The Barb Wire Compendium

Part of Barb Wire

Paperback
$39.99 US
On sale Feb 17, 2026 | 648 Pages | 9781506750989

The definitive Barb Wire comics collection in one oversized compendium!

Tough as nails and stubborn as a mule—badass bounty hunter Barb Wire puts the “drop dead” in drop dead gorgeous.


Steel Harbor is the American dream turned nightmare. This once great city was a monument to American industry and ingenuity, but now it’s a scrap heap of shuttered factories, decaying neighborhoods, and wasted potential being carved up and fought over by superpowered street gangs. 

But where others see a warzone, Barb sees opportunity. When a bounty can punch through a wall, summon a tornado, or fly, they tend to have a big fat price on their head which is exactly what Barb needs if she’s going to keep her money-pit hard rock bar from being shuttered. The trick is staying alive long enough collect. 

Barb Wire is a full-throttle romp of flying fists, leather jackets, heavy metal, bounty hunting, motor bikes, and super-powered bad attitudes as told by a gang of comic book’s greatest storytellers including series-creator Chris Warner and rockstars John Arcudi, Adam Hughes, Patrick Oliffe, Paul Gulacy, Tim Bradstreet, Dan Lawliss, Mike Manley, Adam Warren, Dave Dorman, Mike Mignola, Andrew Robinson, and more!

This definitive collection features Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 1: Barb Wire, Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 2: The Machine, Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 3: Wolf Gang, Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 4: Motorhead, Barb Wire #1–#9, San Diego Comic-Con Comics #3: Barb Wire: No Fear, Barb Wire: Ace of Spades #1–#4, Barb Wire (Volume 2) #1–#8, and, as a bonus, the movie adaptation comic Barb Wire Movie Special.

For mature audiences.
John Arcudi is a comic book writer and creator from Buffalo, New York. Arcudi has more than 300 titles to his name, some of the most prominent being Abe Sapien, B.P.R.D., The Creep, Dark Horse Presents, and Predator. Arcudi was educated at Columbia University. View titles by John Arcudi

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The definitive Barb Wire comics collection in one oversized compendium!

Tough as nails and stubborn as a mule—badass bounty hunter Barb Wire puts the “drop dead” in drop dead gorgeous.


Steel Harbor is the American dream turned nightmare. This once great city was a monument to American industry and ingenuity, but now it’s a scrap heap of shuttered factories, decaying neighborhoods, and wasted potential being carved up and fought over by superpowered street gangs. 

But where others see a warzone, Barb sees opportunity. When a bounty can punch through a wall, summon a tornado, or fly, they tend to have a big fat price on their head which is exactly what Barb needs if she’s going to keep her money-pit hard rock bar from being shuttered. The trick is staying alive long enough collect. 

Barb Wire is a full-throttle romp of flying fists, leather jackets, heavy metal, bounty hunting, motor bikes, and super-powered bad attitudes as told by a gang of comic book’s greatest storytellers including series-creator Chris Warner and rockstars John Arcudi, Adam Hughes, Patrick Oliffe, Paul Gulacy, Tim Bradstreet, Dan Lawliss, Mike Manley, Adam Warren, Dave Dorman, Mike Mignola, Andrew Robinson, and more!

This definitive collection features Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 1: Barb Wire, Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 2: The Machine, Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 3: Wolf Gang, Comics’ Greatest World: Steel Harbor Week 4: Motorhead, Barb Wire #1–#9, San Diego Comic-Con Comics #3: Barb Wire: No Fear, Barb Wire: Ace of Spades #1–#4, Barb Wire (Volume 2) #1–#8, and, as a bonus, the movie adaptation comic Barb Wire Movie Special.

For mature audiences.

Author

John Arcudi is a comic book writer and creator from Buffalo, New York. Arcudi has more than 300 titles to his name, some of the most prominent being Abe Sapien, B.P.R.D., The Creep, Dark Horse Presents, and Predator. Arcudi was educated at Columbia University. View titles by John Arcudi

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