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![]() ![]() A handful of books on the list are all-time greats in the Marvel canon, and are denoted with the Comic Book Herald logo next to the book’s title.Ĭomic Book Herald is reader-supported. The end result is a list of stories that vary wildly in quality, relevance, and impact. I also made the gut call that included stories must exceed 50 pages (which rules out a number of on the fence books like Excalibur: The Sword is Drawn or Punisher: G-Force). To be included on this list, the story had to have been released in one complete package, not in a series of single issues. Up front, the most important thing I can clarify is that “original Marvel graphic novels” are not the same thing as collected trades of Marvel Comics. The line is strangely sporadic, seeing only 12 releases at the time of this guides launch five years later. More recently, the original graphic novel line has returned to Marvel with 2013’s Avengers: Endless Wartime. Numbering somewhere in the 70s (depending on your accounting flexibility), these high-end formats ran through the early 90’s. Most recently, that obsession has focused on Marvel’s original graphic novels (OGNs for short).īeginning in 1982 with Jim Starlin’s Death of Captain Marvel, these over-sized (often between 60 to 90 pages of story as opposed to a traditional floppies’ 24) books were Marvel’s efforts at a prestige, mature selection of material. Every so often (ok about once a day), I get obsessed with a new corner of Marvel Comics. ![]()
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