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 X-Men omnibus map for story material from 1963 to 2000 that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus.
To be very clear, this post only deals with books with “X-Men” in the title – and only through 2000! Stories from 2001 and onward will continue in a post tomorrow. Other X-Teams will be in one of my upcoming posts.
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 only released one X-Men omnibus with pre-2000 material in 2025, but in 2026 we’re on a hot streak of classic material. We’re getting X-Men: Road To Onslaught Vol. 2 next week; X-Men: The Trial of Gambit in May to continue our post-Onslaught coverage; X-Men: Blue & Gold – Bloodties [AKA Vol. 3] in August after multiple sell-outs of the first Blue & Gold book; and the hotly-anticipated classic omnibus of Uncanny X-Men Vol. 6 is due in October.
Plus, there’s post-2000 material coming in omnibus as well – Uncanny X-Men by Kieron Gillen, X-Men: The Messiah Trilogy, X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Dawn of X Vol. 2, X-Men: Age of Krakoa – Reign of X Omnibus Vol. 1, Way Of X [AKA Nightcrawler by Simon Spurrier], and X-Men: Age of Krakoa by Kieron Gillen!
That means fully 15% of all Marvel omnibuses out in 2026 are X-Men flagship omnibuses! And that doesn’t even take into account other X-Teams or solo heroes.
Where does that leave us when it comes to pre-2000 coverage of flagship books? Many of the books people will be voting for on this poll will be recollecting issues already in another oversize format, but in an improved reading order. In terms of original, never-before-oversize collections of pre-2000 story material we’re now down to ONLY TWO BOOKS.
🚨 TWO MORE OMNIS FOR COMPLETE PRE-2000 FLAGSHIP X-MEN COVERAGE 🚨
I’ll explain all of that below, plus highlight a series of retcon stories set prior to 2000 that we could see collected 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.
That includes the original two guides that kicked it all off – Guide to X-Men by Chris Claremont (1975 – 1991), plus Guide to Uncanny X-Men in the 90s & Guide to X-Men Vol. 2 (1991 – 2001).
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!
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 Wolverine 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 – Daken, Old Man Logan, & X-23!
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 Thor omnibus map – including all of Asgard’s heroes – for material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus – all of which will appear as options on the 2026 poll.