Invincible Compendium #2
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeInvincible Compendium HC Vol. 2 gathers the narrative spine of Robert Kirkman's entire creator-owned superhero saga — issues #48 through #96 — into a single 1,184-page volume, placing the full arc of Mark Grayson's maturation from reactive teenager to galactic combatant in one accessible read. The chunk of story reprinted here contains what critics and scholars of the series consistently identify as its thematic and narrative center: the debut and brutal first encounter with Conquest (issue #61), the full sweep of the Viltrumite War (#71–78), and the early seeds of Robot's eventual betrayal (#91–96), representing the longest sustained stretch of rising-stakes superhero storytelling Image Comics produced in the 2000s. Released as part of Skybound's yearlong 20th-anniversary program in 2023 — the same period in which the Amazon Prime animated series was drawing massive new audiences to the property — the volume served as the definitive on-ramp for a generation of readers meeting Invincible for the first time through the screen. Its direct-market-exclusive hardcover format honored the comic-shop retail channel that had supported the series since 2003, making the HC itself a meaningful artifact of the anniversary celebration.
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Skybound Entertainment announced the full suite of 20th-anniversary releases for Invincible in late 2022, with the three-volume hardcover compendium series positioned as a direct-market-exclusive counterpart to the existing mass-market paperback compendiums (the first paperback compendium had originally appeared in 2011). The HC Vol. 2 was written by Robert Kirkman, with interior art by Ryan Ottley (primary penciler across the bulk of issues #48–96), Cory Walker (series co-creator who contributed additional art), and inker Cliff Rathburn; the cover was by Ottley with colors by Dave McCaig. It was published May 24, 2023 by Image Comics / Skybound, carrying Diamond ID MAR230070 and ISBN 9781534399983, and ran to 1,184 pages — a substantially larger page count than Vol. 1 HC's 1,024 pages, reflecting the addition of bonus tie-in issues.
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- Collects Invincible #48–96, Invincible Returns #1, and Astounding Wolf-Man #11 — 50 individual issues bound into 1,184 pages.
- Published May 24, 2023 by Image Comics / Skybound as part of a yearlong 20th-anniversary celebration of the series, which launched January 22, 2003.
- Hardcover edition was a direct-market exclusive (comic shops only); a separate paperback TP collecting only #48–96 was released October 11, 2023 for wider bookseller distribution.
- Creative team: written by Robert Kirkman; primary art by Ryan Ottley; additional art by series co-creator Cory Walker; inks by Cliff Rathburn; cover art and colors by Ryan Ottley and Dave McCaig.
- Contains the first appearance and debut fight of Conquest (Invincible #61, April 2009) — the Viltrumite enforcer created by Kirkman and Ottley whose brutalizing battles with Mark Grayson are widely regarded as a turning point in the series' narrative intensity.
- Includes the full Viltrumite War story arc (issues #71–78), the culminating intergalactic conflict pitting Mark, Omni-Man, Allen the Alien, and Tech Jacket against the Viltrum Empire — considered by many readers the thematic climax of the entire 144-issue run.
- Also covers the 'Invincible War' crossover event and the early establishment of Dinosaurus as a recurring villain, as well as Atom Eve's pregnancy revelation — major character developments that redefine Mark's personal stakes.
- The inclusion of Astounding Wolf-Man #11 as a bonus tie-in reflects the crossover between Wolf-Man and the Invincible cast established in issues #48–49 of the main series, making this compendium a broader snapshot of the interconnected Skybound superhero universe of that era.
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