Spider-Family & Venom Omnibus Mapping for the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot

Until April 5, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted Marvel omnibus volumes every day! Now that we’ve mapped Peter Parker himself, it’s time to map the Spider-Man Family of Amazing Friends – and one very venomous enemy!

This post explains titles and potential Spider-Man Family & Venom Omnibus Mapping for entries on the Tigereyes Most Wanted Marvel Omnibus 12th Annual Secret Ballot. You can vote right now (until 5 April 2024 @ midnight US ET) or watch our mega-length announcement stream reviewing every single voting option.

This post covers Venom – both Eddie Brock & Flash Thompson, Carnage, Green Goblin, Jessica Drew as Spider-Woman, Mayday Parker as Spider-Girl, Spider-Ham, Silk, Doc Ock as Superior Spider-Man, and more!

If you’re not sure of what to vote for, stick around for my explanations. Or, if you’ve already voted, learn why the team behind the poll decided on these books and titles – including some of my mistakes and regrets as one of the editors of the options on the final poll.

Or… just find some great comics to read!

Remember: These mappings are just my suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to help you decide on your votes and build your personal reading list, but your vote on the poll is NOT an endorsement of my specific map. It’s a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period.

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Venom Omnibus Mapping: Eddie Brock

Venominbus Vol. 4 (includes Toxin / Anti-Venom)
See Guide to Venom. Venomnibus Volume 3 ends with Eddie Brock’s appearances in Sensational Spider-Man (2006) #38-39 and Spider-Man/Fantastic Four (2010) #2. Is there any more Eddie Brock to omnibize after 2010 when Flash Thompson takes over as Venom just a year later?

Maybe.

This could begin with Venom: Dark Origin (2008) #1-5, which we’ve never seen in omnibus. Then, we would pivot to Mac Gargan as Venom in Dark Reign: Sinister Spider-Man (2009) #1-4, because it sets up the story in Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #568-573 with both Spider-Man and Eddie Brock battling Gargan and his Thunderbolts teammates.

That leads directly to Amazing Spider-Man Presents: Anti-Venom (2009) #1-3 (and a proceeding story from Amazing Spider-Man: Extra! (2008) #2). After that, we don’t see him for a long time, until he pops back up in Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #663-664 in the lead-up to Spider-Island, though his actual participation in the event isn’t big. (The same is true for being part of a team with Wonder Man in New Avengers (2010) Annual 1 and Avengers (2010) Annual 1 – Brock is barely on panel).

Then, Brock transforms again in Venom (2011) #15 & 17-21, which leaves him as Toxin as he enters the next run of Carnage – which has been entirely collected.

That’s just 27 issues – the slimmest Venomnibus yet! Yet, Venom sells. Plus, Marvel could take the approach they took with the final Peter David Hulk omnibus and cram this full of What Ifs? and other non-continuity Eddie Brock material we haven’t had in omnibus yet.

The question is: Will you vote for it?

Venom: Into the Venomverse by Costa & Bunn (2016 – 2018)
See Guide to Venom. A vote for this is a vote for a bridging volume that gets Eddie Brock back into the Venom suit and into Donny Cates’s mega-popular run that spawned Absolute Carnage and King in Black.

That begins with neither Brock as Venom or Bunn as the writer of Venom (2016) #1-6. Mike Costa pens what seems like a new anti-hero with the symbiote.

However, with the pivot to Marvel Legacy numbering with Venom (2017) #150-165 Brock stakes over the starring role (including a crossover to Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Alpha (2018) #1, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #792-793, & Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc. Omega (2018) #1 and another to X-Men Blue (2017) Annual 1 & 21-22 & 25-27). That continues to Venomized (2018) #1-5, plus Costa writes a finale to his plots in Venom: First Host (2018) #1-5.

We could also collect Edge of Venomverse #1-5, Venomverse (2017) #1-5, Venomverse: War Stories (2017) #1, and a story Marvel Comics Presents (2019) #5.

All of a sudden we have a 54 issue omnibus – though a couple of those issues are short anthology stories or excerpted appearances. Even though Brock doesn’t appear in all of the Venomverse material, it’s all by Bunn – so it connects to Venomized!

Venom by Al Ewing (2021 – Present)
We tried to stay away from current runs on the poll, but sometimes the fan demand means we know if we skip them that we’ll get plenty of questions!

