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Every Missing Avengers Omnibus, Mapped | 13th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

April 14, 2025 by krisis 5 Comments

Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 2025 Avengers Omnibus MappingIt’s the most wonderful time of the year for Marvel Omnibus fans – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Avengers team omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

For the next two weeks, I’ll be covering Marvel’s entire publishing history by mapping missing omnibus volumes to fill in every gap in your Marvel oversize shelf! That’s all leading to the kickoff of the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 13th Annual Secret Ballot on Near Mint Condition on 28 April 2025.

Marvel has stepped up their Avengers omnibus game in 2025 with three new Avengers volumes. The announcement of Avengers by Johns & Coipel and New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis Vol. 2 means we now have an unbroken run of the Avengers flagship title from 1998 to 2010. And, Marvel announced Avengers Forever by Jason Aaron, making it clear exactly what material prior the big finale will need to be collected to cover all of Jason Aaron’s Avengers (2018).

That still leaves us with many Avengers comics that have never been printed in Omnibus compared to last year’s poll options, including the entire 1980s, the mid 90s, supporting titles from the 00s, and 2012 and beyond other than Hickman’s, run – including all of Al Ewing’s many Avengers runs. What Avengers omnibuses do you want to see printed the most? And, what Avengers runs do you still need to dig into?

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for a list of books vetted by a gang of the biggest mapping nerds on the internet with explanations from yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet.

Or, if you don’t care about omnibuses, just use this post to learn about Marvel’s history and find some great comics to read!

This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:

  • Avengers (1963) in Omnibus
    • Avengers Vol. 6 (1976 – 1979) [MMW 16-18]
    • Avengers Vol. 7 (1979 – 1982) [MMW 19-21]
    • Avengers Vol. 8 (1983 & on) [MMW 22-24, AKA by Roger Stern, Vol. 1]
    • Fantastic Four & The Avengers by Walt Simonson (1987 – 1991) [Includes The New Fantastic Four]
    • Avengers: Operation Galactic Storm (1990 – 1992) [AKA Road to The Gathering, starts at #317]
    • Avengers: Road to Onslaught (1994 – 1996) [fills the gaps from The Gathering to Onslaught]
  • Avengers West Coast, Force Works, & Great Lakes Avengers in Omnibus
    • Avengers: West Coast Avengers Vol. 3 (1989 & on)
    • Hawkeye & The Solo Avengers (1964 – 1990) [includes Solo Avengers & Avengers Spotlight]
    • Avengers: Force Works (1994 – 1996)
    • Avengers: Squirrel Girl & The Great Lakes Avengers (1989 – 2017) [GLA appearances + Squirrel Girl origins]
  • Avengers (1996) & Avengers (1998) in Omnibus
    • Avengers: Avengers Disassembled (2004 – 2005) [includes solo series tie-ins]
  • Avengers teams from 2005 – 2009 in Omnibus
    • Avengers: Mighty Avengers by Bendis & Slott (2007 – 2010)
    • Avengers: The Initiative by Slott & Gage (2007 – 2010)
    • Avengers: Dark Avengers by Brian Bendis Omnibus (2009 – 2010) [includes Utopia/Exodus & Siege]
  • Heroic Age Avengers (2010 – 2012) in Omnibus
    • Avengers: Avengers Academy (2010 – 2012)
    • Avengers: Heroic Age Avengers by Brian Bendis, Vol. 1 (2010 & on) [collecting Avengers (2010) and/or New Avengers (2010)]
    • Avengers: Secret Avengers by Brubaker, Spencer, Ellis, & Remender (2010 – 2012) [includes Onslaught Unleashed]
  • Marvel Now Avengers (2013 – 2015) in Omnibus
    • Age of Ultron (2013 – 2015) [Event, AU tie-ins, Avengers A.I., Ultron Forever]
    • Avengers World by Jonathan Hickman Companion (2012 – 2015) [Avengers World, A+X, & other NOW series]
    • Avengers: Avengers Arena & Undercover by Dennis Hopeless (2012 – 2014)
    • Avengers: Avengers Assemble by Bendis & DeConnick (2012 – 2014)
    • Avengers: Secret Avengers by Spencer & Kot (2013 – 2015)
    • Avengers: by Al Ewing Vol. 1 (2014 & on) [Mighty, New, USA, Ultimates, No Surrender, No Road Home, Wasp, Inc]
  • All-New All Different Avengers (2015 – 2018) in Omnibus
    • Avengers by Mark Waid (2015 – 2018) [collects ANAD through No Surrender]
    • Avengers: Uncanny Avengers by Duggan & Zub (2015 – 2018)
  • Marvel Fresh Start Avengers (2018 – Present) in Omnibus
    • Avengers by Jason Aaron Vol. 1 (2018 – 2020)
    • Avengers by Jason Aaron Vol. 2 (2020 – 2023) [ends prior to Avengers Forever omni]
    • Avengers United by Derek Landy et al (2022 – 2025) [All-Out, Beyond, Unlimited, & United]

Remember: These titles and mappings are a suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes on the Tigereyes poll. Your vote on the poll is a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period, NOT an endorsement of a specific map. Maps are presented as a proof of concept and to help you build your personal reading list.

Want to check out all of the other voting options for the 2025 Tigereyes Poll? Check out my 2025 Tigereyes poll options overview page that explains the poll, how to vote, and every title that will appear – including links to all of the posts in this series.

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Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Avengers (1963) in Omnibus

Avengers Omnibus Mapping for issues of Avengers (1963). See Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996) for collections of this title, including existing omnibuses, plus Marvel Masterworks and Epic Collections including the material that would be collected in these books.

Avengers (1963) #1-149 are covered in a series of five existing classic Avengers omnibuses – see Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996).

Avengers Vol. 6 (1976 – 1979) [MMW 16-18]
This volume is the obvious next book in the classic Avengers omnibus series. Every book so far has included three Marvel Masterworks volumes of material, and there is no reason this should be an exception.

Marvel made us wait four years between Volume 4 and Volume 5, in part because there was no Avengers film out in that period (and, historically, Marvel released this classic omni line only during Avengers MCU years). With Avengers: Doomsday due in theatres in 2026, it seems like we’ll see this book no matter what… but, your vote will help Marvel to avoid the temptation to skip this Volume 6 in favor of releasing a modern Avengers omnibus instead.

This would collect Avengers (1963) #150-188 & Annual 6-9, Marvel Two-in-One (1974) Annual 2, and material from Avengers: The Korvac Saga Trade Paperback (1991) and material from Marvel Tales (1966) #100. It could also add Super-Villain Team-up (1975) #9, which was included in the Epic line.

