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

It’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 Captain America 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 April 28, 2025.

Captain America has scored just a single 2025 omnibus announcement with Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Vol. 2 – the second of four planned volumes of Gruenwald’s decade-long run on Captain America. However, that doesn’t fully tell the story of recent Cap omnis, since he got two new books in 2024 (Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Vol. 1 and Captain America by Nick Spencer Vol. 2), plus all three of his existing classic omnis got a reprint in 2024 followed by a rebranding of Captain America by Jack Kirby as Captain America Vol. 4.

What does that mean for Captain America omnibuses? We’d still need well over a dozen books to collect all of his material in oversize hardcover, but we’re nearing complete coverage in the 80s, 00s, and 10s.

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!

The book titles and mapping in this post were curated with the help of BrandXK! Not just help, in this case… BrandXK went off on these Cap maps to pull in so much material I hadn’t even previously considered. I truly bow down to his mapping prowess. BrandXK proudly supports The Hero Initiative, an incredible charity that helps to support comic creators in their times of need – especially with medical expenses.

This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:

• Golden Age & Atlas Era Captain America
  • Golden Age Captain America Vol. 3 (1943 & on)
  • Atlas Era Heroes (1950 – 1957) [MMW1-3, could also include Black Knight & Yellow Claw]
• Bronze Age Captain America
  • Captain America Vol. 5 (1977 – 1981) [MMW 12-14 or 15]
  • Captain America Vol. 6 (1981 – 1985) [AKA by DeMatteis & Kraft, fits prior to Gruenwald Vol. 1]
• Captain America in the 80s & 90s
  • Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Vol. 3 (1991 – 1993)
  • Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Vol. 4 (1993 – 1995)
• Captain America Omnibus Mapping: Captain America in the 00s
  • Captain America: Marvel Knight (2002 – 2005) [includes Truth, Cap & Falcon by Priest]
  • Captain America & The Marvel Universe by J. Michael Straczynski (2007 – 2025) [Bullet Points, Twelve, 2023 Cap, 2025 one-shots]
  • Captain America by Brubaker Companion (2007 – 2011) [Fallen Son & retcon series; AKA Captain America: Man Out of Time by Waid, Kesel, Stern, & Jenkins]
  • Captain America by Brubaker Aftermath by Cullen Bunn et al (2010 – 2012) [AKA The Captain America and… Team-Ups]
• Captain America from 2013 to Present
  • Captain America: Sam Wilson by Remender, Barnes, Landy, et al (2015 – 2021) [material before & after Spencer]
  • Captain America & Black Widow by Mark Waid & Chris Samnee (2016 – 2018)
  • Captain America: Truth, Liberty, & Revolution by Kelly, Lanzing, & Onyebuchi (2019 – 2023) [also collects minis & one-shots]
  • Captain America & The Marvel Universe by J. Michael Straczynski (2007 – 2025) [Bullet Points, Twelve, 2023 Cap, 2025 one-shots]
• Falcon, Nomad, & Winter Soldier
  • Falcon: Sam Wilson, The Early Years (1969 – 1996)
  • Nomad: Jack Monroe (1990 – 1994)
  • Nomad: Girl Without a World by Sean McKeever (1996 & on) [includes Young Allies & Onslaught Reborn]
  • Winter Soldier: Bucky Barnes (2006 – 2020)

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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Captain America Omnibus Mapping: Golden Age & Atlas Era Captain America

Marvel’s Golden Age material remains relatively uncollected compared to DC. That’s in large part because DC can rely on sustained interest in their flagship characters like Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman to drive sales (and restoration costs) of Golden Age material.

For Marvel, they really only have Captain American, Namor, and the original Human Torch (Jim Hammond) as heroes with sustained line of stories from prior to 1961. And, unlike DC’s heroes, his participation in World War II era stories is critical to his ongoing story with no timeline or multiverse shenanigans required! Even when Captain American appeared in the Atlas Era, which has been retconned as being someone other than Steve Rogers, the stories are still canonical to the current Marvel Universe.

Of course, Namor and Human Torch are not necessarily popular enough for whole lines of pre-Silver Age omnis, but that’s why they’ve both garnered “Greatest Hits” omnibuses. Yet, Cap is much more enduringly popular.

We’d love to see Marvel continue to collect Captain America’s earliest comics in omnibus, so I truly hope one of these books does well ont the poll this year!

There are two existing Golden Age Captain America omnibuses that collect the first three years of his World War II era comics – see Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers.

