MARVEL FANFARE OMNIBUS VOLUME 1

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Written by: Chris Claremont. Roger McKenzie, Ralph Macchio, Roger Stern, Bill Mantlo, Jo Duffy, and more
Art by: Michael Golden, Paul Smith, Dave Cockrum, George Perez, Gil Kane, Barry Windsor-Smith, Frank Miller, Mike Mignola and more

The prestige format anthology series from Marvel's 80s era, Marvel Fanfare, is collected in omnibus format for the very first time!

In 1982, the comics industry was making rapid advances. The door to higher-quality, prestige titles had been opened and Marvel Fanfare planted the flag, declaring it the place to be seen. The series gave industry's greatest creators — like Frank Miller, Barry Windsor-Smith, Chris Claremont and Michael Golden — a chance to make singular statements on Marvel icons like Captain America, the Thing and Spider-Man. New talents like Mike Mignola and Charles Vess could take their shot for an issue and gain break-out success. And groundbreaking talents like Bill Sienkiewicz could steal the scene with a gallery of pinups that redefined characters in a single image. Marvel Fanfare also boasted beautiful, fully-painted stories and cutting-edge new innovations in coloring. Each issue was a bounty of artistic excellence and a statement on the future of comics. Marvel is proud to collect the complete Marvel Fanfare in this first of three Omnibus volumes.

Collecting: MARVEL FANFARE (1982) #1-19

736 pages
$100

On Sale: May 13, 2025

Fanfare is one of those series that I did not expect to see collected.
I just assumed that Marvel would trickle out the individual issues only into the most-appropriate Marvel Masterworks
books and in the titles of other Omnibus collections.

I remember loving this series when it was first coming out.

I may get it. From my wheelhouse era. They did reprint the X-Men stories in the Uncanny omni.

Here's the mass market cover ...

I think this one will look a little weird not being printed on glassy cover-like stock, but I remembering liking quite
a few of the anthology stories in this series. I believe the entire series is slated to be collected in three volumes.

Oh, and there's a Direct Market cover, as well ...

Good for Frank Miller fans, but it'd be hard for me to pass up on the original cover for issue #1.
It just screams, "Marvel Fanfare" in my memory. Helps that the logo is larger, too.