Fantastic Four Omnibus Mapping | 14th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

Once every year, thousands of Marvel collectors from around the world gather together online to watch Near Mint Condition and vote on their most-wanted omnibus titles. That time approaches – time for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 14th Annual Secret Ballot! This post explains every Fantastic Four omnibus map for material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus – all of which will appear as options on the 2026 poll. Plus… Doctor Doom!

As one of the organizers of the poll, I work closely with Tigereyes and a team of Mapping Minties to be sure Marvel’s entire publishing history has been mapped, with every issue fitting somewhere into an omnibus volume to fill your oversize Marvel shelf. Then, we’ll kick off the poll on Near Mint Condition on March 22, 2026.

This year’s slate of Fantastic Four omnibuses are all about Dan Slott, with two volumes dropped in quick succession to cover his run on the team. That gives us coverage of four years of the modern team, but it leaves a brief oversize gap back in Marvel Now. Plus, we already have an omni-sized hunk of Ryan North’s massively popular run.

Read this post and others in the series for a list of titles and omnibus mappings created by a group of the biggest collected edition enthusiasts on the internet. Every map is informed by Crushing Krisis comic guides and over a decade of polling data as explained by yours truly – keeper of the most-definitive guides to Marvel’s collected editions on the planet, including my Guide to Fantastic Four.

Even if you don’t own a single omnibus, you can use this post to learn about Marvel’s history of material and find great comics to read physically or digitally!

This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:

• Human Torch & Thing in the Silver and Bronze Age
  • Fantastic Four: Strange Tales – Human Torch & The Thing (1962 – 1965) [includes material from Marvel Rarities MMW]
  • Marvel Two-in-One Vol. 2 (1977 – 1980) [MMW 4-6]
• Fantastic Four (1961) in Omnibus
  • Fantastic Four Vol. 7 (1978 – 1981) [MMW 19-21, contains some Byrne]
  • Fantastic Four by Englehart (& Stern) (1986 – 1989) [follows Byrne]
  • Fantastic Four & The Avengers by Walt Simonson (1987 – 1991) [F4 between Englehart & DeFalco; Avengers before Byrne]
  • Fantastic Four by Tom DeFalco Vol. 1 (1991 & on)
• Fantastic Four in the 00s
  • Fantastic Four: Heroes Return Vol. 1 (1997 – 2000) [AKA by Claremont & Larroca]
  • Fantastic Four: The Thing & The Human Torch by Slott & Kesel (2000 – 2009) [could collect other F4 solo series]
  • Fantastic Four: Marvel Knights by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (2004 – 2006) [AKA “4”]
  • Fantastic Four by Kesel, JMS, & McDuffie (2005 – 2008) [fits between Waid/Wieringo & Millar/Hitch; could add MANY minis]
• Fantastic Four from 2014 to Present
  • Fantastic Four: The Fall & Rise of the Fantastic Four by Robinson & Zdarsky (2014 – 2021) [fits between Fraction & Slott; could extend to be a Slott companion]
  • Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 1 (2023 – 2025) [could include One World Under Doom]
• Doctor Doom in Omnibus
  • Doctor Doom & Namor: Super-Villain Team-Up (1975 – 1984) [effectively Namor Vol. 4; includes his 1984 mini]
  • Doctor Doom: The Book of Doom Vol. 2 – The Modern Years (2006 & on) [includes Doomwar, Infamous Iron Man, Doom by Cantwell, etc]
  • EVENT: One World Under Doom (2025) [event & all tie-ins]

Remember: These titles and mappings are a suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to make the books easy to find and to vote for. Your vote on the poll is a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period, NOT an endorsement of a specific mapping. Maps are presented as a proof of concept and to help you build your personal reading list.

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Fantastic Four Omnibus Mapping: Human Torch & Thing in the Silver and Bronze Age

Fantastic Four: Strange Tales – Human Torch & The Thing (1962 – 1965) [includes material from Marvel Rarities MMW]

The oldest Fantastic Four material in need of an omnibus isn’t actually Fantastic Four material – it’s the early solo adventures of Human Torch and The Thing!

While Johnny Storm mostly anchored half of the anthology Strange Tales (1951) in the early Silver Age, Ben Grimm also appeared. That material has previously been collected in a 520-page Complete Collection – which is already a perfectly viable omnibus size. But, is there anything we can do to sweeten this option?

One major omnibus-mapping omission that remains unaccounted for are the contents of the Marvel Rarities Marvel Masterworks, other than Doctor Doom stories, which are included in his Book of Doom omnibus. However, that Masterworks also included Doctor Droom [AKA Druid] stories that don’t fit elsewhere and the beloved “Tales of the Watcher.”

Personally, I think there’s a stronger argument to include “Tales of the Watcher” in a theoretical Silver Surfer Vol. 0 than in this book, but I also think including the entirety of that Marvel Rarities volume (even the Doctor Doom stories!) here helps Fantastic Four fans complete their shelves without any double-dipping from other Fantastic Four omnibuses.

A vote for this book is a vote to finally collect some of the last remaining Marvel anthology Silver Age stories in omnibus – and they’re all stories connected to Marvel’s First Family!

This would collect Strange Tales (1951) #101-134 and Annual 2.

