113 hand-picked books, each with a real reason it works and who it is for. Sorted by budget. Bagged, boarded and shipped by people who read this stuff.
Paperback first volumes, pocket-size DC Compacts and fresh issues in a bag and board. Every one of these is a real book, not merch.
The Turtle gang find themselves STRANDED AT SEA on a SINKING SHIP with a HUNGRY MUTATED SHARK hiding just out of sight ready to make TURTLE SOUP, which he can do because he has BIG MUTATED ARMS. How are they going to get out of this one?! No, really—if you know, please tell them!IDW Publishing · Andrew Joustra, Louie Joyce, Enid Balám
Leonardo and Karai go toe-to-toe with a mysterious warrior, who will humble Leonardo in ways he’s never experienced! Donatello and his exploratory team have been shrunk down and meet other people from Earth who have suffered their same fate. And will anyone be able to stop the wrath of a mega-mutated Raphael?!IDW Publishing · Peter Laird, Jim Lawson, Michael Dooney
As Shredder settles into his new role as the leader of the EPF, he uncovers some of the deep, dark secrets of the organization’s past. But with the return of Agent Ravenwood, if he isn’t careful, the next body the agency buries might be his.IDW Publishing · Dan Watters, Sid Kotian, Giona Zefiro
Enter THE CITY THAT NEVER DIES! It’s time for Shredder to test the mettle of his new army, so he throws them into the onslaught of the undead in an assessment mission only he could devise. But, as with everything the Shredder does, there’s more to his plan than first meets the eye…IDW Publishing · Dan Watters, Sid Kotian, Giona Zefiro
Witness the epic finale of “The City That Never Dies” as the city…dies?! Leo, Donnie, and Master Splinter journey through all the lands of all the dead to revive the Tree of Fates and send the undead back to where they belong. Will they be able to complete their quest before General Eight Thunders and his undead army take over New York?!IDW Publishing · Gene Luen Yang, Fero ...
Kelly Thompson and Mattia De Iulis start a four-issue Universal Monsters miniseries: the Bride, alive, with no memory of what she is. First issue, first printing, ships the week of October 28.
Horror fans. Universal Monsters fans. Collectors who want #1s.
TMNT: Journeys #15, Dooney and Lawson cover. A current issue for the Turtles reader, in a bag and board, ships the week of November 4.
Stocking stuffer for a Turtles fan who reads the monthly books.
Kazuo Umezz is the godfather of horror manga (The Drifting Classroom). Serpent: a sister falls ill, the other sister cares for her, and something is wrong. Hardcover from UDON.
Horror manga readers. Junji Ito fans who want the source.
Pokemon Adventures: Red and Blue is the manga that follows the original games. This deluxe edition collects Vol 1 in hardcover. Hidenori Kusaka and Mato.
Kids 8 and up. Anyone who played Red or Blue.
Daredevil Vol 1: Tomorrow’s Devil collects the start of the current run by Stephanie Phillips. 128 pages. A clean starting point that does not require any older comics.
Fans of the Daredevil shows. New readers.
A facsimile edition reprints the original issue as it was: same cover, same pages, same ads. This is the first Swamp Thing #1, Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson, for the price of a coffee.
Horror fans. Collectors who cannot afford the 1972 original. Stocking stuffer.
Amazing Spider-Man: Halloween Special #1. Hallows’ Eve pulls a heist, Spider-Man gets a new costume, and it is a single self-contained issue. Ships the week of October 21.
Spider-Man fans of any age. Stocking stuffer or Halloween treat.
James Tynion IV’s Something Is Killing the Children: monsters only kids can see, and Erica Slaughter, who kills them. Vol 10 collects the latest arc. 160 pages.
Anyone reading the series. Horror fans who have not started it should begin with Vol 1; ask us.
Saturday Morning Adventures continues the original cartoon: same voices in your head, same Shredder, same pizza jokes. Vol 9 collects the latest issues. All ages.
Kids 6 and up. Parents who watched the original show.
