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 Green Arrow 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.
Green Arrow is slowly accumulating his major runs in omnibus, but even with a surprising (and surprisingly large) Green Arrow: Archer’s Quest released in March there is a ton of his material still to collect in omnibus format.
I think a big challenge with Green Arrow is DC fearing that he won’t sell books outside of Mike Grell’s revered 80s run and Kevin Smith’s name being attached to Archer’s Quest. If some of his books find their way into the Top 60 of the poll, that would be a great signal to DC to press forward with more omnis instead of calling it quits.
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:
- Green Arrow Omnibus Mapping – Golden, Silver, & Bronze Age
- Green Arrow & The Seven Soldiers of Victory, The Golden Age Omnibus (1941 – 1945)
- Green Arrow, The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 (1947 & on)
- Green Arrow, The Silver Age Omnibus (1958 – 1969) [comes before Arrow/Lantern omni]
- Green Arrow & Black Canary, The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (1973 & on) [follows Arrow/Lantern omni]
- Green Arrow Omnibus Mapping – Post-Crisis to Flashpoint
- Green Arrow: Connor Hawke by Chuck Dixon Vol. 1 (of 2) (1993 & on) [follows Grell]
- Green Arrow by Judd Winick (2004 – 2007) [follows Archer’s Quest]
- Green Arrow & Black Canary by Winick & Kreisberg (2007 – 2010)
- Green Arrow Omnibus Mapping – Post-Flashpoint
- Green Arrow: The New 52 Omnibus (2011 – 2016)
- Green Arrow: The Rebirth Omnibus by Ben Percy et al (2016 – 2019)
- Superman by Bendis Companion: Jimmy, Lois, Leviathan, & Checkmate (2019 – 2022)
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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Green Arrow Omnibus Mapping – Golden, Silver, & Bronze Age
Green Arrow already has a first Golden Age omnibus, which puts him ahead of the vast majority of other DC characters outside of the major trinity! The first Green Arrow Golden Age Omnibus collects the entirety of Ollie’s appearances in More Fun Comics (1935) #73-107. That leaves use three more major Golden Age runs to cover. An, thanks to his team-ups with Hal Jordan, we have his late Silver Age material already completely collected.
What’s left? A lot more than you might realize! To see how this is already collected, visit the Guide to Green Arrow.
Green Arrow: The Golden Age Vol. 1 fits here.
Green Arrow & The Seven Soldiers of Victory, Golden Age Omnibus (1941 – 1945)
In addition to Green Arrow’s solo Golden Age material, he appeared with The Seven Soldiers of Victory in Leading Comics (1941). Despite running for just 14 issues, this is over 700 pages of material from three existing DC Archives editions – definitely enough to merit its own volume!
This would collect Leading Comics (1941) #1-14 (Winter 1941 to Spring 1945).
Green Arrow, The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 (1947 & on)
After taking care of the Seven Soldiers material, we have two solo Golden Age Green Arrow runs to attend to that would likely take a pair of omnibuses to collect fully.
The first run is World’s Finest Comics (1941) #7-94, which ran from Fall 1942 to May/June 1958. The first Golden Age omnibus collected issues #7-28, leaving us with issues #29-94 still to collect. Green Arrow’s features were usually 10 pages, and he didn’t often appear on the covers – but let’s say they are included anyway. That means we have 66 issues multiplied by 11 pages, for 726 pages.
The second run is Green Arrow’s features in Adventure Comics (1938) #103-249, which ran alongside the prior material from April 1946 to June 1958. The first Golden Age omnibus collected issues #103-117, leaving us with another 133 issues to tackle! These stories were usually short – often just 6-8pgs. However, that adds another 798-1064 pages (though likely much less than the max of that range – again, many stories were just 6pgs).
That means we could have as much as 1800 pages of content left to collect before adding any front or back matter! DC’s Golden Age omnibus are never bigger than 850 pages, so this material is exactly two omnibuses! However, since we don’t know how DC would split it between volumes, we’ll simply settle for having just this one on the poll.
This would collect about half of World’s Finest Comics (1941) #29-94 and Adventure Comics (1938) #118-249. The remainder would be included in a Volume 3.
Green Arrow, The Silver Age Omnibus (1958 – 1969) [comes before Arrow/Lantern omni]
We have a black-and-white “Showcase Presents” volume to get us started on this map, which is 528 pages.
That book collected Adventure Comics (1938) #250-269, The Brave and the Bold (1955) #50, 71, & 85, Justice League of America (1960) #4, and World’s Finest Comics (1941) #95-134, 136, 138, & 140.
Is there anything more to collect? Green Arrow continues to appear in The Brave and the Bold (1955) #100, 106, 114, 117, 129-130, 136, 144, 168, 174, & 185 – but that’s all after his Green Lantern run, so it would fit into a next book. (Actually, #100 is already collected in Green Lantern/Green Arrow.)
From there, Green Arrow joins Green Lantern for their well-collected duo run.
That means, in total this would collect Adventure Comics (1938) #250-269, The Brave and the Bold (1955) #50, 71, 85, and World’s Finest Comics (1941) #95-134, 136, 138, & 140 – possibly adding some further material from Justice League (1960).
Green Arrow & Black Canary, The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (1973 & on) [follows Arrow/Lantern omni]
After Green Arrow’s run teaming up with Hal Jordan, he becomes an anthology story star until his Mike Grell series in the 1987 with the exception of one 1983 mini-series.
