Every Missing Batman Family Omnibus Mapping

It’s time to map the DC Universe! In June, I’ll be joining with Near Mint Condition to launch the Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus 2nd Annual Poll! This post explains every Batman Family omnibus that does NOT exist – all of which will appear as options on the 2025 poll.

Through the end of May I’ll be covering DC entire publishing history by mapping missing omnibus volumes to fill in every gap in your DC oversize shelf! That’s all leading to the kickoff of the Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus 2nd Annual Poll on Near Mint Condition the first week of June.

What is the Batman Family? For this purposes of this post, it’s non-villainous members of the extended Batman cast who have three or fewer potential omnibus volumes to their name. This post covers Azrael, Batman Beyond, Batwing, Batwoman, Huntress, Ghost-Maker, Gotham Academy, and more!

What about the more popular and enduring members of the family? I made posts earlier today about Nightwing, Red Hood, & Robin(s) and Gotham City Sirens – Catwoman, Poison Ivy, & Harley Quinn. I’ll be back tomorrow with Batgirl & The Birds of Prey. And, all of DC’s Villains will be collected in their own post next week.

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 collected editions on the planet.

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

This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:

Azrael Omnibus Mapping
- Azrael: Agent of the Batman by Dennis O’Neil Vol. 1 (1992 & on)
- Azrael by Fabian Nicieza & David Hine (2009 – 2011) [Death’s Dark Knight to Judgment on Gotham]
Batman Beyond Omnibus Mapping
- Batman Beyond Classic (1999 – 2001)
- Batman Beyond by Adam Beechem & Kyle Higgins (2010 – 2014) [includes 2.0/Universe]
- Batman Beyond by Dan Jurgens Vol. 1 (2015 & on)
Batwoman Omnibus Mapping
- Batwoman by Andreyko & Bennett (2013 – 2018) [follows JHWIII omni]
Huntress Omnibus Mapping
- Huntress of Earth Two: The Bronze Age Omnibus (1977 & on)
- Huntress, Helena Bertinelli (1989 – 2012)
- Worlds’ Finest, The New 52 Omnibus by Paul Levitz (2012 – 2015) [AKA Worlds’ Finest: Huntress & Powergirl]
Other Batman Family Omnibus Mapping
- Batman Family Year One by Chuck Dixon & Scott Beatty (2000 – 2005) [Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing]
- Batman Family, The Bronze Age Omnibus (1975 – 1978)
- Batman: Ghost-Maker & Batman Incorporated (2021 – 2023)
- Batman: I Am Batman by John Ridley (2021 – 2023)
- Batman: Streets of Gotham (2009 – 2011)
- Batwing, The New 52 Omnibus (2011 – 2014)
- Future State: Gotham by Joshua Williamson & Giannis Milonogianni (2021 – 2022)
- Gotham Academy (2014 – 2017)
- Talon, The New 52 Omnibus by James Tynion (2012 – 2014)

Remember: These titles and mappings are a suggestion of how DC could assemble these books. Your vote on the poll is a vote in favor of DC 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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Azrael Omnibus Mapping

After his time serving as Batman in the 90s, Azrael had a substantial 100-issue run stretching into the 2000s. Then, later, he had a brief burst of material in the two years prior to Flashpoint. Neither have been collected in omnibus!

Azrael: Agent of the Batman by Dennis O’Neil Vol. 1 (1992 & on)

Azrael had an introductory mini-series prior to Knightfall that is not routinely collected with event material. Then, Azrael had his own long-running and little-collected 100-issue series that ran from 1992 to 2003 written entirely by Dennis O’Neil

This would begin to collect collect Batman: Sword of Azrael (1992) #1-4, Azrael (1995) #1-46 & Annual 1-3, Azrael Plus The Question (1996) #1, and Azrael: Agent of the Bat (1998) #48-100 & One Million. If DC was in the mood for a pair of large books, it could split in half exactly at the title change.

Azrael by Fabian Nicieza & David Hine (2009 – 2011) [Death’s Dark Knight to Judgment on Gotham]

This covers a brief burst of Pre-Flashpoint Azrael material from “Death’s Dark Knight” to “Judgment on Gotham,” which sandwich his 18-issue ongoing series between them.

This would collect Azrael: Death’s Dark Knight (2009) #1-3, The Eighth Deadly Sin (from Batman (1940) Annual 27 & Detective Comics (1937) Annual 11), Azrael (2009) #1-18, and “Judgment on Gotham” (from Batman (1949) #708-709, Red Robin (2009) #22, and Gotham City Sirens (2009) #22).

