Dennis O'Neil

The Question by Dennis O'Neil & Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 2 concludes the acclaimed run on Vic Sage — the faceless philosopher-vigilante of Hub City. It collects the final issues of the 1987 series plus the follow-up material: The Question Quarterly, the Green Arrow team-up annuals, The Brave and the Bold and later specials. O'Neil and Cowan bring their mature, Zen-inflected crime drama to its close, deepening Vic's introspection and his war on a broken city. The essential second half of one of DC's great late-1980s runs.

The Question by Dennis O'Neil & Denys Cowan Omnibus Vol. 1 collects the acclaimed late-1980s reinvention of Vic Sage — the faceless investigative-journalist vigilante who directly inspired Watchmen's Rorschach. After a near-fatal beating by Lady Shiva, Vic is trained by Richard Dragon in martial arts and Zen, turning a rigid crusader into a man who questions his own methods. It's a mature, philosophical crime drama set in corrupt Hub City, praised for O'Neil's literary writing and Cowan's expressionistic art — including issue #17, where Vic reads Watchmen and confronts his own successor.

The Joker’s Bronze Age stories capture the character after camp has curdled back into danger. The smile is still theatrical, but the menace grows sharper, with creators like Dennis O’Neil, Martin Pasko, Irv Novick, Jim Aparo and José Luis García-López shaping a Joker who can be absurd, stylish and genuinely frightening in the same breath.

Green Lantern: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 2 keeps Hal Jordan in the bright, fearless mode that defined early cosmic superhero comics: strange planets, clean heroism, impossible tests and Gil Kane's elegant sense of motion. It is vintage DC science fiction with the charm of rules being invented as the universe expands.

Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 2 shows the team moving deeper into Bronze Age rhythm: bigger casts, stranger threats and a DC universe beginning to feel less like isolated adventures and more like a connected superhero world. Dick Dillin's steady team staging gives the material a classic backbone.

Justice League of America: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 opens a more textured era for the League, still heroic and direct but increasingly shaped by shifting casts, social unease and a DC universe learning to carry more continuity. Gardner Fox, Dennis O'Neil, Len Wein, Mike Friedrich and Dick Dillin bridge classic team adventure with a richer 1970s mood.

Batman: The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 brings Batman into a moodier, sharper period where detective work, gothic atmosphere and urban danger begin to reshape the character after the brighter Silver Age. Dennis O'Neil, Neal Adams, Gerry Conway and Irv Novick help pull Gotham back toward shadows without losing adventure.

Amazing Spider-Man Omnibus Vol. 7 moves into the Dennis O'Neil and Roger Stern period, with John Romita Jr. helping shape a sharper early-1980s Spider-Man. The volume is built around Peter Parker's next phase, the Hobgoblin mystery and stories that test how much chaos Spider-Man can absorb without losing his human centre.