In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, the Marvel Epic Collection Sale returns after skipping a year. Plus, DC wants you to read their recent collections for $1.99!

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Administrative Notes

The final holiday sales are underway and things are overflowing. Marvel Epics and the first glance at the jaw-dropping DC sale right now. We’ll be back for Star Wars, What If and DC later in the week. That DC sale will definitely take a little time to go through.

Cheap Marvel Epic Collections

Captain America  New X-Men  Silver Surfer: The Return of Thanos

The Marvel Epic Collection Sale runs through Monday, 1/6.

Welcome to the big sale week. The majority of Marvel’s Epic Collections are $6.99-$8.99 and this is an good time to fill in gaps in your collection. There was a LOT of grousing when this sale didn’t run last year, so we’re popping in early to give you the rundown on it.

First we’re going to give a quick overview of what’s in it (for quicker browsing).

Then we’re going to try and root out what’s new in the sales since last year — yes, we know some of you stock up on your Epic Collections every year when this sale drops and this ought to save you some time.

Then some recommendations.

Then a quick reference list of titles with Epic Collections available.

What’s New Since Black Friday ’22?

Near as we can tell, these are the new releases since the last Black Friday Epic Collection sale dropped, two years ago. Compare them to what you’ve already purchased, just in case, but this is what it’s looking like to us:

What’s good here? A fair amount. Things we’d pay special attention to:

Avengers Epic Collection: The Yesterday Quest  – This is a very solid run, starting with the Jim Shooter / George Perez / David Wenzel” Korvac Saga” and ending with the the David Michelinie / Mark Gruenwald / Steven Grant / John Byrne “Yesterday Quest” featuring… well, one origin of the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.

Captain America Epic Collection: The Secret Empire is the real meat of the classic Steve Englehart / Sal Buscema run, featuring the debut of The Serpent Squad, the debut of Baron Zemo II (under a different identity) and the famous Secret Empire story everyone references these days.

Captain America Epic Collection: The Man Who Sold The United States – The end of the Steve Englehart run (with Frank Robbins on art), followed by Jack Kirby’s Madbomb serial, which has certainly had a reappraisal in the last decade.

Captain America Modern Era Epic Collection: The Winter Soldier – The opening act of Ed Brubaker’s hugely influential run as Bucky seemingly returns from the dead. Steve Epting, Michael Lark and Lee Weeks are in the artist rotation.

Defenders Epic Collection: Enter – The Headmen – The end of the Len Wein / Sal Buscema run and then Steve Gerber arrives for some wonderfully off-kilter action.

New X-Men Modern Era Epic Collection: E Is For Extinction – Grant Morrison’s resetting of the X-Men (w/Frank Quitely / Igor Kordey /  Leinil Francis Yu) gets an Epic Collection.

Silver Surfer Epic Collection: The Return Of Thanos is a superior package. First Steve Englehart wraps up his run with the second Kree/Skrull War, then Jim Starlin shows up for the return of Thanos and to lay the groundwork for The Infinity Gauntlet. Ron Lim, who’s drawn a LOT of Silver Surfer is the main artist here.

X-Men Epic Collection: The Brood Saga – This is some prime X-adventuring from the title’s golden period as the team heads into space and encounters The Brood. Chris Claremont / Dave Cockrum / Paul Smith.

Daredevil Epic Collection: It Comes With The Claws is a transition period for the book. It starts out just after the “Born Again” arc and after a few issues, Ann Nocenti begins what would be the next major run. Louis Williams and Rick Leonardi are the main artists, but John Romita, Jr. shows up towards the end, which begins the most famous part of Nocenti’s run.

A Quicker Guide to the Series with Epic Collections.

Here’s a list of the series involved in the sale. You may need to scroll down past the Masterworks editions to the Epics in some of the links… and that’s OK, because you should remember the Masterworks are usually on sale around the holidays (although since the Epics skipped last year and are running through 1/6, there is a distinct possibility the Masterworks are taking a year off… but tune in 1/7 to see what happens).  The material from the mid-80s to present, tends to be in Epic Collections only. So this is the time to get Avengers West Coast, Silver Surfer, New Mutants and the more recent material and discounts for those will dry up on the 1st. You have more sale options with material in both formats.

DC Goes $1.99 Crazy

Batman  Nightwing  Batman / Dylan Dog

The DC Holiday All eBooks Sale runs through 12/30.

There’s a LOT more to it, but our eyes are immediately drawn to the current incarnations of the DC titles at $1.99 per collected edition. Yes, including things discounted for the first time. You’ll probably like it. Until the official link shows up, here’s our quick guides to some of the current line… and we’ve found the DC line to have improved immensely in the last couple years, so there’s plenty to enjoy.

The Guide to $1.99 current series. Some of these are at the bottom of a longer series page and we’ll do individual volume links for those.

  • Action Comics – rotating creators – Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
  • Batman – Chip Zdarsky / Jorge Jiménez / Mike Hawthorne – Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 (newly discounted)
  • Batman & Robin – Josh Williamson / Simone Di Meo
  • Batman / Dylan Dog – Roberto Recchioni / Gigi Cavenago; Hidden gem as Batman teams with the Italian comics goofy occult investigator. One of the better takes on The Joker, too.
  • Birds of Prey –Kelly Thompson / Leonardo Romero – Black Canary leads a raid on Paradise Island
  • Detective Comics – Ram V written run w/ Rafael Albuquerque / Ivan Reis; A slow burn gothic horror take we’re enjoying quite a bit – Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3
  • Flash – Si Spurrier / Mike Deodato, Jr.; Cosmic horror enters the speed force and we’re good with that
  • Green Arrow – Josh Williamson / Sean Izaakse; The adventures of the Green Arrow family (as Waller lurks and plots)
  • Green Lantern – Jeremy Adams / Xermanico; Back to a Silver Age feel
  • Green Lantern War Journal – Phillip Kennedy Johnson / Montos; A particularly disturbing extra-dimensional invader stalks John Stewart
  • Nightwing – Tom Taylor / Bruno Redondo; this highly enjoyable run nears its end (in collected editions) – Vol. 1, Vol.2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, Vol. 5 (newly discounted)
  • Poison Ivy – G. Willow Wilson / Marcio Takara
  • Shazam – Mark Waid / Dan Mora; Waid & Mora steer “The Captain” back towards his original tone
  • Superman – Josh Williamson / Jamal Campbell; Quality back to basics run
  • Titans – Tom Taylor / Nicola Scott; The Titans as Justice League. In a way, an extension of Nightwing
  • Wonder Woman – Tom King / Daniel Sampere; Political maneuvering and misinformation drive this darker than you’d expect adventure
  • World’s Finest – Mark Waid / Dan Mora; Early adventures of Batman & Superman, with a Kingdom Come prequel. One of DC’s best offerings.

We’ll be back for a much closer look at this sale, probably split into at least two parts. If this isn’t *every* digital collected edition from Sept. and earlier, it’s pretty close. Most of it seems to be $1.99 and there are bargains to be had. We’re a little shocked at the first flipping through.

The Marvel “Maybe” Sales

Immortal X-Men

The trend continues. New releases at lower than expected price points and discounted pre-orders. Is this the new normal? We’re not sure, but let’s run them down.

Dropping This Week

  • Immortal X-Men Vol. 5 – X-Men Forever – Kieron Gillen / Luca Maresca; Technically, this is the X-Men Forever mini-series that tied in with Fall of the House of X. But, yeah, it’s really the final installment of Immortal X-Men. $6.99

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