Black Panther: The Early Marvel Years 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.

Christopher Priest's Black Panther is the run that made T'Challa a strategist: a head of state who joined the Avengers to keep an eye on them, narrated by a bewildered State Department official. Everett K. Ross narrating out of sequence is a structural gamble that pays off completely — the reader always knows less than T'Challa, which is the point. Priest also created the Dora Milaje here. This is the run every later Black Panther writer and the films are working from.

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.

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!

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 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.

Gary Kwapisz takes over as the main artist and gives the magazine a rougher, dirtier Hyborian Age than Buscema's. Collects the eighth run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Roy Thomas and Michael Fleisher with art by Gary Kwapisz, Ernie Chan and John Buscema.

Gary Kwapisz takes over as the main artist and gives the magazine a rougher, dirtier Hyborian Age than Buscema's. Collects the eighth run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Roy Thomas and Michael Fleisher with art by Gary Kwapisz, Ernie Chan and John Buscema.

Robert E. Howard's other great creation is a puritan swordsman who walks the world punishing evil because he believes God told him to, and he is far stranger company than Conan. Collects the first run of Marvel's Solomon Kane comics, adapted by Roy Thomas and Don Glut from Robert E. Howard with art by David Wenzel and Howard Chaykin.

Robert E. Howard's other great creation is a puritan swordsman who walks the world punishing evil because he believes God told him to, and he is far stranger company than Conan. Collects the first run of Marvel's Solomon Kane comics, adapted by Roy Thomas and Don Glut from Robert E. Howard with art by David Wenzel and Howard Chaykin.