Avengers 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 Avengers omnibus for material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus – all of which will appear as options on the 2026 poll.

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.

Marvel gave us three Avengers omnibuses in 2026: the classic-era Avengers Vol. 6, collecting through 1979; New Avengers by Brian Bendis Vol. 3, finishing the collection of that title (but leaving us with two more books of Bendis material still to collect); and Avengers: No Surrender / No Road Home, a somewhat surprising combo of a pair of blockbuster weekly events (one starring Conan!)

While those three books come off of the poll, some new ones got added – including coverage for the now-concluded runs of Avengers (2023) by Jed MacKay, West Coast Avengers (2024) #1-10 by Gerry Duggan, and the GLAAD Award-winning Avengers Academy: Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2024) by Anthony Oliveira

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! That includes guides to Avengers from every era – from the first volume of Avengers (1963) through Avengers flagships from 2010 to Present, and everything in between.

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 unproduced omnibus volumes:

• Avengers (1963) in Omnibus
  • Avengers Vol. 7 (1979 – 1982) [MMW 19-21]
  • Avengers by Roger Stern Vol. 1 (1983 & on) [AKA Vol. 8, MMW 22-24]
  • Fantastic Four & The Avengers by Walt Simonson (1987 – 1991) [F4 between Englehart & DeFalco; Avengers before Byrne]
  • Avengers: Operation Galactic Storm (1990 – 1992) [AKA Road to The Gathering, starts at #317]
  • Avengers: Road to Onslaught (1994 – 1996) [fills gaps from The Gathering to Onslaught]
• Avengers West Coast, Force Works, & Great Lakes Avengers in Omnibus
  • Avengers: West Coast Avengers Vol. 3 (1989 & on)
  • Hawkeye & The Solo Avengers (1964 – 1990) [follows Epic map, includes Solo Avengers & Avengers Spotlight]
  • Avengers: Force Works (1994 – 1996)
  • Avengers: Squirrel Girl & The Great Lakes Avengers (1989 – 2017) [all of GLA + Squirrel Girl origins]
• Avengers (1996) & Avengers (1998) in Omnibus
  • Avengers: Avengers Disassembled (2004 – 2005) [includes Disassembled tie-in arcs]
• Avengers teams from Civil War to Siege (2005 – 2010) in Omnibus
  • Avengers: Mighty Avengers by Bendis, Slott, & Gage (2007 – 2010) [could include Avengers/Invaders]
  • Avengers: The Initiative by Slott & Gage (2007 – 2010)
  • Avengers: Dark Avengers by Brian Bendis (2009 – 2010) [includes Utopia/Exodus & Siege]
• Heroic Age Avengers (2010 – 2012) in Omnibus
  • Avengers: Avengers Academy by Christos Gage (2010 – 2012)
  • Avengers: The Heroic Age by Brian Bendis (2010 – 2012) [Avengers (2010) + Avengers Prime]
  • Avengers: Secret Avengers by Brubaker, Spencer, Ellis, & Remender (2010 – 2012) [includes Onslaught Unleashed]
  • Avengers: Avengers Assemble by Bendis & DeConnick (2012 – 2014) [could include Endless Wartime OGN]
• Marvel Now Avengers (2013 – 2015) in Omnibus
  • EVENT: Age of Ultron (2013 – 2015) [includes AU tie-ins, Avengers A.I., Ultron Forever]
  • Avengers: Avengers Assemble by Bendis & DeConnick (2012 – 2014) [could include Endless Wartime OGN]
  • Avengers: Avengers World, The Jonathan Hickman Companion (2012 – 2015) [Avengers World, A+X, other NOW series]
  • Avengers: Avengers Arena & Undercover by Dennis Hopeless (2012 – 2014)
  • Avengers: Secret Avengers by Spencer & Kot (2013 – 2015)
  • Avengers by Al Ewing (2014 & on) [Mighty, New, USA, Wasp, Inc]
• All-New All Different Avengers (2015 – 2018) in Omnibus
  • Avengers by Mark Waid (2015 – 2018)
  • Avengers by Al Ewing (2014 & on) [Mighty, New, USA, Wasp, Inc]
  • Avengers: Uncanny Avengers by Duggan & Zub (2015 – 2018) [could include orphaned Remender material]
  • Hawkeye: Clint Barton – All-New, All-Different (2015 & on) [follows Fraction; Lemire, Occupy Avengers, etc]
• Marvel Fresh Start Avengers (2018 – Present) in Omnibus
  • Avengers by Jason Aaron Vol. 1 (2018 – 2020)
  • Avengers: Conan & The Savage Avengers Companion (2019 – 2022) [No Road Home, Serpent War, Serpent Crown, Savage Avengers (2022)]
  • Avengers: Avengers United by Derek Landy et al (2022 – 2025) [All-Out, Beyond, Unlimited, & United]
  • Avengers by Jed MacKay (2023 – 2026) [includes Timeless]
  • Iron Man & The West Coast Avengers by Gerry Duggan (2023 – 2025) [could include I Am Iron Man]
  • Avengers: Avengers Academy – Marvel’s Voices by Anthony Oliveira (2024 – 2025)

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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Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Avengers (1963) in Omnibus

Avengers Omnibus Mapping for issues of Avengers (1963). See Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996) for collections of this title, including existing omnibuses, plus Marvel Masterworks and Epic Collections including the material that would be collected in these books.

Avengers (1963) #1-188 are covered in a series of six existing classic Avengers omnibuses – see Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996).

Avengers Vol. 7 (1979 – 1982) [MMW 19-21]

Marvel always sticks to collecting three Marvel Masterworks per Avengers omnibus, so this would likely be no different. That also means it would conveniently end just prior to Roger Stern’s classic run.

This book has a chunk of the downfall and subsequent Trial of Yellowjacket, plus a struggle against Grey Gargoyle, meddling from Peter Gyrich, and more.

Plus, the all-time nadir of Avengers (1963) #200 and a subsequent all-time high of Chris Claremont’s Avengers Annual 10 – the debut of Rogue!

This would collect Avengers (1963) #189-226 & Annual 10-11, Marvel Premiere (1972) #55, Vision and the Scarlet Witch (1982) #1-4, and material from Tales To Astonish (1979) #12, Marvel Super Action (1977) #35-37, and Marvel Fanfare (1982) #3.

This could optionally add Marvel Premiere (1972) #47-48, also written by author David Michelinie in this period and featuring Scott Lang taking over as Ant-Man.

Avengers by Roger Stern Vol. 1 (1983 & on) [AKA Vol. 8, MMW 22-24]

Roger Stern’s run on Avengers stretches for 60 issues, five annuals, a graphic novel, and several side appearances along the way. That means it is too long for a single volume – plus, Marvel rarely goes that huge on a classic omnibus unless it completely collects a single character or series.

