It’s time to get Green in our DC omnibus mapping – Green Arrow & Green Lantern! I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted DC omnibus volumes every day until May 19th! Then, on the 19th, I’ll be joining with Near Mint Condition to launch the first annual Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus Annual Poll! This post covers omnibuses missing from Green Arrow and the entire Lantern line of titles.
This post explains potential Green Arrow and Green Lantern Omnibus Mapping for votes on the Tigereyes Most Wanted DC Omnibus 1st Annual Secret Ballot. I’m posting all of these maps before the poll begins to give people the time to consider their favorites, correct our mapping mistakes, and catch books I might have missed.
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Green Arrow Omnibus Mapping – Golden & Silver Age
Green Arrow already has a first Golden Age omnibus, which puts him ahead of the vast majority of other DC characters outside of the major trinity! And, thanks to his team-ups with Hal Jordan, we have his late Silver Age material already completely collected. What’s left? A lot more than you might realize! To see how this is already collected, visit the Guide to Green Arrow.
Green Arrow & The Seven Soldiers of Victory, Golden Age Omnibus (1941 – 1945)
The first Green Arrow Golden Age Omnibus collects the entirety of Ollie’s appearances in More Fun Comics (1935) #73-107. That leaves use three more major Golden Age runs to cover. The first of those runs are his appearances with The Seven Soldiers of Victory in Leading Comics (1941). Despite running for just 14 issues, this is over 700 pages of material from three existing DC Archives editions – definitely enough to merit its own volume!
This would collect Leading Comics (1941) #1-14 (Winter 1941 to Spring 1945).
Green Arrow, The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2 (1947 & on)
After taking care of the Seven Soldiers material, we have two more runs to attend to.
The first is World’s Finest Comics (1941) #7-94 (Fall 1942 – May/June 1958). The first Golden Age omnibus collected issues #7-28, leaving us with #29-94. Green Arrow’s features were usually 10 pages, and he didn’t often appear on the covers – but let’s say they are included anyway. That means we have 66 issues multiplied by 11 pages, for 726 pages.
Finally, we need to collect Adventure Comics (1938) #103-249 (Apr 1946 – June 1958). The first Golden Age omnibus collected issues #103-117, leaving us with 133 issues to tackle! These stories were usually short – often just 6-8pgs. However, that adds another 798-1064 pages (though likely much less than the max of that range – again, many stories were just 6pgs).
That means before adding any front or back matter, we could have as much as 1800 pages of content left to collect! DC’s Golden Age omnibus are never bigger than 850 pages, so this material is exactly two omnibuses! However, since we don’t know how DC would split it between volumes, we’ll simply settle for having just this one on the poll. It’s possible they break it into three volumes instead of two!
This would collect about half of World’s Finest Comics (1941) #29-94 and Adventure Comics (1938) #118-249. The remainder would be included in a Volume 3.
Green Arrow, The Silver Age Omnibus (1958 – 1969)
We have a black-and-white “Showcase Presents” volume to get us started on this map, which is 528 pages.
That book collected Adventure Comics (1938) #250-269, The Brave and the Bold (1955) #50, 71, & 85, Justice League of America (1960) #4, and World’s Finest Comics (1941) #95-134, 136, 138, & 140.
Is there anything more to collect? Green Arrow continues to appear in The Brave and the Bold (1955) #100, 106, 114, 117, 129-130, 136, 144, 168, 174, & 185 – but that’s all after his Green Lantern run, so it would fit into a next book. (Actually, #100 is already collected in Green Lantern/Green Arrow.)
From there, Green Arrow joins Green Lantern for their well-collected run together.
That means, in total this would collect Adventure Comics (1938) #250-269, The Brave and the Bold (1955) #50, 71, 85, and World’s Finest Comics (1941) #95-134, 136, 138, & 140 – possibly adding some further Justice League material.
Green Arrow & Black Canary, The Bronze Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (1973 – & on)
I was certain we didn’t need another book of Pre-Crisis Green Arrow material until I started researching this post! As it turns out, we might need several!
