Marvel & DC Omnibus

For the first time in one volume, the epic trilogy starring mutant messiah Hope Summers! With no more mutants being born, the future of Homo superior has never looked bleaker. At the seeming end of their evolutionary cycle, a miracle arrives - in the form of the first child born with the X-gene since the tragic events of M-Day!

The ragin' Cajun steals the spotlight in an action-packed era for the X-Men! For years, they've loved each other from a safe distance. Now Rogue and Gambit will become closer than ever, and it may shatter their lives permanently! For when Remy LeBeau past actions stand revealed, he'll face trial - but who will serve as judge, jury and executioner?

Visionary writer Jonathan Hickman (INFINITY, NEW AVENGERS, FANTASTIC FOUR) changes everything for the X-Men! Face the future - and fear the future! In HOUSE OF X, Charles Xavier reveals his master plan for mutantkind - one that will bring mutants out of humankind's shadow and into the light once more!

Visionary writer Jonathan Hickman completely upends the world of the X-Men, in this instant classic that ushered in the ambitious and acclaimed Krakoan Age! Face the future — and fear the future! In HOUSE OF X, Charles Xavier reveals his master plan for mutantkind — one that will bring mutants out of humankind’s shadow and into the light once more!

The second Bronze Age Justice League omnibus covers the early 1970s, when the team left their secret New England cave for a satellite in orbit and the stories went cosmic. This is where the JLA/JSA team-ups settle into their yearly rhythm and the multiverse becomes a working part of DC's storytelling rather than an occasional gimmick. It is also the era that established the League as DC's legends rather than just its biggest team.

X-23 is the most fully realized Wolverine spin-off character ever created — Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost conceived her as a female clone of Wolverine weaponized from birth, used as an assassin by the Weapon X program offshoot known as the Facility, and their work establishing her origin in the animated series was adapted into the comics in one of the medium's most harrowing backstory sequences. The first omnibus covers her origin and early missions, establishing the psychological damage that Tom Taylor would later translate into Marvel's best all-ages superhero series.

Superman: Our Worlds at War Omnibus Vol. 2 focuses on DC's war-scale Superman event, with Superman shaped by cosmic conflict, grief, heroism under pressure and the cost paid by people around Superman. The appeal is not only continuity; it is watching a specific DC period find its tone, cast and visual rhythm.

Fantastic Four #1 started the Marvel Universe in 1961, and the Lee and Kirby run that followed invented most of what the company still sells. This is the stretch where the run becomes extraordinary: the Inhumans, the Negative Zone, Doctor Doom's origin in Annual #2 and the arrival of Galactus and the Silver Surfer in #48-50 — the single most influential three issues Marvel published in the sixties. Everything cosmic in the Marvel Universe starts here.

The second Spectre omnibus completes Ostrander and Mandrake's run, one of the longest and least compromising books DC published in the nineties. The back half is where Ostrander stops asking whether the Spectre is right and starts asking whether Jim Corrigan deserves to exist at all. The original series proposal is a genuinely interesting document, it shows how much of the run was planned from the start.

Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 4 focuses on the early Gotham years, with Batman and Robin shaped by crime, disguise, strange schemes and the growing rhythm of Batman and Robin as a team. The appeal is not only continuity; it is watching a specific DC period find its tone, cast and visual rhythm.

Joe Kelly's Deadpool is the run that turned a Rob Liefeld mercenary into the character the films are based on: funny, aware of the fourth wall, and genuinely sad underneath. Kelly's Deadpool is a hired killer who wants to be liked and is very bad at it, and the run keeps undercutting the comedy with genuine loneliness. Blind Al and Weasel are created here, and issue #11 — the one where Deadpool is edited into a 1960s Spider-Man comic — is still the best gag the character has had.

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.

All hell breaks loose in the thrilling conclusion of Ann Nocenti and John Romita Jr's highly influential run! Daredevil has his hands full battling "evil mutants" Blob and Pyro, tangling with the Inhumans and fighting way out of his weight class against Ultron! But his team-up with Spider-Man against the terrifying menace Blackheart leads the Man Without Fear into hellish unfamiliar territory and sets him on a path for a confrontation with Blackheart's pernicious parent: none other than Mephisto!

