Marvel & DC omnibus editions

After Jack Kirby's original Eternals series ended, Roy Thomas and Mark Gruenwald took on the challenge of integrating the Eternals into the broader Marvel Universe — a complex task given how self-contained Kirby's vision was. The result is a fascinating chapter in Marvel cosmic history that bridges the gap between Kirby mythology and mainstream continuity. It represents the full arc of the post-Kirby Eternals era. Why it's worth reading.

The Justice League of America launched in 1960 and effectively created the superhero team book as a format, gathering DC's biggest characters into one title every month. Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky wrote and drew these as puzzle stories: a threat splits the League into pairs, each pair solves part of it, and they reconvene for the finish. The structure is formulaic and completely satisfying. It is also the book that convinced Marvel to launch the Fantastic Four, which makes it foundational twice over.

Dazzler was created in 1980 as a joint venture between Marvel and Casablanca Records: a mutant disco singer designed to cross over into music. The label deal collapsed, and the character survived anyway. X-Men #130 is her first appearance and one of the more sought-after issues of the Claremont run. The series itself is a genuine oddity — a superhero book about a working musician, with a direct-market experiment behind it — and this is the only place the whole forty-two issue run is collected.

Rainbow Rowell's She-Hulk launched in 2022 as a deliberate course correction — a series focused on Jennifer Walters as a person rather than a legal concept or comedy premise. Coming after years of continuity upheaval, it returns She-Hulk to basics: her relationships, her identity struggles between human and Hulk, and her emotional life. Collects She-Hulk #1–15 (). The series follows Jen attempting to rebuild her life while wrestling with the division between her two identities.

The Death of Captain America is the storyline Ed Brubaker wrote immediately after Civil War, in which Steve Rogers is shot on the courthouse steps and stays dead for two years. The interesting part is that Brubaker barely writes Steve: the run is about Bucky Barnes taking the shield, Sharon Carter's role in the assassination, and the Red Skull operating through other people's bodies. It is the rare superhero death that Marvel used properly, and Bucky's tenure as Captain America starts here.

Mark Gruenwald wrote Captain America for ten years, longer than anyone, and this omnibus covers the stretch where he asked what the character owes his own government. This is the Streets of Poison and Bloodstone Hunt period, and it also contains the Captain America drug storyline that Marvel has never reprinted much. Gruenwald built most of the modern supporting cast — Diamondback, Crossbones, the Serpent Society — and his run is the connective tissue between Kirby's Cap and Brubaker's.

X-Men 2099 Omnibus moves the mutant idea into Marvel’s future line, where identity, rebellion and corporate pressure replace the familiar school structure. John Francis Moore, Scott Lobdell and Ron Lim build a team that feels connected to the X-Men myth without simply repeating Xavier’s dream in another costume. For collectors, the hook is the distance from the mansion. The 2099 setting lets mutant conflict become cyberpunk pressure, with teams and identities shaped by a world that has already sold too much of its future.

Mark Gruenwald's epic run continues with Steve Rogers back in the red-white-and-blue! With his familiar shield in hand, Steve battles alongside Nick Fury and takes on the Supreme Soviets! But his return to the mantle of Captain America may come to a swift end as he struggles to survive Mother Night's camp of hate - while transformed into a scrawny teenager!

The howling-mad Cap-Wolf and more of the Sentinel of Liberty’s most action-packed adventures! Captain America faces a threat like never before when Superia raises an army of female super villains — but even with the roguish gun-for-hire Paladin’s help, can Cap thwart Superia’s stratagem? Next, Cap comes face-to-face with his German counterpart, Hauptmann Deutschland.

While the world believes that Steve Rogers is dead, Captain America lives on! In this Omnibus collection of Marvel classics by Stan Lee, Gene Colan and John Romita Sr., Cap embarks upon some of his all-time greatest adventures! A body-swapping encounter with the Red Skull and his Cosmic Cube leads to the first appearance of the Falcon; M.

The early '70s were interesting times for America - and adventurous ones for Captain America! Featuring more than forty issues of Cap action, this oversized Omnibus collects writer Steve Englehart's and artist Sal Buscema's iconic run on the Star-Spangled Avenger! Cap battles enemies - and allies - including Doctor Faustus, S.

