Marvel & DC omnibus editions

Danny Ketch and Johnny Blaze ride with the Midnight Sons against Lilith, the demon queen, and the Lilin she spawns. This is the closing stretch of Howard Mackie's run, the point where the 1990s Midnight Sons line pulls every Marvel horror title into one story. The official Marvel listing gives 1,232 pages and collects Ghost Rider (1990) #41-50 plus the full Spirits of Vengeance and Midnight Sons crossover.

Benjamin Percy's complete Ghost Rider in one omnibus: Johnny Blaze escapes a too-perfect prison of a life, takes on the Cult of Mephisto and crosses paths with Wolverine, leading to the debut of Hellverine. Direct Market edition, Ryan Stegman cover.

The epic mythology of the Phoenix in a single, uncanny Omnibus! The classic Dark Phoenix Saga was just the start: The cosmic firebird's fate remained intertwined with that of Jean Grey through her cycle of life, death and rebirth - and even took a few other hosts along the way! This volume collects the biggest Phoenix stories of the 21st century - from the epic future of "Here Comes Tomorrow" to the seismic war between the Avengers and the X-Men, plus the blockbuster returns that show you can never keep Jean Grey down for long!

The second Busiek and Pérez omnibus continues their Avengers run, the one that restored the team's scale and continuity after the Heroes Reborn detour. Ultron Unlimited is here, and it is the definitive Ultron story: an entire nation killed off-panel before the team arrives, and Pérez drawing hundreds of identical robots without losing a single face. Maximum Security is the other draw — the arc where Earth is declared a prison planet by the wider galaxy.

Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti wrote Harley Quinn for six years and turned her from a Batman villain into a lead who carries her own neighbourhood. Conner and Palmiotti write Harley as fundamentally decent and completely unhinged, and the Coney Island supporting cast, her tenants, her roller derby team, her rescued animals, is the reason the run works. Conner's art is among the most expressive in mainstream comics and the book is genuinely funny rather than edgy.

When Jean Grey returns from a watery grave, the original X-Men reunite - as X-Factor! But for Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Beast, Angel and Iceman, posing as a mutant-hunting organization gets complicated fast! And things get worse when the ageless villain Apocalypse makes the scene! Then, when X-Factor is drawn into the chaos of the Mutant Massacre, Angel suffers a grievous injury and will be changed forever!

The continuing adventures of the original X-Men, reunited as X-Factor! In the wake of Apocalypse's attack, X-Factor battle the Avengers, the bouncing Beast becomes blue and furry once more and the team goes public! But when Cyclops and Marvel Girl begin a search for Scott's missing son, bizarre mysteries are uncovered - and the flames of an Inferno begin to flicker!

Wonder Woman by Gail Simone Omnibus collects the longest run any woman has written on the character, and the one most often named when readers argue about the best modern Wonder Woman. Simone writes Diana as a warrior who genuinely enjoys the fight, surrounds her with a real supporting cast, and never treats compassion and violence as opposites. Includes the landmark issue #600.

The Silver Age Wonder Woman is a different book entirely: Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot, Mer-Boy, impossible machines and a version of Paradise Island run on pure invention. Kanigher and Ross Andru made comics for children that are far weirder than anything aimed at adults.

Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 5, her adventures from the late 1940s and early 1950s in an oversized hardcover. Collects Wonder Woman #35-47, Sensation Comics #90-104 and Action Comics #142.

Classic Wonder Woman stories from the Silver Age collected together in stunning hardcover! Fans of the Amazon warrior won't want to miss this brilliant collection of 1960's comics. Picking up where Wonder Woman: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 leaves off,

Dan Jurgens returned to Superman for DC's Rebirth initiative in 2016, at a moment when there were two Supermen in continuity and neither the reader nor the characters knew why. Jurgens had written the Death of Superman twenty-five years earlier, and Rebirth let him write the reunion: a Superman with a wife and son, restored after five years of a version DC had struggled to sell. The mystery of the second Clark Kent is also the cleanest piece of continuity repair DC has managed.

Warren Ellis's Wolverine work collects his two acclaimed storylines — Not Dead Yet and Dying Time — along with associated material from his run on the character. Ellis brought the same cold, precise approach to Wolverine that had made his Iron Man Extremis arc so effective: stripping away the mythology to find the important character underneath, then using that distillation to construct high-concept action stories that worked as character studies simultaneously. McTeigue's Not Dead Yet storyline in particular is frequently cited as the best standalone Wolverine arc of the 2000s.