After Green Arrow’s run in Green Lantern, he appears in back-up stories in 19 issues of Action Comics (1938) #421, 424, 426, 428, 431, 434, 436-437, 440-441, 443-446, 450-452, & 457-458 (Feb 1973 – Apr 1976), continued adventures in 10 issues of The Brave and the Bold (1955) #106, 114, 117, 129-130, 136, 144, 168, 174, & 185, in regular back-ups with Black Canary in 42 issues of World’s Finest Comics (1941) #244-284 & 286 (May 1977 – Dec 1982), and then immediately into back-up stories in 46 issues of Detective Comics (1937) #521-525 & 527-567, during which he is also in Green Arrow (1983) #1-4 by Mike Barr.
That’s 111 issues – three omnibuses, right? Not really, because almost all of these are back-up features, aside from full-issue team-ups with Batman in The Brave and the Bold and Arrow’s mini-series! Without digging through each of these comics, I suspect this would come out to two volumes.
Also, I think this omnibus line would necessarily be combined for Green Arrow and Black Canary. They appear together in enough of this material that it would make sense to simply comprehensively collect both characters into one book, rather than duplicating much of this material across two different lines.
Green Arrow Omnibus Mapping – Post-Crisis to Pre-Flashpoint
We already have a MASSIVE amount of initial Post-Crisis Green Arrow collected in the form of the two Mike Grell “Longbow Hunters Saga” omnibuses, which are some of DC’s best material from the 80s and 90s. After that? Nothing. Let’s see what it would take to collect everything Green Arrow from there to the present. To see how this is already collected, visit the Guide to Green Arrow.
Green Arrow: Connor Hawke by Chuck Dixon Vol. 1 (1993 & on)
This picks up directly from the end of the Mike Grell omnibuses. It would collect Green Arrow (1988) #81-137, 0, One Million, Annual 7, and crossovers to Green Lantern (1990) #76-77, 92, 104, Flash (1988) #135, and the “Brotherhood of the Fist” (Detective Comics (1937) #723, Robin (1993) #55, Nightwing (1996) #23, leading into issue #135).
That’s well over sixty issues, so we’re almost certainly looking at two books here. Even the massive first The Longbow Hunters Saga Omnibus Vol. 1 topped out at 54 issues of content.
Green Arrow by Kevin Smith & Brad Meltzer (2001 – 2003)
Kevin Smith kicks of Oliver Queen’s return, followed by Brad Meltzer. Meltzer only writes through issue #25, but for mapping purposes we might want to push a bit farther.
The would collect Green Arrow (2001) #1-25, Green Arrow Secret Files and Origins (2002) #1, and a crossover to Green Lantern (1990) #162-164.
Green Arrow by Judd Winick (2003 – 2007)
This would collect Green Arrow (2001) #26-75, as well as Connor Hawke: Dragon’s Blood (2006) #1-6. However, I think all of the wedding material that is usually paired with issue #75 could be best collected in the next book.
That’s 56 issues to the prior book’s 29, so it probably makes sense to move the first few arcs of Winnick into the prior volume. But, this isn’t so large that it couldn’t be done!
Green Arrow & Black Canary by Winick & Kreisberg (2007 – 2010)
I think this would start with the wedding material that concludes the prior volume of Green Arrow, but which makes sense to kick off this omnibus.
This would collect wedding-related stories from Birds of Prey (1999) #109, Black Canary (2007) #1-4, Black Canary Wedding Planner (2007) #1, Green Arrow (2001) #75, and Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special #1 (AKA Justice League Wedding Special (2007) #1). Then, it would continue to collect Green Arrow / Black Canary (2007) #1-29 and Green Arrow (2010) #30-32, and the “Rise and Fall” story (Green Arrow [I] (2010) #31-32, Justice League of America (2006) #43, Titans (2008) #23, Justice League: The Rise & Fall Special (2010) #1, and Justice League: The Rise of Arsenal (2010) #1-4).
