Welcome back to mapping, my friends! From now until May 19, I’ll be loosely mapping missing and most-wanted DC omnibus volumes every day! 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 first post covers every missing Wonder Woman omnibus, from the Golden Age to the present day.
This post explains potential Wonder Woman 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.
Why start with Wonder Woman? Because I know her the best out of the entire DC line! I own, have read, or have mapped every single issue in this post – which won’t be true for any other DC character or team!
If you don’t know DC well enough to know what to vote for, stick around for my explanations! Learn why the team behind the poll decided on these books and titles – including giving us feedback if we missed the mark.
If voting is now open, you can use this as your crib sheet! Or… just find some great comics to read!
Remember: These mappings are just my suggestion of how DC 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 DC creating a book with that title or covering that period.
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Golden, Silver, and Bronze Age Wonder Woman Omnibus Mapping
Wonder Woman’s pre-Crisis omnibus lines are in decent shape – better than Superman’s, but not as good as Batman’s! Just two or three more volumes would fill in a few key gaps and get us closer to full coverage on Wonder Woman. To see how Wonder Woman’s Pre-Crisis material is already collected, see the Guide to Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman: The Golden Age Vol. 7 (1953 & on)
This book is tricky to map accurately because DC has yet to announce the full contents of Golden Age Vol. 6, which is out later this year. However, I think we can be almost certain it will be the final Golden Age Wonder Woman Omnibus!
How?
We already know that Volume 6 will be 704 pages. Past volumes have included less than 20 pages of front and back matter, which gives us ~684 pages for issue content. I have alllll issues of Wonder Woman mapped with page counts for secret reasons, so I know the exact answer to this question: Volume 6 should contain Sensation Comics (1940) #105-106 and roughly Wonder Woman (1942) #48-66 (give or take 2-3 issues).
That means what’s left to collect in Golden Age Volume 7 is Wonder Woman (1942) #67-97 – about 850 pages of story content.
A 800+ omnibus would be big for DC’s Golden Age line, but it also doesn’t make sense to split it any further. The Silver Age omnibus begins with Wonder Woman (1942) #98, so there’s a very clear stopping point!
Wonder Woman: The Silver Age Vol. 3 (1964 – 1968)
Similarly, we have just one more omnibus to complete the Wonder Woman Silver Age line!
How do we know this? Two existing Silver Age omnibuses collect Wonder Woman (1942) #98-149, and the existing Diana Prince omnibus collects #170-204.
That means this volume would complete the Silver Age line by collecting a very reasonable run of Wonder Woman (1942) #150-177 and guest appearances from this period. That’s it! That Diana Prince omnibus could always be rebranded as “Silver Age Volume 4,” but I don’t think there’s a reason to tamper with the existing mapping divides. That Diana Prince content tells its own complete arc.
Wonder Woman: The Bronze Age Vol. 1 (1973 & on)
This follows the existing Diana Prince omnibus as it begins to collect Wonder Woman (1942) #205-329. This first volume would include the famous “12 Labors” story from issues #212-222.
Hardly any issues from Wonder Woman’s Bronze Age have ever been collected in color, so kicking off this omnibus line would be a big deal! With 125 issues to collect (plus significant guest appearances and team-ups), we’re looking at a minimum of four volumes – possibly five. It’s impossible to map that accurately without knowing how this first volume will end, so we’re only including this volume on the poll.
Post-Crisis Wonder Woman Omnibus Mapping – The 90s
With George Pérez’s landmark 1987-1993 run on Wonder Woman covered in three existing omnibuses, we would only need three more omnibuses to cover the remainder of Wonder Woman in the 1990s. To see how Wonder Woman’s 1980s and 90s material is already collected, see the Guide to Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman by William Messner-Loebs & Mike Deodato (1993 – 1996)
This immediately follows the existing trio of Pérez omnibuses. William Messner-Loebs wrote a crackling run of Wonder Woman that saw Diana losing her heroic title and lead to a major climax in issue #100. Mike Deodato joined on art about midway through the run for a star-making turn; Brian Bolland illustrated many of the covers.
This would collect Wonder Woman (1987) Special, #63-100, 0, & Annual 3-4. It would make sense to also add Artemis: Requiem (1996) #1-6 to this map, since it is also by Messner-Loebs and acts as an epilogue to this story.
Wonder Woman by John Byrne (1995 – 1998)
This immediately follows Messner-Loebs run, beginning with issue #101. John Byrne took over writing and illustrating Wonder Woman for the next three years. We already know exactly how to map this, because it has been collected in a series of standard-size hardcovers.
This would collect Wonder Woman (1987) #101-136 & Annual 5, as well as non-Byrne contemporaneous material from Annual 6, Wonder Woman: Donna Troy #1, and material from Adventure Comics 80-Page Giant #1.
This could also include issues #137-138 & One Million, not by Byrne, or they could start the next book.