That means the hotly-desired Roger Stern run on Avengers would likely continue to follow the “3 Masterworks” rule in a first volume, collecting Masterworks Volumes 22-24. It also means we likely need to get through Avengers Omnibuses Volumes 6-7, above, to reach this book. That means it’s likely at least three years away… but maybe you can entice Marvel to speed things up by voting for it.

This would begin to collect from Avengers (1963) #227 onward, at minimum collecting the contents of Marvel Masterworks Vol. 22-24, which are Avengers (1963) #227-254 & Annual 12-13, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) Annual 16, Doctor Strange (1974) #60, Fantastic Four (1961) #256 (and material from #257), Hawkeye (1983) #1-4, West Coast Avengers (1984) #1-4, and Iron Man (1968) Annual 7.

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

Walt Simonson wrote Avengers (1963) #291-299, which would be part of a potential gap after Roger Stern Vol. 2 and prior to the existing Avengers by John Byrne Omnibus – which collects slices of both Avengers (1963) and Avengers West Coast Avengers (1989).

Realistically, based on what’s happening with the Uncanny X-Men line, an Avengers Vol. 10 will almost certainly collect this post-Stern material five or more years from now. But, if you simply want a gap-filler on your shelf that lines up with the Byrne omnibus on the other side, this is your book.

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.

For some of the material following Roger Stern’s run, see Avengers by John Byrne in Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996).

Avengers: Operation Galactic Storm (1990 – 1992) [AKA Road to The Gathering, starts at #317]

“Operation Galactic Storm” was a crossover between Avengers teams, several Avengers solo books, and Quasar – Marvel’s sole cosmic title in this period. The story occurs in a three issue gap at the beginning of the already-existing Avengers The Gathering Omnibus.

However, Operation Galactic Storm is just a single Epic Collection worth of material, even if you pad it out with some epilogue issues. And, since it occurs at the beginning of the Avengers The Gathering Omnibus, there’s nothing after it to collect. That would make for a slim omnibus just a hair bigger than an Epic Collection, especially for a line like Avengers that doesn’t release books too frequently.

That’s where the first half of this book comes in. Last year we goofed and listed a title called “Avengers by Fabian Nicieza et al,” which hardly explains the contents of a volume preceding Avengers The Gathering Omnibus. After Byrne’s run wraps up, we have Fabian Nicieza’s run (#317-324), then Mark Gruenwald for an issue (#325), followed by an arc of Larry Hama (#326-333), and then the start of Bob Harras (#334-342) – plus Annuals 19-21.

That makes for one relatively hefty and very fun-to-read book! You get the Avengers wrapped up in some very street-level terrestrial conflicts (including the debut of future New Warrior Rage) before going galactic! Since those Earthbound conflicts aren’t a single storyline and aren’t by just one writer, it makes them much easier to market under the auspices of Operation Galactic Storm – which is why you should vote for this book!

This would collect Avengers (1963) by Fabian Nicieza’s run (#317-324), Mark Gruenwald (#325), Larry Hama (#326-333), and the start of Bob Harras (#334-342) – plus Annuals 19-21 – to meet up with The Gathering omnibus on the other side.

Then, it would collect ALL of Galactic Storm (488 pages in Epic Collection), including Avengers (1963) #345-347, Avengers West Coast (1989) #80-82, Quasar #32-36, Wonder Man (1991) #7-9, Iron Man (1968) #278-279, Thor (1966) #445-446, Captain America (1968) #401, What If…? (1989) #55-56 (“”What If… The Avengers Lost Operation Galactic Storm?””), and material from Captain America (1968) #398-400. To that it could add Wonder Man (1991) #10-12 (an epilogue that allows this to cleanly meet the Infinity Gauntlet omnibus).”

The existing Avengers The Gathering Omnibus and Avengers: The Crossing Omnibus fit here, leaving a gap of #376-389 between them, and a scant #396-400 after (which includes the “First Sign” crossover) prior to X-Men / Avengers: Onslaught Omnibus. See Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996) for details.

Avengers: Road to Onslaught (1994 – 1996) [fills gaps from The Gathering to Onslaught]

Once again, we’ve got to do some creative mapping to fill the gaps in the existing Avengers omnibuses, which weren’t mapped with a sustainable shelf in mind.

Avengers The Gathering Omnibus ends with issue #375, leaving a swath of material un-omnibized prior to the much-mocked Avengers: The Crossing Omnibus, including a brief “Taking AIM” crossover with Captain America. Then we hit “The Crossing,” a huge crossover that’s both indirect (i.e., a status quo occurring in multiple titles simultaneously) and direct (i.e., issue-to-issue between titles).

Rather than trying to re-collect portions of “The Crossing” in omnibus similar to how Epic Collections have handled it. Or… we could just skip that entire omnibus to pick up a half-year of issues that came afterward before the title launched into Onslaught. That little slice of issues happens to include another crossover – “First Sign.”

A vote for this book will perfectly wrap up your mid-90s Avengers shelf, seamless linking The Gathering, The Crossing, and Onslaught!

This would collect Avengers (1963) #376-389, Avengers Log (1994) #1, the “Bloodties” crossover (X-Men (1991) #26; Avengers West Coast (1989) #101; Uncanny X-Men (1963) #307), Marvel Double Feature: Avengers/Giant-Man (1994) #379-382, Vision (1994) #1-4, Captain America (1968) #440-441, Avengers Unplugged (1995) #1-6

Then, it would add the “First Sign” crossover (Captain America (1968) #449, Thor (1966) #496, Iron Man (1968) #326, & Avengers (1963) #396) and conclude with Avengers (1963) #397-400.

The final handful of issues of Avengers are collected as part of Onslaught. See Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996) for details.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Avengers West Coast, Force Works, & Great Lakes Avengers in Omnibus

The Avengers had a handful of spinoff series in the 80s and early 90s, including a West Coast team, a solo anthology book, and a more forceful 90s iteration. Plus, the very silly Great Lakes Avengers were born in this period! See Guide to Avengers (1963 – 1996) and Guide to Avengers West Coast for more details (plus Guide to Hawkeye – Clint Barton… you’ll understand why in a moment!)

West Coast Avengers (1985) #1-41 are covered by a pair of existing omnibuses, and then Avengers by John Byrne collects a massive hunk of West Coast Avengers (1985) #42-46 andAvengers West Coast (1989) #47-62. See Guide to Avengers West Coast.

Avengers: West Coast Avengers Vol. 3 (1989 & on)

Some people want this omnibus to pick up cleanly from the existing Avengers by John Byrne omnibus, which is mostly an West Coast omnibus. That would put us just a pair of omnibuses away from finishing this title, of which this would be one.

However, other people want an unbroken line of West Coast Avengers books, so they want this volume to start from the end of West Coast Avengers Vol. 2, re-collecting the material from Byrne and pushing past it a bit.

There’s no right answer here – both would be solid omnibuses that obey (different) rules of Marvel’s mapping strategy. As a result, we’re not being prescriptive with this map. A vote for this book is simply a vote to continue collecting West Coast, no matter how that’s done.

