Iron Man Omnibus Mapping | 14th Annual Tigereyes Most-Wanted Marvel Omnibus Poll

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 Iron Man omnibus map – including War Machine & Ironheart – for material that has not yet been collected comprehensively in omnibus – all of which will appear as options on the 2026 poll.

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.

Iron Man got two omnis in 2026, but before you start to get excited you should know that the monkey’s paw curled real damn tight when it granted this wish. Both books are deeply problematic from a mapping perspective. See the first map below for my uncensored thoughts on how three issues means The Invincible Iron Man Vol. 4 will be a major thorn in the side of omni collectors forever. And, the less said about the hodge-podge of Iron Man: Armor Wars the better – it’s a slim book that skips around to different stories, which is always the bane of major collectors.

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, including my Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark.

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!

This post covers the following speculated omnibus volumes:

• Bronze Age Iron Man
  • Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man Vol. 5 (1978 – 1982) [MMW 13-15, mostly duplicates Michelinie / Layton / JRJR]
  • Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Dennis O’Neil Vol. 1 (1982 & on) [AKA Vol. 6]
  • Iron Man by Len Kaminski (1992 – 1995)
• Iron Man in the 2000s
  • Iron Man: Disassembled by Grell, Laws, & Miller (2002 – 2004) [follows The Mask In The Iron Man omni]
  • Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2004 – 2008)
  • Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Fraction & Larocca Vol. 1 (2008 – 2012)
• Iron Man from 2013 to Present
  • Iron Man: Marvel Now by Gillen & Taylor (2012 – 2015) [includes Superior]
  • Iron Man by Brian Michael Bendis (2015 – 2018) [all of Invincible, International, & Infamous]
  • Iron Man by Christopher Cantwell & Cafu (2020 – 2022)
  • Iron Man & The West Coast Avengers by Gerry Duggan (2023 – 2025) [could include I Am Iron Man]
• War Machine & Ironheart
  • War Machine: The Early Years (1994 – 1996)
  • War Machine: The Modern Years (2003 – 2014) [includes The Crew, 2009 Pak series, Iron Man 2.0, Iron Patriot]
  • Ironheart: Riri Williams by Brian Bendis & Eve Ewing (2016 & on)

Remember: These titles and mappings are a suggestion of how Marvel could assemble these books. They are meant to make the books easy to find and to vote for. Your vote on the poll is a vote in favor of Marvel creating a book with that title or covering that period, NOT an endorsement of a specific mapping. Maps are presented as a proof of concept and to help you build your personal reading list.

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Iron Man Omnibus Mapping: Bronze Age Iron Man

We have four Invincible Iron Man classic omnibuses to cover Iron Man’s Silver Age beginnings and his first few years of Bronze Age material, which is where we pick up with these poll options. There is a lot more Iron Man to collect than what you see here, but we’re somewhat constrained by not being able to map too far ahead into Marvel’s somewhat messy plans at this point. See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark for details.

Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man Vol. 5 (1978 – 1982) [MMW 13-15, mostly duplicates Michelinie / Layton / JRJR]

Y’all, I’m embarrassed that I even have to write about this, but here we are.

There is an existing and much-beloved omnibus that was released in 2013 called Iron Man by David Michelinie, Bob Layton and John Romita Jr. which collects Iron Man (1968) #115-157, a stone cold classic run of Iron Man that includes the “Demon in the Bottle” story.

Everyone… and I mean everyone expected Marvel to nicely line up Invincible Iron Man Omnibus Vol. 4 to end at issue #114 so that the next book and could be Michelinie/Layton/JRJR relabeled as “Vol. 5” in the same way Marvel just did with Captain America by Jack Kirby, perhaps re-issuing it with new scans.

Except, Marvel didn’t do that at all. They ended Volume 4 flush with an existing break in a 2019 Marvel Masterworks volume at issue #112 so that the books would NOT line up perfectly with each other.

Maybe there was a reason! Maybe that Michelinie/Layton/JRJR book missed out on some key issues that would be perfectly mapped in this newly expanded Volume 5! Luckily, we have both Masterworks and Epic maps to guide us. Let’s take a look:

Masterworks Volumes 13-15 collect Iron Man (1968) #113-157 and Marvel Premiere (1972) #44. They really ought to have also collected Marvel Team-Up (1972) #110, and Iron Man story by Michelinie.