Golden Age Captain America Vol. 3 (1943 & on)

Captain America’s Golden Age comics are 60-72 page issues that require significant restoration. That’s omnibuses in this line have so far only included 12 issues each, which means we’ve only covered Collects Captain America Comics (1941) #1-24 in omnibus when his series ran for 78 issues!

Even if Marvel pushed to include 18 issues per omnibus, we’d be looking at three more volumes to complete this line in full. However, our canonical Steve Rogers technically only appears through issue #48 – so it would be amazing to get two more volumes to completely cover that material.

The complicating factor is that Marvel’s Golden Age Marvel Masterworks line has long since fizzled out, which means there is no existing restoration of these books. That makes the lead time and expense to produce more books in this line even greater than it was before.

A vote for this book is really our ONLY WAY other than omni sales to signal to Marvel that fans continue to care about and demand more Golden Age Captain America material!!!

This would begin to collect Captain America Comics (1941) #25-78, likely collecting a minimum of issues #25-36 in the next volume in the series.

Atlas Era Heroes (1950 – 1957) [MMW1-3, could also include Black Knight & Yellow Claw]

DC continued to publish most of their superheroes through the 1950s and kicked off the Silver Age in 1956 with the introduction of Barry Allen as Flash in the pages of Showcase (1956).

Marvel’s publishing history is a little different. It’s not just were they five years late in showing up to the superheroic Silver Age with the introduction of Fantastic Four. The majority of their output in the 1950s were war comics, westerns, and romance – with relatively few of their World War 2 era superheroes making an appearance.

Those few appearances were collected in a trio of Atlas Era Marvel Masterworks called Atlas Era Heroes Vol. 1-3, which I am very proud to have on my shelf! As we know, three Masterworks makes for a perfect omnibus – and these three books total almost exactly 800 pages. Done and done, right?!

Eagle-eyed CK readers and Tigereyes voters have pointed out that there is a fourth Masterworks that could make sense to include in this book. That would be the contents of the Black Knight / Yellow Claw Atlas Masterworks – another book I have on my shelf! While it doesn’t feature our Black Knight, Dane Whitman, this Black Knight exists on the cusp of being a “Marvel Hero” since he originates the name and design of our modern version of the character. For that reason, it’s less likely we’d see Marvel delegate reprinting it to Fantagraphics, as they have with their other Atlas Era material.

Yellow Claw is more problematic material that plays up the racist tropes and depictions of “yellow peril.” Marvel (and Disney) tend to shy away from republishing that kind of material, but along with our readers and voters I would love to see it preserved in omnibus format for its historical value.

That would only add another 240 pages to this book, so from a size perspective it’s entire reasonable to request it. Whether we could get Black Knight and Yellow Claw

A vote for this book is a vote to knock out all of Marvel superhero comics of the 1950s Atlas Era in a single volume!

This would collect the contents of the Atlas Era Heroes MMW line: Marvel Boy (1950) #1-2, Astonishing (1951) #3-6, Young Men (1950) #24-28 (starring Namor), Men’s Adventures (1950) #27-28 (including Namor), Captain America (1941) #76-78, Human Torch (1940) #36-38 (with Namor backups), and Sub-Mariner Comics (1941) #33-42.

It could also possibly add Black Knight (1955) #1-5 and/or Yellow Claw (1956) #1-4.

Captain America Omnibus Mapping: Bronze Age Captain America

As one of Marvel’s most-popular and well-known heroes, Captain America had two omnibuses covering his Silver Age material by 2016, and since then has had another two books pushing into the Bronze Age (on of which is the rebranded Captain America by Jack Kirby, which now exists simply as Captain America Vol. 4).

We’d only need two more volumes to take us all the way to the mid-80s and connect to the current line of Captain America by Mark Gruenwald omnibuses.

Captain America’s Silver and early Bronze Age material is already covered in Captain America Vol. 1-4 – see Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers for details. Note that Vol. 4 used to be “Captain America by Jack Kirby.”

Captain America Vol. 5 (1977 – 1981) [MMW 12-14 or 15]

The mapping of the next classic omnibus wouldn’t be much of a surprise. At a glance, this book has every reason to follow the “3 Masterworks” rule to continue collecting Cap’s 1970s material. However, given the mapping of the next volume, it’s possible this one winds up aligning with the Epic Collection line to collect another half of a Masterwork with of material.

This run of Captain America (1968) following Kirby’s brief stint on the title is marked by many, MANY different creative teams – sometimes alternating between single issues! This run includes work from Steve Gerber, Roger Stern, John Byrne, Roger Mckenzie, Sal Buscema, Mike Barr, Chris Clarement, Peter Gillis, and many more!

