In this week’s Comixology (at Amazon) sales, Marvel has no less than EIGHT sales.

Where did the New Releases and Sale pages go?

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In case you’re having troubles with the new UIX (a LOT of people have been):

• The new releases page is here.  
• The “Comics Deals” page is here.
• The Kindle Deals comics page is here.

Housekeeping note: Yes, this is a much longer installment than you’re used to seeing mid-year. Marvel dropped eight sales and they’re all running for nearly the entire month. Does this mean there won’t be new Marvel sales the rest of the month? We have no idea. We do think the timing is interesting when Disney operates on an October to September fiscal year, but we’re sure that has nothing to dowith Marvel having a high volume of deal at the fiscal year’s end.

When you click through to see the full sale listing, you’re going to notice a change. Instead of the grid layout that’s been used for a while, the sale defaults back to the standard, single column Amazon search result layout. Yes, it’s less than ideal, but we’ve been down this road before, haven’t we? Where appropriate, we’ll still be dropping links when a series (or at least multiple volumes in a series) is on sale. Somebody has to be organized and that responsibility seems to have fallen on us this week…

Ultimate… Everything?

The  Marvel Ultimate Universe Sale runs through Monday 9/29.

Yes, this is pretty much EVERYTHING Ultimate – old and new universes. Perhaps it’s less clunky if we break this into segments?

The New Ultimate Universe

The setup for the new Ultimate Universe is Ultimate Invasion by Jonathan Hickman & Bryan Hitch. The original Ultimate Universe was destroyed, but not everyone from that dimension was destroyed. Miles Morales survived and moved over the “616” or main Marvel universe. As did Reed Richards… except the Ultimate Reed Richards went bad and has been calling himself “The Maker.” That’s the setup before Invasion where The Maker escapes captivity, escapes into the multiverse and causes the origins of a new world’s heroes not to happen. Peter Parker is never bitten by a radioactive spider for instance. He’s just a photographer with a family by the time this series hits and this sets up the new line of titles.

• Ultimate Spider-Man – Jonathan Hickman / Marco Checchetto
• Ultimates – Deniz Camp / Juan Frigeri
• Ultimate Black Panther – Bryan Edward Hill / Stefano Caselli / Carlos Nieto
• Ultimate X-Men – Peach Momoko

Ultimate Spider-Man is a definite contender for the best thing Marvel’s putting out right now and we’re big on Ultimates, too.

Ultimate Spider-Man

     

This is the original Brian Bendis/Mark Bagley Ultimate Spider-Man. The first Ultimate title and (along with Daredevil) what originally made Bendis his reputation at Marvel.  And it’s a good run, too. Afterwards… enter Miles Morales, who’s become celebrated in his own right.

• Ultimate Spider-Man – essentially, the Peter Parker years. Mark Bagley is artist for most of the run. Skip the omnibus (too expensive for V.1-3 of these larger collections), get the regular editions.
• Ultimate Comics Spider-Man – with art by Bagley, Pichelli, David Lafuente and Chris Samnee. It’s a relaunch, continuing the Parker years and leading to the <spoilers>
• Ultimate Comics Spider-Man: Death of Spider-Man Fallout – with art by Bagley and Sara Pichelli. This is the transition to Miles Morales.
• Miles Morales: Ultimate Spider-Man Ultimate Collection with art by Chris Samnee / David Marquez / Sara Pichelli is Miles in the Ultimate Universe.

Ultimate X-Men

 

Over on the mutant side of the street, the spread looks like this:

• Ultimate X-Men – the original run
• Ultimate Comics X-Men – the second run

The original Ultimate X-Men run has a very interesting writer rotation. Mark Millar begins and ends it. In between are runs by Brian K. Vaughan (Saga / Y – The Last Man) and Robert Kirkman (Walking Dead). The artist rotation includes Adam Kubert, Andy Kubert, Chris Bachalo, David Finch, Brandon Peterson, Stuart Immonen, Tom Raney and Salvador Larocca… among others.