It would also add some or all of the material from the Marvel Rarities Marvel Masterworks (uncollected Doctor Droom stories from Amazing Adventures (1961) #1-4 & 6, “Tales of The Watcher” stories from Tales of Suspense (1959) #49-58, The Silver Surfer (1968) #1-7, and Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) #23, and stories double-dipped from the Doctor Doom omnibus from Marvel Super-Heroes (1967) #20 and Astonishing Tales (1970) #1-8.)

Marvel Two-in-One Omnibus Vol. 1 fits here, which collects the first three years of Marvel Two-in-One (1974) – see Guide to Fantastic Four

Marvel Two-in-One Vol. 2 (1977 – 1980) [MMW 4-6]

The next oldest Fantastic Four material missing in omnibus is still not actual issues of Fantastic Four (1961), but a second volume of the Thing’s solo vehicle, Marvel Two-in-One (1974)!

The first omnibus of this title was released last year and perfectly follows the “3 Masterworks” rule, which means we know exactly what Volume 2 would collect.

A vote for this book is a vote to quickly continue the new Two-in-One omnibus line to a second volume with only a two-year gap between releases, which would mean we could wrap this line up by 2029!

This would collect Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #37-74 & Annual 2-4; Avengers (1963) Annual 7; Marvel Team-Up (1972) Annual 5.

(The next volume would collect Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #75-100 & Annuals 2-7. Unfortunately, it would likely have to skip issue #99, which is a team-up with ROM – but, that’s collected in the ROM Omnibus line!)

After Marvel Two-in-One concludes, Thing moves on to his own 1983 solo series, collect in its entirety in The Thing Omnibus – see Guide to Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four Omnibus Mapping: Fantastic Four (1961) in Omnibus

We have six classic Fantastic Four omnibuses mapped directly from their Marvel Masterworks line plus a pair of volumes by Byrne, but that still leaves us well over 100 issues still to be collected! See Guide to Fantastic Four for collections of this title, including existing omnibuses, plus Marvel Masterworks and Epic Collections including the material that would be collected in these books.

Fantastic Four (1961) #1-203 are covered in a series of six existing classic Fantastic Four omnibuses – see Guide to Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four Vol. 7 (1978 – 1981) [MMW 19-21, contains some Byrne]

The next volume of classic Fantastic Four material comes with some controversy, although we already know exactly how Marvel will handle that based on the Captain America and X-Men classic omnibus lines.

This book would begin with Fantastic Four (1961) #204, which is the next issue of Fantastic Four (1961) not yet collected in omnibus. The classic Fantastic Four omnibus line has always obeyed the “3 Masterworks” rule, so the contents would collect the contents of Masterworks Volumes 19-21, which end with Fantastic Four (1961) #240.

Easy, right? Well… not exactly. That’s because Fantastic Four by John Byrne Omnibus Vol. 1 starts its continuous run of issues with #232, after collecting a handful of Byrne issues prior to that. As a result, you will hear an outcry from some fans that this book ought to end with issue #231 so that it perfectly aligns with the start of the main material in the Byrne Omnibus with minimal double-dipping.

For years, omnibus mappers attempted to obey that rule to avoid double-dipping. However, now that we’ve seen the Captain America and X-Men classic omnibus lines intersect with existing books, we know exactly how Marvel will handle this. If a book can seamlessly fit in with a classic line, like Captain America by Jack Kirby, it will simply be rebranded with a number that fits into the classic line. However, if a book has a different collection strategy than the classic line, like X-Men: Mutant Massacre, the line will simply recollect that material based on Masterworks and/or Epic Collection mapping.

The one concession is that the classic line might try to avoid creating really painful double-dipping, which is why Uncanny X-Men (1963) Annual 10 got moved up into Uncanny X-Men Vol. 5. But, that’s a long story about X-Men and this is a Fantastic Four post!

The point is, it’s unavoidable that the classic line of Fantastic Four omnibuses is about to intersect the pair of Byrne books. And, it just so happens that we can easily get to the end of Byrne with two more classic omnibuses, since there’s exactly six more Masterworks to reach the end of his run.

However, you don’t have to have an opinion on all of that. A vote for this book is a vote that says “keep this line going!” and we can deal with the worst of the Byrne-recollection drama with the next volume.

This would collect a minimum of Fantastic Four (1961) #204-231 & Annuals 14-16 and Fantastic Four Roast (1982) #1, but it will likely collect #232-240 to follow the “3 Masterworks rule” to overlap Fantastic Four by Byrne Vol. 1.

Fantastic Four (1961) #231-295 are covered in a pair of John Byrne omnibuses – see Guide to Fantastic Four

Fantastic Four by Englehart (& Stern) (1986 – 1989) [follows Byrne]

This is the next Fantastic Four omnibus regardless of if you think Byrne’s material should be recollected in the Classic line.

Both routes lead us to a volume that ends with Fantastic Four (1961) #295 or 296 (issue #296 is the first issue not written by Byrne; it’s in Masterworks Vol. 27, which rudely does not cut off at issue #295 like Byrne Omnibus Vol. 2).

