Marvel & DC Omnibus

Hal Jordan first wore a Green Lantern ring in 1959, in a reinvention that turned a 1940s crime-fighter with a magic lantern into science fiction with an interstellar police force behind it. This is where the mythology gets built piece by piece: Sinestro, Star Sapphire, the Guardians of the Universe and the idea that the ring runs on willpower. Gil Kane's figure work is the other reason to read it, he drew flight better than anyone in the era, and the designs have barely changed since.

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.

Steve Englehart's Avengers run is the most politically sophisticated in the team's history — he used the book as a direct commentary on the Watergate era, with the Secret Empire storyline revealing a vast government conspiracy reaching to the highest levels of power, a conclusion so resonant with contemporary events that Marvel editorial forced Englehart to leave the outcome implicit. The Avengers-Defenders War gave way to something more psychologically complex: Englehart's Avengers were a team operating in a country whose institutions were actively corrupt.

Deathstroke: The Terminator by Marv Wolfman Omnibus Vol. 2 continues the run by the character's co-creator, in which Slade Wilson gets his own series and turns out to work better as a lead than anyone expected of a Teen Titans villain.

A dark era for the ever-changing Thunderbolts! In the aftermath of CIVIL WAR, the country has lost faith in its heroes - and it's ready to put its faith in monsters! As Norman Osborn assembles his new team of Thunderbolts, Songbird and Moonstone must learn how to work alongside vicious killers like Bullseye and Venom!

Between Neuromancer and The Matrix, there was Ghost Rider 2099: a dark cyberpunk take on Marvel’s biker from beyond the grave! When the consciousness of Zero Cochrane, a murdered computer hacker, is downloaded into the body of an unstoppable cybernetic warbot, sparks fly – and Cochrane’s killers become his first targets for vengeance!

Between Neuromancer and The Matrix, there was Ghost Rider 2099: a dark cyberpunk take on Marvel’s biker from beyond the grave! When the consciousness of Zero Cochrane, a murdered computer hacker, is downloaded into the body of an unstoppable cybernetic warbot, sparks fly – and Cochrane’s killers become his first targets for vengeance!

The epic mythology of the Phoenix in a single, uncanny Omnibus! The classic Dark Phoenix Saga was just the start: The cosmic firebird's fate remained intertwined with that of Jean Grey through her cycle of life, death and rebirth - and even took a few other hosts along the way! This volume collects the biggest Phoenix stories of the 21st century - from the epic future of "Here Comes Tomorrow" to the seismic war between the Avengers and the X-Men, plus the blockbuster returns that show you can never keep Jean Grey down for long!

The second Busiek and Pérez omnibus continues their Avengers run, the one that restored the team's scale and continuity after the Heroes Reborn detour. Ultron Unlimited is here, and it is the definitive Ultron story: an entire nation killed off-panel before the team arrives, and Pérez drawing hundreds of identical robots without losing a single face. Maximum Security is the other draw — the arc where Earth is declared a prison planet by the wider galaxy.

Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti wrote Harley Quinn for six years and turned her from a Batman villain into a lead who carries her own neighbourhood. Conner and Palmiotti write Harley as fundamentally decent and completely unhinged, and the Coney Island supporting cast, her tenants, her roller derby team, her rescued animals, is the reason the run works. Conner's art is among the most expressive in mainstream comics and the book is genuinely funny rather than edgy.

When Jean Grey returns from a watery grave, the original X-Men reunite - as X-Factor! But for Marvel Girl, Cyclops, Beast, Angel and Iceman, posing as a mutant-hunting organization gets complicated fast! And things get worse when the ageless villain Apocalypse makes the scene! Then, when X-Factor is drawn into the chaos of the Mutant Massacre, Angel suffers a grievous injury and will be changed forever!

The continuing adventures of the original X-Men, reunited as X-Factor! In the wake of Apocalypse's attack, X-Factor battle the Avengers, the bouncing Beast becomes blue and furry once more and the team goes public! But when Cyclops and Marvel Girl begin a search for Scott's missing son, bizarre mysteries are uncovered - and the flames of an Inferno begin to flicker!

Wonder Woman by Gail Simone Omnibus collects the longest run any woman has written on the character, and the one most often named when readers argue about the best modern Wonder Woman. Simone writes Diana as a warrior who genuinely enjoys the fight, surrounds her with a real supporting cast, and never treats compassion and violence as opposites. Includes the landmark issue #600.

Wonder Woman: Rebirth by Greg Rucka Omnibus collects Rucka's return to the character, built around a problem no other writer had dared name: after years of reboots, Diana's own memories no longer agree with each other. The run alternates between a present-day investigation and a retold origin, with art by Liam Sharp and Nicola Scott, and turns continuity chaos into the actual subject of the story.

Wonder Woman by John Byrne Omnibus collects the run in which Byrne wrote and drew Diana himself, introduced Cassie Sandsmark as Wonder Girl, and killed Diana off to make her a goddess on Olympus. It is the most eventful stretch of 1990s Wonder Woman and the source of characters still in use today.

An oracle tells Wonder Woman that the Justice League will die fighting a dragon, so she takes the League out of the fight herself, one member at a time, and goes alone. Christopher Moeller painted the entire book, and it remains the best argument that Diana is the most dangerous person on the team.

Azzarello and Chiang threw out the Amazon utopia and rebuilt Wonder Woman as Greek myth done properly: a family of gods who are cruel because that is what gods are, and a daughter caught in their politics. Blood and Guts collects the opening of the run everyone still points to.

The original Wonder Woman, written by the psychologist who invented the lie detector and drew on his own theories about submission, dominance and a better world run by women. Marston and Harry G. Peter's comics are far stranger than their reputation and this is where they start.

The sixth and final Golden Age volume covers the handover: Marston is dead, Robert Kanigher takes the book over, and Harry G. Peter keeps drawing it until the end of the era. It is the last stretch of the original Wonder Woman before the Silver Age reinvented her.

The Silver Age Wonder Woman is a different book entirely: Wonder Girl, Wonder Tot, Mer-Boy, impossible machines and a version of Paradise Island run on pure invention. Kanigher and Ross Andru made comics for children that are far weirder than anything aimed at adults.

The third Silver Age volume runs the series into the late 1960s, where the impossible romances and the Wonder Family finally give way to the changes that would strip Diana of her powers entirely. Kanigher keeps writing it at full speed until the very end.

Diana has given up the identity, Donna Troy is wearing the costume, and the villains show up to take advantage of a Wonder Woman who is not the real one. Heinberg and the Dodsons wrote the relaunch that had to answer, in public, what the character is actually for.

Classic Wonder Woman stories from the Silver Age collected together in stunning hardcover! Fans of the Amazon warrior won't want to miss this brilliant collection of 1960's comics. Picking up where Wonder Woman: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 leaves off,