Ghost Rider & The Midnight Sons 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 Ghost Rider 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, all of the rest of the Midnight Sons – including Blade, Hellstrom, Darkhold, Dracula, Man-Thing, Morbius, Terror Inc, and Werewolf by Night.

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 is a good year for Ghost Rider in omnibus. We’re not only getting Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Vol. 3, keeping up an annual pace for that line, but also an unexpected Ghost Rider by Benjamin Percy! Plus, we have the event omnibus for Blood Hunt, an event heavily focused on Blade and Dracula.

That made 2026 a very scary year for Marvel omnibuses! Could we repeat that in 2027, perhaps expanding from a core of Ghost Rider to see some of Marvel’s other spooky characters in omnibus?

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 Ghost Rider.

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:

• Ghost Rider Omnibus Mapping: Silver & Bronze Age Rider
  • Ghost Rider: Carter Slade AKA The Original Ghost Rider (1967 & on)
  • Ghost Rider: Johnny Blaze Vol. 1 (1972 – 1979) [MMW 1-4]
• Ghost Rider Omnibus Mapping: Modern Ghost Rider
  • Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Vol. 4 (1994 & on)
  • Ghost Rider by Daniel Way et al (2001 – 2012) [AKA by Aaron Companion]
  • Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes (2014 & on) [includes Avengers material]
  • Ghost Riders by Ed Brisson et al (2017 – 2022) [all non-Reyes Rider material; could include Midnight Suns]
  • Wolverine: The Hellverine (2023 – 2024) [includes Weapons of Vengeance]
• Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Blade Omnibus Mapping
  • Blade: Nightstalker & Vampire Hunter (1991 – 2000) [follows The Early Years]
  • Blade: The Modern Years (2002 – 2022) [AKA by Marc Guggenheim]
  • Blade & Werewolf by Night: Blood Hunt – The Red Band Omnibus (2020 & on) [series up to, including, and following Blood Hunt]
• Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Werewolf by Night Omnibus Mapping
  • Werewolf by Night Vol. 2 (1978 & on)
  • Blade & Werewolf by Night: Blood Hunt – The Red Band Omnibus (2020 & on) [series up to, including, and following Blood Hunt]
• Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Hellstrom, Darkhold, Dracula, Man-Thing, Morbius, &  Terror Inc.
  • Daimon Hellstrom: Son of Satan Classic (1973 – 1994) [from debut to the Ellis omni]
  • Darkhold: The Book of Sins (1973 – 2021) [early material, Pages From The Book of Sins, & 2021 mini-event]
  • Dracula vs. The Marvel Universe (1981 & on) [AKA The Modern Years, follows Tomb Vol. 3]
  • Man-Thing Vol. 2 (1980 & on)
  • Morbius: The Living Vampire Vol. 2 (1989 – 1995)
  • Terror Inc. (1992 – 1993)

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.

Want to check out all of the other voting options for the 2026 Tigereyes Poll? Check out my 2026 Tigereyes poll overview page that explains the poll, how to vote, and lists every title that will appear – including links to all of the posts in this series.

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Ghost Rider Omnibus Mapping: Silver & Bronze Age Ghost Rider

Ghost Rider began as a Silver Age western hero, who was quickly scuttled and relaunched as the flaming-skull biker we all know and fear. We don’t have any of Ghost Rider’s pre-1990 material in omnibus! See Guide to Ghost Rider for more details.

Ghost Rider: Carter Slade AKA The Original Ghost Rider (1967 & on)

Marvel first envisioned Ghost Rider as a Western hero riding a pale horse, as created by Gary Friedrich & Dick Ayers! However, interest in Western comics was waning towards the end of the Silver Age, so Carter Slade was quickly shuffled into obscurity after a brief run of stories in Western Gunfighters (1970).

Marvel would revive the Ghost Rider brand two years later with the introduction of motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze, and the rest is history!

However, retcons are a big part of Marvel history, too. Ghost Rider (1973) would briefly extend Slade’s story and connect it to ongoing continuity. And later, future authors would continue to extend the tale of Carter Slade, including in a series of back-ups in Original Ghost Rider (1992) … which wasn’t about Slade (the actual original Ghost Rider), but a reprint of Blaze’s 1973 comic.

This would be a slim omnibus, but it’s attractive to fans because it would collect that 1967 material in color for the first time and (I think) would be the first ever recollection of the 90s backup stories.

If you were feeling particularly bold, you might suggest Marvel could simply append this material to the omnibus line of the 1973 series, but we’ve never seen them collect significant additional Silver Age material that requires restoration into Masterworks-based classic omnibus line.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect the majority of Carter Slade’s material for the first time, all in a single omnibus!

