Thor:Where Walk the Frost Giants 1 (2017) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=21764
2019
Mighty Thor 3D 1 (2019) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23415

Thor:The Worthy 1 (2020) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24226

Thor & Loki:Double Trouble 1-4 (2021-2021) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=25248

Valkyrie: Jane Foster 1-10 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=23427&page=gallery

The 2020 Thor series was initially written by Donny Cates
1 March 2020
35 August 2023
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=24213&page=gallery
Annual 1 between 15 & 16
Annual 2 (confusingly also labelled Annual 1) after 35
25-27 are part of Hulk Vs. Thor:Banner of War and crossover with Hulk Vs. Thor:Banner of War Alpha #1 & Hulk 7-8
And yes, there's more limited series and one shots as well:
2022
Hulk Vs. Thor:Banner of War 1 (2022) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=27310

Jane Foster and the Mighty Thor 1-5 (2022-2022) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=27513

Thor:Lightning and Lament 1 (2022) http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=27634


Venom

Venom Modern Epic 1 Shiver has been announced:

Epic 1
Venom (2003) 1 - 18
1-5 are Shiver
6-10 are Run
11-13 are Patterns
14-18 are Twist
This collects all the 2003 Venom series:
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9572
1 June 2003
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=6&year=2003
18 November 2004
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=11&year=2004
We can infer most of the contents of Modern Epics 2-3 mostly from the contents of Venomnibus 3 https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR201084 which collects:

From before Modern Epic 1:
Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #9-10, #12 (A Story) And #16-17; Nova (1999) #7; Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #12 (A Story) And #19; Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #1-5
In Modern Epic 1
Venom (2003) #1-18
After Modern Epic 1:
Venom Vs. Carnage #1-4; Marvel Knights Spider-Man (2004) #7-8 And #11; Sensational Spider-Man (2006) #38-39; Spider-Man/Fantastic Four (2010) #2; And Material From Spider-Man Family (2007) #1-2.
Lets have a closer look at the AFTER section:
Venom vs. Carnage 1 - 4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9916
1 September 2004
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=9&year=2004
4 December 2004
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=12&year=2004
Marvel Knights Spider-Man (2004) 7 - 12
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9900
7 December 2004
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=12&year=2004
12 May 2005
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=5&year=2005
Material From Spider-Man Family (2007) 1 & 2
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10755
1 April 2007
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=4&year=2007
2 June 2007
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=6&year=2007
Sensational Spider-Man (2006) 38 - 39
This is the Marvel Knights Spider-Man renamed.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9900
38 August 2007
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=8&year=2007
39 September 2007
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=9&year=2007

Amazing Spider-Man 568 - 573 (New Ways To Die)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8896&page=gallery
568 October 2008
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=10&year=2008
573 December 2008
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=12&year=2008
Venom:Dark Origin 1 - 4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=11898
1 October 2008
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=10&year=2008
4 February 2009
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=2&year=2009
Spider-Man/Fantastic Four (2010) 2
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=145984
October 2010
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=10&year=2010
But I think that needs some help to get it to 2 Epics:
Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man 1-4
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=12241
1 September 2009
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=9&year=2009
4 November 2009
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=11&year=2009
ASM Presents: Anti-Venom – New Ways to Live 1-3
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13835
1 November 2009
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=11&year=2009
3 February 2010
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=2&year=2010
Modern Epics 4 - 6 are out or scheduled and they collect all of Venom 2011-2013
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=14051

1 May 2011
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=5&year=2011
12 December 2013
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=12&year=2013

Epic 4 Agent Venom
Amazing Spider-Man (1999) 654 (B story), 654.1;
Venom (2011) 1-16, 13.1-13.4
Epic 5 The Savage Six
Venom (2011) 17-35, 27.1;
Minimum Carnage: Alpha (2012) 1;
Scarlet Spider (2012) 10-11;
Minimum Carnage: Omega (2012) 1
Epic 6 Space Knight
Venom (2011) 36-42
Venom: Space Knight 1-13

The series that names & closes Epic 6 is Venom Space Knight (2016)

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=19745

1 Jan 2016 straight after Secret Wars
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=1&year=2016
December 2016
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=12&year=2016

Venom doesn't have his own book between the end of the 2011-13 series, and the start of Spaceknight post Secret Wars. This is the period when he's with the Guardian of the Galaxy: http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=17665&page=gallery - Does a portion of that go in?

In terms of Venom series the following are still to come:

Venom by Mike Costa 2017-2018 1-6, 150-165 (22 issues)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=20660
1 January 2016, the month after the last issue of Venom Space Knight
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=1&year=2017
6 June 2017
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=6&year=2017
150 July 2017
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=7&year=2017
165 June 2018
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=6&year=2018
That should be Epic 7, 22x20 page issues shouldn't be a problem
Venom by Donny Cates 2018-2021 1-35 (35 issues, 2 annuals)
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=22075
1 July 2018
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=7&year=2018
35 August 2021
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=8&year=2021
And that should be Epics 8 & 9
Venom by Al Ewing 2022-Present 1-Current
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=26076
1 January 2022
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&variantex=on&month=1&year=2022

(34 issues as of June 2024)

That's over the 20 issue per Epic mark, so we're over halfway though Venom Modern Epic 11!