Coming in right around 40 issues, this could also have room for the much-reviled Justice League Cry for Justice (2009) #1-7 and Faces of Evil: Prometheus (2009) #1.
Green Arrow Omnibus Mapping – Post-Flashpoint
We currently have zero omnibuses of post-Flashpoint Green Arrow, which is partly due to a specific slice of his New 52 run by Jeff Lemire being collected repeatedly in slimmer deluxe formats. See Guide to Green Arrow for how this material has already been collected.
Green Arrow: The New 52 Omnibus (2011 – 2016)
This would collect Green Arrow (2011) #1-52, 0, 23.1, Annual 1, Futures End (2014) #1, Savage Hawkman (2011) #14, Justice League (2011) #8, and material from Secret Origins (2014) #4 and DC Sneak Peek: Green Arrow (2015).
We’ve seen DC go huge on these New 52 omnibuses in the past, so I’m not particularly worried about this being in the 60-issue range.
Green Arrow: The Rebirth Omnibus by Ben Percy et al (2016 – 2019)
The majority of this run was written by Ben Percy – through issue #38. Then, Julie & Shawna Benson and Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly take over for the final arcs.
This would collect Green Arrow (2016) Rebirth, #1-50, and Annual 1-2.
Superman by Bendis Companion: Jimmy, Lois, Leviathan, & Checkmate (2019 – 2022)
Green Arrow features prominently in the event mini-series by Brian Bendis that would be collected in this book – ostensibly the reason his title was cancelled in 2019.
This would collect Event Leviathan (2019) #1-6, Superman: Leviathan Rising (2019 #1, Leviathan Dawn (2019) #1, and Checkmate (2020) #1-6. Lois Lane (2019) #1-12, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen (2019) #1-12, Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen’s Boss Perry White (2022) #1
Green Lantern Omnibus Mapping – Alan Scott, Golden Age Green Lantern
We don’t have any omnibus volumes of Alan Scott! In fact, his material is vastly under-collected, in general.
Green Lantern: Alan Scott, The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 (1940 & on)
This would begin to collect Alan Scott’s Golden Age material beginning in All-American Comics (1939) #16.
Green Lantern Omnibus Mapping – Hal Jordan
We’ve got a great start and a great middle when it comes to collecting Hal Jordan in omnibus! His Silver Age and early Bronze Age series are entirely covered, as is all of Geoff Johns’ intense nearly decade-long run on him after his rebirth.
That means we really only need a handful of books to complete our Hal Jordan bookshelf! So, what’s the hold-up? It’s that much of Hal’s Post-Crisis material was written by Gerard Jones, who was imprisoned from 2016 to 2022 on charges of possessing child pornography. Marvel and DC have been hesitant to reprint books with material by Jones in them since his conviction – likely wanting to avoid bad press as well as paying him royalties.
My personal stance on these matters is always “love the art, hate the artist.” While we shouldn’t pursue and elevate art from people who do terrible things, I think it’s absurd to try to erase the cultural impact of artwork from people who we later discover were abusers. I appreciate the situation DC was in regarding bad press and royalties, but I hope now that Jones has served out his sentence (and hopefully made meaningful changes and reparations, as much as those things are possible for him) that we can see some of Hal’s critical material reprinted.
See Guide to Green Lantern – Hal Jordan for information on how this material is currently collected.
Green Lantern: Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps (1979 & on)
This is the next sequential omnibus of Hal Jordan material to collect. It picks up directly from the 2024 Hard Travelin’ Heroes omnibus, which finally collected the intensely classic Lantern/Arrow run into a single oversize hardcover!
This would begin to collect Green Lantern (1960) #123-200, Tales of the Green Lantern Corps (1981) #1-3 & Annual 1, The Green Lantern Corps (1986) #201-224 & Annual 2-3 (June 1986 – May 1988) & Green Lantern (1960) Special #1-2, as well as The New Guardians (1988) #1-12 (Sept 1988 – Sept 1989), which co-stars Kilowog.
