Marvel & DC omnibus editions

Jesse Custer keeps walking across America looking for a God who abandoned his own creation, and the further he gets the less the joke protects anybody. The second omnibus is where Ennis and Dillon stop playing and the friendships, the Saint of Killers and the Grail all come due at once.

Kirby left the Fourth World unfinished when DC cancelled it, and for twenty years other people tried to end it for him. This second omnibus collects what came after: the returns, the continuations and the eventual conclusion of the New Gods, from the 1970s through to the writers who inherited Apokolips.

Mitchell Hundred can talk to machines, spent a year as a costumed hero, and then got elected Mayor of New York on the strength of it. Brian K. Vaughan writes fifty issues about the superhero problem nobody else touches: what happens when the guy in the cape has to run a city council meeting.

The third Bronze Age volume of DC's horror anthology, where Cain introduces short stories that run from genuinely nasty to openly comic. This is the era when the Comics Code loosened and the artists on these books, Wrightson, Aparo, Toth and Kaluta, were allowed to draw what they wanted.

The companion anthology to House of Mystery, hosted by Abel instead of Cain, and the book where Swamp Thing first appeared as a one off horror story. Monsters, witches and revenge tales drawn by the best artists DC had, at the moment the Code stopped being able to stop them.

Gwen Dylan digs graves for a living and eats a brain once a month to keep her memory, which means she inherits the dead person's unfinished business. Roberson and Allred built a monster comedy around it, with a were-terrier, a 1960s ghost and a paintbrush that makes death look like a party.

Palmiotti and Gray moved DC's scarred bounty hunter from the open range into 1880s Gotham City, where he works cases with Amadeus Arkham and finds the city was already rotten a century before Batman. All-Star Western ran the whole New 52 and is the best sustained western DC has published.

The Legion always assumed the 30th century was a utopia. Five Years Later opens with the utopia gone, the team disbanded and the survivors older, poorer and compromised. Giffen and the Bierbaums rebuilt the series as dense political science fiction and split the fanbase permanently.

The second half of the Five Years Later run takes the Legion through the Terra Mosaic and into the reboot that ended it. The Bierbaums keep writing after Giffen leaves, Stuart Immonen arrives as an artist nobody had heard of, and the series finishes by rewriting its own continuity out of existence.

Atrocitus builds a corps out of pure rage, gives some of them their minds back, and immediately regrets it. Milligan and then Charles Soule take the least promising Green Lantern spin off and turn it into a book about anger as an addiction, complete with a cat that is genuinely one of the best characters DC created that decade.

Shade arrives from Meta wearing a dead man's body to fight the madness spreading through America, and the woman travelling with him is the daughter of the family his host murdered. Milligan and Bachalo turned a Ditko creation into the strangest road trip Vertigo ever published.

The second omnibus follows Shade past the point where the madness stops being outside him. Milligan keeps changing the format, the body and the narrator, and the run finishes as one of the few Vertigo series that got to end exactly how its writer wanted.

Marvel published Conan for two decades and Titan is putting the whole thing back in print, in order, for the first time since the licence moved. Collects the fifth run of Conan the Barbarian, written by J.M. DeMatteis and others with art by John Buscema and Gil Kane.

Marvel published Conan for two decades and Titan is putting the whole thing back in print, in order, for the first time since the licence moved. Collects the fifth run of Conan the Barbarian, written by J.M. DeMatteis and others with art by John Buscema and Gil Kane.

By the sixth volume Conan has outlived his own boom: the sword and sorcery fad is over and the book keeps running on the strength of its craft alone. Collects the sixth run of Conan the Barbarian, written by Michael Fleisher and Larry Yakata with art by John Buscema.

By the sixth volume Conan has outlived his own boom: the sword and sorcery fad is over and the book keeps running on the strength of its craft alone. Collects the sixth run of Conan the Barbarian, written by Michael Fleisher and Larry Yakata with art by John Buscema.

The seventh volume brings in Christopher Priest, who writes Conan as a man increasingly aware that the world he moves through is bigger than the sword in his hand. Collects the seventh run of Conan the Barbarian, written by Christopher J. Priest and Don Kraar with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.

The seventh volume brings in Christopher Priest, who writes Conan as a man increasingly aware that the world he moves through is bigger than the sword in his hand. Collects the seventh run of Conan the Barbarian, written by Christopher J. Priest and Don Kraar with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.

King Conan takes the character forty years forward: Conan on the throne of Aquilonia, older, heavier and with a son to worry about, which is a different story from the one he made his name in. Collects the first run of King Conan, written by Roy Thomas, Doug Moench and Alan Zelenetz with art by John Buscema and Marc Silvestri.

King Conan takes the character forty years forward: Conan on the throne of Aquilonia, older, heavier and with a son to worry about, which is a different story from the one he made his name in. Collects the first run of King Conan, written by Roy Thomas, Doug Moench and Alan Zelenetz with art by John Buscema and Marc Silvestri.

The third King Conan omnibus follows the king through the last years of the Marvel run, when the writers were free to take the character wherever they wanted because nobody was watching. Collects the third run of King Conan, written by Don Kraar and Christopher J. Priest with art by John Buscema, Mike Docherty and Geoff Isherwood.

The third King Conan omnibus follows the king through the last years of the Marvel run, when the writers were free to take the character wherever they wanted because nobody was watching. Collects the third run of King Conan, written by Don Kraar and Christopher J. Priest with art by John Buscema, Mike Docherty and Geoff Isherwood.

The Savage Sword of Conan was a black and white magazine, which meant no Comics Code, no colour and no page limits. It is where the best Conan comics were published. Collects the fifth run of The Savage Sword of Conan in black and white, with art by John Buscema and Ernie Colon.

The Savage Sword of Conan was a black and white magazine, which meant no Comics Code, no colour and no page limits. It is where the best Conan comics were published. Collects the fifth run of The Savage Sword of Conan in black and white, with art by John Buscema and Ernie Colon.