The Naruto and TMNT crossover in a right-to-left manga-format paperback. 104 pages. Two fandoms, one book, under eleven dollars.
Kids and teens who read manga. Naruto fans. Turtles fans.
TMNT: Journeys is drawn by Jim Lawson, who drew the Turtles at Mirage in the 80s and 90s. Vol 2 collects the next stretch of the series. 200 pages, IDW.
Turtles fans who want the classic look. Teens and adults.
The Doom Patrol #1 launches DC’s Next Level line. Written by Eisner winner Darcy Van Poelgeest (Little Bird), drawn by Niko Henrichon (Pride of Baghdad). The team is broke and working as heroes for hire. First printings of #1 issues are the ones collectors look for later.
Collectors. Fans of the Doom Patrol TV show. Easy add-on to any order.
Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman’s Absolute Wonder Woman won the industry’s top award. Diana is the last Amazon, raised in Hell by the witch Circe, riding a skeletal horse and carrying a sword taller than she is. Collects #1 to #6. Sherman’s art looks like nothing else on the shelf.
Wonder Woman fans. Fantasy readers. Teenagers who like big art.
Jason Aaron (Thor, Scalped) writes a Kal-El who lands on a corporate-run Earth with nobody to raise him. Rafa Sandoval draws it. Collects #1 to #6. The most political of the three Absolute launch books.
Superman fans who think they have read every version. Readers who liked the 2025 Superman film and want more grit.
Jeff Lemire (Sweet Tooth, Essex County) writes the Absolute Flash as a coming-of-age story: Wally on the run from the military base that made him. Nick Robles draws it. Collects #1 to #6.
Teen readers. Lemire fans. Anyone who wants a superhero book with a real character arc.
Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta’s Absolute Batman #1 was DC’s best-selling first issue in years. This paperback collects #1 to #6: a Bruce Wayne with no fortune and no manor, fighting the Party Animals gang with an axe. Reads in one sitting. Needs no prior comics knowledge.
Someone who has never read a comic. Batman fans who stopped reading years ago. Teens and adults.
The hardcover of Absolute Batman Vol 1. Sewn binding, dust jacket, the format that survives twenty rereads. Give this version when the gift needs to look like a gift.
Batman readers who collect hardcovers. Anyone starting a shelf.
Geoff Johns and Jim Lee’s Justice League: Origin is the modern first meeting of the League, with Darkseid as the villain. 160 pages in the pocket-size DC Compact format. Every hero they know from the movies, in one book.
Kids 9 and up. Anyone who knows the characters from film and wants one book with all of them.
Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ Mister Miracle: an escape artist who cannot escape his own head. 312 pages in DC’s Compact format, about the size of a manga volume. One of the most acclaimed comics of the last ten years at the price of a magazine.
Adults who read novels but have never picked up a comic. Watchmen fans.
Absolute Batman #23, Nick Dragotta cover, first printing. Batman versus the Robins. Bagged and boarded the day it arrived. Fits in a card or a stocking.
Stocking stuffer for anyone reading Absolute Batman. Pair it with the Vol 1 paperback for a full starter gift under $25.
Hardcovers, deluxe editions and 500-page Epic Collections. This is where most comic gifts should land, and where the value is silly.
Adaptations of the Marie Lu, Leigh Bardugo and Sarah J. Maas DC Icons novels, in one box. Made for teens who read YA fantasy.
Teen readers, especially ones who already read Bardugo or Maas.
Tomasi and Gleason’s Super Sons: two kids who cannot stand each other becoming a team. Funny, all-ages, and the best kids’ book DC has done in years.
Kids 8 to 13. Parents who read DC.
The 1985 event that killed the Flash and Supergirl and reset the DC universe. George Perez drawing every character DC owned. 496 pages with extras.
DC fans who want the event everything else references.
The Eisner-winning 12-issue series, deluxe hardcover. The same story as the $7.99 Compact, in the format that lasts.
Adults who read novels. Anyone who liked the Compact and wants the shelf copy.