Avengers Vol. 7 (1979 – 1982) [MMW 19-21]
This would continue the trend of collecting three Marvel Masterworks per Avengers omnibus – which also means it would conveniently end just prior to Roger Stern’s classic run.

Why vote for this book instead of just focusing on Volume 6 or the first Roger Stern volume with Volume 8? This book has a chunk of the downfall and subsequent Trial of Yellowjacket, plus a struggle against Grey Gargoyle, meddling from Peter Gyrich, and more. Plus, the all-time nadir of Avengers (1963) #200 and a subsequent all-time high of Chris Claremont’s Avengers Annual 10 – the debut of Rogue!

This would collect Avengers (1963) #189-226 & Annual 10-11, Marvel Premiere (1972) #55, Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1982) #1-4, and material from Tales To Astonish (1979) #12, Marvel Super Action (1977) #35-37, and Marvel Fanfare (1982) #3

Avengers Vol. 8 (1983 & on) [MMW 22-24, AKA by Roger Stern, Vol. 1]
Roger Stern’s run on Avengers stretches for 60 issues, five annuals, a graphic novel, and several side appearances along the way. That means it is too long for a single volume – plus, Marvel rarely goes that huge on a classic omnibus unless it completely collects a single character or series.

That means the hotly-desired Roger Stern run on Avengers would likely continue to follow the “3 Masterworks” rule in a first volume, collecting Masterworks Volumes 22-24. It also means we likely need to get through Avengers Omnibuses Volumes 6-7, above, to reach this book. That means it’s likely at least three years away… but maybe you can entice Marvel to speed things up by voting for it.

This would begin to collect from Avengers (1963) #227 onward, at minimum collecting the contents of Marvel Masterworks Vol. 22-24, which are Collects (1963) #227-254 & Annual 12-13, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) Annual 16, Doctor Strange (1974) #60, Fantastic Four (1961) #256 (and material from #257), Hawkeye (1983) #1-4, West Coast Avengers (1984) #1-4, and Iron Man (1968) Annual 7.

Fantastic Four & The Avengers by Walt Simonson (1987 – 1991) [Includes The New Fantastic Four]
This isn’t really a required Avengers vote. Walt Simonson wrote Avengers (1963) #291-299, which would be part of a potential gap after Roger Stern Vol. 2 and prior to the existing Avengers by John Byrne Omnibus – which collects slices of both Avengers (1963) and Avengers West Coast Avengers (1989).

Realistically, based on what’s happening with the Uncanny X-Men line, an Avengers Vol. 10 will almost certainly collect this post-Stern material five or more years from now. But, if you simply want a gap-filler on your shelf that lines up with the Byrne omnibus on the other side, this is your book.

This would collect Avengers (1963) #288-304 and Annual 17; Fantastic Four (1961) #334-354 and Annual 23; and material from Marvel Holiday Special 1991. While Avengers #288-290, 301-304 are NOT by Simonson, they could easily be included here to fill the gap prior to the existing Avengers by John Byrne omnibus.

For some of the material following Roger Stern’s run, see Avengers by John Byrne in Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996).

Avengers (1963) #345Avengers: Operation Galactic Storm (1990 – 1992) [AKA Road to The Gathering, starts at #317]
This option has been significantly retooled from two different books on last year’s poll – one of which was one of our worst titling goofs of 2024!

Let’s take the second part of this first. “Operation Galactic Storm” was a crossover between Avengers teams, several Avengers solo books, and Quasar – Marvel’s sole cosmic title in this period. The story occurs in a three issue gap at the beginning of the already-existing Avengers The Gathering Omnibus.

However, Operation Galactic Storm is just a single Epic Collection worth of material, even if you pad it out with some epilogue issues. And, since it occurs at the beginning of the Avengers The Gathering Omnibus, there’s nothing after it to collect. That would make for a slim omnibus just a hair bigger than an Epic Collection, especially for a line like Avengers that doesn’t release books too frequently.

That’s where the first half of this book comes in. Last year we goofed and listed a title called “Avengers by Fabian Nicieza et al,” which hardly explains the contents of a volume preceding Avengers The Gathering Omnibus. After Byrne’s run wraps up, we have Fabian Nicieza’s run (#317-324), then Mark Gruenwald for an issue (#325), followed by an arc of Larry Hama (#326-333), and then the start of Bob Harras (#334-342) – plus Annuals 19-21.

That makes for one relatively hefty and very fun-to-read book! You get the Avengers wrapped up in some very street-level terrestrial conflicts (including the debut of future New Warrior Rage) before going galactic! Since those Earthbound conflicts aren’t a single storyline and aren’t by just one writer, it makes them much easier to market under the auspices of Operation Galactic Storm – which is why you should vote for this book!

This would collect Avengers (1963) by Fabian Nicieza’s run (#317-324), Mark Gruenwald (#325), Larry Hama (#326-333), and the start of Bob Harras (#334-342) – plus Annuals 19-21 – to meet up with The Gathering omnibus on the other side.

Then, it would collect ALL of Galactic Storm (488 pages in Epic Collection), including Avengers (1963) #345-347, Avengers West Coast (1989) #80-82, Quasar #32-36, Wonder Man (1991) #7-9, Iron Man (1968) #278-279, Thor (1966) #445-446, Captain America (1968) #401, What If…? (1989) #55-56 (“What If… The Avengers Lost Operation Galactic Storm?”), and material from Captain America (1968) #398-400. To that it could add Wonder Man (1991) #10-12 (an epilogue that allows this to cleanly meet the Infinity Gauntlet omnibus).

The existing Avengers The Gathering Omnibus and Avengers: The Crossing Omnibus fit here, leaving a gap of #376-389 between them, and a scant #396-400 after (which includes the “First Sign” crossover) prior to X-Men / Avengers: Onslaught Omnibus. See Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996) for details.

Avengers (1963) #397Avengers: Road to Onslaught (1994 – 1996) [fills the gaps from The Gathering to Onslaught]
Once again, we’ve got to do some creative mapping to fill some existing gaps in the Avengers omnibuses.

Avengers The Gathering Omnibus ends with issue #375, leaving a swath of material un-omnibized prior to the much-mocked Avengers: The Crossing Omnibus, including a brief “Taking AIM” crossover with Captain America. Then we hit “The Crossing,” a huge crossover that’s both indirect (i.e., a status quo occurring in multiple titles simultaneously) and direct (i.e., issue-to-issue between titles).

