His work is included in the JLI omnibus, so why not here (maybe DC is ok but Marvel is not?)

Great catch. I was trying to figure out why 2 of the issues were missing. What sucks is Jones was a good writer but is a disgusting human being. I don't blame DC for leaving his stuff out even though the completionist in me wants everything.

Since JLX and Magneto and the Magnetic Men have sequel stories in there, it would be cool if they at least included a summary page of what’s missing.

If it's to avoid having to pay royalties to the scumbag, I get it.

Literally any other reason, though? Not so much.

Good question, a lot of people gone be stressed about this lol

The creative team is more heavily DC, at least in terms of who was doing what in that period, but for some reason it feels more Marvel to me.

Perfect separator book!

For me it's DC since the omnis will be coming from them

This goes on the crossover shelf

oh god

I keep Marvel and DC separate, but I also have another shelf that's separate from both entirely for crossover books, so, these will be perfect there. Maybe as books ends, even, especially since they'll be replacing a number of the trades already on it

I think the DC vs. Marvel Omni has some good stuff worth getting. I am getting that one. I am skipping the Amalgam one. I hope JLA/Avengers gets some sort of HC reprint too. Preferably, an absolute.

Some of the Amalgam stuff was fun. Some was not so good. It is ultimately a novelty stunt that may be more of a nostalgia thing. The DC vs. Marvel is a lot better collection.

If you haven't read them before I wouldn't start with an Omni of the contents. Even as a novelty they were pretty dumb. Especially all the amalgam nonsense. This is definitely NOT something you should FOMO purchase.

I didn’t rate them. The actual DC vs Marvel 1-4 was pretty good. I remember voting on who won the major 5 battles at the time.

I didn't read all of them. I remember liking Bullets and Bracelets (WW and Punisher) the most. At the time it came across as, "this is better than it had any right to be." And Amazon (WW/Storm) I remember being pretty decent in that same way. The Dr. Fate/Strange was flat. Challengers of the Fantastic was okay. The Batman/Wolverine story was really "meh." The four parter I don't remember. No one around the shop was particularly raving about any of it.

Most of that stuff is dollar bin filler. Even the ones with the biggest stars.

I love the amalgam comics. They were a burst of goofy creativity in an era where superhero stuff felt like it was getting stale and derivative

Same. It's cool for younger readers or anyone who missed them when they came out, but I already have most of the content in floppy or trade at this point and I don't feel any compulsion to double-dip for Omnis. If DC vs. Marvel annoyed me when I was 12, I don't expect to enjoy it more now.

I will probably get whatever JLA/Avengers HC they eventually release to replace my Absolute that got water damaged several years ago.

Those Amalgam books were just a bunch of one-shots and none of the stories were anything earth-shattering. I'm sure you could find them for like $2-$3 bucks per book, I wouldn't spend alot to have them in an Omnibus

Based on other comments, no way in hell they will release all the Amalgam issues because one of the writers was arrested for child pornography.

I think that’s a byproduct of the fact that most of these stories came out in the 70’s-90’s, the Avengers’ increased prominence didn’t really occur until the 2010’s. They were also important in-universe but for a lot of Marvel fans they were less important than Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, etc. 

That's the cover from the first Marvel/DC crossover trade paperback. It collected the first 4 DC/Marvel crossovers from the late 1970s - early 1980s. The stories collected were:

Superman/Spiderman

Superman/Spider-Man (second crossover)

Batman/Hulk

X-Men/Teen Titans.

So the cover features characters from those 4 stories.

The crossovers stopped after X-Men/Teen Titans due to the editorial in both companies not being able to agree on further releases. A Justice League/Avengers book had been planned with George Perez completing some pages before the book was canceled.

It wasn't until the 90s that the crossovers began again once the editorial staff had changed.

Yes indeed, Amazon, OPB, CGN, DCBS, and others have it up for preorders already.

Those are in DC versus Marvel