Kara takes a job as a bodyguard for a girl hunting her father’s killer across the galaxy. Eight issues, deluxe hardcover, and the best-drawn DC comic of its year.
Anyone who saw the film. Readers who want a self-contained story.
The three 80s and 90s graphic novels that built the Ra’s al Ghul and Talia story, including the birth of Damian Wayne. 304 pages.
Batman fans who read the Damian era and want the origin.
The 1986 book that made Batman old, angry and popular again. Slipcased collector’s edition.
New readers. Anyone who has seen the animated film.
The origin story Man of Steel borrowed from: Clark as a journalist abroad, the first year in Metropolis, Luthor as a childhood acquaintance. 328 pages.
New Superman readers. Fans of the films.
Jim Starlin and Jim Aparo’s A Death in the Family plus A Lonely Place of Dying. The most famous Batman story of the 80s after Dark Knight Returns.
Batman fans. Pair with Under the Red Hood.
Jason Todd comes back from the dead. The complete Red Hood origin in one oversized hardcover.
Batman fans. Anyone who came in through the animated film.
Dick Grayson is Batman, Gordon’s son comes home, and Gotham gets a serial killer story. Snyder’s first Batman work and still his scariest. Deluxe hardcover.
Batman fans who like crime and horror. Absolute Batman readers who want Snyder’s earlier work.
Azrael, a secret in the Wayne family history, and the Joker back in play. Sean Murphy’s second White Knight book, oversized.
Anyone who read White Knight.
Jack Napier is cured, runs for office, and puts Batman on trial. Written and drawn by Sean Murphy. Deluxe hardcover, and the first book in the series that Beyond the White Knight continues.
Batman readers who want something new. Start here before Curse and Beyond.
Every villain in Gotham at once, Jim Lee drawing all of them. The most popular Batman story of the 2000s, in an anniversary hardcover with extras.
New Batman readers. Jim Lee fans.
The Halloween specials that came before The Long Halloween: Scarecrow, Mad Hatter, ghosts of Gotham. 200 pages, oversized deluxe hardcover.
Batman fans. Anyone who wants a Halloween comic that is not gore.
Ten friends get invited to a lake house by the one they never quite understood, and the world ends while they are there. Tynion (Something Is Killing the Children) and Alvaro Martinez Bueno. The whole 12-issue series, 424 pages.
Horror readers who want something recent and complete. Fans of SIKTC.
A techno-organic virus turns six hundred million people, and the Justice League, into killers. Tom Taylor and Trevor Hairsine. The first DCeased series plus extras in a deluxe hardcover.
Walking Dead fans who like capes. DC readers who want something bleak.
Oversized hardcover, black and white art, and a note for every reference Gaiman slipped in. For the reader who has read Sandman twice and wants to know what they missed.
Sandman rereaders. Literature people.
The Danny Ketch Ghost Rider from 1990, Mark Texeira art, collected in order.
Marvel fans who grew up in the 90s. Horror fans who like superheroes.
Reprints Vampirella Magazine issues 50 to 56: over thirty tales of terror from the 70s Warren era, with art by Jose Gonzalez, Howard Chaykin and Richard Corben. 328 pages.
Classic horror comics fans. Art collectors. Anyone who had the magazines.
The IDW Collection reprints the main TMNT series and its tie-ins in reading order. Volume 11 continues the run. 392 pages.
Turtles fans collecting the IDW run.
Vagabond is Inoue’s retelling of the life of Miyamoto Musashi and one of the most praised manga ever drawn. The Definitive Edition prints three volumes at large size in a textured hardcover.
Manga readers. Anyone who loves ink drawing.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is the 1960s-set horror take that Netflix adapted. This deluxe hardcover collects the series. 240 pages, Oni Press.
Fans of the show. Horror readers. Archie fans who liked Afterlife with Archie.
Rachel wakes up in a shallow grave and walks back into her small town. From the creator of Strangers in Paradise: witches, murder, and some of the best black-and-white cartooning in comics. The whole series, one book.
Readers of Locke & Key or Something Is Killing the Children. People who read novels and want a comic with the same weight.