That means we know exactly what would come next, even though we don’t have Masterworks for it yet, because this run has already been collected by Epic Collections that break perfectly after Byrne and before Simonson. This run of Fantastic Four (1961) is penned by Steve Englehart starting from issue #304, though Roger Stern pens a few of the initial issues. It famously includes Sharon Ventura as “She-Thing,” Johnny Storm’s problematic marriage, and a brief “Secret Wars III” story.

This would collect Fantastic Four (1961) #296-333 & Annual 20-22; Fantastic Four vs. The X-Men (1987) #1-4; Incredible Hulk (1968) #350; Marvel Graphic Novel (1982) No. 29 The Incredible Hulk and The Thing – The Big Change OGN (1987); Marvel Graphic Novel (1982) No. 49 – Doctor Strange and Doctor Doom: Triumph and Torment; Marvel Fanfare (1982) #46; and material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #3 (“The Measure of a Man!”), #13 (“Reed’s On the Roof and We Can’t Get Him Down”), #18 (“A Christmas Card”), #21 (“The First Cut”), and #64-68 (“Deadly Dimensions”), and Marvel Fanfare (1982) #37 (“Synchronicity”) and #43 (“Death in a Vacuum!”).

Note that both Marvel Graphic Novels were collected in the F4 Epic line, so they are likely to appear here even though they will also be in other omni lines Also, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #37 and #43 are chronologically set during the Bryne era but were released after F4 #317 & #325 respectively and went uncollected by the Bryne Vol 2 omni.

It’s likely this could also include: Mephisto Vs. … (1987) #1-2. Issue #1 is “vs. The Fantastic Four,” and the FF story continues through #2, but the back half of the series has more to do with X-Men. This could also collect Silver Surfer (1987) #15-18 (and material from #19) featuring the F4 and written by Englehart.

Finally, this omnibus could also collect Comet Man (1987) #1-6 and Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #50-53 (“A Family Affair”), since these Comet Man stories don’t fit anywhere else. The Fantastic Four appear in half of the issues of his series prior to his appearance in #315-317 and Annual 21, and Reed appears in the first issue of the subsequence MCP story.

Fantastic Four & The Avengers by Walt Simonson (1987 – 1991) [F4 between Englehart & DeFalco; Avengers before Byrne]

Walt Simonson’s 22-issue run is beloved by fans, and not just because it introduced the very X-Treme “New Fantastic Four” comprised of Spider-Man, Wolverine, Hulk, & Ghost Rider! Simonson reunited the primary four after years of Thing being replaced with a fill-in member, wrote their family dynamic well, and took the team on adventures in the timestream.

Simonson’s run is just a hair over the length of a single Epic Collection, which makes it slim but not totally unreasonable for an omnibus. However, there’s a chance to fill it out with some other Simonson material from the same period from a year-long run on Avengers (1963) that actually included several Fantastic Four cast members and plot lines that he pays off in his F4 run! And, it just so happens that plugs a potential gap in the Avengers omnibus line after Roger Stern’s run concludes and prior to Avengers by John Byrne

Last year I rolled my eyes at this omnibus as a somewhat clumsy gap-filler, but the more I got to know the content the more sense it made to me. I think each half of this material makes the other stronger.

A vote for this book is a vote to finally have Simonson’s fan-favorite Fantastic Four run collected, paired with Avengers issues that complement it perfectly.

This would collect Fantastic Four (1961) #334-354 & Annual 23; “Days of Future Present” annuals material (from New Mutants (1983) Annual 6, X-Factor (1986) Annual 5, & Uncanny X-Men (1963) Annual 14); and material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #74 (“Absolute Zero”) and Marvel Holiday Special 1991.

Since that is a relatively brief amount of material, this could also add Walt Simonson’s contemporaneous run on Avengers (1963) #291-300 & Annual 17, which included Fantastic Four cast members! Simonson does not write Avengers (1963) #288-290 & 301-304, but they could easily be included here to fill the gap between the end of Roger Stern’s run on Avengers and the the existing Avengers by John Byrne Omnibus as the Fantastic Four joined the Avengers roster for Avengers (1963) #299-303.

It could also include Eternals (1985) #9-12 by Simonson (as he weaves his Dreaming/Black Celestial story in those issues later through his Avengers and Fantastic Four runs). It could optionally New Fantastic Four (2022) #1-5, a retro series by Peter David set during Simonson’s era.

Bonus material could include his Fantastic Four covers in Fantastic Four (1961) #212 and Marvel Age (1983) #80 and his pinup from Fantastic Four (1961) #333.

Fantastic Four by Tom DeFalco Vol. 1 (1991 & on)

Tom DeFalco piloted Fantastic Four (1961) through the mid-90s and the book’s cancellation after Onslaught, when the team moved into the Heroes Reborn pocket universe.

For a long time this run seemed like it got zero love from both fans and collected editions. The Epic Collection line finally changed that, collecting this in its entirety. And, whether it was the result of the Epics or just fans getting nostalgic, the general reception for DeFalco’s work has definitely improved over the past decade.

Personally, I’ve always loved this run. Sure, it existed in the very X-Treme 90s, resulting in the team at one point all packing giant guns and resulting in hot mom Susan Storm donning her regrettable “4” cut-out boob window. But, boob-window-dressing aside, this book mostly resisted the sort of excesses that found their way into the rest of Marvel’s line and stuck with being a satisfying book about Marvel’s first family that honored Stan Lee’s legendary setup on the first 100 issues.