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to increase the pace of their classic Captain America collections, which right now have a 3-5 wait between volumes.

This would collect Captain America (1968) #215-260, Incredible Hulk (1968) #232, and Marvel Premiere (1972) #49, which are the contents of Masterworks Vol. 12-14.

I think it is extremely likely that this extends into Masterwork Vol. 15 to collect issues #260-266 & Annual 5. That would align with the break point of the Epic Collection line and help make the contents of the next volume more feasible.

Captain America Vol. 6 (1981 – 1985) [AKA by DeMatteis & Kraft, fits prior to Gruenwald Vol. 1]

The contents of this book are bounded by the starting point of Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Vol. 1 on the other side, with Captain America (1968) #307.

Unlike some other lines of books that jumped ahead to collect 80s material early (e.g., X-Men, Spider-Man) the Gruenwald books are mapped based on the Epic Collection line – which is even more comprehensive than the Masterworks line. That likely means that the classic line of omnibuses has no reason to re-map the contents of the Gruenwald omnibuses – though we could later see them remastered with files from the Masterworks restorations, as we did with the Fantastic Four by John Byrne omnibuses.

However, if the previous volume only collected three Masterworks, that would saddle this book with the job of collecting four and a half Masterworks to reach the start of Gruenwald, which should appear in the not-yet-announced Masterworks Vol. 19.

As a result, it probably makes sense for the prior volume to collect at least another half a Masterwork to give this book a chance to line up with Gruenwald. This run still has a back-and-forth of creators, but it’s mostly constrained to J.M. DeMatteis and David Anthony Kraft, with the combination of Mike Zeck and Paul Neary pencilling the majority of it.

A vote for this book is an even bigger signal to Marvel that they should hurry up and complete their classic line of Captain America omnibuses without making us wait another 6-10 years for just two volumes.

This would need to collect Captain America (1968) #261-306 & Annual 5-7, Defenders (1972) #106, The Falcon #1-4, and material from Marvel Fanfare (1982) #5 & 18 – the contents of Masterworks Vol. 15-17 and a yet-to-be announced Vol. 18 and half of Vol. 19.

As a result, I think it’s likely that at least Captain America (1968) #261-266 & Annual 5 are pulled up to the prior volume (consistent with the break point of the Epic Collection line), so this book winds up collecting half of Vol. 15, all of Vol. 16-18, and half of Vol. 19 to be a four Masterwork book.

Captain America Omnibus Mapping: Captain America in the 80s & 90s

Talking about collecting Captain America in the 80s and 90s is mostly talking about collecting the work of just two writers – Mark Gruenwald and Mark Waid.

For a long time, Waid was the only one of the two with an omnibus to cover his material – the 2017 volume Captain America by Mark Waid, Ron Garney & Andy Kubert. However, after Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Vol. 1 first appeared on the poll in 2017 and fought it’s way up to the Top 10 in 2023, Marvel finally announced the start of Gruenwald’s line of omnibuses for 2024!

Now, to complete the collection of Cap in the 80s and 90s, we simply need two more Mark Gruenwalk volumes. That’s it!

Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 collect Captain America (1968) from 1985 to 1991. See Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers for details.

Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Vol. 3 (1991 – 1993)

With a second volume of this line arriving in July just 13 months after the prior book, it seems certain that Marvel will press ahead to collect the remainder of Mark Gruenwald’s run in omnibus.

The only questions are if they will keep up the annual pace of release and where in the established Epic Collection line mapping this book breaks, since there are five more Epic’s worth of Gruenwald material to collect.

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to keep up the annual pace of their Mark Gruenwald omnibus line so we can wrap things up by 2027!

This would collect a minimum of Captain America (1968) #387-410 and Punisher/Captain America: Blood and Glory (1992) #1-3.

Then, it would add some or all of Captain America (1968) #411-419 & Annual 11-12, Ghost Rider/Captain America: Fear (1992) #1, U.S.Agent (1993) #1-4, and material from Silver Sable & the Wild Pack (1992) #15.

Adventures of Captain America #1-4 is in the next set of Epics, but already solicited to be in Volume 2.

Captain America by Mark Gruenwald Vol. 4 (1993 – 1995)

This omnibus would wrap up Mark Gruenwald’s historic, decade-long run on Captain America (1968). Gruenwald wrote right up to issue Captain America (1968) #443, which means this has a perfect hand-off to the start of Mark Waid’s material with Captain America (1968) #444 – which exactly mirrors how it is collected in Epic Collection.