And ALL THAT is just off the main book!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/epiccollection/posts/3672602226350395/ has a more complete/all in mapping that brings us up to FIFTEEN Modern Epics!!!


Astonishing X-Men

Astonishing X-Men 2005-2013 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9938&page=gallery

The first two Astonishing X-Men Epics are a straight rejacket of the first of two Astonishing X-Men by Joss Whedon and John Cassaday Collections:

1 Astonishing X-Men #1–12 320 pages
2 Astonishing X-Men #13–24; Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 344 pages
Astonishing X-Men Modern Epic 1 is now the holder for the record of the Marvel Universe Epic with the lowest page count at just 320 :-(

After the Whedon/Cassaday run we're looking at:

Astonishing X-Men 25-68

Astonishing X-Men Annual 1 (Jan 2013, same month as issue 56):

Astonishing X-Men Sketchbook Special (August 2008, between Giant Size 1 & 25)

a 2 issue Ghost Box Limited Series (December - January 2008, published between issues 22 Oct 2007 & 23 Jan 2008)

Astonishing X-Men/Amazing Spider-Man:The Gauntlet Sketchbook (November 2009, between 29 & 30)

a 5 issue Xenogenesis limited series (July 2010, the month before issue 34 - April 2011, issue 36)

By eye that looks like 3 slightly thin Epics worth

That's been previously collected in the following thin trades:

Ghost Box: Astonishing X-Men Ghost Boxes 1-2, Astonishing X-Men 25-30 Ellis/Bianchi

Exogenetic: Astonishing X-Men 31-35 Ellis/Jimenez

Xenogenesis: Astonishing X-Men Xenogenesis 1-5

Monstrous: Astonishing X-Men 36-37, 39, 41 Daniel Way/Jason Trent Pearson/Nick Bradshaw

Children of the Brood: Astonishing X-Men 38, 40, 42-43 Christos N. Gage/Juan Bobillo

Exalted: Astonishing X-Men 44-47, (Journal of Emma Frost material from Ghost Boxes 1) Pak/McKone

Northstar: Astonishing X-Men 48-51, material from Nation-X, Alpha Flight 106 : Marjorie Liu/Michael Perkins

Weaponized: Astonishing X-Men 52-56, Annual 1 Marjorie Liu/Michael Perkins (Annual Christos N. Gage/David Baldeon)

Unmasked: Astonishing X-Men 57-59, 62-68 : Marjorie Liu/Gabriel Hernandez Walta/ Amilcar Pinna

Xtermination:
Age of Apocalypse #13-14,
X-Treme X-Men (Vol. 2) #12-13,
X-Termination #1-2,
Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 3) #60-61 : Marjorie Liu/Matteo Buffagni/Renato Arlem

Astonishing X-Men Companion material+

There is a later Astonishing X-Men series which runs for 17 issues from September 2017 to January 2019

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=21004


New X-Men

Epic 1 is identical to the first of the New X-Men CCs, it's a reasonable assumption the rest will follow

1 New X-Men #114–126, Annual 2001 376 May 2008 978-0785132516

2 New X-Men #127–141 360 August 2008 978-0785132523

3 New X-Men #142–154 336 November 2008 978-0785132530


Epics Not Yet Started


This section contains my notes for Epic series not yet started. In many cases I've got as far as producing a map for "This is what I thin is in Epic 1, This is what I thin is in Epic 2.... etc" but in some cases it's is just notes on what content I think is likely to be included and how many Epics I think the job will need.

Hopefully at some point I'll hve the brain to expand some of the later into complete maps before they start those series.


Alpha Flight

Epic 1
Uncanny X-Men 109, 121-122, 139-140
Machine Man 18
Marvel Two In One 83-84
Hulk 272
Hulk Annual 8
Alpha Flight 1-10
Epic 2
11-22
Marvel Team Up Annual 7
Power Pack 9
X-Men/Alpha Flight 1-2
Epic 3
23-38 & Annual 1
Hulk 313
Epic 4
39-54 & Annual 2
Marvel Fanfare 28
Avengers 272
Epic 5
55-74
Epic 6
75-93
Material From:
* Marvel Comics Presents 50-52
Epic 7
94-110, Special
Epic 8
111-130


Cable

Here is Cable's main series

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4159&page=gallery

107 issues, a -1, 5 annuals and a special

At first sight 120 ish issues worth, about 6 epics.

However I have a quetion about very early on

Classics 1 reprinted:

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN082233
NM 87,
Cable: Blood & Steel 1 & 2,
Cable 1-4
Would any of us would argue that not all of that's going in?

However Blood and Steel has already cropped up in an Epic:

X-Force Epic 2: X-Cutioner's Song

Cable: Blood & Metal #1–2;

X-Force #16–18;
Uncanny X-Men #294–296;
X-Factor #84–86;
X-Men #14–16;

Stryfe's Strike File #1;
X-Force #19;
New Warriors #31

Which gets me wondering.... does Cable get another retellind of X-Cutioner's song?

There's implications if it does.

New Mutants 87 is 1 issues worth
Cable Blood & Metal 1-2 are both double sized, 4 issues worth, 5 total

X-Cutioner's Song is 12 issues worth, 17 total.

We're just shy of our Target of 20.