Tom DeFalco’s run is over sixty issues before you even start looking at Annuals, crossovers, and additional content, so this will absolutely be broken up into two volumes. That means the real question becomes if it will absorb even more material than its Epic Collection mapping.

That’s because the Epic Collection line coverage of Fantastic Four skipped out on three supporting series that run alongside the DeFalco period. It makes sense that they didn’t include all of the side-team book Fantastic Force (1994), a team lead by the aged-up Franklin Richards of the future – who launches this book out of Fantastic Four (1961) #392.

It makes less sense that the Epic Collection line skipped the six issues of Fantastic Four: Unplugged (1995), and absolutely zero sense that it skipped most of Fantastic Four Unlimited (1993) when the Spider-Man and X-Men lines have always included those quarterly issues in full.

If this line is mapped anything like the incredibly thoughtful Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch omnibus line, Marvel could absolutely right the wrong of the Epic Collection skipping these 36 issues… but it might extend this line from two volumes to three!

A vote for this book is a vote to collect Tom DeFalco’s lengthy and very satisfying Fantastic Four run in oversize hardcover for the first time!

This would likely begin by collecting a first volume of Fantastic Four (1961) #355-386 and Annual 24-26; Namor, the Sub-Mariner (1990) #47-48; and material from Infinity War (1992) #1-6, The Adventures of the Thing (1992) #3 (“Love is a Hurtin’ Thing”), What The–?! (1988) #26 (“What If the Fantastic Four Stayed in the Movie Biz?”), and Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #80 (“Fantastic Foray”), #83 (“The Matchstick and the Moth”), #94 (“Grimm’s Tale”), #105 (“Crystal Quest”), and #165 (“Confrontation”).

If this line includes Fantastic Four Unlimited in full, Volume 1 would also include Fantastic Four Unlimited (1993) #1-5

Then, a second volume would collect Fantastic Four (1961) #387-416 & Annual 27; Fantastic Four Ashcan Edition (1994) #1 [actually released in 1995]; Fantastic Four: Atlantis Rising Collectors’ Preview (1995) #1; Fantastic Four: Atlantis Rising (1995) #1-2; Fantastic Force (1994) #7-9; Fantastic Four Unlimited (1993) #11-12; Fantastic Four: The Legend (1996) #1; Onslaught: Marvel Universe (1996) #1; and material from Tales of the Marvel Universe (1996) #1, and Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #164 (“Rabbit Stu”).

If this line includes Fantastic Four Unlimited in full, Volume 1 would also include Fantastic Four Unlimited (1993) #6-10. It could also include Fantastic Force (1994) #1-18 and Fantastic Four: Unplugged (1995) #1-6.

The final issues of Fantastic Four (1961) are collected in the X-Men/Avengers: Onslaught Omnibus, and their subsequent 1996 series is collected with the Heroes Reborn omnibus. See Guide to Marvel Universe Events.

Fantastic Four Omnibus Mapping: Fantastic Four in the 00s

We have two major hunks of 00s Fantastic Four collected in omnibus – Fantastic Four by Waid & Wieringo collecting 2002-2005 material, and Fantastic Four by Millar & Hitch covering material starting from 2007, which is then wrapped up with a pair of Fantastic Four by Jonathan Hickman volumes carrying us through to the end of 2012. But, what about 1998 to 2002, and the brief intermission between 2005 – 2007? And, what about solo series? There’s actually a lot of Fantastic Four left to collect from this decade!

Fantastic Four: Heroes Return Vol. 1 (1997 – 2000) [AKA by Claremont & Larroca]

The Fantastic Four returned from the Heroes Reborn pocket universe to be written by none other than Chris Claremont, who took over with issue #4!

Claremont delivered his first multi-year run on a title other than X-Men in over two decades… although, let’s be honest, he made F4 a little bit X-Men-ish by pulling in some of his favorite characters and tropes. Plus, this is where Claremont forged a tight connection with Salvador Larroca, which would continue into their X-Treme X-Men (2001) after this run.

For a long time this was one of Marvel’s most prominent never-collected runs! Finally, in 2019-2020, this material was collected in paperback for the first time. Those two paperbacks would make an outstanding single omnibus, and Claremont’s name tends to be a reliable marketing tool.

The pair of Complete Collections stop with issue #32. Personally, I think it more sense to continue to issue #34, since #33-34 were also by Larroca prior to a new creative team taking over.

A vote for this book is a book to collect the entirety of this run in a single oversize hardcover for the first time

This would collect Fantastic Four (1998) #1-32 (and maybe 33-34), 1/2, & Annual 1998 [AKA Uncanny X-Men/Fantastic Four Annual], 1999, & 2000; Iron Man (1998) #14; Doom (2000) #1-3; and Fantastic 4th Voyage of Sinbad (2001) #1.

It could optionally also include Galactus The Devourer (1999) #1-6 (which is more likely to appear in the Silver Surfer line) and Domination Factor: Fantastic Four (1999) #1-4 & Domination Factor: Avengers (1999) #1-4, an interconnected pair of mini-series. All three runs occur just after issue #23.

