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 Blade, Ghost Rider, & Midnight Sons 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.
Maybe you didn’t realize it, but we’re in a Golden Age of Ghost Rider in omnibus! We’ve just had two volumes of his 1990s series announced for release just 13 months apart. For a series that was almost entirely uncollected as of two years ago, that’s pretty amazing.
Of course, that gives us a grand total of just four Ghost Rider omnibuses – there are so many more we need to completely cover the many iterations of the character.
Meanwhile, there’s the remainder of Marvel’s spookiest characters, many of whom are known collectively as the “Midnight Sons.” We have single omnibuses for Blade, Hellstrom, Man-Thing, Morbius, & Werewolf by Night, but all of them could use at least one more volume. Plus, Darkhold and Terror Inc. have never had an omnibus. Oh, heck, let’s throw Dracula in there, too… he turns out to hav more solo material than most of those Midnight Sons!
Should we make 2026 a very scary year for Marvel omnibuses? Let’s take a look at the mapping for Ghost Rider and all of Marvel’s horrific heroes and anti-heroes.
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:
- Blade Omnibus Mapping
- Blade: Nightstalker & Vampire Hunter (1991 – 2000)
- Blade: The Modern Years (2002 – 2022) [AKA by Marc Guggenheim]
- Silver & Bronze Age Ghost Rider Omnibus Mapping
- Ghost Rider: Carter Slade – The Original Ghost Rider (1967 & on)
- Ghost Rider: Johnny Blaze Vol. 1 (1972 – 1979) [MMW 1-4]
- Ghost Rider: Johnny Blaze Vol. 2 (1979 & on) [MMW 4-8]
- Modern Ghost Rider Omnibus Mapping
- Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Vol. 3 (1993 – 1994) [AKA Siege of Darkness]
- Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Vol. 4 (1994 & on)
- Ghost Rider by Daniel Way et al (2001 – 2008) [AKA by Aaron Companion]
- Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes (2014 & on) [includes Avengers material]
- Ghost Riders by Ed Brisson et al (2017 – 2022) [all non-Reyes Rider material]
- Ghost Rider by Benjamin Percy (2022 – 2024)
- Hellstrom, Darkhold, Dracula, Morbius, & Terror Inc.
- Daimon Hellstrom, Son of Satan (1973 – 1994)
- Darkhold: The Book of Sins (1973 – 2021)
- Dracula: The Modern Years (1981 & on) [follows Tomb omis, AKA Dracula vs The Marvel Universe]
- Morbius: The Living Vampire Vol. 2 (1989 – 1995)
- Terror Inc. (1992 – 1993)
- Legion of Monsters Omnibuses – Man-Thing & Werewolf by Night
- Man-Thing Vol. 2 (1980 – 1998)
- Werewolf by Night Vol. 2 (1978 & on)
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.
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Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Blade Omnibus Mapping
We already have one extremely well-mapped Blade omnibus in Blade: The Early Years, which collects nearly every single moment of panel time he has from his debut in 1973 through 1991. Unfortunately, without a Blade film on the horizon anymore, getting more omnibus volumes in this series seems highly unlikely… unless, of course, you all vote for them! See Guide to Blade – The Daywalker for details on EVERY Blade appearance.
Blade: Nightstalker & Vampire Hunter (1991 – 2000)
Blade made his return to regular appearances and relevancy in the prestige Tomb of Dracula (1991) mini-series and then anchored his only vampire team book with Nightstalkers (1992). That book was launched as part of the “Rise of the Midnight Sons” event to give Ghost Rider (1990) a full line of horrific hero comics.
Blade spun off from Nightstalkers into his own short-lived 1994 series and then bounced through a series of one-shots and truncated series, which often telegraphed bigger plans for the character that never quite came to fruition.
The one tricky thing about this omnibus is that it contains one Epic Collection worth of material that has never been collected: the back 12 issues of Nightstalkers (1992) and all of Blade: The Vampire-Hunter (1994). From there, his late-90s one-shots have already been collected in paperbacks preceding his entry into the Epic line. Would we need to wait for that Epic to be released before getting this material in omnibus? Not necessarily, although that is often the trend with 80s and 90s books.