Cable 1-4 is 5 issues worth thanks to 1 being double sized. 22 issues? It's been done in the 22 page era for Classic Epics? Or do you split 1-4 up, after issue 2?

What about you go the other route of loading the book pre X-Cutioner's Song? X-Force 8? New Mutants 100 (double sized) for the end of issue revelation? Those two together would make a nice round 20.

Or do they skip X-Cutioner's song, skip any extra filler beyond NM87 Blood & Metal and jump straight in to the main Cable book?

Epic 1
New Mutants 87
Cable – Blood and Metal #1-2
Cable 1-14
equivalent of 20 issues
Epic 2
Cable 15-26
Wolverine #85
X-Force and Cable '95 #1
Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix #1-4
equivalent of 21 issues
Epic 3
Cable 27-36
X-Man 14
X-Men:Books of Askani #1
Askani Son #1-4
Incredible Hulk 444
X-Force and Cable '96 #1
equivalent of 20 issues
* Cable 30-31 & X-Man 14 are a crossover story and need to be together
Epic 4
Cable 37-52
Cable -1
X-Force and Cable '97 #1
equivalent of 22 issues
Epic 5
Cable 53-65
X-Man #45-47
Cable/Machine Man '98 #1
Machine Man/Bastion '98 #1
equivalent of 21 issues
* the 98 annuals are one story
* The X-Man issues crossover with Cable #63
Epic 6
Cable 66-81
Cable 1999 #1
Wolverine/Cable #1
equivalent of 20.5 issues
* Astonishing X-Men & Search for Cyclops possibilities here
Epic 7
Cable 82-100
equivalent of 20 issues
Epic 8
Cable 101-107
Soldier-X 1-12
equivalent of 19.5 issues


Captain Marvel

There are several Captain Marvel series:

1968-1979 1-62 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=3991
1995-1996 1-6 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=5665
2000-2002 1-35 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=8949
2002-2004 1-25 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9549
2003-2004 1-4 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9724
2008-2008 1-5 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=10877

Epic 1
Marvel Super-Heroes #12 & 13
Captain Marvel #1-19
Epic 2
Captain Marvel #20-34
Sub-Mariner Vol 1 30
Iron Man #55
Marvel Feature #12
Marvel Team-Up #16
Daredevil Vol 1 107

Ends at end of Starlin run

20 issues. Length decreases from 20 to 18 pages

Epic 3
Captain Marvel #35-52
Avengers Annual #7
Marvel Two-in-One Annual #2

End on Starlin Annual

21 issues worth, but length decrease 18 to 17 pages

Epic 4
Captain Marvel #53-62
Marvel Two-in-One #45
Marvel Spotlight #1-4, 8
Marvel Graphic Novel No. 1 - The Death of Captain Marvel

19 issues worth, but everything bar the GN is in the 17 page era so room for some more

Epic 5
ASM Annual 16
Avengers 227 & 279
MTU 142 & 143
Material From Avengers Solo 2
Material From Marvel Fanfare 42 & 57
Captain Marvel 1989 #1
Material From Marvel Super Heroes (1990) #3
Marvel Fanfare 57
Captain Marvel 1994 #1
Material From Avengers Unplugged #5
Captain Marvel (1995-1996) 1-6

19.5 issues worth

Epic 6
Captain Marvel (2000-2002) 0-20

20.5 issues worth

Epic 7
Captain Marvel (2000-2002) 21-35
Captain Marvel (2002-2004) 1-5

20 issues worth

Epic 8
Captain Marvel (2002-2004) 6-25

20 issues worth


Cloak & Dagger

I think it highly likely that Cloak & Dagger Epics will be direct ports/rejackets of the previous Complete Collections.

Here they are in order with what the contents are:

Epic 1 - Shadows & Light
Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #64, 69-70, 81-82, 94-96; Cloak and Dagger (1983) #1-4;
Marvel Team-Up Annual #6;
Marvel Fanfare (1982) #19;
New Mutants (1983) #23-25.
Epic 2 - Lost and Found
Cloak and Dagger (1985) #1-11
material from Strange Tales (1987) #1-2.
Epic 3 - Predator And Prey
material from Strange Tales (1987) #3-19;
Marvel Graphic Novel: Cloak And Dagger — Predator And Prey;
Cloak And Dagger/Power Pack: Shelter From The Storm
Mutant Misadventures Of Cloak And Dagger #1-4.
Epic 4 - Agony And Ecstasy
Mutant Misadventures Of Cloak And Dagger #5-13
Cloak And Dagger (1990) #14-19
Doctor Strange (1974) #78.
The last book Runaways and Reversals is much later and has the look of a Modern Epic about it
Runaways (2003) #11-12,
Runaways (2005) #9-12,
Cloak and Dagger (2010) #1,
Spider-Island: Cloak and Dagger #1-3,
Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #6-8
Material From
* Strange Tales: Dark Corners,
Marvel Knights Double-Shot #3,
Dark X-Men: The Beginning #2,
Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #663,
Amazing Spider-Man Annual (2016) #1.


Dazzler

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4042&page=gallery

42 issues, 22 pages from the word go. Now you *MIGHT* just about get that in 2 Epics..... but you're going to have the Dazzler Movie Graphic Novel and Beauty & the Beast anyway, another 7 issues worth taking us to 49 issues. So you're half way to another Epic's worth and with some other guest appearances yet to be taken into account.