Note that trade paperbacks of this run broke at issue #32, but #33-34 are by Salvador Larroca and resolve themes of his run. Also, much of the preceding Heroes Reborn mini-event is directly relevant to F4, but it has already been collected in another omnibus. That includes Heroes Reborn: The Return (1997) #1-4; Heroes Reborn: Doomsday (1999) #1; Heroes Reborn: Ashema (1999) #1; Heroes Reborn: Doom (1999) #1.

If the first volume does break at that point, a second volume could collect Fantastic Four (1998) #35-59 & Annual 2001; Inhumans (2000) #1-4; Doom: The Emperor Returns (2002) #1-3, optionally adding some or all of Marvels Comics: Fantastic Four (2000) #1; Fantastic Four: World’s Greatest Comics Magazine (2001) #1-12 (a retcon series), Fantastic Four: 1 2 3 4 (2001) #1-4.

It could also potentially include Thing & She-Hulk: The Long Night (2002) #1 and Thing (2002) [AKA Thing: Freakshow] #1-4, which both fit prior to #60 but might be better placed in an omnibus focused on solo stories. A trio of retcon series were released in this period – Before the Fantastic Four: The Storms (2001) #1-3, Before the Fantastic Four: Reed Richards (2001) #1-3, Before the Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm & Logan (2000) #1-3. And, finally, the F4 guest in B-Sides (2002) #1-3, which is set between #60-61.

Fantastic Four: The Thing & The Human Torch by Slott & Kesel (2000 – 2009) [could collect other F4 solo series]

The primary goal of this book would be to collect a trio of Torth and Thing solo series from the mid-00s – a Human Torch (2003) solo book by Karl Kesel (who also briefly wrote a beloved F4 team run), and Torch/Spidey team-up and Thing (2005) solo by Dan Slott.

That would yield a 25-issue omnibus all in a similar joyful, funny, friendly tone, so we could just leave it at that.

However, there are some other solo Fantastic Four books in this period that could fit better in this book than elsewhere. If we keep the focus just on these two members, Thing actually has three more series that could fit better here than crammed into a F4 book. Plus, there’s another Torch series later than this period by Alex Ross and Mike Carey.

There’s a strong chance all of those 17 issues could get abandoned by F4 team books, which have a bad track record of picking up supporting series.

Then we come back to the troublesome nine issues of the “Before the Fantastic Four” mini-series. There’s really no great place to collect them, and if they don’t wind up in either of the the team books above this could be a great place to knock them out.

A vote for this book is a vote to get those Slott & Kesel series all in one book, and maybe also a vote to take care of a pretty big chunk of F4 solo material from the 00s while their popularity is about to hit an all-time peak.

This would primarily collect Human Torch (2003) #1-12; Spider-Man / Human Torch (2005) #1-5; and Thing (2005) #1-8.

It could add some or all of the following Thing and Torch material, if it is not absorbed by the main F4 omnibus line: Thing & She-Hulk: The Long Night (2002) #1; Thing [AKA Thing: Freakshow] (2002) #1-4 by Geoff Johns; Startling Stories: The Thing (2003) #1; Hulk & Thing: Hard Knocks (2004) #1-4 by Bruce Jones; Stan Lee Meets the Thing (2006) #1; Spider-Man & The Human Torch in Bahía de los Muertos (2009) #1; and Astonishing Tales: The Thing (2009) #1.

Finally, it could also add all three of the “Before the Fantastic Four” series, even though one doesn’t include either Torch or Thing – Before The Fantastic Four: Reed Richards (2001) #1-3, Before the Fantastic Four: Ben Grimm & Logan (2000) #1-3, and Before the Fantastic Four: The Storms (2000) #1-3.

Note that Torch (2009) #1-8 by Alex Ross & Mike Carey stars the original Human Torch, Jim Hammond, and is not a F4 title.

Fantastic Four: Marvel Knights by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (2004 – 2006) [AKA “4”]

This offers a chance to collect a complete Fantastic Four series by a single author all in one place, which is always a great experience for readers! That series is the team’s Marvel Knights series, sometimes known simply as “4,” written by TV scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (and with a first arc of art by Steve McNiven!)

Marvel Knights series had a more mature tone without being MAX and remained in continuity, and it’s fun to see a slightly more complex run of the team contemporaneous to the beloved back-to-basics approach from Mark Waid on the main title. Also under the Marvel Knights banner was Fantastic Four: 1 2 3 4 (2001) #1-4 by Grant Morrison, so it would be easy to include it here as a bonus under the “Knights” banner.

A vote for this book is a vote in favor of getting this Marvel Knights series collected all in a single omnibus, rather than relying it on it being successfully interspersed with collections of the main F4 run (a ship that has already sailed, thanks to the existing Waid omnibus).

This would collect Marvel Knights 4 (2004) #1-30.

It could also include Fantastic Four: 1 2 3 4 (2001) #1-4 by Grant Morrison and/or Hulk & Thing: Hard Knocks (2004) #1-4 (also a Marvel Knights title).

This is where the existing Fantastic Four by Waid & Wieringo omnibus fits – starting after Heroes Return Vol. 2, above, and ending just prior to this next book – see Guide to Fantastic Four.

