Thanos

Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars is the culmination of his entire five-year Marvel run — from SHIELD to Avengers to New Avengers — compressed into a single reality-ending event. When the multiverse collapses, Doctor Doom remakes existence in his own image. Battleworld is the result: a patchwork planet of Marvel's greatest alternate realities, ruled absolutely by a god named Doom. Collects the complete Secret Wars #1–9 main series (864 pages), plus key tie-ins.

Before Battleworld, there was the end of everything. Jonathan Hickman's New Avengers run introduced the concept of incursions — parallel Earths colliding and destroying each other — and built the philosophical and moral framework that made Secret Wars inevitable. This omnibus collects the prelude material that transforms the Illuminati into reluctant architects of extinction. Collects New Avengers #1–33 and Avengers #35–44, the core incursions storyline.

Jim Starlin created Thanos in 1973 and spent two decades building the character into one of Marvel's greatest cosmic villains. This omnibus collects Starlin's Infinity Gauntlet-era Thanos work — the stories that transformed a B-list villain who worshipped Death into the existential threat that defined an entire era of Marvel cosmic storytelling.

Before Infinity Gauntlet, Jim Starlin spent years establishing who Thanos was and why he worshipped Death. This omnibus collects the origin material and early cosmic battles that made Thanos something other than a standard villain — a true believer whose nihilism has theological roots. It covers the foundational Starlin Thanos material that Infinity Gauntlet was built upon. Essential pre-Infinity Gauntlet Why it's worth it.

Jim Starlin's Infinity Gauntlet is the defining Marvel cosmic event — the story in which Thanos assembles all six Infinity Gems, wipes out half of all life in the universe, and forces Earth's remaining heroes into a desperate, seemingly impossible counterattack.