Al Ewing, Ram V, and Torunn Gronbekk’s run on Venom (2021) has already crossed the 30 issue mark and is into a crossover with Carnage (2023). If you’re already hotly demanding an omnibus, you can lodge your vote now – before the run even concludes!

Venom Omnibus Mapping: Flash Thompson, Agent Venom

Venom: Agent Venom (AKA by Remender & Bunn)
See Guide to Venom. You can vote for this omnibus to kick off the process of finally seeing some oversized Agent Venom, but there’s a big question: is this one book or two?

Here’s the full set of Agent Venom material before he becomes a Guardian of the Galaxy:

First, Spider-Man: Big Time (2010) #5 (AKA Amazing Spider-Man #654 (2nd story), Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #654.1, and Venom (2011) #1-22, #13.1-4, and Venom/Deadpool: What If? (2011) #1 – mostly by Rick Remender. That’s about 700 pages.

Then, Cullen Bunn takes over for Venom (2011) #23-42 & 27.1 (plus a crossover through Minimum Carnage: Alpha (2012) #1 & Omega (2012) #1 and Scarlet Spider (2012) #10-11). That’s 536 pages.

Could it be a single book? Sure! But, would it sell more as two books… plus, give the chance to pull in some material from Remender’s Secret Avengers in the first book? Maybe. Your vote counts no matter which approach you prefer.

Venom: Agent Venom, Space Knight by Robbie Thompson
See Guide to Venom. A vote for this book is a vote for a slim omnibus that sees Flash Thompson’s Agent Venom going cosmic, with major implications for the story of Symbiotes (or should we say Klyntar) in the long term.

We’d begin with Flash’s first big issue with the team in Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #14 and a major reinvention of the Symbiote mythology in Guardians of the Galaxy (2013) #21-23. It’s absolutely wild to me that the newly-announced Epic Collection will omit these issues! They are critical to understanding modern Venom and they set up Donny Cate’s run!

Then, we’d collect the actual run of Venom: Space Knight (2016) #1-13.

That’s a slim book, so you could argue to include some more of Venom’s appearances in Guardians of the Galaxy (2015), but those 17 issues are the core of his space-faring adventures.

Carnage Omnibus Mapping

We Missed It: Carnage – The Early Years
I’ve already spotted some voter demand behind collecting the contents of Carnage’s early Epic Collections that have his villainous appearances in Spider-Man into an omnibus, which would precede his existing omnibus of 00s and 10s mini-series and ongoings. Message received! This will be on the poll next year.

Carnage Vol. 2 (2017 – Present)
Carnage’s existing omnibus ends in 2017 with the close of Carnage (2016) #1-16. However, Carnage has appeared a lot since then – and not just in Absolute Carnage, which already has an omnibus.

This could collect Web of Venom: Cult of Carnage (2019) #1 (which isn’t in the Cates omnibus), Ruins of Ravencroft: Carnage (2020) #1, King in Black: Gwenom vs. Carnage (2021) #1-3, the “Extreme Carnage” 2021 mini-event (Extreme Carnage (2021) Alpha, Scream, Phage, Lasher, Riot, Toxin, Agony, & Omega), Carnage Forever (2022) #1, Carnage (2022) #1-12 and a crossover through Carnage Reigns Alpha (2023) #1, Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #6, Carnage (2022) #13, Red Goblin (2023) #5, Carnage (2022) #14, Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #7, and Carnage Reigns Omega (2023) #1), and Web of Carnage (2023) #1

That’s already 34 issues – plenty for a slim omnibus! However, there’s other material we could collect. We could add Venom / Carnage Infinity Comic (2021) #1-4, Carnage: Black, White & Blood (2021) #1-4 and What If…? Dark: Carnage (2023) #1, plus other Carnage symbiote stories from Scream: Curse of Carnage (2019) #1-6 and Cult of Carnage: Misery (2023) #1-5.

I think the only hesitation to making this book happen is seeing how the current Carnage (2023) title pans out. It emerges directly from the results of Carnage Reigns, so if it runs for under 10 issues it would make a lot of sense to include in this book! However, if it’s longer running, then it could be its own separate omnibus in the future.

Green Goblin Omnibus Mapping

We Missed It: Green Goblin: Norman Osborn, The Early Years
Now that iconic villains like Doom and Loki have their own omnibuses, surely Green Goblin must be in the Top 3 Marvel Villains most-deserving of a book that gathers all of their early material into a single coherent story! The challenge with this is that Norman occupies so much subplot of early Amazing Spider-Man that it would take some careful editing to present a standalone story. But, I’m sure many people would love to own it!