Fantastic Four by Kesel, JMS, & McDuffie (2005 – 2008) [fits between Waid/Wieringo & Millar/Hitch; could add MANY minis]

The most surprising thing about Marvel’s 2023 release of Fantastic Four by Millar & Hitch wasn’t that the run merited an omnibus, but that Marvel kept the book so brief at under 800 pages when there was another omnibus of material that could’ve been included to fill the rest of the same gap.

That material was written by three writers in quick succession – fan fav Karl Kessel, Babylon 5 creator and Spider-Totem scapegoat J. Michael Straczynski, & the beloved industry legend Dwayne McDuffie.

Fans are generally positive on all of this material, which crosses Civil War along the way. It’s only 29 issues, but that’s longer than the slim Millar/Hitch book!

Also, there are a ton of F4 team mini-series from this period that really don’t fit well anywhere else. It doesn’t make sense to burden the Marvel Knights book with them, because they aren’t Marvel Knights! So, maybe that slim Millar book was a blessing in disguise – since there’s room for some or all of them here.

This would primarily collect Fantastic Four (1961) #525-553.

It could add some or all of  X-Men/Fantastic Four (2004) [AKA X4] #1-5; Fantastic Four Special (2005) #1; Fantastic Four Wedding Special (2005) #1; Fantastic Four / Iron Man: Big in Japan (2005) #1-4; Fantastic Four: Foes (2005) #1-6; Fantastic Four: Books of Doom (2005) #1-6; Fantastic Four: First Family (2006) #1-6; Fantastic Four: A Death in the Family (2006) #1; Captain Universe: Invisible Woman (2006) #1; Beyond! (2006) #1-6; Stan Lee Meets the Thing (2006) #1; Stan Lee Meets Doctor Doom (2006) #1; Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four (2007) #1-4; Fantastic Four: True Story (2008) #1-4; and material from Civil War (2006) #1-7, Marvel Holiday Special 2004 #1 (“The True Meaning of…”), Marvel Holiday Special 2005 #1 (“Moleman’s Christmas” and “Christmas Day in Manhattan”), Marvel Holiday Special 2006 #1 (“A is for Annihilus”).

Also, there are a trio of multi-lingual one-shots abandoned by the Millar/Hitch book would could be added here, including Fantastic Four: Isla De La Muerte (2008) #1; Spider-Man & The Human Torch in Bahía de los Muertos (2009) #1; Fantastic Four in… Ataque del M.O.D.O.K.! (2010) #1.

Finally, you could throw in all of the branded fantastic Four one-shots from this era as bonus content: Target Presents: Reading to the Rescue! (2004) #1-4, Amtrak Presents All Aboard (2006) #1, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four in Bubble Trouble (2006) #1, Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four in Hard Choices (2006) #1.

Fantastic Four Omnibus Mapping: Fantastic Four from 2014 to Present

We have a strong start to the 2010s of Fantastic Four, with a pair of Jonathan Hickman omnibuses taking us to the start of Marvel now, followed by a Matt Fraction omnibus to get us to 2014, and then a pair of Dan Slott omnis from 2018 to 2022.

But, there’s a gap between them, and Ryan North’s mega-popular run following them! Let’s look at how they could be collected.

Fantastic Four: The Fall & Rise of the Fantastic Four by Robinson & Zdarsky (2014 – 2021) [fits between Fraction & Slott; could extend to be a Slott companion]

The Fantastic Four began Marvel Now hot off of Hickman’s run with a pair of intertwined titles written by Matt Fraction. They failed to catch fire and Fraction made a somewhat abrupt exit from Marvel in early 2014, leaving Marvel to have James Robinson relaunch the team into a book with a very “disassembled” vibe.

It’s a wonder Robinson hadn’t had a swing at F4 before this point. Along with other writers who ascended in the 90s like Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek, Robinson is known for runs that delve deeply into character continuity and unexplored history.

Ultimately, this was a somewhat quiet, contemplative run that had the team on their back foot for most of it. And, in retrospect, it was doing the job of keeping them in a holding pattern while Hickman used Reed Richard as the centerpiece of his New Avengers (2013) leading into Reed being a lead character in Secret Wars (2015).

That run is only 19 issues – enough for an omnibus, but slim on the shelf.

There are two different batches of material we could add to that.

One would be all of Chip Zdarsky’s Marvel 2-in-One (2017). This had its own deluxe OHC, and it could make perfect sense to leave it collected there without repeating it. However, since OHCs generally aren’t reprinted and omnis often are, it feels safer to add that material here to make a perfect bridge between the Fraction and Slott runs.

If we did add Zdarsky’s material, that also opens the door to adding more material from after Secret Wars (2015). Because the pair of Dan Slott omnis covering 2018-2023 focus only on work by Slott, there are more than 20 additional issues of mini-series and one shots we could include here as a companion to the Slott book.

A vote for this book is a vote for a satisfying (if brief) run with a pair of closely-related appearances from other titles in the run-up to Secret Wars (2015)

First, this would collect the Robinison material from prior to Secret Wars – Fantastic Four (2014) #1-14 & Annual 1 and Fantastic Four (1961) #642-645. It could also include SHIELD (2015) #4 (an Invisible Woman story) and Avengers World (2014) #15-16 (a Valeria/Doom story).