A vote for this book is a vote to signal to Marvel that it’s incredibly important to us to see this Mark Gruenwald material wrapped up with two books in the next two years, rather than making us wait longer for the final volumes.

This would begin by collecting some or all of Captain America (1968) #411-419 & Annual 11-12, Ghost Rider/Captain America: Fear (1992) #1, U.S.Agent (1993) #1-4, and material from Silver Sable & the Wild Pack (1992) #15.

Then, this would collect Captain America (1968) #420-443 & Annual 13; Nomad (1992) #18-19; Captain America: The Medusa Effect #1; Captain America/Nick Fury: Blood Truce #1, Tales of Suspense (1995) #1, Avengers (1963) #386-388, and material from Captain America Collector’s Preview.

After the conclusion of Mark Gruenwald’s run, the remainder of the 1990s of Cap comics are collected by Captain America by Mark Waid, Ron Garney & Andy Kubert, with a 13-issue intermission for material in the Heroes Reborn Omnibus. See Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers for details.

Captain America Omnibus Mapping: Captain America in the 00s

We have an absolute stunning amount of Captain America’s 2ooos-era material collected in omnibus! We have the post-Waid portion of Captain America (1998) collected in Captain America by Dan Jurgens through 2002.

Then, we have all of Ed Brubaker’s historic run from 2005 to 2012 collected in a line of five books – Captain America by Ed Brubaker, The Death of Captain America, Captain America Lives!, The Trial of Captain America, and Return of the Winter Soldier!

However, that’s not all of Captain America’s 2000s-era comics – it’s just the two big single-author runs. We’d need two more omnibuses to completely collect the main Cap titles from this period – and one more to collect a couple of extras.

The 2000s begins with Captain America by Dan Jurgens, which collects Captain America (1998) from the handoff from Mark Waid to Jurgens through the end of the series in 2002. See Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers for details.

Captain America: Marvel Knight (2002 – 2005) [includes Truth, Cap & Falcon by Priest]

This is the most-critical of these three volumes to collect the main thread of Captain America’s solo series in omnibus.

Of the six big Silver Age titles that relaunched in 1998 (Avengers, the Cap-IM-Thor trinity, F4, & Daredevil), Cap’s was the first to conclude its run in 2002 and relaunch into Captain America (2002). That’s because Marvel saw an opportunity to relaunch Cap in their slightly more grounded and more mature Marvel Knights line, where Daredevil had seen massive success since his relaunch in 1998.

We’ve never had a single, comprehensive collection of Captain America (2002), and the 32 issues haven’t been reprinted since a pair of 2016-2017 trades. The run is perhaps more famous for a breathtaking series of iconic John Cassaday covers than for its story content, Cassaday drew the interiors of the first arc, and the series was written by a series of authors including a final arc by Robert Kirkman.

However, that’s not the only Captain America material from the period between Jurgens and Brubaker.

The next significant material to collect in omnibus is Captain America & The Falcon (2004) #1-14 – all written by Christopher Priest hot from his Black Panther run. Some folks might argue that this series belongs as the centerpiece of a “Sam Wilson: The Falcon” omnibus, but there’s no reason for that to have post-2000. It’s still a flagship Cap run – it tied into Avengers Disassembled, just as the main 2002 title did! So, I think it has a place here as well.

Then, there was a series of four Marvel Knights era supporting series. The first, Captain America: Dead Men Running (2002) #1-3, is actually the material between Captain America (1998) and (2002) and could start this volume, followed by Captain America: What Price Glory? (2003) #1-4.

Meanwhile, less likely to be collected here the anthology-style Captain America: Red, White, & Blue (2002) OGN has stories from throughout Cap’s history and Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War (2001) OGN fits just prior to the end of his WW2 stories.

Finally, Truth: Red, White and Black (2003) #1-7 is the least likely to be collected. This well-regarded series by Robert Morales and Kyle Baker explores the unseen origins of the Super Soldier serum as it related to the Tuskegee Airmen. All of Cap’s appearances in this book fit shortly after he was unfrozen in Avengers (1963) #4. I would argue VERY HARD for this to be included – it fits with the grounded take of Marvel Knights, and if we don’t get it here we risk it being abandoned in oversize hardcover.

I can see an argument for this being two different books – one just for the Knights series itself, the other for the Falcon and the supporting material. And, while I agree that Priest’s socially conscious voice is a good pairing with Truth, to me that would feel like we’re relegating stories about how Cap’s mythology relates to the African American experience to a side stage when I want to see them as part of the center ring.

