Writer/artist Walter Simonson’s groundbreaking Thor run starts here!Walter Simonson’s Thor raises its banner high and stands with the series’ Stan Lee/Jack Kirby glory days and then some! With truly cosmic stakes, a new character worthy enough to lift Mjolnir high in Beta Ray Bill and a villain of deadly cunning in Malekith, Simonson launched his epic run with a powerful art style and a majestic narrative that reminds the reader why the legendary tales of Asgard are so compelling. After handling Malekith’s ice-cold plot with the Casket of Ancient Winters, Thor must head into the fiery pits of Surtur’s realm for a war that may mean the very end of Asgard. Simonson’s four fabled years of storytelling with Thor starts here!COLLECTING: Thor (1966) #337-356Written by Walter Simonson With Bob HarrasPenciled by Walter Simonson With Sal Buscema & Butch Guice

It's the end of an era for the Avengers as the double threat of the infamous Crossing arc and the fury of Onslaught rear their heads!Warriors from the future and secrets from the past abound when Kang the Conqueror appears to set the assembled Avengers against each other in a game for a prize no one can imagine! But when one of their own is revealed to be a deadly enemy, you won’t believe who they recruit to help defeat him! In the aftermath of the Crossing, the Wasp is transformed, the surviving Avengers battle the Zodiac and the megalomaniacal Leader targets the world’s most famous landmarks! Plus: The Avengers must survive an endless assault of old enemies before reckoning with the deadly new menace of Onslaught! As they fight alongside the X-Men, it’s the shocking end of an era for the world’s greatest heroes!COLLECTING: Avengers (1963) 389-402, Avengers: The Crossing (1995) 1, Avengers: Timeslide (1996) 1, Onslaught: Marvel Universe (1996) 1

Collects Avengers (1963) #367-377, Avengers Annual (1967) #23, X-Men (1991) #26, Avengers West Coast (1989) #101, Uncanny X-Men (1981) #307, Avengers Log (1994) #1. Blood ties and betrayal! As the epic saga of the Gatherers approaches its climax, Earth's Mightiest Heroes collide with the Children of the Atom! When Acolytes leader Fabian Cortez kidnaps Luna, daughter of Quicksilver and Crystal, as part of his power struggle with Exodus, the Avengers are drawn into a Genoshan civil war alongside the X-Men! Then, the Avengers face Ghaur and the Deviants! But nothing can prepare them for the shocking truth about the scheming Proctor and his multiversal Gatherers! What will the explosive climax of Proctor's interdimensional plan mean for Black Knight and the volatile Eternal Sersi? Plus: What feelings stir within the Vision? And the immortal Hercules is targeted for death!

Avengers - east and west - assemble! That's right, in the epic buildup to AVENGERS #250, a whole new team of Avengers is born! But before that historic moment, the seeds for the series' anniversary extravaganza are sown in a team-up between the Avengers and the Eternals against the Inhuman-Deviant menace Maelstrom. Meanwhile in California, Hawkeye works to assemble a whole new branch of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Avengers don't exactly grow on trees, but Hawkeye's West Coast Avengers soon build a scrappy roster that prevails over Goliath and Graviton - just in time to join their East Coast counterparts and save the world from a resurgent Maelstrom! Topping things off are the returns of Captain America, Hercules and the Black Knight, and the culmination of the Vision's plan for global…peace? Collecting AVENGERS (1963) #246-254, WEST COAST AVENGERS (1984) #1-4 and IRON MAN ANNUAL #7.

One of the darkest eras in Tony Stark's long history continues as Iron Man battles Iron Man!Dennis O’Neil and Luke McDonnell’s rich storytelling in the latest Marvel Masterworks is a compelling exploration of what makes a man and what makes a hero. Brought to his knees by the bottle and by Obadiah Stane, Tony Stark continues his struggle to regain control of his life. Meanwhile James “Rhodey” Rhodes fights to rebuild the empire Stark lost, but the Iron Man armor may drive him mad first. The tension between these headstrong heroes builds until it explodes in a historic war of Iron Men. Only one man can wear the red-and-gold. Who will it be? This volume also features the never-before-reprinted solo saga of Iron Man’s compatriot Jack of Hearts, revealing his mysterious origins in a cosmic quest.COLLECTING: THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN (1968) #183-192 & ANNUAL (1970) #7, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #134 and JACK OF HEARTS (1984) #1-4

Sci-fi legend Flash Gordon must team-up with the Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and the super strong Lothar to defend planet Earth against the dark forces of Ming the Merciless. Luckily, they'll get some help from the next generation of heroes, their children!

