Every Missing Justice Society Omnibus, Mapped | 2025 Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus Poll

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 Justice Society 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.

The Justice Society of America is one of the most confusing concepts in DC continuity – so confusing that they have repeatedly decided to erase it from continuity, only to bring it back!

Here’s the most basic explanation: The Justice Society was the Justice League of the Golden Age, gathering together a number of popular solo heroes into a team – including Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. However, when DC created the Justice League in the Silver Age, it no longer made sense for earlier incarnations of the characters to have been on a team together.

As a result, the JSA stayed firmly rooted in Golden Age “Earth-Two” continuity – which DC then began to bring back for their annual “Crisis on Multiple Earths” stories in Justice League. This eventually blossomed into the JSA getting their own alternate-Earth title in the 1970s and 1980s. However, that was deemed too confusing, so Crisis on Infinite Earths merged the Earths. In the process, it did away with any JSA character that conflicted with a main continuity version (like Wonder Woman), but kept unique characters (like Jay Garrick as Flash and Alan Scott as Green Lantern).

Got it? Good, because there’s more.

After a decade of tellings JSA stories set largely in the past (which were now in continuity), in 1999 the surviving modern day JSA members reformed the JSA with a focus on mentoring younger heroes. That lasted until Flashpoint in 2011! Since Flashpoint collapsed all of DC’s history to have occurred in just five years, it once again erased the JSA – relegating those characters to exist only in a revised version of Earth Two. However, in Rebirth DC decided that the erasure of the JSA was actually THE CAUSE of New 52 happening, as explored by Doomsday Clock, which led to Scott Snyder & James Tynion bringing the team back (both to the present day and to DC’s history) during Justice League (2018).

Whew!

Maybe owing to that intense level of continuity confusing, the JSA have only ever merited omnibuses in that 1999 modern day run, mostly written by James Robinson & Geoff Johns. However, as you can imagine from the explanation above, there is a lot more to collect than that! To see my full bibliographic coverage of every JSA comic book, check out the Guide to the Justice Society of America (JSA).

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:

• JSA – Justice Society Omnibus Mapping – The Earth-Two Justice Society
  • JSA: All-Star Comics, The Golden Age Omnibus (1940 & on)
  • All-Star Squadron by Roy Thomas Vol. 1 (of 2) (1981 – 1984)
  • JSA: Crisis On Multiple Earths, The Justice League Team-Ups (1963 – 1985)
  • JSA: The Last Days of the Justice Society of Earth-Two (1976 – 1993) [from the 70s revival through Zero Hour]
  • Infinity Inc. by Roy Thomas (1983 – 1988)
• JSA – Justice Society Omnibus Mapping – The Post-Crisis JSA
  • JSA: The Young All Stars (1987 – 1989)
  • JSA: JSA (1999) Companion (1993 – 2005) [AKA Prelude to / Return of the JSA]
  • JSA Classified (2005 – 2008)
  • JSA Omnibus Vol. 4 (2009 – 2011) [includes JSA All-Stars]
• JSA – Justice Society Omnibus Mapping – The New 52 Earth 2
  • Earth 2, The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 by Robinson, Taylor, & Scott (2012 – 2015)
  • Earth 2, The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 2 – World’s End (2014 – 2015)
  • Earth 2, The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 3 – Society (2015 – 2017)
• JSA – Justice Society Omnibus Mapping – Rebirth & The New Golden Age
  • JSA: The New Golden Age by Johns et al (2022 – 2024) [includes Stargirl, Wesley Dodds, Jay Garrick, & Alan Scott minis]

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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JSA – Justice Society Omnibus Mapping – The Earth-Two Justice Society

JSA: All Star Comics, The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (1940 & on)

This is the original, Golden Age run of the JSA. It was collected in 12 All Star Comics Archives (Vol. 0–11), which were each 200-300 pages. That means this omnibus line would likely require three volumes to collect in full, since DC never collects Golden Age material more than 850 pages at a time.

This would begin to collect All-Star Comics (1940) #1-57, which ran from Summer 1940 to Feb/Mar 1951.

All-Star Squadron by Roy Thomas Vol. 1 (of 2) (1981 & on) 

Even though this material was released later, it is the next sequential story for these characters. Roy Thomas explored additional JSA stories set in 1942 – during and after the original All-Star Comics (1940) run.

This would begin to collect Justice League of America #193 & 195-197, All-Star Squadron (1981) #1-67 & Annual 1-3, and a crossover from #14-15 with Justice League of America (1960) #207-209. I think it could also make sense to add JSA Strange Adventures (2004) #1-6, which is set in this same period.

Annual 2 launched Infinity Inc, but that will be collected separately.