In total, the remaining West Coast material to collect after the Avengers by Byrne Omnibus is Avengers West Coast (1989) #63-102 & Annual 5-8 [though #81-83 are part of Galactic Storm, not likely to be collected here in full], “The Subterranean Wars” annual crossover material (from Darkhawk (1991) Annual 1 and Iron Man (1968) Annual 13), Avengers: The Terminatrix Objective (1993) #1-4, USAgent (1993) #1-4, Spider-Woman (1993) #1-4, Scarlet Witch (1994) #1-4, maybe Hawkeye (1994) #1-4, Bloodties crossover issues (Avengers (1963) #368-369, X-Men (1991) #26, Uncanny X-Men (1963) #307) and material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #143-144.

However, if this re-collected the Byrne material, it would begin with West Coast Avengers (1985) #42-62 & Annual 4.

Hawkeye & The Solo Avengers (1964 – 1990) [includes Solo Avengers & Avengers Spotlight]

This omnibus is effectively the contents of Hawkeye’s initial three Epic Collections, minus all of the double-dipping of issues of Avengers (1963). Then, it would continue with his 1983 mini-series, as well as all forty issues of Solo Avengers (1987) #1-20 and Avengers Spotlight (1989) #21-40 – almost all of which included at least one Hawkeye story. It could also include some other random solo Avengers adventures from Marvel Comics Presents that would otherwise be abandoned, and even mini-series like Jack of Hearts (1984).

A vote for this book is mostly a vote to collect all of Hawkeye’s solo material from the Bronze Age and 80s and all of Solo Avengers (1987) and Avengers Spotlight (1989) in oversize format.

This would effectively collect the first three Hawkeye Epic collections less most of the Silver and Bronze Age Avengers issues collected in the first volume, and adding some other solo Avengers errata from the 1980s.

In total, that means it would include material from Tales of Suspense (1959) #57, 60, & 64, Avengers (1963) #16, Marvel Tales (1964) #100, Marvel Super Action (1976) #1, Hawkeye (1983) #1-4, Captain America (1968) #317, Marvel Fanfare (1982) #3 & 39, Jack of Hearts (1984) #1-4, Solo Avengers (1987) #1-20, Avengers Spotlight (1989) #22-40, material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #83, and other solo Avengers material from Marvel Fanfare (1982), Marvel Comics Presents (1988), and Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) that would not otherwise be collected in hero or team omnibuses

Avengers: Force Works (1994 – 1996)

Force Works exists as the red-headed stepchild of the Avengers – one of the few times the Avengers franchise has ever launched a new title without the “Avengers” name in it.

Why? The idea of multiple Avengers titles was feeling a little stale in the mid-90s, when the X-Men line had exploded into multiple team titles (including X-Force) and Justice League had done the same (including a Task Force and Extreme Justice). Marvel decided it was time for Avengers to follow suit with a “Force” of their own and Force Works was born as an outgrowth of the West Coast team.

I have a specific nostalgic affection for this gang – which included Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Jessica Drew as Spider-Woman, Wonder Man, US Agent, and a new character named Century. But, many modern readers wouldn’t have any idea what this book is without the “Avengers” name on it.

(Would Marvel be sneaky enough to call this “Scarlet Witch & Force Works” or something similar to take advantage of Wanda’s surging popularity? Perhaps!)

A vote for this book is a vote to collect this series in full so we can finally have the entire thing collected in color!

This would collect Force Works (1994) #1-22 & Ashcan Edition, Century: Distant Sons (1996) #1, material from Iron Man/Force Works Collectors’ Preview (1994), and the Hands of the Mandarin crossover issues (War Machine (1994) #8-10, Iron Man (1968) #310-312, and material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #169-172).

Avengers: Squirrel Girl & The Great Lakes Avengers (1989 – 2017) [all of GLA + Squirrel Girl origins]

The Great Lakes Avengers are a very silly not-quite-Avengers squad launched as a parody of the West Coast Avengers in 1989 (and also as a minor joke on the Justice League of America, since the Great Lakes Avengers were the GLA as opposed to the JLA).

The GLA were brought back for several gag appearances over the years, which eventually included picking up the then-obscure Squirrel Girl as a member prior to Brian Bendis adopting her towards the end of New Avengers (2010) and her subsequent solo stardom.

Pretty much all of Squirrel Girl’s pre-solo-series material was collected in a 2016 paperback called Squirrel Girl & The Great Lakes Avengers that was less than 300 pages. However, that didn’t comprehensively collect past GLA appearances and the GLA had their own short-lived series in All-New All Different Marvel.

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect all of Squirrel Girl’s pre-solo appearances in a single omnibus alongside every GLA appearance that was more than just a cameo – and there’s a significant overlap between the two.

This would collect Great Lakes Avengers and Squirrel Girl appearances from West Coast Avengers (1985) #46, Avengers West Coast (1989) #48-49, 64, & material from Annual 6, Avengers (1963) #309 & material from Annual 19, Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #8 (3rd story), Deadpool (1997) #10-11 & 61, Thunderbolts (1997) #15-17 & 25, GLA (Great Lakes Avengers) (2006) #1-4, GLX-Mas Special (2006), I ♥ Marvel: Masked Intentions (2006), Thing (2006) #8, Cable & Deadpool #30, Deadpool/GLI Summer Fun Spectacular, material from Age of Heroes #4 and I Am An Avenger #1, material from Fear Itself: The Home Front (2011) #6, The Great Lakes Avengers (2016) #1-7.

It also could excerpt a handful of additional Squirrel Girl appearances from Avengers: The Initiative (2007) #19 & 25, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #605 (2nd story), and excerpted scenes from Brian Bendis’s run on New Avengers (2010).”

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Avengers (1996) & Avengers (1998) in Omnibus

The two Avengers series that ran from 1996 to 2004 are now fully covered in omnibus as of the newly-announced Avengers by Johns & Coipel. There’s nothing left to collect from the Avengers line! See Guide to Avengers (1996 -2004) for existing collection information.

But… some people are never satisfied, so we still have one book on the poll from this period!

Avengers: Avengers Disassembled (2004 – 2005) [includes Disassembled tie-in arcs]

This collects a number of disparate, unconnected “Disassembled” arcs from the Trinity of Cap, Iron Man, and Thor that happened at around the same time as Brian Bendis’s main “Avengers Disassembled” storyline.

The arcs don’t cross over and they will all eventually be collected in their own omnibus lines, and every Avengers issue in this book is a double-dip from the Brian Bendis Avengers omnibus line.

Until I convince everyone not to vote for it so we can remove it from the poll, here it is again!

This would collect Avengers (1998) #500-503, 500 Director’s Cut, and Finale; Thor (1998) #80-85, Iron Man (1998) #84-89, Captain America (2002) #29-32, and Captain America & The Falcon (2004) #5-7.