The second Absolute Wonder Woman collection. Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman dig into the mothers who raised Diana in Hell and the deal that put her on Earth. Hardcover, matches Vol 1.
Anyone who read The Last Amazon.
The second Absolute Superman collection. Jason Aaron brings in Ra’s al Ghul and forces Kal-El to pick a side. Rafa Sandoval art. Hardcover with dust jacket.
Anyone who read Last Dust of Krypton.
The second Absolute Batman collection. Snyder and Dragotta introduce Absolute Bane and the cost of Bruce’s one-man war goes up. Hardcover with dust jacket, matches Vol 1 on the shelf.
Anyone who read Vol 1. Look at their shelf: if The Zoo is there and Abomination is not, this is the gift.
Titan’s Conan the Barbarian is the run that brought sword-and-sorcery fans back. This boxed set collects volumes 4 to 6 in hardcover with a slipcase, so it arrives looking like a present.
Fantasy readers. Robert E. Howard fans. Anyone who had the 70s Marvel Conan magazines.
Marvel’s Epic Collections reprint a run in order, in color, nothing skipped. This one is the middle of the Clone Saga: Ben Reilly, Kaine, and a Peter Parker who is not sure he is the real one. The storyline 90s kids remember.
Spider-Man fans who grew up in the 90s. Anyone collecting the Epic Collection line.
A complete stretch of the Daredevil run, in order, nothing skipped. Hell’s Kitchen crime stories, the tone the TV show was built on.
Fans of the Daredevil shows who have never read the comics. Crime readers.
Collects the Marvel Darth Vader series that starts the day after Episode III: Vader builds his red lightsaber, hunts the surviving Jedi, and learns what the suit costs him. Canon.
Star Wars fans from teen up. Prequel defenders especially.
IDW’s ongoing TMNT is the longest-running Turtles comic ever made. Compendium Vol 3 collects the next chunk of the run in one paperback.
Turtles fans of any age. Kids who came in through Mutant Mayhem. Adults who never left.
IDW’s Godzilla: Here There Be, collected start to finish. No waiting for the next volume. Big monster fights with an actual plot.
Godzilla fans coming off the films. Kids 10 and up who like monsters.
Based on the Shudder series. Each story is a few pages by a different top creator, so it reads like the show: fast, nasty, done. Book 2 collects the second volume in a deluxe hardcover with a Chris Burnham cover.
Horror fans. Anyone who grew up on Tales from the Crypt.
JSA is the 2000s DC run fans still name as one of the best team books ever written: Geoff Johns, David Goyer, Kevin Smith, with art by Rags Morales, Carlos Pacheco and others. Compendium 02 continues the run in one brick of a paperback. About four cents a page.
DC fans who miss the pre-2011 universe. Anyone who wants a gift that lasts a month.
Batman: Beyond the White Knight moves Murphy’s White Knight universe into the future: an older Bruce, a Gotham that moved on, and the Joker relationship that made the first book a hit. 304 pages, oversized deluxe hardcover.
Anyone who owns White Knight and Curse of the White Knight. Batman Beyond fans.
The Bronze Age horror run that started it all, the one Alan Moore later took over. Wrightson’s art is the draw: this is the best-looking monster book DC ever printed, and DC Finest prints it properly.
Horror readers. Fans of Sandman, Hellboy or Wrightson.
DC Finest collects whole eras in fat color paperbacks. This volume is the turn of the 70s into the 80s: Len Wein, Dennis O’Neil, Don Newton and Irv Novick on Batman and Detective Comics. The stories today’s Batman writers keep referencing. Cheaper per page than anything else on this list.
Batman fans who have read all the modern books. Anyone who read these as a kid.
CGC 9.8 certified books, slipcased sets and art books. Slabs ship about 12 weeks after release, so they are a January surprise.
The complete anthology, every volume, one book. Same pages as the box set for half the price.
Artists. Batman fans on a budget.
Issues #164 to #176 and the specials, the start of the run that rebuilt the Rogues. Scott Kolins art.