Rather than trying to re-collect portions of “The Crossing” in omnibus similar to how Epic Collections have handled it. Or… we could just skip that entire omnibus to pick up a half-year of issues that came afterward before the title launched into Onslaught. That little slice of issues happens to include another crossover – “First Sign.”

A vote for this book will perfectly wrap up your mid-90s Avengers shelve, seamless linking The Gathering, The Crossing, and Onslaught!

This would collect Avengers (1963) #376-389, Avengers Log (1994) #1, the “Bloodties” crossover (X-Men (1991) #26; Avengers West Coast (1989) #101; Uncanny X-Men (1963) #307), Marvel Double Feature: Avengers/Giant-Man (1994) #379-382, Vision (1994) #1-4, Captain America (1968) #440-441, Avengers Unplugged (1995) #1-6

Then, it would add the “First Sign” crossover (Captain America (1968) #449, Thor (1966) #496, Iron Man (1968) #326, & Avengers (1963) #396) and conclude with Avengers (1963) #397-400.

The final handful of issues of Avengers are collected as part of Onslaught. See Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996) for details.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Avengers West Coast, Force Works, & Great Lakes Avengers in Omnibus

The Avengers had a handful of spinoff series in the 80s and early 90s, including a West Coast team, a solo anthology book, and a more forceful 90s iteration. Plus, the very silly Great Lakes Avengers were born in this period! See Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996) and Guide to Avengers West Coast for more details (plus Guide to Hawkeye – Clint Barton… you’ll understand why in a moment!)

West Coast Avengers (1985) #1-41 are covered by a pair of existing omnibuses, and then Avengers by John Byrne collects a massive hunk of West Coast Avengers (1985) #42-46 andAvengers West Coast (1989) #47-62. See Guide to Avengers West Coast.

Avengers West Coast (1989) #69Avengers: West Coast Avengers Vol. 3 (1989 & on)
This is one omnibus on the poll where we’ll be staying conspicuously silent on the exact issue mapping.

Why? Well, some people want this omnibus to pick up cleanly from the existing Avengers by John Byrne omnibus, which is mostly an West Coast omnibus. That would put us just a pair of omnibuses away from finishing this title, of which this would be one.

However, other people want an unbroken line of West Coast Avengers books, so they want this volume to start from the end of West Coast Avengers Vol. 2, re-collecting the material from Byrne and pushing past it a bit.

There’s no right answer here – both would be solid omnibuses that obey (different) rules of Marvel’s mapping strategy. As a result, we’re not being prescriptive with this map. A vote for this book is simply a vote to continue collecting West Coast, no matter how that’s done.

“In total, the remaining West Coast material to collect after the Avengers by Byrne Omnibus is Avengers West Coast (1989) #65-102 & Annual 6-8, “”The Subterranean Wars”” annual crossover material (from Darkhawk (1991) Annual 1 and Iron Man (1968) Annual 13), Avengers: The Terminatrix Objective (1993) #1-4, USAgent (1993) #1-4, Spider-Woman (1993) #1-4, Scarlet Witch (1994) #1-4, maybe Hawkeye (1994) #1-4, Bloodties crossover issues (Avengers (1963) #368-369, X-Men (1991) #26, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #307) and material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #143-144.

However, if this re-collected the Byrne material, it would begin with West Coast Avengers (1985) #42.”

Avengers Spotlight (1989) #26Hawkeye & The Solo Avengers (1964 – 1990) [includes Solo Avengers & Avengers Spotlight]
Last year I tried to over-engineer a perfected-mapped line of Hawkeye volumes with witty titles for the poll, and they were mostly rejected by voters.

I learned my lesson – this is a titles poll, not a mapping poll. People scroll down the list of options looking for the runs they’ve alway wanted in oversize format, not a catchy title.

That’s why I’ve consulted with the Mapping Minties to significantly reconfigure this Hawkeye omnibus into something more obvious. It’s effectively the contents of his initial three Epic Collections, minus all of the double-dipping of issues of Avengers (1963). Then, it would continue with his 1983 mini-series, as well as all forty issues of Solo Avengers (1987) #1-20 and Avengers Spotlight (1989) #21-40 – almost all of which included at least one Hawkeye story. It could also include some other random solo Avengers adventures from Marvel Comics Presents that would otherwise be abandoned, and even mini-series like Jack of Hearts (1984).

A vote for this book is mostly a vote to collect all of Hawkeye’s solo material from the Bronze Age and 80s and all of Solo Avengers (1987) and Avengers Spotlight (1989) in oversize format.

This would effectively collect the first three Hawkeye collections less most of the Silver and Bronze Age Avengers issues collected in the first volume, and adding some other solo Avengers errata from the 1980s.

In total, that means it would include material from Tales of Suspense (1959) #57, 60, & 64, Avengers (1963) #16, Marvel Tales (1964) #100, Marvel Super Action (1976) #1, Hawkeye (1983) #1-4, Captain America (1968) #317, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #3 & 39, Jack of Hearts (1984) #1-4, Solo Avengers (1987) #1-20, Avengers Spotlight (1989) #22-40, material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #83, and other solo Avengers material from Marvel Fanfare (1982), Marvel Comics Presents (1988), and Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) that would not otherwise be collected in hero or team omnibuses.

Force Works (1994) #3Avengers: Force Works (1994 – 1996)
Force Works exists as the red-headed stepchild of the Avengers – one of the few times the Avengers franchise has ever launched a new title without the “Avengers” name in it.

Why? The idea of multiple Avengers titles was feeling a little stale in the mid-90s, when the X-Men line had exploded into multiple team titles (including X-Force) and Justice League had done the same (including a Task Force and Extreme Justice). Marvel decided it was time for Avengers to follow suit with a “Force” of their own and Force Works was born as an outgrowth of the West Coast team.

I have a specific nostalgic affection for this gang – which included Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Jessica Drew as Spider-Woman, Wonder Man, US Agent, and a new character named Century. But, many modern readers wouldn’t have any idea what this book is without the “Avengers” name on it.

(Would Marvel be sneaky enough to call this “Scarlet Witch & Force Works” or something similar to take advantage of Wanda’s surging popularity? Perhaps!)

A vote for this book is a vote to collect this series in full so we can finally have the entire thing collected in color!

This would collect Force Works (1994) #1-22 & Ashcan Edition, Century: Distant Sons (1996) #1, material from Iron Man/Force Works Collectors’ Preview (1994), and the Hands of the Mandarin crossover issues (War Machine (1994) #8-10, Iron Man (1968) #310-312, and material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #169-172).

