Marvel & DC Omnibus

Closing of the rotating phase before the start of Dan Slott's Big Time. The writers close their individual arcs and prepare the ground for the next phase: Horizon Labs, Spider-Island and the preparation of Superior Spider-Man. The end of Marvel's most ambitious editorial experiment with the character in decades.

Spider-Man: Brand New Day Omnibus Vol. 1 begins the controversial post-One More Day reset, returning Peter Parker to a single, struggling, unlucky status quo while Amazing Spider-Man shifts to rotating creative teams and rapid publication rhythm. It is messy history, but it is also the rebuild of modern Peter.

The Clone Saga begins: Ben Reilly, a clone of Peter Parker created years ago by the Jackal, reappears in New York and soon the question is radical: who is the real Peter and who is the clone? One of the most talked about and debated sagas of the character. Read from the beginning, it has a coherence and mystery that make it enjoyable.

Civil War from the perspective of the underground Avengers: the team divided and holed up in secret, living in illegality, doubting if they did the right thing. Perfect setup for Secret Invasion. It's Bendis at his most intimate, and central reading to follow the logic of Marvel 2006-2010. Art by Leinil Yu.

After Avengers Disassembled, Bendis relaunches the title with a heterodox roster (Spider-Man, Wolverine, Luke Cage, Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Woman) and turns the Avengers into Marvel's most commercial team. Beginning of a decade of Bendis domination of the title: Civil War, Secret Invasion, Dark Reign and Siege start here. David Finch on art.

Justice League: The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 2 is Geoff Johns turning the launch-era League into the spine of DC's event machine. Trinity War, Forever Evil and Darkseid War make the team less a simple superhero roster and more the point where Lex Luthor, the Crime Syndicate, the Anti-Monitor and the New Gods all collide.

Justice League: The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 is the flagship book of DC's 2011 relaunch: Geoff Johns and Jim Lee rebuilding the League from first contact, suspicion and Darkseid-scale pressure. It matters because the team is being invented inside a universe where superheroes are new, feared and not yet trusted.

Closing of the Snyder-Tynion run with Year of the Villain and Justice/Doom War. Perpetua, an entity that predates the creation of the DC multiverse, threatens to rewrite the entire reality. Jorge Jiménez pencils epic compositions that define the current Justice League aesthetic. End of the Snyder cycle at DC.

Closing of the longest run ever written about the Hulk: 12 uninterrupted years of Peter David on the title. It collects the final arcs of the run, the process of defusion of the Hulk's personalities and the narrative closure of all the threads that David had opened for more than a decade. End of the cycle.

The moment when Peter David merges the three personalities of the Hulk into a single entity: Professor Hulk. Body of the original, intelligence of Banner, cunning of Grey. Considered by many to be the best Hulk ever written and the version Marvel Studios adopted for Avengers: Endgame. Dale Keown on the art.

Peter David takes Hulk in 1987 and plants the thesis of dissociative disorder: Savage Hulk, Grey Hulk, Banner as separate personalities. This theory was adopted as canon in later film, television and comics. Art by Dale Keown, one of the key names in the Hulk aesthetic of the 90s. Beginning of one of the longest runs ever written about a Marvel character.

The era that transformed Daredevil from a minor title to one of Marvel's most respected comics. Frank Miller creates Elektra, reinvents the Kingpin, introduces the Hand Ninjas and writes Born Again: considered one of the 10 best superhero comics ever written. Miller also draws the seminal story — his art on Daredevil is raw, urban and unlike anything else in 1980s Marvel. Direct basis for the Netflix series and the Daredevil reboot.

Batman: No Man's Land Omnibus Vol. 2 closes the ruined-Gotham saga after months of gang borders, collapsed institutions and Bat-family survival. Lex Luthor enters with reconstruction money, the Joker delivers one of the era's cruelest final blows and Batman has to decide what saving Gotham means after the city has already been abandoned.

52 Omnibus is DC's weekly experiment after Infinite Crisis, a year without Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman at the centre. Booster Gold, Renee Montoya, Black Adam, The Question, Steel and Ralph Dibny carry the universe while Johns, Morrison, Rucka and Waid make the absence of the Trinity feel like a narrative engine. It belongs in Events, not under Batman.

Invincible Omnibus Vol. 1 Direct Market Exclusive Cover collects the opening spine of Robert Kirkman's superhero epic in a 1160-page oversized hardcover, with Cory Walker and Ryan Ottley shaping Mark Grayson's world from awkward teenage origin to brutal family revelation and expanding Image universe.