Marvel & DC omnibus editions

A thousand pages of black and white Conan from the years when the magazine could run whatever it wanted and often did. Collects the sixth run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Michael Fleisher, Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.

A thousand pages of black and white Conan from the years when the magazine could run whatever it wanted and often did. Collects the sixth run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Michael Fleisher, Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.

Fleisher ran the magazine for years and pushed it further into horror than the colour comic could ever go. Collects the seventh run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Michael Fleisher with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.

Fleisher ran the magazine for years and pushed it further into horror than the colour comic could ever go. Collects the seventh run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Michael Fleisher with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.

Gary Kwapisz takes over as the main artist and gives the magazine a rougher, dirtier Hyborian Age than Buscema's. Collects the eighth run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Roy Thomas and Michael Fleisher with art by Gary Kwapisz, Ernie Chan and John Buscema.

Chuck Dixon arrives on the magazine and writes Conan as pure adventure serial, which is what he does better than almost anyone. Collects the tenth run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Chuck Dixon, Larry Yakata and Don Kraar with art by Gary Kwapisz, Andy Kubert and Val Mayerik.

Chuck Dixon arrives on the magazine and writes Conan as pure adventure serial, which is what he does better than almost anyone. Collects the tenth run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Chuck Dixon, Larry Yakata and Don Kraar with art by Gary Kwapisz, Andy Kubert and Val Mayerik.

The eleventh volume runs the magazine into its final years, with Dixon and Moench writing and Paul Gulacy turning up to draw some of the best looking Conan of the decade. Collects the eleventh run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Chuck Dixon, Doug Moench and Don Kraar with art by Gary Kwapisz and Paul Gulacy.

Robert E. Howard's other great creation is a puritan swordsman who walks the world punishing evil because he believes God told him to, and he is far stranger company than Conan. Collects the first run of Marvel's Solomon Kane comics, adapted by Roy Thomas and Don Glut from Robert E. Howard with art by David Wenzel and Howard Chaykin.

Robert E. Howard's other great creation is a puritan swordsman who walks the world punishing evil because he believes God told him to, and he is far stranger company than Conan. Collects the first run of Marvel's Solomon Kane comics, adapted by Roy Thomas and Don Glut from Robert E. Howard with art by David Wenzel and Howard Chaykin.

Four mercenaries who drink more than they fight take contracts in a town that tolerates them because the alternative is worse. Kurtis J. Wiebe wrote Rat Queens as a fantasy party comedy and then spent sixty issues letting the characters get complicated enough to hurt each other.

Paprika is a young woman in a world of anthropomorphic animals where desire is the engine of everything and nobody admits it. Mirka Andolfo writes and draws the whole thing herself, as adult comedy with a cartoonist's timing rather than as erotica with a plot attached.

A perfectly ordinary man crash lands on a planet where absolutely everybody has superpowers, which makes him the freak. Jim Valentino wrote and drew normalman in 1984 as a parody of the entire superhero industry, years before he co-founded the company that now publishes it.

Spy vs. Spy Omnibus: Antonio Prohías's wordless MAD strip in an oversized hardcover. Two identical spies, one in black and one in white, trade traps, bombs and double-crosses, and neither ever wins for long.