The way they have collected Batman is extremely helpful to those of us that get exausted trying to work out the reading order as the story jumps between the various Bat-books .
I hope these DC collections signal a shift in how DC treats reprints and preservation of their catalog overall. That was a perfect way to open the video.
I'm genuinely excited about this series as well. I have some of the previous volumes that collect these stories, which I will try to unload and replace with the DC Finest line. Thank you for your excellent review!!
Comics and graphic novels/trades NEVER count with the no-buy book challanges!!! They're a completely different animal. If you don't get them when they come out then you end up paying up the wazoo for them later, if you're able to find them at all. GREAT opening by the way!
I just got my copy of the Batman one this morning, absolutely am in love with the format. I'm a bigger DC fan but I've dabbled in the Epics and mainly collected omnis (since that was DC's go-to for collections) so I'm really happy to get cheap runs for characters I wouldn't normally collect in omnis (due to room and expense) like The Flash and Green Lantern.
@@Yesica1993 obviously it was just a clever bit of satire poking fun at all the crazy political rhetoric going on in America currently, especially with the recent election.
Hopefully these fare better than every other attempt by DC to collect issue runs. It’s sometimes tough to get excited about their plans when you’re keeping in the back of your head that they tend to stop their productions, leaving collectors annoyed.
DCs previous “Golden/Silver/Bronze Age” series in the last decade was a great start and they bailed after a few years. It was chronological and comprehensive…. And now we see DC starting again and we’re supposed to trust them? Trick me once…
Another entertaining video. The DC Finest books look good, but I will pass on them. I don't have the room for all those decades of DC stories. My Timely/Atlas/Marvel collection takes up most of my shelf space.
I'm glad your epic collection is expanding, nice reward for your years of reminding the Distinguished Competition how much their reprint program sucks. The look and quality, price and value are great, I also like the spin going character or theme centric. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on them and seeing what you think of these as they come out too, should have my copy of Superman soon.
Honestly, I think how they are collecting these volumes should dictate how their pre crisis omnibus line should be collected. I believe just listing the years collected and giving each volume its own unique title is absolutely the best way to collect large swaths of these stories (that and keeping the cover design consistent!). It would keep me from feeling the emptiness in the gap between the latest Superman golden age omnibus and the first silver age omnibus so fiercely.
I wonder if one of the reasons DC can’t do the epic collections is that they are more generous with creator rights than Marvel. Meaning whenever they have to reprint anything they have to run after all the creators with lawyers and iron out revenue sharing, etc. which makes the whole process, very time-consuming and costly whereas Marvel, the evil empire, owns everything and can do pretty much what they want.
Being the lemming that I am... Nice intro! How are the bindings on the DC Finest books? I've had awful luck with Marvel's binding quality. Would rather buy digitally if the pages are going to spill out.
lol, was that Batman calling to complain that you liked Superman more? Granted, I didn't read a lot of comics, but I was a Spider-Man fan growing up, and never really expanded out of that - except for reading a couple Green Lanterns. These collections sound like a great way for people to enjoy stories from the past. Great review Michael (and Roger!).
I just wish that they would’ve started with some silver age Superman since they have recently reprinted the golden age stuff. Same for Batman. Some of the upcoming titles boggle my mind, but I’m glad they are doing something like this finally.
I think due to the fact the Superman Silver Age Omnibus Volume 1 is still pretty recent, they couldn’t cover anything from the era and we’re still missing Volume 8-10 for the Golden Age run.
I'm ultra hyped about these. Still, trust DC to start their lineup with two of the most reprinted comics ever (Golden Age Superman and Batman Year One). I'm here for the Green Lanterns of the 70s and 80s that were never (not even once) reprinted, and Green Lantern Mosaic, and Martian Manhunter, and Norm Breyfogle era Batman (I have some of those but not all), and Kirby/post-Kirby Fourth World being reprinted in affordable form (not in giant omnibuses). But yeah, DC wants me to buy Year One again. Sure, my job is easy and my salary is so big, why not indeed???? Anyway the December stuff seems more exciting (GL, Flash, Aquaman, Catwoman).
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 not saying its not. I flipped thru it at my LCS. But I was expecting by the title that it reprints Y 1 & 2. I AM looking forward to some other volumes, like the Metamorpho one, the LSH, and some others.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I’m seeing them discounted at $18 for the week of release and $24 subsequently. Hopefully that price model continues. Great video!
As far as the larger reprint volumes go, you’re right that Marvel has an edge. However, the recent single issue facsimiles that DC has put out are vastly superior to the Marvel ones. DC prints them on newsprint with the original colors and they’re fantastic.