Epics haven’t hit this material yet, but they perfectly skip the Michelinie/Layton/JRJR omnibus contents, moving Marvel Premiere (1972) #44 up to the prior Epic volume so a next volume starts cleanly with issue #115.

Basically, it was ENTIRELY UNDER MARVEL’S CONTROL to have Invincible Iron Man Volume 4 continue through Iron Man (1968) #113-114 & Marvel Premiere (1972) #44 and then this existing omnibus could simply be re-issued with new scans. Marvel Team-Up (1972) #110 happens just a few months shy of the end of this run, so it could be placed into the next omnibus.

Instead, they forced an awkward gap for no discernible reason.

A vote for this book is a vote to take your lashings from Marvel and enjoy it… but, we tried to slightly beef it up to justify it’s existence.

This would collect Iron Man (1968) #113-157, Marvel Premiere (1972) #44, and Marvel Team-Up (1972) #110 (an Iron Man story by Michelinie).

It could optionally add the Scott Lang Ant-Man story from Marvel Premiere (1972) #47-48, also by David Michelinie & Bob Layton (inking John Byrne). Released alongside issues #121-123, Iron Man appears in flashback set just prior to issue #113, and after these issues Scott Lang continues directly to issue #125. It could also add three non-Iron Man issues from this same period: Marvel Premiere (1972) #55 (Wonder Man’s first solo story, by Michelinie & Layton) & #56 (Dominick Fortune co-written by Michelinie) and Marvel Team-Up (1972) #103 (a Scot Lang story by Michelinie).

Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Dennis O’Neil Vol. 1 (1982 & on) [AKA Vol. 6]

I know I keep saying we don’t “map ahead” beyond a next volume, but this is an exception because a lot of people really don’t want to vote for Volume 5 for the reasons I detailed above.

And, since there is every indication that volume will stay consistent with the “3 Masterworks” rule, we know exactly what will follow… right?

Luckily, Dennis O’Neil wrote Iron Man (1968) literally from the first issue after that prior omni – issue #158! But, his run continues to issue #208. That would mean this would have to collect 4+ Masterworks to fit into one volume – a major “NO” for classic Marvel omnis.

This run is simply going to have to be two books. It’s very likely this book will cover Masterworks Vol. 16-18, concluding with issue #192.

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to quickly press ahead with its Iron Man classic line, which is lagging behind some of the other Silver Age lines.

This would collect most of Iron Man (1968) #158-192 & Annual 5-7, Marvel Team-Up (1972) #134, Jack of Hearts (1984) #1-4, and material from Marvel Fanfare (1982) #4.

O’Neil’s run continues to Iron Man (1968) #193-214 & Annual 8.

After those two books we have the storyline-focused Iron Man: Armor Wars Omnibus, which collects a grab-bag of issues with gaps between them, so we’re absolutely sure it will be recollected later. See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark for details. Then, there is a brief gap that is too ambiguous for us to map ahead before this next book.

Iron Man by Len Kaminski (1992 – 1995)

This was the most-demanded missing book out of the entire poll last year! So, despite it feeling as though it requires a bit of mapping ahead, we’re adding it this year to see how it fares.

Helpings me feel more at peace with this second instance of reckless rule-breaking is that Kaminski’s run on Iron Man is quite obvious and self-contained. It runs for 41 regular issues and a handful of annuals. Easy as, right?

Well… not quite. That’s because if this follows the style of the Captain America by Marc Greunwald omnibus line, it will actually follow the Epic Collection map, which pulls in about a dozen more issues of crossover material and anthology stories.

That makes for a big book of four Epic Collections, so it’s possible Marvel splits it into two – they’ve never had the appetite for books that large, even if they are feasible to print.

A vote for this book is a vote to hopskotch ahead in the Iron Man line to start collecting Len Kaminiski’s run now rather than five or more years from now when the classic line reaches it.

At minimum, this would collect Iron Man (1968) #278-318 & Annual 12-15, which is Kaminski’s run on the title.

However, if this was styled similar to the Captain America by Marc Greunwald omnibus line to take advantage of the Epic Collection mapping, the contents would be Iron Man (1968) #278-318 & Annual 12-15, an all Iron Man issue of Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #13, Iron Manual (1993) #1, Tales of Suspense (1995) #1 [Captain America & Iron Man], the “Hands of the Mandarin” crossover (War Machine (1994) #8-10, Force Works (1994) #6-7, Iron Man/Force Works Collectors’ Preview (1994) #1, material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #169-172), and material from “Assault on Armor City”(Darkhawk (1991) Annual 1, Avengers West Coast (1989) Annual 7), Marvel Holiday Special (1991) #2, Marvel Super-Heroes (1990) #2, 8-9, 12, 14-15.