This would collect The Ghost Rider (1967) #1-7, as well as further appearances in Western Gunfighters (1970) #1-7, Giant-Size Kid Colt (1975) #3, Ghost Rider (1973) #50 & 51 (2nd story), and Avengers (1963) #142-143, and back-up stories from the reprint title Original Ghost Rider (1992) #3-5, 7-12, & 15-20 (much of which was written by Dan Slott!).

Ghost Rider: Johnny Blaze Vol. 1 (1972 – 1979) [MMW 1-4]

While most classic omnibus volumes obey a “3 Masterworks” rule, but with Johnny Blaze’s 1973 series poised to wrap up with Masterworks Volume 7 I think probably makes sense to bend the rules a little to fi this series into just two volumes.

The six existing Masterworks are all between 300-330 pages, so if a seventh volume follows suit we’ll have a total of less than 2,200 pages. Perhaps if this was Spider-Man or Doctor Strange Marvel would force that into three brief omnibuses. However, 1970s Ghost Rider isn’t the hugest seller for Marvel – it feels like a miracle we’re going to make it through the Masterworks line. There’s no need to tempt fate by pushing an omnibus line to three volumes if it could fit into two.

Plus, there’s really not much extra material that could be used to pad out a third volume – the Masterworks are already expanding beyond the map of his Essentials and Johnny Blaze barely appears from the end of his series to the start of Danny Ketch’s series.

A vote for these book is a vote for Marvel to finally collect Johnny Blaze’s original 1970s stories in oversize hardcover now that the Masterworks line has collected them in color.

This would collect Marvel Spotlight (1971) #5-12, Ghost Rider (1973) #1-35, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #15 & 58, Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #8, Daredevil (1964) #138, and add Marvel Premiere (1972) #28 – which is not in the Masterworks line. Then, it would begin to collect about half of issues #36-50, possibly breaking after issue #40 and adding Marvel Team-Up (1972) #91.

Volume 2 would collect a portion of Ghost Rider (1973) #36-50 (likely #41-50), and then continue to collect Ghost Rider (1973) #51-81, Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #80, Avengers (1963) #214, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #274, Defenders (1972) #145-146, and Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #11

Ghost Rider Omnibus Mapping: Modern Ghost Rider

I think it’s fair to say Ghost Rider is having a moment when it comes to collected editions. We now have three volumes of Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch omnibuses released in just three years. That’s incredible! And, it means we’re past the halfway mark of Danny Ketch’s series, Ghost Rider (1990).

Does that mean we could easily collect the remainder of the series in just one more volumes? Read on to find out if that mapping makes sense and where we continue from there! See Guide to Ghost Rider for details.

Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Vol. 4 (1994 & on)

The good news is that Ghost Rider (1990) is significantly less tangled up with other comics after Siege of Darkness, which was collected fully in Volume 3.

Aside from including twelve issue of Blaze (1994) (which we know will occur due to the maps of the prior volumes), the Dark Design OGN, and some appearances in Marvel’s short-lived “Over the Edge” imprint, the back half of Ghost Rider (1990) is straight shot of uninterrupted monthly issues with no crossovers.

The more challenging news is that this book has a minimum of 60 issues – some of them double-sized. And there are still a handful of supporting issues to add on top of that. Prior volumes in this series have stuck close to the 40 issue mark – and have still weighed in at over 1300 pages each.

On one hand, Marvel has an incentive to wrap this omnibus line up in four volumes, which means one less late volume to market that has less blockbuster material in it.

On the other hand, breaking into a fifth volume could solve some of our other Ghost Rider mapping puzzles, like what to do with Johnny Blaze’s appearance in Ghost Rider (2001) #1-6 & 1/2 AKA “The Hammer Lane.” Breaking this material into two books allows us to capture that, as well

That’s pushing the limits of an omnibus, but Marvel has a healthy fear of long-running omnibus lines declining in sales and fans generally have less nostalgia for this later-90s material.

What will be the outcome? Marvel likely mapped this all before the even released the first volume due to the complexity of the mapping of Volumes 2 and 3. That makes me think they planned for five volumes of equal size.

A vote for this book is a vote to signal that we’d like Marvel to continue their annual pace in collecting this material, even as we start to move through a more obscure run of the title.

This would collect Ghost Rider (1990) #51-93 & Annual 2, Crossroads special [AKA Annual 3], -1, & Finale (2007) #1 [AKA #94], Blaze (1994) #1-12, Wolverine #89, Ghost Rider / Wolverine / Punisher: Dark Design (1994) OGN, Over the Edge (1995) #4 & 9, Marvel Fanfare (1996) #3, Venom: Sign of the Boss (1997) #1-2, Daredevil (1964) #372, and material from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #8-9 (may omit stories from other Midnight Sons).

If this is split into two volumes, this could continue to Johnny Blaze’s subsequent appearances in Spider-Man (1990) #93 Ghost Rider (2001) #1-6 & 1/2.