JSA: Crisis On Multiple Earths, The Justice League Team-Ups (1963 – 1985)

Though all of this material exists in the Justice League Silver and Bronze Age Omnibus lines, for JSA fans it would be attractive to have it all in one place.

This would collect “Multiple Earths” stories from Justice League of America (1960) #21-22, 29-30, 37-38 46-47, 55-56, 64-65, 72-73, 83-84, 91-92, 100-102, 107-108, 113, 122-124, 135-137, 147-148, 159-160, 171-172, 183-185, 195-197, & 207-209 (as well as All-Star Squadron (1981) #14-15), 219-220, 231-232, & 244. It may also contain material from #76, 93, and Limited Collectors’ Edition (1973) C-46.

That’s over 50 issues, which would be big for a typical Silver/Bronze omnibus, but I think with all of this material being collected already DC has a good reason to handle it in a single volume. The incentive to split it into two volumes would be if DC wanted to include all the other “Crisis on Multiple Earths: The Team-Ups” stories here, including other Jay Garrick appearances or various Doctor Fate team-ups.

JSA: The Last Days of the Justice Society of Earth-Two (1976 – 1993) [from the 70s revival through Zero Hour]

Before the JSA got their 1942-focused All-Star Squadron book, they were revived via series of short runs in anthology titles and mini-series extending their world beyond the constraints of the League’s Crises on Multiple Earths.

I think this would collect the following:

• • Justice Society of America (1991) #1-8 (Apr – Nov 1991) – Despite being released Post-Crisis, this Len Strazewski series revisits the JSA at the end of WWII, transitioning them to their modern day incarnations seen in the “Multiple Earths” crossovers.
  • The Golden Age (1993) #1-4 (Sept 1993 – May 1994) – While this is technically non-continuity, it actually hews pretty closely to modern continuity and shows us the JSA in the 1950s.
  • All-Star Comics (1940 / 1976) #58-74 (Jan/Feb 1976 – Sept/Oct 1978) – This is the first modern standalone JSA story after the success of the “Multiple Earths” crossovers)
  • DC Special (1975) #29, the next sequential story
  • Adventure Comics (1938) #461-466 (Jan/Feb – Nov/Dec 1979), the next modern standalone JSA run
  • America vs. the Justice Society (1985) #1-4, the final Pre-Crisis JSA story.
  • The Last Days of the Justice Society of America (1986) #1 (July 1986), which is effectively Crisis on Infinite Earths #12.1
  • Armageddon: Inferno (1992) #1-4 (Apr 1992 – Jul 1992), which explains where the JSA disappeared to after Crisis
  • Justice Society of America (1992) #1-10 (Aug 1992 – May 1993), the final series before Zero Hour, also written by Len Strazewski!

That’s 52 issues, which might be too hefty for a mostly Pre-Crisis book for DC. However, it’s also a perfect complete collection of the modern Pre-Zero Hour version of the JSA!!! If it was broken into two, I think we’d add JSA Strange Adventures (2004) #1-6 (Oct 2004 – Mar 2005).

I think the argument to not produce this book is if we integrate all of this material alongside the “Multiple Earths” material for a massive multi-volume set of Pre Zero Hour JSA from World War II to the 90s. That would be a dream come true! If you want it, you should write it in as something we missed – right now I am loathe to add it to the poll because it will split votes away from this book.

Infinity Inc. by Roy Thomas (1983 – 1988)

But, wait, we’re not quite done with the Pre Zero Hour JSA yet! Infinity Inc. was Roy Thomas’s version of the modern day descendants of his Earth Two JSA. Since Crisis on Infinite Earths (sort of) merged the JSA into mainstream DC continuity, this title kept running after Crisis as part of the main DC Universe!

This would collect All-Star Squadron (1981) #25-26 & Annual 2 and Infinity Inc. (1984) #1-53, Annual 1-2, & Special 1.

That’s big enough that this could require two volumes. If it did, we would add Blood Pack (1995) #1-4 (Mar – Jun 1995), and maybe also  Infinity Inc. (2007) #1-12.

JSA – Justice Society Omnibus Mapping – The Post-Crisis JSA

JSA: The Young All Stars (1987 – 1989)

After Crisis on Infinite Earths, DC wanted to revive the World War II tales of the All-Star Squadron, but Crisis had rendered many of those characters off-limits. Instead, DC invented all new Golden Age characters to take their places!

Roy and Dann Thomas substituted existing characters Neptune Perkins for Aquaman and Dan the Dyna-Mite for Robin. They created Iron Munro for Superman, Flying Fox for Batman, and Fury for Wonder Woman.

