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 DC Hero from F to P I haven’t already covered in other posts – including Firestorm, Jonah Hex, and Martian Manhunter omnibus mapping – 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.
Here’s the full list of the characters this post covers: Firestorm, Frankenstein, Hawk and Dove, Hourman, Human Target, Immortal Men, Jonah Hex, Kamandi, Kid Eternity, Lobo, Madame Xanadu, Manhunter, Martian Manhunter, ‘Mazing Man Omnibus Mapping, Metamorpho, Mister Miracle, OMAC, Peacemaker, Plastic Man, Promethea.
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:
- Firestorm Omnibus Mapping
- Firestorm: The Fury of Firestorm, The Nuclear Man Vol. 1 (of 2) (1978 – 1986)
- Firestorm by Jolley, Moore, & McDuffie (2004 – 2006)
- Firestorm: The New 52 Omnibus (2011 – 2013)
- Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E., The New 52 Omnibus by Jeff Lemire (2011 – 2013)
- Grifter & Voodoo, The New 52 Omnibus (2011 – 2013) [also includes Team 7]
- Hawk and Dove, The Post-Crisis Omnibus (1988 & on)
- Hourman by Tom Peyer (1999 – 2001)
- Human Target Omnibus Mapping
- Human Target: The Bronze Age Omnibus (1972 – 1991)
- Human Target by Peter Milligan (1999 – 2005) [Vertigo series]
- Jonah Hex Omnibus Mapping
- Jonah Hex, The Classic Omnibus Vol. 1 (1970 & on)
- Jonah Hex by Palmiotti & Gray Vol. 1 (of 2) (2006 – 2009)
- Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth, Vol. 2 (1976 – 1993) [continues from the Kirby omnibus]
- Kid Eternity: The Complete Comics (1940 – 1994)
- Lobo by Keith Giffen & Alan Grant Vol. 1 (1990 & on)
- Madame Xanadu by Matt Wagner (2008 – 2011) [could also include 1978-1981 material]
- Manhunter Omnibus Mapping
- Manhunter by John Ostrander, Kim Yale, & Steven Grant (1988 – 1995)
- Manhunter: Kate Spencer by Marc Andreyko (2004 – 2009)
- Martian Manhunter Omnibus Mapping
- Martian Manhunter, The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (1955 & on)
- Martian Manhunter by John Ostrander (1998 – 2001) [could also include 1988 & 1992]
- Martian Manhunter by Lieberman, Williams, & Orlando (2007 – 2020)
- ‘Mazing Man (1985 – 1990)
- Metamorpho, The Silver Age Omnibus (1965 – 1979)
- Mister Miracle Omnibus Mapping
- Mister Miracle, The Bronze Age Omnibus (1971 – 1977) [duplicates Kirby New World and extends past it]
- Mister Miracle, The Post-Crisis Omnibus (1987 – 1997)
- OMAC by Kirby, Rucka, Byrne, and Jones Omnibus (1974 – 2007)
- Peacemaker, The Complete Omnibus (1967 – 2023)
- Plastic Man Omnibus Mapping
- Plastic Man, The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (1941 & on)
- Plastic Man, The Modern Age Omnibus (1988 & on)
- Plastic Man, The Silver & Bronze Age Omnibus (1966 – 1977)
- Promethea by Alan Moore (1999 – 2005)
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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Firestorm Omnibus Mapping
Firestorm: The Fury of Firestorm, The Nuclear Man Vol. 1 (of 2) (1978 – 1986)
This pair of volumes would collect Firestorm: The Nuclear Man (1978) #1-5, stories from The Flash (1959) #289-293, The Fury of Firestorm (1982) #1-64 & Annual 1-5, Firestorm: The Nuclear Man (1987) #65-100, and any crossovers and significant guest appearances from that period.
Firestorm by Jolley, Moore, & McDuffie (2004 – 2006)
This would collect Firestorm (2004) #1-35 – most of which has never been collected! – and any crossovers and significant guest appearances from that period.
Firestorm: The New 52 Omnibus (2011 – 2013)
This would collect The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men (2011) #1-20 & 0.
Frankenstein Omnibus Mapping
Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E., The New 52 Omnibus by Jeff Lemire (2011 – 2013)
This would collect Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E. #1-16 & 0 and Men of War (2011) #8.
Grifter & Voodoo Omnibus Mapping
Grifter & Voodoo, The New 52 Omnibus (2011 – 2013) [also includes Team 7]
This would collect Grifter (2011) #0-16, Voodoo (2011) #0-12, and Team 7 (2012) #0-8.