A vote for this book is a vote to close the gap in Cap’s 2000s collections, perhaps with just one volume that is packed with thought-provoking content.

This would collect Captain America: Dead Men Running (2002) #1-3, Captain America: What Price Glory? (2003) #1-4, Captain America (2002) #1-32, Truth: Red, White, & Black (2003) #1-7, and likely also Captain America & The Falcon (2004) #1-14.

It could also collect Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War (2001) OGN and/or Captain America: Red, White, & Blue (2002) #1.

The omnibus coverage of Ed Brubaker’s run begins here – see Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers.

Captain America & The Marvel Universe by J. Michael Straczynski (2007 – 2025) [Bullet Points, Twelve, 2023 Cap, 2025 one-shots]

This isn’t an essential Captain America collection for this period, but it does pick up a pair of additional supporting series from the mid-00s.

Those series are Bullet Points (2007) #1-5, an alternate reality take on the Marvel Universe starting from the Super Soldier serum, and The Twelve (2007) #1-12, a story exploring a previously-unknown team of WW2 heroes in the modern day.

However, most of this book would be focused on JMS’s 2023 Cap series. The two sets of material fit together better than you might suspect, since the first arc of Captain America (2023) is heavily focused on Steve Rogers as a young man in NYC prior to volunteering for the Army and receiving the Super Soldier serum.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect J. Michael Straczynski 2023-2025 Cap material alongside two brief, time-displaced series that would otherwise likely miss out on omnibus treatment.

This would collect Bullet Points (2007) #1-5, The Twelve (2007) #1-12, Captain America (2023) #1-16, and JMS’s 2025 series of Marvel Universe team-up one-shots (Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon (2025) #1, Captain America & Volstagg (2025) #1, Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom (2025) #1, Hulk & Doctor Strange (2025) #1, Ghost Rider vs. Galactus (2025) #1, Spider-Man vs. the Sinister Sixteen (2025) #1).

It could also collect The Twelve: Spearhead (2010) #1, not by JMS. And, thanks to a note from commenter Tomi Ariel, it could add Amazing Spider-Man (1998) #537, as by JMS, for context on Spidey’s relation to Thor that is relevant to Cap (2023) #14-16.

Captain America by Brubaker Companion (2007 – 2011) [Fallen Son & retcon series; AKA Captain America: Man Out of Time by Waid, Kesel, Stern, & Jenkins]

I can only take credit for a single entry in this incredibly smart map by BrandXK.

There was a lot of Cap material released off to the side of the main Brubaker run that never got collected in omnibus. The Brubaker omnibuses came out in very rapid succession starting while his run was still going and wrapping up just four years after it ended. Five books out released in a single sequential line in fewer than eight years is madness. That’s faster than X-Men!

But, the speed came with a tradeoff: the books aren’t mapped very imaginatively. And, that’s probably a good thing: Brubaker reads bes as its own self-contained story not festooned with side material.

However, one piece of material a lot of fans have wished would have been included was Jeph Loeb’s Fallen Son: Death of Captain America (2007) #1-5, which shows different characters reacting to the loss of Steve Rogers. It’s not by Brubaker and it’s not essential, but it gave some important humanity around his death beyond the cast of characters like Sam, Sharon, and Bucky reacting to it in the main book.

There’s so much more material we can include to create a coherent portrait of Cap both in the present and in the past. There’s also some straight-up missing material, but that might not work the best in this book, which is more focused on Cap’s entire history rather than his present.

A vote for this book is a vote to gather the various time-spanning mini-series released during Ed Brubaker’s run into one book.

This book would collect Fallen Son: Death of Captain America (2007) #1-5; Captain America Theater of War (2008) #1-7; Captain America: Man Out of Time (2010) #1-5; Captain America: Patriot (2010) #1-4; Captain America: Forever Allies (2010) #1-4; Captain America Corps (2011) #1-5; Captain America: Hail Hydra (2011) #1-5; All-Winners Squad: Band of Heroes (2011) #1-5; and material from What If? (1977) #4; All-Winners Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009) #1; Captain America Comics 70th Anniversary Special (2009) #1; and Captain America: The 1940’s Newspaper Strip (2010) #1-3.

It could optionally include Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers (2010) #1-5, which fits thematically with this material, but has been collected in the Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Vol. 1 omnibus.

All five Brubaker volumes conclude by this point – see Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers.