So 3 books.

Essentials and MMW both have The Uncanny X-Men #130-131, Amazing Spider-Man #203. MMW had material from What If 33, Essentials had Secret Wars II 4.

Marvel Masterworks Dazzler:

1
The Uncanny X-Men #130-131
Amazing Spider-Man #203
Dazzler #1-13
2
Dazzler #14-25
material from What If? #33
3
Dazzler #26-34
Marvel Graphic Novel #12
4
Dazzler #35-42
Beauty and the Beast #1-4
Secret Wars II #4
Material From:
* Marvel Fanfare (1982) #38
Essential Dazzler:
1
Dazzler #1-21;
Uncanny X-Men #130-131;
The Amazing Spider-Man #203
2
Dazzler #22-42;
Marvel Graphic Novel No. 12 - Dazzler: The Movie;
Beauty and the Beast #1-4;
Secret Wars II #4
Othe Possibilities:
MTU 109 same month as Dazzler 7
http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/comic.php?comicid=45836

Avengers 221

New Mutants 29-31

Secret Wars II 1, material from Uncanny X-Men 210 & 213 + the whole of Uncanny X-Men 214.

Add those in and Boom, all but on the numbers and finishes at a VERY appropriate point.

Now to cut that up into 3 Epics


Eternals

Eternals Epic 1 would reprint Eternals By Jack Kirby: The Complete Collection 978-13029-2200-9

The Eternals (1976) 1-19 & Annual (1977) 1

400 Pages

Eternals Epic 2 would reprint Thor And The Eternals: The Celestials Saga 978-13029-2249-8
Thor (1966) 283-301 & Annual (1966) 7

424 Pages

Eternals Epic 3 would reprint Eternals: The Dreaming Celestial Saga 978-13029-2201-6
Iron Man Annual (1971) 6
Avengers (1963) 246-248
Eternals (1985) 1-12;
Material From:
* What If (1977) 23-30

496 Pages

What If 23 is the same month as Thor 300, 30 the same month as Thor 314 so they'd still be placed reasonably in comparison to the Thor Story

IM annual 6 is the same month as Avengers 237 & Thor 337

Thor & Eternals Celestials Saga https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT200701

Thor & Eternals Celestials Saga compiles two previous trades, Thor The Eternals Saga 1 & 2 and collects Thor 283-301, Annual 7. Those contents are *VERY* similar to Thor Epic 10: The Celestial Saga

From Thor & Eternals Celestials Saga Thor Epic 10 looses Annual 7: That's set before the rest of the story, the same month as Thor 275

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=9&year=1978&sort=alpha

You can find it in Thor Epic 9 Even An Immortal Can Die

Thor Epic 10 gains 281-282, 302 & Annual 8.

The contents of Thor Epic Collection 10 The Eternals Saga are divided up as follows:

281-282 * PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED IN TPB *
283-291 Thor & The Eternals 1
292-301 Thor & The Eternals 2
302 & Annual 8 * PREVIOUSLY UNCOLLECTED IN TPB *


Force Works

Force Works starts June 1994

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/newsstand.php?type=cover&month=7&year=1994&publisher=marvel&sort=alpha&checklist=null&variantex=null&collectionex=null

22 issues + an Ashcan preview

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4819&page=gallery

Avengers / Iron Man: Force Works https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/FEB160973

Collects Force Works #1-11, 12 (A story), 13-15, Ashcan Edition; Century: Distant Sons #1, and material from Iron Man/Force Works Collectors' Preview.

472 pages

1 38 pages

6 & 7 Iron Man Epic Collection:In the Hands of Evil TPB (2022) Hands of the Mandarin crossover with Iron Man 311 & 312 and War Machine #9-10 https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Hands_of_the_Mandarin

(War Machine #8 and Iron Man #310 are a prelude)

12's B story is the first part of Brothers in Arms/Vicous Circle featuring War Machine, Hawkeye & US Agent
Part 2 is War Machine #15's B Story
Parts 3 is Iron Man 317's B Story and is in Iron Man Epic 20 In the Hands of Evil

16-20 are in Iron Man Epic 21 The Crossing

21-22 uncollected in paperback trade (Avengers Epic 28?)

You're looking at an Epic and a bit so twinning it with the remaining AWC material is A solution

472 pages in that trade is an epic by itself. 8 issues for hands of the Mandarin, 3 for Vicious Circle, 7 at the end.... You're talking another 18 issues, about another Epic's worth

I think 2 Epics by itself, leave AWC to Bloodties and the LS

Epic 1
Marvel Comics Presents 169-172
Force Works Ashcan Edition #1
Force Works #1-9
Iron Man/Force Works Collectors' Preview #1
War Machine #8-10
Iron Man #310-312

(About 20 issues depending on how much of the Ashcan and Collectors preview goes in)

Epic 2
Force Works #10-22
War Machine #15 B Story
Iron Man #317 B Story
Century: Distant Sons 1

(About 18 Issues Worth)
* Assumed just the FW issues of The Crossing (room for something?) but gone all in on Hands of the Mandarin (in epic 1) and Brothers in Arms/Vicious Circle here


Inhumans

There are two existing Complete Collections of early Inhumans material:

Origin of The Inhumans - https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN130693
Fantastic Four (1961) #36, #38, #41-47, #54, #62-65 And Annual #5
Material From:
* Fantastic Four #48, #50, #52 And #55-61
* Thor (1966) #146-152.

