Marvel & DC omnibus editions

Continuing the youthful, 21st-century reimagining of Marvel's iconic quartet! Threshold, Fountain, Magnificent Brute and Dreamcatcher. These incredible entities hold the key to a cosmic conflict that has raged for untold millennia - and which now embroils the Fantastic Four! Then, the FF are pulled into a madman's scheme when those closest to them are drawn back through time.

Dan Slott presents the cosmic saga he's been waiting his entire Marvel Comics career to tell! Before the Kree, Skrull or Shi'ar empires...before the emergence of Galactus...before the birth of Asgard...there was the First War. Today, the greatest conflict to ever rage across the Multiverse is reignited.

Christopher Priest's Black Panther is the run that made T'Challa a strategist rather than a costume: a head of state who joined the Avengers to keep an eye on them. This second omnibus closes it out. The back half is where Priest gets strange: King Solomon's Frogs, a second Black Panther, jumps forward and back through the timestream, and Kevin 'Kasper' Cole inheriting the mantle without permission. Including The Crew is the reason to buy this volume — it is Priest's follow-up series, cancelled at seven issues and almost impossible to find elsewhere.

The fifth Golden Age Superman volume covers the immediate post-war years, when America was rebuilding and the comics reflected it. The wartime propaganda drops away and the stories turn domestic: Superman dealing with housing shortages, returning veterans and a country changing shape. It is a genuinely useful historical record, and it captures the moment before television and the Comics Code changed what the character was allowed to be.

Arthur Adams drew relatively little for Marvel and influenced almost everyone who came after. This gathers all of it: the Longshot debut, the X-Men annuals that made his reputation, and a large section of pencils, covers and unused art.

Nick Spencer's Captain America — the most politically controversial Marvel run of the 2010s, beginning with the shocking revelation that Steve Rogers is a HYDRA sleeper agent. Secret Empire divided fandom but demonstrated Spencer's willingness to use superhero iconography to explore genuinely disturbing questions about how fascism operates within democratic systems. This first omnibus collects the buildup to that event and the Steve Rogers: Captain America series that redefined Cap's public role in the Marvel universe.

The second Johns omnibus contains Blackest Night, the event in which every dead character in the DC Universe returns wearing a black power ring. Blackest Night works because it is built on grief rather than spectacle: the risen dead are people the heroes failed to save, and they know exactly what to say. Ivan Reis draws the whole thing. It was DC's best-selling event of its decade and it reads far better collected than it did month to month.

Superman & Batman: Generations Omnibus collects John Byrne's Elseworlds saga, which asks a simple question: what if Superman and Batman had aged in real time since 1939? Each chapter jumps a decade, and their children and grandchildren inherit the capes.

A dark new era dawns for Excalibur! Meggan and Nightcrawler face despair as Captain Britain and Cerise are ripped from the team. Phoenix holds the key to Brian's return, but is the cost too high to bear? And what has Brian become? As Excalibur relocates to Muir Island, Nightcrawler learns a startling secret - and a Phalanx invasion introduces a strange new, or old, ally.

Concluding the classic original run of the most unexpected X-title of all! When the mystical Dragons of the Crimson Dawn target Brian Braddock, a sacrifice must be made to save the world! Even with Spiral as their unlikely ally, can Excalibur stop the Dragons’ interdimensional scheme in time? As Kitty Pryde comes to terms with Douglock, the Phalanx in the shape of her dead best friend, S.

Don McGregor's 'Panther's Prey' is one of the most ambitious Black Panther stories ever written — a four-issue prestige-format miniseries published in 1990–1991 that reunites McGregor with his Wakanda. The story pits T'Challa against the drug lord Hardcase and his Crew in a tale that weaves street-level crime with Wakandan politics, exploring what it means to be a Black king in a world shaped by systemic inequality.

DC One Million Omnibus collects Grant Morrison's crossover in which the Justice League of the 853rd century invites the present-day heroes to the future, and every DC title that month jumped a million issues ahead. It is Morrison at their most gleefully inventive: a Superman living inside the sun, a Batman descended from Bruce Wayne's line, and Vandal Savage still alive and still furious.