Batman Beyond Omnibus Mapping

Batman Beyond started out as a comic supporting the animated series of the same name, but over time grew into a consistent future-continuity character with his own supporting cast and complex lore.

Batman Beyond Classic (1999 – 2001)

The initial Batman Beyond comics were very much “Animated Series Tie-ins” meant to adapt and extend the cartoon universe for comic readers, the same way that “Batman: The Animated Series” comics did in the 90s.

This would collect Batman Beyond (1999) #1-6, Batman Beyond (1999) #1-24, and an appearance in Superman Adventures (1996) #64 – all of which have been collected previously in a compendium format, perhaps adding Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2001) #1.

Batman Beyond by Adam Beechem & Kyle Higgins (2010 – 2014) [includes 2.0/Universe]

This Batman Beyond run was the first to suggest Batman Beyond as part of a potential future of the DC Comics universe, rather than simply an animated series adaptation. After an initial mini-series tested the waters for fan interest in this character and setting, it spun off into two additional series! Batman Beyond Unlimited was an oversize book with multiple stories per issue.

This would collect Superman/Batman (2003) Annual 4, Batman Beyond (2010) #1-6, Batman Beyond (2011) #1-8, and Batman Beyond Unlimited (2012) #1-18.

I think it would make sense to also collect Batman Beyond Universe (2013) #1-16 here, which were print collections of digital-first chapters of Batman Beyond 2.0 (2013) #1-40 that adds up to 528pgs in total.

Batman Beyond by Dan Jurgens Vol. 1 (2015 & on)

Towards the end of the DC New 52 era, Dan Jurgens relaunched Batman Beyond into what would become over a half-decade of comics.

This would begin to collect Batman Beyond (2015) #1-16, Batman Beyond (2016) Rebirth & #1-50, and material from Batman Beyond: DC Sneak Peek (2015) and Convergence: Batman and The Outsiders (2015 ) #2.

This would certainly require a pair of volumes, with the first volume breaking somewhere in the 10s of the 2016 series.

Batwoman Omnibus Mapping

Batwoman by Andreyko & Bennett (2013 – 2018) [follows JHWIII omni]

The existing Batwoman omnibus only collects to the end of the Hayden Blackman & JH Williams III run on the title in the middle of the New 52 era, leaving the final year-and-a-half of Batwoman (2011) uncollected.

That isn’t quite enough for an omnibus on its own, but it could continue to Batwoman’s Rebirth material, also never collected in hardcover.

This would collect Batwoman (2011) #25-40 & Annual 1, Batwoman: Futures End (2014) #1, maybe Tynion’s Detective Comics (1937) #934-940 and definitely #948-949 (which sets up the subsequent solo series), and Batwoman (2017) Rebirth & #1-18.

That’s 46 issues – a pretty serious omnibus! Batwoman is next in Gotham City Monsters (2019) #1-6, which doesn’t have an obvious omni home, so maybe we could squeeze it in. That’s especially true if we skip that first Detective Comics arc.

Huntress Omnibus Mapping

Huntress of Earth Two: The Bronze Age Omnibus (1977 & on)

Huntress was originally introduced as Helena Wayne of Earth-Two, when she had a lengthy run of anthology and back-up stories from the late 70s through the verge of Crisis on Infinite Earths. While some of this material has been collected in paperback, it has never been entirely collected in one place.

This would collect Huntress material from All-Star Comics (1940 / 1976) #69-74, DC Super-Stars (1976) #17, Batman Family (1974) #17-20, Adventure Comics (1938) #461-466, Wonder Woman (1942) #271-321 (backups), and The Brave and the Bold (1955) #184.

Huntress, Helena Bertinelli (1989 – 2012)

This omnibus would collect key Post-Crisis Huntress material from outside of her appearances in Birds of Prey (1999) (and, perhaps some key issues or arcs from that title).

This would collect The Huntress (1989) #1-19, Robin III: Cry of the Huntress (1992) #1-6, The Huntress (1994) #1-4, Nightwing / Huntress (1998) #1-4, Huntress: Year One (2008) #1-6, and Huntress (2011) #1-6.

Worlds’ Finest, The New 52 Omnibus by Paul Levitz (2012 – 2015) [AKA Worlds’ Finest: Huntress & Powergirl]

During New 52, DC revived the classic “Worlds’ Finest” title, but instead of using it to team up Batman and Superman it combined Huntress and Supergirl!