It could also include Fantastic Four (1963) #514-519 and Spectacular Spider-Man (2003) #15-20, which also carried the Disassembled banner.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: from Civil War to Siege (2006 – 2010)

New Avengers (2004), Mighty Avengers (2007), Avengers: The Initiative (2007), Dark Avengers (2008)

We now have all of Brian Bendis’s New Avengers (2004) and New Avengers (2010) covered in omnibus! However, we still need to collect the other Avengers teams of the late 00s into omnibus.

That’s a lot of omnis! And, we’re right at the 20-year mark where nostalgia for those series is beginning to kick in. Let’s take a look at what’s missing. See Guide to New Avengers (2004 – 2009), Guide to Mighty Avengers & Ultimates, Guide to Young Avengers & Avengers in Training, and Guide to Thunderbolts & Dark Avengers for more information.

The main flagship New Avengers (2004) and New Avengers (2010) is completely covered in a trio of omnibus volumes – see Guide to New Avengers (2004 – 2009)

Avengers: Mighty Avengers by Bendis, Slott, & Gage (2007 – 2010) [could include Avengers/Invaders]

This is the next big chunk of Avengers to cover in omnibus. Brian Bendis kicked off this book to house the Pro-Registration Avengers in the wake of Civil War (2006) dividing the team. It was headlined by Iron Man and Carol Danvers, continuing their close relationship (which Bendis would briefly fraction a decade later in Civil War II (2016)).

Later, Bendis moved on from this title to pilot his Dark Avengers (2009) and Dan Slott took over through the close. But, Slott’s issues were never issued in oversize hardcover volumes like Bendis’s were, so much of this series has never been oversized.

This is a fairly straightforward run to collect, but you could make the argument that it ought to add in Avengers/Invaders (2008) #1-12, which largely starred the Mighty Avengers team.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Mighty Avengers (2007) in a single oversize hardcover!

This would collect Mighty Avengers (2007) #1-36 & Secret Invasion: Requiem (2008) #1, plus maybe also Avengers/Invaders (2008) #1-12.

Avengers: The Initiative by Slott & Gage (2007 – 2010)

This was the second Avengers team book to emerge from the original Civil War (2006). This book could have easily been called “Young Avengers” or “Avengers Academy,” as it splits the difference between those two title concepts to gather a large amount of minor league heroes together to train to be deployed as squads for each of the 50 United States.

Since this is a comic book that requires conflict, things don’t go smoothly – some trainees revert to villainy, instructors quit (or turn out to be Skrulls), and the campus is invaded multiple times, until finally the program as it stands falls apart during Siege (2009) and is replaced with a proper Avengers Academy.

I found this book incredibly fun to read, and especially to binge. The problem from an omnibus perspective is that it doesn’t include many big names – Hank Pym and others are around as instructors, but most of the cast is a swath of D-list Marvel characters culled from decades of comics.

This run has never been recollected since it’s original release – not even in paperback complete collections! It’s likely this book could wind up with a different title for marketing purposes, like “Avengers in Training: Civil War Aftermath” or something like that.

A vote for this book is to recollect the entirety of this training squad for the first time – in a single omnibus!

This would collect Avengers: The Initiative (2007) #1-35 & Annual 1, Avengers: The Initiative Special (2008) #1, and Avengers: The Initiative featuring Reptil (2009) #1.

Avengers: Dark Avengers by Brian Bendis (2009 – 2010) [includes Utopia/Exodus & Siege]

Brian Bendis co-opted the concept and some of the cast of a juicy Warren Ellis run on Thunderbolts to construct a villains-as-Avengers team around Norman Osborn.

Osborn was ascendant in the wake of his role in the finale of Secret Invasion (2008). With public trust in heroes at an all-time low after they were proven to be infiltrated by Skrulls, Osborn essentially buys the Avengers intellectual property and fields a squad of very bad people under very familiar names: Bullseye (as Hawkeye), Moonstone (as Ms. Marvel), Mac Gargan (as a black-suited Spider-Man), Daken (as Wolverine), plus the literal god Ares and the extremely unstable Sentry.

The best time for this omnibus to exist would have been last year, given the Thunderbolts* starring Sentry! But, Bendis never goes out of style, and this is one of his greatest hits at Marvel – especially when this evil team bumps up against Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect Dark Avengers together with the Utopia/Exodus crossover in a single oversize hardcover for the first time, adding Siege and some other supporting material to make this a single coherent read of the center ring of Norman Osborn’s Dark Reign.

This would primarily collect the contents of the Dark Avengers Epic Collection – Dark Avengers (2009) #1-16 & Annual 1, Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men (2009) Exodus #1 & Utopia #1, and Uncanny X-Men (1981) #513-514, plus Dark Reign: The Cabal (2009) #1 (by Matt Fraction), and Siege: The Cabal (2010) #1, Siege [Digital] Prologue (2009) #1, and Siege (2010) #1-4 (all by Bendis).

However, that is less than 700 pages of story, so this could also add some supporting mini-series starring member sof this team, including Dark Avengers: Ares (2009) #1-3, Dark Reign: Hawkeye (2009) #1-5, Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man (2009) #1-4, Dark Reign: The Goblin Legacy (2009) #1 Dark X-Men (2009) #1-5, Dark X-Men: The Beginning (2009) #1-3, Dark X-Men: The Confession (2009) #1, an additional Utopia tie-in X-Men Legacy (2008) #226-227, and an epilogue in Osborn (2010) #1-5.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Heroic Age Avengers (2010 – 2012) in Omnibus

Avengers (2010), Avengers Academy (2010), Secret Avengers (2010), & Avengers Assemble (2012)

Only oneAvengers title from this period have been collected comprehensively in oversize hardcover – New Avengers (2010), an extension of the previous somewhat street-level run by Brian Bendis. That leaves us with three more 40-ish issue runs to cover in omnibus! See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present), Guide to Young Avengers & Avengers in Training, and Guide to Secret Warriors & Secret Avengers for details.

Avengers: The Heroic Age by Brian Bendis (2010 – 2012) [Avengers (2010) + Avengers Prime]

After Siege (2009), Brian Bendis reunited a pair of splintered Avengers squads into a single Avengers team… and then split them up again.

Avengers (2010) tracked a team of Avengers headed by the holy Trinity of Cap, Iron Man, & Thor with a worldwide (and even cosmic) scope while New Avengers (2010) continued a tight focus on a smaller-scale team led by Luke Cage.

Marvel has already announced that New Avengers (2010) run for an omnibus later this year, which answers our decade-plus question of if these runs would be collected together or separately. Now we know the answer!

However, before this run starts, Bendis wrote an epilogue to Siege (2009) in Avengers: Prime (2010) #1-5, the first time the Trinity had been together in a book for over half a decade. Since the Trinity go on to anchor this run, it makes perfect sense to collect that here as a prologue.

Also, this will be the last chance for an omnibus to collect I Am an Avenger (2010) #1-5, a book of anthology stories and Avengers oral history. It could also optionally collect Bendis’s introductory run on Avengers Assemble (2010) #1-8 – which is the true finale of his eight years of steering the team.