Then, it would add Chip Zdarsky’s Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #1-12 & Annual 1

Finally, it could optionally add some or all of the mini-series and one-shots that ran alongside Dan Slott’s run, including Invisible Woman (2019) #1-5, Future Foundation (2019) #1-5, the three-part Prodigal Sun series of one-shots (Fantastic Four: The Prodigal Sun (2019) #1, Silver Surfer: The Prodigal Sun (2019) #1 and Guardians of the Galaxy: Prodigal Sun (2019) #1), Fantastic Four: Marvels Snapshots (2020) #1, Fantastic Four: Antithesis (2020) #1-4, X-Men/Fantastic Four (2020) #1-4, Fantastic Four Infinity Comic (2021) #1-4; Fantastic Four Anniversary Tribute (2021) #1, Fantastic Four: Life Story (2021) #1-6, and New Fantastic Four (2022) #1-5 [a retcon mini].

Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 1 (2023 – 2025) [could include One World Under Doom]

Ryan North did something surprising with his run on Fantastic Four I think was a major factor in it garnering a massive wave of fan support:

He gave up on arcs and focused on telling sci-fi stories. This entire run is told in one- and two-issue stories that universally focus on some real life scientific concept and how it relates to the team and their powers.

Also, I’d describe much of this run as “continuity-lite.” It certainly has some specific continuity (including the team living on a small farm and their kids being away for the first half of the run), but you could shuffle many of these issues into a different order and they would be just as enjoyable.

That makes for an instant-classic modern run with a timeless quality. It’s no surprise it has pulled in fans old and new to fall in love with Marvel’s first family all over again.

Ryan North concluded the first portion of this run in 2025 during his One World Under Doom (2025) line-wide event and launched a new volume under that event banner. His run had already cracked 30 issues, so with some necessary additions this is already a 40+ issue book. That 2025 run with Humberto Ramos is already at issue #12. If it concludes by issue #25, it would fit into a single volume here. But, if it stretches beyond that, I think we’re looking at a two-volume omnibus.

This would collect Fantastic Four (2022) #1-33 and Giant-Size Fantastic Four (2024) #1 (by Fabian Nicieza)

However, it might make sense for it to also include One World Under Doom (2024) #1-9, which is a Doctor Doom story with ties to North’s ongoing plot. If that’s the case, it would most-likely also include Fantastic Four (2025) #1-3 (tie-ins that conclude One World Under Doom), G.O.D.S.: One World Under Doom (2025) #1 (also by North); Marvel All-On-One (2025) #1 (also by North); material From Free Comic Book Day 2025: Fantastic Four/X-Men (2025) #1 (a prelude story to the relaunched series); and maybe The Will of Doom (2025) #1 (a Chip Zdarsky issue setting up Marvel’s next event, but also an epilogue to the event itself).

There’s a chance this book could also include some or all of contemporaneous F4 material not by North, including Fantastic Four (2022) Annual 1/2023 (Contest of Chaos); Fantastic Four Fanfare (2025) #1-4 (an anthology series); Fantastic Four: Into the Depths Infinity Comic (2025) #1-6; The Thing (2025) #1-5; Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) #1 (a film tie-in).

It is not likely to include Marvel & Disney: What If…? Mickey & Friends Became The Fantastic Four (2025) #1; Fantastic Four/Gargoyles (2025) #1 and Gargoyles X Fantastic Four (2025) #1. And, it likely cannot include Godzilla vs. Fantastic Four (2025) #1, despite it being by North, for licensing reasons.

Fantastic Four Omnibus Mapping: Doctor Doom in Omnibus

Doctor Doom became the second Marvel villain to merit his own omnibus full of mostly double-dipped material in 2022, following in Loki’s footsteps. However, that omnibus ended in 2006 and skipped over one major Doom series. That means we have at least two more volumes to collect Marvel’s marquee villain.

The existing Book of Doom omnibus fits here and collects around the proposed Super-Villain Team-Up omnibus.

Doctor Doom & Namor: Super-Villain Team-Up (1975 – 1984) [effectively Namor Vol. 4; includes his 1984 mini]

Doctor Doom got an amazing omnibus in 2022 that collected all of his biggest stories from 1962 to 2006, including all of his “Marvel Masterworks Rarities” stories and two excerpts from longer runs: Super Villain Team-Up and the original Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars.

The excerpts make perfect sense for Secret Wars, where Doom was a player but his main plot didn’t really happen until the final three issues, all included in the omnibus.

However, Super-Villain Team-Ip (1975) was Doom’s own ongoing series! In it, he and Namor conspired with each other and against each other throughout. We don’t have it complete collected in Masterworks or Epic Collection, although it did get a 450-page complete trade paperback edition in 2015. Clearly that was too long to fit in the Book of Doom omnibus, which is why only two issues were excerpted there.

That means it has been a decade since we’ve had this material collected in full and in color!

Not only is it significant for Doom, but it’s effectively Namor’s next adventure after the close of his 1968 series. If Namor received one more Masterworks volume, this would be collected there – and, there’s a chance it is included in his Epic line. That gives us an opportunity to fill the length of this out with more Namor material that takes us up to his 1990 omnibus by John Byrne, since by definition any further significant Doom material is already in his own omnibus.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect Super-Villain Team-Up in full and fill the gap from 1975 to 1990 for Namor so his omnibus line meets perfectly with his John Byrne volume on the other side.