Ghost Rider by Daniel Way et al (2001 – 2012) [AKA by Aaron Companion]

Each year of the poll we try to configure this material in a slightly different way that will make it more obvious and attractive to voters. I’m still not 100% sure we’ve got it right. For one, I think Garth Ennis’s name could be in the title hint, since he pens 12 issues here.

The bigger issue is that this book is collecting around the existing Ghost Rider by Jason Aaron omnibus, since it starts midway through the run of Ghost Rider (2005). I think many of us assumed Marvel would let that book be forgotten and then expand it, but they unexpectedly reprinted it in 2024 with no real motivation. That means we have to keep collecting around it.

We are left with 19 issues prior to the 2005 series (though seven of them could move into the Danny Ketch line), 22 issues of the series prior to Aaron’s takeover, and another 15 issues of Ghost Rider series on the other side (plus a 2-issue guest appearance) that would surely be abandoned in omnibus if we don’t collect them here.

That makes for a chonky 50+ issue book with a range of different Riders and different tones of material. The challenge is there’s no real must-buy, must-read stuff in it. You could title it “by Garth Ennis & Daniel Way,” who penned the majority of this material and who each have an amount of pull with buyers, but otherwise this one is tricky to market as anything other than “filling that last gap” once the remainder of the 90s comics are collected.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Ghost Rider’s major stories from the 2000s not by Jason Aaron into a single volume.

This could collect some or all of Ghost Rider (2001) #1-6 & 1/2 (AKA “The Hammer Lane” – which could wind up at the end of the Danny Ketch line), Ghost Rider: Trail of Tears (2007) #1-6 and Ghost Rider (2005) #1-6 (AKA “The Road to Damnation”) by Garth Ennis, Daniel Way’s run on Ghost Rider (2006) #1-20 & Annual 1-2 (annuals NOT by Daniel Way), Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch (2008) #1-5, & and Ghost Rider (2011) #1-9 & .1. It could also include an appearance in X-Force (2009) #9-10.

Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes (2014 & on) [includes Avengers material]

For a new generation of readers (and fans of TV’s Agents of SHIELD!), Robbie Reyes is their main Ghost Rider – and his material has never been collected in oversize format.

Reyes was the primary Ghost Rider starting in Marvel Now in 2014, an early vanguard of the rush of legacy heroes we’d see the next year in All New All Different Marvel. If we only collect Reyes’s solo adventures, this would be a somewhat scant omnibus volume – he only ran for 17 issues!

However, Jason Aaron adopted Reyes as a core member of his Avengers squad in Avengers (2018). While I’m loathe to double-dip from a recent title that will surely get its own omnibus, Reyes had a featured arc focused entirely on him racing through hell that absolutely belongs in on an omni with his name on it.

There’s some other strong Reyes material in Aaron’s Avengers run, and I think there’s a strong argument to excerpt some of it here – since the end of the series left Robbie in an interesting place.

A vote for this book is a vote for a complete omnibus collection of Robbie Reyes as Ghost Rider.

This would collect all of Reyes’s solo Ghost Rider material from All-New Ghost Rider (2014) #1-12, Ghost Rider (2016) #1-5, Ghost Rider: X-Mas Special (2016) #1, What If? Ghost Rider (2018) #1, Avengers (2018) #22-25, and Ghost Rider: Robbie Reyes Special (2024) #1. It could add further material from Avengers (2018).

Ghost Riders by Ed Brisson et al (2017 – 2022) [all non-Reyes Rider material; could include Midnight Suns]

Ed Brisson pieced together a surprisingly thrilling Ghost Rider run across multiple series and one-shots in 2019 and 2020. Part of the fun of the run was that Brisson put both Johnny Blaze and Danny Ketch into play and made them distinct from each other.

Brisson’s run totals just 11 issues – a 312-page paperback that’s too short for an omnibus on its own, but abandoned by Marvel from being collected alongside Benjamin Percy’s run in a surprise omnibus. But, it also doesn’t make sense to pair this with Robbie Reyes’s material, which is tonally very different.

Luckily, there’s a lot more material to collect from this period. Before Brisson’s run, Ketch starred in Spirits of Vengeance (2017). There are also a trio of one-shots, a psychedelic digital series for Kushala – a Ghost Rider of the 1800s, and Midnight Suns (2022).

That’s only another 14 issues, which gets us to a still-slim 25 issue omnibus. To that, we could leapfrog over Percy’s run to pick up a pair of 5-issue limited series by Sabir Pirzada that united almost every extant Rider into a single narrative that linked them all. This was the first time we truly had a “Riders as Lanterns” moment that drew together the many spirits of vengeance into one place, and I think it would make a fine finale for a book of slightly disparate material.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of the Ghost Rider material from Marvel Legacy onward into one place to wrap around the Benjamin Percy omnibus.