Ultimate Comics X-Men was written first by Nick Spencer and later Brian Wood. Artists included Paco Medina, Carlo Barberi, Mahmud Asrar and Alvaro Martinez.

The Ultimates, Ultimate FF and the greater Ultimate Universe

• The Ultimates: The Ultimate Collection – The first run with Bryan Hitch
• The Ultimates 2: The Ultimate Collection – The second run with Bryan Hitch
• Ultimate Comics Avengers: The Next Generation – with Carlos Pacheco
• Ultimate Comics Avengers: Crime and Punishment – with Leinil Francis Yu
• Ultimate Comics Avengers: Blade vs. The Avengers – with Steve Dillon
• Ultimate Comics Avengers vs. New Ultimates: Death of Spider-Man – with Leinil Francis Yu and Stephen Segovia
• Ultimate Comics Ultimates by Jonathan Hickman, V. 1 – with Esad Ribic
• Ultimate Comics Ultimates by Jonathan Hickman, V. 2 – with Sam Humphries, Esad Ribic and Luke Ross
• Ultimate Comics Thor – with Carlos Pacheco
• Ultimate Comics Hawkeye – with Rafa Sandoval
• Ultimate Fantastic Four – writers include Bendis, Millar, Ellis and a lot of Mike Carey; artists include Adam Kubert, Pasqual Ferry, Tyler Kirkham and Stuart Immonen
• Ultimate Galactus Trilogy – Warren Ellis / Mark Millar / Brandon Peterson / Tom Raney / Steve McNiven / Steve Epting
• Ultimate Vision – Mike Carey / Mark Millar / Brandon Peterson / John Romita, Jr.
• Ultimate Origins – Brian Bendis / Butch Guice
• Ultimate Comics Doomsday – Brian Bendis / Rafa Sandoval

There a bit more to the sale, but that’s the bulk of the highlights. What’s good? The Millar/Hitch Ultimates are hugely influential (especially to the film world). Ultimate FF absolutely has it’s moments. Not everybody realizes that the Marvel Zombies debuted in V. 3 (omnibus version) and are not played for laughs.  Now, we don’t often issue “avoid” warnings around here, but there are a couple things here that we’ll advise against. The Orson Scott Card Ultimate Iron Man? Don’t bother. It’s awful. Ultimatum? Nope! That very nearly killed the line. There are MUCH better things to read in this imprint than those two.

Dirty Harry Called. He Wants His Movie Back.
 

The Marvel Deadpool Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

Deadpool is… oddly collected. There have been a lot of titles and lot of relaunches. Most of these (except Cable/Deadpool and the Daniel Way era) are absorbed into the Deadpool Classics line of collected editions.  Some, but not all, of the series, have omnibus editions and those are the cheaper way to collect those runs… which means, if you’re a completist and you’re cheap, you’re going to want to be wanting to fill in the Classics volumes around the omnibuses.  And Deadpool Classics V. 1 collects the various miniseries that kicked things off.  In a sense, the easiest way (but perhaps not cheapest – and certainly not the most current) to keep things chronological is to follow the Classics line.

Hey, when was getting Marvel collected editions in the proper order ever easy?

So let’s run down the main titles:

• Deadpool Classics (’93 – as far as they’ve gotten)
• Deadpool (’97-’02) – Known as the Joe Kelly era (with Priest and Gail Epic Collections expanding the section)
• Cable and Deadpool (’04-’08) – Fabian Nicieza / Mark Brooks / Patrick Zircher
• Deadpool (’08-’12) – The Daniel Way Era
• Deadpool Team-Up (’09 – ’11) – all sorts of creators for this Deadpool variant on Marvel Two-In-One (and selectively discounted this time)
• Deadpool Max (’10-’11) – David Lapham / Kyle Baker
• Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe (’12) – Cullen Bunn / Dalibor Talajic
• Deadpool (’12-15) – The Brian Posehn and Gerry Duggan Era
• Deadpool (’15-’17) – Gerry Duggan and many, many artists
• Deadpool (’18-’19) – Skottie Young / Nic Klein
• King Deadpool (’19-’21) – Kelly Thompson / Chris Bachalo
• Deadpool (’22-’23) – Alyssa Wong / Martin Coccolo
• Deadpool & Wolverine: WWIII (’24) – Joe Kelly / Adam Kubert
• Deadpool (’24 – present ) Cody Ziglar / Rogê Antônio

Pick your preferred creator and go to town.

