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Force Works

Notably, there's a two-month crossover, "Hands of the Mandarin". I have chosen to include the entire crossover in the FW volume, and omit the non-series crossover issues from IM and WM volumes. This makes the most even sized volumes.

Force Works #1-15
Iron Man #311-312
War Machine #9-10
Century: Distant Sons one-shot

Iron Man: Modular

Iron Man #301-318
Iron Man Annual #14-15

(For earlier Iron Man thoughts, see this thread.)

War Machine

War Machine #1-19

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Avengers: The Crossing

Perhaps the most infamous 90s crossover.

Avengers: The Crossing one-shot
Avengers #390-395 (6 issues)
Force Works #16-20 (5 issues)
Iron Man #319-325 (7 issues)
War Machine #20-23 (4 issues)
Avengers: Timeslide one-shot
Iron Man: Age of Innocence one-shot

Avengers: Post-Crossing

Between the Crossing and Onslaught, most Avengers family titles do not have a sufficient amount of issues to make a bindable volume of their own. Therefore I have decided to collect the post-Crossing "dregs" in a volume of their own, gathering up the gap between Crossing and Heroes Reborn in a single volume. Notably, single issues of Cap and Thor need to be included because of the one-month "First Sign" crossover.

Avengers #396-402 (7 issues)
Force Works #21-22 (2 issues)
Captain America #449 (1 issue, otherwise omitted because the pre-Reborn Waid/Garney run binds well with the post-Reborn Waid/Garney run)
Iron Man #326-332 (7 issues)
War Machine #24-25 (2 issues)
Thor #496 (1 issue, otherwise omitted because a decent-sized volume can be gotten together, see below)

Thor: Journey Into Mystery

After Thor passed away in Onslaught, the numbering of his title continued in JIM, with a story featuring Asgard's missing gods, a plot thread picked up from the Thor title. Combining these two is thematic, and results in a good-sized volume.

Thor #491-502 (12 issues)
Journey Into Mystery #503-513 (11 issues, featuring "The Lost Gods")

For Captain America mapping, see this thread

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This more or less takes care of things until Heroes Reborn. HR presents somewhat of a problem, because it contains 4 x 13 issues. At quick glance, that would seem ideal for two volumes, but then there is also the Heroes Reborn: The Return LS, 4 issues. Exacerbating the problem is that the #13 issues were a crossover among the HR titles, so they really need to be in the same volume. Thus we really need to look at it as 4 x 12 issues, and then 8 issues (4 x #13, plus HReturn LS). 8 issues is too thin for most of us to bind. What to beef it up with? Should the end volume gobble up something from the #1-12 runs? If so, from which books? One possibility is grabbing Avengers and Captain America from #7-up, giving us 12 issues more, for a total of 20. These break away well from #1-6 of their titles, because halfway through HReborn, Liefeld dropped away and those two titles were instead picked up by Walt Simonson. This would then lead to:

Heroes Reborn: Liefeld
Avengers #1-6
Captain America #1-6

Heroes Reborn: Lee

Fantastic Four #1-12
Iron Man #1-12

(Alternately, you could shunt the Iron Man run over to Liefeld's volume even though it was in Lee's stable, for character-thematic unity. Either way, you're going to need to have one 12-issue volume.)

Heroes Reborn: The Return

Avengers #7-13
Captain America #7-13
Fantastic Four #13
Iron Man #13
Heroes Reborn: The Return #1-4

Another approach I've toyed with for the last volume, is beefing it up with material totally unrelated to Reborn. This would be thematically disconnected, but it would also allow the volumes to be roughly equal sized, which is important to some people. Either way, you're going to have to do three volumes, so why not snag in some extraneous stuff to make sure that the volumes can look equal-sized? The map for this approach could look like this:

Heroes Reborn: Liefeld & Simonson

Avengers #1-12
Captain America #1-12

Heroes Reborn: Lee & Portacio

Fantastic Four #1-12
Iron Man #1-12

Heroes Reborn: The Return

Avengers #13
Captain America #13
Iron Man #13
Fantastic Four #13
Heroes Reborn: The Return #1-4
Journey Into Mystery #514-521 (8 issues, featuring Shang-Chi, Black Widow and Hannibal King)
Tales of the Marvel Universe one-shot
Other stuff????

(I mean, where else are you gonna put the JIM remnants, if you choose to put the Lost Gods together with Thor?)

(Another interesting idea is binding the Widow JIM issues together with some of her Marvel Knights stuff, but that's another issue entirely.)