The devastating aftermath of Wolverine's death - and his remarkable return from the grave! Logan is dead - but what will happen to his mortal remains, encased in adamantium? The battle for control of this valuable artifact has begun - with Mystique, Mister Sinister, Daken, X-23, Sabretooth and Lady Deathstrike among the players in this deadly game!

Jason Aaron puts Wolverine through Hell - literally! A mysterious organization conspires to possess Wolverine's body with demons and send his soul to the underworld! Waiting for Logan are the souls of unexpected family and friends - and the Devil himself! Naturally, Wolverine plans to claw his way back out and have his revenge, but that might be exactly what the shadowy group wants!

Wolverine takes on the Marvel Universe's major players! Wolverine's past is full of nasty characters - but few as fiendish as the White Ghost, a murderous mercenary Logan thought he'd left for dead during his spy years! Then wedding bells are ringing in Madripoor - but when the "happy couple" is Wolverine and the villainous Viper, it's anything but cause for celebration!

Rick Remender's Uncanny Avengers launched immediately after Avengers vs. X-Men as the flagship title of Marvel NOW! — a Unity Squad of Avengers and X-Men working together to fulfill Charles Xavier's dream of human/mutant coexistence, led by Captain America and Havok. Remender used the format to address the damage Cyclops's actions had done to the mutant cause, positioned Havok as a controversial spokesperson for a post-AvX mutant identity, and built toward the Apocalypse Twins storyline — a massive alternate future/time-travel epic where the villains literally won.

Jason Aaron rebuilds Earth’s Mightiest Heroes around Captain America, Iron Man and Thor, then adds Black Panther, Captain Marvel, She-Hulk and Robbie Reyes. Celestials, vampires, the War of the Realms, Khonshu and the Phoenix Force turn the opening movement of his run into one escalating cosmic epic.

Jason Aaron rebuilds Earth’s Mightiest Heroes around Captain America, Iron Man and Thor, then adds Black Panther, Captain Marvel, She-Hulk and Robbie Reyes. Celestials, vampires, the War of the Realms, Khonshu and the Phoenix Force turn the opening movement of his run into one escalating cosmic epic.

Jason Aaron helmed one of the longest and most exciting Avengers runs of the modern era, and this omnibus collects the sweeping conclusion of his work with the biggest saga in Avengers history! On a quest for cosmic vengeance, Ghost Rider finds himself on a ruined Earth where the great Age of Heroes never came to be.

On a day unlike any other, an epic team of Avengers forms to face mighty threats with a classic flavor! When the Earth is stolen, it triggers the end of an era for its Mightiest Heroes! The sky burns while mysterious cosmic objects crash down from above, wreaking havoc across the world! The Avengers are the last line of defense against the forces threatening to tear their planet apart — including Thanos’ Black Order and the new Lethal Legion!

Collecting a three-year run of AVENGERS at its very best, with dynamite work from an awesome assemblage of legendary creators! First, Gerry Conway joins George Pérez for a new era for Earth's Mightiest Heroes. When Wonder Man returns, the team's internal drama reaches a crescendo all while the Avengers wage war against Doctor Doom.

JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 2 collects the team's most celebrated middle era. Now firmly Geoff Johns's book (with David S. Goyer co-writing much of the stretch), the Justice Society becomes a DC flagship through arcs like "Princes of Darkness," "Black Reign", the Black Adam turn that reshaped the character, and "Waking the Sandman." The legacy-mentorship dynamic deepens as the old guard and the new generation are tested. Core art by Leonard Kirk and Don Kramer, with Rags Morales and others.

Mark Gruenwald's monumental Captain America run begins here — over a decade of stories that defined the character through the 1980s and early 1990s. Gruenwald was a Marvel lifer who understood Cap at a molecular level, and this first omnibus showcases his extraordinary commitment to building a coherent mythology around Steve Rogers. The Flag-Smasher, the Serpent Society, and the early ULTIMATUM storylines are among the highlights of a run that remains important reading for anyone who wants to understand how Cap was written before Brubaker changed everything.