The omnibus series continues for a fifth year…
Marvel in 2025 will continue its series of special 60th anniversary omnibi, with the next edition focusing on the 1965 debut of Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD in Strange Tales #135.
Dig this online description of the Marvel: May 1965 Omnibus:
May 1965 marked the debut of Nick Fury, agent of SHIELD — and this omnibus collects the entire publishing slate from that month, in this time capsule of an omnibus!
Marvel proudly celebrates the 60th anniversary of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s S.H.I.E.L.D. with an Omnibus collecting every Marvel comic released in May 1965, the month Nick Fury’s super-hero spy thriller debuted! It’s the next step in the evolution of the Marvel Universe, one that’s increasingly being taken over by innovative super heroes. But the there’s still plenty to be had in the pages of Patsy Walker and Millie the Model as those titles adapt to the ever-swinging Sixties. While over on the range in Two-Gun Kid, the Western villain the Panther seems like a fantastic idea. May 1965 also featured the beginning of Namor the Sub-Mariner — Marvel’s original antihero — in his Tales to Astonish solo series. Take a trip back in time and experience the whole of the Marvel Universe with the Marvel: May 1965 Omnibus!
COLLECTING: STRANGE TALES (1951) #135, THE X-MEN (1963) #12, JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY (1952) #118, TALES TO ASTONISH (1959) #70, PATSY AND HEDY (1952) #101, RAWHIDE KID (1955) #47, THE FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #41, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (1963) #27, THE AVENGERS (1963) #18, TALES OF SUSPENSE (1959) #68, SGT. FURY (1963) #20, DAREDEVIL (1964) #9, MODELING WITH MILLIE (1963) #40, PATSY WALKER (1945) #122, KID COLT OUTLAW (1948) #124, TWO-GUN KID (1948) #77 and MILLIE THE MODEL (1945) #130
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A few thoughts:
— The 496-page hardcover lists for $100 and is due April 29, 2025. Strange Tales #135 was released May 4, 1965.
— This year’s edition — the Marvel: February 1964 Omnibus, celebrating the first appearance of Daredevil — came out in February.
— Standard caveat: This has not been solicited by Marvel yet, so nothing is official until it’s official. Keep coming back to 13th Dimension for updates.
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I’m not a huge Marvel fan, but I’ve been buying these omnibuses and find them fascinating from a historical perspective. As I’ve long argued that DC’s comparable period of explosive creativity and cultural relevance was the 1980s, I wish that DC would do a similar series in which they published one volume for a specific month in every year of that decade.