We don’t have any more omnis between here and the end of Iron Man (1968) except for some material in Avengers: The Crossing and X-Men/Avengers: Onslaught. Then, Tony Stark is off to the Heroes Reborn universe, which was been collected in full! See Guide to Marvel Universe Events for details.

Iron Man Omnibus Mapping: Iron Man in the 00s

When it comes to 2000s-era Iron Man, we have just a tiny beachhead at the beginning of the decade with Iron Man by Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen and Iron Man: The Mask in the Iron Man collecting not-quite two thirds of the Iron Man (1998) series. That gets us to 2001, and from there onward it’s all wilderness! See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark for details of those two existing books.

One important note: a pair of Iron Man by Matt Fraction slim oversize hardcovers were sometimes marketed as omnibuses, but were never actually omnibuses, so we need to remap them here!

Iron Man: Disassembled by Grell, Laws, & Miller (2002 – 2004) [follows The Mask In The Iron Man omni]

This is a very obvious next book in collecting Iron Man’s main title, since we have an unambiguous stopping point of the end of his 1998 series to act as the boundary for the collection.

A vote for this book is a vote to finish collecting Iron Man (1998), including his tie-in to Avengers Disassembled.

This would collect Iron Man (1998) #50-89 and Crimson Dynamo (2003) #1-6.

It could also include Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (2005) #1-4, released later but which reads directly following issue #89. It could optionally pick up Iron Man: Bad Blood (2000) #1-4, which was abandoned by the earlier pair of omnibuses.

Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2004 – 2008)

Sometimes we deliberately leave titles a bit loose on the poll, because people have a lot of opinions about what it should collect.

The tricky issue is that Invincible Iron Man (2004) began with the singularly explosive and influential “Extremis” by Warren Ellis & Adi Granov. It’s a story so seismic it almost feels weird to include it in an omnibus with other, more regular arcs of this book, which transitions to the title Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. after Civil War with issue #15 and runs for a total of 35 issues… further complicated by War Machine taking over for the final three issues.

Personally, I don’t mind it. I think this series offers a diverse set of Tony Stark stories that show real story progression, and those are sometimes the best kinds of omnis to read.

Plus, this period has a lot of random mini-series. While we placed Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (2005) #1-4 with the prior book for continuity reasons, this could reasonably include Iron Man: Hypervelocity (2007) #1-6, Iron Man: Inevitable (2006) #1-6, and Iron Man: Legacy of Doom (2008) #1-4.

Also, there are a number of short series, mini-series, and one-shots that occur just after this concludes that are absolutely ignored by the Matt Fraction run and wouldn’t be likely to be collected there. They include Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas (2008) #1-2 (an abandoned mini-series by Jon Favreau), Iron Man: Iron Protocols (2009) #1 (set during this run), Indomitable Iron Man Black and White (2010) #1 (set during this run), Iron Man vs. Whiplash (2010) #1-4 (set early in Fraction’s run), and Iron Man: Legacy (2010) #1-11 (all set deep in past continuity).

That’s 75 total issues, which means this could in fact be two different books – one book of Ellis through Civil War with a number of mini-series, and a second book of the “Director” era with some material released during Fraction’s run.

Or maybe it’s just this series by itself. Or maybe it’s some other thing.

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to start figuring out how they’d like to collect this 2005 ongoing series in one or more volumes.

This could collect The Invincible Iron Man (2005) #1-14 and Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2007) #15-35 & Annual 1. Note that War Machine is the lead character of issues #33-35, not Tony Stark.

It should also collect two later one-shots set just after issue #32 of this run (and prior to the next omnibus), They include Iron Man: Iron Protocols (2009) #1 and Indomitable Iron Man Black and White (2010) #1.

It could also add some or all of Fantastic Four/Iron Man: Big in Japan (2005) #1-4, Iron Man: Hypervelocity (2007) #1-6, Iron Man: Inevitable (2006) #1-6, and Iron Man: Legacy of Doom (2008) #1-4, all released during this run, plus the unfinished Iron Man: Viva Las Vegas (2008) #1-2 as bonus material.

It could also collect some series likely to be abandoned by a subsequent Matt Fraction omnibus, including Iron Man vs. Whiplash (2010) #1-4 and Iron Man: Legacy (2010) #1-11 (all set deep in past continuity).

