Talk:Marvel Omnibus

Missing books

Ultimate Spider-man: Death of Ultimate Spider-man Omnibus is missing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:130C:8045:2588:8FC:3B04:EF0D (talk) 15:51, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Resolved. Bonferroni (talk) 17:18, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

X-Men Prelude and Aftermath Onslaught V1 Omnis have disappeared — Preceding unsigned comment added by WarriorsArmy (talk • contribs) 00:19, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

A reorg of the X-Men stuff was done by @MarbleComics - and they must've accidentally deleted them. I've put them back. Can you see anything else missing? Peterspeterson (talk) 02:59, 18 March 2025 (UTC)

That was the only thing I noticed. Looks good now! WarriorsArmy (talk) 00:49, 26 March 2025 (UTC)

Reorganizing X-Men Events

So the issue with how X-Men are categorized, we have UXM 1-5 + Blue and Gold Mutant Genesis listed as "Marvel Universe Omnis - X-Men". However, that tab also includes Mutant Massacre Prelude to Fall of the Mutants, X-Tinction Agenda, Fatal Attractions, Age of Apocalypse (+ companion), and Road To and Aftermath of Onslaught. However, Inferno Prelude, Inferno, and Onslaught are listed under "Event Omnis."

I think this is somewhat inconsistent. A lot of these crossovers feature more than the X-Men in a prominent role. For example, Mutant Massacre is X-Men and X-Factor, with some other tie ins. FOTM to Inferno are X-Men, X-Factor, and New Mutants events. Plus since UXM 5 and Mutant Massacre Prelude have largely the same mapping, I think they could be separated. I also think Onslaught's road to, especially since it'll be 2 volumes, and aftermath should be with Onslaught.

I would want to list XM 1-2, Hidden Years, UXM 1-5, X-Men Classic, Dark Phoenix Saga, Claremont & Lee 1-2, Blue & Gold Mutant Genesis, The Twelve, and Revolution as X-Men (As well as New X-Men onwards) and just leave a hyperlink for the event omnis

Also, this is speculation, but a Blue & Gold Vol 2 would run over Fatal Attractions. However, I get that it may be future-proofing something that isn't confirmed to happen

I get the argument against is that it would create a bunch of new sub-headers under Event Omnibus, but as it is, we already have Inferno Prelude and Inferno under its own sub-heading and Onslaught is separated from its 2 (Soon to be 3) companions MarbleComics (talk) 21:30, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

Hey. I don't have massively strong feelings on any of this.

The argument for the X-Men tab is to try to keep the core titles together. On Prelude to Mutant Massacre, for instance, there are 16 issues of Uncanny X-Men, then 10 in the main Mutant Massacre volume.

If anything, the Inferno books could prob get folded into the X-Men section, considering there are 11 and 5 UXM issues across those two.

If you want to experiment on splitting sections, maybe try your sandbox first? Things can always be copied across from there if it works.

There's never going to be a completely 'tidy' or perfect answer, so whatever's simpler for people to find what they're after, I guess. Peterspeterson (talk) 21:44, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

I think the hyperlinks help. I was just reading Fall of the Mutants and they split it into 3 chunks with the core X-Men stuff being the shortest. Will try to get it out later tonight MarbleComics (talk) 21:50, 13 March 2025 (UTC)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MarbleComics/sandbox

Its a VERY scuffed page since I just copied the X-Men segment and the Events Omni tab. It may have some funky formatting but its more to illustrate the idea of cleaning up the X-Men tab. I would imagine New Mutants and X-Factor would also get a hyperlink to the proper event omni, since MM/FOTM/Inferno Prologue/Inferno are also X-Factor books and FOTM/Inferno Prologue/Inferno are also New Mutant books and they intend to make Mutant Event books as well as the sequenced books MarbleComics (talk) 13:53, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

I don't have an issue with this.