Green Goblin (Phil Urich)
A vote for this book is a vote to collect Green Goblin (1995) #1-13, along with Web of Spider-Man (1985) #125, Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #225, and Amazing Scarlet Spider #2.

That perfectly marries the nearly 400-page 2011 paperback of the same material. I think we could also add some material (some of it just cameo-level) from Spider-Man: Legacy of Evil, Spider-Man: Final Adventure (1995) #1, Spectacular Spider-Man (1988) #235, Spider-Man Unlimited (1993) #16, and Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #413, 415, 422, 425, & 433 to make this a complete story.

Scarlet Spider Omnibus Mapping

Scarlet Spider (Chris Yost)
A vote for this book is a vote to collect Christopher Yost’s run on Kaine in Scarlet Spider (2012) #1-25 & 12.1, Superior Spider-Man Team-Up #2, and material from Point One #1.

Scarlet Spider (Peter David)
A vote for this book is a vote to collect Ben Reilly: Scarlet Spider (2017) #1-25 and material from Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy – Omega #1. This featured Ben Reilly’s return to life as he became the Spider-Man of Las Vegas!

Silk Omnibus Mapping

Silk Vol. 1 (2015 – 2023)
See Guide to Silk. A vote for this is a vote to collect nearly a decade of Silk!

This would collect Amazing Spider-Man (2014) #4-6 (and scenes from #1-3), Silk (2015A) #1-7, Amazing Spider-Man (2015) #1 (3rd story), Silk (2015B) #1-6, Amazing Spider-Man & Silk: The Spider(Fly) Effect (2016) #1-4, the Spider-Women crossover (Spider-Women Alpha (2016) #1, Spider-Gwen (2015B) #7-8, Silk (2015B) #7-8, Spider-Woman (2015) #6-7, and Spider-Women Omega (2016) #1), and Silk (2015B) #9-19.

I could see a collection stopping there, since that is three trades and 40 issues.

However, we’re so close from having everything Silk up to the present day, for which we’d just need to add Silk (2021) #1-5, Silk (2022) #1-5, and Silk (2023) #1-5. Maybe Marvel squeezes them in, or maybe they hold them in reserve for a second volume.

Spider-Girl Omnibus Mapping: MayDay Parker

Spider-Girl, Vol. 1
A vote for this is a vote for Marvel to crack into Mayday Parker in omnibus format!

Clearly we’d need two volumes to contain Spider-Girl (1998) #0, 1/2, 1-100 & Annual 1999, Last Hero Standing (2005) #1-5, and material from Amazing Spider-Man Family (2008) #1-3. Issue #0 reprints her first appearance in What If…? (1989) #105.

But wait – there’s more – enough for a third omnibus! Mayday continues to Last Planet Standing (2006) #1-5 and Amazing Spider-Girl (2006) #0-30, material from Amazing Spider-Man Family (2008) #5-7, back-ups in Web of Spider-Man (2009) #1-7, Spectacular Spider-Girl (2010) #1-4, and finally Spider-Girl: End (2010) #1. She doesn’t pop up again until Spider-Verse in 2014.

Spider-Ham Omnibus Mapping: Jessica Drew

Peter Porker, Spider-Ham
See Guide to Spider-Ham. This would collect the contents of a pair of Spider-Ham paperbacks.

It would include Marvel Tails (1983) #1 (both stories), Peter Porker, The Spectacular Spider-Ham (1985) #1-17, the Spider-Ham back-ups from Marvel Tales (1964) #201-212, 214-219, 223-230, 233, 236-237, 239-240, 247; What The–?! (1988) #20; Ultimate Civil War: Spider-Ham (2007) #1; Spider-Ham 25th Anniversary Special (2010) #1; Spider-Man Annual (2019) #1; and material from What The–?! (1988) #3, 18, 22, 24, 26 and Spider-Verse (2015) #1.

That’s truly everything Spider-Ham through Spider-Verse, plus that Annual one-shot story from 2019. For fun, we could also top this off with Spider-Ham (2020) #1-5.

Spider-Woman Omnibus Mapping: Jessica Drew

Spider-Woman: Jessica Drew, The Early Years
See Guide to Spider-Woman. Marvel, we’ve seen what you plan to do for Dazzler’s four Marvel Masterworks later this year, so we know you can do it for Jessica Drew!