But, you don’t have to agree with me! A vote for this book is primarily a vote to collect Avengers (2010) – that extra material may or may not be included.

This would collect Avengers: Prime (2010) #1-5, Avengers (2010) #1-34, 24.1, & Annual 1, and optionally Avengers Assemble (2012) #1-8 (Bendis’s final arc on Avengers) and I Am an Avenger (2010) #1-5.

Avengers: Avengers Academy by Christos Gage (2010 – 2012)

After both The Initiative and Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers fell apart during Siege (2009), the newly reunited Avengers chartered their own proper training academy for the first time.

Except, it came with one minor kink (that many readers have forgotten in the past 15 years): the entire first class of students were all potential villains. The Avengers recruited them for training preemptively to try to head off their potentially evil natures.

This book was one of Marvel’s purest academic-focused team books, with a tight focus on a specific group of students, their adventures, and their interpersonal drama. We never quite get a resolution about whether or not they were villains, but it’s a very enjoyable read throughout.

Unfortunately, the only real breakout character from this run has been Hazmat – many of the other heroes have gone forgotten (though one just came back from the dead). However, perhaps there is some marketing heat in the fact that Laura Kinney joins the Academy in the back half of the book. Putting her on the cover could sell some copies!

A vote for this book is to collect all of Avengers Academy (2010) in oversize hardcover for the first time.

This would collect Avengers Academy (2010) #1-39, 14.1, Avengers Academy Giant-Size #1, Thunderbolts (1997) #147, and material from Enter The Heroic Age #1, Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #661-662, Fear Itself: The Home Front (2010) #1-7, and Avengers: Solo (2011) #1-5.

Avengers: Secret Avengers by Brubaker, Spencer, Ellis, & Remender (2010 – 2012) [includes Onslaught Unleashed]

Alongside Bendis’s pair of co-flagships and Avengers Academy, Marvel launched a new title – Secret Avengers. It was effectively the Avengers version of X-Force (sadly, Force Works did not get revived for the purpose). It was a squad assembled specifically by Captain America to handle threats that the main Avengers squads shouldn’t be seen handling.

The run started out with a major pedigree – it was penned by Ed Brubaker, in the middle of his ultra-hot continuing run on Captain America. Brubaker was never one to stay on a team title for long, and after he spent a year on this book he was replaced with Nick Spencer – still a Marvel newbie at the time. After Spencer’s brief run and a marquee arc by Ellis, Rick Remender picked up the title at the same time as his run on the massive Uncanny X-Force (2010), somehow squeezing in 18 issues into a year to deliver both a tie-in to Avengers vs. X-Men (2012) and a pretty massive final arc.

A vote for this book is to collect all of that in oversize hardcover for the first time (aside from the AvX issues, which are in its omnibus). Plus, this can pick up Onslaught Unleashed (2011) #1-4, which essentially stars this entire team.

This would collect Secret Avengers (2010) #1-37, 12.1, & 21.1, Fear Itself: Black Widow (2011) #1, and maybe also Onslaught Unleashed (2011) #1-4. It could add Vengeance of the Moon Knight (2009) #10, which is a full-team appearance.

Avengers: Avengers Assemble by Bendis & DeConnick (2012 – 2014) [could include Endless Wartime OGN]

One of our guiding principles in preparing this poll is to try to avoid double dipping, but this book is an instance where I think it could make sense.

Avengers Assemble (2012) #1-8 started out as an all-stars Avengers squad to perfectly match the cast of the impending Avengers movie and have them face off against Thanos – plus, introduce the Guardians of the Galaxy to a wider audience of readers had hadn’t been keeping up with the past half decade of cosmic Marvel.

After that, Kelly Sue DeConnick took over the title in Marvel Now without a relaunch, at the same time she was steering Carol Danvers in Captain Marvel (2011). DeConnick’s run focused on the book as a team anchored by Danvers and Spider-Woman, despite them both also appearing in Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers at the same time. I actually preferred this book almost every single month they both came out – it had more cast members I enjoyed and a much lighter tone.

Some folks feel strongly that this book shouldn’t exist! They think the Bendis portion should be in his “Heroic Age Avengers,” above, and the DeConnick portion should be in a Hickman Companion, below.

I can’t say that those folks are wrong, but I also know some people like the idea of this title being collected in a single volume. If that describes you, this is the book to vote for! I also think there’s a strong argument to include the Warren Ellis penned Avengers: Endless Wartime OGN here, since he co-plotted some of this material with DeConnick.

This would collect Avengers Assemble (2012) #1-25 & Annual 1 and crossover material from Avengers: The Enemy Within (2013) #1 and Captain Marvel (2011) #13-14 & 17.

Could also include Warren Ellis’s Avengers: Endless Wartime (2013) OGN, since it is a Captain Marvel-led squad and Ellis co-plotted a few of these issues.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Marvel Now Avengers (2013 – 2015) in Omnibus

Marvel Now included a lot of Avengers material, but we only have two omnibuses of it – covering Jonathan Hickman’s smash hit run on Avengers (2012) and New Avengers (2013). That leaves a lot of material still to collect! See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present), Guide to Young Avengers & Avengers in Training, and Guide to Secret Warriors & Secret Avengers for details.

The main spine of Jonathan Hickman’s Avengers is collected in a pair of existing omnibuses. See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) for more details.

EVENT: Age of Ultron (2013 – 2015) [includes AU tie-ins, Avengers A.I., Ultron Forever]

This is fundamentally an Event omnibus collecting all of the Age of Ultron event. However, it also makes sense to collect all of Avengers A.I. (2014) #1-12 here, since it is a direct epilogue to the event.

This would collect Age of Ultron (2013) #1-10 as well as all of its tie-ins: Ultron (2013) #1, Avengers Assemble (2012) #14AU-15AU, Fantastic Four (2012) #5AU, Fearless Defenders (2013) #4AU, Superior Spider-Man (2013) #6AU, Uncanny Avengers (2012) #8AU, Wolverine & the X-Men (2011) #27AU, and Avengers (2012) #10AI.

Then, it would add Avengers A.I. (2014) #1-12, which is an epilogue to the event, a revisitation of the event in What If? Age of Ultron (2014) #1-4 (since the event itself is a What If), and the next Ultron story – Ultron Forever (Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, New Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, & Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1).

It could also add a pair of loosely-related outcomes of the event from Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #5-7 and Hunger (2013) #1-4, but neither have much to do with Ultron.

Avengers: Avengers Assemble by Bendis & DeConnick (2012 – 2014) [could include Endless Wartime OGN]

Yep, it’s this one again!

If this book were to start with Avengers Assemble (2012) #1-8, then it would have enough material to keep collecting into the other 18 issues that were part of Marvel now, plus some supporting material.