Hawkguy

   

The Marvel Hawkeye Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

It’s been a while since there was a Hawkeye sale. Let’s put the crown jewel up top: Hawkeye by Fraction & Aja: The Saga Of Barton And Bishop. As in Matt Fraction / David Aja. This is a goofy quasi-reinvention of the character (giving him a faithful companion in Pizza Dog, among other things) that probably started being considered a classic before the series even wrapped up.

This transitions into the Clint/Kate Bishop All-New Hawkeye by Jeff Lemire / Ramon Perez (Vol. 1 / Vol. 2 — yes, Marvel tried to continue the collected edition numbering, but let’s call this what it is.)

And then it’s time for Kate to headline the Hawkeye books:

OK… this gets kind of complicated. Kelly Thompson effectively gets custody of Kate and after a solo series, moves her over to West Coast Avengers.

Hawkeye: Private Eye (Thompson / Leonardo Romero / Mike Walsh) covers the first 12 issues of the Kate version of Hawkeye. Hawkeye: Go West (Thompson / Romero / Stefano Caselli) finishes off the Hawkeye run and starts collecting the West Coast Avengers run. Finally Hawkeye: Kate Bishop – Team Spirit (Thompson / The McElroys /Daniele Di Nicuolo / André Lima Araújo) finishes up West Coast Avengers and adds a War of the Realms tie-in.

And then Hawkeye: Freefall (Matthew Rosenberg / Otto Schmidt) brings Clint Barton back into the lead.

Now, if you’re looking for the more traditional representation of Hawkeye:

• Hawkeye Epic Collection: The Avenging Archer – Early guest appearances and the ’83 mini
• Hawkeye Epic Collection: The Way Of The Arrow – Collecting the Solo Avengers material
• Hawkeye Epic Collection: Shafted – 90s and early 00s stories
• Avengers West Coast – Not every collection is discounted, but Hawkeye ran the team much of the time
• Thunderbolts – Scroll down for Hawkeye and the Thunderbolts

There’s a bit more here to browse, but we’d call that the highlights. Recommendations?

Hawkeye by Fraction & Aja: The Saga Of Barton And Bishop for the modern take. Avengers West Coast for the traditional take.

Fan out from those starting points.

Crime and Punisher-ment

     

The Marvel Punisher Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

First, the “general audience” Punisher:

• The Punisher ’87-’95 – Note that the first Epic Collection here collects the ’86 Steven Grant/Mike Zeck Circle of Blood mini-series that kicked off the Punisher’s rise to prominence. Yes, Whilce Portacio drew Punisher before X-Men
• Punisher War Journal ’88-’95 – This volume is notable for the Carl Potts / Jim Lee work. Yes, Jim Lee drew Punisher War Journal before X-Men.
• Punisher War Zone ’92-’95 – Yes, Frank Castle was holding down three titles/month in the early ’90s! Collected here are a pair of Chuck Dixon tales with John Buscema and Joe Kubert as the respective artists.
• Punisher War Journal ’06-’09 – Probably best known for Matt Fraction and Ariel Olivetti
• Punisher ’00 – Garth Ennis / Steve Dillon; Collects the immortal “Welcome Back, Frank”
• Punisher: The Resurrection of Ma Gnucci (Punisher War Zone) ’08-’09 – Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon team for a sequel to Welcome Back, Frank
• Punisher ’09-’10 – The Rick Remender run, for which the third volume is Franken-Castle
• The Punisher ’11-’12 – The Greg Rucka / Marco Checchetto (now more associated with Daredevil) run
• The Punisher ’14-15 – Nathan Edmondson / Mitch Gerads. Yes, Mitch Gerards as in Mister Miracle and Sheriff of Babylon
• The Punisher ’16-18 – Starts out with Becky Cloonan / Steve Dillon
• The Punisher ’18-’19 – Matthew Rosenberg / Szymon Kudranski (not on sale, but included for completeness)
• Punisher ’22-’23 – Jason Aaron / Jesus Saiz / Paul Azaceta (not on sale, but included for completeness)
• Punisher War Journal ’22-’23 – Torunn GrØnbekk / Djibril Morissette-Phan
• Punisher Kills The Marvel Universe – Garth Ennis / Jonathan Maberry / Doug Braithwaite / Goran Parlov