DC have a problem with making smaller long collections which is the crisis. Marvel with there epics can make one long continuous line and number them well. DC is more complicated
I picked up Batman last week and ordered Wonder Woman today. In Stock Trades has been selling these at a 55% discount on the week of release. If that continues, I fear I'm going to be picking a bunch of these up, book buying ban be damned! 😅
Lol at people getting upset at the intro. Honestly i thought it was quite funny, and to be fair it was pretty politically neutral. It could be taken as making fun of people on the left or the right. I say this as a Canadian, but one who would've voted trump if i was an American citizen. Part of the tragedy of modern society is people get too easily offended by jokes if they perceive to be a potential target of it.
The simplest definition circa the 1920's of 'fascist' was; 'one opposed to bolshevism'. In some of those pre-WWII dictionaries there's some extra guff attributing 'fascism' to Mussolini, but that's a bit of a red herring as here in England we had Arnold Leeses founding of the IFL almost simultaneously, and shortly followed by Moseleys BUF. In the run up to and during WWII some 6500 British from all walks of life including sitting MP's, aristocracy and high ranking army officers were detained or imprisoned.
No -- fascists were opposed to liberalism and conservatism as well as communism. It might interest followers of this channel (if they are not already aware of these facts) that Edgar Rice Burroughs hated both communism and fascism, and criticised them in his Amtor books. _Carson of Venus_ has some excellent satire of Hitler and Mussolini. And Lovecraft's initial admiration for Hitler turned into disgust and anger when HPL's neighbour, Harry K. Brobst, returned from a visit to Germany with stories of Jews being beaten. Tolkien's hatred and mocking of the Nazis is probably more well-known.
@@buckocean7616 I will do my best. The historian of fascism Stanley G. Payne lists the three "fascist negations" -- anti-liberalism, anti-communism and anti-conservatism -- as a necessary part of any form of fascism. "What fascist movements had in common," wrote Payne in _A History of Fascism, 1914 -- 1945_ (1995), "was the aim of a new functional relationship for the social and economic systems, eliminating the autonomy (or, in some proposals, the existence) of large-scale capitalism." I believe the fact that the fascists hated capitalism, and wanted to remove it, is completely unknown to most people. To address the writers, Burroughs hated communism (as any decent human being would), with communists or stand-ins for them being the villains of _The Moon Maid,_ _Tarzan the Invincible,_ _Tarzan Triumphant,_ _Pirates of Venus,_ and perhaps a few others. The villains of _Carson of Venus,_ the third book in the Amtor series, are the Zani, a stand-in for the Nazis and fascists. Burroughs directs his great sense of humour at them in this satirical part of the book. Mephis, the Hitler stand-in, is a megalomaniacal individual, short in stature, who has become a murderer and a tyrant. He forces his citizens to attend a one hundred-episode play about his life, among other things. There is also a Mussolini stand-in called Muso. I'm afraid I don't know of any book specifically discussing Burroughs' political views, but I believe (I could be wrong here) that the things I have mentioned are brought up in Richard A. Lupoff's _Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs._ I would like to have been more helpful, but perhaps reading the books themselves is the best option here. With regard to Lovecraft, his initial support for Hitler was based on HPL's belief that he would preserve German culture. Wikipedia says HPL "thought that Hitler's racial policies should be based on culture rather than descent." However, as mentioned above, Lovecraft and his aunt were angered by what Harry K. Brobst described having witnessed in Germany. (By the way, I think Brobst, who died in 2010, was the last person left alive who knew Lovecraft personally.) This is mentioned in S.T. Joshi's _A Dreamer and a Visionary: H.P. Lovecraft in His Time._ Finally, to come to Tolkien, in 1938 German publishers approached Tolkien about translating _The Hobbit_ (1937), and asked (due, of course, to the Nazi racial policies) if he was of pure "arisch" (Aryan) descent. Tolkien asked Stanley Unwin, his English publisher, if he should "suffer this impertinence because of the possession of a German name, or do their lunatic laws require a certificate of _'arisch'_ origin from all persons of all countries?" A drafted reply reads -- "I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by _arisch._ I am not of _Aryan_ extraction: that is Indo-Iranian ... But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of _Jewish_ origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have _no_ ancestors of that gifted people." This can all be found in _The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien._ It is also discussed in this video -- ruclips.net/video/aTI-jsdnuzI/видео.htmlsi=OX_KmPnI3SwUeSEv I should apologise for giving such a lengthy reply, and also for not giving enough concrete recommendations. Everything stated here is derived from the Internet.