However, if you feel strongly that those eight issues ought to be in the final Bendis Avengers omnibus, then the remainder of this would probably move into the Avengers World book, below.

This would collect Avengers Assemble (2012) #1-25 & Annual 1 and crossover material from Avengers: The Enemy Within (2013) #1 and Captain Marvel (2011) #13-14 & 17.

Could also include Warren Ellis’s Avengers: Endless Wartime (2013) OGN, since it is a Captain Marvel-led squad and Ellis co-plotted a few of these issues.

Avengers: Avengers World, The Jonathan Hickman Companion (2012 – 2015) [Avengers World, A+X, other NOW series]

After the Infinity (2013) event, Jonathan Hickman was under pressure to continue developing his pair of Avengers flagships towards the eventual Secret Wars (2015) – with Avengers (2010) often double-shipping.

As a result, a lot of the plots that could have been in the main book but would not have contributed to his main narrative were moved into Avengers World (2014). He co-plotted the initial issues, but but then it continued without his intervention.

I am of the firm belief that you need to read this run to get the full amount of enjoyment from the second Avengers by Jonathan Hickman omnibus! This is where all of the fun that could have been in that book wound up living.

However, there was a lot of other Avengers material happening in Marvel Now! And, not all of them conveniently fit in with another series collection. A+X (2012) is another likely candidate to be collected here, as are a series of abandoned Avengers Annuals not written by Hickman.

A vote for this book is a vote to wrangle basically every Marvel Now Avengers comic not otherwise collected in omnibus into a single line – which might wind up being two books.

This would collect Avengers World (2014) #1-21, Avengers (2012) #34.1-34.2, and material from All-New Marvel Now! Point One. Plus, I think it would make sense to include Uncanny Avengers (2012) Annual 1, New Avengers (2013) Annual 1, and Avengers (2012) Annual 1.

It could also include A+X (2013) #1-18, plus other errata like Avengers: Endless Wartime (2013) OGN, Avengers A.I. (2013) #1-12, Avengers: Millennium (2015) #1-6, and Ultron Forever (Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, New Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, & Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1).

Finally, if Avengers Assemble (2012) #1-8 are included in a final Bendis Avengers omnibus, it is likely this book could also include Avengers Assemble (2012) #9-25 & Annual 1, crossover material from Avengers: The Enemy Within (2013) #1 and Captain Marvel (2011) #13-14 & 17, and Warren Ellis’s Avengers: Endless Wartime (2013) OGN.

Avengers: Avengers Arena & Undercover by Dennis Hopeless (2012 – 2014)

This is a straightforward collection of the pair of Dennis Hopeless sequels to Avengers Academy (2010).

At the time, fans were very attached to the young Avengers Academy characters and seriously disliked the idea of them being pushed into a Hunger Games battle royale together in Avengers Arena (2013). Fans were vicious and there was just no patience to see how this series unfurled (even though it only really wound up killing one or two characters).

However, the series was popular enough to spawn a brief sequel in Avengers Undercover (2014), which followed the surviving young Avengers into feigned villainy (finally fulfilling the promise of Avengers Academy!).

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect both runs in oversize format for the first time.

This would collect Avengers Arena (2013) #1-18 & Avengers Undercover (2014) #1-10

Avengers: Secret Avengers by Spencer & Kot (2013 – 2015)

The Secret Avengers brand continued from the Heroic Age into Marvel Now, although it transformed from being less of a super-powered X-Force into more of a super-secret team full of James Bonds (with an occasional Hulk as a nuclear option).

This is largely anchored by Black Widow and Hawkeye, which gives it a solid marketing angle in a post-MCU world. The first run of this book was written by Nick Spencer just as he was getting really hot as a writer, and the second was written by Ales Kot – whose dense plots and absurd turns I’ve always been obsessed with.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect both series together in a single oversize volume.

This would collect Secret Avengers (2013) #1-16, Secret Avengers (2014) #1-15, a story from Marvel Now! Point One, and Original Sin: Secret Avengers (Infinite Comic) (2014) #1-2.

Avengers by Al Ewing (2014 & on) [Mighty, New, USA, Wasp, Inc]

Over the past few years of polls we have struggled with how to contain Al Ewing’s web of Avengers-adjacent titles in a series of poll options with as little double-dipping as possible.

With the release of this year’s Avengers: No Surrender / No Road Home omnibus, things have become slightly clearer. It now feels like there is a way to separate Ewing’s Avengers material from his more cosmic-flavored work. That might not be what Marvel does in the end, but it seems like the best way to delineate options for this poll.

First, there’s Ewing’s run on a pair of street-level Mighty Avengers series during Marvel Now, where he took over developing Luke Cage, pulled in Sam Wilson as Captain America, and brought Monica Rambeau and Blue Adam back to prominence.

Then, he wrote two different runs at once during All-New All-Different Marvel – one silly and somewhat youthful pair of series on New Avengers (2015) and U.S.Avengers (2017) – both culminating in the writer-go-round weekly event No Surrender.

Then, a bit later, Ewing returned with 10 issues focused on Janet Van Dyne in Wasp (2023) and Avengers Inc. (2023).

Should the scope of this also include Ewing’s pair of Ultimates series? After a lengthy debate amongst the Mapping Minties, this year we decided that work is better grouped with Ewing’s work on Defenders due to overlaps in plot. In terms of character arcs, only Monica Rambeau really connects those books to anything that comes afterward. But… we could be wrong! Marvel could go in the other direction.

A vote for this book is a vote to kick off an “Avengers by Al Ewing” line, which might collect some or all of that material.

This would begin to collect Mighty Avengers (2014) #1-15 and Captain America & The Mighty Avengers (2014) #1-9 (and maybe also Captain Britain & The Mighty Defenders #1-2), Ultron Forever (Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, New Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, & Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1), New Avengers (2015) #1-18, U.S.Avengers (2017) #1-12, and material from Avengers (2015) #0.

It could potentially continue to Wasp (2023) #1-5 and Avengers Inc. (2023) #1-5.

While this could also potentially include Ultimates (2015) #1-11, The Ultimates2 (2016) #1-9 & 100, those stories connect more strongly to Ewing’s Defenders storylines and we have mapped them togethere elsewhere on the poll.

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: All-New All Different Avengers (2015 – 2018) in Omnibus

This year we got one omnis that wraps up this period of Avengers in Avengers: No Surrender / No Road Home, but we’re still missing all of the runs that lead up to that! See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) for more details.

Avengers by Mark Waid (2015 – 2018)

Mark Waid took the reigns of the primary Avengers flagship coming out of Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars (2015). Waid anchored his team with Sam Wilson as Captain America and Jane Foster as Thor, plus a number of young legacy heroes like Kamala Khan, Miles Morales, and the Unstoppable Wasp (though some of them would later spin off into Champions (2016) in the wake of Civil War II (2016).

Despite some fan clamor to the tune of “not my Avengers,” Waid delivered one of the most classic-feeling Avengers runs of the past 20 years, just with an all-new cast. This is modern Avengers for people who enjoy classic runs by Roy Thomas, Roger Stern, or Kurt Busiek.