A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect all of Blade’s 1990s material into a single omnibus.
This would collect Tomb of Dracula (1991) #1-4, Ghost Rider (1991) #31, Nightstalkers (1992) #1-18, Morbius: Living Vampire (1992) #10, Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #3, 6, & 8, Blade: The Vampire-Hunter (1994) #1-10, Marvel Team-Up (1997) #7, Blade (1998) One-Shot (AKA “Crescent City Blues”), Blade: Sins of the Father (1998) #1, Blade [Strange Tales] (1998B) #1-3, Gambit (1999) #4, Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #7-8, and Blade: Vampire Hunter (1999) #1-6 & ½.
Also collects material from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #1 (3rd story), 2 (3rd story), & 7 (2nd story), Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #63, and Marvel: Shadows and Light (1997) #1 (2nd story)
This might potentially collect some “Midnight Massacre” issues (Ghost Rider (1990) #40, Darkhold (1992) #11, Morbius: Living Vampire (1992) #12, and Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance (1992) #13), but does not need to collect “Siege of Darkness” issues.
Blade: The Modern Years (2002 – 2022) [AKA by Marc Guggenheim]
Blade was a cameo king for most of the past 25 years of comics, apart from a year-long solo run in 2006. That series was collected in Blade by Marc Guggenheim: The Complete Collection, but we’ve never had the rest of this collected together before – including a number of one-shots and the X-Men’s brief obsession with vampires from 2010.
Note that Blade’s Marvel MAX series is in continuity for his character, which wasn’t always the case for early-2000s MAX series.
A vote for this book is a vote to gather together more than 20 years of in-continuity Blade comics together for the first time, which makes for a surprisingly hefty omnibus!!
This would collect Marvel MAX Blade (2002) #1-6, Tomb of Dracula (2004) #1-4, Blade (2006) #1-12, Marvel Team-Up (2005) #8, Marvel Comics Presents (2007) #5 & 7-12, Spider-Man vs. Vampires (2010) #1, X-Men (2010) #1-6 & X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Blade (2010) #1, Spirits of Vengeance (2017) #1-5, Falcon (2017) #7-8, Wolverine vs. Blade Special (2019) #1, The Death of Doctor Strange: Blade (2021) #1, Midnight Suns (2022) #1-5, Blade: Vampire Nation (2022) #1, and material from Avengers (2018).
While this could optionally press ahead to Bloodline: Daughter of Blade (2023) #1-5, that feels like it’s the beginning of the next part of Blade’s story and not the culmination of the prior part. It may or may not be included here.
Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Silver & Bronze Age Ghost Rider Omnibus Mapping
Ghost Rider began as a Silver Age western hero, who was quickly scuttled and relaunched as the flaming-skull biker we all know and fear. We don’t have any of Ghost Rider’s pre-1990 material in omnibus! See Guide to Ghost Rider for more details.
Ghost Rider: Carter Slade – The Original Ghost Rider (1967 & on)
Marvel first envisioned Ghost Rider as a Western hero riding a pale horse, as created by Gary Friedrich & Dick Ayers! However, interest in Western comics was waning towards the end of the Silver Age, so Carter Slade was quickly shuffled into obscurity after a brief run of stories in Western Gunfighters (1970).
Marvel would revive the Ghost Rider brand two years later with the introduction of motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze, and the rest is history!
However, retcons are a big part of Marvel history, too. Ghost Rider (1973) would briefly extend Slade’s story and connect it to ongoing continuity. And later, future authors would continue to extend the tale of Carter Slade, including in a series of back-ups in Original Ghost Rider (1992) … which wasn’t about Slade (the actual original Ghost Rider), but a reprint of Blaze’s 1973 comic.
This would be a slim omnibus, but it’s attractive to fans because it would collect that 1967 material in color for the first time and (I think) would be the first ever recollection of the 90s backup stories.
