Planet Of The Apes Adventures: The Original Marvel Years Omnibus Overview 

I’m a huge POTA fan and I really wanted to buy this, but I can’t justify the price. Marvel should have collected all FIVE of the movie adaptations and added colors to the three that aren’t collected here. That would have made this book special and worth the cover price.

$100 for 11 issues? Is this supposed to be a joke?

This thing is way overpriced, it should be $30 not $100. It's only 224 pages.

The pages are made of gold or what??😂100 us dollars

I am hoping this comes out in epic collection. $125 Canadian is outrageous

This seems like a good-looking book! Love the design, the colors, and the covers (front and back). The inside front cover looks great, too. If I were still collecting omnibuses, this would have been a curious buy!

And lets give it up for that EM Gist cover!! **p.s. It's called "Adventures" because it reprints the B&W British "Planet of the Apes" magazine issues. They didn't want to confuse retailers with the same exact title.

I'll wait for a Big Time Sale..around $40 maybe... hopefully they'll continue with Apes Omnis..just with a better Price Point..Big Thanks Omar 👍💜

When I saw the 96€ in France I thought it was a mistake but a I guess its not 😂 Damn it shouldnt go over 35-40$ tbh Btw I liked the movies ❤

Any Chance of this being re-release as part of the epic collection?

I have this on pre-order but after seeing this I have decided to cancel. I still want a Planet Of The Apes omnibus but this is way overpriced for what it is. I will get the black and white collections if they happen as they are my favourite of the 70's Marvel magazines, but this collection should be the extras in the back of one of those omnis not an omni itself. I cannot justify paying the amount of money being asked for this little content.

As much as I would like this, I am left wondering if it would be cheaper for me to buy the uk reprints from the 70's. Sadly I am with most,the book is far too overpriced Thanks for the review..... I do hope that the pota magazine gets an omni and that would be worth buying

I’m interested but will wait for a discount somewhere. This should be treated as an OHC

Ok, a few random thoughts as I really don't understand what Marvel are doing here with this release (it's not an omnibus at all) especially given they've done full on omni's for the other Fox licenced properties they now have. The pricing is full on ridiculous, very few people will purchase this at $100 - and dearer for us overseas of course. There will be epic collection down the line, and they'll be much better value too, since there is an abundance of b&W magazine material to use, and stuff that appeared here in the UK. (and yep - Apeslayer was indeed part of that Omar). And speaking of which, why is some of that not stuff included here as a proper omni? The other oddity of course is that most of us will be familiar with always seeing the material in b&w, it actually looks strange seeing it here in colour. The cover of issue 2 of the magazine (issue 1 of POTA weekly here in the UK) by Bob Larkin would have made for a better cover, rather than this (new?) painted cover. Surely this book could have at least used as extras both the magazine covers from the U.S issues featuring the movie adaptions, AND the UK covers made for our weekly comic that didn't see use in the States. Anyway, I do actually really like these adaptions and will get this eventually, but certainly not at this price for sure.

Price is too high for me, If this book gets liquidated at 70% later in the year, would purchase.

Why did you pixelate the page on 10.14?

I’m a huge marvel supporter.. usually order all omnis and all covers … can’t bring myself to do it for this one. It says I’m ok with this. I want the material - 50$-60$ fine but 100$ I can’t support that. I bought the 6 issue strange academy that had the issues in color and black and white at 75$ and that was bad enough … please marvel don’t do this to us. This will kill the Omni market

Wow...$100.00 ??? Nope 👎

Did Marco not comment on ridiculous price?

What a rip off this book is unfortunately. Over here in the UK cheapest retail is around £60 for this 224 page hardcover. A 224 page oversize hardcover here in the UK would be around £30!!!. For £60 I can get a Marvel omnibus that has around 650 pages. What a rip, a real shame I was so looking forward to this, but at that price, no way am I paying that joke of a price.

I'm glad I have no interest in this one the price point is absolutely absurd.

For me it is way too expensive for such few pages. What are they smoking ????? If I get this for free as the reviewer, this wouldn't be a factor and I would enjoy it, but I have to buy this with real money, so...pass.

Nah that's just a Deluxe Edition 💀

I feel like it took longer to watch the video than read the omnibus.

Really excited when announced... but $100? Even with the discount available through some places that is way too much.