This would collect all of Brisson’s material from Ghost Rider (2019) #1-7, Absolute Carnage: Symbiote of Vengeance (2019) #1, Spirits of Ghost Rider: Mother of Demons (2020) #1, King In Black: Ghost Rider (2021) #1, Ghost Rider 2099 (2019) #1, and material from Incoming (2017) #1 and Marvel Comics Presents (2019) #6.

It probably also makes sense to pick up the Spirits of Vengeance (2017) #1-5 series that preceded this, which was written by Victor Gischler and starred Johnny Blaze, Damnation: Johnny Blaze – Ghost Rider (2018) #1, Ghost Rider: Return of Vengeance (2021) #1 by Howard Mackie, Ghost Rider: Kushala Infinity Comic (2021) #1-8 (collected in print as Spirits of Vengeance: Spirit Rider (2021) #1), and Ghost Rider: Vengeance Forever (2022) #1 [AKA Ghost Rider 50th Anniversary Special).

It could optionally add Midnight Suns (2022) #1-5 and/or Hellhunters (2024) #1-5.

Then, this could conclude with Spirits of Vengeance (2024) #1-5 and Spirits of Violence (2025) #1-5.

Ghost Rider by Benjamin Percy Omnibus fits here. See Guide to Ghost Rider for details.

Wolverine: The Hellverine (2023 – 2024) [includes Weapons of Vengeance]

Some folks were surprised to see the Ghost Rider by Benjamin Percy Omnibus arrive weighing in at 32 issues when there were an obvious additional 14 issues that could have been included.

The tricky thing is that those fourteen issues don’t focus on Johnny Blaze at all. Or Danny Ketch. Or any other existing Rider knowing to readers. Instead, the issues branch out of the “Weapons of Vengeance” direct crossover that Percy penned for Ghost Rider and Wolverine while he was writing both titles, as well as picking up a plot thread from the “Sabretooth War” story that ended Wolverine (2019).

Just 14 issues wouldn’t make sense in their own omnibus. However, they almost certainly need that “Weapons of Vengeance” story to help set them up, which adds four issues. And, thematically it could be an excuse to include the similarly-titled Hellhunters (2024), although that is by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and stars a different Rider during WW2 (although it does feature Wolverine!).

Realistically, we might need to wait for another solo series featuring Hellverine or another Rider series that extends his story to have a fully formed omnibus here.

A vote for this book is a vote to hurry up and release an oversize collection of Benjamin Percy’s continuing run on an all-new and very different Ghost Rider.

Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance Alpha (2023) #1, Ghost Rider (2022) #17, Wolverine (2020) #36, Ghost Rider/Wolverine: Weapons of Vengeance Omega (2023) #1, Hellverine (2024A) #1-4, and Hellverine (2024B) #1-10. It could optionally add Hellhunters (2024) #1-5 and/or Spirits of Vengeance (2024) #1-5 and Spirits of Violence (2025) #1-5.

Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Blade Omnibus Mapping

We already have one extremely well-mapped Blade omnibus in Blade: The Early Years, which collects nearly every single moment of panel time he has from his debut in 1973 through 1991. Unfortunately, without a Blade film on the horizon anymore, getting more omnibus volumes in this series seems highly unlikely… unless, of course, you all vote for them! See Guide to Blade – The Daywalker for details on EVERY Blade appearance.

Blade: Nightstalker & Vampire Hunter (1991 – 2000) [follows The Early Years]

Blade made his return to regular appearances and relevancy in the prestige Tomb of Dracula (1991) mini-series and then anchored his only vampire team book with Nightstalkers (1992). That book was launched as part of the “Rise of the Midnight Sons” event to give Ghost Rider (1990) a full line of horrific hero comics.

Blade spun off from Nightstalkers into his own short-lived 1994 series and then bounced through a series of one-shots and truncated series, which often telegraphed bigger plans for the character that never quite came to fruition.

The one tricky thing about this omnibus is that it contains one Epic Collection worth of material that has never been collected:  the back 12 issues of Nightstalkers (1992) and all of Blade: The Vampire-Hunter (1994). From there, his late-90s one-shots have already been collected in paperbacks preceding his entry into the Epic line.

Would we need to wait for that Epic to be released before getting this material in omnibus? Not necessarily, although that is often the trend with 80s and 90s books.

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect all of Blade’s 1990s material into a single omnibus.

This would collect Ghost Rider (1991) #31, Nightstalkers (1992) #1-18, Morbius: Living Vampire (1992) #10, Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #3, 6, & 8, Blade: The Vampire-Hunter (1994) #1-10, Marvel Team-Up (1997) #7, Blade (1998) One-Shot (AKA “Crescent City Blues”), Blade: Sins of the Father (1998) #1, Blade [Strange Tales] (1998B) #1-3, Gambit (1999) #4, Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) #7-8, and Blade: Vampire Hunter (1999) #1-6 & ½.