This would collect Young All-Stars (1987) #1-31 & Annual 1 (Jun 1987 – Nov 1989)

JSA: JSA (1999) Companion (1993 – 2005) [AKA Prelude to / Return of the JSA]

This would collect significant JSA appearances between Zero Hour and the 1999 “JSA Returns” one-shots that lead to the launch of JSA (1999). Some of this would double-dip other omnibus lines from the 90s, but never more than a handful of issues at a time.

This was mapped by DC fan M. Pyne as a response to my call for feedback on titles for this year’s poll!

This could collect Showcase ’95 #1 (Alan Scott; 3rd story); Underworld Unleashed: Abyss – Hell’s Sentinel #1; Flash (1987) #108-111 & Impulse #10-11 (“Dead Heat”); Green Lantern #71; Showcase ’93 #4-5 (2nd story); Extreme Justice #17-18 (Brainwave in the Legion of Doom); Starman #20-23 (“Sand and Stars”); Showcase ’96 #11 (3rd story); Green Lantern/Flash: Faster Friends #1-2; Batman/Wildcat #1-3; Spectre #54 (first app. Michael Holt); Starman #33-35; The Flash #134 (The Thinker); Wonder Woman #130 & 133; Green Lantern/Sentinel: Heart of Darkness #1-3; Aquaman #44; Catwoman/Wildcat #1-4; Green Lantern #108-110 (and material from Green Lantern Secret Files #2); Doctor Mid-Nite #1-3; JLA #28-31 (and material from #26; “Crisis Times Five”).

Also, this would collect all of the “flashback” Justice Society series that took place in this era: All-Star Comics 80-Page Giant #1, Legend of the Hawkman #1-3, DC 2000 #1-2, Golden Age Secret Files #1, and JSA Strange Adventures #1-6.

Finally, this might continue to some companion material to the actual ongoing run of JSA (1999), which could include Flash #161, Wonder Woman #185, Doctor Fate (2003) #1-5, Martian Manhunter #18-19, Impulse #67, Young Justice: Sins of Youth – Starwoman and the JSA, Jr. #1.

JSA Omnibus Vol. 1-2 fit here.

JSA Classified (2005 – 2008)

This would collect the entirety of the creator- and character-centric run of JSA: Classified (2005), which never crossed over with any other series (though it launched some other runs, like Power Girl!)

This would collect JSA: Classified (2005) #1-39 (Sept 2005 – Aug 2008)

JSA Omnibus Vol. 3 fits here.

JSA Omnibus Vol. 4 (2009 – 2011) [includes JSA All-Stars]

This would complete the run of JSA omnibuses through New 52.

This would collect Justice Society of America (2007) #29-54, Annual 2, & Special; JSA 80-Page Giant 2011 (2011) #1; and JSA All-Stars (2010) #1-18.

JSA – Justice Society Omnibus Mapping – The New 52 Earth 2

Hold on just one second… didn’t I just explain in that breathless intro text that there was no JSA during New 52.

Yes. Not in main DC continuity. But DC still wanted to tell stories with the JSA characters, so they invented a new Earth 2 where the JSA was intact, returning to something similar to their Pre-Crisis set-up but with totally new continuity.

Unfortunately, these three series are too big to collect into one book – and, the second series was concurrent to the first and third! There’s probably a mapping someone could put together to collapse this into two books that make perfect sense – if that’s you, please leave a comment!

Earth 2, The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 by Robinson, Taylor, & Scott (2012 – 2015)

This would collect Earth 2 (2012) #1-32 & Annuals 1-2

Earth 2, The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 2 – World’s End (2014 – 2015)

This would collect Earth 2: World’s End (2014) #1-26

Earth 2, The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 3 – Society (2015 – 2017)

This would collect Earth 2: Society (2015) #1-22 & Annual 1

JSA – Justice Society Omnibus Mapping – Rebirth & The New Golden Age

JSA: The New Golden Age by Johns et al (2022 – 2024) [includes Stargirl, Wesley Dodds, Jay Garrick, & Alan Scott minis]

This would collect the road to a JSA revival as well as several supporting mini-series set both in the present and the past for key JSA members.

This would collect Stargirl Spring Break Special (2021) #1, Flashpoint Beyond (2022) #0-6, The New Golden Age (2022) #1, Justice Society of America (2022) #1-12, Stargirl: The Lost Children (2022) #1-6, Wesley Dodds: The Sandman (2023) #1-6, Jay Garrick: The Flash (2023) #1-6, Alan Scott: The Green Lantern (2023) #1-6.

You might also want to add the arcs of Justice League (2018) that reintroduced the team, for context… or, even a few pages from Doomsday Clock (2018)!