What’s good? Actually, we like the original Marvel Super Action magazine version by Archie Goodwin and Tony DeZuniga, but that’s not on the menu.

Our favorite run of the above is probably the Ennis/Dillon “Welcome Back, Frank.” We also were pretty fond of the Rucka / Checchetto run when it was coming out. It’s also worth going back and seeing where all the fuss started with the Grant/Zeck mini and the Baron/Janson/Portacio ongoing.

Then there’s the Max line. “Mature Readers” Punisher, if you will.

Punisher Max: The Complete Collection is the ’04-’09 run that’s most associated with Garth Ennis returning to the character (with art by Darick Robertson, Leandro Fernendez, Doug Braithwaite and Goran Parlov, among others). This is Ennis doing the serious Punisher, as opposed to the hilarity of Welcome Back, Frank. Mike Benson, Victor Gischler and Jason Aaron pop up at the end of the run.

Then you’ve got PunisherMax, the ’09-’12 relaunch by Jason Aaron/Steve Dillon, where Frank mixes it up with The Kingpin and Bullseye.

And, of course, Ennis will pop back every so often for another tale.

• Punisher: The Platoon (’17-’18) – Garth Ennis / Goran Parlov
• Punisher: Soviet (’19-’20) – Garth Ennis / Jacen Burrows

Hocus Pocus

 

The Marvel Magik Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

This sale is a largely a volume here and a volume there, so let’s run through some highlights.

• X-Men: Magik – Storm & Illyana – Chris Claremont / Brent Anderson / John Buscema; This is the origin tale where Illyana is kidnapped to Limbo by the demon Belasco. It’s a fairly dark tale
• New Mutants (’83-’91) – Select volumes discounted, including:
  • New Mutants Epic Collection: Renewal – Chris Claremont / Bob McLeod / Sal Buscema; This one collects the debut graphic novel, the Magik mini-series and the first 12 issues of New Mutants, with some extras
  • New Mutants Epic Collection: The Demon Bear Saga – Chris Claremont / Bill Sienkiewicz / Sal Buscema; Picking up where the last volume left off and continuing through the excellent Claremont/Sienkiewicz period, which we consider the pinnacle of the title
• X-Men: Skinning of Souls – Fabian Nicieza / Scott Lobdell / Dan Slott / Andy Kubert / Brandon Peterson / Richard Bennett / Eliot Brown
• New Mutants by Zeb Wells: The Complete Collection (’09-’11) – Zeb Wells / Diogenes Neves
• Extraordinary X-Men (’15-’17) – Jeff Lemire / Humberto Ramos;
• New Mutants: Dead Souls (’18) – Matthew Rosenberg / Adam Gorham
• Strange Academy – Skottie Young / Humberto Ramos
• New Mutants by Jonathan Hickman Vol. 1 – Hickman / Rod Reis

If you’re going to get one book, then it’s The Demon Bear Saga.