If you were feeling particularly bold, you might suggest Marvel could simply append this material to the omnibus line of the 1973 series, but we’ve never seen them collect significant additional Silver Age material that requires restoration into Masterworks-based classic omnibus line.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect the majority of Carter Slade’s material for the first time, all in a single omnibus!
This would collect The Ghost Rider (1967) #1-7, as well as further appearances in Western Gunfighters (1970) #1-7, Giant-Size Kid Colt (1975) #3, Ghost Rider (1973) #50 & 51 (2nd story), and Avengers (1963) #142-143, and back-up stories from the reprint title Original Ghost Rider (1992) #3-5, 7-12, & 15-20 (much of which was written by Dan Slott!).
Ghost Rider: Johnny Blaze Vol. 1 (1972 – 1979) [MMW 1-4]
Ghost Rider: Johnny Blaze Vol. 2 (1979 & on) [MMW 4-8]
While most classic omnibus volumes obey a “3 Masterworks” rule, but with Johnny Blaze’s 1973 series poised to wrap up with Masterworks Volume 7 I think probably makes sense to bend the rules a little to fi this series into just two volumes.
The six existing Masterworks are all between 300-330 pages, so if a seventh volume follows suit we’ll have a total of less than 2,200 pages. Perhaps if this was Spider-Man or Doctor Strange Marvel would force that into three brief omnibuses. However, 1970s Ghost Rider isn’t the hugest seller for Marvel – it feels like a miracle we’re going to make it through the Masterworks line. There’s no need to tempt fate by pushing an omnibus line to three volumes if it could fit into two.
Plus, there’s really not much extra material that could be used to pad out a third volume – the Masterworks are already expanding beyond the map of his Essentials and Johnny Blaze barely appears from the end of his series to the start of Danny Ketch’s series.
A vote for these book is a vote for Marvel to finally collect Johnny Blaze’s original 1970s stories in oversize hardcover now that the Masterworks line has collected them in color.
Volume 1 would collect Marvel Spotlight (1971) #5-12, Ghost Rider (1973) #1-35, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #15 & 58, Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #8, Daredevil (1964) #138, and add Marvel Premiere (1972) #28 – which is not in the Masterworks line. Then, it would begin to collect about half of issues #36-50, possibly breaking after issue #40 and adding Marvel Team-Up (1972) #91.
Volume 2 would collect a portion of Ghost Rider (1973) #36-50 (likely #41-50), and then continue to collect Ghost Rider (1973) #51-81, Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #80, Avengers (1963) #214, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #274, Defenders (1972) #145-146, and Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #11
Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Modern Ghost Rider Omnibus Mapping
We now have two volumes of Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch omnibuses released in just two years. That’s incredible! And, it means we’re nearing the halfway mark of Danny Ketch’s series, Ghost Rider (1990). Does that mean we could easily collect the remainder of the series in just two more volumes? Read on to find out if that mapping makes sense and where we continue from there! See Guide to Ghost Rider for details.
Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Vol. 3 (1993 – 1994) [AKA Siege of Darkness]
I’m still in shock that Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Vol. 2 will see print later this year with only 13 months separating it from the release of Vol. 1. That’s very aggressive for Marvel’s omnibus program, especially for a character not currently starring in the MCU and who has a currently active Epic Collection line.
The speed makes me suspect that the first book may have been an unexpectedly strong seller. That wouldn’t surprise me. The first few years of Ghost Rider (1990) is non-stop 90s fun in the best way possible, with some eye-popping art and colors.
We’ve just had a Siege of Darkness Epic Collection, which covers the central thrust of the material in this omnibus – which would absolutely collect the full crossover. Around that, there’s room for less than 20 regular issues of Ghost Rider (1990), but that’s because in addition to the crossover we’ll also have a pair of annuals, the end of Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance (1992), two more Blaze series, and more material from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993).
While that looks like it adds up to 50+ issues on paper, four of those issues are single anthology stories from Marvel Comics Presents (1988), and another five are Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) – which would likely omit material from other Midnight Sons who have their own omnibus lines.