@@TheNineteenthCentury WOW! That's an incredible amount of information. I greatly appreciate your taking the time. You've certainly gone out of your way to point me in the right directions. I greatly appreciate your kindness and seriousness of purpose. I've got some homework to do. All best wishes to you.
I did not really care for either Collins' or Barr's Batman stories, but Year One may be the best Batman story of all time. (I did like Barr's Batman and the Outsiders though.) After them followed Jim Starlin, Alan Grant, and Chuck Dixon who's runs I like better. I am glad they are doing lesser known characters like Plastic Man and Metamorpho. Jack Cole's Plastic Man was one of the better Golden Age titles second only to Will Eisner's The Spirit. Metamorpho was an underrated gem of the Silver Age. It was to a certain degree a parody of what Stan Lee was doing at Marvel. (A loving parody though. It's writer Bob Haney realized early on that Marvel would become a real rival of DC.) I hope they do some of the DC's War comics which don't get reprinted much.
The Batman, The Joker, the first Wonder Woman, the first Shazaam were all good and better than a lot of the middling Marvel movies like Dark World and Iron Man 2 and definitely better than anything Marvel has put out since Endgame
I can't say I am a fan of American comics, I find it hard to get into them but also they have to much narration. That said they do look like nice collections.
I've been looking forward to these. As usual, DC steals Marvel's good ideas about 10 years later. I'll get the Superman volume because I like classic Superman. I think I can probably give the Batman book a pass since I already have Year One and I don't care for post-Crisis DC.
I was excited until I saw the “team up” volume. IT IS AWFUL. Instead of Brave and Bold and DC Comics presents getting their own series, this volume is half BATB and half DCCP…. That’s bad enough but the comics aren’t even from the same YEARS. It makes absolutely no sense at all.
I dont see Sgt Rock on their list 😭 But at least Aquaman isn't either 🤭 I'm blaming Vin from Revenant Reads for, you know who, winning. He read American Pyscho. Patrick Bateman (the main character) worshipped Donald. It's all Vin's fault.
Batman was around on election night. He was keeping an eye on the sneaky DEMs so they couldn't add millions of fraudulent votes like last time. Thanks Batman.
@@j75099 right, cause that's what heroes do.. vote for the guy who on 9// when over 2 thousand people perished, call the Larry King show and claim you now have the tallest building in NY (he's so f__cking stupid he was still wrong) Yeah that's the guy heroes side with..
We must be watching different booktubers because some of the more popular ones I've seen are pretty openly political when it comes to certain topics. I'm a big fan of Daniel Greene's channel, but the guy is very openly leftwing/woke and I believe he is a socialist(possibly a commie, but not sure if he is that extreme). I'm someone who would be a trump supporter if I was American (I'm Canadian)so my political viewpoint couldn't be further from Daniel's, yet I still thoroughly enjoy his book content. I can separate people's political opinions from their non-political content. Sometimes Daniel does includes a bit of moralistic "holier than thou" rants against right-wing people or beliefs in some of his vids, but I just roll my eyes and keep watching. I ain't gonna hate on the dude cause we have opposing viewpoints in stuff. He seems like a nice fella and he makes good book content, so I'll continue to support his channel with likes and views.
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The way they have collected Batman is extremely helpful to those of us that get exausted trying to work out the reading order as the story jumps between the various Bat-books .
Yes, it's helpful that they're now selling bunches of issues, together, out of overall reading order. It's so much better.
I hope these DC collections signal a shift in how DC treats reprints and preservation of their catalog overall.
That was a perfect way to open the video.
Great intro! And I’d love to see that Spiderman Epic Collection!
I'm genuinely excited about this series as well. I have some of the previous volumes that collect these stories, which I will try to unload and replace with the DC Finest line. Thank you for your excellent review!!
Comics and graphic novels/trades NEVER count with the no-buy book challanges!!! They're a completely different animal. If you don't get them when they come out then you end up paying up the wazoo for them later, if you're able to find them at all.
GREAT opening by the way!
Thinly veiled political posturing is a sure sign of integrity.
I just got my copy of the Batman one this morning, absolutely am in love with the format. I'm a bigger DC fan but I've dabbled in the Epics and mainly collected omnis (since that was DC's go-to for collections) so I'm really happy to get cheap runs for characters I wouldn't normally collect in omnis (due to room and expense) like The Flash and Green Lantern.
Well played intro, sir.
I don't know what that was.
@@Yesica1993 obviously it was just a clever bit of satire poking fun at all the crazy political rhetoric going on in America currently, especially with the recent election.