If nobody else watching this page objects in the next couple of days, and you're confident, you should probably go for it. Nice work. Thanks for contributing. Peterspeterson (talk) 15:08, 14 March 2025 (UTC)

Punisher MAX

It might be worth putting the Punisher MAX volumes in the Out of Continuity section since MAX is not 616 Punisher, but I also think that it's kind of fine where it is. Just putting the thought out there and seeing what you guys think. WarriorsArmy (talk) 22:01, 4 April 2025 (UTC)

Support. The Max books are weird because some books (like Jessica Jones, The Hood, Thor: Vikings, Blade, and Black Widow) is in 616 while others aren't. Would make life easier, especially as more max books get printed MarbleComics (talk) 15:22, 17 May 2025 (UTC)

General suggestions for sorting usability

Long time user of this page, first time caller. I've had some challenges with using the page since the overhaul away from the single table format, and while I don't necessarily want to go back to that, I wanted to make a few suggestions to improve usability of the tables when sorting. Happy to help implement any or all of these, just looking to see how others would feel about them. I also have some questions around how we've categorized the different books but I'll raise that topic separately.

- My number one request is that we move away from having separate cells for each cover's ISBN. This really breaks sorting usefulness because of the number of duplicate entries it creates. Open to cleaner formatting suggestions but I mocked it together here and I think it looks fine and feels much better to sort: User:ComicsFan1962/sandbox

- Also in that sandbox, I've flagged which releases are reprints vs not, which seems to work fine with the sorting and again helps with clarity when you run into a duplicate while sorting the table. I'd like to apply this to the rest of the article.

- Last minor things are 1. the column for # doesn't seem to be adding much, just reiterating the volume already in the title (which again gets confusing after sorting, since multiple titles have the same volume numbers), and 2. the empty row breaks in between different eras or kinds of books also look odd when resorted. I think the tables would be quicker to parse visually and generally more usable for sorting without these. ComicsFan1962 (talk) 21:08, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Page Reorganization

Currently, when you open this page on mobile, you're presented with 11 sections, which are not clear in their justification and distinction if you're visiting the page for the first time. Roughly 2/3rds of the omnibus listings on the page are in the Marvel Universe section, while about a quarter of the page is split into 6 further sections, which feels arbitrary and disruptive to reading and using the page (especially as some of these sections contain omnibuses which are also in the Marvel Universe). I would propose the following, which would bring this more in line with the clean and usable format of the Marvel Epic Collection page.

Keep:

- Format overlap, but change this to "Format overview" and include the "Direct Market covers" section as a sub-header.

- Marvel Universe omnibuses

- Alternate universe omnibuses

- Licensed omnibuses

Remove:

- Event omnibuses - I feel strongly that the current format of this isn't useful, as it separates each event omnibus into its own table or a table with only 1-2 other related books. These should be combined into an "Event" table under the Marvel Universe section, except for the X-Men books discussed in @MarbleComics' topic above, which should be combined either into a separate X-Men Event table or back into the X-Men table, in my opinion.

- Anthology omnibuses - Similarly, this should be moved into an "Anthology" table under the Marvel Universe section, perhaps with some being given their own tables - it's not clear to me, for example, why Marvel Fanfare is listed here while Marvel Two-In-One and Marvel Team-Up receive their own sub-headers in the Marvel Universe tab.

- Creator omnibuses - As with the Events section, these feel split into far too many tables. I would argue for combining them with the "Anthology" table after moving that section to the Marvel Universe section (at the very least I think Anthology and Creator should be combined in a single section).

- Miscellaneous omnibuses - Move DC vs Marvel to the Licensed omnibuses section, and move Marvel Age and Handbook of the Marvel Universe to the Anthology table or section; I understand the argument that the latter two are "outside" of Marvel Universe continuity, but they are focused on that continuity and feel most appropriate alongside that material.

Open to discussion on this, but my main concern is the number of single-entry tables and tables with just a few entries on this article, where combining these would greatly improve readability and use in comparing titles via sorting. This page was undoubtedly getting too unwieldy for a single table, but the current format has swung the other way and made it too granular. ComicsFan1962 (talk) 21:56, 27 December 2025 (UTC)