It would also collect material from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #1 (3rd story), 2 (3rd story), & 7 (2nd story), Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #63, and Marvel: Shadows and Light (1997) #1 (2nd story)

This might potentially collect some “Midnight Massacre” issues (Ghost Rider (1990) #40, Darkhold (1992) #11, Morbius: Living Vampire (1992) #12, and Ghost Rider/Blaze: Spirits of Vengeance (1992) #13), but does not need to collect “Siege of Darkness” issues.

Blade: The Modern Years (2002 – 2022) [AKA by Marc Guggenheim]

Blade was a cameo king for most of the past 25 years of comics, apart from a year-long solo run in 2006. That series was collected in Blade by Marc Guggenheim: The Complete Collection, but we’ve never had the rest of this collected together before – including a number of one-shots and the X-Men’s brief obsession with vampires from 2010.

Note that Blade’s Marvel MAX series is in continuity for his character, which wasn’t always the case for early-2000s MAX series.

A vote for this book is a vote to gather together more than 20 years of in-continuity Blade comics together for the first time, which makes for a surprisingly hefty omnibus!!

This would collect Marvel MAX Blade (2002) #1-6, Tomb of Dracula (2004) #1-4, Blade (2006) #1-12, Marvel Team-Up (2005) #8, Marvel Comics Presents (2007) #5 & 7-12, Spider-Man vs. Vampires (2010) #1, X-Men (2010) #1-6 & X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Blade (2010) #1, Spirits of Vengeance (2017) #1-5, Falcon (2017) #7-8, Wolverine vs. Blade Special (2019) #1, The Death of Doctor Strange: Blade (2021) #1, Midnight Suns (2022) #1-5, Blade: Vampire Nation (2022) #1, and material from Avengers (2018).

While this could optionally press ahead to Bloodline: Daughter of Blade (2023) #1-5, that feels like it’s the beginning of the next part of Blade’s story and not the culmination of the prior part. It may or may not be included here.

Blade & Werewolf by Night: Blood Hunt – The Red Band Omnibus (2020 & on) [series up to, including, and following Blood Hunt]

If it feels like there is one book amongst my mapping assignments where I threw my hands in the air and said, “I guess this is fine,” it is this one. Everything from the map to the title vexed me.

Here’s the challenge:

Werewolf by Night has a smattering of material in the first half of the 2020s that doesn’t particularly fit into any other omnibus, since it kicks off with an all-new, all-different character as the wolf.

Meanwhile, Marvel Blade had a daughter, Bloodline, followed by a significant 10-issue series in 2023 by Bryan Edward Hill that felt like it was part of a major come back for him. That kinda sorta led into Blood Hunt (2024), though it’s not explicitly a prologue to it.

Then, both characters spun out of Blood Hunt into a pair of “Red Band” mature readers series with extra blood and guts.

While there is a chance Marvel products a “Red Band” omnibus at some point, not all of their Red Band material has been horror-oriented. Some of it more focused on street-level heroes like Elektra and Punisher. And, in fact, it was Blood Hunt that kicked off the Red Band trend for Marvel, with an alternate bloody version of the event that won’t appear in the official event omnibus.

Once I saw that all laid out in our list of uncollected issues, I realized that it could make one solid horror omnibus. The problem is that Marvel doesn’t tend to collect disparate pairings of characters like this. Also, both of the Red Band series hinted that they were driving towards something, but that hasn’t materialized yet.

A vote for this book is a vote in favor of seeing Red Band material in omnibus format, and a vote to get a comprehensive collection of the freshest material from both Blade and Werewolf by Night.

This would collect Werewolf by Night (2020) #1-4; Moon Knight Annual (2022) #1; Werewolf by Night (2023) #1; Blade: First Bite Infinity Comic (2023) #1-4; Blade (2023) #1-10; Blood Hunt: Red Band (2024) #1-5; Werewolf By Night: Blood Hunt (2024) #1; Werewolf by Night: Red Band (2024) #1-10; Blade: Red Band (2024) #1-10; Werewolf By Night: Blood Moon Rise (2025) #1; and material from Crypt of Shadows (2022) #1 (“Werewolf By Moon Knight”), Crypt of Shadows (2023) #1 (“A Soul Worth Hunting”), Crypt of Shadows (2024) #1 (“Monster Games”).

Could also include: Bloodline: Daughter of Blade (2023) #1-5; and material from Free Comic Book Day 2022: Avengers/X-Men (2022) #1 (“Bloodline”); Crypt of Shadows (2022) #1 (“Neither Big Nor Bad”). Marvel: Black, White & Blood and Guts (2025) #1-on.

Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Werewolf by Night Omnibus Mapping

We have one classic Werewolf by Night omnibus, collecting his Bronze Age series. But, he has have significant 70s and 80s appearances that should have been in that original omnibus – and probably would if Marvel was re-mapping it today. See Guide to Werewolf by Night for more details.