424 pages

Beware The Inhumans
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT171015

Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) #15;
Incredible Hulk Annual #1;
Fantastic Four (1961) #81-83 And #99;
Avengers (1963) #95
Material From
* Fantastic Four (1961) #95 And #105
* Amazing Adventures (1970) #1-10
* Not Brand Echh #12.

352 pages

There's also Inhumans Marvel Masterworks
Vol. 1
The Inhumans stories from
* The Mighty Thor #146-152
* Amazing Adventures #1-10
* The Avengers #95
The Medusa story from Marvel Super-Heroes #15
Material from
*Not Brand Echh #6 and 12

240 pages

Vol. 2
The Inhumans #1-12
Captain Marvel #52-53
Fantastic Four Annual #12
Marvel Fanfare #14
What If? #29-30
Thor Annual #12

320 pages

MMW 1 is all of Beware The Inhumans plus the Thor stories from Origins

The MMW2 material hasn't appeared in an Inhumans paperback.

Between the 4 books it looks like about 2 Epics worth of material

But they're still missing some stuff - these are the issues that spring to mind:

Fantastic Four 150
Avengers 127
Vision & Scarlet Witch 4
Avengers Annual 12
X-Factor Annual 2
Marvel Graphic Novel: The Inhumans
Inhumans: The Untold Saga
X-Factor 67 & 68.
Inhumans:The Great Refuge
With the material above that easily makes enough for 3 epics


Marvel Universe

I've made a rare foray into Omnibus teritrory to get the original Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Omnibuses. I've got the original trades of the deluxe edition, and Essentials of everything prior to the Master Edition but what I'd *REALLY* like is Marvel Universe Epics....

I suspect Two slightly short Epics to cover the original version (could you do it in 1? ..... Maybe. 32 page issues, 36 if we throw in the covers and inside covers, 540 pages before extras)

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4154&page=gallery

Three for the deluxe - two for the main book, one for the book of the dead, break issue 15 in half 15 between Epics 2 & 3 (64 pages, 68 with the covers outside & inside * 20 =1360 page)

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=4878

One for the 89 update? (8 * 48, effectively 52. 416 pages)

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=4893

Master Edition - 36 issues, 48 pages. Now the format for these are different and it's a LONG time since I held one in hand so I'll make the same front, back and inside cover assumption and call it 52 pages. 1872 pages total. 4 Epics. Be nice if they could format it so pictures and text faced each other rather than front to back.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=4894


Nova

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?page=gallery&seriesid=4057

25 issues, potentially tricky even in the 17 pages late 70s era

Essential Nova collects

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN062105

Nova #1-25
Amazing Spider-Man #171
Marvel Two-In-One Annual #3

Nova Classics collects:
https://www.previewsworld.com/Search?mode=A&q=nova%20classic&Category=3&Publisher=marvel

1

Nova (1976) #1-12
Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #171.
240 pages
2
Nova (1976) #13-19
Defenders (1972) #62-64
Fantastic Four Annual #12
Marvel Two-In-One Annual #3.
264 pages
3
Nova (1976) #20-25
Fantastic Four (1961) #204-206 And #208-214.
304 pages
(page counts from Amazon)
Add those up: 808 pages. 832 if we can sneak Rom 24 in.

2 books of just over 400 pages.

Looks doable.....


Power Pack

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4074&page=gallery

62 issues + a holiday special + a later published 63

19 Double Sized
25 Double Sized
35 fall of Mutants
39-42 28 pages
42 & 43 Inferno (40 and 44 in trade)
45 28 Pages
50 Double Sized
53 AoV
Holiday Special 42+6+6
Throw in X-Men 196 & 205

Yeah that's most of the way to 4 Epics

Power Pack had a classic line of Trade Paperbacks, covering the best remembered part of the run in three volumes with a fourth volume scheduled but cancelled

1
Power Pack 1-10
256 pages
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT171012
2
Power Pack (1984) #11-17
Uncanny X-Men #195
Marvel Graphic Novel Power Pack & Cloak And Dagger: Shelter From The Storm
256 pages
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/MAR100664
3
Power Pack (1984) #18-26
Thor (1968) #363
280 pages
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN110869
4 (cancelled)
Power Pack (1984) 27- 36
Strange Tales (1987) 13-14
272 pages
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0785162623/
Power Pack has been already been collected in Omnibus form
Omnibus 1
Power Pack (1984) #1-36,
Uncanny X-Men (1981) #195 And #205,
Thor (1966) #363,
X-Factor Annual #2,
Marvel Graphic Novel: Cloak And Dagger/Power Pack - Shelter From The Storm
Material From
* Strange Tales (1987) #13-14.
1160 pages
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/DEC200645
Omnibus 2
Power Pack (1984) #37-62,
Excalibur (1988) #29,
Power Pack Holiday Special #1,
Material From
* Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #6
* Marvel Fanfare (1982) #55.