That means this works out to just about 50 issues – significantly longer than the prior two omnibuses, but necessarily if we want to complete this line in just one more book rather than two. And, even if you think the line needs two more books, this would still be the “Siege of Darkness” book.
A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to pour on the gas when it comes to keeping up the pace of their Danny Ketch omnibus line, pushing forward to collect some material we’ve never before had collected in color!
This would collect Ghost Rider (1990) #41-56 & Annual 1-2, Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance (1992) #14-20, Blaze: Legacy of Blood (1993) #1-4, Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #3-7 (may omit stories from other Midnight Sons), Blaze (1994) #1-3, and all of the Siege of Darkness crossover.
Siege of Darkness ran through 17 issue in Nightstalkers (1992) #14, Ghost Rider (1990) #44, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #143 (1st story), Darkhold (1992) #15, Morbius: The Living Vampire (1992) #16, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #144 (1st story & 2nd stories), Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #60, Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance (1992) #17, Nightstalkers (1992) #15, Ghost Rider (1990) #45, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #145-146, Darkhold (1992) #16, Morbius: The Living Vampire (1992) #17, Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #61, Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance (1992) #18, and Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #4.
If you think this is too long to actually happen, a more conservative version would end with issue #50 and omit Ghost Rider (1990) #51-56 & Annual 2 and Blaze (1994) #1-3 to keep it in line with the length of the prior volume.
Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Vol. 4 (1994 & on)
The good news is that Ghost Rider’s series is significantly less tangled up with other comics after Siege of Darkness.
Aside from wrapping up the rest of the brief Blaze (1994) volume, the Dark Design OGN, and some appearances in Marvel’s short-lived “Over the Edge” imprint, it’s mostly a straight shot of collecting issues #52-94, -1, and a one-shot.
Could it all fit into one book? It’s entirely possible, if the prior volume ends at issue #56 rather than issue #50. Then, we’d have 40 issues left of Ghost Rider (1990) plus nine of Blaze and an OGN, two issues of stories from Midnight Suns, and six guest appearances.
That’s pushing the limits of an omnibus, but Marvel has a healthy fear of long-running omnibus lines declining in sales and fans generally have less nostalgia for this later-90s material.
A vote for this book is a vote to emphasizes how quickly we’d like Marvel to continue to collect Danny Ketch’s solo series – and, maybe a chance to wrap up the series in just four volumes.
This would collect Ghost Rider (1990) #57-93, Crossroads special [AKA Annual 4], -1, & Finale (2007) #1 [AKA #94, Blaze (1994) #4-12, Wolverine #89, Ghost Rider / Wolverine / Punisher: Dark Design (1994) OGN, Over the Edge (1995) #4 & 9, Marvel Fanfare (1996) #3, Venom: Sign of the Boss (1997) #1-2, Daredevil (1964) #372, and material from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #8-9 (may omit stories from other Midnight Sons).
Ghost Rider by Daniel Way et al (2001 – 2011) [AKA by Aaron Companion]
Last year we tried to present this material in multiple ways, but we were too tricksy for our own good – it cost both books votes.
This year, we’ve simplified this book to be a Daniel Way collection that can optionally include all of the various mini-series that supported this period. Do all of them make sense to collect into one book? You decide.
The only reason not to vote for this is if you want all of Ghost Rider (2006) in one book – including both Daniel Way’s material and the existing Aaron Omnibus material. Since Marvel just reprinted the Aaron book in 2024, it doesn’t seem like they will be eager to double dip it, which is why we’re not offering that option.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Ghost Rider’s major stories from the 2000s not by Jason Aaron into a single volume.
This would collect Ghost Rider (2001) #1-6 & 1/2 (AKA “The Hammer Lane”), Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears (2007) #1-6, Ghost Rider (2005) #1-6 (AKA “The Road to Damnation”), Daniel Way’s run on Ghost Rider (2006) #1-20 & Annual 1-2 (annuals NOT by Way), Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch (2008) #1-5, & Ghost Rider (2011) #1-9 & .1. It could also include an appearance in X-Force (2009) #9-10.
Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes (2014 & on) [includes Avengers material]
For a new generation of readers (and TV fans!), Robbie Reyes is their main Ghost Rider – and his material has never been collected in oversize format.
If we only collect Reyes’s solo adventures, this would be a somewhat scant omnibus volume. It should also collect Avengers (2018) #22-25 – an arc of Jason Aaron’s Avengers focused entirely on Robbie Reyes racing through hell. There’s some other strong Reyes material in Aaron’s Avengers run, and I think there’s a strong argument to excerpt some of it here – since the end of the series left Robbie in an interesting place.
A vote for this book is a vote for a complete omnibus collection of Robbie Reyes as Ghost Rider.
This would collect all of Reyes’s solo Ghost Rider material from All-New Ghost Rider (2014) #1-12, Ghost Rider (2016) #1-5, Ghost Rider: X-Mas Special (2016) #1, What If? Ghost Rider (2018) #1, and Avengers (2018) #22-25. It could add further material from Avengers (2018).
Ghost Riders by Ed Brisson et al (2017 – 2022) [all non-Reyes Rider material]
Ed Brisson pieced together a surprisingly thrilling Ghost Rider run across multiple series and one-shots in 2019 and 2020. Part of the fun of the run was that Brisson put both Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch into play and made them distinct from each other.
Brisson’s run totals just 11 issues – a 312-page paperback that’s too short for an omnibus on its own, but not likely to get mashed up with Benjamin Percy’s longer and more-popular run. But, it also doesn’t make sense to pair this with Robbie Reyes’s material, which is tonally very different.
Luckily, there’s some more material to collect from this period. Before Brisson’s run, Ketch starred in Spirits of Vengeance (2017) #1-5. After this run, we had a pair of one-shots. And contemporaneous with this run, we had Kushala – a Ghost Rider of the 1800s – starring in Midnight Suns (2022) and her own psychedelic Infinity Comic.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of the Ghost Rider material from Marvel Legacy through the start of Benjamin Percy’s run in one place, which is dominated by Ed Brisson’s material but also gets Midnight Suns (2022) collected in the Ghost Rider line.
This would collect all of Brisson’s material from Ghost Rider (2019) #1-7, Absolute Carnage: Symbiote of Vengeance (2019) #1, Spirits of Ghost Rider: Mother Of Demons (2020) #1, King In Black: Ghost Rider (2021) #1, Ghost Rider 2099 (2019) #1, and material from Incoming (2017) #1 and Marvel Comics Presents (2019) #6.
It probably also makes sense to pick up the Spirits of Vengeance (2017) #1-5 series that preceded this, which was written by Victor Gischler and starred Johnny Blaze, and the contemporaneous Ghost Rider: Return of Vengeance (2021) #1 by Howard Mackie and 50th Ghost Rider Anniversary Special (2022) #1.
It could also collect Midnight Suns (2022) #1-5 and Ghost Rider: Kushala Infinity Comic (2021) #1-8.
Just to be thorough it could also pick up Damnation: Johnny Blaze – Ghost Rider (2018) #1, but that was part of the Damnation event and will be collected in full there.
Ghost Rider by Benjamin Percy (2022 – 2024)
Benjamin Percy wrote a brutal, bloody, and sometimes repetitive body horror approach to Ghost Rider starting in 2022, which intersected with his run on Wolverine (2020) and spun of a new Wolverine/Ghost Rider mash-up.
While some might argue that Percy’s run is still ongoing due to Hellverine (2024B), I’d argue that filling a Ghost Rider omnibus with an X-Men character would be a strange reading experience. Let’s leave both Hellverine series to be collected with future Wolverine family material and keep this focused on the Blaze & Ketch family.
A vote for this book is to collect all of Benjamin Percy’s multi-year Ghost Rider run all in one place.
This would collect Ghost Rider (2022) #1-21 & Annual 1/2023, Ghost Rider: Vengeance Forever (2022) #1, Ghost Rider/Wolverine Alpha (2023) #1, Wolverine (2020) #36, Ghost Rider/Wolverine Omega (2023) #1, and Ghost Rider: Final Vengeance (2024) #1-6.