Flash fans who finished Waid.
Bill Willingham’s fairy tale characters in exile in New York. Compendium 2 covers the war and its aftermath. Currently sells above cover on the secondary market.
Fantasy readers. Anyone who has Compendium 1.
Dick Grayson leaves Gotham for Bludhaven. The start of the definitive Nightwing run in one compendium paperback.
Nightwing fans. Bat-family readers.
Raven, Beast Boy and Beast Boy Loves Raven, the New York Times bestselling YA series, in a hardcover box set.
Teens 12 and up. Readers who came in through Picolo’s art online.
Terry McGinnis in 2039 Gotham, in the Bruce Timm style. The complete classic run in one paperback.
Kids and teens who found the show. Fans of Beyond the White Knight.
The Batman and Robin Adventures comics in the Bruce Timm style, by Paul Dini and Ty Templeton. Every issue, one omnibus.
Kids who watch the show. Adults who grew up on it.
Superman Adventures #1 to #28 plus extras, by Paul Dini, Scott McCloud and Mark Millar, in the cartoon style. All ages.
Kids. Anyone who wants a Superman comic with no continuity.
Mark Millar’s Red Son: Superman raised as a Soviet hero, Batman as a resistance fighter, Luthor as an American. Absolute format, slipcased.
Superman fans. Alternate-history readers.
Clark leaves Smallville for Metropolis, told across four seasons. Tim Sale’s art with Bjarne Hansen’s colors at Absolute size. The gentlest, warmest Superman book.
Superman fans. Readers who liked the 2025 film’s tone.
Mark Waid and Alex Ross’s story of an older Superman coming out of retirement. Five Eisner and Harvey awards. Ross’s paintings at oversized size, slipcased.
Alex Ross fans. Anyone who wants a comic that looks like a museum book.
The Joker takes over the asylum and Batman goes in. Dave McKean’s painted pages restored to their original colors at Absolute size, plus the full script.
Batman fans who want the one book that still unsettles people. Art collectors.
Batman on three Halloween nights: Scarecrow, Mad Hatter, and a ghost story. The stories that led to The Long Halloween, in Absolute format with Tim Sale’s art at full size.
Batman fans. The obvious October gift.
A boy with antlers, a plague that ended the world, and the best thing Lemire has drawn. The complete original series, 920 pages.
Fans of the Netflix show. Readers who liked The Last of Us.
DCeased and its follow-up series in a slipcase box. The zombie DC story from start to finish.
Anyone who read the first book and wants the rest.
The High Cost of Living, The Time of Your Life, and the short stories, in Absolute format with Chris Bachalo and Dave McKean art. Death is the most loved character Gaiman ever wrote.
Sandman fans. Goths of every age.
Every issue of Morrison’s Animal Man in one 712-page compendium paperback. Same pages as the hardcover for less.
Anyone who wants the story without the shelf weight.
A C-list hero starts seeing aliens, pencil drawings, and eventually the writer. Morrison’s first big DC run, still one of the strangest and saddest superhero comics ever printed. Brian Bolland covers. 712 pages.
Readers who like Doom Patrol or Sandman. Anyone who wants a comic that breaks the fourth wall properly.
Incredible Hulk Omnibus Vol 4 collects the Steve Englehart era of the 70s in one hardcover. 880 pages. Releases in February, so it is a gift that arrives late and lasts all year.
Marvel fans who want the classic runs. Omnibus collectors.
A #1 issue with a Peach Momoko variant cover, graded and sealed at 9.8 or your money back on the graded portion. Momoko variant covers are heavily collected.
Spider-Man collectors. Peach Momoko fans.
The first issue of the new Creepshow miniseries, Kyle Hotz and Dan Brown cover, sealed in a CGC case at 9.8 or refunded. A horror #1 for the wall.
Horror collectors. Creepshow fans.
The Last Wish is where Geralt’s story starts. Dark Horse’s collection gathers the whole adaptation, drawn by Jonas Scharf, in one hardcover. For the fan who played the games and watched the show but never read the books.
