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 Teen Titans omnibus that does NOT exist – plus Young Justice! – 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 Titans are a DC team with a massive amount of recognition and brand appeal, thanks to many fans growing up with the characters over the past 50(!) years and many of them finding their way into screen adaptations from many kid cartoons to a grim live action series.
However, when it comes to omnibuses, DC has a lot of work to do on the Titans line! We have the Silver Age covered, and the first massive swath of 80s material completely collected (re-collected, actually), but after that we just have Peter David’s Young Justice and a single Geoff Johns volume that leaves a series incomplete.
To check out all of those existing omnibuses, and to see how this material is already collected, see the Guide to Titans, Teen Titans, and Young Justice.
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:
- Titans Omnibus Mapping – Titans by Marv Wolfman
- Titans: Teen Titans Spotlight (1986 – 1988) [previously solicited as New Teen Titans Vol. 6]
- Titans: The New Titans by Marv Wolfman Vol. 1 (1988 & on) [follows NTT Vol. 5; eventually includes Team Titans]
- Titans Omnibus Mapping – 90s to Flashpoint
- Titans: Teen Titans (1996) by Dan Jurgens (1996 – 1998)
- Titans: Titans (1999) by Grayson, Faeber, & Peyer (1998 – 2003)
- Titans: Teen Titans (2003) by McKeever & Krul (2007 – 2011) [follows Teen Titans by Johns to complete the series]
- Titans: Titans (2008) by Judd Winick (2008 – 2011)
- Titans Omnibus Mapping – New 52
- Titans: Teen Titans (2011) The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 by Scott Lobdell (2011 – 2014) [could include Ravagers]
- Titans: Teen Titans (2014) The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 2 by Will Pfeifer (2014 – 2016)
- Titans Omnibus Mapping – Rebirth to Present Day
- Titans: Titans (2016) The Rebirth Omnibus by Dan Abnett (2015 – 2019)
- Titans: Teen Titans (2016) The Rebirth Omnibus by Ben Percy & Adam Glass (2016 – 2020)
- Young Justice & Naomi, by Brian Bendis & David Walker (2019 – 2020) [AKA “Wonder Comics” – could include Amethyst]
- Titans: Titans Academy & United, The Infinite Frontier Omnibus (2021 – 2023)
- Titans: Titans (2023) & Beast World by Tom Taylor (2023 – 2024)
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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Titans Omnibus Mapping – Titans by Marv Wolfman
Teen Titans The Silver Age & The Bronze Age fit here, followed by New Teen Titans Vol. 1-5.
Titans: Teen Titans Spotlight (1986 – 1988) [previously solicited as New Teen Titans Vol. 6]
The absense of this title on last year’s poll created A LOT of controversy and confusion live on the stream!
DC briefly solicited the contents of this book as New Teen Titans Vol. 6 and then cancelled it, possibly because it’s less New Teen Titans Vol. 6 but a collection of various odds and ends that can be mashed onto the end of the run of New Teen Titans (1984) before it transitions to The New Titans (1988).
We’ve renamed it here so that the contents are more obvious, as there’s no more New Teen Titans to collect, and to suggest there is would cause as much confusion as leaving this off of the poll!
This would collect Teen Titans Spotlight (1986) #1-21, The New Teen Titans – Games (2011) #1, World’s Finest Comics (1941) #300, and The New Teen Titans (Drug Awareness) #1-3.
Titans: The New Titans by Marv Wolfman Vol. 1 (1988 & on) [follows NTT Vol. 5; eventually includes Team Titans]
This one is tricky to explain thanks to DC’s omnibus strategy.
The short version of the story is that there was an initial line of Teen Titans omnibuses that were relatively short, had bad mapping, and (sometimes) didn’t have the best binding. Starting in 2017 DC started the line anew with bigger volumes with better mapping.
The original line of omnibuses collected through The New Titans (1988) #50-67, but that will surely be retread by the current omnibus line. That line reached The New Teen Titans (1984) #49 in 2021 with The New Teen Titans Omnibus Vol. 5. This book needs to recollect 18 issues that have already been in omnibus, but will collect them bigger, better, and beyond where they left off.