Werewolf by Night Vol. 2 (1978 & on)

Werewolf by Night’s existing Werewolf By Night Omnibus focuses on collecting his entire ongoing series. However, his subsequent Complete Collection line added more material from his “lost final arc,” which was told across Spider-Woman (1978) and several other one-shot stories.

From there, Werewolf by Night has a string of guest appearances and anthology stories through the late 90s, when he was briefly revived into his own series before mostly disappearing until being revived as a more comedic character in the late 00s.

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect Werewolf by Night’s appearances in the 70s, 80s, and 90s.

This would begin by collecting the “lost final arc” with material from Werewolf by Night’s Complete Collection Vol. 3: Spider-Woman (1978) #6, 19 & 32, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #93, Ghost Rider (1973) #55, Moon Knight (1980) #29 (A-Story) & #30, and material from Marvel Premiere (1972) #59.

From there, it could push onward to collect further appearances and solo stories, such as Iron Man (1968) #209, Incredible Hulk (1968) #362, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #54-59 (2nd stories), Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #26-27, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #98 (2nd story), 107-111 (3rd story), 112 (1st story), & 113 (4th story), Marc Spector: Moon Knight (1989) #50 & 52-53, Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #5 (1st story) & #7 (3rd story), Shadows & Light (1998) #3 (2nd story), Werewolf by Night (1998) #1-6, & Strange Tales (1998) #1-2.

It could end with Legion of Monsters: Werewolf by Night (2007) #1, which is really his last solo horror appearance before a decade of guest appearances as a humor character.

Blade & Werewolf by Night: Blood Hunt – The Red Band Omnibus (2020 & on) [series up to, including, and following Blood Hunt]

I go into full detail on the rationale for this book in the Blade section, above.

This would collect Werewolf by Night (2020) #1-4; Moon Knight Annual (2022) #1; Werewolf by Night (2023) #1; Blade: First Bite Infinity Comic (2023) #1-4; Blade (2023) #1-10; Blood Hunt: Red Band (2024) #1-5; Werewolf By Night: Blood Hunt (2024) #1; Werewolf by Night: Red Band (2024) #1-10; Blade: Red Band (2024) #1-10; Werewolf By Night: Blood Moon Rise (2025) #1; and material from Crypt of Shadows (2022) #1 (“Werewolf By Moon Knight”), Crypt of Shadows (2023) #1 (“A Soul Worth Hunting”), Crypt of Shadows (2024) #1 (“Monster Games”).

Could also include: Bloodline: Daughter of Blade (2023) #1-5; and material from Free Comic Book Day 2022: Avengers/X-Men (2022) #1 (“Bloodline”); Crypt of Shadows (2022) #1 (“Neither Big Nor Bad”). Marvel: Black, White & Blood and Guts (2025) #1-on.

Midnight Sons Omnibus Mapping: Hellstrom, Darkhold, Dracula, Man-Thing, Morbius, &  Terror Inc.

In the early 90s, Marvel launched a new line of comics out of the popularity of Ghost Rider (1990). These were the “Midnight Sons,” a reimagining of the brief “Legion of Monsters” team-up from the mid-70s that focused on Marvel’s shadowy world of vampires and monsters. Some of those books sputtered out quickly in the crush of the early 90s speculation boom, but Morbius wound up with his longest-running series!

There’s no specific membership of the Midnight Sons, so it’s easy to use it as a catchall to refer to all of Marvel’s horrific protagonists who aren’t monsters – and, nearly all of them were pulled into the Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) anthology series at one point or another.

Daimon Hellstrom: Son of Satan Classic (1973 – 1994) [from debut to the Ellis omni]

This omnibus puts right a past omnibus mapping wrong from Marvel, who collected the absurdly slim Hellstorm by Warren Ellis in 2018.

That 424 page omnibus omitted the first half of its obscure mid-90s series! Sure, Ellis’s name is the seller there and he didn’t start writing until issue #12. Yet, it felt particularly short-sighted and petty to leave out the first 11 issues, relegating them to their own 258 page paperback.

We can’t even blame this on being a media tie-in, because the Helstrom TV show hadn’t even started shooting when that book was released! Luckily, we don’t have to scrabble to justify putting those 258 abandoned pages into their own omnibus. That’s because there’s an existing hefty Son of Satan Classic paperback with another 472 pages of content!

That means we have a solid 700+ page omnibus that could collect all of Daimon Hellstrom’s stories from his debut up until the start of that slim Warren Ellis book.

A vote for this is a vote to collect all of Daimon Hellstrom’s story material up to Warren Ellis taking over his title in 1994.

