Dan Jurgens

Death and Return of Superman Omnibus is the full 1990s Superman event cycle: Doomsday's arrival, the public shock of Superman's death, Funeral for a Friend and the Reign of the Supermen that follows. Its value is scale and consequence. Dan Jurgens, Tom Grummett, Jon Bogdanove and the wider Superman team turn a headline premise into a long-form study of what Metropolis, the Justice League and DC's heroic ideal look like when Superman is absent.

The landmark 1996 crossover between DC and Marvel, with readers voting by phone who won each fight. Spider-Man vs Superboy, Batman vs Captain America, Wolverine vs Lobo, Hulk vs Superman. It's the only official crossover between the two American comic book giants. This edition is the Direct Market Exclusive variant with cover by Jim Lee.

Superman: Brainiac Reborn Omnibus focuses on the late-1990s and early-2000s Superman material where Brainiac's threat, Kryptonian identity and Metropolis-scale action reshape the character's world. The book is useful because it gathers a specific Superman lane rather than a generic hero sampler: science-fiction menace, legacy pressure and the recurring question of what survives from Krypton when its enemies keep returning.

Superman: Exile and Other Stories Omnibus follows Clark after the Pocket Universe execution of three Kryptonian criminals, when guilt drives him away from Earth and into a harsh cosmic trial. It is a post-Crisis Superman story about conscience before spectacle. The book matters because Roger Stern, Jerry Ordway and George Perez use exile to define Superman as a moral character first, with Warworld and early Eradicator material pointing toward the 1990s line.

Dan Jurgens and Jerry Ordway relaunch the God of Thunder in 1998 with a clean-slate Thor that became the definitive post-Heroes Return era. This first omnibus collects the opening chapters of Thor (1998) #1–25 plus key annuals, reestablishing Asgard in a rebuilt New York and introducing Jake Olson as Thor's mortal host. Jurgens strips the concept back to its core and delivers blockbuster mythological action with a sharp modern sensibility. The volume captures the optimism of late-90s Marvel at its most ambitious, anchored by Jurgens' clean storytelling and Ordway's dynamic layouts. A foundational read for any collector of the Thunder God.

Spider-Man: Ben Reilly Omnibus Vol. 2 is the closing act of Ben as Spider-Man, and it should be sold honestly as a completion volume for Clone Saga readers. The appeal is the tension of an era trying to resolve itself: Ben fighting to own the mask, Peter Parker waiting in the, and Marvel pushing a complicated 1990s status quo toward its inevitable reversal. Messy, important and very specific to Spider-Man completists.

Second volume with the central arcs of the Triangle Era experiment: the time when editorial coordination between the four Superman titles was at its creative peak, with weekly crossover sagas and consequences that spanned months. The heart of an entire decade of the character's history, culminating in the run-up to the Death of Superman. Roger Stern, Dan Jurgens, and Louise Simonson write complementary threads that reward reading in publication order. The most ambitious Superman publishing experiment ever attempted.

Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus Vol. 1 begins DC's 1990s weekly Superman machine, where Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Superman and Man of Steel function as one coordinated reading order. The numbered triangles turn the line into a continuous serial rather than separate titles. Jurgens, Ordway, Stern and Simonson build the dense ecosystem that leads toward Death of Superman and the most interconnected Superman publishing era.