One big draw of kicking off this line is that all but a handful of fill-in stories are written by Marv Wolfman! This is the final half of his length, unbroken run writing Titans.
This would begin to collect The New Titans (1988) #50-130 & Annual 5-11, Titans Sell-Out Special (1992) #1, and Team Titans (1992) #1 (all version) & 2-25 & Annuals 1-2.
Titans Omnibus Mapping – 90s to Flashpoint
Titans: Teen Titans (1996) by Dan Jurgens (1996 – 1998)
This Dan Jurgens run features a completely unrecognizable team lineup of Argent, Ray Palmer as Atom, Loren Jupiter, Omen, Prysm, Risk, and Slagger.
This would collect Teen Titans (1996) #1-24 & Annual 1, Titans Beat (1996) #1, and perhaps also Tempest (1996) #1-4.
Titans: Titans (1999) by Grayson, Faeber, & Peyer (1998 – 2003)
This title features the familiar Titans cast as the younger set of Titans characters transforms into Young Justice alongside this run.
This would collect JLA/Titans (1998) #1-3, Titans Secret Files (1999) #1, and The Titans (1999) #1-50 & Annual 1, Silver Age: Teen Titans (2000) #1, and Titans/Legion of Super-Heroes: Universe Ablaze (2000) #1-4. It might also need to collect Titans/Young Justice: Graduation Day (2003) #1-3.
At that point, this is big enough for two omnibuses! However, if it gets it down to one reasonable volume, we could surely cut the Legion mini-series and Graduation Day, which would be collected elsewhere.
Young Justice Vol. 1-2 by Peter David and Teen Titans by Geoff Johns fit here.
Titans: Teen Titans (2003) by McKeever & Krul (2007 – 2011) [follows Teen Titans by Johns to complete the series]
This omnibus directly follows the Teen Titans By Geoff Johns Omnibus to complete that 2003 series. That’s a lot of issues – 62 in total! It could be that this is actually two omnibuses.
This would collect Teen Titans (2003) #51-100, the “Deathtrap” crossover (with Titans (2008) #12-13 and Vigilante (2009) #5-6), a crossover from issue #92 to Red Robin (2009) #20, Wonder Girl (2011) #1, Terror Titans (2008) #1-6.
Titans: Titans (2008) by Judd Winick (2008 – 2011)
This would be an omnibus of the entirety of the immediately Pre-Flashpoint run of Titans.
This would collect Titans (2008) #1-38 & Annual 1, Titans East Special (2008) #1, DC Special: Cyborg (2008) #1-6, Blackest Night: Titans (2009) #1-3, Titans: Villains for Hire Special (2010) #1, and the “Deathtrap” crossover (with Teen Titans (2003) Annual 2009 & #70 and Vigilante (2009) #4-6), Shazam! (2011) #1, and DC Special: Raven (2008) #1-5.
Titans Omnibus Mapping – New 52
Titans: Teen Titans (2011) The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 1 by Scott Lobdell (2011 – 2014) [could include Ravagers]
This would including all of the initial New 52 run of Teen Titans, anchored by Tim Drake and featuring Wonder Girl and a new “Kid Flash” version of Wallace West (who would go on to become a distinct character from our historic Wally West).
This would collect Teen Titans (2011) #1-30, 0, 23.1-2, & Annual 1-3, the “Rise of the Ravagers” crossover (with Legion Lost (2011) #8-9, Legion Lost (2011) #9, & Superboy [II] (2011) #8-9), a Kid Flash story from DC Universe Presents (2011) #12, and “Death of the Family” material (from Batman (2011) #17 and Red Hood And The Outlaws (2011) #16).
There is enough room that this could add all of Ravagers (2012) #1-12, which was a teen team book adjacent to this book (and which obviously spun out of it).
Titans: Teen Titans (2014) The New 52 Omnibus Vol. 2 by Will Pfeifer (2014 – 2016)
This collects the entirety of the relaunched Teen Titans series starring Red Robin, Wonder Girl, Raven, Bunker and Beast Boy.
It would collect Teen Titans (2014) #1-24 & Annual 1-2. Issue #15 was a part of “Robin War,” but I don’t think we need the entire crossover in this book.