This would collect Ghost Rider (1973) #1-2; Marvel Spotlight (1971) #12-24; Marvel Team-Up (1972) #32; Son of Satan (1975) #1-8; Marvel Two-In-One (1974) #14; Defenders (1972) #92 & 120-121; New Defenders (1983) #148; West Coast Avengers (1985) #14-16; Marvel Fanfare (1982) #59 (2nd story); and Hellstorm: Prince of Lies (1993) #1-11.

That’s a substantial book with all of Hellstrom’s major stories, but it could optionally add some further issues from Defenders (1972).

Darkhold: The Book of Sins (1973 – 2021) [early material, Pages From The Book of Sins, & 2021 mini-event]

This would collect three distinct periods of Darkhold series from a trio of three existing paperbacks. Given that the Darkhold has been the focus of two different Disney+ MCU series now, there could be some legitimate interest in this book – and, it could easily be marketed using Scarlet Witch who appears at both the beginning and the end.

First, it would collect the contents of Avengers/Doctor Strange: Rise of the Darkhold, which collected a complete history of the Darkhold in the Marvel Universe. Then, it would add Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins, which collected the short-lived ongoing title from the Midnight Son’s line. And, finally, it could add all of the 2021 mini-event of a dark alternate reality collected as The Darkhold in 2022.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect the complete Darkhold saga in a single omnibus!

This would collect Marvel Spotlight (1971) #3-4; Werewolf By Night (1972) #1, 3, & 15; Tomb of Dracula (1972) #18-19; Marvel Chillers (1975) #1-2; Avengers (1963) #185-187; Doctor Strange (1974) #59-62, 67, & 81; Thor (1966) #332-333, and material from Dracula Lives (1974) #6; Amazing Spider-Man (1963) Annual 22; Uncanny X-Men (1963) Annual 12, Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #9-13 & 15, Darkhold: Pages from the Book of Sins (1992) #1-16, Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #90, material from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #1-2, material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #145, and the complete one-shots from The Darkhold (2021) (Alpha, Blade, Wasp, Iron Man, Black Bolt, Spider-Man, & Omega).

Dracula vs. The Marvel Universe (1981 & on) [AKA The Modern Years, follows Tomb Vol. 3]

Dracula was one of the stars of Marvel’s Bronze Age, anchoring the thrilling Tomb of Dracula (1972) as well as a bevy of horror magazine features.

But, that wasn’t the end of Dracula in the Marvel universe! He continued to appear as a villain and mastermind for over 40 years of further comics – sometimes briefly rising to prominence based on the trends of the time with the popularity of Interview with the Vampire and Twilight.

I was surprised to realize this book barely relies on any excerpted guest appearances – Dracula really has had so many mini-series and one-shots across the decades that we can easily justify this book. See Guide to Marvel’s Dracula for full coverage of all of these appearances.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Dracula’s major Marvel Universe stories into one terrifying tome!

This would collect Defenders (1972) #95; Uncanny X-Men (1962) #159 & Annual 6; Thor (1966) #332-333; Doctor Strange (1974) #60-62; Tomb of Dracula (1991) #1-4; Dracula: Lord of the Undead (1998) #1-3; Tomb of Dracula (2004) #1-4; X-Men: Apocalypse vs Dracula (2006) #1-4; Death of Dracula (2010) #1; issues from “”Curse of the Mutants”” (X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Blade (2010) #1, X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – Storm & Gambit (2010) #1, X-Men (2010) #5-6); Tomb of Dracula Presents: Throne of Blood (2011) #1; Fear Itself: Hulk vs Dracula (2011) #1-3; Old Man Logan (2016) #14-15; Avengers (2018) #14-17 & 32; Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula (2020) #1; Blade: Vampire Nation (2022) #1; and material from Bizarre Adventures (1981) #33, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #42, Doctor Strange Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #8-10, 13, 15, Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #77-79, Marvel: Shadows and Light (1997) #1, Legion of Monsters: Morbius (2007) #1, Monster-Size Hulk (2008) #1, and Bizarre Adventures (2019) #1.

Dracula had a mini-series during the Blood Hunt event, but it’s very much sewn into the main narrative of the event and mostly stars Bloodline, Blade’s daughter.

Man-Thing Vol. 2 (1980 & on)

This book would continue the existing Man-Thing Omnibus into a second volume. As with Werewolf by Night, the original Man-Thing omnibus was from an era where Marvel was focused on collecting complete Bronze Age series (a good thing) but not contemporaneous and subsequent guest-starring turns (an annoying thing).

Man-Thing made a number of key guest appearances during that original run that would read well gathered into one place, especially since many Man-Thing stories are anthology tales focused on the people who run into him. Plus, Man-Thing’s most iconic writer, Steve Gerber, returned to the character multiple further times – including as late as 2012!

In a way, it’s a good thing that 2012 omnibus left that material out, as it makes a perfect core of issues for this second omnibus. To that, we could add material from the character’s brief mid- and late-90s resurgence, or even extend to include a brief flurry if issues from the late 10s and early 20s.