Wonder Woman by Eric Luke (1998 – 2000)
This immediately follows the Byrne run and continues to the beginning of the Wonder Woman by Phil Jimenez omnibus, which begins with issue #164. Eric Luke isn’t an established name that moves books, so this would likely need some other storyline-based title.
This would collect Wonder Woman (1987) #139-159 and Annual 7 (as well as Annual 8, not but Luke). It would also collect past the end of his run to include #160-163 to meet with the Jimenez omnibus. It could add some other material from this period, including Wonder Woman: Once and Future Story (1998) OGN, stories from Wonder Woman Secret Files (1998) #1-3 that are not in the Jimenez omnibus, and the beautiful Wonder Woman: Spirit of Truth (2001) OGN by Paul Dini & Alex Ross.
Also, it could begin with #137-138 & One Million if they are not in the Byrne omnibus.
Post-Crisis Wonder Woman Omnibus Mapping – The 00s through Flashpoint
Wonder Woman already has a pair of 00s omnibuses, and their placement and contents makes it slightly tricky to map around them! To see how Wonder Woman’s 2000s material is already collected, see the Guide to Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman by Greg Rucka, Walt Simonson, & Jerry Ordway (2003 – 2005)
This follows the Jimenez Omnibus, which ends with issue #188.
Walt Simonson writes Wonder Woman (1987) #189-194 with Jerry Ordway illustrating. Then, Greg Rucka takes over for a well-loved run. We know from existing Rucka trades that includes Wonder Woman (1987) #195-219 & Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia OGN.
This could also add some other appearances from the period, like Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity (2003) #1-3 and Superman/Batman #8-13.
Wonder Woman: Amazons Attack (2006 – 2007)
This is a tricky omnibus to map, because the Gail Simone Wonder Woman omnibus cuts Wonder Woman’s 2006 title off after just one year of issues!
This would collect Wonder Woman (2006) #1-13 & Annual 1 + Outsiders: Five of a Kind – Wonder Woman/Grace (2007) #1. That’s not much!
However, issues #11-12 are part of an “Amazon Attacks” event. That event included a featured mini-series, Amazon’s Attack (2006) #1-6, plus tie-ins in Catwoman (2002) #69-70, Supergirl (2005) #20, and Teen Titans (2003) #48-49.
That brings us to the mid-20s issue range, which is a magic number for smaller 00s-era DC omnibuses! Plus, we could add in contemporaneous appearances in Manhunter (2004) #25-30 or some of her stories from JLA: Classified (2005).
Batman / Superman / Wonder Woman: Trinity by Kurt Busiek (2008 – 2009)
This would collect the weekly series Trinity (2008) #1-52, which primarily starred DC’s major Trinity in each issue.
Wonder Woman by JMS (+ by Simone companion) (2010 – 2011)
This follows Gail Simone’s omnibus, which completes the 2006 title before it transitions to legacy numbering.
The would collect J. Michael Straczynski’s brief run of Wonder Woman (1942 / 2010) #600-614. That’s not much for an omnibus, but there’s not much else that happens after Simone and before Flashpoint.
It could also include Blackest Night: Wonder Woman (2009) #1-3, the original stories in DC Retroactive: Wonder Woman – The 70s, The 80s, The 90s, and Wonder Woman’s material from Wednesday Comics (2009) #1-12
That still barely cracks the 20-issue mark, but there’s really nothing else to include unless the Gail Simone omnibus is expanded to include these final 15 issues!
Wonder Woman Omnibus Mapping – New 52
We have just one New 52 Wonder Woman omnibus – the creator-centric Azzarello & Chiang volume. That abandoned an awkward amount of material from Wonder Woman’s 2011 series. Plus, she also had a long-running team-up book with Superman! To see how this New 52 material is already collected, see the Guide to Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman, The New 52 Omnibus by Meredith Finch (2014 – 2016)
The bulk of Wonder Woman’s solo New 52 run was written by Brian Azzarello with art by Cliff Chiang. That has been collected in an omnibus that ends with issue #35.
From there, Meredith Finch wrote the title from Wonder Woman (2011) #36-52 & Annual 1. There were no crossovers or special issues aside from Wonder Woman: Futures End, to which we could add Superman/Wonder Woman: Futures End.
That means this book doesn’t crack the 20 issue mark. Could this be merged with the Superman / Wonder Woman omnibus? Perhaps! But, that’s not our job as the poll-masters.
Superman / Wonder Woman, The New 52 Omnibus (2013 – 2016)
During New 52, Wonder Woman was romantically linked to Superman – which lead to them having their own ongoing team-up title for the first time.
This would collect Superman/Wonder Woman #1-29 & Annual 1-2 [+ the trade-only issues #30-31] , Wonder Woman: Futures End, and Superman/Wonder Woman: Futures End. Annual 1 continues to Action Comics (2011) Annual 3.