Witcher fans. Fantasy readers. Gamers.
Carl Barks’ Duck adventures are the best all-ages comics ever printed. Fantagraphics’ slipcased set pairs Mystery of the Swamp and Maharajah Donald, restored, in hardcover. A grandparent, a parent and a kid can all read it.
Families. Grandparents buying for grandkids.
Fantagraphics collects Steranko’s S.H.I.E.L.D., Captain America and X-Men pages, restored and oversized. Steranko brought film design into comics, and generations of artists have borrowed from these pages.
Designers, illustrators, and Marvel fans who think the 60s were the peak.
TMNT Adventures was the Archie-published series that matched the cartoon and the toys. Millions of kids read it. This hardcover compendium collects a big chunk of it: nostalgia for the parent, brand new to the kid.
Families. Anyone 35 to 45 who had the action figures. Kids 7 and up.
Mark Brooks covers are the ones people frame. This one arrives already in a CGC case, graded 9.8 or your money back on the graded portion. Issue 25 of the Eisner-winning series.
Wonder Woman collectors. Mark Brooks completists.
Rafa Sandoval Cover A, screened and pressed by us before submission, graded by CGC, guaranteed 9.8. The safe way to own a first-year Absolute issue in top grade.
Superman collectors. Anyone who wants a clean 9.8 without gambling on raw copies.
We buy new copies, screen and press them, and send them to CGC. Only books that come back a 9.8 ship. If it grades lower, you get a full refund on the graded portion. This is the Nick Dragotta cover of #24, sealed in a CGC case, ready to display.
Collectors. Anyone who wants a comic for the wall instead of the shelf. A first slab for someone getting into grading.
Anniversary issue plus a Campbell cover, the two things that hold value on the back-issue market. Graded, sealed, guaranteed 9.8 or refunded.
Cover collectors. Anyone building an Absolute Batman slab run.
Omnibus editions, complete box sets and a three-slab wall piece. Big, heavy, unforgettable.
Geoff Johns’ war between the Corps, with Ivan Reis and Ethan Van Sciver art at Absolute size. The story that set up Blackest Night.
Green Lantern fans. Absolute Green Lantern readers who want the original.
Dead heroes rise as Black Lanterns. The biggest DC event of its decade, complete in one hardcover.
Green Lantern fans. Anyone who wants one giant event.
Every Arkham inmate loose at once, then Bane. The 1993 story that The Dark Knight Rises adapted. Volume 1 of the omnibus.
Batman fans. Absolute Batman readers who just met Absolute Bane.
The run that made Wally the Flash people love: The Return of Barry Allen, Terminal Velocity, the speed force. Volume 1 of the omnibus.
Flash fans. Absolute Flash readers who want the original Wally.
Batman meets the Turtles, then Shredder meets the Joker. James Tynion IV, Freddie Williams II and Kevin Eastman. 576 pages, every crossover issue.
Turtles fans. Batman fans. Kids 10 and up.
Every Batman story Loeb and Sale made together, 1,176 pages, one hardcover. The Long Halloween is the book the Batman film borrowed from.
Batman fans who want the whole Loeb and Sale run at once.
Twenty-five years of short Batman stories by the best artists in comics, all in black and white. 1,258 pages across five paperbacks, boxed.
Artists. Batman fans who care about the drawing.
The recolored version and the original coloring, in two oversized hardcovers in one slipcase, with scripts and extras. The Batman origin every film has copied.
Batman fans. Art students.
Superman has a year to live and spends it well. The book most people name as the best Superman story, with Frank Quitely’s art at the size it deserves. Slipcased.
Superman fans. New readers who want one perfect book.
Ennis and Dillon’s Preacher, standard size, half the series in one book. Cheaper per page than the Absolute.
Adults who want to read it rather than display it.
Moore and Gibbons’ Watchmen with the line art and color remastered under Gibbons and John Higgins, in a slipcase. The definitive edition of the most acclaimed comic ever made.
Anyone who has only read it in paperback. The reader who has everything.
