EXCLUSIVE: The landmark miniseries ran for seven issues…
Marvel in August will publish three Facsimile Editions — two in the company’s yearlong Fantastic Four and X-Men projects, and a third kicking off the seven-part reprint of the polarizing, yet commercially successful 2006 Civil War, by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven.
You can check out the FF and X-Men details here, but below you’ll find the official solicitation for Civil War #1, to be unveiled by Marvel later this month:
CIVIL WAR #1 FACSIMILE EDITION
Written by MARK MILLAR • Penciled by STEVE MCNIVEN
COVER BY STEVE MCNIVEN • VARIANT COVER BY GREG LAND
FOIL VARIANT COVER ALSO AVAILABLE
The incendiary opening chapter of the blockbuster crossover that scarred the Marvel Universe for years! A conflict has been brewing, threatening to pit friend against friend, family against family – and all it will take is a single misstep to cost thousands their lives and ignite the fuse! As the war claims its first victims, no one is safe as teams. With longtime allies Captain America and Iron Man on either side of the ideological divide, one question looms large for their fellow Avengers, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the entirety of the Marvel pantheon: Whose side are you on? It’s one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting CIVIL WAR (2006) #1.
Marvel will be reprinting the original 7 issues of Civil War!
On Sale 8/20
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A few thoughts:
— Saw the movie. Never read the series. I know they’re very different. Looking forward to it.
— The ish lists for $5.99. Ask your retailer about foil-cover pricing.
— Obligatory Price Comparison: You can get an original #1 for just a few bucks, so it’s kind of an interesting reprint choice. My take is that the real payoff will be when the full series presumably gets collected in an oversize, high-end Archive Edition.
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MORE
— MARVEL Sets Dates For August’s Landmark FANTASTIC FOUR and X-MEN Facsimile Editions. Click here.
— MARVEL Sets Dates For July’s Landmark FANTASTIC FOUR and X-MEN Facsimile Editions. Click here.
May 15, 2025
Ummm…just…why?
May 15, 2025
Here’s my take: Marvel has changed their approach to Facsimiles. They do runs of issues, then collect them — ads and all — into oversize hardcovers. The first will be out in July. (The first 12 issues of the black-suit Spidey storyline.) So rather than look at FEs as single issues, they’re probably looking for popular runs that they can then repackage in this new Archive Edition format. I could be wrong, but that’s what it seems like.
May 15, 2025
I remember reading this series back when I was in high school. I enjoyed it for the most part. Except for the ending of the last issue.Back then I didn’t realize it was part of a grand plan Marvel was doing that would lead all the way up to Siege in 2010. So the later half of that decade I hated Iron Man with a passion. Basically what I’m trying to say is that this left an impression on me back when it originally came out.
It was a product of the time. Which might be the problem that a majority of modern readers might have today. I started collecting comics back in the early 2000’s, so stuff that Mark Millar wrote like Superman: Red Son and the Ultimates where stuff that got my going back to the comic store every week. While nostalgia will have me remember that I did enjoy it as a kid, I can see that a lot of the stuff he got away with in those stories are not okay now. Especially how he writes Captain America. While the event is supposed to bring out a darker side to all these characters, how he writes Cap is the same as he writes him in the Ultimates.
It’s an interesting choice since the movie version of this came out so long ago. Besides being collected into archive edition, maybe Marvel is trying to get all of their fans into a specific mindset for when Avengers Doomsday comes out. Just like the comics when the event ended there were 2 Avenger teams. One called Mighty Avengers and the other the New Avengers.
May 15, 2025
Scary prospect: Marvel reprints SECRET WARS (2015) in 2026 or 2027 to coincide with the film.
Particularly scary because SW15 will be 11-12 years old by then. Eep. (You can still readily get *floppies* of that series if your store has overstock dollar bins. I feel like “can theoretically still be purchased” should disqualify a book from a facsimile run.)
May 15, 2025
Great. (Sarcasm) The very reason why I stopped reading Marvel. Still so many Silver and Bronze Age issues left to do facsimile issues. What’s next, DC does New 52 facsimile issues? I’m out.
May 15, 2025
Utterly pointless. The only upside is that at least it’s no Fear Itself.
May 16, 2025
Ugh! Why? They definitely don’t want my money. So much material from the Silver Age and they go with this!!!!
May 17, 2025
I see I’m not the only one asking “why?”
Like most major comic events and crossovers, it started with promise then fizzled out because the ending could not deliver.
Unlike the Infinity Gauntlet or the original Secret Wars, no modern audience believes the implications of these “world changing forever” events will actually remain.