Iron Man: Invincible Iron Man by Fraction & Larocca Vol. 1 (2008 – 2012)

This was a massive run for the character of Iron Man. It’s hard to extricate the impact of Matt Fraction’s writing and Salvador Larroca’s stylish artwork from the sudden massive boost in popularity from the first Iron Man film.

It’s not like this series won Eisner awards because of the film – it was just that good. But, its profile was certainly boosted beyond the visibility of any Iron Man run of the prior 20 years, aside from perhaps Ellis’s “Extremis.”

Ultimately, this is a satisfying run that examines Tony’s identity, does a bit of disassembling, and then puts him back together for some flashy superhero action. In a way, it did Iron Man so well and so thoroughly that it ruined the curve for Iron Man books over the next decade – which often spent a lot of time trying to reinvent the wheel.

The big question about this Fraction & Larroca omnibus is… can it all be done in one? This was a lengthy run that did a solid amount of double-shipping along the way, meaning it totals over 60 issues!

Just on page count, I think the contents of this book could just fit into one omnibus, but it would be a massive one. Marvel has shown an appetite for taking that tactic for a number of 00s-era heroic runs that just might not sell through two volumes, including Fracton’s Thor… but that more than 15 issues shorter than this.

Luckily, if we have to split this into two volumes, there’s between 14 and 30+ issues of supporting material we could include to pad them out that would otherwise be orphaned (all detailed below)!

A vote for this book is a vote for Marvel to finally give the best modern run of Iron Man omnibus treatment. And, if needs two volumes to do that, we have plenty of additional material to ad.

This would collect Invincible Iron Man (2008) #1-33, 500-527, 500.1, & Annual 1, Iron Man: Requiem (2009) #1, Rescue (2010) #1, Fear Itself (2010) #7.3 [Iron Man], and material from Free Comic Book Day 2010 Iron Man/Thor.

If this expanded to two volumes, it could add some limited series not by Fraction that are explicitly set in this period, including Iron Man vs. Whiplash (2010) #1-4 (before #8), Iron Man / Thor (2010) #1-4 [AKA “God Complex”] (after #25), Iron Man: Kiss & Kill (2010) #1 (after #25), and The Iron Age (2011) Alpha, #1-3, & Omega.

Iron Man Legacy (2010) #1-11 was released in this period but all set much earlier in continuity, and only makes sense to include if this is two volumes. Avengers Prime (2010) #1-5 will certainly be included in a Bendis Avengers omnibus and doesn’t need to be double-dipped here. Iron Man: Rapture (2010) #1-4 is not in continuity.

Iron Man Omnibus Mapping: Iron Man from 2013 to Present

We have all of ONE Iron Man omnibus from the beginning of Marvel Now at the end of 2013 to the present day. JUST ONE. And, it’s the omnibus of one of the dullest runs of this decade-plus of material – Tony Stark: Iron Man by Dan Slott. 

However, I think that’s exactly why it’s the only omnibus of this period. It’s not a big idea. It’s not a major vision asking you to change how you think about Tony Stark. It’s just Iron Man being Iron Man, dealing with some renegade AI.

By contrast, here are four omnibuses to cover the rest of Iron Man’s modern material that are much higher concept than that. See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark for details.

Iron Man: Marvel Now by Gillen & Taylor (2012 – 2015) [includes Superior]

Kieron Gillen inherited a decadent phase Iron Man – having already crested in renewed popularity both in comics and film, anchoring Bendis’s new run of Guardians of the Galaxy, and heading into his third film (which would have a some of the softest response of any MCU film to that point).

Luckily, Kieron Gillen loves a decadent phase.

Gillen took Tony Stark to space, separating him from his existing supporting cast in a way that made him seem small, overpowered, and sometimes overwhelmed by the scope of events around him. Also, there was original flavor Death’s Head.

Gillen also introduced the thread of questioning Tony’s parentage, which would continue to unfurl across this entire decade of series. And, he wrote one of Marvel’s most substantial digital first series to that point, Iron Man: Fatal Frontier (2013).

Gillen ended his title prior to AXIS, and from there Tom Taylor picked up a personality-flipped “Superior” version of Tony Stark for a brief sprint to Secret Wars (2015). Taylor was a much, much smaller name at that point, and this was one of his first big swings at a Marvel character.

A vote for this book is a vote to collect all of Iron Man’s Marvel Now solo material in one place!