That’s 122 issues, which means this would need to be three to four volumes to collect it all. That could be a pair of Hal Jordan volumes followed by one tidy Corps volume, but really both Hal and the Corps are present across both runs. I think it would make more sense to simply present this as a three-volume book.
It might make sense for this line to also collect Action Comics Weekly (1988) #601-635 & 642, which is where Hal appears the month after Corps ends. It could also add Green Lantern/Superman: Legend of the Green Flame (2000) #1, a cancelled Weekly story that was later completed.
More on that in the next write-up!
Green Lantern: Hal Jordan, Emerald Dawn, Vol. 1 (1989 & on)
Hal Jordan was one of a few major DC heroes (along with Batman) whose stories continued relatively uninterrupted into the Post-Crisis era without a major reboot. That means there’s no major “Post-Crisis material BEGINS HERE!” line as there are with most other DC heroes. Hal is mostly the same character both before and after Crisis on Infinite Earths – though, his origin is retold and expanded after Crisis in a pair of Emerald Dawn series in 1989 and 1991.
Because this omnibus necessarily begins with those two origin series, it likely makes sense to collect the Action Comics Weekly (1988) material in the prior omnibus line. It’s the Post-Crisis present day for Hal, but it was written before this expansion of his origin and wouldn’t read as well alongside this material.
This would collect Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn (1989) #1-6 (Dec 1989 – May 1990), & Green Lantern: Emerald Dawn II (1991) #1-6 (Apr – Sept 1991), Green Lantern (1990) #1-55, 0, & Annual 1-3, material from Armageddon 2001 (1991), The Flash (1987) #69-70, the Trinity crossover (DC Universe: Trinity (1993) #1, Green Lantern (1990) #44, L.E.G.I.O.N. ’93 #57, Darkstars (1992) #11, Green Lantern (1990) #45, L.E.G.I.O.N. ’93 #58, Darkstars (1992) #12, DC Universe: Trinity (1993) #2), and material from Showcase ’93 (1993) #12.
To that, we likely need to excerpt some amount of material of the destruction of Coast City, even though Hal isn’t present for all of it(from Superman (1987) #80-82, Adventures of Superman (1987) #503-505, Action Comics (1937) #690-691, and Superman: The Man of Steel (1991) #25-26). That surrounds issue #46. Also, it might also make sense to collect some material from Zero Hour (1994) #4-0 (it is numbered in reverse), which run alongside #55 & 0 – the conclusion of Hal’s story.
No matter how you try to slice or squeeze that, it’s two omnibuses of material – even if you leave out all of the Trinity crossover, the Coast City material, and the final run of #48-55 & 0 – which also fit into a Kyle Rayner omnibus.
Spectre, Hal Jordan by J.M. DeMatteis (2001 – 2003)
After several years spent completely out of contact with the DC Universe, Hal is gradually reintroduced not as a Lantern, but as The Spectre! Omar knows this material much better than I do, so he stepped in to help map the essential issues on this one.
This begins with Parallax: Emerald Night (1996) #1 and material from Final Night (1996) #4. Then, it would likely collect Day of Judgment (1999) #1-5, Day of Judgment Secret Files [& Origins] (1999) #1, JLA (1997) #35, Legends of the DC Universe (1997) #33-36, The Spectre (2001) #1-27, and JLA / The Spectre: Soul War (2003) #1-2.
Green Lantern: Hal Jordan by Robert Venditti Vol. 1 – The New 52 Omnibus (2013 – 2016)
Whoa – how did we get from 2003 to 2013?
After his time as the Spectre, Hal Jordan was reborn under the pen of Geoff Johns in 2004. Johns wrote Hal for the better part of a decade, continuing his stories into the first two years DC New 52 with little alteration of his character and history.
From there, Robert Venditti picked up the reins of writing Hal, completing his run in New 52 and continuing on to DC Rebirth.