Great Lakes Avengers (2016) #1Avengers: Squirrel Girl & The Great Lakes Avengers (1989 – 2017) [GLA appearances + Squirrel Girl origins]
The Great Lakes Avengers are a very silly not-quite-Avengers squad launched as a parody of the West Coast Avengers in 1989 (and also as a minor joke on the Justice League of America, since the Great Lakes Avengers were the GLA as opposed to the JLA).

The GLA were brought back for several gag appearances over the years, which eventually included picking up the then-obscure Squirrel Girl as a member prior to Brian Bendis adopting her towards the end of New Avengers (2010) and her subsequent solo stardom.

Pretty much all of Squirrel Girl’s pre-solo-series material was collected in a 2016 paperback called Squirrel Girl & The Great Lakes Avengers that was less than 300 pages. However, that didn’t comprehensively collect past GLA appearances and the GLA had their own short-lived series in All-New All Different Marvel.

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect all of Squirrel Girl’s pre-solo appearances in a single omnibus alongside every GLA appearance that was more than just a cameo – and there’s a significant overlap between the two.

This would collect Great Lakes Avengers and Squirrel Girl appearances from West Coast Avengers (1985) #46, Avengers West Coast (1989) #48-49, 64, & material from Annual 6, Avengers (1963) #309 & material from Annual 19, Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #8 (3rd story), Deadpool (1997) #10-11 & 61, Thunderbolts (1997) #15-17 & 25, GLA (Great Lakes Avengers) (2006) #1-4, GLX-Mas Special (2006), I ♥ Marvel: Masked Intentions (2006), Thing (2006) #8, Cable & Deadpool #30, Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun Spectacular, material from Age of Heroes #4 and I Am An Avenger #1, material from Fear Itself: The Home Front (2011) #6, The Great Lakes Avengers (2016) #1-7.

It also could excerpt handful of additional Squirrel Girl appearances from Avengers: The Initiative (2007) #19 & 25, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #605 (2nd story), and excerpted scenes from Brian Bendis’s run on New Avengers (2010).

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Avengers (1996) & Avengers (1998) in Omnibus

The two Avengers series that ran from 1996 to 2004 are now fully covered in omnibus as of the newly-announced Avengers by Johns & Coipel. There’s nothing left to collect from the Avengers line! See Guide to Avengers (1996 -2004) for existing collection information.

But… some people are never satisfied, so we still have one book on the poll from this period!

Avengers: Avengers Disassembled (2004 – 2005) [includes solo series tie-ins]
I know I’m supposed to hype you up to vote for books on the poll, but I struggle with this one.

Basically, this collects a number of disparate, unconnected “Disassembled” arcs from the Trinity of Cap, Iron Man, and Thor that happened at around the same time as Brian Bendis’s main “Avengers Disassembled” storyline.

The arcs don’t cross over and they will all eventually be collected in their own omnibus lines, and every Avengers issue in this book is a double-dip from the Brian Bendis Avengers omnibus line.

But… people keep voting for this. So, until I convince everyone not to vote for it, here it is again!

This would collect Avengers (1998) #500-503, 500 Director’s Cut, and Finale; Thor (1998) #80-85, Iron Man (1998) #84-89, Captain America (2002) #29-32, and Captain America & The Falcon (2004) #5-7.

It could also include Fantastic Four (1963) #514-519 and Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #15-20, which also carried the Disassembled banner.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Avengers teams from 2005 – 2009 in Omnibus

As of later this year we’ll finally have a second volume of Brian Bendis’s New Avengers (2004) to completely collect that series. However, we still need another two volumes to wrap up the spine of Bendis’s heroic Avengers run, plus volumes to cover Dark Avengers, Mighty Avengers, The Initiative, Avengers Academy, Secret Avengers, and Avengers Assemble!

That’s a lot of omnis! And, we’re right at the 20-year mark where nostalgia for those series is beginning to kick in. Let’s take a look at what’s missing. See Guide to New Avengers (2004 – 2009), Guide to Mighty Avengers & Ultimates, Guide to Young Avengers & Avengers in Training, and Guide to Thunderbolts & Dark Avengers for more information.

The main flagship New Avengers (2004) is completely covered in a pair of omnibus volumes – see Guide to New Avengers (2004 – 2009)

Avengers: Mighty Avengers by Bendis, Slott, & Gage (2007 – 2010)
This is the next big chunk of Avengers to cover in omnibus. Brian Bendis kicked off this book to house the Pro-Registration Avengers in the wake of Civil War (2006) dividing the team. It was headlined by Iron Man and Carol Danvers, continuing their close relationship (which Bendis would briefly fraction a decade later in Civil War II (2016)).

Later, Bendis moved on from this title to pilot his Dark Avengers (2009) and Dan Slott took over through the close. But, Slott’s issues were never issued in oversize hardcover volumes like Bendis’s were, so much of this series has never been oversized.

This is a fairly straightforward run to collect, but you could make the argument that it ought to add in Avengers/Invaders (2008) #1-12, which largely starred the Mighty Avengers team.

Thanks to eagle-eyed readers Kayden & Kane who pointed out all of this run has been in oversize hardcover before, which I totally forgot despite it being explained in my Guide to Mighty Avengers.

 A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Mighty Avengers (2007) in oversize hardcover!

This would collect Mighty Avengers (2007) #1-36 & Secret Invasion: Requiem, plus maybe also Avengers/Invaders (2008) #1-12.

Avengers: The Initiative by Slott & Gage (2007 – 2010)
This was the second Avengers team book to emerge from the original Civil War (2006). This book could have easily been called “Young Avengers” or “Avengers Academy,” as it splits the difference between those two title concepts to gather a large amount of minor league heroes together to train to be deployed as squads for each of the 50 United States.

Of course, things don’t go smoothly – some trainees revert to villainy, instructors quit (or turn out to be Skrulls), and the campus is invaded multiple times, until finally the program as it stands falls apart during Siege (2009) and is replaced with a proper Avengers Academy.

This run has never been recollected since it’s original release – not even in paperback complete collections! It’s likely this book could wind up with a different title for marketing purposes, like “Avengers in Training: Civil War Aftermath” or something like that.

A vote for this book is to recollect the entirety of this training squad for the first time – in a single omnibus!

This would collect Avengers: The Initiative (2007) #1-35 & Annual 1.

Dark Avengers (2009) #1Avengers: Dark Avengers by Brian Bendis Omnibus (2009 – 2010) [includes Utopia/Exodus & Siege]
Brian Bendis co-opted the concept and some of the cast of a juicy Warren Ellis run on Thunderbolts to construct a villains-as-Avengers team around Norman Osborn.