Overpriced.

Labeling this as an omnibus and pricing it as such is a slap to the face of anyone interested in this book. I hope as the voice of the community Omar you bring these concerns to David Gabriel's attention.

I want this but I cant justify 100

The price is a huge problem with this and I hope the sales of this doesnt kill future Apes books from Marvel. I would love this in Epic format.

This should be $24.99 retail… wtf Marvel? edit: Wait for a heavy heavy sale. It’s inevitable.

That's not an omnibus, that's a deluxe edition lol marvel tripping out their minds on this one 😂 That's 40$ at most lol

This pricing is insane, the X-men over sized hardcovers I’ve been buying have 12 issues and are 34.99 msrp.

Price per page seems pretty outrageous. :/

I'm glad I pre-ordered it for the discount but $99 retail for an 11 issue series seems pretty high. They are making a pretty good margin on this book.

Can someone please explain how they are justifying 11 issues for $100 and also calling this an omnibus? This is outrageous!

The price on this is an insult. Don't know if there's some licensing shenanigans that are contributing to it? But I sincerely hope no one pays $100 for 200 pages (and in Canada $125 I think)

I'll probably buy it... when it has a massive discount

Price is definitely a problem, just bought a selection of them via the POTA weekly here in the UK. They were still great stories, hopefully the price will drop - needs to be more around £25 or so

Damn that is one THIN omnibus!

In 1974, as the TV series was getting off the ground, Marvel began publishing it's licenced black and white magazine which lasted (I believe) 29 issues. It had some beautiful painted covers, original comics stories set in the Apes world, articles about the films and TV show and the early issues had multi-part adaptations of all 5 Apes movies. In an effort to wring a little more profit from the material, Marvel also published colourised reprints of the first two movie adaptations which probably didn't sell very well and the comic was cancelled with issue 11. I actually loved the b&w magazine. When Marvel recently became the comic home of the Apes again due to Disney acquiring Fox's properties, I dared hope that the magazine would be reprinted in the same way as the Savage Sword of Conan was. Instead we get an overpriced, slim collection of the 11 issue cancelled colourised reprint comic with only a textless version of the book's cover painting as bonus material. Why?? Is it to test the water to see if people are willing to buy the old material? Has it been issued to quell demand while they work on a proper, restored collection of the original magazines? Or are these 11 issues the only material that was properly archived and therefore all we're ever going to see? Whatever the case, charging this much for this book is nothing less than cynical exploitation of the fans of the series. I'm pretty sure buying the back issues of the comic it reprints wouldn't cost anywhere near as much as this "omnibus!" They can't use the "licenced property" excuse- Disney OWNS it! All this book represents is a massive screw-up on the part of Marvel and bodes very badly for the future of the Apes in their creative control. And I won't be buying it!!

11 issues for $100. I’m sure it will be a big seller😂

The series probably got cancelled because Marvel were losing the license as they cancelled the magazine around this time. All 5 films were adapted in the magazine. Strips and articles from the US magazine were reprinted in a UK weekly comic which was very successful. I think some of the strips also had extra panels so it would be nice if an eventual magazine Omni had the expanded strips.

This is a madhouse!!! A madhouse!!

What’s wrong with Marvel, ten issues for 100 bucks, uhmmm that isn’t even an omnibus, it could be an oversized hardcover, of course i’m not gonna buy it, but even i felt scammed 😂😂😂😂

Crazy price

Love Planet of the Apes and this looks pretty cool but I've got to go along with the other gentlemen in the feed as well as their torches and pitchforks, $100 is way too much for this. Will definitely wait for a big sale, I'd be comfortable paying around $35-40. 😁🦍 As always though, great review, Omar, really appreciate these. Note to Marvel: if you can't quite fit omnibus on the spine... it ain't an omnibus.

If you don't agree with the pricing don't buy it. Enough complaining.

Too expensive for the number of pages. I had planned to buy it but it's just too thin.

With that price point for that page count it will be at Ollies in a discount bend before the end of the year. I know it's remastered, but its way too high. I will patiently wait for the big discounts.

This is a pretty silly release. Adventures on the Planet of the Apes was just the reprint title and they only got round to reprinting the first two film adaptations. Releasing this is like releasing Marvel’s Greatest Comics as an Omni rather than the Fantastic Four issues they were reprinted from. Marvel did a fantastic job with their Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Omnibuses. A book like that from the Planet of the Apes magazines would be wonderful. Maybe this is to test the market for that.