Captain America by Brubaker Aftermath by Cullen Bunn et al (2010 – 2012) [AKA The Captain America and… Team-Ups]

This is the book that comes after Ed Brubaker’s run in the present day for both Steve Rogers and Bucky.

Towards the end of Brubaker, when Steve had come back and was sharing the shield with Bucky, there were a series of “Captain America and…” one-shots. Then, at the end of Brubaker’s run, he took that theme on himself, turning Captain America (2011) into a team-up book between him and Bucky through issue #628 (with James Asmus writing the final few issues).

Those issues are collected in Return of the Winter Soldier along with Brubaker’s The Winter Soldier (2011), but for series continued for the remainder of 2012 without him. Another Brubaker series, Steve Rogers: Super Soldier (2011) received a non-Brubaker Annual that teamed him up with the X-Men in a three part story. And, finally, there was a five-issue Invaders Now! (2010) #1-5 series in this period that united both Caps and the modern day Invaders.

That give us a substantial 31-issue omnibus to wrap up this period. It’s distinct in content and storytelling from the Companion book listed above – and, it’s not really a “companion” – more of an “epilogue.”

A vote for this book is a vote to close the small gap of Captain America and Winter Soldier omnibus coverage prior to Marvel now.

This would collect a series of 2010-2011 “Captain America and” one-shots (and Batron (2010) #1, and Crossbones (2010) #1, and Falcon (2010) #1, and the Secret Avengers (2011) #1, and the First Thirteen (2011) #1), Invaders Now! (2011) #1-5 (which occurs before Fear Itself), the ongoing Captain America and… (2011) #629-640 & #635.1, (#629-632 (Hawkeye), #633-635 (Iron Man), #635.1 (Namor), #636-640 (Black Widow)), “Escape from the Negative Zone” (from Steve Rogers: Super Soldier (2010) Annual (2020) 1, Uncanny X-Men (1961) Annual 2010, Namor: The First Mutant (2011) Annual 1), and The Winter Soldier (2011) #15-19.

Captain America Omnibus Mapping: Captain America from 2013 to Present

Marvel Now had Rick Remender writing Steve Rogers as Captain America in a tight 25-issue run that has already been collected in omnibus. But, the next Captain America omnis we have are Nick Spencer’s twinned runs of Sam Wilson and evil Steve Rogers from 2016-2017. What else came between them?

Captain America by Rick Remender Omnibus is the first Captain American material in Marvel Now – see Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers.

Captain America: Sam Wilson by Remender, Barnes, Landy, et al (2015 – 2021) [material before & after Spencer]

Some of Sam Wilson’s initial material is collected in Captain America by Rick Remender. However, that comes at the end of an omnibus mostly focused on Steve Rogers, which we could easily have an entire omnibus focused on Sam Wilson that would also pick up another 22 issues that have never been collected in oversize format before.

Specifically, we need to pick up some of Sam Wilson’s material from after Nick Spencer’s run, when he briefly returned to being The Falcon. Plus, this could easily fit all of Al Ewings’s Captain America & The Mighty Avengers (2015), even though that might also be included in a theoretical Ewing Avengers omnibus.

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect Sam Wilson’s material from 2014 through the start of Nick Spencer’s run, and then immediately after it, all into one book.

This would collect Captain America (2012) #25, All-New Captain America: Fear Him (2014) #1-4, All-New Captain America (2014) #1-6, Inhuman Error (from Amazing Spider-Man Special #1, Inhuman Special #1, and All-New Captain America Special #1), maybe all of Captain America & The Mighty Avengers (2015) #1-9, Generations: Sam Wilson Captain America & Steve Rogers Captain America (2017) #1 (for context), Falcon (2017) #1-8, and Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #1-5, plus some issues of Waid’s All-New All-Different Avengers (2017) significant to Sam.

It could also include Captain America (2022) #0, to show Sam definitively shrugging off the Falcon identity to be Cap alongside Steve Rogers – even though that belongs to the next run.

See Guide to Sam Wilson – Captain America & Falcon for a pair of omnibuses covering the Nick Spencer material in the middle of that proposed Sam Wilson book, which are also the Steve Rogers material before this next omnibus (as also explained in Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers).

Captain America & Black Widow by Mark Waid & Chris Samnee (2016 – 2018)

Mark Waid produced a pair of crackling runs co-written and drawn by Chris Samnee in 2016 and 2017 – first, a full-on action movie for Black Widow, and then a series of adventures spanning America in a Captain America run that immediately followed Nick Spencer’s run on Cap.

A vote on this book is a vote to collect both Waid & Samnee series into a single slim volume.