This would likely collect Green Lantern (2011) #21-52, 23.1-4, & Annual 2-4, Green Lantern: Futures End (2014) #1, Green Lantern Corps (2011) #31-33, Green Lantern/New Gods: Godhead (2014) #1, and material from Secret Origins (2014) #3.
That’s a very healthy 44 issues already. To that, we could potentially add up to 16 additional issues of crossover material from Lights Out (Green Lantern Corps (2011) #24, Green Lantern: New Guardians (2011) #23-24, Red Lanterns (2011) #24) and Godhead (Green Lantern Corps (2011) #35-37, Green Lantern: New Guardians (2011) #35-37, Red Lanterns (2011) #35-37, Sinestro (2014) #6-8). However, the original trades for this series omitted all of that material.
Green Lantern: Hal Jordan by Robert Venditti Vol. 2 – The Rebirth Omnibus (2016 – 2018)
Robert Venditti continued his run on Hal Jordan to Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps (2016) Rebirth & #1-50, plus a crossover with Justice League (2016) #32-33.
Green Lantern by Grant Morrison & Liam Sharp (2019 – 2021)
Grant Morrison, Liam Sharp, Steve Oliff, & Tom Orzechowski created an epic, mind-bending, multi-year run on Hal Jordan! It’s an oversimplification to say that Morrison & Co focused on Hal as a “space cop.” Instead, I’d say that this emphasized the power of his will to stand up to even the most chaotic forces in the universe, even while being in a symbiotic relationship with them where he craves and sometimes even causes their chaos.
This would collect The Green Lantern (2019) #1-12, Green Lantern: Blackstars (2020) #1-3, and The Green Lantern: Season Two (2020) #1-12
Green Lantern Omnibus Mapping – John Stewart
John Stewart is a widely-known Lantern, thanks to his appearances in many Justice League cartoons of the past 30 years. However, he hasn’t spent too much time in comics as a solo character. Typically, John is a prominent member of the Corps during their runs.
Green Lantern: John Stewart in Mosiac (1992 – 1994)
Collects the John Stewart vehicle Green Lantern: Mosaic #1-18 and Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #1-8. Since this is a short omnibus, it could include some other key early John Stewart material.
Green Lantern Omnibus Mapping – Guy Gardner
As with John Stewart, Guy Gardner rarely gets his own solo material. He’s often the aggressive member of a team book who instigates internal conflict with other members, whether that’s on the Corps or in the Justice League. However, he did have one length run of his own in the early 90s.
Green Lantern: Guy Gardner, Reborn & Warrior (1992 – 1996)
Collects Guy Gardner: Reborn (1992) #1-3, Guy Gardner (1992) #1-12, and Guy Gardner: Warrior (1994) #13-44, 0, & Annual 1-2, as well as required crossover issues.
Green Lantern Omnibus Mapping – Kyle Rayner
Kyle Rayner took over as the primary solo Green Lantern from Hal Jordan staring with Green Lantern (1990) #50 and serving through the end of that series. See Guide to Green Lantern – Kyle Rayner for more information.
Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner Vol. 1 (1994 & on)
This omnibus line would begin to collect Green Lantern (1990) #48, 50-181, 0, 1,000,000, & Annuals 4-9 and Ion (2006) #1-12, plus many one-shots and crossovers from that period.
Green Lantern: Kyle Rayner & The New Guardians (2011 – 2015)
Kyle headlined one of three ongoing Green Lantern series during DC New 52. This would collect Green Lantern: New Guardians (2011) #1-40, 0, & Annual 1-2, Green Lantern: New Guardians – Futures End (2014) #1, Blue Beetle (2011) #9, and Green Lantern (2011) #20 & Annual 2.
That brings us in at just under 50 issues. While this title did participate in several major Green Lantern crossovers during New 52, only that pair of Green Lantern (2011) issues were ever collected in this trade paperback line.