It could continue to Hellverine (2024A) #1-4 & Hellverine (2024B) #1-(TBA), but they feel like part of a new Akihiro omnibus that will span several years. Instead, it should add Spirits of Vengeance (2024) #1-6 by Sabir Pirzada, an epilogue on where various Riders wind up after Percy’s run.
Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Hellstrom, Darkhold, Dracula, Morbius, & Terror Inc.
In the early 90s, Marvel launched a new line of comics out of the popularity of Ghost Rider (1990). These were the “Midnight Sons,” a reimagining of the brief “Legion of Monsters” team-up from the mid-70s that focused on Marvel’s shadowy world of vampires and monsters. Some of those books sputtered out quickly in the crush of the early 90s speculation boom, but Morbius wound up with his longest-running series!
There’s no specific membership of the Midnight Sons, so it’s easy to use it as a catchall to refer to all of Marvel’s horrific protagonists who aren’t monsters – who, of course, would be more accurately classified in the “Legion of Monsters”! Morbius has membership in both clubs, but we’ll include him here since he was part of that early-90s line.
Daimon Hellstrom, Son of Satan (1973 – 1994)
This omnibus puts right a past omnibus mapping wrong from Marvel, who collected the absurdly slim Hellstorm by Warren Ellis in 2018.
That 424 page omnibus omitted the first half of its obscure mid-90s series! Sure, Ellis’s name is the seller there and he didn’t start writing until issue #12. Yet, it felt particularly short-sighted and petty to leave out the first 11 issues, relegating them to their own 258 page paperback.
We can’t even blame this on being a media tie-in, because the Helstrom TV show hadn’t even started shooting when that book was released! Luckily, we don’t have to scrabble to justify putting those 258 abandoned pages into their own omnibus. That’s because there’s an existing hefty Son of Satan Classic paperback with another 472 pages of content!
That means we have a solid 700+ page omnibus that could collect all of Daimon Hellstrom’s stories from his debut up until the start of that slim Warren Ellis book.
A vote for this is a vote to collect all of Daimon Hellstrom’s story material up to Warren Ellis taking over his title in 1994.
This would collect Ghost Rider (1973) #1-2; Marvel Spotlight (1971) #12-24; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #32; Son of Satan (1975) #1-8; Marvel Two-In-One (1974) #14; Defenders (1972) #92 & 120-121; New Defenders (1983) #148; West Coast Avengers (1985) #14-16; Marvel Fanfare (1982) #59 (2nd story); and Hellstorm: Prince of Lies (1993) #1-11.
That’s a substantial book with all of Hellstrom’s major stories, but it could optionally add some further issues from Defenders (1972).
Darkhold: The Book of Sins (1973 – 2021)
This would collect three distinct periods of Darkhold series from a trio of three existing paperbacks. Given that the Darkhold has been the focus of two different Disney+ MCU series now, there could be some legitimate interest in this book – and, it could easily be marketed using Scarlet Witch who appears at both the beginning and the end.
First, it would collect the contents of Avengers/Doctor Strange: Rise of the Darkhold, which collected a complete history of the Darkhold in the Marvel Universe. Then, it would add Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins, which collected the short-lived ongoing title from the Midnight Son’s line. And, finally, it could add all of the 2021 mini-event of a dark alternate reality collected as The Darkhold in 2022.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect the complete Darkhold saga in a single omnibus!
This would collect Marvel Spotlight (1971) #3-4; Werewolf By Night (1972) #1, 3, & 15; Tomb of Dracula (1972) #18-19; Marvel Chillers (1975) #1-2; Avengers (1963) #185-187; Doctor Strange (1974) #59-62, 67, & 81; Thor (1966) #332-333, and material from Dracula Lives (1974) #6; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) Annual 22; Uncanny X-Men (1963) Annual 12, Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #9-13 & 15, Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins (1992) #1-16, Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #90, material from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #1-2, material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #145, and the complete one-shots from The Darkhold (2021) (Alpha, Blade, Wasp, Iron Man, Black Bolt, Spider-Man, & Omega).
