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No. 182 — Longer term

The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 4

Roy Thomas · Neal Adams · Steve Englehart · Jim Shooter

Story era 02 · The Expanding Universe

Three Avengers omnibuses connect the Kree/Skrull War to the team’s later 1970s adventures through the Korvac period.

UnownedReading status not recorded856 pages36 full issues

Book 1 of 3 in Avengers 1970s Foundation — Kree/Skrull through Korvac · 0 of 3 owned · 2,888 pages in all

Setup & reading order

After Avengers #97
The Kree/Skrull War ends inside Vol. 4; continue the same volume rather than retaining the Gallery duplicate.
After Avengers #149
Continue to Omnibus Vol. 6 for the late-1970s Pérez/Korvac phase.

Optional context & path

Path: Avengers, classic era. Related projects that read well in this order; the order is a suggestion, not a requirement.

Useful background and earlier stops: Avengers by Roger Stern.

Only required setup and earlier volumes in the same project affect the queue. Everything here is optional.

About these books · 4 sources

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The books

UnownedThe Avengers Omnibus Vol. 4Avengers 1970s Foundation — Kree/Skrull through KorvacRoy Thomas · Neal Adams · Steve Englehart · Jim Shooter856 pp

This book

The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 4

Omnibus hardcover · 856 pages · Unowned

Book 1 of 3 · The Expanding Universe

The Kree/Skrull War grows into the team’s early-1970s Roy Thomas and Englehart foundation.

See reading checkpoints

Released 19 Sep 2023 · 856 pages · John Buscema cover9781302953621Planned edition

The Avengers (1963)#89–119

Daredevil (1964)#99

The Defenders (1972)#8–11

Earth-616 Primary

Avengers #89–97 is the complete Kree/Skrull War, so the narrower Gallery Edition is not needed.

Edition sources

Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.

Duplication · The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 4

These books share full issues or parts of issues with other books in the plan. Open the lists below to see which stories repeat.

No shared contents are recorded with other books in the plan.

Connected stories

Earlier stories Foundational Kree/Skrull history enriches Illuminati and Secret Invasion without repeating their issues.

Connected project: Bendis Avengers Phase 1

Things to know

Collecting rule: Vols. 4–6 form a sequence. The Kree/Skrull War Gallery Edition repeats part of Vol. 4.

Three omnibuses cover much more Avengers history than the Kree/Skrull War alone.
Vol. 4 includes the Avengers and Defenders crossover, which also appears in Gerber’s Defenders.