Hawk and Dove Omnibus Mapping
Hawk and Dove, The Post-Crisis Omnibus (1988 & on)
This would collect Hawk and Dove (1988) #1-5 and Hawk and Dove (1989) #1-28 & Annuals 1-2, as well as any crossovers and significant guest appearances from that period. It could continue to collect further appearances through Flashpoint.
Hourman Omnibus Mapping
Hourman by Tom Peyer (1999 – 2001)
This would collect Hourman (1999) #1-25.
As prelude material, this could add some or all of the material from JLA (1997) #12, 15, 23, 26, 28-31, 38, 40-41, & 1,000,000, as well as stories from JLA: Secret Files and Origins #1 (Lost Pages, Day In The Life), JLA: Secret Files and Origins #2 (Heroes), and JSA Secret Files and Origins #1-2.
We could also add some of the contemporaneous stories from JSA (1999) #1-11, 13, 15, 65, 66, but that’s a lot of outside material that would be fully collected in other omnibuses.
Human Target Omnibus Mapping
Human Target: The Bronze Age Omnibus (1972 – 1991)
This would collect Action Comics (1938) #419-420, 422-423, 425-426, 429, 432; The Brave and the Bold #143-144; Detective Comics #483-484, 486, 493, 500, 515; Batman #349; Detective Comics #517-518; Batman #351-352; The Best of DC #30; Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #10; History of the DC Universe #2; Who’s Who in the DC Universe #4.
This could also add The Human Target Special (1991) #1 though it is based on a TV show and not in continuity.
Human Target by Peter Milligan (1999 – 2005)
This would collect Human Target (1999) #1-4, Human Target (2003) #1-21, and Human Target: Final Cut (2002) OGN.
We could bookend that by adding Human Target Special (1991) #1 and Human Target (2010) #1-6, neither by Milligan. Those are the character’s only two other titled series until his modern Tom King series in 2021. However, I think the 1991 Special works better as an epilogue to the prior series.
Jonah Hex Omnibus Mapping
Jonah Hex, The Classic Omnibus Vol. 1 (1970 & on)
Jonah Hex has an absolutely massive amount of Pre-Crisis material – enough for his own long-running line of omnibuses – and he continues past that into the 90s!
This would begin by mirroring a pair of black-and-white Showcase Presents volumes collecting All-Star Western (1970) #2-11, Weird Western Tales (1972) #12-14 & 16-38, and Jonah Hex (1977) #1-22.
Jonah Hex (1977) continues through issue #92 in 1985. From there, he continues in Hex (1985) #1-18. Finally, he is in Jonah Hex: Two-Gun Mojo (1993) #1-5, Jonah Hex: Riders of the Worm and Such (1995) #1-5, Jonah Hex: Shadows West (1999) #1-3.
Jonah Hex by Palmiotti & Gray Vol. 1 (of 2) (2006 – 2009)
This pair of omnibuses would collect Jonah Hex (2006) #1-70, which then continue to the material in the Jonah Hex: All-Star Western omnibus.
Kamandi Omnibus Mapping
Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth, Vol. 2 (1976 – 1993) [continues from the Kirby omnibus]
This continues directly from the Kamandi, the Last Boy on Earth by Jack Kirby omnibus to collect Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth (1972) #41-59, Cancelled Comic Cavalcade #2, Kamandi: At Earth’s End (1993) #1-6, The Brave and the Bold #120 & 157, and DC Comics Presents #64.
Kid Eternity Omnibus Mapping
Kid Eternity: The Complete Comics (1940 – 1994)
This map was worked out by Near Mint Condition community member nextimaginaut.
This would collect material from Hit Comics (1940) #25-60, material from Kid Eternity (1946) #1-18, Shazam! (1973) #27, material from World’s Finest Comics (1941) #268 & 279-282, material from Adventure Comics #491-492, Kid Eternity (1991) #1-3, Kid Eternity, Vol. 3 (1993) #1-16, and material from Vertigo Jam (1993).
Lobo Omnibus Mapping
Lobo by Keith Giffen Vol. 1 (1990 & on)
There’s a lot of Lobo material in the 90s that DC has finally begun to recollect in their new paperback compendium line – but, why not have that in an omnibus!?
