Black Panther by Christopher Priest Omnibus Vol. 1

Wakanda: World of Black Panther gathers the series Marvel published around Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panther, expanding the country into a setting with its own cast. World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay is the first Marvel title written by a Black woman, and the Dora Milaje material is the best thing in the volume. Shuri by Nnedi Okorafor is the other draw — a science-fiction book about a young engineer, and the closest Marvel has come to Afrofuturism as a genre rather than a setting.

Reginald Hudlin's Black Panther run (2005–2008) brought the character into the mainstream spotlight at a pivotal moment. Hudlin, a Hollywood director and producer, approached the series with cinematic ambition — his opening arc 'Who Is the Black Panther?' was deliberately crafted as a film pitch and later adapted into an animated series. The run expands Wakandan mythology, introduces new villains, and pairs T'Challa with Storm of the X-Men in a high-profile royal wedding. Hudlin's tenure also features the celebrated 'Black to the Future' issue and cross-genre storytelling that pushed Wakanda into global relevance. This omnibus collects his complete run in one oversized hardcover, making it a valuable piece of Black Panther history.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Christopher Priest wrote Deathstroke for fifty issues, treating Slade Wilson as a case study in how a man justifies being a contract killer to his own family. Priest structures it the way he structured Black Panther, out of sequence, with the reader always a step behind, and the subject is family rather than mercenary work. Slade's children are the real cast, and the run's best issues are arguments rather than fights. It is one of the strongest DC runs of its decade.

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.

Sensational Spidey adventures - most of which have never been reprinted! Peter Parker gets more than he bargained for as a substitute teacher at his old school - including a rematch with the Living Brain! Spider-Man battles the Hobgoblin and the Looter - but on a trip to Las Vegas, the wall-crawler is out of his weight class when he encounters Mr.