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No. 182 — Longer term

The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 5

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

Setup & reading order

1 earlier book in this run comes first

The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 4Unowned

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

Publisher and reference pages describe the editions. Reviews and reader discussions offer different views of the stories.

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The books

UnownedThe Avengers Omnibus Vol. 5Roy Thomas · Neal Adams · Steve Englehart · Jim Shooter856 pp

This book

The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 5

Omnibus hardcover · 856 pages · Unowned

Book 2 of 3 · The Expanding Universe

Englehart’s Avengers continues through the Celestial Madonna period.

See reading checkpoints

Released 26 Sep 2023 · 856 pages · John Buscema cover9781302954116Planned edition

The Avengers (1963)#120–149

Giant-Size Avengers (1974)#1–4

Captain Marvel (1968)#33

Fantastic Four (1961)#150

FOOM (1973) (partial — Avengers material)#6, #7, #12

Earth-616 Primary

Avengers #125 and Captain Marvel #33 also appear in The Thanos Wars; read their connected conflict once. FOOM #6–7 and #12 add Avengers selections from the fan magazine, not further numbered chapters of the team’s series.

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. 5

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

2 shared full issues — The Avengers Omnibus Vol. 5 ↔ The Thanos Wars: Infinity Origin OmnibusThese books share full issues; the list identifies the repeated stories.

Show exact issues

Avengers (1963) #125Captain Marvel (1968) #33

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.