This would mirror the compendium line by beginning to collect. Lobo (miniseries) #1-4, Lobo #0-9, Lobo Annual #1-2, Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special #1, Lobo’s Back #1-4, Lobo: Blazing Chain of Love #1, Lobo: Infanticide #1-4, Lobo: Portrait of a Victim #1,Lobo: Unamerican Gladiators #1-4, Lobo Convention Special #1, Lobo: A Contract onGawd #1-4, Lobo: In the Chair #1, Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #8, Superman: TheMan of Steel #30, The Demon #11-15, The Omega Men #3, profile pages from Who’s Who #8, and the Lobocop #1 parody.
Madame Xanadu Omnibus Mapping
Madame Xanadu by Matt Wagner (2008 – 2011) [could also include 1978-1981 material]
This would collect Madame Xanadu (2008) #1-29 and “Captive Audience” from House of Mystery Halloween (2009) Annual 1.
Since that leaves us some room, this could easily include all of Madame Xanadu’s key early material, which is just another 10 issues: Doorway to Nightmare (1978) #1-5, The Unexpected (1968) #190, 192, & 194-195, and Madame Xanadu (1981) #1.
Manhunter Omnibus Mapping
Manhunter by John Ostrander, Kim Yale, & Steven Grant (1988 – 1995)
This would collect Manhunter (1988) #1-24, to which we could easily add Manhunter (1995) #0-12 (though it’s a different character).
Manhunter: Kate Spencer by Marc Andreyko (2004 – 2009)
This would collect Manhunter (2004) #1-38 and an Obsidian story from JSA 80-Page Giant (2010) #1, to which we could optionally add material from Streets of Gotham (2009) #1-13 back up stories and Bruce Wayne the Road Home: Oracle (2010) #1.
Martian Manhunter Omnibus Mapping
Martian Manhunter, The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (1955 & on)
This would begin by mirroring a pair of black-and-white Showcase Presents volumes collecting stories from Batman (1940) #78, Detective Comics (1937) #225-326, and House of Mystery (1951) #143-73.
As with other characters who had just two Showcase volumes, we have the problem that this material comes to about 1100 pages – too big for one DC Silver Age Omnibus, but slightly too small for two.
Unfortunately, there’s not much material we could add to fill this out beyond The Brave and the Bold (1955) #50 & 56, unless we pull in some material from Martian Manhunter’s membership in Justice League of America (1960) or push this slightly forward into the Bronze Age for more team-up material for the second volume.
Martian Manhunter by John Ostrander (1998 – 2001) [could also include 1988 & 1992]
This would collect Martian Manhunter (1998) #0-36, Annual 1-2, & One Million.
Since Martian Manhunter doesn’t have much solo material in the first decade of Post-Crisis, we could also reach back for 8 prior issues – Martian Manhunter (1988) #1-4, Martian Manhunter: American Secrets (1992) #1-3, and Martian Manhunter Special (1996) #1. However, it’s also possible that they get picked up alongside Justice League Task Force in omnibus, since he anchored that book.
Martian Manhunter by Lieberman, Williams, & Orlando (2007 – 2020)
This would collect three disconnected runs from three very different eras – Martian Manhunter (2007) #1-8 (Pre-Flashpoint), Martian Manhunter (2015) #1-12 (late New 52), & Martian Manhunter (2018) #1-12 (Rebirth).
‘Mazing Man Omnibus Mapping
Mazing Man (1985 – 1990)
This is a new poll entry suggested by 2024 voters!
This would collect ‘Mazing Man (1985) #1-12 & ‘Mazing Man Special (1987) #1-3
Metamorpho Omnibus Mapping
Metamorpho, The Silver Age Omnibus (1965 – 1979)
This would mirror the black-and-white Showcase Presents mapping to collect The Brave and the Bold (1955) #57–58, 66, & 68, Metamorpho (1965) #1-17, and Justice League of America (1960) #42 (to which it could add Action Comics (1938) #413-416 & 418 and The Brave and the Bold (1955) #101, 123, & 154).
Mister Miracle Omnibus Mapping
Mister Miracle, The Bronze Age Omnibus (1971 – 1977) [duplicates Kirby New World and extends past it]
This duplicates Kirby “Fourth World” omnibus content and extends past it.
It would collect Mister Miracle (1971) #1-18, The Brave and the Bold (1955) #112, 1st Issue Special (1975) #13, The Brave and the Bold (1955) #128, Mister Miracle (1971 / 1977) #19-25, The Brave and the Bold (1955) #138, and DC Comics Presents (1978) #12.
