The Spectre: The Wrath of the Spectre Omnibus

The Spectre by Ostrander & Mandrake, collected as a pack of 2 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake took on The Spectre in 1992, after acclaimed runs on Suicide Squad and Batman, and made it DC's most serious book about judgement. Ostrander writes theology rather than superheroics: the Spectre has unlimited power and no idea how to use it well, and the run is largely about the difference between vengeance and justice. Mandrake's art is genuinely frightening, and the book is far stranger than anything DC was publishing under its main line. The second Spectre omnibus completes Ostrander and Mandrake's run, one of the longest and least compromising books DC published in the nineties. The back half is where Ostrander stops asking whether the Spectre is right and starts asking whether Jim Corrigan deserves to exist at all. The original series proposal is a genuinely interesting document, it shows how much of the run was planned from the start.

John Ostrander and Tom Mandrake took on The Spectre in 1992, after acclaimed runs on Suicide Squad and Batman, and made it DC's most serious book about judgement. Ostrander writes theology rather than superheroics: the Spectre has unlimited power and no idea how to use it well, and the run is largely about the difference between vengeance and justice. Mandrake's art is genuinely frightening, and the book is far stranger than anything DC was publishing under its main line.

The second Spectre omnibus completes Ostrander and Mandrake's run, one of the longest and least compromising books DC published in the nineties. The back half is where Ostrander stops asking whether the Spectre is right and starts asking whether Jim Corrigan deserves to exist at all. The original series proposal is a genuinely interesting document, it shows how much of the run was planned from the start.

Ditko created Spider-Man and Doctor Strange and then spent decades at DC building characters nobody asked him for: the Creeper, Shade the Changing Man, Hawk and Dove, Stalker. This omnibus collects all of it, and it is the strangest looking superhero work of its era.

By the sixth volume Conan has outlived his own boom: the sword and sorcery fad is over and the book keeps running on the strength of its craft alone. Collects the sixth run of Conan the Barbarian, written by Michael Fleisher and Larry Yakata with art by John Buscema.

By the sixth volume Conan has outlived his own boom: the sword and sorcery fad is over and the book keeps running on the strength of its craft alone. Collects the sixth run of Conan the Barbarian, written by Michael Fleisher and Larry Yakata with art by John Buscema.

A thousand pages of black and white Conan from the years when the magazine could run whatever it wanted and often did. Collects the sixth run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Michael Fleisher, Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.

A thousand pages of black and white Conan from the years when the magazine could run whatever it wanted and often did. Collects the sixth run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Michael Fleisher, Roy Thomas and Chris Claremont with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.

Fleisher ran the magazine for years and pushed it further into horror than the colour comic could ever go. Collects the seventh run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Michael Fleisher with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.

Fleisher ran the magazine for years and pushed it further into horror than the colour comic could ever go. Collects the seventh run of The Savage Sword of Conan, written by Michael Fleisher with art by John Buscema, Alfredo Alcala and Ernie Chan.