{"id":2602,"date":"2014-06-29T16:24:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T15:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2014-06-30T19:19:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T18:19:14","slug":"marvel-75th-anniversary-omnibus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Marvel 75th Anniversary Omnibus"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have seen in some recent interviews with Marvel staffers that they’re putting together an omnibus of Marvel’s greatest issues for the 75th anniversary of the company, to be released later this year. Now, last time they had any kind of vote on the greatest Marvel comics of all time, what actually happened was that people voted for what they perceived (largely) to be the most significant Marvel comics of all time (so we got a list of the 100 greatest issues Marvel have ever published which contained some fairly humdrum things, like the first appearance of Michael Morbius etc). The details of the 75th anniversary omnibus can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

It strikes me that with so many issues to play with, you wouldn’t necessarily need to garner that many votes to put you above some of the more banal choices. With that in mind, I’ve put together a list of six issues which deserve (in my opinion, humble or otherwise) to be collected as exemplars of how good Marvel can be from time to time, none of which are likely to make it in without some voting weight behind them.<\/p>\n

So! What we’d like you to do is to vote in the comments below, or drop me a note on Twitter (where I’m @housetoastonish), citing which of these six comics you think should be the official House to Astonish nominee for the Marvel 75th anniversary omnibus. In a few days I’ll tally up all the votes, and announce the winner – at that point, it’s time to mobilise our troops and vote (once only each, though – no shenanigans) for that book. It’s democracy in action!<\/p>\n

The nominees:<\/p>\n