The Omnibus also includes
* Power Pack (2000) #1-4
* Fantastic Four (1998) #574
* FF (2011) #15
* Power Pack (2017) #63
* Power Pack: Grow Up!
1056 pages
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190972


Silver Sable

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4737&page=gallery

36 issues

25 is double sized

So 37 issues worth

3 more issues to bring it to 40 (2 Epics) or 23 more to bring it to 60 (3 Epics)

13 & 14 are part of For Love Nor Money
https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/For_Love_Nor_Money

Terror Inc. #11
Cage #15
Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #13
Terror Inc. #12
Cage #16
Silver Sable and the Wild Pack #14

15 continues into Cap 419

That's more than three so we're definitely aiming for 60 so need some extras.

Spider-Man Vs. Silver Sable collects

ASM 265
ASM 279
ASM 280
ASM 281
Spectacular 128
Spectacular 129
Appearances: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Silvija_Sablinova_(Earth-616)/Appearances
Epic 1
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 265, 279-281, 301-303, 320-325,
Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man Vol 1 128-129,
Silver Sable and the Wild Pack 1-5
Epic 2
Silver Sable and the Wild Pack 6-18
Deathlok 18-19
Terror Inc 11-12
Cage 15-16
Captain America Vol 1 419
Epic 3
Silver Sable and the Wild Pack Vol 1 19-35
Marvel Team-Up Vol 2 3


Spectacular Spider-Man

I've come to a solution I like for the pre Conway stuff, but it does go a tinsy tiny bit MAAAAD in places

Epic 1
1-24
(24 x 17 page issues worth)
Epic 2
25-42 Annual 1
Amazing Spider-Man Annual 13
Fantastic Four #218
(23 x 17 page issues worth)
Epic 3
43-60 Annual 2 & 3
(22 x mainly 22 page issues worth)
* 22 pages per issue from issue 48
Epic 4
61-79
(20 issues worth)
1 to 4 are self explanatory. 79 is the last issue of the Doc Ock battle.

Epic 5 *looks* totally off the reservation at first glance....

Epic 5
80-89 MTU 134 & Annual 6
Cloak & Dagger 1-4
Jack of Hearts 1-4
(21 issues worth)
Bill Mantlo's run concludes with issue 89. 80-89 are 10 issues worth

The Milgrom run that follows is 90-100, 12 issues worth (100 is double sized), with a Mantlo written annual in the middle (14 issues).

You're not going to put those two together, that's too big for an Epics.

So....

MTU Annual 6 & Cloak & Dagger 1-4 are more Cloak & Dagger who've been in Spectacular a fair bit. MTU 134 deals with Peter leaving college, college being a regular Spectacular plot, and features his last encounter with Spectacular regular Marcy Kane who, along with MTU 134's guest star, then goes on to appear in Jack of Hearts 1-4 which drastically changes her status quo. IMPORTANTLY *ALL* the extras are written by Spectacular writer. This is a big case of looking for extras to land the book in the right place

Epic 6
90-102, Annual 4
Web of Spider-Man 1
Questprobe 2
Spider-Man UK Weekly 607-610 (4 x 11 pages, Oct & Nov 84)
(20 issues worth)
Epic 6 is the Milgrom run plus the odd issues that follow pre PAD. Tempting to pull Annual 4 forward, with the rest of the Mantlo, but it came out same month as 96.... bit too far forward to do that I think. Spectacular 100 leads into Web Of 1. Questprobe 2 is also written by Milgrom. I did wonder about rights issues but the intended Questprobe 4 has been reprinted a few times recently. And I'm desperate to get those Spider-Man UK issues into an Epic somewhere as they've never been printed in the US!
Epic 7
103-119 Annual 5
Amazing Spider-Man 273
(20 issues worth)
Epic 8
120-136 Annual 6 & 7
(21 issues worth)
Epics 7 & 8 are the Peter David run, split in two. 111 gets ASM 273 as an intro. Kraven's Last Hunt and Life on the Mad Dog Ward are Spectacular issues only

Which means 9 starts the Conway run.

Yes Epic 5 is mad! But the remainder of the Mantlo run does not fill one volume

The Milgrom run is not quite one volume

Mantlo + Milgrom is definitely more than one volume.

What can we do to build these up? Is there material related to the main title around this point? Are any of the creators in those books involved? And the material to do that is available at that point to make everything line up above it. It's a bit of a compromise but it's one that makes the rest of the line hitting multiple targets while keeping reprinting stuff from the ASM Epics to a minium.

Is there an alternate route? Possibly. I make that 11 extra issues in the Mantlo book and 3 in the Milgrom, 4 if you include Web of 1. 14/15

4 Missing in Action Issues (to go with PPSSM117), double sized asm annual 21 (PPSSM130/Annual 7), 4 more Kraven's Last Hunt Issues (PPSSM 131 & 132), 2 Life in the Mad Dog Ward issues (PPSSM 133) and 2 more ASM Inferno issues (SSM 146-148) would do the job but it won't hit the Mantlo/Milgrom/David writing boundaries so well though.... let's play with that though as an option....