Dracula: The Modern Years (1981 & on) [follows Tomb omis, AKA Dracula vs The Marvel Universe]
Dracula was one of the stars of Marvel’s Bronze Age, anchoring the thrilling Tomb of Dracula (1972) as well as a bevy of horror magazine features.
But, that wasn’t the end of Dracula in the Marvel universe! He continued to appear as a villain and mastermind for over 40 years of further comics – sometimes briefly rising to prominence based on the trends of the time with the popularity of Interview with the Vampire and Twilight.
I was surprised to realize this book barely relies on any excerpted guest appearances – Dracula really has had so many mini-series and one-shots across the decades that we can easily justify this book. See Guide to Marvel’s Dracula for full coverage of all of these appearances.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Dracula’s major Marvel Universe stories into one terrifying tome!
This would collect Defenders (1972) #95; Uncanny X-Men (1962) #159 & Annual 6; Thor (1966) #332-333; Doctor Strange (1974) #60-62; Tomb of Dracula (1991) #1-4; Dracula: Lord of the Undead (1998) #1-3; Tomb of Dracula (2004) #1-4; X-Men: Apocalypse vs Dracula (2006) #1-4; Death of Dracula (2010) #1; issues from “Curse of the Mutants” (X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Blade (2010) #1, X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Storm & Gambit (2010) #1, X-Men (2010) #5-6); Tomb of Dracula Presents: Throne of Blood (2011) #1; Fear Itself: Hulk vs Dracula (2011) #1-3; Old Man Logan (2016) #14-15; Avengers (2018) #14-17 & 32; Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula (2020) #1; Blade: Vampire Nation (2022) #1; and material from Bizarre Adventures (1981) #33, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #42, Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #8-10, 13, 15, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #77-79, Marvel: Shadows and Light (1997) #1, Legion of Monsters: Morbius (2007) #1, Monster-Size Hulk (2008) #1, and Bizarre Adventures (2019) #1.
Dracula had a mini-series during the Blood Hunt event, but it’s very much sewn into the main narrative of the event and mostly stars Bloodline, Blade’s daughter.
Morbius: The Living Vampire Vol. 2 (1989 – 1995)
This would follow up on the existing Morbius the Living Vampire Omnibus by primarily collecting the entirety of Morbius: The Living Vampire (1992) ongoing series from the Midnight Sons line. It would also pick up some prelude material setting up his return to blood-sucking (which seemed to have ended at the close of the prior omnibus) as well as guest appearances from the era (including Venom: The Enemy Within (1994)).
It would not need to collect any “Siege of Darkness” crossover issues, as Morbius is not a major player in the crossover outside of his own title.
A vote for this book is a vote to completely collect Morbius’s 1990s material.
This would collect Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #10 & 14-18 to contextualize Morbius’s return to blood-sucking. Then, it would collect Morbius: The Living Vampire (1992) #1-32, crossover issues (Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #52-53; Nightstalkers (1992) #8-9); major guest appearances (Daredevil (1964) #324, Venom: The Enemy Within (1994) #1-3, Blade The Vampire Hunter (1994) #8), and his stories from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #1-3, 5, & 7 and Strange Tales: Dark Corners (1998) #1 (2nd story).
It could optionally add Blade [Strange Tales] (1998B) #2-3, X-Man (1995) #24 (and excerpts from Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #420), Spider-Man (1990) #77-80, and Peter Parker, Spider-Man (1999) #8 to resolve his complete story from the 90s. However, they are not essential stories.
Terror Inc. (1992 – 1993)
Terror is an interesting character to try to collect, because his beginnings exist outside of the Marvel Universe.
The character originated from Marvel’s short-lived Shadowline, part of their Epic Comics imprint. We have that listed separately on the poll. Because Epic Comics rights issues can be complex, it’s unclear to me if we could simply collect all of that together with Terror Inc. – it would all easly fit into a single omnibus!