Green Lantern Corps Omnibus Mapping
The Green Lantern Corps were first mentioned in Hal Jordan’s Silver Age origin and grew through the Silver and Bronze Age until they were a full team of well-articulated characters in the 1980s when the main Lantern title was renamed to The Green Lantern Corps (1986). However, in the Post-Crisis world this extended cast mostly moved into the background of Green Lantern (1990).
That would change in a big way in Geoff Johns’ run on Hal Jordan, which was always accompanied by a Green Lantern Corps title as a co-flagship. We’ve seen most of that material collected in omnibus, but that left a few gaps that still need collecting. See Guide to Green Lantern Corps for more information.
Green Lantern Corps: Those Left Behind Omnibus (2006 – 2011)
This omnibus is effectively a a “Johns / Tomasi & Gleason Companion” of orphaned material not included in either of those omnibus lines.
It would collect Green Lantern Corps (2006) #4-6, 48-58, 61-63, (could include Ion (2006) #1-12 if it’s not in the Kyle Rayner omnibus line), Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Cyborg Superman (2007) #1, Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Parallax (2007) #1, Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Ion (2008) #1, Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors (2010) #1-7, and War of the Green Lantern: Aftermath (2011) #1-2, plus any other material left behind by either the Johns or Tomasi/Gleason omnibuses.
Green Lantern Corps, The New 52 Omnibus by Jensen, Bunn, & Taylor (2014 – 2016)
This omnibus would directly follow the second Tomasi/Gleason omnibus, which ends with Green Lantern Corps (2011) #20 – concurrent with the ending of the Geoff Johns omnibus line.
This would collect Green Lantern Corps (2011) #21-40, Annual 2, Green Lantern Corps: Futures End (2014) #1, Green Lantern (2011) Annual 2, Threshold (2013) #1-8 (but not the back-ups in #1-5). Green Lantern: The Lost Army (2015) #1-6, and Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion (2016) #1-6.
Green Lanterns, The Rebirth Omnibus Vol. 1 by Humphries, Seeley, & Jurgens
While Hal Jordan headed up the Corps in DC Rebirth, this title largely focused on Jessica Cruz & Simon Baz, the newest Green Lanterns of Earth.
This would collect Green Lanterns (2016) Rebirth, #1-57 & Annual 1, plus necessary crossover issues. That comes right up to the edge of what can fit in a singe omnibus, so this might split into two volumes at the end of Humphries run with issue #32.
Green Lanterns by Jemisin & Thorne (2019 – 2022)
Despite having a singular “Green Lantern” title, this Infinite Frontier book was really a Green Lantern Corps title, co-starring John Stewart and Sojourner Mullein, among many other characters.
This would collect Geoffrey Thorne’s Future State: Green Lantern (2021) #1-2 and Green Lantern (2021) #1-12 & Annual 1. Since that run is so short, I think this should also add all of Mullein’s bombastic introduction in NK Jemisin’s Far Sector (2019) #1-12. Otherwise, she just doesn’t make any sense showing up in this title out of nowhere!
Red, Orange, & Yellow Lanterns Omnibus Mapping
We’ve had many other Lantern-adjacent titles from the 1980s to today. That included other space-faring teams in the 80s and 90s. Then, Geoff Johns vastly expanded the color spectrum of the Lanterns in his massive run, which yielded a number of alternate Lantern titles from the “ROY” section of the ROY G BIV rainbow during DC New 52.
Omega Men, The Classic Omnibus (1981 – 1986)
This would collect Green Lantern (1960) #141-144, Action Comics (1938) #535-536, The New Teen Titans (1980) #24-25 & Annual 1, Green Lantern (1960) #160-161, and The Omega Men (1983) #1-38 & Annual 1-2. See Guide to Omega Men for more information.
L.E.G.I.O.N. & R.E.B.E.L.S. Vol. 1 (1989 & on)
This would begin to collect L.E.G.I.O.N. (1989) #1-70 & Annual 1-5 (Feb 1989 – Sept 1994) & R.E.B.E.L.S. ’94 (1994) #1-17 & 0
DarkStars, The 90s Omnibus (1992 – 1996)
This would collect Darkstars (1992) #1-38 & 0.
