Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus Vol. 2

John Byrne's Fantastic Four run is the second-greatest creative achievement in the character's history after Lee and Kirby's founding run — a systematic reinvention of the team that returned to their core dynamics while introducing major concepts including She-Hulk's substitution for Thing, the death and rebirth of Galactus, the introduction of Frankie Raye as Nova, and the extended Reed Richards trial before the Shi'ar Imperial Guard that is one of the most conceptually ambitious single storylines in 1980s Marvel.

Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four run established his Marvel career's defining mode — massive, architecturally complex narratives with years-long payoffs, introduced through the Council of Reeds (alternate universe versions of Reed Richards who had solved every problem and abandoned their families) and the War of Four Cities that pitted the Kree, the Inhumans, the High Evolutionary's creations, and the Kree's counter-faction against each other simultaneously. This is Hickman operating at maximum ambition before the Avengers work that followed.

Dan Slott's Fantastic Four run began in 2018 and immediately engaged with the team's foundational mythology in ambitious ways — exploring the nature of Richards family intelligence across generations, the Griever's attempt to destroy all that the FF have created, and the team's return to active duty after a period of absence.

Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch's Fantastic Four run applied the same widescreen action cinema approach the pair had pioneered in The Ultimates to Marvel's First Family — massive scale, cinematic set pieces, and a villain (the Old Power-wielding Skulls) designed for maximum visual spectacle. The run also contained one of comics' most emotionally effective death-and-legacy storylines, as Millar used the threat to the team's future as an opportunity to examine what the Fantastic Four's legacy would be if they were gone.

Fantastic Four by Waid & Wieringo Omnibus understands the team as a family of explorers before anything else. Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo bring warmth, invention and emotional clarity to Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben, making the cosmic ideas work because the people at the centre still feel close. For a Fantastic Four shelf, the appeal is the family engine: exploration, ego, affection and scientific danger all matter because the team is a household before it is a brand.

The second Byrne Fantastic Four omnibus covers the conclusion of his major run, including Sue Storm's evolution from Invisible Girl to Invisible Woman, the extended Secret Wars connection, the Thing's return from self-imposed exile, and a major Doctor Doom conflict that reinforces Doom as one of the team's defining enemies.

Marv Wolfman's Fantastic Four run represents the final pre-Byrne era — the creative tenure immediately before John Byrne's major reinvention of the team. Wolfman introduced the Frightful Four's most ambitious membership configuration, developed the Nova connection between his simultaneous run on that character and the FF, and used the team format to explore large-scale cosmic threats that his successor Byrne would later ground in more character-focused directions.

The fifth Fantastic Four omnibus continues Roy Thomas's run through the transition to Len Wein and other writers, covering the period when Marvel was experimenting with the team's format — including the Thing's solo focus, the shifting relationship dynamics post-Medusa's team membership, and the introduction of new antagonists that would define later FF eras. This volume documents the book's creative search for a post-Kirby identity before Byrne's eventual major reimagining.

Ultimate Marvel by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus collects his original 2010–2012 run on the first Ultimate Universe — not the 2024 relaunch, but the acclaimed earlier work that planted its seeds. Ultimate Comics Ultimates is geopolitical, high-concept superhero storytelling on a world scale: the rise of the hyper-accelerated posthuman "City," the collapse of nations, and the turn of Reed Richards toward the villain he will become — the Maker. With Ultimate Thor and Ultimate Comics Hawkeye alongside, drawn by Carlos Pacheco, Esad Ribić and more. The run that Hickman himself would later build the new Ultimate Universe from.

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 (), 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.

Jonathan Hickman's SHIELD reimagines the Marvel Universe's secret history as a millennia-long conspiracy. The premise: SHIELD has existed since ancient times, and Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Isaac Newton, and Galileo were all agents who fought off alien invasions, cosmic threats, and dimensional incursions long before Nick Fury. It's high-concept historical fiction wrapped in Marvel iconography. Collects SHIELD #1–6 and SHIELD vol. 2 #1–6 ().

Jonathan Hickman's Fantastic Four run established his Marvel career's defining mode — massive, architecturally complex narratives with years-long payoffs, introduced through the Council of Reeds (alternate universe versions of Reed Richards who had solved every problem and abandoned their families) and the War of Four Cities that pitted the Kree, the Inhumans, the High Evolutionary's creations, and the Kree's counter-faction against each other simultaneously. This is Hickman operating at maximum ambition before the Avengers work that followed.

Jonathan Hickman's Avengers Vol. 1 launches his massive, interlocking Avengers/New Avengers run — one of the most ambitious sustained narratives in Marvel history, building across four years toward Secret Wars. This first volume establishes the Avengers as a planetary defense system responding to universal-scale incursion threats, while simultaneously in New Avengers the Illuminati discover that parallel Earths are colliding and destroying each other, a phenomenon called incursions that will eventually consume the entire multiverse.

X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus collects Hickman's X-Men ongoing after House of X — the mutant nation of Krakoa in action, with rotating creative teams and Hickman's signature long-form storytelling. X-Men by Jonathan Hickman Omnibus collects the X-Men ongoing series (issues #1-21) launched after House of X — the mutant nation of Krakoa fully operational, with rotating creative teams (Leinil Francis Yu, Mahmud Asrar, R.B. Silva, Jonathan Hickman) each delivering standalone or short-arc stories within Hickman's overarching framework. Cyclops as family man on the moon. The Summoner and Arakko introduced. The Network. central bridge between Dawn of X and the Reign of X era.

X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Reign of X Omnibus Vol. 1 follows the mutant nation after its dawn, when the miracle of Krakoa starts turning into government, culture, security problems and uneasy power. The book is about what happens after the revolution wins enough to become responsible for itself. The edition adds value by keeping the mutant context together: team politics, continuity pressure and character fallout have room to build instead of being reduced to isolated plot points.