The Sandman Vols 1 to 10 plus Overture, Dream Hunters and more, 14 paperbacks in a slipcase. Every issue of the series and its prequel. The single biggest gift in comics.
Anyone who watched the Netflix show. Fantasy readers. Someone who has never read a comic and reads novels.
Jamie Delano’s original Hellblazer run with the Swamp Thing crossovers woven in the order they were meant to be read. Dave McKean covers. The story that defined John Constantine before the movie, the show, or the Keanu.
Constantine fans. Readers of Sandman and Preacher who skipped this one.
The complete Moore run, Saga of the Swamp Thing Books 1 to 6, boxed. The cheapest way to own every issue, and it arrives already gift-wrapped by the box.
Horror readers who want the whole run at once. New readers who do not need the oversized format.
House of Secrets #92 and Swamp Thing #1 to #13, the Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson issues that created the character, printed at Absolute size where Wrightson’s art belongs. Slipcased hardcover, 344 pages.
Wrightson fans. Classic horror collectors. The reader who has the Moore run and wants the roots.
Underwater vampires, a cursed werewolf, and the debut of John Constantine. The middle of Moore’s run in oversized Absolute format, 464 pages, slipcased.
Anyone who has Vol 1. Constantine fans who want to see where he started.
The run that turned a monster comic into literature: The Anatomy Lesson, the origin rewrite, the first Constantine-era stories. Oversized hardcover in a slipcase, 448 pages. Collects Saga of the Swamp Thing #20 to #34 and Annual #2.
Horror readers. Anyone who loved Watchmen and never read Moore’s other masterpiece.
John Ostrander and Jan Duursema’s Legacy is set a century after Return of the Jedi and follows Cade Skywalker. Vol 2 finishes the omnibus set. Releases April 2027.
Star Wars readers who want a story the films never told.
Jason Aaron’s 2018 Avengers run, the one with the Avengers of 1,000,000 BC and the Celestials, collected in one omnibus. Ed McGuinness cover. Releases March 2027.
Marvel fans. Anyone who liked Aaron’s Thor.
Gege Akutami’s series is finished, and this is the complete run in a slipcase. No missing volumes, no mismatched spines. For a fan of the anime it is the whole story in one shot.
Anime fans, manga readers, teenagers and college students.
In the mid-90s Marvel published a string of self-contained Conan miniseries that were never collected. Titan put them all in one omnibus hardcover. Conan omnibuses go out of print fast.
Conan completists. Sword-and-sorcery readers.
Two timelines: Archie marries Veronica, Archie marries Betty. Written as a serious drama for grown-ups, and it built a cult following. This omnibus collects the first half of the series.
Riverdale fans. Adults who read Archie as kids.
The Turtles series Image published in the late 90s was so wild it was written out of continuity: Leonardo loses a hand, Donatello becomes a cyborg, Raphael puts on the Shredder’s armor. Urban Legends reprinted and finished it. Frank Fosco art.
Turtles fans who have read everything else.
Tales of the TMNT was where the original creators’ studio told the darkest, strangest Turtles stories, in black and white. This omnibus collects the Mirage years. A long-requested collection.
Adult Turtles fans who know the difference between Mirage and Archie. Comics historians.
Mark Waid and Barry Kitson rebooted the Legion of Super-Heroes as a teenage movement in a 31st century that got boring. It is still the version fans point to. The omnibus collects the whole run in one hardcover.
Sci-fi readers. Long-time DC fans.
Absolute Batman #25 has a Nick Dragotta three-cover set: Left, Middle and Right join into one spread. This is all three, each graded and guaranteed 9.8, made to hang together. The most impressive thing on this page.
Serious collectors. The Absolute Batman superfan.
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Raw comics and books come back within 30 days of delivery in the condition they arrived, still bagged and boarded. Or tell us before it ships and we will swap it for anything else on this page.
Not yet. A 3-month prepaid subscription is the closest thing, and it is better: they open a gift every month.
Tell us who it is for and what they already read. A real person answers, usually the same day, with one pick and a link.
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