Mark Waid

Mark Waid wrote The Flash for eight years and is the writer who decided Wally West should stop being Barry Allen's replacement and start being better than him. The Return of Barry Allen is here, and it is the best Flash story ever published: Barry comes back, he is wrong, and working out why is the point. Waid also invents the Speed Force in this stretch, which reorganised the entire franchise and is now the basis of the television series.

The Flash by Mark Waid, collected complete as a pack of 3 oversized omnibus volumes and cheaper than buying them one by one. Mark Waid's first Flash omnibus is where Wally West stops feeling like the replacement and starts becoming the heart of the legacy. The speed is bright and spectacular, but the real story is confidence, family, memory and the impossible shadow of Barry Allen. This is the start of the modern Wally West shelf: warm, fast, emotional and built around the idea that inheriting a symbol is only the beginning. Wally West is no longer just the kid who inherited Barry Allen's speed. In Mark Waid's second Flash omnibus, he has to earn the name, understand the legacy and discover what kind of hero he can become when the whole DC universe still measures him against the past. This volume keeps the heart of Waid's run intact: speed, family, doubt, momentum and the slow transformation of Wally into the Flash on his own terms. Mark Waid's third Flash omnibus keeps Wally West moving through the part of the run where legacy becomes pressure, not just inspiration. The speed is still there, but the real pull is emotional: Wally balancing love, responsibility, fear and the impossible standard of being the Flash. It is a continuation for readers who want the DC hero behind the lightning, not just the lightning itself.

Closing of the rotating phase before the start of Dan Slott's Big Time. The writers close their individual arcs and prepare the ground for the next phase: Horizon Labs, Spider-Island and the preparation of Superior Spider-Man. The end of Marvel's most ambitious editorial experiment with the character in decades.

Brand New Day was Marvel's post-One More Day reset: Peter Parker single again, three issues a month, and a rotating team of writers running the book like a writers' room. Whatever you think of how the status quo was reached, the execution was strong: new villains that stuck (Mister Negative, Anti-Venom, Screwball), a genuine mystery in the Menace subplot, and a Spider-Man written as a broke twenty-something again. Volume 2 is where the new rogues start paying off.

52 Omnibus follows DC's weekly year after Infinite Crisis, when Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are absent from the centre of the universe. Booster Gold, Renee Montoya, Black Adam, The Question, Steel and Ralph Dibny carry a rotating ensemble story about a world trying to function without its usual icons.

PRH presents Mark Waid's Daredevil as a major modern run, built around Matt Murdock facing danger with a different attitude than the bleakest chapters of his history. The tone is brighter on the surface, but the threats remain personal, strange and severe. This is the entry shelf for Waid's Daredevil: a run that changes the emotional light around Matt without turning him into a simple feel-good hero. It is sharp, clever and character-first, especially for readers who want Daredevil beyond pure noir.

Wally West is no longer just the kid who inherited Barry Allen's speed. In Mark Waid's second Flash omnibus, he has to earn the name, understand the legacy and discover what kind of hero he can become when the whole DC universe still measures him against the past. This volume keeps the heart of Waid's run intact: speed, family, doubt, momentum and the slow transformation of Wally into the Flash on his own terms.

The final volume of the reinvigorating "Brand New Day" era sets Spidey against a gauntlet of his deadliest foes! The violent tension between Spidey and Norman Osborn builds to a boil! Electro becomes the voice of the people! When one of Peter Parker's closest friends is on the brink of ruin, all clues point to the sinister Sandman!

Mark Waid and Chris Samnee took Daredevil out of noir deliberately: bright colours, San Francisco sunlight, and a Matt Murdock who had decided to be happy on purpose. The premise is that Matt is performing happiness as a coping strategy and the book knows it, which gives the brightness an undertow. Samnee's art won awards for good reason, and the way the pair render Matt's radar sense — as a world of shapes rather than darkness — is the best solution anyone has found to drawing a blind protagonist.

One of the X-Men's - and the entire Marvel Universe's - greatest threats begins to emerge and rear its head, in this prelude to the monumental and iconic Onslaught Saga! Onslaught is coming! But first the X-Men must survive his herald: the punishing and powerful Post! Archangel and Wolverine join Doctor Strange on a quest for a mystical cure to Psylocke’s grievous, Sabretooth-inflicted injuries — but Warren too has wounds, both physical and psychological.

Mark Waid's third Flash omnibus keeps Wally West moving through the part of the run where legacy becomes pressure, not just inspiration. The speed is still there, but the real pull is emotional: Wally balancing love, responsibility, fear and the impossible standard of being the Flash. It is a continuation for readers who want the DC hero behind the lightning, not just the lightning itself.

The fifth New Teen Titans omnibus takes Wolfman's run into its later years, when the team had fractured and the survivors were rebuilding. This stretch contains the Titans Hunt build-up and the reintroduction of Danny Chase, and it is where Wolfman starts writing the team as adults with jobs rather than teenagers. Eduardo Barreto's art is the underrated element, cleaner and more grounded than Pérez, and better suited to where the stories had gone.

Greg Rucka writes Frank Castle as a force moving through other people’s lives. Detectives hunt the Exchange, wounded Marine Rachel Cole is pulled into his war, and a grounded crime story keeps widening until Spider-Man, Daredevil and the Avengers can no longer ignore what the Punisher is doing to New York.

Greg Rucka writes Frank Castle as a force moving through other people’s lives. Detectives hunt the Exchange, wounded Marine Rachel Cole is pulled into his war, and a grounded crime story keeps widening until Spider-Man, Daredevil and the Avengers can no longer ignore what the Punisher is doing to New York.