Osborn was ascendant in the wake of his role in the finale of Secret Invasion (2008). With public trust in heroes at an all-time low after they were proven to be infiltrated by Skrulls, Osborn essentially buys the Avengers intellectual property and fields a squad of very bad people under very familiar names: Bullseye (as Hawkeye), Moonstone (as Ms. Marvel), Mac Gargan (as a black-suited Spider-Man), Daken (as Wolverine), plus the literal god Ares and the extremely unstable Sentry.

The best time for this omnibus to exist would be right now, given the Thunderbolts movie about to hit theatres starring Sentry! But, Bendis never goes out of style, and this is one of his greatest hits at Marvel – especially when this evil team bumps up against Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect Dark Avengers together with the Utopia/Exodus crossover in a single oversize hardcover for the first time, adding Siege and some other supporting material to make this a single coherent read of the center ring of Norman Osborn’s Dark Reign.

This would primarily collect the contents of the Dark Avengers Epic Collection – Dark Avengers (2009) #1-16 & Annual 1, Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men (2009) Exodus #1 & Utopia #1, and Uncanny X-Men (1981) #513-514, plus Dark Reign: The Cabal (2009) #1 and Siege (2010) #1-4.

However, that is less than 700 pages of story, so this could also add some supporting mini-series starring member sof this team, including Dark Avengers: Ares (2009) #1-3, Dark Reign: Hawkeye (2009) #1-5, Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man (2009) #1-4, Dark Reign: The Goblin Legacy (2009) #1 Dark X-Men (2009) #1-5, Dark X-Men: The Beginning (2009) #1-3, Dark X-Men: The Confession (2009) #1, an additional Utopia tie-in X-Men Legacy (2008) #226-227, and an epilogue in Osborn (2010) #1-5.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Heroic Age Avengers (2010 – 2012) in Omnibus

No Avengers titles from this period have been collected comprehensively in oversize hardcover! See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present), Guide to Young Avengers & Avengers in Training, and Guide to Secret Warriors & Secret Avengers for details.

New Avengers (2010) #1Avengers: Heroic Age Avengers by Brian Bendis, Vol. 1 (2010 & on) [collecting Avengers (2010) and/or New Avengers (2010)]
After Siege (2009), Brian Bendis reunited a pair of splintered Avengers squads into a single Avengers team… and then split them up again.

Avengers (2010) tracked a team of Avengers headed by the holy Trinity of Cap, Iron Man, & Thor with a worldwide (and even cosmic) scope. And, New Avengers (2010) continued a tight focus on a smaller-scale team led by Luke Cage – who had become very popular over the run of New Avengers (2004).

These are each 36 issue runs, which leads some people to want them each collected in their own book – in the same treatment Bendis just received for his All-New X-Men (2012) and Uncanny X-Men (2013). However, these runs come with some different circumstances.

First, Bendis preceded these runs with Avengers: Prime (2010) #1-5, the first time the Trinity had been together in a book for over half a decade. It really acts as a unification story that prefaces both of these Avengers teams, although I suppose we could collect it just in a Avengers (2010) book.

Next, these teams cross over with each other twice – during a run of intertwined Fear Itself crossover issues and from their annuals. So, separating the runs into their own distinct books means those issues will get repeated across both books.

Also, collecting these runs together would allow a second volume to include I Am an Avenger (2010) #1-5, a book of anthology stories and Avengers oral history, as well as Bendis’s introductory run on Avengers Assemble (2010) #1-8 – which is the true finale of his eight years of steering the team.

But, you don’t have to agree with me! A vote for this book is a vote to get the first of these two volumes out, no matter how you think they ought to be mapped.

This would begin collect Avengers: Prime (2010) #1-5, Avengers (2010) #1-34, 24.1, & Annual 1, New Avengers (2010) #1-34, 16.1, & Annual 1 by Brian, I Am an Avenger (2010) #1-5, and Avengers Assemble (2012) #1-8.

Avengers Academy (2010) #21Avengers: Avengers Academy (2010 – 2012)
After both The Initiative and Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers fell apart during Siege (2009), the newly reunited Avengers chartered their own proper training academy for the first time.

Except, it came with one minor kink (that many readers have forgotten in the past 15 years): the entire first class of students were all potential villains. The Avengers recruited them for training preemptively to try to head off their potentially evil natures.

This book was one of Marvel’s purest academic-focused team books, with a tight focus on a specific group of students, their adventures, and their interpersonal drama. We never quite get a resolution about whether or not they were villains, but it’s a very enjoyable read throughout.

Unfortunately, the only real breakout character from this run has been Hazmat – many of the other heroes have gone forgotten (though one just came back from the dead). However, perhaps there is some marketing heat in the fact that Laura Kinney joins the Academy in the back half of the book. Putting her on the cover could sell some copies!

A vote for this book is to collect all of Avengers Academy (2010) in oversize hardcover for the first time.

This would collect Avengers Academy (2010) #1-39, 14.1, Avengers Academy Giant-Size #1, Thunderbolts (1997) #147, and material from Enter The Heroic Age #1, Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #661-662, Fear Itself: The Home Front (2010) #1-7, and Avengers: Solo (2011) #1-5

Avengers: Secret Avengers by Brubaker, Spencer, & Remender (2010 – 2012) [includes Onslaught Unleashed]
Alongside Bendis’s pair of co-flagships and Avengers Academy, Marvel launched a new title – Secret Avengers. It was effectively the Avengers version of X-Force (sadly, Force Works did not get revived for the purpose). It was a squad assembled specifically by Captain America to handle threats that the main Avengers squads shouldn’t be seen handling.

The run started out with a major pedigree – it was penned by Ed Brubaker, in the middle of his ultra-hot continuing run on Captain America. Brubaker was never one to stay on a team title for long, and after he spent a year on this book he was replaced with Nick Spencer – still a Marvel newbie at the time. After Spencer’s brief run and a marquee arc by Ellis, Rick Remender picked up the title at the same time as his run on the massive Uncanny X-Force (2010), somehow squeezing in 18 issues into a year to deliver both a tie-in to Avengers vs. X-Men (2012) and a pretty massive final arc.

A vote for this book is to collect all of that in oversize hardcover for the first time (aside from the AvX issues, which are in its omnibus). Plus, this can pick up Onslaught Unleashed (2011) #1-4, which essentially stars this entire team.

