Superman: Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds: The Deluxe Edition

In 1992 DC killed Superman and the story made the evening news. Thirty years later this edition collects it as a single book. Doomsday is the rare villain who works precisely because he has no personality — no motive, no dialogue, just forward motion — and the escalating panel counts across the final issues are one of the smartest formal tricks in mainstream comics. Whatever you think of the stunt, it is the best-selling comic story ever published.

Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely wrote All Star Superman outside continuity in 2005, with a single premise: Superman is dying and has twelve labours left. Morrison treats every era of the character as true at once — the Silver Age absurdities, the Golden Age social crusader, the modern icon — and Quitely draws him as physically calm in a way nobody else manages. Issue #10 is widely considered the best single Superman comic ever published. It requires no prior reading at all.

PRH presents this as Grant Morrison's bold New 52 reimagining of Superman. The run starts from a more raw, early-career Man of Steel and builds toward stranger, larger threats without losing the idea of Superman as a social and moral force. This is the compact shelf for Morrison's New 52 Superman: part origin energy, part cosmic experiment, part statement about what Superman means when the myth is rebuilt from the street upward.

Injustice began as a tie-in to the fighting game and became one of DC's longest-running alternate universes, built on a single irreversible act: the Joker tricks Superman into killing Lois Lane and their unborn child. Injustice works because it takes its premise seriously: the heroes who side with Superman have reasons, and the ones who oppose him lose. It is the most accessible DC alternate universe on the shelf, with no continuity required, and this omnibus replaces three years of scattered digital-first collections with a single volume.

The United States has had its own Superman since 1945, kept in a hangar and used when the official one would say no. Snyder and Jim Lee use him to ask what Superman is for in a country that would rather have a weapon, and Lee draws the biggest pages of his career doing it.

The Joker steals Mister Mxyzptlk's power, takes control of reality, and spends every day destroying Batman and putting him back together for the next morning. Emperor Joker is the crossover where the Superman books went as far as they could go and then explained why the Joker could never win.

Superman is dying, and instead of fighting it he spends the time left settling his affairs: telling Lois the truth, curing cancer, and answering the one question his father never got to ask. All-Star Superman is the argument that the character works best when he has nothing left to prove.

Batman & Superman in World's Finest: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 continues the team-up run deeper into the sixties, with the plots getting steadily more outlandish and the Superman-Batman partnership settling into the shape it still has today.

The second New 52 Justice League omnibus covers the back half of Geoff Johns' run, when the team's internal politics became the plot. Trinity War is the crossover where three Justice League teams fight each other over a murder none of them committed, and it is the best structured event DC published in the New 52. Johns also finally writes the Superman and Wonder Woman relationship as a decision with consequences rather than a marketing beat.

Aquaman by Geoff Johns Omnibus restores Arthur Curry as a king caught between ridicule, responsibility and the violent pull of Atlantis. Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado and Paul Pelletier make the ocean feel royal, dangerous and political, turning Aquaman into a lead who has to prove himself on land and underwater.

Geoff Johns wrote Avengers between the Busiek era and Disassembled, with Olivier Coipel on art. It is the run that asked whether a superhero team can act as a global authority without becoming one. The premise is sharp: every capital city on Earth vanishes and the nations turn to the Avengers, while Thor ascends to Asgard's throne and starts answering prayers directly — putting him at odds with Iron Man and Captain America. Johns writes the standoff as politics rather than a fight, and Coipel's art here is the reason he later got House of M.

In 2011 DC cancelled its entire line and restarted fifty two titles from issue one on the same day. Ten years later this anniversary volume collects the first issues that mattered, which is the only honest way to look at a relaunch that produced both Snyder's Batman and a lot of things nobody finished.

Teen Titans by Geoff Johns Omnibus collects the complete run that rebuilt the team for a new generation: Superboy, Robin, Kid Flash and Wonder Girl joined by Cyborg, Starfire and Beast Boy as reluctant mentors. Johns writes teenagers who are genuinely afraid of becoming their predecessors, and the run contains 'The Future Is Now', still one of the best-loved Titans stories.

Brightest Day Omnibus collects the year-long series that followed Blackest Night, in which twelve heroes and villains return from the dead and none of them know why. Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi use it to rebuild Aquaman, Firestorm, Hawkman and Martian Manhunter at once, and it contains the Aquaman material that led directly into the New 52 relaunch.

JSA by Geoff Johns, collected complete as a pack of 3 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the 1999 relaunch that made the Justice Society one of DC's flagship titles. Launched by James Robinson and David S. Goyer and quickly defined by Geoff Johns, it reassembles comics' original super-team around a legacy premise: Golden Age veterans mentoring a new generation. This volume introduces Stargirl — a character Johns created in memory of his sister — and delivers the signature early arcs, from "Justice Be Done" to "The Return of Hawkman" and "Virtue and Vice." Art by Stephen Sadowski and Rags Morales. JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 2 collects the team's most celebrated middle era. Now firmly Geoff Johns's book (with David S. Goyer co-writing much of the stretch), the Justice Society becomes a DC flagship through arcs like "Princes of Darkness," "Black Reign" — the Black Adam turn that reshaped the character — and "Waking the Sandman." The legacy-mentorship dynamic deepens as the old guard and the new generation are tested. Core art by Leonard Kirk and Don Kramer, with Rags Morales and others. JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 3 closes out the original series and opens the acclaimed 2007 relaunch, Justice Society of America. It gathers the "Lightning Saga" JLA/JSA crossover and the celebrated "Thy Kingdom Come" — the epic where the Superman of Kingdom Come crosses into the main DC Universe. Dale Eaglesham becomes the signature artist of the relaunch, under iconic Alex Ross covers, in the run that broke Star

JSA by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 3 closes out the original series and opens the acclaimed 2007 relaunch, Justice Society of America. It gathers the "Lightning Saga" JLA/JSA crossover and the celebrated "Thy Kingdom Come" — the epic where the Superman of Kingdom Come crosses into the main DC Universe. Dale Eaglesham becomes the signature artist of the relaunch, under iconic Alex Ross covers, in the run that broke Stargirl out as a marquee character. The definitive Johns JSA reaches its high point.