Captain America: Return of the Winter Soldier Omnibus
Ed Brubaker · Steve Epting · Butch Guice
Story era 10 · The Heroic Age and the Incursions
Brubaker’s later Captain America stories extend the opening espionage saga through changes in the mantle and Steve Rogers’s return.
Book 4 of 4 in Captain America by Ed Brubaker — continuation · 0 of 4 owned · 2,704 pages in all
Setup & reading order
Required setup for this book
These earlier stories explain events this book builds on. Reading checkpoints show where to switch books during a crossover.
3 earlier books in this run come first
- After Return of the Winter Soldier Omnibus
Continue with Remender’s Dimension Z-to-Sam Wilson omnibus.
Optional context & path
Path: Captain America, modern era. Related projects that read well in this order; the order is a suggestion, not a requirement.
Only required setup and earlier volumes in the same project affect the queue. Everything here is optional.
The books
Captain America: Return of the Winter Soldier Omnibus
Book 4 of 4 · The Heroic Age and the Incursions
Bucky’s private war on old Soviet ghosts, running through Fear Itself and its aftermath.
9781302952631Planned edition#620–628#7.1#1–14#11–19#1Fear Itself: Book of the Skull #1 is also in the Fear Itself collection. Read this Red Skull prologue once before the event, wherever it fits your Captain America reading.
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 · Captain America: Return of the Winter Soldier Omnibus
These books share full issues or parts of issues with other books in the plan. Open the lists below to see which stories repeat.
Show exact issues
Fear Itself: Book of the Skull (2011) #1Connected stories
Connected project: Bendis Avengers Phase 2 — Secret Invasion to Siege
Things to know
Collecting rule: The opening Brubaker omnibus comes first, followed by these four volumes in order.
- The first two Brubaker omnibuses intentionally share Captain America #25 at their boundary.