This would collect Secret Avengers (2010) #1-37, 12.1, & 21.1, Fear Itself: Black Widow (2011) #1, and maybe also Onslaught Unleashed (2011) #1-4. It could add Vengeance of the Moon Knight (2009) #10, which is a full-team appearance.

Avengers Assemble (2010) #10Avengers: Avengers Assemble (2012 – 2013) by Bendis & DeConnick (2010 – 2014)
We’ve tried to avoid double-dipping on this poll, but this book is an instance where I think it’s warranted.

Avengers Assemble (2012) #1-8 started out as an all-stars Avengers squad to perfectly match the cast of the impending Avengers movie and have them face off against Thanos – plus, introduce the Guardians of the Galaxy to a wider audience of readers had hadn’t been keeping up with the past half decade of cosmic Marvel.

After that, Kelly Sue DeConnick took over the title in Marvel Now without a relaunch, at the same time she was steering Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel (2011). DeConnick’s run focused on the book as a team anchored by Danvers and Spider-Woman, despite them both also appearing in Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers at the same time. I actually preferred this book almost every single month they both came out – it had more cast members I enjoyed and a much lighter tone.

Some folks feel strongly that this book shouldn’t exist! They think the Bendis portion should be in his “Heroic Age Avengers,” above, and the DeConnick portion should be in a Hickman Companion, below.

I can’t say that those folks are wrong, but I also know some people like the idea of this title being collected in a single volume. If that describes you, this is the book to vote for! I also think there’s a strong argument to include the Warren Ellis penned Avengers: Endless Wartime OGN here, since he co-plotted some of this material with DeConnick.

This would collect Avengers Assemble (2012) #1-25 & Annual 1 and crossover material from Avengers: The Enemy Within (2013) #1 and Captain Marvel (2011) #13-14 & 17.

Could also include Warren Ellis’s Avengers: Endless Wartime (2013) OGN, since it is a Captain Marvel-led squad and Ellis co-plotted a few of these issues.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Marvel Now Avengers (2013 – 2015) in Omnibus

Marvel Now included a lot of Avengers material, but we only have two omnibuses of it – covering Jonathan Hickman’s smash hit run on Avengers (2012) and New Avengers (2013). That leaves a lot of material still to collect! See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present), Guide to Young Avengers & Avengers in Training, and Guide to Secret Warriors & Secret Avengers for details.

The main spine of Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers is collected in a pair of existing omnibuses. See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) for more details.

Age of Ultron (2013 – 2015) [Event, AU tie-ins, Avengers A.I., Ultron Forever]
This is fundamentally an Event omnibus collecting all of the Age of Ultron event. However, it also makes sense to collect all of Avengers A.I. (2014) #1-12 here, since it is a direct epilogue to the event.

This would collect Age of Ultron (2013) #1-10 as well as all of its tie-ins: Ultron (2013) #1, Avengers Assemble 14AU -15AU, Fantastic Four 5AU , Fearless Defenders 4AU, Superior Spider -Man 6AU , Ultron 1AU , Uncanny Avenger s 8AU, Wolverine & the X-Men 27AU, and Avengers 10AI.

Then, it would add Avengers A.I. (2014) #1-12, which is an epilogue to the event, a revisitation of the event in What If? Age of Ultron (2014) #1-4 (since the event itself is a What If), and the next Ultron story – Ultron Forever (Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, New Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, & Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1).

It could also add a pair of loosely-related outcomes of the event from Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #5-7 and Hunger (2013) #1-4, but neither have much to do with Ultron.

Avengers World (2014) #12Avengers World by Jonathan Hickman Companion (2012 – 2015) [Avengers World, A+X, & other NOW series]
The title of this volume is a convenient lie: Hickman co-plotted the kickoff of Avengers World (2014) so it could show off the plots he cut from his Avengers for lack of time, but then it continued without his intervention. He was far to focused on piloting a double-shipping Avengers (2012) as well as New Avengers (2013) as they headed into Secret Wars.

But, there was a lot of other Avengers material happening in Marvel Now! And, not all of them conveniently fit in with another series collection.

This would primarily collect A+X (2012), which ran alongside Hickman’s Avengers and then all of Avengers World (2014). But, there’s a lot of other comics it could include.

A vote for this book is a vote to wrangle basically every Marvel Now Avengers comic not otherwise collected in omnibus into a single line – which might wind up being two books.

This would primarily collect A+X (2013) #1-18, Avengers World (2014) #1-21, Avengers (2012) #34.1-34.2, Uncanny Avengers (2012) Annual 1, New Avengers (2013) Annual 1, Avengers (2012) Annual 1, and material from All-New Marvel Now! Point One

It could also include other errata like Avengers: Endless Wartime (2013) OGN (which could also be in an Avengers Assemble omnibus), Avengers A.I. (2013) #1-12 (which could also be in an Age of Ultron omnibus), Avengers: Millennium (2015) #1-6, and three Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) one-shots (also arguably in an Age of Ultron omnibus).

This would collect Avengers World (2014) #1-21, Avengers (2012) #34.1-34.2, and material from All-New Marvel Now! Point One. Plus, I think it would make sense to include Uncanny Avengers (2012) Annual 1, New Avengers (2013) Annual 1, and Avengers (2012) Annual 1.

It could also include A+X (2013) #1-18, plus other errata like Avengers: Endless Wartime (2013) OGN, Avengers A.I. (2013) #1-12, Avengers: Millennium (2015) #1-6, and three Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) one-shots.

Avengers: Avengers Arena & Undercover by Dennis Hopeless (2012 – 2014)
This is a straightforward collection of the pair of Dennis Hopeless sequels to Avengers Academy (2010).

At the time, fans were very attached to the young Avengers Academy characters and seriously disliked the idea of them being pushed into a Hunger Games battle royale together in Avengers Arena (2013). Fans were vicious and there was just no patience to see how this series unfurled (even though it only really wound up killing one or two characters).

However, the series was popular enough to spawn a brief sequel in Avengers Undercover (2014), which followed the surviving young Avengers into feigned villainy (finally fulfilling the promise of Avengers Academy!).

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect both runs in oversize format for the first time.

This would collect Avengers Arena (2013) #1-18 & Avengers Undercover (2014) #1-10

Avengers: Secret Avengers by Spencer & Kot (2013 – 2015)
The Secret Avengers brand continued from the Heroic Age into Marvel Now, although it transformed from being less of a super-powered X-Force and became more of a super-secret team full of James Bonds (with an occasional Hulk as a nuclear option).

