J.M. DeMatteis

DC Versus Marvel Omnibus brings the rare cross-publisher meetings back into one oversized volume: Superman and Spider-Man, Batman and Captain America, the X-Men and Teen Titans, Punisher crossovers and the DC/Marvel battles that were out of print for decades.

Justice League International was the 1987 relaunch that made the League funny: Batman and Green Lantern stuck with Booster Gold, Blue Beetle and a UN charter. Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire made a comedy that still takes the threats seriously, and Maguire's facial expressions are the reason the jokes land. The Blue Beetle and Booster Gold friendship created here has outlived every subsequent reboot, which is unusual for anything that started as a punchline.

DC Versus Marvel Omnibus brings the rare cross-publisher meetings back into one oversized volume: Superman and Spider-Man, Batman and Captain America, the X-Men and Teen Titans, Punisher crossovers and the DC/Marvel battles that were out of print for decades.

Darkseid cannot beat Earth's heroes, so he sets out to make the public stop believing in them instead. Legends is the first event DC ran after Crisis on Infinite Earths, and the fallout created the Suicide Squad, the Justice League International and the Flash everyone knows today.

Justice League International Omnibus Vol. 2 focuses on the Giffen and DeMatteis era, with the Justice League shaped by global superhero politics, office comedy, awkward friendship and danger that cuts through the jokes. The appeal is not only continuity; it is watching a specific DC period find its tone, cast and visual rhythm.

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.

Marvel published Conan for two decades and Titan is putting the whole thing back in print, in order, for the first time since the licence moved. Collects the fifth run of Conan the Barbarian, written by J.M. DeMatteis and others with art by John Buscema and Gil Kane.

Marvel published Conan for two decades and Titan is putting the whole thing back in print, in order, for the first time since the licence moved. Collects the fifth run of Conan the Barbarian, written by J.M. DeMatteis and others with art by John Buscema and Gil Kane.

Justice League International, collected as a pack of 3 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. Justice League International is the 1987 relaunch that rebuilt the League after Crisis on Infinite Earths with the most unlikely roster DC has ever assembled. Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire wrote it as workplace comedy and it works because the threats stay real. Maguire's facial acting is the reason the jokes land at all, and Batman as the exasperated adult in the room is one of the best uses of the character DC has managed. Justice League International Omnibus Vol. 2 focuses on the Giffen and DeMatteis era, with the Justice League shaped by global superhero politics, office comedy, awkward friendship and danger that cuts through the jokes. The appeal is not only continuity; it is watching a specific DC period find its tone, cast and visual rhythm. Justice League International was the 1987 relaunch that made the League funny: Batman and Green Lantern stuck with Booster Gold, Blue Beetle and a UN charter. Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire made a comedy that still takes the threats seriously, and Maguire's facial expressions are the reason the jokes land. The Blue Beetle and Booster Gold friendship created here has outlived every subsequent reboot, which is unusual for anything that started as a punchline.

J.M. DeMatteis and Sal Buscema spent five years on Spectacular Spider-Man doing what the other titles could not: slow, psychological stories about the people around Peter Parker breaking down. Kraven's Last Hunt gets the attention, but this is the run that followed it, and Soul of the Hunter is its direct sequel. The Harry Osborn arc across #178-200 is the best Green Goblin material Marvel has published: a friend deteriorating in public, with Peter unable to stop it. Buscema draws grief better than action, and DeMatteis lets him.

The Clone Saga ran for two years across four monthly titles and is the most notorious storyline in Spider-Man's history: the reveal that Peter Parker might be the clone. Volume 2 is where the story commits: Maximum Clonage, the Jackal's plan at full scale, and the point at which Marvel had to decide whether to keep Ben Reilly as Spider-Man. Read as a whole it is far more coherent than its reputation, and reading it in one volume is the only way to see the structure the monthly schedule buried.

This volume closes the Clone Saga and Ben Reilly's full run as the one true Spider-Man, ending with Revelations, the storyline that killed Ben, brought back Norman Osborn and reset Peter Parker as the hero. It gathers the four 1996-97 Spider-Man ongoings plus Redemption and The Osborn Journal in one oversized hardcover, the definitive way to read the end of the 1990s Spider-Man era in order.

PRH frames this volume as 1970s Daredevil material packed with new characters, key moments and gritty art. The book catches Matt Murdock before the Miller era fully takes over, but close enough to feel the ground changing under Hell's Kitchen. This is a transition shelf for Daredevil collectors: still rooted in the broader Marvel adventure style, but already moving toward the sharper crime, romance and danger that would define the character's next major identity.

Justice League Dark was the New 52's answer to a simple problem: some threats cannot be punched, and the League has nobody who can handle them. Putting John Constantine on a team is inherently unstable, and the book knows it, he is there to betray them and everyone has accepted that. Zatanna, Deadman and Madame Xanadu get their best modern material, and the Trinity of Sin chapters are essential to the Trinity War crossover.

The sixth Avengers omnibus covers three years at the book's commercial and creative peak, with Gerry Conway, Jim Shooter and George Pérez. The Korvac Saga is here — Shooter's story about a god who has already won and is simply waiting — and it is one of the two or three best Avengers stories ever published. The Wonder Man and Vision material is also the emotional core: two versions of the same mind, neither willing to concede the other is real.

Justice League International is the 1987 relaunch that rebuilt the League after Crisis on Infinite Earths with the most unlikely roster DC has ever assembled. Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis and Kevin Maguire wrote it as workplace comedy and it works because the threats stay real. Maguire's facial acting is the reason the jokes land at all, and Batman as the exasperated adult in the room is one of the best uses of the character DC has managed.

Steve Englehart's Avengers run is the most politically sophisticated in the team's history — he used the book as a direct commentary on the Watergate era, with the Secret Empire storyline revealing a vast government conspiracy reaching to the highest levels of power, a conclusion so resonant with contemporary events that Marvel editorial forced Englehart to leave the outcome implicit. The Avengers-Defenders War gave way to something more psychologically complex: Englehart's Avengers were a team operating in a country whose institutions were actively corrupt.

Justice League: The Detroit Era Omnibus follows one of the League's strangest reinventions, shaped by a roster away from the usual icons, street-level tension and a rougher identity search. The appeal is seeing this DC period collected as one reading path, with its own tone, cast and visual rhythm.