Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Classic Vol. 1 by Bob Harras

Power Man & Iron Fist Classic, Volume 2 – Collects Power Man & Iron Fist #90-125, Marvel Team-Up #126 Power Man & Iron Fist Classic, Volume 1 – Collects Power Man #48-49 and Power Man & Iron Fist #50-89, plus Marvel Team-Up #75, 105, & Annual 3, and Daredevil #178 I cover the series in the Guide to Luke Cage. With 75 issues to collect and a strong tie to Marvel’s Netflix shows, this could be an easy sell of a two-book line of omnibuses.

Marvel’s original buddy superhero title! Iron Fist with While Luke Cage and Iron Fist have both received their own Masterworks lines, there’s no telling if the Luke Cage line will extend to this title once it’s through its own three volumes. Plus, many key 80s runs are on the survey already, like Peter David’s Hulk, Iron Man by by Michelinie & Layton Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil – but that still leaves a ton of potential runs to cover! Marvel released a lot of comics in the 1980s, so what should Marvel prioritize getting into omnibuses? I’ve already covered all of the X-Men runs from this period, and I’m not touching Spider-Man or Fantastic Four mapping at the moment. (In a totally weird turn of events, we can now probably add Deadpool to that list of evergreen lines.) (“The Big 9” are all of the lines of books that made it from the Silver Age to 2005 while being published continuously, even if that meant being restarted along the way –, Avengers, Captain America, Daredevil, Iron Man, Fantastic Four, Hulk, Spider-Man, Thor, and X-Men. After 2005, Thor went on hiatus, and Fantastic Four has been on hiatus since 2015.) However, after Secret Wars II in 1986 the line got a serious shake-up, with many titles outside of what I think of as “The Big 9” and their satellite books getting cancelled or rebooted, plus tons of new ongoing and limited series and a whole new line of comics with New Universe!

The first half of the decade featured many continuing 70s series, a handful of limited series, and relatively few new ongoing titles – most of which were direct spinoffs of characters from other books. Marvel in the 1980s is really a tale of two different Marvels. And, to fuel our 2017 Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus Secret Ballot votes! It’s the penultimate stop in our trip backwards through time to find all of the Marvel runs most in need of Omnibus treatment.

Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Classic Vol. 1 by Bob Harras