This would collect Giant-Size Super Villain Team-Up (1975) #1-2, Super-Villain Team-Up (1975) #1-14, 15 (cover only), & 16-17, The Avengers (1963) #154-156, and The Champions (1976) #16

Plus, for Namor, it would collect Marvel Spotlight (1971) #27, Daredevil (1964) Annual 4, Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #28, Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner (1984) #1-4, and covers of reprint issues Tales to Astonish (1979 – 1981) #1-14.

Doctor Doom: The Book of Doom Vol. 2 – The Modern Years (2006 & on) [includes Doomwar, Infamous Iron Man, Doom by Cantwell, etc]

Doctor Doom is about to have a very big few years as he finally takes a turn as the primary villain of the MCU, so now is the time to finish collecting all of his major stories in omnibus!

His amazing Book of Doom omnibus does a great job of collecting all of his major stories from his debut through 2006 aside from Super-Villain Team-Up (1975). Now we just need to get from 2006 to 2025 and the start of One World Under Doom (2025), which will surely merit its own omnibus when it is through.

This book would collect a core of two Doom mini-series (retcon book Iron Man: Legacy of Doom (2008) #1-4 and Doomwar (2010) #1-6) two ongoing series (Infamous Iron Man (2016) #1-12 and Doctor Doom (2019) #1-10), and two one-shots (King In Black: Iron Man/Doom (2020) #1 and the non-continuity Doom (2024) #1).

That’s already 34 issues – plenty for an omnibus! But, there are so many other big Doom runs from the past 20 years to include! Honestly, this could easily be expanded to two volumes because Doom has so many great stories. Ultimately it’s hard to know exactly what else this would collect. Might it also excerpt from of his biggest moments from ongoing runs? Doom is really the main star of Hickman’s Secret Wars (2015)! Maybe this book would recollect all of it, or maybe it would just except the climax just like Book of Doom does with the original Secret Wars.

We took the approach of listening some of his greatest hits from Thor, Children’s Crusade, X-Men, FF, AXIS, New Avengers, and more, which could easily expand this to two volumes.

A vote for this book is a vote in favor of Marvel continuing a line of Doom’s greatest hits in omnibus… and, a lot of votes could signal this actually ought to be two volumes!

This would primarily collect Iron Man: Legacy of Doom (2008) #1-4 (a retcon mini-seris), Doomwar (2010) #1-6 (and the lead-in from Black Panther (2009) #9-12), Infamous Iron Man (2016) #1-12 (and likely material from Iron Man (1968) #594-600), Doctor Doom (2019) #1-10, King In Black: Iron Man/Doom (2020) #1, and the non-continuity Doom (2024) #1.

However, taking a wide view of what this could collect more in line with the contents of his original “Book of Doom,” this could collect all of Doom’s significant appearances from 2006 to the start of One World Under Doom, which could reasonably include a fuller map of: Iron Man: Legacy of Doom (2008) #1-4, Thor (1966) #604-606, Doomwar (2010) #1-6 (and the lead-in from Black Panther (2009) #9-12), material from Avengers: The Children’s Crusade (2010) #1-9, X-Men (2010) #16-19, material from FF (2010) #3-16 (& Fantastic Four (1961) #600), material from Avengers & X-Men: Axis (2014) #6-9, material from New Avengers (2013) #24-33, material from Secret Wars (2015) #0-9, material from Invincible Iron Man (2015) #1-13, Infamous Iron Man (2016) #1-12, material from Marvel 2-in-One (2017) #1-7 & Annual 1, material from Iron Man (1968) #594-600, Doom (2019) #1-10, King In Black: Iron Man/Doom (2020) #1, material from Fantastic Four (2022) (including issue #7), Blood Hunt (2024) #4-5, and the non-continuity Doom (2024) #1.

EVENT: One World Under Doom (2025) [event & all tie-ins]

Doom anchored his own event in 2025 as the protagonist and… the hero? It depends on your perspective on Doom and his motivations, but Ryan North pens this event as if Doom has been right all along – which puts our favorite heroes in an interesting spot as they choose to oppose his new world order.

This would primarily collect One World Under Doom (2025) #1-9.

It would also collect all of the event tie-ins from The Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #69-70 (and optionally #61-68), Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic (2025) #21-23, The Avengers (2023) #25-28, Avengers Academy: Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2024) #43-45, Doctor Strange of Asgard (2025) #1-5, Doom Academy (2025) #1-5, Doom’s Division (2025) #1-5, Fantastic Four (2022) #28-33, Fantastic Four (2025) #1-3, G.O.D.S.: One World Under Doom (2025) #1, Iron Man (2024) #6-10 (and optionally #1-5), NYX (2024) #9, Red Hulk (2025) #1-10, Runaways (2025) #1-5, Storm (2024) #5, Superior Avengers (2025) #1-6, Thunderbolts: Doomstrike (2025) #1-5, Weapon X-Men (2025) #1, and X-Factor (2024) #7.

It could optionally include Doomed 2099 (2025) #1, Dungeons of Doom (2026) #1-3, Luna Snow: World Tour (2026) #1, and The Will of Doom (2025) #1, though that last comic has more to do with the next Marvel event.