Titans Omnibus Mapping – Rebirth to Present Day
Titans: Titans (2016) The Rebirth Omnibus by Dan Abnett (2015 – 2019)
Titans was one of the few (only?) DC properties that teased the oncoming Rebirth before it actually arrived, which means we have a New 52 era mini-series to include with with Rebirth run by Dan Abnett.
This would collect Titans Hunt (2015) #1-8, DC Universe: Rebirth (2016) #1, and Titans (2016) Rebirth & #1-36.
Issue #28 is a part of the “Drowned Earth” crossover, but it is complete self-contained and does not require crossover issues. Similarly, though issue #11 is part of “The Lazarus Contract,” I’m not sure we need the entire crossover here – it’s not as significant to this title as it is to Teen Titans, below. But, it’s just four issues more, so we could easily add it – Teen Titans (2016) #8 & Special and Deathstroke (2016) #19-20.
Titans: Teen Titans (2016) The Rebirth Omnibus by Ben Percy & Adam Glass (2016 – 2020)
Teen Titans relaunched into Rebirth with a team anchored by Damian Wayne that initially included non-teen Starfire, even though the classic Titans were reunited in their own title to enjoy the return of Wally West. Then, Adam Glass would relaunch the team with a core of Damian, Wallace West, and Red Arrow by adding several new characters – including Crush and Roundhouse.
This would Teen Titans (2016) Rebirth, #1-47, Annual 1-2, Special, & Endless Winter, plus a pair of crossovers – “The Lazarus Contract” (Teen Titans #8, Titans (2016) #11, Deathstroke (2016) #19, Teen Titans: The Lazarus Contract Special (2017) #1 (in some places referred to as Annual 1), & Deathstroke #20) and “Super Sons of Tomorrow” (Super Sons #11-12, Superman #37-38, and Teen Titans #15). However, we don’t need to collect all of Endless Winter.
That’s 58 issues! It’s possible that DC could split these two runs apart, as they featured very different casts. But, the Percy run is on the short side and provides the ballast of having more recognizable characters than the Glass run.
Young Justice & Naomi, by Brian Bendis & David Walker (2019 – 2020) [AKA “Wonder Comics” – could include Amethyst]
This would collect Young Justice (2019) #1-20, which we could bracket with Naomi (2019) #1-6 and Naomi: Season Two (2022) #1-6, also by both of these writers.
Honestly, it’s tempting to also throw in Amethyst (2020) #1-6, which relates to this and is also part of the Wonder Comics imprint.
Titans: Titans Academy & United, The Infinite Frontier Omnibus (2021 – 2023)
This would collect a trio of short Titans series that predated the Tom Taylor & Nicola Scott relaunch.
Teen Titans Academy mostly focused on younger characters, some new and some collected from other books, but it featured Starfire and other Titans as the staff. Then, Cavan Scott penned a pair of series focused on the actual Titans team.
This would collect Teen Titans Academy (2021) #1-15 & 2021 Yearbook by Tim Sheridan, Titans United (2021) #1-7 by Cavan Scott, and Titans United: Bloodpact (2023) #1-6 by Cavan Scott.
Titans: Titans (2023) & Beast World by Tom Taylor (2023 – 2024)
This would collect all of Tom Taylor’s run on Titans (2023), which concluded at the start of DC All-In, plus the entirety of the “Beast World” crossover – which was really just an arc of Titans exploded to be an event.
This would collect Tales of the Titans (2023) #1-4, Nightwing (2016) #101-106, Titans (2023) #1-15, Knight Terrors: Titans (2023) #1-2, and all of Beast World.
Beast World consisted of Titans: Beast World (2023) #1-6, Beast World Tour: Metropolis (2023) #1 [focused on Superman family characters], Titans: Beast World Tour: Gotham (2023) #1 [focused on Bat-Family characters], Titans: Beast World Tour: Central City (2023) #1 [a unified tale focused on the entire Flash family by Flash’s current writer Si Spurrier], Titans: Beast World Tour: Atlantis (2023) #1 [focused on Aquaman & Atlantis], Titans: Beast World Tour: Star City (2023) #1 [focused on the Arrow family, including Black Canary), Nightwing (2016) #109-110 and Action Comics (1938 / 2016) #1060.
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