This would collect Iron Man (2012) #1-27, 20.INH, & Annual 1, Iron Man: Fatal Frontier (2013) #1-13 (a digital-first series), a trio of “No End in Sight” specials (Uncanny X-Men Special (2014) #1, Iron Man Special (2014) #1, Nova Special (2014) #1), Original Sin (2014) #3.1-3.4 (AKA Iron Man vs. Hulk), and Superior Iron Man (2015) #1-9.

Iron Man also appeared as a member of Guardians of the Galaxy in this period in a way that was well-integrated with his run, but that has been collected entirely in the Guardians omnibus line.

Iron Man by Brian Michael Bendis (2015 – 2018) [all of Invincible, International, & Infamous]

After Secret Wars (2015), Marvel had another merry-go-round of writers, which left Brian Bendis in the driver’s seat of Iron Man.

Of course, Bendis was no stranger to Iron Man at this point – having written him in his New Avengers (2004), Mighty Avengers (2007), and Guardians of the Galaxy (2013). And, Bendis had an all-star team of artists join him – including David Marquez, Mike Deodato, and Alex Maleev.

Say what you will about Bendis, but he will absolutely look back at recent runs to pick up untied plot threads to continue. He did exactly that here with Gillen’s thread questioning Tony’s parentage, which becomes one of the main focuses of this run.

Bendis wrote across two sets of two consecutive series. The first pair built to his Civil War II (2016), and then the second pair and then took a hairpin turn to take Tony Stark out of the starring role – replacing him with Riri Williams as Ironheart and Doctor Doom!

Both threads of plot come to a fine conclusion in time for Invincible Iron Man (2016) #600, and this could read well in one book… but, the reading order will be tricky. In typical Bendis fashion, many of the single issues of these series are thoroughly intertwined with each other and Marvel does not have a great track record of collecting that well.

A vote for this book is a vote for all of Brian Bendis’s Iron Man material to be collected in one place, even if some elements of it may be double-dipped in other books like Ironheart or Doctor Doom.

This would collect Invincible Iron Man (2015) #1-14, International Iron Man (2016) #1-7, Infamous Iron Man (2016) #1-12, Generations: Iron Man & Ironheart (2017) #1, and Invincible Iron Man (2016) #593-600.

Tony Stark: Iron Man by Dan Slott fits here, with Tony Stark back in the armor and back at Stark Industries. See Guide to Iron Man – Tony Stark for details.

Iron Man by Christopher Cantwell & Cafu (2020 – 2022)

For me, this is the first must-read Iron Man run since Matt Fraction.

Television writer Christopher Cantwell penned a whole heartfelt, heartbreaking TV series about technology entrepreneurs called Halt and Catch Fire. That meant that Cantwell fundamentally understood the mix of futurist optimism and self-obsessed hubris to bring to a character like Tony Stark, and he did it with a killer creative team of CAFU and Frank D’armata.

Some readers were put off by how quickly Cantwell shirked the continuity of Dan Slott’s run, but he also brought in Hellcat as a spectacular supporting character and mined major elements of Avengers history for his series-long storyarc. He also nodded back to Tom Taylor’s Superior Iron Man in a way that comments on fundamental aspects (and flaws) of Tony’s personality.

I love this run from front to back. In fact, I might even recommend it to readers seeking a modern Iron Man run over the Fraction run. I seriously love it that much.

A vote for this vote is a vote to collect this whole-series mega-arc into oversize hardcover for the first time.

This would collect Iron Man (2020) #1-25, Iron Man/Hellcat Annual (2022), King in Black: Iron Man/Doom (2020) #1. It could optionally add Hellcat (2023) #1-5, not written by Cantwell but emerging directly from his run.

Iron Man & The West Coast Avengers by Gerry Duggan (2023 – 2025) [could include I Am Iron Man]

Gerry Duggan did double-duty writing both the X-Men (2021) flagship and Invincible Iron Man (2022), and it quickly became apparent that the two runs were joined at the hip. Inexplicably, Duggan turned Iron Man into an X-Men title… and it really worked.

Unfortunately means this is a weird read without X-Men incorporated. At least half of this series ties closely into the “Fall of X” and “Fall of the House of X” stories, to the point that it was basically alternating it’s story with both X-Men (2021) and Fall of the House of of X (2024). However, Marvel has already collected the X-Men (2021) portion of that equation into an omnibus with no helper material, so I suppose it would be no surprise to see them do it again here.

