Superman: The Man of Steel by John Byrne: Absolute Edition

The Death and Return of Superman is not just the day Superman falls; it is the whole shockwave after the fall. Doomsday turns the fight into a public wound, Metropolis has to imagine a world without Clark Kent, and four new figures step into the empty space where Superman used to stand. This omnibus keeps the event, grief and rebirth together as one huge DC turning point.

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.

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.

Injustice: Gods Among Us, collected complete as a pack of 2 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. Injustice 2 keeps asking what happens after a world has already been broken by its heroes. Tom Taylor returns to a DC universe where trust is scarce, power has consequences and every alliance carries the memory of Superman’s regime. The result is not just a fighting-game tie-in; it is a sharp alternate-DC political thriller about rebuilding after tyranny. Injustice: Gods Among Us Omnibus Volume 1 collects the opening three-year block of the Injustice saga in one huge hardcover, giving DC readers a brutal alternate-universe shelf built around Superman's fall, Batman's resistance and a world under authoritarian pressure.

Superman: The Triangle Era, collected complete as a pack of 3 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus Vol. 1 begins DC's 1990s weekly Superman machine, where Action Comics, Adventures of Superman, Superman and Man of Steel function as one coordinated reading order. The numbered triangles turn the line into a continuous serial rather than separate titles. Jurgens, Ordway, Stern and Simonson build the dense ecosystem that leads toward Death of Superman and the most interconnected Superman publishing era. Second volume with the central arcs of the Triangle Era experiment: the time when editorial coordination between the four Superman titles was at its creative peak, with weekly crossover sagas and consequences that spanned months. The heart of an entire decade of the character's history, culminating in the run-up to the Death of Superman. Roger Stern, Dan Jurgens, and Louise Simonson write complementary threads that reward reading in publication order. The most ambitious Superman publishing experiment ever attempted. Superman: Triangle Era Omnibus Vol. 3 keeps the 1990s Superman machine moving through linked weekly storytelling, where Clark's personal life, Metropolis, supporting cast and superhero threats all feed into one another. Dan Jurgens, Louise Simonson, Roger Stern, Jon Bogdanove and Tom Grummett make the line feel like a living city.

Superman: Our Worlds at War, collected as a pack of 2 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. Superman: Our Worlds at War Omnibus Vol. 1 throws Superman and the wider DC universe into a conflict big enough to feel like a real planetary crisis. Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke and the Superman line use cosmic scale to test Clark's role as protector when the threat is not just a villain, but war itself. 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.

Batman & Superman in World's Finest: The Silver Age, collected as a pack of 2 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. Batman & Superman in World's Finest: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the team-up series at its most inventive, when Superman and Batman shared a book every month and the plots involved body swaps, alien impostors and whatever else the writers could think of. Drawn largely by Curt Swan. 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.

Superman: The Silver Age, collected as a pack of 2 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. The Silver Age Superman is the version most people picture: the Fortress of Solitude, Krypto, the bottle city of Kandor and a supporting cast that grew every month. This is where Superman's mythology gets built: Brainiac and Kandor in Action #242, Bizarro, Supergirl's arrival, and the Phantom Zone. The stories are constructed as puzzles rather than fights, Superman usually wins by working something out, which is a very different character from the one who preceded and followed. Superman: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 keeps the Man of Steel in full Silver Age invention mode: impossible transformations, strange science, secret identities, bright covers and the kind of story logic that treats imagination as a superpower. Curt Swan and Wayne Boring give the period its clean, iconic visual grammar.

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.

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.

John Byrne's Spider-Man work spans two very different moments: his early team-up issues in the seventies and Spider-Man: Chapter One, his 1998 attempt to retell the origin. The Team-Up issues are Byrne learning Marvel's house style in public, and the Captain Britain material is his first work with a character he would return to for years. Chapter One is the controversial part — a retcon Marvel abandoned — but it is a genuine artefact of how the character was being handled in the late nineties.

The Thing Omnibus focuses on Ben Grimm outside the normal Fantastic Four frame, with solo adventures that show the humor, stubbornness and bruised heart behind The Thing. It works especially well for Fantastic Four collectors who want Ben Grimm's solo corner and the Marvel texture around his own supporting cast and conflicts.

John Byrne wrote and drew She-Hulk in the late eighties and made her the only Marvel character who knows she is in a comic. Byrne breaks the fourth wall constantly and structurally: She-Hulk argues with the letterer, walks between panels and complains about the plot. It predates Deadpool by years and is funnier, and the run is also a genuine argument about how superhero comics are made.

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.

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!

Superman & Batman: Generations Omnibus collects John Byrne's Elseworlds saga, which asks a simple question: what if Superman and Batman had aged in real time since 1939? Each chapter jumps a decade, and their children and grandchildren inherit the capes.