Mister Miracle, The Post-Crisis Omnibus (1987 – 1997)
This would collect Mister Miracle Special (1987) #1, Mister Miracle (1989) #1-28 (Jan 1989 – Jun 1991), Mister Miracle (1996) #1-7 (April 1996 – Oct 1996), & Mister Miracles appearances in The New Gods (1995) #13-15.
OMAC Omnibus Mapping
OMAC by Kirby, Rucka, Byrne, and Jones Omnibus (1974 – 2007)
I know close to nothing about OMAC, so I handed the wheel over to Near Mint Condition community member BrandXK and asked him to drive on this one!
This would collect OMAC (1974) #1-8, DC Comics Presents #61, OMAC (1991) #1-4, The OMAC Project #1-6, Infinite Crisis Special #1 OMAC (2006) #1-8, and material from Kamandi #59 (“The Return of OMAC”), Warlord #37-39 & 42-47, and DCU: Brave New World #1.
Peacemaker Omnibus Mapping
Peacemaker, The Complete Omnibus (1967 – 2023)
This would significantly expand the recent DC Finest volume to collect Fightin’ Five (1964) #40-41, Peacemaker (1967) #1-5, Vigilante (1983) #36-43, Peacemaker (1988) #1-4, Invasion! #2 (1988) (could be excerpted), Blasters Special #1 (1989) (excerpts only), the core issues of the “Janus Directive” crossover (Suicide Squad (1987) #27, Checkmate (1988) #16, SS28, CM17, SS29, CM18, SS30), Checkmate (1988) #19-26, 28, & 32-33, War of the Gods #4 (excerpts only), featured stories from Showcase ’93 (1993) #6-11, Eclipso #11-14 (last appearance for a while), Day of Judgment (1999) #3, material from Blue Beetle (2006) (he appears throughout the series), Booster Gold (2007) #28-29 (2nd stories), material from Suicide Squad (2021) (he appears in every issue), Peacemaker: Disturbing the Peace (2022) #1, and possibly Peacemaker Tries Hard! (2023) #1-6 (though it’s Black Label and M-rated, so maybe not).
(I suspect we’ll skip minor appearances in Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #87 and Justice League Europe #17.)
Plastic Man Omnibus Mapping
Plastic Man, The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (1941 & on)
Plastic Man had one of the longest DC Archives lines with eight volumes, which collected Police Comics (1941) #1-77 and Plastic Man (1943) #1-10, which would take three omnibuses to cover.
But, Plastic Man’s Golden Age adventures didn’t end there! He appeared in Police Comics (1941) through issue #102 in October 1950 and continues right through the precipice of DC’s Silver Age in his own title ending with Plastic Man (1943) #64 November 1956.
That means he has about as much Golden Age material as Wonder Woman!
Plastic Man, The Silver & Bronze Age Omnibus (1966 – 1977)
Plastic Man’s Silver Age series began with Eel O’Brian, Jr as the titular hero, ending with issue #10 in 1968 and then restarted for issues #11-20 in 1976-1977 starring the Golden Age Plastic Man Edward Patrick O’Brian.
This would collect Plastic Man (1966) #1-20 [AKA (1966) #1-10 & (1976) #11-20), The Inferior Five (1967) #2, and The Brave and the Bold (1955) #76, 95, 123, & 148.
Since that’s only 25 issues, it would be very tempting to push into the 1980s to grab the Plastic Man stories from Adventure Comics (1938) #468-478, at which point this would be a complete Pre-Crisis omnibus.
Plastic Man, The Modern Age Omnibus (1988 & on)
Plastic Man’s complete 2004 series is already collected in the hilariously marketed Plastic Man: Rubber Banded: The Deluxe Edition (which was wrapped with a real rubber band!). However, there’s some additional material on either side of that series we could collect, which could stretch that out to full omnibus size.
This would collect Plastic Man (1988) #1-4, Plastic Man Special (1999) #1, Plastic Man 80-Page Giant Annual (2003) #1 (cover only; this was reprints), Plastic Man (2004) #1-20, Green Lantern / Plastic Man: Weapons of Mass Deception (2010) #1, Convergence: Plastic Man and the Freedom Fighters (2015) #1-2, Plastic Man (2018) #1-6, and any crossovers and significant guest appearances from that period.
Promethea Omnibus Mapping
Promethea by Alan Moore (1999 – 2005)
DC pulled Promethea into Earth-0 continuity during Scott Snyder’s run on Justice League (2018), which makes her a DC character even if this story happened in an alternate reality.
This would collect: Promethea (1999) #1-32, Tom Strong (1999) #36; and material from ABC A to Z, America’s Best Comics Special (2001) #1.
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