This would collect Marvel Spotlight (1971) #32, Marvel Two-in-One (1974) #29-33, Spider-Woman (1978) #1-50, and subsequent appearances in Avengers (1963) #240-241 & Annual 10 that wrap up her story.

I suspect it would also find a way to squeeze in Marvel Team-Up (1972) #97 and Uncanny X-Men (1963) #148, which were left out of the Masterworks since Masterworks do their best to avoid double-dipping for guest appearances.

Spider-Woman: Jessica Drew, Modern Years, Vol. 1 (2005 – Present)
See Guide to Spider-Woman. This is a tricky book to map. Would you start with any of Jessica Drew’s appearances from before Secret Invasion?

I think it would include Giant-Size Spider-Woman (2005) #1, because it’s the true Jessica Drew. However, rather than trying to pick and choose key moments from New Avengers and Secret Invasion, I think you simply smash-cut to Bendis’s Spider-Woman (2009) #1-7. Then, pick up Avengers Assemble (2012) #9-13 (in which she is the lead character), then continue to Dennis Hopeless’s much-loved run on Spider-Woman (2014) #1-10 and Spider-Woman (2015) #1-5 & #8-17 (plus Spider-Women crossover issues Spider-Women Alpha #1, Silk (2015B) #7-8, Spider-Gwen (2015B) #7-8, Spider-Woman (2015) #6-7, Spider-Women Omega #1).

That’s 46 issues – a big omnibus! I think the only logical place to break it early would be before the 2015 series, but that chops it down to just 23 issues, which doesn’t make much sense.

Then, a volume two would collect Strikeforce (2019) #1-9 by Tini Howard, Spider-Woman (2020) #1-20 by Carla Pachecho & Pere Pérez, and Spider-Woman (2023) by Steve Foxe, assuming it ends somewhere before the #12-issue mark – not that I want it to end! Jessica Drew is probably one of my Top 10 non-mutants at Marvel!

Superior Spider-Man Omnibus Mapping

Superior Spider-Man Vol. 2
It was very tricky of Marvel to label last year’s omnibus “Vol. 1” while completely collecting all of Dan Slott’s original Superior run. What would a Volume 2 contain?

I think one version of this map could take the Companion route, collecting Avenging Spider-Man (2012) #15.1 & 16-22, A+X (2012) #11 (2nd story), Superior Spider-Man Team-Up (2013) #1-11 & Special (and All-New X-Men and Indestructible Hulk specials) – plus, some of his key appearances in other titles in this period (like when the Avengers start to confront him for his odd behavior at the beginning of Hickman’s run).

That’s a minimum of 22 appearances, which would make a fine companion omnibus.

However, there’s also what Octavius gets up to after he is Superior Spider-Man, as seen in Clone Conspiracy (2016) #1-5, Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #800, Superior Octopus (2018) #1, Edge of Spider-Geddon (2018) #2, Spider-Geddon (2018) #0-5, and Superior Spider-Man (2019) #1-12 – and maybe even Superior Spider-Man (2023) #1-5, which puts a nice epilogue on all of that material.

That’s 31 more issues, some of which are extra-length.

So, perhaps we really do have one Companion and a Volume 2!

Other Spider-Family Members Omnibus Mapping

We Missed It: Araña, The Spider-Girl
We didn’t cast our web wide enough to capture all of the various Spider-Girls!

This book could collect Araña material from Spider-Girl (2011) #1, Amazing Fantasy (2004) #1-6, Arana: Heart Of The Spider (2005) #1-12, Spider-Man & Arana: Hunter Revealed (2006) #1, some of her team-ups in Ms. Marvel (2006) #6-8, 11-14, & 18-24, material from Amazing Spider-Man Extra (2008) #1, back-ups in Captain America (1968) #602-606 & 610, Young Allies (2010) #1-6, Spider-Girl (2011) #1-8, Onslaught Unleashed (2011) #1-4, Spider-Island: Spider-Girl (2011) #1-3, Avengers Assemble (2012) #21-25, and more!

We Missed It: Madame Web, Julia Carpenter
How did we miss listing this when Madame Web has a blockbuster movie in theatres? I have no idea, but surely we lost a Top 10 result on the poll. We’ll do better next year, I promise!

Slingers
A vote for this is a vote to collect the obscure Spidey spin-off Slingers (1998) #0-12.

We Missed It: Spider-Woman: Mattie Franklin
This would collect Spider-Woman (1999) #1-18 and The Loners (2007) #1-6.