P.S. Omar, Boom! released four hardcover collections of the black and white Marvel stuff. I have them, and they're as tall as Omnis but a little bit wider. I think they look really great, though I haven't read through all of the stories yet.

$100?... A hard pass for me.

Over my cold dead hands.

Hi Omar, thanks for the review. I gotta say: The price is NOT nice. I was hoping for an extended extras sections and all of the letter pages to make it appear to be worth the $100 price tag, but Marvel really fumbled the ball on this one. I predict that the book will be heavily discounted in 4-5 months.

I would have thought a POTA Omnibus would contain the comics AND the b/w magazine. I'd pay a C-note for that, but not for what amounts to a hardcover Epic Collection (and a runt of the litter one at that). Ripoff!

That price is ridiculous. There's no bigger fan of Planet of the Apes than I but the magazine archives and the above omnibus are a hideous disgrace. The problem is that Marvel will interpret the lack of sales as lack of interest in the subject matter rather than their own godawful packaging and price gouging. What they should have done was do a whole new run of Omnibuses for the magazines and then just incorporate the comic series into it. Instead we get this insultingly priced nonsense.

Who wants a Minibus ?

This omnibus is going to bomb purely because of the price. Such a shame. I presume it's a good read, but I certainly wont buy it

This price has to be a late April Fools' joke. How is Marvel justifying this?

What is a $35 book doing being sold for $100? Marvel is clowning.

I'm so glad that they put an Omnibus Edition of those full colour Planet of the Apes comics. I only had Adventures on the Planet of the Apes #6 as a kid, that a friend gave to me as a second hand comic without the cover. I really hope that Marvel does put out the black and white POTA magazines in omnibus format, so that the entire original movie adaptation run is completed. I don't know who currently has the IP licences for other of the movie/ TV based adaptations the Marvel has done over the years, but I would love to see the Logan's Run and Man From Atlantis comics in the 70's get collected in hard cover format. Those series had less issues than the Adventures on the Planet of the Apes, so I don't think they could be considered Omnibus books. I know that it is less than impossible to ever see Logan's Run or Man From Atlantis get printed ever again, but then again I never thought I would ever see the original Marvel Planet of the Apes ever get collected in a hard cover book. I honestly don't mind that this Planet of the Apes Adventures is being collected and priced as an omnibus. I am just very grateful to see Marvel putting it out. An even more complex wish list item for me would to see Marvel Super Special get collected in hard cover. There were some fantastic movie adaptations in those full colour magazines, including Raider of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom, Al Williamson's art on Blade Runner, and John Buscema's art on Conan the Barbarian film adaption and so many more. I can imagine that clearing those licences now would be incredibly complex and expensive. It would be neat to see Marvel's Battlestar Galactica series collected in Omnibus too. I'm not sure who currently has the license to publish Battlestar Galactica comics. Marvel Comics in the 1970s and 80's always had some fun movie/ TV based comics. I look back on it with fondness.

I have the excellent B&W Boom Studios Archives - one point that's worth highlighting is that the original stories as printed in the B&W magazines were edited in the colour comics to reduce the page count, and some panels were also edited with some rough and ready art corrections in places (I spotted that from Omar's video overview and comparing it to the gorgeous black white and grey wash approach to the B&W versions). Having said that, I love POTA material and if this were cheaper (e.g. $49.99 sort of price point) I'd probably be picking it up - but at this price point it's a hard pass I'm afraid. Hopefully Marvel has longer term plans for other collections, but this doesn't feel to be a great start.

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Thanks for the run down Omar! Where can I begin to describe the anti-nuclear weapons proliferation theme throughout the greatest of the great films not just sci-fi films ever made in 1968? Beneath the Planet of the Apes is bleak hopeless and terrifying General Ursus comes into his own and the fact that the subterranean telepaths worship an ICBM nuclear missile is a pristine metaphor for OUR culture we worship the US military industrial complex President Eisenhower warned us about . War in Ukraine borderline Armageddon enough on that. I’ll pass on this one it’s too expensive and there’s vintage original Mego dolls out there I had many of those . I’m including the famous corn field chase scene the editing and film score are SUPERB and the make up is STILL the best even today. As a six year old this film just floored me it’s lost none of its grandeur and cautionary message . Here’s the cornfield scene when those soldier apes first appeared on screen notice the “trumpets blowing “ to emphasize the originality and hard work of the FX make up artists in 110 degree BLISTERING CA summer heat . ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DruCG3LJiiU.html

I am glad this came out, but I really hope they reprint the magazines etc. I am an POTA fanatic !!!!