Do I think that getting a Terror Inc. omnibus is a way to backdoor into getting a Shadowline omnibus? No, nor do I think Terror will ever be a popular enough character to make that a reality. However, it certainly creates an interesting mapping question for this book!
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Terror’s major appearances in the Marvel universe.
This would collect Terror Inc. (1992) #1-13 and the “For Love Nor Money” crossover (Cage (1992) #15-16,Silver Sable & The Wild Pack (1992) #13-14), Wolverine (1988) #58-59, Daredevil (1964) #305 & 308-309, and Nick Fury, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1989) #46, plus a sub-plot page of Punisher/Captain America: Blood & Glory #3 prior to his series.
This book should likely omit a pair of MAX series, which are in a different reality with a different version of the character. However, if rights are available, it could collect his origins from Marvel’s Shadowline (or, even the entire Shadowline, which is only 31 issues).
Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Legion of Monsters Omnibuses – Man-Thing & Werewolf by night
Man-Thing and Werewolf by Night participated on the periphery of the early-90s Midnight Sons line, mostly appearing in the pages of Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993). However, both of them have significant 70s and 80s appearances that should have been in their original omnibuses, as well as late-90s revivals that could benefit from recollection.
Man-Thing Vol. 2 (1980 & on)
This book would continue the existing Man-Thing Omnibus into a second volume, rectifying some missing classic material from his first omnibus than pressing forward to collect his significant material as a guest star.
A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Man-Thing’s major appearances in the 80s, 90s, and maybe even beyond.
This would collect Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #1, Daredevil (1964) #113-114, Iron Man Annual (1970) #3, Howard the Duck (1976) #22-23), Howard The Duck Magazine (1976) #6-7, followed by a terrific issue of Uncanny X-Men (1963) #144, and Marvel Two-In-One (1974) #77, Defenders (1972) #98 (and material from #97), Marvel Team-Up (1972) #122, and Marvel Fanfare (1982) #9 & 36 (2nd story).
It would continue into the Steve Gerber material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #1-12 (2nd stories) and Web of Spider-Man Annual (1985) #4.
Then, it would continue to collect Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #29 (4th story), Midnight Suns Unlimited (1993) #8, Incredible Hulk (1968) #427-428, Generation X (1994) #25 & Daydreamers (1997) #1-3, Marvel Team-Up (1997) #4, Man-Thing (1997) #1-8, Shadows & Light (1998) #2 (2nd story), and Strange Tales (1998) #1-2.
It could optionally continue collecting into the 2000s through Infernal Man-Thing (2012) #1-3, which is the final material in the Gerber Complete Collections.
Werewolf by Night Vol. 2 (1978 & on)
Werewolf by Night’s existing Werewolf By Night Omnibus focuses just on collecting his entire series. However, his subsequent Complete Collection line added more material from his “lost final arc,” which was told across Spider-Woman (1978) and several other one-shot stories. See Guide to Werewolf by Night for more details.
From there, Werewolf by Night has a string of guest appearances and anthology stories through the late 90s, when he was briefly revived into his own series before mostly disappearing until being revived as a more comedic character in the late 00s.
A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect Werewolf by Night’s appearances in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
This would begin by collecting the “lost final arc” with material from Werewolf by Night’s Complete Collection Vol. 3: Spider-Woman (1978) #6, 19 & 32, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #93, Ghost Rider (1973) #55, Moon Knight (1980) #29 (A-Story) & #30, and material from Marvel Premiere (1972) #59.
From there, it could push onward to collect further appearances and solo stories, such as Iron Man (1968) #209, Incredible Hulk (1968) #362, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #54-59 (2nd stories), Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #26-27, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #98 (2nd story), 107-111 (3rd story), 112 (1st story), & 113 (4th story), Marc Spector: Moon Knight (1989) #50 & 52-53, Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #5 (1st story) & #7 (3rd story), Shadows & Light (1998) #3 (2nd story), Werewolf by Night (1998) #1-6, & Strange Tales (1998) #1-2.
It could end with Legion of Monsters: Werewolf by Night (2007) #1, which is really his last solo horror appearance before a decade of guest appearances as a humor character.
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