This is largely anchored by Black Widow and Hawkeye, which gives it a solid marketing angle in a post-MCU world. The first run of this book was written by Nick Spencer just as he was getting really hot as a writer, and the second was written by Ales Kot – whose dense plots and absurd turns I’ve always been obsessed with.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect both series together in a single oversize volume.

This would collect Secret Avengers (2013) #1-16, Secret Avengers (2014) #1-15, a story from Marvel Now! Point One, and Original Sin: Secret Avengers (Infinite Comic) (2014) #1-2.

New Avengers (2015) #1Avengers: by Al Ewing Vol. 1 (2014 & on) [Mighty, New, USA, Ultimates, No Surrender, No Road Home, Wasp, Inc]
This is a book that combines several poll options from last year into a single new line of omnibuses focused on Al Ewing’s many disparate runs on Avengers comic books.

First, there’s his run on a pair of street-level Mighty Avengers series during Marvel Now, where he took over developing Luke Cage, pulled in Sam Wilson as Captain America, and brought Monica Rambeau and Blue Adam back to prominence. Then, he wrote two different runs at once during All-New All-Different Marvel – one silly and somewhat youthful pair of series on New Avengers (2015) and U.S.Avengers (2017) and another massive cosmic run on Ultimates (2015) and Ultimates 2 (2016) – both culminating in the writer-go-round Avengers stories “No Surrender” and “No Road Home.”

There are several different ways to map these runs and virtually no one can agree on which would be best. That led to a ton of vote-splitting last year, despite Al Ewing being a reliably favorite author on the Marvel poll. Some people see four distinct books in that paragraph – one for each pair of series. Others see a Mighty Avengers run that continues into space with Ultimates versus an Earthbound run that continues into “No Surrender.”

This year we’re keeping it simple: a vote for this book is a vote to kick off an “Avengers by Al Ewing” line, no matter how you would split it up and how many volumes it would take.

This would begin to collect Mighty Avengers (2014) #1-15 and Captain America & The Mighty Avengers (2014) #1-9 (and maybe also Captain Britain & The Mighty Defenders #1-2), Ultron Forever (Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, New Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, & Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1), New Avengers (2015) #1-18, U.S.Avengers (2017) #1-12, Ultimates (2015) #1-11, The Ultimates2 (2016) #1-9 & 100, and material from Avengers (2015) #0.

It could potentially add Avengers: No Surrender from Avengers (2017 / 1963) #673-690 and Avengers: No Road Home (2019) #1-10, and then continue to Wasp (2023) #1-5 and Avengers Inc. (2023) #1-5.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: All-New All Different Avengers (2015 – 2018) in Omnibus

We don’t have any Avengers omnibuses from the period after Secret Wars (2015)! See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) for more details.

Avengers by Mark Waid (2015 – 2018) [collects ANAD through “No Surrender”]
Mark Waid took the reigns of the primary Avengers flagship coming out of Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars (2015). Waid anchored his team with Sam Wilson as Captain America and Jane Foster as Thor, plus a number of young legacy heroes like Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, and the Unstoppable Wasp (though some of them would later spin off into Champions (2016) in the wake of Civil War II (2016).

Despite some fan clamor to the tune of “not my Avengers,” Waid delivered one of the most classic-feeling Avengers runs of the past 20 years, just with an all-new cast. This is modern Avengers for people who enjoy classic runs by Roy Thomas, Roger Stern, or Kurt Busiek.

A vote for this book is to collect all of Waid’s Avengers into a single book for the first time, including all of the sprawling weekly saga “No Surrender” that he co-wrote with Al Ewing and Jim Zub.

This would collect Avengers (2015) #0, All-New, All-Different Avengers (2015) #1-15 & Annual 1, Avengers (2016) #1-11 & 1.1-5.1, Avengers (2017 / 1963) #672-674, and Champions (2016) #13-15.

It could also add all of Avengers: No Surrender from Avengers (2017 / 1963) #673-690.

Uncanny Avengers (2015) #15Avengers: Uncanny Avengers by Duggan & Zub (2015 – 2018)
Alongside Mark Waid’s flagship team and Al Ewing’s dual runs, All-New All-Different Marvel launched with a new run of Uncanny Avengers (2015) with a team helmed by an aged Captain America with a sassy Rogue as his squad leader, and membership that included Deadpool, Quicksilver, Cable, Wasp, and several Inhumans.

This run is overlooked by a lot of fans as “being fish nor fowl” – it’s like an X-Men book with Avengers plots, or visa versa, but it never quite feels like both blended into one. However, if you can get over the mashup quality of the cast it’s a solid read – even with Duggan hands off scripting duties to Jim Zub in the end run.

Some folks want to push the remainder of Rick Remender’s pre-Secret Wars (2015) Uncanny Avengers into this book. While I wouldn’t put up a strong argument against that, I think that brief arc belongs in an AXIS Omnibus, as noted above. The “2015” in this year range allows you to assume it would wind up here, if you want. However, Remender’s Avengers: Rage of Ultron (2015) could fit here – or, it could be in Waid’s book, above. It stars Waid’s cast, but it has plot elements that are continued in this run.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of this Uncanny Avengers run in one place! If you insist that Duggan’s Uncanny Avengers (2023) #1-5 get mashed into this I won’t put up a fight, but that’s squarely a part of “The Fall of X” and wouldn’t make much sense here divorced from this run by a full five years (during which all of Krakoa happens).

This would collect Uncanny Avengers (2015B) #1-30, material from Avengers (2015) #0, and perhaps also Remender’s Avengers: Rage of Ultron (2015) OGN, which ties into this run. It could also add Uncanny Avengers (2015A) #1-5. But, it does not collect (2015B) Annual 1, which is a Scarlet Witch tie-in by James Robinson.

Hawkeye: Clint Barton – All-New, All-Different (2015 & on) [follows Fraction; includes Lemire, Occupy Avengers, etc]
This would pick up the short-lived Hawkeye vehicle Occupy Avengers (2016) #1-8, as well as all of Clint Barton’s solo material following the Hawkeye by Matt Fraction omnibus.

A vote for this book is a vote for all of Hawkeye from 2015 to present day in a single oversize volume, which helps to plug a minor gap of Avengers that just doesn’t fit anywhere else!

This would collect all of Clint Barton’s post-Fraction material, which would include the short-lived Occupy Avengers (2018) #1-8.