The second Mighty Thor omnibus continues the Lee and Kirby run at the point where Asgard stops being a backdrop and becomes the subject. Kirby's late-sixties Thor is where his cosmic period begins — the designs, the machinery, the gods drawn as forces rather than people — and it leads directly into the Fourth World he built at DC. Everything Marvel has done with Asgard since is working from these pages.

Captain America Lives! — Ed Brubaker's triumphant conclusion to the Death of Captain America storyline, featuring Steve Rogers' return to life and the shield. This omnibus collects the Reborn miniseries and its aftermath, as Brubaker orchestrates one of the most satisfying character returns in comics history. The reunion of Steve Rogers, Bucky Barnes, and the supporting cast Brubaker spent years building pays off spectacularly, with Bryan Hitch delivering some of the most stunning Captain America artwork ever committed to the page.

The Flash: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 focuses on Barry Allen's Silver Age world, with the Flash shaped by science-fiction tricks, Rogue trouble and the clean visual language of speed. The appeal is not only continuity; it is watching a specific DC period find its tone, cast and visual rhythm.

The Flash by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 3 focuses on Geoff Johns's Flash mythology, with the Flash family shaped by Rogues, legacy, Speed Force consequences and emotional pressure around the costume. The appeal is not only continuity; it is watching a specific DC period find its tone, cast and visual rhythm.

Knightsend is the third act of Knightfall: Bruce Wayne has recovered, Jean-Paul Valley is still wearing the cowl, and he has no intention of giving it back. Knightfall broke Batman and KnightQuest showed the replacement failing; this is the volume where the argument gets settled. The Lady Shiva training sequence is the best material Bruce gets in the whole crossover, and the final confrontation works because Azrael is not wrong about everything.

The second New Avengers omnibus covers Bendis' run through Civil War, Secret Invasion and Dark Reign, when the team spent years as fugitives. The Illuminati miniseries is the important piece: it retroactively puts Iron Man, Mister Fantastic, Professor X and the others in a room making decisions for everyone, and it underpins everything Marvel published for the next decade. The underground years are also the best character work Bendis did on the title.

Secret Wars: Battleworld Omnibus Vol. 2 collects another wave of 2015 Battleworld tie-ins, with Doom's patchwork reality turning Marvel characters into domain-level conflicts, alternate versions and genre experiments.

The second Avengers omnibus continues the Silver Age run through the period when the team fully established its identity distinct from its founding members — the Cap's Kooky Quartet era, where Captain America led a team of reformed villains (Hawkeye, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver) while the original Avengers stepped back. Stan Lee and then Roy Thomas built a book that proved the team concept could work without relying on its most popular members, a structural experiment that defined how Marvel managed ensemble casts going forward.

The third Avengers omnibus covers the Roy Thomas years, when the book stopped being a rotating guest-star showcase and became a soap opera with a fixed cast. This volume opens with the wedding of the Wasp and Yellowjacket and contains the Kree-Skrull War build-up, Ultron's return as Ultron-6, and the Vision joining the team. Thomas is the writer who made the Avengers a continuing story rather than a monthly team-up, and this is where that shift happens.

Classic third volume with Roy Thomas on script and Herb Trimpe on art: the era when the Hulk ceases to be "that weird Marvel character" and becomes a cultural phenomenon, culminating in the 1970s TV series. Thomas introduces emotional nuances that Stan Lee had barely explored, paving the way for Peter David.

The Mighty Thor Omnibus Vol. 5 closes the classic pre-Simonson stretch, with Gerry Conway, Len Wein and John Buscema guiding Thor through late Bronze Age Asgard before the next generational change. The value is transition: old mythic machinery preparing to hand the hammer forward. Its shelf value is transition: the late Bronze Age Thor machine preparing the ground for the next great reinvention while still rooted in Buscema's classical Asgard.