This run was very focused on Tony Stark narrating his experiences and trying to craft his story, so it’s a perfect fit to include the quirky I Am Iron Man (2023) mini-series from Murewa Ayodele & Dotun Akande, who find a way to get beneath the armor in each of their one-shot stories. It pairs well with Duggan’s introspective narrative on the main title.

The seriocomic tone of Duggan’s run continues to the ten issues of his subsequent run on West Coast Avengers (2024). It also directly continues plots from his Iron Man run and would make virtually no sense collected on its own or with another Avengers title. And, Duggan then spun out of that into a Wonder Man series currently being released, so that might fit well here as well.

A vote for this book is a vote for a standalone Gerry Duggan omnibus with no supporting X-Men material, but with a kicker of his West Coast Avengers and maybe a bonus of the curious character exploration of I Am Iron Man (2023).

This would collect Invincible Iron Man (2023) #1-20 & Annual 1 and West Coast Avengers (2024) #1-10. It could add I Am Iron Man (2023) #1-5 and possibly Wonder Man (2026).

Iron Man Omnibus Mapping: War Machine & Ironheart

Iron Man has two major protégés who have both worn his suit and fought alongside him – James “Rhodey” Rhodes as War Machine (and occasionally as Iron Man) and Riri Williams as Ironheart. They’ve both had a handful of their own collections, but never their own omnibuses. Perhaps it’s time to change that!

War Machine: The Early Years (1994 – 1996)

This book would mostly focus on collecting War Machine’s 24-issue 1994 solo series that ran alongside Iron Man (1968) and Force Works (1994), without delving into his complete comics history. It was penned by longtime Iron Man writer Len Kaminski and Marvel UK transplant and future star Dan Abnett, with pencils from Sandu Florea and Gabriel Hardman among others.

A vote for this book is a vote for a one-and-done omnibus of that mid-90s series.

This would collect Iron Man (1968) #281-291, War Machine (1994) #1-25 & Ashcan Edition (1993) #1, the “Hands of the Mandarin” crossover (from Iron Man (1968) #310 & 311-312, Force Works (1994) #6-7, and supporting material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #170-172), Iron Man (1968) #317 Force Works (1994) #12, and material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #153-155.

War Machine: The Modern Years (2003 – 2014) [includes The Crew, 2009 Pak series, Iron Man 2.0, Iron Patriot]

War Machine makes many appearances in the 2000s decade, including a solid Greg Pak series and his own Iron Man 2.0 (2011) book, which together account for 24 issues! Add to that Rhodey’s involvement in the original the Crew (2003) and a handful of guest appearances leading to his short-lived Iron Patriot (2014) series and we’ve got a substantial omnibus!

Also, you should you know you have been MARKED SAFE from having to worry about Chuck Austen’s US War Machine (2001) and US War Machine 2.0 (2003) appearing in this book, as I’ve had it confirmed for me that those MAX titles are out of continuity!

A vote for this book is a vote for over a decade of War Machine material collected together for the first time.

This would collect The Crew (2003) #1-7, Iron Man (2005) #33-35, Invincible Iron Man (2008) #11, War Machine (2009) #1-12, Iron Man 2.0 (2011) #1-12 & 7.1, Gambit (2013) #13, Iron Patriot (2014) #1-5, and material from Dark Reign: New Nation (2009) #1.

Ironheart: Riri Williams by Brian Bendis & Eve Ewing (2016 & on)

Riri Williams was Bendis’s attempt to create a new, young, black super-genius character as a parting gift to the Marvel Universe before he headed to DC to write Superman.

In retrospect, the best thing he did for Riri was get out of her way. She was fine under Bendis, but flourished under other writers – especially Dr. Eve Ewing.

Ironheart’s story is still unfolding in Marvel’s comics, so it might be slightly premature to collect her material into omnibus. But, she has well over 30 issues of solo material at this point. With her Disney+ show quickly approaching, this might be a surprisingly popular voting option!

A vote for this book is a vote to comprehensively collect Ironheart’s solo material from her debut to 2025 in a single omnibus.

This would collect Invincible Iron Man (2015) #9 (and material from #7), Invincible Iron Man (2017) #1-11, Generations: Iron Man & Ironheart (2017) #1, Invincible Iron Man (2017) #593-600, Ironheart (2019) #1-12, 2020 Ironheart (2020) #1-2, material from Free Comic Book Day 2023 Marvel Voices #1, and Ironheart: Bad Chemistry (2025) #1.