There’s crossover material required, as this was integrated with the Superman line, but the original trades did not include any of it. However, I do think “Doomed” fits best here, since it was a major theme of an entire arc of this series. That would add Action Comics (2011) #30-35 & Annual 3, Batman/Superman (2013) #11, Supergirl (2011) #34-35, Superman (2011) #30, & Superman: Doomed (2014) #1-2.
Wonder Woman Omnibus Mapping – Rebirth to Present Day
We have not had a single post-Rebirth Wonder Woman omnibus – not even of Greg Rucka’s smash hit run that kicked off the period! To see how this New 52 material is already collected, see the Guide to Wonder Woman.
Wonder Woman, The Rebirth Omnibus Vol. 1 by Greg Rucka (2016 – 2017)
This would collect the entirety of Greg Rucka’s celebrated run that launched Wonder Woman into the Rebirth Era, as told across two parallel time periods.
This would collect Wonder Woman (2016) Rebirth, #1-24, & material from Annual 1/2017
Batman / Superman / Wonder Woman: Trinity, The Rebirth Omnibus (2016 – 2018)
DC’s Trinity of heroes had their own team-up series during the launch of Rebirth! This would collect Trinity (2016) #1-22 & Annual 1
Wonder Woman, The Rebirth Omnibus Vol. 2 by Fontana, Robinson, & Orlando (2017 – 2018)
The run of Wonder Woman that followed Greg Rucka featured a rotation of writers. While James Robinson wrote the bulk of it, his run was bookended by shorter runs by Shea Fontana and Steve Orlando that don’t make sense to collect elsewhere.
This would collect Fontana’s Wonder Woman (2016) #26-30 & Annual 1/2017, Wonder Woman: Steve Trevor (2017) #1, Robinson’s Wonder Woman (2016) #31-50 & Annual 2/2018, and Orlando’s Wonder Woman (2016) #51-55.
We could add to that Tynion’s Witching Hour crossover, although that has already been collected in full in the Justice League Dark omnibus. However, it’s only 5 more issues, and it means we’d continue to have an unbroken run of Wonder Woman collected in her own omnibus line.
That could include Justice League Dark/Wonder Woman: The Witching Hour (2018) #1, Wonder Woman/Justice League Dark: The Witching Hour (2018) #1, Wonder Woman (2017) #56-57, and Justice League Dark (2018) #4.
Wonder Woman, The Rebirth Omnibus Vol. 3 by Wilson, Orlando, & Tamaki (2018 – 2020)
Following James Robinson’s run on Wonder Woman, the title was piloted for a substantial amount of time by G. Willow Wilson, and then more briefly by Steve Orlando (again!) and Mariko Tamaki. As with the prior run, it doesn’t make sense to abandon the Orlando and Tamaki material, because there’s a large run that follows this one.
This would collected Wilson’s Wonder Woman (2016) #58-81, Orlando’s Wonder Woman (2016) #82-83 & Annual 2019 followed by Wonder Woman (1942) #750-758 & Annual 2020, and Tamaki’s Wonder Woman (1942) #759-769.
That’s 48 issues – a big omnibus! But, DC has shown they are willing to go big on modern omnibuses when they include full runs, and I don’t think the Orlando/Tamaki material has enough interest or story content to exist on its own.
Wonder Woman by Becky Cloonan & Michael Conrad (2021 – 2023)
This run was part of “Infinite Frontier,” which saw Diana divorced from the modern day of the DC Universe. It directly precedes Tom King’s 2023 Dawn of DC run.
This would collect Wonder Woman (2016 / 1942) #770-800, Annual 2021, & the Becky Cloonan & Michael Conrad story, “In Memoriam,” from Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular (2021) #1.
Many of those issues included “Young Diana” back-up stories; I don’t think they make narrative sense to include in this omnibus, but that’s up to DC in the end!
To that, we would need to add Trial of the Amazons material from Nubia and the Amazons (2022) #6; Trial of the Amazons (2022) #1-2; and Trial of the Amazons: Wonder Girl (2022) #1-2
That’s 38 issues – a perfect omnibus size!
There are another 15 issues worth of Nubia & The Amazon material in this period. They could be appended to this omnibus if DC really wanted one of their hulking modern omnibuses like the Justice League Dark books, but they could also be held for a standalone Nubia omnibus at some later point.
That material includes Nubia & The Amazons (2021) #1-6 (and a story from Infinite Frontier #0), Artemis: Wanted (2022) #1, Olympus: Rebirth (2022) #1, and Nubia: Coronation Special (2022) #1, along with material from Wonder Woman 80th Anniversary 100-page Super Spectacular (2021) #1, and Nubia: Queen of the Amazons (2022) #1-4.
Wonder Woman Omnibus Mapping – Other Material
Earth One: Wonder Woman by Grant Morrison & Yanick Paquette (2016 – 2021)
DC could collect this trio of Earth One original graphic novels into a single omnibus volume. This material has already been collected in trade and “compact edition.”
This would collect Wonder Woman: Earth One Vol. 1 (2016), Vol. 2 (2018), and Vol. 3 (2021).
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