Peter David

The landmark 1996 crossover between DC and Marvel, with readers voting by phone who won each fight. Spider-Man vs Superboy, Batman vs Captain America, Wolverine vs Lobo, Hulk vs Superman. It's the only official crossover between the two American comic book giants. This edition is the Direct Market Exclusive variant with cover by Jim Lee.

Secret Wars: Battleworld Omnibus Vol. 2 is an anthology of Marvel's 2015 event worlds rather than a single-character book. Its value is range: each domain of Doom's Battleworld lets Marvel remix a familiar franchise under impossible rules. That makes the product category important. It belongs in Marvel Events, with no main character, because attaching it to X-Men or Spider-Man would distort browsing.

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.

Peter David's run on the Incredible Hulk is widely considered the definitive modern interpretation of the character, and this second omnibus sits at the heart of it. David pushed the book into genuinely complex psychological territory, exploring the multiple-personality disorder at the core of Bruce Banner's condition. This volume includes the landmark 'Pardoned' arc and the emergence of the grey Hulk persona Joe Fixit, a Las Vegas enforcer who represents Banner's id stripped of heroic pretense. The storytelling is mature, darkly funny, and emotionally intelligent in ways that superhero comics of the late 1980s rarely managed. Essential reading for any serious Hulk collector.

X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 4 carries X-Factor Investigations deeper into prophecy, noir fallout and the consequences of Layla Miller's impossible knowledge. The appeal is not event scale; it is ensemble precision. David keeps turning minor emotional choices into long-form consequences, making the book one of the most distinctive mutant runs of the 2000s.

X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 3 is the reinvention volume: Jamie Madrox turns X-Factor into a detective agency in Mutant Town after M-Day, and the book becomes mutant noir. Siryn, Rictor, M, Layla Miller and Strong Guy give the series a tone no other X-book has. It is clever, wounded and strange, exactly why this era has its own collector audience.

X-Factor by Peter David Omnibus Vol. 2 is the government-team era at its most character-driven: Havok, Polaris, Multiple Man, Strong Guy and Wolfsbane are less a clean superhero squad than a workplace full of damage, jokes and unresolved pressure. David's gift is making the team funny without making them lightweight, and this volume keeps that balance under escalating stress.

Peter David reinvents X-Factor as a government-sponsored mutant team in one of the most acclaimed X-Men runs of the 1990s. With Havok leading a roster including Polaris, Strong Guy, Multiple Man, Wolfsbane and Quicksilver, David brought his trademark wit, psychological depth and genre-bending storytelling to the mutant world. This first omnibus covers the team's formation and early missions, blending superhero action with noir-tinged investigations and character-driven comedy. David's X-Factor stands as proof that a team book doesn't need the biggest names to tell the best stories — just a writer who understands character.

Peter David narrates Spider-Man's lost adventures during the black symbiote costume period, set between the events of Secret Wars and Venom's eventual separation from Peter. These stories explore what Peter Parker was like under the subtle influence of the alien — more aggressive, more confident, more dangerous — through encounters with classic villains including Electro, Sandman, Mysterio, and the Vulture. 632 pages of central gap-filling for any collector tracking the complete black costume era.

Closing of the longest run ever written about the Hulk: 12 uninterrupted years of Peter David on the title. It collects the final arcs of the run, the process of defusion of the Hulk's personalities and the narrative closure of all the threads that David had opened for more than a decade. End of the cycle.

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.

Peter David takes Hulk in 1987 and plants the thesis of dissociative disorder: Savage Hulk, Grey Hulk, Banner as separate personalities. This theory was adopted as canon in later film, television and comics. Art by Dale Keown, one of the key names in the Hulk aesthetic of the 90s. Beginning of one of the longest runs ever written about a Marvel character.