This would collect Black Widow (2016) #1-12 and Captain America (1968 / 2017) #695-704

Captain America by Ta-Nehisi Coates Omnibus fits here – see Guide to Captain America – Steve Rogers.

Captain America: Truth, Liberty, & Revolution by Kelly, Lanzing, & Onyebuchi (2019 – 2023) [also collects minis & one-shots]

This would collect all of the Captain America material from both Steve and Sam after the Ta-Nehisi Coates run.

That’s mostly a pair of twinned series that both started from Captain America (2022) #0 by Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing on Steve and Tochi Onyebuchi on Sam that culminated in a “Cold War” crossover heavily involving Winter Soldier AKA Revolution, but it also includes a few mini-series preceding the run.

However, there’s also the matter of eight one-shots and mini-series that ran alongside the Coates series. While some of them, like tie-ins to Empyre and King in Black, might not make sense excerpted here, others – like a 2019 Invaders annual and two stories by Jay Eddin of Jay & Miles X-Plain The X-Men.

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect the post-Coates period of Cap into one book combining the twin runs that started with Captain America (2022) #0 and resolved in Captain America Finale (2023) #1.

This would primarily collect United States of Captain America (2021) #1-5; Captain America/Iron Man (2021) #1-5; Devil’s Reign: Winter Soldier (2022) #1; Captain America (2022) #0; Captain America: Symbol of Truth (2022) #1-14; Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty (2022) #1-13; Captain America & The Winter Soldier Special (2022) #1; Captain America: Cold War Alpha (2023) #1; Captain America: Cold War Omega (2023) #1; Captain America (1968 / 2023) #750; and Captain America Finale (2023) #1.

To that, it would add the run-up of limited series and one-shots (some of which are abandoned) from Captain America & the Invaders: Bahamas Triangle (2019) #1, Wolverine & Captain America: Weapon Plus (2019) #1, Captain America: Marvels Snapshot (2020) #1, Empyre: Captain America (2020) #1-3, King in Black: Captain America (2021) #1, Captain America Infinity Comic (2021) #1-4 (equivalent of one print issue)

Captain America & The Marvel Universe by J. Michael Straczynski (2007 – 2025) [Bullet Points, Twelve, 2023 Cap, 2025 one-shots]

Here is the primary placement of this JMS omnibus. He penned a short-lived Captain America (2023) series for just over a year that had outstanding art but wasn’t well-liked by fans.

How do we sweeten the deal of an omnibus of that material to make it worth buying? We add in Bullet Points (2007) and The Twelve (2007) and expand it to include JMS’s 2025 Marvel Universe one-shots, one of which is a pretty great Cap story.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect J. Michael Straczynski 2023-2025 Cap material alongside two brief, time-displaced series that would otherwise likely miss out on omnibus treatment.

This would collect Bullet Points (2007) #1-5, The Twelve (2007) #1-12, Captain America (2023) #1-16, and JMS’s 2025 series of Marvel Universe team-up one-shots (Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon (2025) #1, Captain America & Volstagg (2025) #1, Nick Fury vs. Fin Fang Foom (2025) #1, Hulk & Doctor Strange (2025) #1, Ghost Rider vs. Galactus (2025) #1, Spider-Man vs. the Sinister Sixteen (2025) #1).

It could also collect The Twelve: Spearhead (2010) #1, not by JMS. And, thanks to a note from commenter Tomi Ariel, it could add Amazing Spider-Man (1998) #537, as by JMS, for context on Spidey’s relation to Thor that is relevant to Cap (2023) #14-16.

Captain America Omnibus Mapping: Falcon, Nomad, & Winter Soldier

Cap’s various allies haven’t had any omnis of their own! While Sam Wilson figures into three existing Cap omnis, we don’t have a definitive collection of his Falcon material. We’re missing any collection of both Nomads – Jack Monroe & Bucky Barnes of Heroes Reborn. And, Winter Soldier has had 19 issues collected across a pair of missing omnibuses, but has a ton of his own material to cover in a substantial solo book.

Falcon: Sam Wilson, The Early Years (1969 – 1996)

This book would be a complete collection of every major Falcon story from his introduction through Onslaught in 1996.

Why stop there? Because after Onslaught Falcon is only significant in Captain America & Falcon (2014) and one or two issues of Avengers, none of which make sense to mix in with this anthology-style book of Bronze Age, 80s, and 90 stories.

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect all of Falcon’s significant pre-2000 stories. See Guide to Sam Wilson – Captain America & Falcon for context on why we’ve chosen all of these issues.