A vote for this book is to collect all of Waid’s Avengers into a single book for the first time up to (but probably not including) the sixteen issues of No Surrender.

This would collect Avengers (2015) #0, All-New, All-Different Avengers (2015) #1-15 & Annual 1, Avengers (2016) #1-11 & 1.1-5.1, Avengers (2017 / 1963) #672-674, and Champions (2016) #13-15.

It could also add all of Avengers: No Surrender from Avengers (2017 / 1963) #675-690, but now that is already collected in omnibus.

Avengers by Al Ewing (2014 & on) [Mighty, New, USA, Wasp, Inc]

As explained above, this book covers all of Ewing’s prolific Avengers writing in this period across several distinct runs.

This would begin to collect Mighty Avengers (2014) #1-15 and Captain America & The Mighty Avengers (2014) #1-9 (and maybe also Captain Britain & The Mighty Defenders #1-2), Ultron Forever (Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, New Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1, & Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever (2015) #1), New Avengers (2015) #1-18, U.S.Avengers (2017) #1-12, and material from Avengers (2015) #0.

It could potentially continue to Wasp (2023) #1-5 and Avengers Inc. (2023) #1-5.

While this could also potentially include Ultimates (2015) #1-11, The Ultimates2 (2016) #1-9 & 100, those stories connect more strongly to Ewing’s Defenders storylines and we have mapped them togethere elsewhere on the poll.

Avengers: Uncanny Avengers by Duggan & Zub (2015 – 2018) [could include orphaned Remender material]

Alongside Mark Waid’s flagship team and Al Ewing’s dual runs, All-New All-Different Marvel launched with a new run of Uncanny Avengers (2015) with a team helmed by an aged Captain America with a sassy Rogue as his squad leader, and membership that included Deadpool, Quicksilver, Cable, Wasp, and several Inhumans.

This run is overlooked by a lot of fans as “being fish nor fowl” – it’s like an X-Men book with Avengers plots, or visa versa, but it never quite feels like both blended into one. However, if you can get over the mashup quality of the cast it’s a solid read – even with Duggan hands off scripting duties to Jim Zub in the end run.

Some folks want to push the remainder of Rick Remender’s pre-Secret Wars (2015) Uncanny Avengers into this book. While I wouldn’t put up a strong argument against that, I think that brief arc belongs in an AXIS Omnibus, as noted above. The “2015” in this year range allows you to assume it would wind up here, if you want. However, Remender’s Avengers: Rage of Ultron (2015) could fit here – or, it could be in Waid’s book, above. It stars Waid’s cast, but it has plot elements that are continued in this run.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of this Uncanny Avengers run in one place! If you insist that Duggan’s Uncanny Avengers (2023) #1-5 get mashed into this I won’t put up a fight, but that’s squarely a part of “The Fall of X” and wouldn’t make much sense here divorced from this run by a full five years (during which all of Krakoa happens)

This would collect Uncanny Avengers (2015B) #1-30, material from Avengers (2015) #0, and perhaps also Remender’s Avengers: Rage of Ultron (2015) OGN, which ties into this run. It could also add Uncanny Avengers (2015A) #1-5. But, it does not collect (2015B) Annual 1, which is a Scarlet Witch tie-in by James Robinson.

Hawkeye: Clint Barton – All-New, All-Different (2015 & on) [follows Fraction; Lemire, Occupy Avengers, etc]

This would pick up the short-lived Hawkeye vehicle Occupy Avengers (2016) #1-8, as well as all of Clint Barton’s solo material following the Hawkeye by Matt Fraction omnibus.

This would collect Hawkeye vs. Deadpool (2014) #0-4, All-New Hawkeye (2015A) #1-5, All-New Hawkeye (2015B) #1-6, Occupy Avengers (2016) #1-8, Hawkeye (2016) #13-16 (which is Kate’s title, but Clint co-stars in this arc), Generations: Hawkeye & Hawkeye (2017) #1, Tales of Suspense (2017) #100-104 (a Client + Bucky team-up), Hawkeye: Freefall (2020) #1-5, Thunderbolts (2022) #1-5, Avengers (2018) #60, Black Widow & Hawkeye (2024) #1-4

Avengers Omnibus Mapping: Marvel Fresh Start Avengers (2018 – Present) in Omnibus

We already have a trio of omnibus volumes from this period – but none of them contain a flagship run! We have Savage Avengers, collecting a team headlined by Conan; Heroes Reborn, an alternate reality event in the middle of Jason Aaron’s run; and Avengers Forever by Jason Aaron, the epic conclusion to his run. And, technically Avengers: No Surrender / No Road Home includes material that occurs during Aaron’s run.

What’s missing? The actual Jason Aaron run! Plus, some supporting runs from alongside it, and the recently-concluded Jed MacKay run that followed. See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) for more details.

Avengers by Jason Aaron Vol. 1 (2018 – 2020)

Marvel has collected the end of this run in Avengers Forever by Jason Aaron, but we still need everything leading up to that point!

Aaron penned a half-decade epic that put a main squad of Avengers back in the big league of dealing with threats to the entire planet. While this began with a cast largely analagous to the MCU, over time to drifted to include some smaller characters as Aaron wove together a surprising complete version of the history of the Avengers without relying too much on nostaglia in his plotting.

A vote for this book is a vote to kick off collecting the main portion of Jason Aaron’s run, which couldn’t quite fit into a single volume.

This would likely collect Avengers (2018) #1-30, and material from Free Comic Book Day 2018 (Avengers/Captain America) #1, material from Free Comic Book Day 2019 (Avengers/Savage Avengers) #1 (Avengers Story), and maybe material from Marvel Legacy (2017) #1 and Incoming! (2019) #1

It could be padded with Non-Aaron material such as Avengers: Back to Basics (2018) #1-6 and other Avengers one-shots from this period.

Then, a second volume would likely continue to This would collect Avengers (2018) #31-62, Avengers 1,000,000 BC (2022) #1, and material from Free Comic Book Day 2021: Avengers/Hulk #1 (Avengers Story), and maybe Phoenix Song: Echo (2021) #1-5.

That second volume could be padded with non-Aaron material including Avengers Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) #1-65, All-Out Avengers (2022) #1-5, Avengers Beyond (2023) #1-5, & Avengers: War Across Time (2023) #1-5. However, some of that material could easily anchor its own omnibus, listed separately.

The Heroes Reborn omnibus collects the alternate reality event from the middle of Aaron’s run. Avengers Forever by Jason Aaron collects the end of Jason Aaron’s Avengers run. See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present).

Avengers: Conan & The Savage Avengers Companion (2019 – 2022) [No Road Home, Serpent War, Serpent Crown, Savage Avengers (2022)]

Didn’t I say we already have an omnibus with “No Road Home” in the title! If we do, then what is this!?

