The Official Marvel Graphic Novel Collection (also referred to as The Ultimate Graphic Novels Collection) is a fortnightly partwork magazine published by Hachette Partworks. The series is a collection of special edition hardback graphic novels, collecting all the parts in a story arc for one of Marvel's best known superheroes, often a fan-favourite or "important" story from Marvel comics lore.
The series is published in the UK, Russia, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa by Hachette Partworks, in Poland by Hachette Polska, in the Czech Republic and Slovakia by Panini Fascicule, in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Perú and Chile by Editorial Salvat, in Bulgaria by Hachette Fascicoli and in France and Germany by the French mother company of Hachette Collections. The first English-language issue was published in December 2011 priced at £2.99 (R29.95 in SA, $7.95 in AU) issue 2 was £6.99 (R79.95 in SA, $12.95 in AU) and from issue 3 onwards it was its normal price of £9.99 (R109.95 in SA, $19.95 in AU).
The series proved so successful for publisher Hachette Partworks that they launched a second series of 130 fortnightly graphic novel hardbacks entitled Marvel's Mightiest Heroes Graphic Novel Collection and a third (non-Marvel) series of 90 fortnightly graphic novel hardbacks entitled Judge Dredd: The Mega Collection, a fourth series of 100 fortnightly graphic novel hardbacks called Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection (featuring Generation One strips from Marvel US and UK, Dreamwave and IDW) and a fifth series of 80 fortnightly graphic novel hardbacks entitled 2000 AD: The Ultimate Collection. It also inspired a similar partwork line from DC Comics and Eaglemoss Collections, the DC Comics Graphic Novel Collection and one featuring Star Trek comics from the sixties up until modern comics called Star Trek Graphic Novel Collection, and at the end of 2017 an even newer collection also by Eaglemoss DC Comics – The Legend of Batman.
The collection was later re-released with alternative numbering in 2016, which concluded with Issue 170 in September 2022.