The early '70s were interesting times for America - and adventurous ones for Captain America! Featuring more than forty issues of Cap action, this oversized Omnibus collects writer Steve Englehart's and artist Sal Buscema's iconic run on the Star-Spangled Avenger! Cap battles enemies - and allies - including Doctor Faustus, S.

Includes Roger Stern and John Byrne’s complete run, a high watermark for Captain America storytelling! Pop culture might have gone from disco to punk to new wave during the four-year run of stories collected in this Omnibus extravaganza, but one man remained as red, white and blue as ever: Steve Rogers, Captain America!

Includes Roger Stern and John Byrne's complete run, a high-water mark for Captain America storytelling! Pop culture might have gone from disco to punk to new wave during the four-year run of stories collected in this Omnibus extravaganza, but one man remained as red, white and blue as ever: Steve Rogers, Captain America!

Jack Kirby created the Eternals in 1976, after returning from DC, as a bid to explain human mythology as the memory of alien visitors. Kirby wrote and drew the whole run and it was cancelled before he could finish. The Celestials — building-sized judges who arrive every few thousand years to decide whether humanity survives — are the enduring idea, and Marvel has used them ever since. It is Kirby's last great creation and it reads unlike anything else he did.

Harley Quinn's adventures in Coney Island continue in the second volume of the Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti run. Harley has established herself as Coney Island's unofficial protector, builds her own gang, and takes on threats ranging from local crime to cosmic weirdness. The series maintains the anarchic energy of the first volume while deepening the supporting cast and Harley's relationships. One of DC's most purely entertaining series of the 2010s, continuing the run that made Harley Quinn a star.

JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 3 closes out the original series and opens the acclaimed 2007 relaunch, Justice Society of America. It gathers the "Lightning Saga" JLA/JSA crossover and the celebrated "Thy Kingdom Come", the epic where the Superman of Kingdom Come crosses into the main DC Universe. Dale Eaglesham becomes the signature artist of the relaunch, under iconic Alex Ross covers, in the run that broke Stargirl out as a marquee character. The definitive Johns JSA reaches its high point.

Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote Black Panther for five years and treated Wakanda as a political problem rather than a setting: a monarchy whose subjects have started asking why it exists. The first half is a revolution against T'Challa by people with legitimate grievances, which almost no superhero comic attempts. The second half moves to a Wakandan empire in deep space, thousands of years in the future, where T'Challa is an amnesiac slave. Both halves are genuinely political rather than politically flavoured.

Hollywood heavyweight Reginald Hudlin delivers one of the most influential Black Panther runs of all! Teaming with superstar artist John Romita Jr., Reginald Hudlin begins by going right back to the start — presenting T'Challa's origin in cinematic scope! The secret history of Wakanda is revealed as Princess Shuri becomes a huge part of the Black Panther mythos!

Two decades of Black Panther stories in one action-packed volume! Return to Wakanda for more tales of the Black Panther - beginning with T'Challa setting out on far-out adventures that could only be conceived by his legendary co-creator, Jack Kirby! The King of Comics sets the King of Wakanda on an epic quest to discover the startling secret of King Solomon's Frog that sees him encounter alien races, battle eternal samurai warriors and more!

Completing the original adventures of the first Captain Marvel, from his high-flying cosmic adventures in the depths of space, to the heartbreaking and all-time-great story of his tragic death. Welcome to the next level of cosmic consciousness with the adventures of Captain Marvel! From Earth to the Moon to the Watcher's homeworld and into the Negative Zone, these galaxy-spanning stories set the tone for Marvel epics.

Swamp Thing: Dark Genesis Omnibus collects the original Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson run that created the character, plus the material that followed before Alan Moore arrived. Wrightson's swamp is one of the most beautiful things ever drawn in a mainstream comic.

The middle and strongest stretch of Marvel's longest-running horror series. Dracula is hunted across Europe while the book turns from monster-of-the-month into a genuine serial novel with a continuing cast. Gene Colan's shadow work here is the reason artists still study this run.

Bill Mantlo and a young Jim Lee on Alpha Flight, collected for the first time: issues #30-70 plus annuals, 1,192 pages.