John Byrne relaunched Doom Patrol in 2004 with a full reboot, wiping the continuity Grant Morrison and Rachel Pollack had built and starting from the original team. The JLA issues are where Byrne reintroduces the team, and the reboot itself is a genuine curiosity: DC let a creator delete two celebrated runs and then quietly restored them a few years later. Byrne's version plays the concept straight as science fiction, which is the version the character had before 1989.

Supergirl by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the run that turned Supergirl into something genuinely strange: a shapeshifting protoplasmic being merged with a troubled human girl, forced to share one body and one conscience. Peter David wrote it for eighty issues and it is unlike any other Supergirl.

John Byrne created Alpha Flight as a one-off obstacle for the X-Men in 1979 and then spent twenty-eight issues arguing, largely with himself, that Canada's superteam deserved its own book. Including X-Men #120-121 is the point: that is the team's first appearance, drawn by Byrne at the height of his Uncanny run. The series itself is stranger than its reputation — issue #12 kills the lead, #6 is almost silent — and Byrne uses the format to write about a country rather than a city.

Batwoman by J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman is the most visually ambitious book DC has published this century. Williams draws each sequence in a different style depending on whether Kate Kane is in or out of costume, and builds page layouts shaped like bat symbols that still read correctly. Kate is also DC's most prominent lesbian lead, and the run treats her military discharge under Don't Ask, Don't Tell as central rather than background.

The Trial of Captain America — Ed Brubaker's penultimate omnibus arc, placing Bucky Barnes in the dock for his crimes as the Winter Soldier. This omnibus collects one of the most legally and morally complex stories in Brubaker's run: can a man be judged for acts committed while brainwashed? The courtroom drama is backed by relentless action as the Sin — Red Skull's daughter — wages war on America, building toward a conclusion that fundamentally reshapes Bucky's fate. Brubaker at his most sophisticated.

The Green Lantern by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp Omnibus collects the run that treated the Corps as an interstellar police procedural: Hal Jordan works cases across the galaxy, each issue a self-contained piece of cosmic weirdness, drawn by Liam Sharp in dense painted detail.

Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Omnibus collects the complete run that rebuilt the team for a new generation: Superboy, Robin, Kid Flash and Wonder Girl joined by Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy as reluctant mentors. Johns writes teenagers who are genuinely afraid of becoming their predecessors, and the run contains 'The Future Is Now', still one of the best-loved Titans stories.

The conclusion of Nick Spencer's Captain America — Secret Empire and its aftermath, collected in the second omnibus of the most politically charged Cap run of the modern era. Secret Empire sees HYDRA Cap seize control of the United States, forcing every Marvel hero to confront what Captain America means when the man inside the suit represents everything the symbol is supposed to oppose. Spencer's conclusion is as controversial as his beginning, but the scale and ambition of the storytelling are undeniable.

Mark Waid and Chris Samnee are one of the defining creative partnerships of modern Marvel comics, celebrated for their run on Daredevil. When they reunited to tackle Black Widow, they brought the same kinetic confidence — and then extended their collaboration to Captain America, creating a cohesive spy-action epic across two iconic characters.

The Silver Surfer got his own title in 1968 after Stan Lee decided the character Kirby had created as a Galactus herald deserved to carry a book alone. John Buscema drew most of it, and the series is unusually philosophical for its era: the Surfer is trapped on Earth, observes humanity constantly and finds it disappointing. Issue #4, with the Surfer against Thor and Loki, is one of the most sought-after Silver Age comics purely for Buscema's art.

Tomb of Dracula ran for seventy issues in the seventies, after the Comics Code was relaxed to allow vampires, and is the best horror comic Marvel has ever published. Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan stayed on the book for its entire run, which almost never happened at Marvel, and the result is a genuine serial: Dracula as the protagonist, a cast of hunters who lose regularly, and Blade's first appearance in #10. Colan's shadows are the reason the book still looks unlike anything else.

Black Panther was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in Fantastic Four #52 in 1966, the first Black superhero in mainstream American comics. The Fantastic Four debut is the historically important part — T'Challa introduced not as a sidekick but as a head of state who defeats the FF to test them. The Avengers years then keep him in the main line for a decade, which is why he was available when Don McGregor and Christopher Priest later built him a mythology.