The Green Lantern by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp Omnibus

The first murder in five hundred years, twenty billion suspects and one rookie Green Lantern a long way from home. N. K. Jemisin brings her science fiction to the City Enduring, a place that solved violence by chemically removing everyone's emotions, and asks what happens the day that stops working.

Green Lantern/Green Arrow: Hard Traveling Heroes Omnibus collects the run that brought politics into mainstream superhero comics. Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams sent a cosmic policeman and a left-wing millionaire across America to argue about racism, poverty and addiction, and comics were never quite the same afterwards.

Robert Venditti's Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps begins with the Corps lost in another universe and Hal Jordan operating alone, presumed a criminal. The run's central move is making Sinestro the establishment: his Corps polices the universe legally while the Green Lanterns are the fugitives. Venditti also writes the best Hal Jordan and Sinestro material since Johns, treating their relationship as two men who understand each other far too well.

Green Lantern by Robert Venditti Omnibus Vol. 2 follows the Corps under cosmic leadership pressure, shaped by war-scale decisions, spectrum politics and the cost of carrying a ring when every choice echoes outward. The appeal is seeing this DC period collected as one reading path, with its own tone, cast and visual rhythm.

Robert Venditti's first Green Lantern omnibus picks up after the Third Army, with Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Guy Gardner rebuilding a Corps that has just been decimated. Following Geoff Johns is a hard brief, and Venditti's answer is to break the thing Johns built: the spectrum destabilises, the rings stop being reliable, and Hal has to lead without the certainty the franchise was founded on. It is a more interesting response than continuing the formula.

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.

Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 focuses on Hal Jordan's Silver Age mythology, with Green Lantern shaped by the ring, the oath, the Corps, alien threats and sharp heroic design. The appeal is not only continuity; it is watching a specific DC period find its tone, cast and visual rhythm.

Green Lantern by Geoff Johns, collected complete as a pack of 3 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. Green Lantern by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 1 is the modern rehabilitation of Hal Jordan and the launchpad for the emotional spectrum era. Rebirth brings Hal back, Sinestro Corps War expands the conflict and the Corps becomes cosmic mythology again. Ethan Van Sciver, Ivan Reis and Carlos Pacheco help define the visual scale, while Johns builds the architecture that leads toward Blackest Night. Green Lantern by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 2 moves the run into Blackest Night, where the emotional spectrum faces death itself. Hal Jordan and the Lantern Corps are pulled into a cosmic war against the Black Lanterns, with DC's dead rising across the universe. Green Lantern by Geoff Johns Omnibus Vol. 3 closes Johns' Lantern saga around resurrected heroes and villains, the rebuilt Corps and the New 52 stretch of Hal Jordan's story.

Grant Morrison and Mark Millar wrote The Flash together in the late nineties, immediately after Mark Waid, with Wally West already established as the fastest man alive. The Human Race is the standout: an alien gambler challenges the Flash to a race across the universe with Earth as the stake, and Morrison writes it as pure high concept. The Black Flash — death itself, running to catch up — is the other lasting idea, and DC has used it ever since.

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.

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.

A superhero built out of a bodybuilding advert investigates the end of the world while a rock star overdoses in a phone box and narrates his own childhood. Morrison and Quitely made their first book together an argument that superhero comics are worth defending, and it is still the strangest thing either of them has done.

JLA: Earth 2 Deluxe Edition collects Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's graphic novel, in which the Justice League crosses into an antimatter universe where their evil counterparts have already won, and discovers that on that Earth good is structurally guaranteed to lose.

The Invisibles Omnibus collects Grant Morrison's entire countercultural conspiracy epic in one volume: a cell of anarchist agents fighting a secret war against the forces that manufacture consensus reality. Magic, time travel, pop philosophy and 1990s paranoia, running for nearly sixty issues and reportedly a direct influence on The Matrix.

Seven Soldiers by Grant Morrison Omnibus collects the most structurally ambitious thing Morrison ever attempted at DC: seven separate four-issue miniseries about seven unconnected heroes, bookended by two specials, which together tell one story none of the protagonists ever realise they are in. Shining Knight, Zatanna, Klarion, Guardian, Mister Miracle, Bulleteer and Frankenstein.