This would collect Hawkeye vs. Deadpool (2014) #0-4, All-New Hawkeye (2015A) #1-5, All-New Hawkeye (2015B) #1-6, Occupy Avengers (2016) #1-8, Hawkeye (2016) #13-16 (which is Kate’s title, but Clint co-stars in this arc), Generations: Hawkeye & Hawkeye (2017) #1, Tales of Suspense (2017) #100-104 (a Client + Bucky team-up), Hawkeye: Freefall (2020) #1-5, Avengers (2018) #60, Black Widow & Hawkeye (2024) #1-4, and on.

Avengers: by Al Ewing Vol. 1 (2014 & on) [Mighty, New, USA, Ultimates, No Surrender, No Road Home, Wasp, Inc]
As explained at length above, this book covers all of Ewing’s prolific Avengers writing in this period across six distinct runs – New Avengers (2015), U.S.Avengers (2017), Ultimates (2015), Ultimates 2 (2016), “Avengers: No Surrender,” and Avengers: No Road Home (2019).

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Marvel Fresh Start Avengers (2018 – Present) in Omnibus

We have just one omnibus from this period – a collection of the end of Jason Aaron’s run with Avengers Forever by Jason Aaron. See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) for more details.

Avengers: by Al Ewing Vol. 1 (2014 & on) [Mighty, New, USA, Ultimates, No Surrender, No Road Home, Wasp, Inc]
Technically, the final contents of this volume – Avengers: No Road Home (2019), Wasp (2023), and Avengers Inc. (2023) – occur during Jason Aaron’s run on Avengers (2018) and even stretch into the subsequent Avengers (2023) by Jed MacKay.

Avengers by Jason Aaron Vol. 1 (2018 – 2020)
Now that Marvel has collected the end of this run in omnibus in the newly announced Avengers Forever by Jason Aaron, it makes it much easier to know how to collect the first two thirds of his run. It has a very obvious break point and plenty of material to fill two omnibuses.

A vote for this book is a vote to kick off collecting the main portion of Jason Aaron’s run, which couldn’t quite fit into a single volume.

This would likely collect Avengers (2018) #1-30, and material from Free Comic Book Day 2018 (Avengers/Captain America) #1, material from Free Comic Book Day 2019 (Avengers/Savage Avengers) #1 (Avengers Story), and maybe material from Marvel Legacy (2017) #1 and Incoming! (2019) #1

It could be padded with Non-Aaron material such as Avengers: Back to Basics (2018) #1-6 and other Avengers one-shots from this period.


Avengers by Jason Aaron Vol. 2 (2020 – 2023) [ends prior to Avengers Forever omni]
A second Jason Aaron omnibus would collect the second third of his run, which was interrupted for the Heroes Reborn event – already collected in omnibus.

A vote for this signals to Marvel that you want all of Jason Aaron’s Avengers run collected – and you want it now!

This would collect Avengers (2018) #31-62, Avengers 1,000,000 BC (2022) #1, and material from Free Comic Book Day 2021: Avengers/Hulk #1 (Avengers Story), and maybe Phoenix Song: Echo (2021) #1-5.

This could be padded with non-Aaron material including Avengers Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) #1-65, All-Out Avengers (2022) #1-5, Avengers Beyond (2023) #1-5, & Avengers: War Across Time (2023) #1-5. However, some of that material could easily anchor its own omnibus, listed separately.

The Heroes Reborn omnibus collects the alternate reality event from the middle of Aaron’s run. Avengers Forever by Jason Aaron collects the end of Jason Aaron’s Avengers run. See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present).

Avengers United by Derek Landy et al (2022 – 2025) [All-Out, Beyond, Unlimited, & United]
Derek Landy quietly amassed a substantial run on Avengers team comics between a pair of all-action mini-series that tributed the original Secret Wars and penning a pair of mega-arcs on the second of two Avengers Infinity Comics series. Despite Infinity Comics being being brief installments, Landy’s run adds up to the equivalent of another mini-series.

If we padded this out with the rest of the never-collected pair of Infinity Comics series, suddenly we have a pretty substantial omnibus – about half of which is by Landy.

Marvel hasn’t shown much appetite to print their Infinity Comics apart from It’s Jeff, but a vote for this book could signal that there’s a demand to see them all in oversize format!

This would collect Avengers Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) #1-65, All-Out Avengers (2022) #1-5, Avengers Beyond (2023) #1-5. Avengers United Infinity Comic (2023) #1-63, and could add Savage Avengers (2022) #1-10.

It’s too soon to map options for Avengers (2023) by Jed MacKay (which is heading into its third year), Avengers Assemble (2024) #1-5 by Steve Orlando (which pairs with the still-running Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic (2025), West Coast Avengers (2024) #1-5 by Gerry Duggan (which just launched a second arc), and Superior Avengers (2025) #1-5 by Steve Foxe (which is part of One World Under Doom). See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) for collection details.

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  1. Kayden says

    April 19, 2025 at 7:38 pm

    Hi Krisis,

    Fantastic job, giving me plenty of food for thought when putting together my votes for the poll. Thought it was worth pointing out that Slott’s run has been in OHC before, think it was Mighty Avengers: Dark Reign.

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    • krisis says

      April 22, 2025 at 2:15 pm

      Thanks for the catch, Kayden! I updated the post. A huge part of doing these posts is the chance to proof things one last time before the poll, so it is a MASSIVE help when other people chime in.

      Reply
  2. King Burger says

    April 27, 2025 at 4:49 am

    Hi Krisis, awesome work pulling this together I have a suggestion for Dark Avengers to include Siege: The Cabal and Siege Prologue.

    Reply
  3. Cody says

    April 27, 2025 at 5:53 pm

    I had it tweaked a bit for A+X, instead opting for that as an AvX companion

    > collects A+X #1-18; Avengers: X-Sanction #1-4; Giant-Size Little Marvel AvX #1-4; What If? Avx #1-4.

    One addition to maybe consider is “The Order” #1-10 added to “Avengers: The Initiative” omnibus. The series carried Initiative as a banner for first four issues and was a team created by Stark as part of his hero initiative.

    I had Ewing split into Mighty & New standalone volumes, then Ultimates in a Cosmic Universe by Ewing book. Took a similar approach to isolating the Waid issues from Waid/Ewing/Zub stories, but slightly adjusted the stories afterward:

    > collects Avengers (2016) #675-690; Avengers: No Road Home #1-10; Avengers Inc. #1-5; Quicksilver: No Surrender #1-5; Wasp (2023) #1-4.

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    • krisis says

      April 27, 2025 at 9:47 pm

      We left the Ewing option and broad and unmapped as possible. His various Avengers runs have turned into the new “how should we handle X-Tinction Agenda” in terms of everyone having a unique opinion on how to split them up.

      Reply

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