Warren Ellis’ run on Excalibur is fairly simple. Twenty-one issues of the main series, a 3 issue spin off mini, and 1 crossover issue, with no annuals or specials. There is a Starjammers mini that is supposed to spin out of one of the early arcs, but doesn’t actually involve Excalibur.

It can be difficult to place this run into a larger X-Men collection, since the first four issues are pre-Age of Apocalypse. I don’t recommend trying to force the X-Calibre series in between #86 and 87, as it obviously doesn’t contribute to the rest of the run.

I skipped the X-Men Prime material, since I had already bound that issue as part of my X-Men collection (and thus could not scan relevant pages), and did not want to buy a new copy for just a few pages. It wasn’t written by Ellis anyway.

For extras, I added scans of cards from the 1994 Marvel Masterpieces and 1995 and 1996 Fleer Ultra X-Men sets featuring the Excalibur characters that appear in this run. After taking out ads and back covers, I got a book that’s about an inch and a half thick.

If you care about that sort of thing, issues #83-86 each come in Deluxe (glossy) and regular (non-glossy) editions.