A vote for this book is a vote to rectify some missing classic material from his first omnibus and then collect all of Man-Thing’s major appearances in the 80s, 90s, and maybe even beyond.

This would begin by collecting a number of guest appearances that could have fit into his first omnibus, including Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #1, Daredevil (1964) #113-114, Iron Man (1968) Annual 3, Howard the Duck (1976) #22-23, Howard The Duck Magazine (1976) #6-7, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #144, Marvel Two-In-One (1974) #77, Defenders (1972) #98 (and material from #97), Marvel Team-Up (1972) #122, and Marvel Fanfare (1982) #9 & 36 (2nd story).

Then, it would continue into the Steve Gerber material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #1-12 (2nd stories) and Web of Spider-Man (1985) Annual 4.

From there, it would move on to 90s material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #29 (4th story), Midnight Suns Unlimited (1993) #8, Incredible Hulk (1968) #427-428, Generation X (1994) #25 & Daydreamers (1997) #1-3, Marvel Team-Up (1997) #4, Man-Thing (1997) #1-8, Shadows & Light (1998) #2 (2nd story), and Strange Tales (1998) #1-2.

It could pick up just a handful of stories from the next decade, with Peter Parker: Spider-Man (1999) Annual 1999, Marvel Knights Double Shot (2002) #2, Legion of Monsters: Man-Thing (2007) #1, Spider-Man: Fear Itself (2009) #1, Thunderbolts (1997) #154.

Whether it not it included that material, it would likely include Infernal Man-Thing (2012) #1-3, which is the final material in the Steve Gerber Complete Collection paperbacks.

While the book could end there, there are just 14 further significant Man-Thing issues that were released after that: Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015) #1-6, Man-Thing (2017) #1-5, and Avengers: Curse of the Man-Thing (2021) #1, Spider-Man: Curse of the Man-Thing (2021) #1, and X-Men: Curse of the Man-Thing (2021) #1.

Morbius: The Living Vampire Vol. 2 (1989 – 1995)

This would follow up on the existing Morbius the Living Vampire Omnibus by primarily collecting the entirety of Morbius: The Living Vampire (1992) ongoing series from the Midnight Sons line. It would also pick up some prelude material setting up his return to blood-sucking (which seemed to have ended at the close of the prior omnibus) as well as guest appearances from the era (including Venom: The Enemy Within (1994)).

It would not need to collect any “Siege of Darkness” crossover issues, as Morbius is not a major player in the crossover outside of his own title.

A vote for this book is a vote to completely collect Morbius’s 1990s material.

This would collect Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #10 & 14-18 to contextualize Morbius’s return to blood-sucking. Then, it would collect Morbius: The Living Vampire (1992) #1-32, crossover issues (Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme (1988) #52-53; Nightstalkers (1992) #8-9); major guest appearances (Daredevil (1964) #324, Venom: The Enemy Within (1994) #1-3, Blade The Vampire Hunter (1994) #8), and his stories from Midnight Sons Unlimited (1993) #1-3, 5, & 7 and Strange Tales: Dark Corners (1998) #1 (2nd story).

It could optionally add Blade [Strange Tales] (1998B) #2-3, X-Man (1995) #24 (and excerpts from Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #420), Spider-Man (1990) #77-80, and Peter Parker, Spider-Man (1999) #8 to resolve his complete story from the 90s. However, they are not essential stories.

Terror Inc. (1992 – 1993)

Terror is an interesting character to try to collect, because his beginnings exist outside of the Marvel Universe.

The character originated from Marvel’s short-lived Shadowline, part of their Epic Comics imprint. We have that listed separately on the poll. Because Epic Comics rights issues can be complex, it’s unclear to me if we could simply collect all of that together with Terror Inc. – it would all easly fit into a single omnibus!

Do I think that getting a Terror Inc. omnibus is a way to backdoor into getting a Shadowline omnibus? No, nor do I think Terror will ever be a popular enough character to make that a reality. However, it certainly creates an interesting mapping question for this book!

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Terror’s major appearances in the Marvel universe.

This would collect Terror Inc. (1992) #1-13 don’t sound like much to collect on their own, even including a direct crossover from his book with Cage (1992) #15-16 and Silver Sable & The Wild Pack (1992) #13-14 and contemporaneous appearances in Wolverine (1988) #58-59, Daredevil (1964) #305 & 308-309, and Nick Fury, Agent Of S.H.I.E.L.D. (1989) #46 (plus a sub-plot page of Punisher/Captain America: Blood & Glory #3 prior to his series).

While we would typically say an omnibus ought to omit non-continuity MAX series, Terror is already a multiple-continuity character, so why not! That means we could add Terror, Inc. (2007) #1-5 and Terror, Inc. – Apocalypse Soon (2009) #1-4. Also, if rights are available, it could collect his origins from Marvel’s Shadowline.