Corpsman
 

The Marvel Nova Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

Let’s run down the contents here:

• Nova (1976-78) – The original Marv Wolfman/John Buscema/Sal Buscema/Carmine Infantino run
• Nova (2007-10) – The Dan Abnett/Andy Lanning/Paul Pelletier/Kev Walker/Andrea di Vito era – the Complete Collection is the better deal.
• Nova (2013-15) – Gerry Duggan / Paco Medina was probably the longest tenured creative team of this volume.
• Nova: Resurrection (2015) – Jeff Loveness / Ramon Perez
• Nova: The Human Rocket (2015-16) – Sean Ryan / Cory Smith / John Timms

What’s good here?  We’d go with the original run or the DnA run (complete with a space station carved out of a Celestial’s head – yes, the concept predates Avengers Mountain).

Plus, a selection of Annihilation titles:

• Annihilation – The original Event
• Annihilation 2099 – Steve Orlando / Dale Eaglesham / Ibraim Roberson / Jose Luis / Pete Woods / Ario Anindito
• Annihilation: Scourge – Matthew Rosenberg / Dan Abnett / Michael Moreci / Christos N. Gage / Juanan Ramirez / Ibraim Roberson / Paul Davidson / Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque / Diego Olortegui / Manuel Garcia

Seeing Ghosts

   

The Marvel Ghost Spider Sale runs through Monday, 9/29.

Ah, the always amusing struggle to balance a character’s movie name with their comics name. Yes, this is really a Spider-Gwen sale.

• Spider-Gwen (’15-’18) – Jason Latour / Robbie Rodriguez
  • Alternately get the first two Epic Editions and then finish the series off with this omnibus edition
• Spider-Gwen: Ghost-Spider (’18-’19) – Seanan McGuire / Rosi Kampe / Takeshi Miyazawa
• Ghost-Spider (’19-’20) – Seanan McGuire / Takeshi Miyazawa / Ig Guara
• Spider-Gwen: Gwenverse (’22) – Tim Seeley / Jodi Nishijima
• Spider-Gwen: Smash – (’23-’24) – Melissa Flores / Enid Balám
• Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider (’24-’25) – Stephanie Phillips / Paolo Villanelli

I Am Not a Number

 

The Marvel Sinister Six Sale runs through Monday 9/29.

This is fairly random selection of titles, most of which feature a member or two of the team that’s a convergence of Spidey’s original villains.

• Spider-Man: Sinister Six – Stan Lee / Steve Ditko & David Michelinie /  Erik Larsen; collects the original story and the “Return”
• Amazing Spider-Man Masterworks Vol. 2 – Stan Lee / Steve Ditko; includes the first Sinister Six story
• Amazing Spider-Man Epic Collection: Return of the Sinister Six – David Michelinie /  Erik Larsen /  Charles Vess / Mark Bagley; includes the titular arc
• Sinister War – Nick Spencer / Mark Bagley
• Amazing Spider-Man by Wells & Romita Jr. Vol. 2: The New Sinister – Zeb Wells / John Romita, Jr. / Ed McGuinness

Something in Parabellum?
     

The Caliber Comics Library 50% off Fall Sale runs through Tuesday, 9/30.

There are a few titles here that were notable in the ’80s indie boom.

• Deadworld by Stuart Kerr, Vince Locke, Gary Reed and Dan Day (among others)
• The Realm by Ralph Griffith / Stuart Kerr / Guy Davis
• Jazz Age Chronicles – Ted Slampyak

And plenty of Don Lomax war comics.

Unannounced Sales

 

As usual, we’re not sure when these sales are ending, but here’s what we’re seeing:

• Money Shot – Tim Seely / Sarah Beattie / Rebekah Issacs / Caroline Leigh Layne / Gisèle Lagacé; Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3, Vol. 4
• The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (The Oatmeal Book 5)
• Through the Woods – Emily Carroll
• War and Peas: Funny Comics for Dirty Lovers – Jonathan Kunz / Elizabeth Pich

Additionally, it looks like most of the Superman material from recent weeks is still on sale. The Under $5 Page has the lower priced volumes.

Still on Sale

• The Kodansha Back to School Sale runs through Monday, 9/15
  
• The Dynamite Red Sonja Sale runs through Monday 9/8