Writer/artist Walter Simonson’s groundbreaking Thor run starts here!Walter Simonson’s Thor raises its banner high and stands with the series’ Stan Lee/Jack Kirby glory days and then some! With truly cosmic stakes, a new character worthy enough to lift Mjolnir high in Beta Ray Bill and a villain of deadly cunning in Malekith, Simonson launched his epic run with a powerful art style and a majestic narrative that reminds the reader why the legendary tales of Asgard are so compelling. After handling Malekith’s ice-cold plot with the Casket of Ancient Winters, Thor must head into the fiery pits of Surtur’s realm for a war that may mean the very end of Asgard. Simonson’s four fabled years of storytelling with Thor starts here!COLLECTING: Thor (1966) #337-356Written by Walter Simonson With Bob HarrasPenciled by Walter Simonson With Sal Buscema & Butch Guice

It's the end of an era for the Avengers as the double threat of the infamous Crossing arc and the fury of Onslaught rear their heads!Warriors from the future and secrets from the past abound when Kang the Conqueror appears to set the assembled Avengers against each other in a game for a prize no one can imagine! But when one of their own is revealed to be a deadly enemy, you won’t believe who they recruit to help defeat him! In the aftermath of the Crossing, the Wasp is transformed, the surviving Avengers battle the Zodiac and the megalomaniacal Leader targets the world’s most famous landmarks! Plus: The Avengers must survive an endless assault of old enemies before reckoning with the deadly new menace of Onslaught! As they fight alongside the X-Men, it’s the shocking end of an era for the world’s greatest heroes!COLLECTING: Avengers (1963) 389-402, Avengers: The Crossing (1995) 1, Avengers: Timeslide (1996) 1, Onslaught: Marvel Universe (1996) 1

Collects Avengers (1963) #367-377, Avengers Annual (1967) #23, X-Men (1991) #26, Avengers West Coast (1989) #101, Uncanny X-Men (1981) #307, Avengers Log (1994) #1. Blood ties and betrayal! As the epic saga of the Gatherers approaches its climax, Earth's Mightiest Heroes collide with the Children of the Atom! When Acolytes leader Fabian Cortez kidnaps Luna, daughter of Quicksilver and Crystal, as part of his power struggle with Exodus, the Avengers are drawn into a Genoshan civil war alongside the X-Men! Then, the Avengers face Ghaur and the Deviants! But nothing can prepare them for the shocking truth about the scheming Proctor and his multiversal Gatherers! What will the explosive climax of Proctor's interdimensional plan mean for Black Knight and the volatile Eternal Sersi? Plus: What feelings stir within the Vision? And the immortal Hercules is targeted for death!

Avengers - east and west - assemble! That's right, in the epic buildup to AVENGERS #250, a whole new team of Avengers is born! But before that historic moment, the seeds for the series' anniversary extravaganza are sown in a team-up between the Avengers and the Eternals against the Inhuman-Deviant menace Maelstrom. Meanwhile in California, Hawkeye works to assemble a whole new branch of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! Avengers don't exactly grow on trees, but Hawkeye's West Coast Avengers soon build a scrappy roster that prevails over Goliath and Graviton - just in time to join their East Coast counterparts and save the world from a resurgent Maelstrom! Topping things off are the returns of Captain America, Hercules and the Black Knight, and the culmination of the Vision's plan for global…peace? Collecting AVENGERS (1963) #246-254, WEST COAST AVENGERS (1984) #1-4 and IRON MAN ANNUAL #7.

One of the darkest eras in Tony Stark's long history continues as Iron Man battles Iron Man!Dennis O’Neil and Luke McDonnell’s rich storytelling in the latest Marvel Masterworks is a compelling exploration of what makes a man and what makes a hero. Brought to his knees by the bottle and by Obadiah Stane, Tony Stark continues his struggle to regain control of his life. Meanwhile James “Rhodey” Rhodes fights to rebuild the empire Stark lost, but the Iron Man armor may drive him mad first. The tension between these headstrong heroes builds until it explodes in a historic war of Iron Men. Only one man can wear the red-and-gold. Who will it be? This volume also features the never-before-reprinted solo saga of Iron Man’s compatriot Jack of Hearts, revealing his mysterious origins in a cosmic quest.COLLECTING: THE INVINCIBLE IRON MAN (1968) #183-192 & ANNUAL (1970) #7, MARVEL TEAM-UP (1972) #134 and JACK OF HEARTS (1984) #1-4

Sci-fi legend Flash Gordon must team-up with the Phantom, Mandrake the Magician, and the super strong Lothar to defend planet Earth against the dark forces of Ming the Merciless. Luckily, they'll get some help from the next generation of heroes, their children!