For a more formal introduction to this website, check out my "welcome wagon" essay, which you can access through THIS LINK.

MAIN NAVIGATION LINKS:

Please make yourself familiar with the main navigation links you'll find at the top of each page on this website.

HOME: The Home link will carry you back to this very page, where you'll find links to a varied collection of site content. All the links are located to your right, focusing on News pages, Feature content developed by many site contributors and yours truly, and Resource content put together to increase your knowledge of comics and collected editions.

CURRENT NEWS: Besides the Home Page, you gotta bookmark this one! You just gotta! Every day, we update news and notes from across the world of collected editions- Marvel, DC, the whole shebang! Plus, there's a convenient list of scheduled books coming your way for the rest of the year!

MASTERWORKS LIBRARY: Your portal to the complete library of Marvel Masterworks, as well as related content.

OTHER HARDCOVERS: Links to Library Pages dedicated DC Archives, comics hardcovers from all publishers, Graphitti Designs HCs, and more! Plus featured TPBs like Essentials!

BUY 'EM CHEAP: Links to browse a massive inventory of hardcovers and collected editions from site sponsors Tales of Wonder and Amazon.

MESSAGE BOARD: The heartbeat of this website, the Message Boards are a place you can go to discuss Masterworks, Essentials, Archives...heck, anything comics! There's hundreds and hundreds of folks there to help answer questions and engage in fun, entertaining and thought-provoking discussion! Join us, will you?

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ABOUT THIS SITE

This is a resource website and collected editions and comics news service. I am in contact with Marvel in this regard to bring you information and materials directly related to their comics and collected editions. My handle on the message boards is Gormuu, and I can be reached via email at heygormuu -at- gmail dot com.

Please visit the MESSAGE BOARDS to hang out and talk comics: Golden, Silver, Bronze and current comics, Masterworks, Marvel Essentials, DC Archives, TPBs and other collected editions!

To help support the site, please consider purchasing through the array of links I have collated through the site.
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Website design by Doug Roberts and John Thomas.

All images on this site are copyright of Marvel Comics, DC Comics or their respective rights holders.

This site is for reference purposes and promotion of the Masterworks, Essentials and trade paperback line of books as well as Marvel Comics and their properties.


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You are visitor # COUNTER READINGS
Zero: 5/2001
68,713: 5/2003
200,000: 7/2004
300,000: 1/2005
400,000: 8/2005
500,000: 12/2005
600,000: 4/2005

MARVEL NOVELS LIBRARY:
Site contributor cleazer worked up the complete library of Marvel prose novels (I dare ya! See if he missed one!) Where Marvel heroes jump out of the funny books and onto the shelf next to Shakespeare!

MarvelEssentials.com:
A resource library for Essentials collectors, with Kevin Ricci's Essentials FAQ, a complete list of upcoming Essentials, and an under-construction collection of feature pages devoted to each book!

WHAT IF MAPS LIBRARY PAGE:
It's all here, fans of future Masterworks! Every month, Marvel mines its glorious past of comics in the form of Masterworks, and the What If? page is your window into that fantastic future! Golden Age, Silver Age, Bronze and more! Westerns, Horror and Models galore! Check it out before they all get published!

MASTERWORKS BY THE MONTH:
Here's a chronological list of Marvel comics by month, starting from the top and working all the way down, with links to comics feature pages, letters pages, and other goodies!

JACK KIRBY CHRONOLOGY:
This list, set up by Ray Owens, tracks the chronological output of King Kirby's comics page work from his very first in 1939 up until his very last in the early 90s!

SILVER AGE MARVEL TIMELINE
Nov. 1961 to Sep. 1970, all on one page! It's fun to stare longingly at for hours, imagining what could be.

BRONZE AGE MARVEL TIMELINE 1
BRONZE AGE MARVEL TIMELINE 2
BRONZE AGE MARVEL TIMELINE 3
Every Marvel comic from the 1970s (and if not, I'd love to know what we missed!) Three different charts for your browsing pleasure. #1 tracks comics held over from the 60s and new comics begun before 1975. #2 tracks comics which had new issues started in 1975 and after. #3 is a comprehensive look at ALL the 70s Marvel Comics!

MARVEL ANTHOLOGY TIMELINE
For a quick glance at what characters appeared in which issue of which Marvel anthology, check out this handy timeline!

REMASTERWORKS CONTENT CHANGES:
Masterworks editor Cory Sedlmeier walks us through all the content changes from the first run of Masterworks to the "ReMasterworks"!

LINKS:
These are some of my favorite comics related links from across the web!