Well… throughout the period of 2019 to 2023, Conan the Barbarian occupied the present day of the Marvel Universe. However, due to licensing restrictions, he couldn’t appear in the main Avengers squad. He was restricted to appearing in books with his name in the title as well as Avengers: No Road Home (2019), which is what introduced him to the present day, and the subsequent Savage Avengers (2019).

We have that No Surrender / No Road Home omnibus and a Savage Avengers by Gerry Duggan omnibus. What we don’t have is a pair of modern-day Conan mini-series and a subsequent 10-issue Savage Avengers (2022) redux not by Duggan.

That’s already 19 issues – enough for a slim omnibus. However, to make it a proper companion to the Savage Avengers omnibus, I strong suspect it could also simply repeat the 10 issues of No Road Home, which is the only other modern day Conan material. If Marvel is going to license all the other stuff that would appear here, they might as well include that, too.

This would collect Conan’s modern day appearances outside of Savage Avengers (2019), which already exists in omnibus. This includes Avengers: No Road Home (2019) #1-10; Conan: Serpent War (2020) #1-4; Conan: Battle for the Serpent Crown (2020) #1-5; Savage Avengers (2022) #1-10

Avengers: Avengers United by Derek Landy et al (2022 – 2025) [All-Out, Beyond, Unlimited, & United]

Derek Landy quietly amassed a substantial run on Avengers team comics between a pair of all-action mini-series that tributed the original Secret Wars and penning a pair of mega-arcs on the second of two Avengers Infinity Comics series. Despite Infinity Comics being being brief installments, Landy’s run adds up to the equivalent of another mini-series.

If we padded this out with the rest of the never-collected pair of Infinity Comics series, suddenly we have a pretty substantial omnibus – about half of which is by Landy.

Marvel hasn’t shown much appetite to print their Infinity Comics apart from It’s Jeff, but a vote for this book could signal that there’s a demand to see them all in oversize format – especially as Landy’s star continues to rise at Marvel.

This would collect Avengers Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) #1-65, All-Out Avengers (2022) #1-5, Avengers Beyond (2023) #1-5. Avengers United Infinity Comic (2023) #1-63, and could add Savage Avengers (2022) #1-10 (if it would not be in a Conan-focused book).

Optionally, an all-Landy book could include the full sequence of “Infinity Watch” annuals and the subsequent Infinity Watch (2024) #1-5. (The annuals were Thanos (2024) Annual 1/2024, Amazing Spider-Man (2022) Annual 1/2024, Immortal Thor (2023) Annual 1/2024, Ms. Marvel (2024) Annual 1/2024, Wolverine (2024) Annual 1/2024, Incredible Hulk (2024) Annual 1/2024, Moon Knight (2024) Annual 1/2024, Spider-Boy (2023) Annual 1/2024, and Avengers (2022) 1/2024).

Avengers by Jed MacKay (2023 – 2026) [includes Timeless]

After the conclusion of Jason Aaron’s run on Avengers (2023), the red-hot Jed MacKay took over the team fresh from his cult hit run on Black Cat and an explosively popular (and still continuing) run on Moon Knight.

I make no secret about how much I adore Jed MacKay’s run on Avengers. To me, it felt like the Avengers as the Justice League. Each cast member was iconic and irreplacable. All of them worked together to create a machine that was more than the sum of its parts. And, that machine was tasked with defending the entire Earth – even while knowing their defense of it could be the thing that led to its destruction… or, at least, that’s what Kang tried to convince them of.

This run feels like it got cut slightly short due to losing almost a whole year of issues to pivoting twice to tie in to MacKay’s own Blood Hunt (2024) as well as One World Under Doom (2025). However, I still think it will be a satisfying read in omnibus – plus, MacKay remains red hot, and this book was a break-out for Farid Karami – my favorite interior artist of 2025.

This would collect Avengers (2023) #1-36, Timeless (2021) #1, and Timeless (2022) #1. It might also collect Blood Hunt (2024) #1-5, since that was essentially an arc of Avengers starring the entire cast of this book. However, Avengers Annual 2023 was part of “Contest of Chaos” and Annual 2024 was part of “Infinity Watch,” neither by MacKay.

Avengers by Al Ewing (2014 & on) [Mighty, New, USA, Wasp, Inc]

Technically, the final contents of this volume – Wasp (2023), and Avengers Inc. (2023) – occur during Avengers (2023) by Jed MacKay.

Iron Man & The West Coast Avengers by Gerry Duggan (2023 – 2025) [could include I Am Iron Man]

While this volume would primarily collect Gerry Duggan’s run on Invincible Iron Man (2023), which was 80% an X-Men title (long story), it would also very likely have the ten issues of his subsequent run on West Coast Avengers (2024). That book directly continued plots from his Iron Man run and would make virtually no sense collected on its own or with another Avengers title.

This would collect Invincible Iron Man (2023) #1-20 & Annual 1 and West Coast Avengers (2024) #1-10. It could add I Am Iron Man (2023) #1-5 and possibly Wonder Man (2026).

Avengers: Avengers Academy – Marvel’s Voices by Anthony Oliveira (2024 – 2025)

Anthony Oliveira took what could have been a throwaway digital antholgy title used as a ghetto to collect Marvel’s young queer characters and turned it into a GLAAD Award-winning book that was one of Marvel’s best and most-consistent team titles of the past two years!

Oliveira and his team of artists delivered full comic-length issues in vertical scroll format on a near-weekly basis for more than a year! Along the way, we not only got to spend quality time with characters like Captain America of the Railways, Blade’s daughter Bloodline, Escapade, Moon Girl, and Red Goblin, but we also went on a deep dive through Marvel history that stretched from J. M. DeMatteis’s run on Captain America through unresolved plot beats from Ann Nocenti’s Daredevil and early Generation X, all the way to Christos Gage’s Avengers Academy.

This book was a love letter to everything queer in the Marvel Universe – both textually queer and carefully coded as queer adjacent. I would love to see it collected into a single oversize tome – especially since only the first six issues have ever been in print!

This would collect Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2022) #95-100, Kid Juggernaut: Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2024) #1-6 [AKA Kid Juggernaut (2025) #1], and Avengers Academy: Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2024) #0 & 1-60.

Unlike other Infinity Comics, these issues are *close* to full issue length, so this would be a big book! However, it could make sense to include Bloodline: Daughter of Blade (2023) #1-5 here, since Bloodline is a major player in this series and it leans into her continuity.

For the moment, we’ve abandoned Avengers Assemble (2024) #1-5 by Steve Orlando which pairs with Astonishing Avengers Infinity Comic (2025) #1-30, because it’s a bit short for an omnibus and there is other potentially-abandoned material like Superior Avengers (2025) by Steve Foxe that we could add to it. Clearly, new Avengers material from Chip Zdarsky is just the start of his Marvel mega-event, so it’s too soon to speculate about collecting it. See Guide to Avengers (2010 – Present) for collection details.