Catching up on this thread after a few days away, and a handful of thoughts to share:

On the discussion of "important" 1990s stories, The Avengers / MTIO Annuals as "padding" and other references to volume contents:

* I think it's important to remember what the Masterworks line is as well as what it isn't. The Masterworks are a sequential collection of a comic series (multiple series due to expansion / cancellation), and not the collection of all one character's appearances in continuity. So, for example, we don't expect Untold Tales Of Spider-Man to be inserted between issues of the Steve Ditko original series. Likewise, I think the Cosmic Powers Unlimited story from the 1990s merits the same fate. The cutting line would be less clear if you had an original series creator -- say, Jim Starlin -- who published the work years later as a coda or sidebar to the original story. In that case, I'd argue for inclusion, but at the end of the book and not interupting the original sequence. (Prime example: The Goodwin / Simonson Manhunter.) 

* By that same rationale, I don't see The Avengers / MTIO Annuals as padding, and fully expected them to appear in Captain Marvel Volume 5. They are significant stories in the sequence of the Captain Marvel series, by a series creator (Jim Starlin) and they serve as a prelude for the Death of Captain Marvel which we anticipate will appear in Volume 6. While I own these stories already in Masterworks format -- and expect to own them again when they are up for re-publication in The Avengers and Marvel Two-In-One lines -- we cannot assume that every purchaser is completionist of the full Masterworks line.

* The Drax / Thanos story from Logan's Run is filler, but I wouldn't be against it being squeezed into Captain Marvel Volume 6 as an extra. Not quite sure where it could slot into the Masterworks line otherwise apart from an Odds and Sods rarity volume. Since it is contemporary of the era being collected, unlike the 1990s Cosmic Powers story, there's a stronger case for inclusion.

* A last thought on the include / not include topic: Unpublished or delayed-publication stories that were crafted from the era that we are collecting should be included. So for Ms. Marvel, I'd include the story that was originally intended for issue 25. Now, the harder call is do you just include those first 20 pages, or also collect the 10 pages added in Marvel Super-Heroes to resolve the story from a cliffhanger? My initial leaning is just publish the first 20 page cliffhanger, but I'm open to arguments.

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