No Surrender was Marvel's 2018 weekly Avengers event — a 16-part storyline published weekly across four months with rotating creative teams coordinating to tell a single continuous story. The Grandmaster and the Challenger wager on an Avengers-related game using Earth as the board and the Avengers as unwitting pieces, with the team simultaneously dealing with an escalating global crisis while their members fall one by one. No Road Home followed as a direct sequel, a nine-issue weekly series sending the Avengers into a mythological realm to recover a cosmic object stolen from Nyx, goddess of night.

JLA by Mark Waid Omnibus follows Mark Waid's high-concept Justice League stories, shaped by large superhero problems built around intelligence, teamwork and impossible choices. The appeal is seeing this DC period collected as one reading path, with its own tone, cast and visual rhythm.

Mark Waid and Dan Mora took the oldest team-up in superhero comics and made it feel new by refusing to make it grim. Their World's Finest is set in a bright, slightly retro past where Batman and Superman still trust each other, Robin is a boy wonder again and the Doom Patrol, the Devil Nezha and the Metal Men all get their turn.

The second deluxe volume of Waid and Mora's World's Finest widens the cast without losing the tone. Batman and Superman face the return of Boy Thunder, a Kryptonian threat with no easy answer and a Gotham that keeps refusing to behave, in the same bright register that made the first volume the most praised DC book of its era.

Mark Waid and Mike Wieringo took over Fantastic Four in 2002 and wrote it as what it always claimed to be: a family of explorers rather than superheroes. Unthinkable is the run's peak and the best Doctor Doom story in decades: Doom wins completely, and what he does with the victory is genuinely disturbing. Waid also writes the most convincing Reed Richards anyone has managed — a man whose intelligence is a character flaw. Wieringo's art keeps the whole thing warm.

On a day unlike any other, an epic team of Avengers forms to face mighty threats with a classic flavor! When the Earth is stolen, it triggers the end of an era for its Mightiest Heroes! The sky burns while mysterious cosmic objects crash down from above, wreaking havoc across the world! The Avengers are the last line of defense against the forces threatening to tear their planet apart — including Thanos’ Black Order and the new Lethal Legion!

DC Versus Marvel: The Amalgam Age Omnibus collects the 1996 crossover in which the two universes fought, plus the Amalgam books — a full month of comics from a merged reality where Batman and Wolverine are one character called Dark Claw, and Superman and Captain America are Super-Soldier. A genuine one-off in comics history, collected complete.

Your favorite agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. from page and screen in action across the Marvel Universe! High-tech weapons. High-stakes missions. High-octane adventure! For the agents of S. H. I. E. L. D., it’s just another day in the field! Special Agent Phil Coulson brings together the best and the brightest, the gifted and the elite, normal people and superhumans on an as-needed basis to confront, combat and curtail dangers beyond the scope of any conventional peace-keeping force!

Your favorite agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. from page and screen in action across the Marvel Universe! High-tech weapons. High-stakes missions. High-octane adventure! For the agents of S. H. I. E. L. D., it's just another day in the field! Special Agent Phil Coulson brings together the best and the brightest, the gifted and the elite, normal people and superhumans on an as-needed basis to confront, combat and curtail dangers beyond the scope of any conventional peacekeeping force!

Superman: Birthright The Deluxe Edition collects Mark Waid and Leinil Francis Yu's twelve-issue retelling of Superman's origin, the version that reframed Clark Kent as a young man travelling the world as a journalist before he ever puts on the suit. Waid's key idea — that Clark can see the living aura around every creature, and therefore cannot bear to let anything die — is the warmest explanation anyone has given for why Superman does what he does.

Absolute Power Omnibus collects Mark Waid and Dan Mora's event and its tie-ins, in which Amanda Waller finally does what she has been building towards for years: strips every metahuman on Earth of their powers at once and leaves the heroes to fight back with nothing. Collected complete in a single oversized hardcover.

Ra's al Ghul steals Batman's contingency plans for killing every member of the Justice League and uses them, one by one, exactly as written. Mark Waid turned the team's biggest asset into its worst betrayal, and the fallout defined how the League treated Batman for the next twenty years.

Twenty years after the Kansas disaster of Kingdom Come, a survivor takes the power of the gods and starts killing Superman once a day, every day, across time. Waid returns to his own future and uses it to introduce Hypertime, the idea DC spent the next decade arguing about.

Mark Waid and Chris Samnee are one of the defining creative partnerships of modern Marvel comics, celebrated for their run on Daredevil. When they reunited to tackle Black Widow, they brought the same kinetic confidence — and then extended their collaboration to Captain America, creating a cohesive spy-action epic across two iconic characters.

Legion of Super-Heroes by Mark Waid and Barry Kitson Omnibus collects the relaunch that reframed the Legion as a youth movement: thousands of teenagers across the galaxy following an ideal, with the actual team as its public face. It is the most accessible entry point the Legion has ever had.

Adam Strange: Between Two Worlds The Deluxe Edition collects the miniseries that rebuilt DC's pulp science-fiction hero, stranded on Earth after Rann vanishes and desperate to get back to a wife and daughter nobody believes exist.

The award-winning creative team who breathed fresh life into DAREDEVIL, work their magic on two iconic Avengers! Natasha Romanoff, the Black Widow, stars in a knock-down, drag-out tale of action and espionage! The world's greatest superspy has a lifetime of secrets - and when some of the darkest ones are made public, nobody is safe.