I remember which Omnibuses have variants, and in most cases I remember what all the different covers look like, so I should definitely be able to help you out with all those.

Generally, all of the non-”modern” ones have a variant. Typically, one cover is the actual cover a book found in the collection, while the other is brand-new art commissioned specifically for the Omnibus. Oftentimes, the new art is a reinterpretation of the classic cover used on the other version of the book (although sometimes not).

Rather than commenting on each individual book (which would take a while), I’ll just list the ones that I know to have variants:

Golden Age Marvel Comics Vol. 1
Amazing Fantasy
Fantastic Four Vol. 1
Mighty Thor Vol. 1
Amazing Spider-Man Vol. 1
Iron Man Vol. 1 (this one actually has TWO variants)
X-Men Vol. 1
Fantastic Four Vol. 2
Incredible Hulk Vol. 1
Captain America Vol. 1
Iron Man Vol. 2
Silver Surfer Vol. 1
Tomb of Dracula Vol. 1
Tomb of Dracula Vol. 2
Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1
Howard the Duck
Tomb of Dracula Vol. 3
Daredevil by Miller & Janson
Secret Wars
Captain Britain
Secret Wars II
Acts of Vengeance
Spider-Man by Michelinie & McFarlane
Elektra
Wolverine Vol. 1
Daredevil Omnibus Companion

I need to check on a few others, but those all have variants for sure.

Yeah, I'd rather see stuff like Wildstorm and Image go up too. But eventually, once it's all finalized, it'll be nice to be able to click to all the variants on Amazon and whatnot.

As I'm sure you already know, all the Marvel Masterworks have variants as well, but Amazon doesn't always do a good job of listing them…or when it does, it doesn't do a good job of differentiating them from the regular version. The regular versions have the silver trim (or gold for Golden Age and red for Atlas Era), and the variants have various garish-looking colors and ugly trade dress instead. The new softcover printings have ugly variants too. Still, some people like to collect those for whatever reason.

The Marvel Premiere Classics all have variants as well. The variant versions basically use the standard MMW cover layout (except with black trim instead of silver), and they're numbered.

Aside from those, I can't think of any other Marvel books that have variant covers.

It may be worth noting that there is one Omnibus that doesn't follow the typical pattern of using a classic cover and new art for the two different versions. That's the Acts of Vengeance Omnibus, which originally was going to follow that pattern, but at the last minute they pulled the classic cover and replaced it with the art from a promo piece used to promote Acts of Vengeance back when it was going on.

This angered some people, since they collected the classic cover versions and this book didn't have one. Personally, though, I think the image they used is a lot better than the cover that was replaced!

Post edited 7:52 pm – 02/22/2011 by Marc

I don't have all the MPCs memorized, but off the top of my head I do know that you're missing X-Force: A Force to be Reckoned With and X-Force: Under the Gun from that list.

Wikipedia has a complete list of all the MPCs as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Premiere_Classic

The only time I can think of that Marvel TPBs collect stuff out of order are Essential Marvel Horror Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. It's not a big deal, though, since they collect stories featuring completely different characters.

Spider-Man: Reign has a variant as well. Just remembered as I was adding it to my collection.