Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avengers: Everybody Wants to Rule the World | 2015 | Dan Abnett | Buy |
| 2 | Avengers: The Crossing Omnibus | 2012 | Dan Abnett | N/A |
The two Avengers entries listed under Dan Abnett’s bibliography represent different types of publication. Avengers: Everybody Wants to Rule the World (2015) is an original prose novel written by Abnett featuring the Avengers as they face multiple simultaneous threats from classic villains including HYDRA, AIM, and Ultron. It was published by Titan Books and uses the roster familiar from the early MCU films.
Avengers: The Crossing Omnibus (2012) collects the 1990s Avengers crossover event known as The Crossing, a controversial storyline that revealed Iron Man to be a long-term sleeper agent for Kang the Conqueror. Abnett contributed writing to portions of this collected storyline. The event was later partly retconned and is regarded as one of the lower points of 1990s Marvel publishing, though the omnibus serves as a historical record of the era.
The two entries have little in common beyond both involving the Avengers. The 2015 prose novel is the more accessible of the two for general readers.