This book would collect Captain America (1968) #117-120, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #30, Captain America (1968) #191, Captain America (1968) #220 (back-up), Marvel Team-Up (1972) #71, Marvel Premiere (1972) #49, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #114, Captain America (1968) #272 & 275, Captain America (1968) 276-278 (2nd stories), subplot pages from Captain America (1968) #284, Falcon (1983) #1-4, Power-Man & Iron Fist (1978) #113 & 123 (and material from #112 & 121), Solo Avengers (1987) #6 (2nd story), subplot pages from Captain America (1968) #342-343 & 345, Captain America (1968) #355, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #23 (3rd story), Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #2 (7th story), Avengers (1963) #341-342, Captain America (1968) #400 (2nd story) & Annual 11 (3rd story), Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #12 (2nd story), Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #147 (3rd story), & Marvel Fanfare (1996) #1.

Nomad: Jack Monroe (1990 – 1994)

Jack Monroe was retconned as the “Bucky” to the Captain America of the Atlas Era comics, who was active while Steve Rogers was frozen in ice. This would collect all of Jack Monroe’s modern appearances explaining his story and spinning him off into 29 issues as Nomad across a 1990 limited series and a 1992 ongoing.

A vote for this book is primarily a vote to collect Jack Monroe’s Nomad (1990) #1-4 and Nomad (1992) #1-25 as well as crossover issues, but it could also include various guest appearances, anthology stories, and his retconned origin and significant plot development from Captain America (1968).

This book would collect Captain America (1968) #153-156 & 281-282 (and excerpted material from #283-345 that is important to his plot), Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #14 (4th story), Captain America (1968) Annual 9 (3rd story), Nomad (1990) #1-4, Captain America (1968) Annual 10 (5th story), Nomad (1992) #1-25, the “Dead Man’s Hand” crossover (Daredevil (1964) #307-309 & Punisher War Journal (1988) #45-47), a shared storyline with Captain America (1968) #420-421, and a brief stint in Secret Defenders (1993) #1-3.

Nomad: Girl Without a World by Sean McKeever (1996 & on) [includes Young Allies & Onslaught Reborn]

Steve Rogers and Jack Monroe weren’t the only heroes to take on the name “Nomad.” Rebecca “Bucky” Barnes was the Bucky to Steve Rogers in the Heroes Reborn universe and was pulled into Marvel’s 616 universe during Heroes Return. She took codename “Nomad” as she struggled to find her place in a world with no memories of her… all while dealing with a foreboding connection to the Onslaught energy that spawned the bubble universe from which she emerged.

Sean McKeever writes most of Nomad’s modern material in Nomad: Girl Without a World (2009), a lengthy string of back-ups during Brubaker’s Captain America, and a stint with Young Allies (2010), but this Nomad made enough other appearances that this would be a substantial omnibus!

A vote for this book is to collect all of Nomad’s material into a single volume

This would collect Heroes Reborn (1996) #1/2, material from Heroes Reborn: The Return (1997) #3-4, Heroes Reborn: Young Allies (2000) #1, Exiles (2001) #81-82, Onslaught Reborn (2006) #1-5, material from Captain America (1968) #600, Nomad: Girl Without a World (2009) #1-4, back-up stories from Captain America (1968) #602-615, Young Allies (2010) #1-6, Firestar (2010) #1, material from Age of Heroes (2010) #2, Onslaught Unleashed (2011) #1-4, Future Foundation (2019) #1-5

Winter Soldier: Bucky Barnes (2006 – 2020)

Right now we have some Winter Soldier material collected across two different omnibuses – his initial ongoing run in the final Ed Brubaker omnibus and his Bitter March mini-series in Captain America by Rick Remender.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Winter Soldier’s material in one place! That would double-dip 19 issues from other omnibuses, but also collect over 30 issues unique to this book – including a Thunderbolts series that could be otherwise orphaned.

Bucky is also a frequent supporting character in Black Widow runs, so we could possibly excerpt some of that here – but, this is a substantial book without it.

This would collect Winter Soldier: Winter Kills (2006) #1, Winter Soldier (2012) #1-19, Winter Soldier: The Bitter March (2014) #1-5, Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier (2014) #1-10, Thunderbolts (2016) #1-12, Tales of Suspense (2017) #100-104, Winter Soldier (2018) #1-5, Falcon & Winter Soldier (2020) #1-5.

We won’t continue this book to Thunderbolts (2023) #1-4, since that story is still unfurling during Thunderbolts: Doomstrike (2025) in “One World Under Doom.