First, he appears in back-up stories in 19 issues of Action Comics (1938) from February 1973 to April 1976. He’s also in 10 scattered issues of The Brave and the Bold (1955), before landing in regular back-ups with Black Canary in 42 issues of World’s Finest Comics (1941) from May 1977 to December 1982. He the immediately leaps into back-up stories in 46 issues of Detective Comics (1937) #521-525 & 527-567, during which he is also in Green Arrow (1983) #1-4 by Mike Barr.
That’s 111 issues – certainly that adds up to three omnibuses, right?
Not really, because almost all of these are back-up features, aside from full-issue team-ups with Batman in The Brave and the Bold and Arrow’s mini-series! Without digging through each of these comics, I suspect this would come out to two volumes… and, it might possibly squeeze into one.
That said, I think this omnibus line would necessarily be combined for Green Arrow and Black Canary. They appear together in enough of this material that it would make sense to simply comprehensively collect both characters into one book, rather than duplicating much of this material across two different lines.
This would collect Action Comics (1938) #421, 424, 426, 428, 431, 434, 436-437, 440-441, 443-446, 450-452, & 457-458 (back-ups); The Brave and the Bold (1955) #106, 114, 117, 129-130, 136, 144, 168, 174, & 185; World’s Finest Comics (1941) #244-284 & 286 (back-ups); Detective Comics (1937) #521-525 & 527-567 (back-ups); and Green Arrow (1983) #1-4.
Green Arrow Omnibus Mapping – Post-Crisis to Pre-Flashpoint
We already have a MASSIVE amount of initial Post-Crisis Green Arrow collected in the form of the two Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters Saga by Mike Grell omnibuses, which are some of DC’s best material from the 80s and 90s. And, earlier this year DC added an unexpectedly large Green Arrow: Archer’s Quest. We need some omnibuses to fill the gap between them, and then we still have twenty years of Green Arrow to collect after that! To see how this is already collected, visit the Guide to Green Arrow.
Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters Saga by Mike Grell Vol. 1-2 fit here.
Green Arrow: Connor Hawke by Chuck Dixon Vol. 1 (of 2) (1993 & on) [follows Grell]
This picks up directly from the end of the Mike Grell omnibuses. It would collect Green Arrow (1988) #81-137, 0, One Million, Annual 7, and crossovers to Green Lantern (1990) #76-77, 92, 104, Flash (1988) #135, and the “Brotherhood of the Fist” (Detective Comics (1937) #723, Robin (1993) #55, Nightwing (1996) #23, leading into issue #135).
That’s well over sixty issues, so we’re almost certainly looking at two books here. Even the massive first The Longbow Hunters Saga Omnibus Vol. 1 topped out at 54 issues of content.
Green Arrow: Archer’s Quest fits here.
Green Arrow by Judd Winick (2004 – 2007) [follows Archer’s Quest]
This would collect Green Arrow (2001) #40-75, as well as Connor Hawke: Dragon’s Blood (2006) #1-6. However, I think all of the wedding material that is usually paired with issue #75 could be best collected in the next book.
Green Arrow & Black Canary by Winick & Kreisberg (2007 – 2010)
I think this would start with wedding material, which is a good way to start this omnibus that is really a duo book throughout.
This would collect wedding-related stories from Birds of Prey (1999) #109, Black Canary (2007) #1-4, Black Canary Wedding Planner (2007) #1, Green Arrow (2001) #75, and Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special #1 (AKA Justice League Wedding Special (2007) #1). Then, it would continue to collect Green Arrow / Black Canary (2007) #1-29 and Green Arrow (2010) #30-32, and the “Rise and Fall” story (Green Arrow [I] (2010) #31-32, Justice League of America (2006) #43, Titans (2008) #23, Justice League: The Rise & Fall Special (2010) #1, and Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal (2010) #1-4).
Coming in right around 40 issues, this could also have room for the much-reviled Justice League Cry for Justice (2009) #1-7 and Faces of Evil: Prometheus (2009) #1, both of which star Green Arrow.
Green Arrow Omnibus Mapping – Post-Flashpoint
We currently have zero omnibuses of post-Flashpoint Green Arrow, which is partly due to a specific slice of his New 52 run by Jeff Lemire being collected repeatedly in slimmer deluxe formats. See Guide to Green Arrow for how this material has already been collected.
Green Arrow: The New 52 Omnibus (2011 – 2016)
There’s no good way for this omnibus to collect around Jeff Lemire & Andrea Sorrentino’s run, which happens in the second year of New 52. Instead, I think it would simply get recollected as part of the wider swath of this series.
We’ve seen DC go huge on some New 52 omnibuses in the past, so I’m not particularly worried about this being in the 60-issue range.
This would collect Green Arrow (2011) #1-52, 0, 23.1, Annual 1, Futures End (2014) #1, Savage Hawkman (2011) #14, Justice League (2011) #8, and material from Secret Origins (2014) #4 and DC Sneak Peek: Green Arrow (2015).
Green Arrow: The Rebirth Omnibus by Ben Percy et al (2016 – 2019)
The majority of this run was written by Ben Percy – through issue #38. Then, Julie & Shawna Benson and Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly take over for the final arcs.
This would collect Green Arrow (2016) Rebirth, #1-50, and Annual 1-2.
Superman by Bendis Companion: Jimmy, Lois, Leviathan, & Checkmate (2019 – 2022)
Green Arrow features prominently in the event mini-series by Brian Bendis that would be collected in this book – ostensibly the reason his title was cancelled in 2019.
This would collect Event Leviathan (2019) #1-6, Superman: Leviathan Rising (2019 #1, Leviathan Dawn (2019) #1, and Checkmate (2020) #1-6. Lois Lane (2019) #1-12, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (2019) #1-12, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen’s Boss Perry White (2022) #1
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