Peter David

Hulk: Maestro by Peter David Omnibus gathers three decades of the Hulk's darkest what-if. The Maestro is a future Bruce Banner who kept the Hulk's raw power and his own intelligence but lost the conscience that held the monster back. It begins with Future Imperfect (1992), Peter David and George Perez's landmark story where the present-day Hulk is thrown a century forward to face the tyrant he could become, and closes with the modern origin trilogy — Maestro, War and Pax and World War M — that shows exactly how he crossed that line. A complete study of a hero fully embracing villainy.

Incredible Hulk by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 2 sits at the heart of the run, where Bruce Banner's psychology, the merged Hulk idea and Marvel adventure start locking together with unusual confidence. Peter David makes the monster funny, tragic, dangerous and self-aware without sanding away the anger that drives him. This edition works best when read as a study of anger with consequences: every transformation says something about fear, control and the people left dealing with the damage afterward.

Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus Vol. 2 collects Peter David's modern return to Miguel O'Hara. Where Vol. 1 was the cyberpunk future, this volume strands the Spider-Man of 2099 in the present day — arriving just as Alchemax, the corporation that will corrupt his future, is being founded, and giving him a chance to change history before it happens. His plan is derailed by the multiversal war of Spider-Verse, and his eventual return home lands him in a 2099 seized by the Maestro. Drawn mainly by Will Sliney, it's a complete, self-contained era of the character now famous from Across the Spider-Verse.

The third and culminating omnibus of Peter David's legendary Hulk run brings together the payoff of years of psychological groundwork. This volume centers on the emergence of the 'Professor Hulk' — the merged personality that combines Banner's intelligence with the Hulk's strength and a measured emotional stability.

X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 4 closes Peter David's evolving X-Factor, from the final Madrox-era crisis to the All-New X-Factor team led by Polaris.

X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 3 keeps the team’s offbeat rhythm alive, with investigations, fractured trust and humour that rarely hides the damage underneath. Peter David’s strength is making the cast feel like people stuck with one another long enough for every joke to reveal a bruise. The volume rewards readers who like Peter David’s slower character burn. The jokes are still there, but they work because the cast has accumulated enough pain for humour to feel defensive, not decorative.

X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 2 continues the government-team era with the odd chemistry that makes this corner of the X-line stand apart. Larry Stroman’s visual style and David’s character writing give the book a tone that is sharp, funny, wounded and much stranger than a standard team assignment. This continuation keeps the government-team concept sharp by refusing to make the characters too smooth. Leadership, ego, insecurity and loyalty keep rubbing against one another in ways that feel deliberately uncomfortable.

X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 1 reinvents the team as a government-sponsored mutant unit led by Havok, with Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane and Quicksilver bringing tension, wit and damaged chemistry to every mission. Peter David makes the book work through character voice as much as superhero action.

Incredible Hulk by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 5 brings the long Peter David era toward closure, following the consequences of years spent splitting, merging and redefining Bruce Banner's fractured self. It is a volume about aftermath as much as action, with the Hulk mythos carrying the weight of a twelve-year run. This edition works best when read as a study of anger with consequences: every transformation says something about fear, control and the people left dealing with the damage afterward.

The moment when Peter David merges the three personalities of the Hulk into a single entity: Professor Hulk. Body of the original, intelligence of Banner, cunning of Grey. Considered by many to be the best Hulk ever written and the version Marvel Studios adopted for Avengers: Endgame. Dale Keown on the art.

Incredible Hulk by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 1 begins one of the character's richest psychological eras, with Bruce Banner, the Hulk personas and years of trauma pulled into the same frame. Dale Keown's art gives the run physical force, while Peter David turns rage into character study rather than simple destruction. This edition works best when read as a study of anger with consequences: every transformation says something about fear, control and the people left dealing with the damage afterward.

Spider-Man 2099 Omnibus Vol. 1 throws Peter David and Rick Leonardi's future Spider-Man into a neon Marvel dystopia where corporations, identity and violence have replaced the familiar New York street-level rhythm. Miguel O'Hara is not Peter Parker in a new costume; he is a different kind of Spider-Man, born from a harsher future and forced to turn survival into responsibility.

Peter David returns to the black-suit era with the fun question every symbiote reader asks: what else happened before Peter understood what the costume really was? This omnibus fills that dangerous gap with Mysterio, Hobgoblin, Doctor Strange, Kang, Knull, Hulk, Black Cat trouble and even a 2099 detour for Miguel O'Hara. It is Spider-Man symbiote material with modern pace, old-school continuity hooks and a direct road toward Venom mythology.

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.

Secret Wars: Battleworld Omnibus Vol. 2 collects another wave of 2015 Battleworld tie-ins, with Doom's patchwork reality turning Marvel characters into domain-level conflicts, alternate versions and genre experiments.