This would collect Worlds’ Finest (2012) #0-32 & Annual #1, Worlds’ Finest: Futures End (2014) #1, and Batman/Superman (2013) #8-9.

Other Batman Family Omnibus Mapping

Batman Family Year One by Chuck Dixon & Scott Beatty (2000 – 2005) [Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing]

I’ve seen some excellent maps that would collect a wider amount of “Year One” stories from the Batman family, but many of them heavily double-dip from a potential Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight omnibus. By contrast, this book only slightly double-dips a potential Nightwing omnibus while picking up a pair of series that don’t necessarily fit elsewhere.

Despite that, this is pretty slim. Ultimately, it could get folded into Chuck Dixon’s Nightwing line or expanded with more Year One material. I’m curious to see how this fares on the poll this year and if it seems like we should continue listing it in the future.

This would collect all three of Chuck Dixon’s “Year One” stories from Robin: Year One (2000) #1-4, Batgirl: Year One (2002) #1-9, Nightwing (1995) #101-106 (published in 2005).

Robin: Year One (2000) #1-4, Batgirl: Year One (2002) #1-9, Nightwing #101-106

Batman Family, The Bronze Age Omnibus (1975 – 1978)

Batman Family followed the trend of Superman Family (1974) of combining tales of the wider Bat-Family of characters into a single book. However, Batman wasn’t really a multi-character franchise in the early 1970s the way that Superman was (ironic!), so this lasted just a few years.

Much of this material will likely be disseminated across other omnibuses, but we’ve found that some people want it all in one book!

This would collect Batman Family (1974) #1-20.

Batman: Ghost-Maker & Batman Incorporated (2021 – 2023)

James Tynion IV introduced the glib-but-deadly Ghost-Maker in his run as a queer foil to Bruce Wayne. He had his own back-ups and annual stories before graduating to leading a revival of Batman Incorporated.

This would collect Batman (2016) #100-106 (A-Stories), 107-111 (backups), Annual 5/2021, & Annual 2022; Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter (2021) #1; Batman: The Joker War Zone (2020) #1; Batman Incorporated (2022) #1-12; and material from DC’s ‘Twas the Mite Before Christmas (2023) #1.

Batman: I Am Batman by John Ridley (2021 – 2023)

John Ridley arrived at DC poised to create the next ongoing Batman when they had plans for “5G,” a sweeping all-in-one timeline that would retire many vintage heroes in favor of legacy versions. This was hinted at in Future State, but never came to pass – leaving Ridley’s run in a state of limbo that could never fully pay off.

This would collect material from “Family Ties” from Batman: The Joker War Zone (2020)#1, Future State: The Next Batman (2021) #1-4, “The Cavalry” from Batman: Black and White (2021) #3, The Next Batman: Second Son (2021) #1-4 (originally release as digital chapters #1-12), and I Am Batman (2021) #1-18.

Batman: Streets of Gotham (2009 – 2011)

Batman: Streets of Gotham (2009) was a street-level look at Gotham, focused more on the supporting characters in the city than on Batman himself. It also had backups from Ragman and Manhunter, which could easily be included here in full.

This would collect all of Batman: Streets of Gotham (2009) #1-21, plus Detective Comics (1937) #852 and Batman (1940) #685.

Batwing, The New 52 Omnibus (2011 – 2014)

Batwing was introduced by Grant Morrison just prior to New 52 as the Bat-Hero of the fictional African nation Tinasha.

This would collect all of Batwing (2011) #0-34 and Batwing: Futures End (2014) #1, and likely also his first appearance in Batman Incorporated (2011) #5-6.

Future State: Gotham by Joshua Williamson & Giannis Milonogianni (2021 – 2022)

After all of the Future State two-shot series, Joshua Williamson launched an ongoing Future State book focused on the future story of Gotham.

This would collect Future State: Gotham (2021) #1-18

Gotham Academy (2014 – 2017)

Gotham Academy is an adorable “boarding school murder mystery” type of book with a few major links to Batman and the mythology of Gotham City. It’s appropriate for younger readers, but not all ages, since it has some themes of self-harm.

This would collect Gotham Academy (2014) #1-18 & Annual 1, Gotham Academy: Endgame (2015) #1, Gotham Academy: Second Semester (2016) #1-12, and recent short stories and back-ups recollected as Gotham Academy: Maps of Mystery (2023) #1 (which collects material from Batman (2022) #119-121, DC’s Saved by the Belle Reve (2022) #1, & Batman: Black and White (2021) #4).

Maybe if we asked very nicely it could also include Lumberjanes / Gotham Academy (2016) #1-6.