The Many Dead Universes Of Marvel

[omega_override]

So I was preening through a 25 cent comic book bin a day ago and I came across yet another dead marvel imprint; M-Tech. It featured revivals of X-51: The Machine Man, Deathlock, and Warlock and was also prefaced by an X-Men event called "Rage Against The Machine" in 1999 (I recall the Uncanny X-Men #371 cover with a chained up Warlock quite vividly from my youth)

So this makes eight total dead imprints for Marvel I believe, not including the Malibu's own Ultraverse and Bravura lines (the others being 2099, Frontier, Marvel UK, Clive Barker's Razorline, MC-2, STAR, and Epic) **also not completely sure if I should add "New Universe" to that list since it's more or less revived(?)**

Seriously, what is up with this company that it has eight different dead imprints to it's name? Granted, the cancellations of Razorline and 2099 can be attributed to the comics crash of the late nineties, much like Ultraverse and Bravura

[leonmallett]

So I was preening through a 25 cent comic book bin a day ago and I came across yet another dead marvel imprint; M-Tech. It featured revivals of X-51: The Machine Man, Deathlock, and Warlock and was also prefaced by an X-Men event called "Rage Against The Machine" in 1999 (I recall the Uncanny X-Men #371 cover with a chained up Warlock quite vividly from my youth)

So this makes eight total dead imprints for Marvel I believe, not including the Malibu Ultraverse and Bravura (the others being 2099, Frontier, Marvel UK, Clive Barker's Razorline, MC-2, STAR, and Epic) **also not completely sure if I should add "New Universe" to that list since it's more or less revived(?)**

Seriously, what is up with this company that it has eight different dead imprints to it's name?

You forget Marvel Alterniverse:

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So the count rises....

[omega_override]

You forget Marvel Alterniverse:

http://www.comics.org/brand/63/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

So the count rises....

I guess the Amalgam universe would sort of count too?

[leonmallett]

You forget Marvel Alterniverse:

http://www.comics.org/brand/63/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

So the count rises....

I guess the Amalgam universe would sort of count too?

Co-owned so your call!

[leonmallett]

But don't forget CrossGen either...

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[omega_override]

But don't forget CrossGen either...

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So ten now is where we're at?

Jesus, that's like beyond baffling

[leonmallett]

But don't forget CrossGen either...

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So ten now is where we're at?

Jesus, that's like beyond baffling

Wait until the true Marvel-ites and fonts of knowledge of the board arrive!

They may find more....

[omega_override]

Wait until the true Marvel-ites and fonts of knowledge of the board arrive!

They may find more....

I'm scared........

Ten was my absolute breaking point.....

[leonmallett]

Wait until the true Marvel-ites and fonts of knowledge of the board arrive!

They may find more....

I'm scared........

Ten was my absolute breaking point.....

You will be, you will be....

[StarBrand]

Interesting thread.

[Cyberstrike]

MC-2
New Universe
Marvel 2099
Marvel UK Comics
Frontier Comics
Razorline Comics
Star Comics

Bought Companies/lines:
Crossgen Comics
Malibu Comics
Ultraverse
Genesis

Possibly Dead:
Max Comics

[omega_override]

Possibly Dead: Max Comics

MAX is still going I think, didn't they do Deadpool MAX not too long ago?

[Chiclo]

Didn't they have a Mangaverse they were experimenting with?

Marvel did not buy CrossGen, Disney did. Then Disney bought Marvel several years later and Marvel played with a new toy for almost a year and then got distracted by something else and thus CrossGen died again.

[BugsySig]

MC-2
New Universe
Marvel 2099
Marvel UK Comics
Frontier Comics
Razorline Comics
Star Comics

Bought Companies/lines:
Crossgen Comics
Malibu Comics
Ultraverse
Genesis

Possibly Dead:
Max Comics

2099 often gets revisited, including Spidey 2099 recently appearing...though what 2099 books is cannon related to what other 2099 books is debatable.

Marcel UK was revived for Revolution not long ago too.

I wouldn't call either a Dead Universe anyway as they existed within the MU proper.

[nycjadie]

I think that most of these deserved to be dead? Probably more that should be...

[wokuya]

I really enjoyed the Frontier and Razorline books. I looked at both lines as Marvel's attempts at a Vertigo-style line. Not their only attempts, as Hellstorm, X-Man, and Muties also seemed to be Vertigo-esque but within the Marvel U.

[leonmallett]

I miss there being new MC2 books; I got into the line so late, but I loved everything that came from it.

[leonmallett]

MC-2
New Universe
Marvel 2099
Marvel UK Comics
Frontier Comics
Razorline Comics
Star Comics

Bought Companies/lines:
Crossgen Comics
Malibu Comics
Ultraverse
Genesis

Possibly Dead:
Max Comics

Mangaverse?

[jeremycoe]

616

. . . too soon?

[rasputin9977]

M-Tech is a dead imprint but not a dead universe since these three titles took place in the marvel universe. If we're talking about dead imprints then you can add midnight sons, marvel edge, marvel next, tsunami and marvel knights to the list.

[zlovemojo]

I really enjoyed the Frontier and Razorline books. I looked at both lines as Marvel's attempts at a Vertigo-style line. Not their only attempts, as Hellstorm, X-Man, and Muties also seemed to be Vertigo-esque but within the Marvel U.

I absolutely loved Warren Ellis on Hellstorm and Dr. Druid. Clive Barker's Razorline books were good too.

[omega_override]

I looked at both lines as Marvel's attempts at a Vertigo-style line

*AHEM!* Sir or Madam, I'd like you to take a look at the following: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Comics" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Marvel did not copy DC, if anything, Jim Shooter copied what National Lampoon was doing with Heavy Metal

[zlovemojo]

[Cyberstrike]

Didn't they have a Mangaverse they were experimenting with?

Yeah they had 2 if you want to be technical.

The first actual manga that had been done in Japan for that market Spider-Man: The Manga which was pretty much the basic idea of Spider-Man but with Japanese characters and was actually kind of cool and then you had X-Men: The Manga which pretty much started as a manga adaption of the 90s X-Men cartoon show I didn't like it and stopped reading after #4 and I don't know if they actually did original stories or not.

The second one was the Mangaverse when Marvel gave Ben Dunn and his friends a chance to re-imagine the Marvel Universe as a manga-inspired universe and the results were either: stupid, weird, or both. I read the TPB and not really caring much it.

[jeremycoe]

Can we add the 616 and Ultimate universes to this list now?