R.E.B.E.L.S. by Tony Bedard (2008 – 2011)
This would collect R.E.B.E.L.S. (2009) #1-28
Green Lantern: Larfleeze, The Orange Lantern – New 52 Omnibus (2010 – 2014)
This would collect Larfleeze’s first appearance in Green Lantern (2005) #25, material from DC Universe (2008) #0, Green Lantern: Larfleeze Christmas Special (2010)#1, back-up stories from Threshold (2013) #1-5, and Larfleeze (2013) #1-12.
Red Lanterns, The New 52 Omnibus by Milligan & Soule (2011 – 2015)
This would collect Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns (2008) #1, Red Lanterns (2011) #1-40, 0, & Annual 1, Green Lantern/Red Lanterns #28, Red Lanterns: Futures End (2014) #1, Stormwatch (2011) #9, Supergirl (2011) #31, and material from Green Lantern (2011) #20 and Annual 2.
Green Lantern: Sinestro, The New 52 Omnibus (2014 – 2016)
This would collect Green Lantern (2011) #23.4 (Sinestro), Sinestro (2014) #1-23, Annual 1, Sinestro: Futures End (2014) #1, Lobo (2014) #10-13 & Annual 1, and material from Secret Origins (2014) #6 and Sinestro: DC Sneak Peek (2015).
Dustyn says
Your mappings are all very well thought out. The only thing that stands out to me is where Green Lantern Corps Quarterly belongs. Every issue had an ongoing Alan Scott story (which maybe should be collected with JSA-related material), and pre-Parallax GLC stories. The GLC stories would fit better with the main 90s GL series rather than a John Stewart collection. I don’t think John even appears in any of the GLCQ stories.
I’d even make a case that the John Stewart Mosaic series should be collected with that Green Lantern series. Its catalyst is events in the Action Comics Weekly GL story and it ends with Hal/Parallax’s actions in the GL book.
Negatives might be: 1) It would make the 90’s series stretch to 3 Omnibus volumes, and 2) The Mosaic series was kind of divisive among fans. Eh, just add it to all the controversies surrounding the series.
krisis says
That’s great feedback, Dustyn! Honestly, I think the Mosaic separation is partly an artifact of me generally enjoying each of the Lanterns having their own line, but I also understand that it would make sense braided into the Hal book from that era. And, at that point, it made sense to throw all the non-Hal material of GLCQ in with it. But, these maps aren’t a requirement, just a prediction, so it would be fair to simply vote for the two Hal books and argue they ought to be mapped your way.
Dustyn says
I totally appreciate wanting separate lines for Hal, John, and Guy. I’ll bet that would be more marketable, too, depending on which GL gets a TV show or movie.
I was just recently going through the 1990 Green Lantern series and noticed that all 3 main GLs were in the first 19 issues. Guy received solo issues with 9-12, and 18, but he also was part of the other issues. I had forgotten that John’s story in 1-8, 13-16, and 18-19 was mostly about the Mosaic set-up (14-17 is focused on John and the Mosaic story).
If DC had kept each GL’s story separate, it’d be no problem to just dole out the stories to 3 separate omnibus lines, but they tended to be intertwined except for Guy’s solo issues. A triple dip on 14 issues is certainly possible. A Guy Gardner omnibus could even skip those 14 and just include his 5 solo issues. Those 14 issues would certainly pad out a John Stewart omnibus and provide the full Mosaic story. Geez, it’s all shades of messy :)
One of my votes is definitely going for the next Bronze Age Hal omnibus. While I’m pretty confident DC would include the Green Lantern Corps back-up stories, I’m less confident they’ll include the Alan Scott GL back-ups from GL 108-110, and I’d be shocked if they include the Adam Strange back-ups from GL 132-147 (those would fit better with a BA Adam Strange collection).