Alternate Solution:

Epic 5
80-97, Annual 4
Mantlo's last is 89. Milgrom's first is 90
Epic 6
98-112, Annual 5, Web of 1 & ASM 273
Milgrom's last is 100
Cary Burkett 101 & 102
PAD 103+ unless otherwise stated
Mantlo 104
Owsley 111 & ASM 273 (Secret Wars II, ASM leads into Spectacular)
Epic 7
113-126, Annual 6, ASM 278, Web of 16-18
114 Kaminski
117 is part of Missing in Action with ASM 278 & Web of 16-18. It's Web Of's story with Spectacular & ASM showing what happens in Peter's absence
120 Mantlo & the issue with the Marvel 25th Border
124 Roger McKenzie
125 & 126 Danny Fingeroth
Epic 8
127-136, Annual 7, ASM 293-5 & Annual 21, Web Of 32-34
127 Kaminski
130 Bob Layton
Annual 7, before 131 & 132, is Peter & MJ's Honeymoon following on from the wedding in ASM Annual 21
131 & 132, Kraven's Last Hunt, JM DeMatteis, with ASM 293-4 & Web Of 32-3
132 Life in the Mad Dog Ward, Ann Nocenti, with ASM 295 & Web Of 34
136 PAD last issue.
Epic 8 finishes at the same point
Either way Epic 9 starts the Conwy run
Epic 9
137-149, Annual 8
Web of 35-36 & 47-49
(20 issues worth)
Epic 10
150-157, Annual 9
Web of 50-58
(20 issues worth)
Epic 11
158-167, Annual 10
Web of 59-68
(20 issues worth)
Epic 12
168-177, Annual 11
Web of 69-70
Deadly Foes of Spider-Man 1-4
(20 issues worth)
The real crunch here is I believe the interaction while with Web Of Conway was writing.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/creator.php?creatorid=265

His first Spectacular issue is 141

His first Web is 47, same month as Spectacular 147

His last Web is 70, same month as Spectacular 170

His last Spectacular is 174

IF Spectacular & Web Of they are linked so much during that period that's 24 issues worth of the other title that could be added into both to make the books make sense. An Epic and a bit. That, to me, looks an acceptable level of double dipping given the length of both titles.

YMMV

9 starts with Conway's first two earlier Web Of issues 35 & 36 and picks Web Of up again when he becomes regular writer. At the moment it has a mild concession to making the count work with Web of 49, by Peter David but I wonder if ASM 312, in the midst of the Inferno isues might be a better fit.....

11 starts with the Cosmic Powered Spider-Man issues of Spectacular & Web. I don't think you necessarily need the ASM issues here but ASM 329 would be useful for the end of the story which would push it's count to an acceptable 21. Book ends with the Knight Fogg storyline.

12 Web of 69-70 are a 2 parter with the Hulk and are Conway's last 2 issues. Conway's Spectacular run ends 174, 9 issues short. 175 & Annual 11 are Micheline, 176 & 177 Kurt Busiek. The much requested Deadly Foes of Spider-Man will bring the book up to strength, same months as Spectacular 176-9

Next up writing is JM DeMatteis

Epic 13
178-196, annual 12
(22 issues worth)
Epic 14
197-210, annual 13
Lethal Foes of Spider-Man 1-4
(20 issues worth)
Epic 15
211-228, annual 14
(20 issues worth)
Epic 16
229-244,
Spectacular Spider-Man Super Special
Spectacular Scarlet Spider-Man 1 & 2
(20 issues worth)
Epic 17
245-263, -1
(20 issues worth)
JM DeMatteis
Starts with 178

13 is Child Within to Death of Vermin

Clone Saga is 217-240 across Epics 16 & 17
217-241 are Clone Saga, assuming Epics will be vanilla from here onwards with ASM Epics collecting all the crossovers.

JM DeMatteis run ends with 257

I suspect whatever path is taken with Spectacular won't please everyone, There's a real challenge here with collecting as little as possible to avoid putting people off by the double dipping and collecting enough to make sense and collecting the series in Epic sized books.

I don't think anyone hugely disagrees with Epics 1-4 in my mapping: Essentials and MMW have walked this way before and roughly it's got the Stern run in one volume.

From there you can get the David run in 2 books and the Conway run in 4 if you include the Web crossover material, which many people want to see collected together. Those are VERY tempting targets but to do that we need to be launching Peter David from the start of the volume.

I'm not sure I see the upper reaches of the run being made any more readable at all without greatly multiplying the volume numbers to do the whole Clone Saga and I do not see that happening. I think there we need to accept special circumstances and a rough ride if we want all of Spectacular collected in Spectacular Epics


Spider-Man

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4127&page=gallery

98 issue, 2 annuals, a -1, a special and 2 issues of Scarlet Spider-man

26, 50 & 75 double sized, 57 1.5

Spider-Man 16 pulls in X-Force 4

I think that's the best part of 120 issues worth so *LOOKS* 6 Epics worth if you go light on the inter spider title crossovers.