I'll wait for the POTA Magazine omni (if we get one).

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I can not wait to get a copy of it . Nice opening .

I bought this, I'm not gonna lie. At least I got it for less than cover price and with an additional discount, but yeah, it's tiny. I kinda wish it had the sideways Marvel Omnibus logo like Devil Dinosaur, though.

If Marvel wanted to test the market for interest in this licensed franchise they should have thought hard about pricing. Even Chip’s Howard the Duck omni was only $60!

One quick check later, and having downloaded the digital edition of Boom's volume 2 archive (which features the first two movie adaptions seen here) they are the black and white full un-edited version of Marvel's magazine strips. The re-coloured comics in this omni are edited from that and do actually chop out quite a number of panels.

I'll wait for a used or damaged copy. Too much money for something that isn't a necessity for my collection.

Not even worth $50.

Marvel testing us

Hopefully they’ll collect the dark horse years next - those are the apes comics im waiting for

Yeah it's a thin an expensive book. Get over it already. If nobofy will buy this, then this will be liquidated and will be cheap, and if it goes oop quick, than it will be even more expensive on the second market. You rant about that marvel is screwing us over, but there are fat books that are expected to be $150 but they are just $125. Maybe this will be the first omnibus, that only ppl with interest will buy, and not those who are just want a cheap deal and doesn't care about reading it. Also if there are ppl who gladly pay over cover for an oop book they are interested in, I'm sure they'll gladly pay $50 or $60 for this because ppl in the US (and I think that's the targeted main market) are always be able to buy their books with ridiculously big discounts, who really suffer is the ppl overseas.

100$ for this? Someone in Marvel is clearly smoking something when deciding pricing for these 😅

Why wasn't this a Marvel Masterworks , with thicker paper and for $75? Is it DavidGabriel/Marvel testing the waters to see how much they can drain the collectors pockets? This is worrying.

I'm just going to get the epic collection. The $100 cover price is crazy.

I really wanted a Planet of the Apes omnibus, but not like this. Not like this! Hopefully I’ll be able to get it for under $30 someday.

Such a shame they went cheap on the extras -- I've come close a few times on this book, but just can't pull the trigger.

Some day I will watch the movies.

I'd rather have a new edition of the 1974 Power Records adaptions. The art is way better.

MARVEL: "Still $100" Just like they printed on the floppies before bumping it up a nickle from .15 to .20 in 1971.

Holy cow! They definitely should have rotated the words on the spine like Devil Dinosaur. I’m sure people would’ve complained about that though lol. There’s no winning!

Give me a 1600 page DC chunky omnibus

2:25 Marvel really has to stop employing stupid in the spine department.

There was a lot of material cut from the comic's

What a complete disgrace.

I was a fan. Must buy the book.

I suspect (in good faith) that the larger price is due to restoration on top of licensing cost. Like Conan on top of a MM edition.

$100 for 11 issues? Come on Marvel you cant just slap the omnibus label on it and overcharge the consumer! Easy pass

that is a small book

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This book is a joke. What's with that stupid price

I'm afraid this is not $99.00 worth of content. They would be stretching it at half the price. They should have combined it with the Mike Ploog magazine material & then I would have given it some consideration. Since Disney now owns Marvel & Fox is there any chance that they'll re-publish the Gabriel Hardman or Carlos Mango material?

Omnibus?100$?joke

I know you can't really comment on the price point but this is ridiculous! When it appeared as a pre-order I thought it was an error. Like they dropped a number somewhere. If it was like a third of the price I would be all over this, since I'm a big fan of the Planet of the Apes in all forms. But a 100$?!? Thanks for nothing Marvel!

The Simpsons already spoiled Planet of the Apes almost 30 years ago. I haven't seen the movie but yeah, pretty much everyone knows the big twist.

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