The Captain Marvel HFF Omnibus Shipped With a Cover Misprint — Here's What IST Is Doing

The new Captain Marvel: Highest, Furthest, Fastest Omnibus — the Kelly Thompson and Alyssa Wong Carol Danvers collection — shipped with a cover misprint. If you ordered the standard cover, you've probably already gotten an email about it. Here's what happened, what InStockTrades is asking buyers to do, and where Marvel stands (so far, nothing).

The DM Segovia cover? Totally fine. This is a standard-cover problem.

InStockTrades emailed everyone with the Carnero cover on order. Before shipping, they want you to confirm you understand the book has a manufacturing defect and that IST won't accept returns or exchanges on it. You have to reply "yes, send it anyway" before it moves. On dust jackets: IST can't guarantee Marvel will produce replacements. If corrected jackets ever become available, IST will send one free to anyone who bought this edition — but that's an "if," not a "when." This isn't only an IST thing. This isn't only an IST thing. Other retailers are handling it differently: some DCBS and World of Books (reported by u/Username934728) orders have been pulled or cancelled outright rather than shipped as-is.

As of now there's no official word from Marvel — no statement, no confirmation that corrected dust jackets are coming. IST's "we can't guarantee" language says it all: the retailers don't know either. The precedent collectors point to is Daredevil by Bendis & Maleev Vol. 1, where a printing shipped with cover issues and Marvel eventually made corrected dust jackets available to retailers. But that's precedent, not a promise — until Marvel says something, this is wait-and-see.

Oddly, the misprint is getting a warm reception. Plenty of collectors are calling it cool, some think it's lowkey better than the intended cover, and more than one person is now hoping to land a misprinted copy over a clean one. The colors pop, and there's a real "happy accident" energy to it. Not everyone's sold — if you ordered the Carnero cover for Carnero's art, having Segovia's Captain Marvel ghosted on top is a fair thing to be annoyed about. But there's a genuine "do I actually want to keep this... maybe?" mood going around.

Whatever you think of the misprint, the decision may already be out of your hands — it sold out fast. Both covers are gone at IST and CGN, Panel Bound was down to just the DM, and Amazon's at full price. I'm not sure if the misprint fueled demand, or if all the retailers are pulling their copies down to save themselves from the customer service headache (probably the latter). If you've got the Carnero cover on order and gotten the IST email, that reply confirming you still want it is the only thing between you and the book. Given how fast everything evaporated, "send it anyway" is the move for a lot of people.