For Epic 1 I'd be tempted to say take Spider-Man by Todd McFarlane, which reprints Spider-Man (1990) #1-14, 16 & X-Force (1991) #4 in 440 pages, throw the missing S-M 15 in there and call job done


Spider-Woman

50 issues no annuals, 17 pages to issue 31, 32-49 22 pages 50 is 40 pages, effectively double sized.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/series.php?seriesid=4077&page=gallery

So you're looking at over 2 Epics to print that lot, can't see being done in two, plenty of room for extras

Marvel Team-Up 97, with the Hulk, is the same month as issue 30

Amazing Spider-Man #209 same month as Spider-Woman 31 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=10&year=1980&sort=alpha

She guests in Uncanny X-Men 148 following their appearance in her title in 37 & 38

Avengers Annual 10 is between issues 40 & 41

She's in MTIO 85 is between issues 42 & 43

Dazzler #15 between Spider-Woman 43 & 44 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/newsstand.php?publisher=marvel&type=cover&month=5&year=1982&sort=alpha

There's a few Avengers issues featuring her post series - 240-241 iirc - which serve as a coda for her own series

Jessica Drew then shows up in some post 200 X-Men and is a supporting character in early Wolverine

Masterworks

1
Marvel Spotlight #32,
Marvel Two-in-One #29-33
Spider-Woman #1-8
2
Spider-Woman #9-25
3
Spider-Woman #26-38
4
Spider-Woman #37-50
Avengers 240-241 & Annual 10
Essentials:
1 - 576 pages
Marvel Spotlight #32;
Marvel Two-in-One #29-33;
Spider-Woman #1-25
2 - 608 pages
Spider-Woman #26-50;
Marvel Team-Up #97;
Uncanny X-Men #148
Yeah I think that those Essentials page counts back up my assumption that it would need to be more than two Epics since most Epics come in at 400-500 pages


The Thing

36 issues, no annuals.

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=4095&page=gallery

4 issues worth short of 2 Epics. Easy:

Epic 1
Thing 1-19,
Fantastic Four 274 (Thing on Battleworld)
Epic 2
Thing 20-36
Fantastic Four 277 (Thing returns to Earth & leaves FF), 296 (Thing rejoins FF, double sized)
Now you could cut FF277 down to the Thing/Humanm Torch half - it's a split book with the top half of each page featuring Ben, Johnny, Alicia & The Dire Wraiths while the bottom half is Reed, Sue & Dr Strange vs Mephisto. The bottom half has been published separately already. If they did that they could shove an issue up from Epic 1 and include the story from Marvel Fanfare 15 perhaps.


War Machine

Epic 1
War Machine Ashcan #1
War Machine #1-10
Iron Man/Force Works Collectors' Preview #1
Iron Man #310-312
Force Works #6-7
(About 19 Issues Worth)
Epic 2
War Machine #11-25
Force Works #12 B Story
Iron Man #317 B Story
(About 18 Issues Worth)


X-Man

X-Man

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=5040

75 issues. + 3 annuals, All Saints Day special, -1

That looks over the limit for 4 epics so 5 with room for some crossovers Cable 30, 31 & 63

Appearances https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Nathaniel_Grey_(Earth-295)/Appearances

Man Who Fell to Earth is 5-14 in 320 pages

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=178032
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/APR120730

X-MAN #5-14
EXCALIBUR (1988) #95
CABLE (1993) #29-31

Throw 1-4 in there and that's Epic 1

Dance with the Devil is 20-29 in 344 pages

http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/comic.php?comicid=179256
https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP120717

X-MAN #20-29 and ANNUAL '96
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #420.

Throw 15-19 in and there's Epic 2
Epic 1
X-Man 1-14
Excalibur Vol 1 95
Cable 29-31
Material from
* Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen
* X-Men Omega
* X-Men Prime

18+ issues worth

Epic 2
X-Man 15-30
X-Man '96 Vol 1 1
Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 420
X-Man -1

20.5 issues worth

Epic 3
X-Man 31-44
X-Man All Saints Day Vol 1 1
X-Man '97 Vol 1 1
X-Man/Hulk '98 #1

20 issues worth

Epic 4
X-Man 45-60
Cable Vol 1 63
Generation X Vol 1 50

20 issues worth

Epic 5
X-Man 61-76
Gold from X-Men Unlimited Vol 1 31

16.5 issues worth


Modern Epics Not Yet Started


Modern Carnage

The fist issue of Venom vs Carnage, which closes Epic 3, is also the first issue in the Carnage Omnibus, which feels very modern in it's contents:

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/NOV171046

Venom Vs. Carnage #1-4, http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=9916&page=gallery

Carnage (2010) #1-5, http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13818&page=gallery

Carnage U.S.A. #1-5, http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=13819&page=gallery

Minimum Carnage: Alpha And Omega, http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15315&page=gallery

Scarlet Spider (2012) #10-11,

Venom (2011) #26-27,

Superior Carnage #1-5 And Annual #1, http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15277&page=gallery

Deadpool Vs. Carnage #1-4, http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=15256&page=gallery

Axis: Carnage #1-3, http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=18011&page=gallery

Nova (2013) #26-27,

Carnage (2015) #1-16 http://www.mikesamazingworld.com/main/features/series.php?seriesid=19592&page=gallery

Material From
* All-New, All-Different Point One.

I think we can see where the Carnage Modern Epics will start

Toxin (2005) 1-6 & X-Men/Spider-Man (2008) 3 are Carnage appearances that aren't in the Carnage Omnibus despite being in that time frame.

Venom vs Carnage may feel modern but X-Men/Spider-Man (2008) 3 is by some distance the most recent issue published in a "classic" Epic Collection!

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