Hopefully these fare better than every other attempt by DC to collect issue runs. It’s sometimes tough to get excited about their plans when you’re keeping in the back of your head that they tend to stop their productions, leaving collectors annoyed.
DCs previous “Golden/Silver/Bronze Age” series in the last decade was a great start and they bailed after a few years. It was chronological and comprehensive…. And now we see DC starting again and we’re supposed to trust them? Trick me once…
Another entertaining video. The DC Finest books look good, but I will pass on them. I don't have the room for all those decades of DC stories. My Timely/Atlas/Marvel collection takes up most of my shelf space.
My Amazon order was a little beat up so may return them, but am excited to dive into the DC Finest line.
I'm glad your epic collection is expanding, nice reward for your years of reminding the Distinguished Competition how much their reprint program sucks. The look and quality, price and value are great, I also like the spin going character or theme centric. I'm looking forward to getting my hands on them and seeing what you think of these as they come out too, should have my copy of Superman soon.
Great video it cleared my mind as to how to get these
I have to wonder if the price is just an intro price and they will raise it once people are sucked in?
@@jamess6854 I hope not but you never know.
I am really looking forward to the Green Arrow one coming out next year!
Honestly, I think how they are collecting these volumes should dictate how their pre crisis omnibus line should be collected. I believe just listing the years collected and giving each volume its own unique title is absolutely the best way to collect large swaths of these stories (that and keeping the cover design consistent!). It would keep me from feeling the emptiness in the gap between the latest Superman golden age omnibus and the first silver age omnibus so fiercely.
That sweet taste of democracy
I wonder if one of the reasons DC can’t do the epic collections is that they are more generous with creator rights than Marvel. Meaning whenever they have to reprint anything they have to run after all the creators with lawyers and iron out revenue sharing, etc. which makes the whole process, very time-consuming and costly whereas Marvel, the evil empire, owns everything and can do pretty much what they want.
@@JeffMPalermo I don’t think that was why this took so long. I suspect simple incompetence.
I really like this dc type of epic collection. They need to make more!
I can’t get one of my nephews to read a floppy, but he loves these. The amount, the format, really appeals to the young folk.
Those DC Finest look great.
@@occultdetective they are pretty great
They are...finest 😉😂
Great review, will be buying many of the volumes
I thought of you when reading about the upcoming titles.
That sounds fair, basically epic collections. It’s like my wife’s sister, they look so much alike it’s not really cheating.
@@lx4 exactly! 😁
Being the lemming that I am... Nice intro! How are the bindings on the DC Finest books? I've had awful luck with Marvel's binding quality. Would rather buy digitally if the pages are going to spill out.
They seem pretty good.
Brilliant opening, Michael. Great video!
lol, was that Batman calling to complain that you liked Superman more? Granted, I didn't read a lot of comics, but I was a Spider-Man fan growing up, and never really expanded out of that - except for reading a couple Green Lanterns. These collections sound like a great way for people to enjoy stories from the past. Great review Michael (and Roger!).
I just wish that they would’ve started with some silver age Superman since they have recently reprinted the golden age stuff. Same for Batman. Some of the upcoming titles boggle my mind, but I’m glad they are doing something like this finally.
I think due to the fact the Superman Silver Age Omnibus Volume 1 is still pretty recent, they couldn’t cover anything from the era and we’re still missing Volume 8-10 for the Golden Age run.
I'm ultra hyped about these. Still, trust DC to start their lineup with two of the most reprinted comics ever (Golden Age Superman and Batman Year One). I'm here for the Green Lanterns of the 70s and 80s that were never (not even once) reprinted, and Green Lantern Mosaic, and Martian Manhunter, and Norm Breyfogle era Batman (I have some of those but not all), and Kirby/post-Kirby Fourth World being reprinted in affordable form (not in giant omnibuses). But yeah, DC wants me to buy Year One again. Sure, my job is easy and my salary is so big, why not indeed????
Anyway the December stuff seems more exciting (GL, Flash, Aquaman, Catwoman).
I was confused by the Batman Year One and Two as I assumed they were reprinted the Year One and Two mini-series, not issues of the regular titles.
@@MichaelRBrown-lh6kn it has everything from the time. It’s really great.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 not saying its not. I flipped thru it at my LCS. But I was expecting by the title that it reprints Y 1 & 2.
I AM looking forward to some other volumes, like the Metamorpho one, the LSH, and some others.
@ it does reprint those stories.
Year one and two did run in the regular titles.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 oh? I looked at the table of contents and didn't see those mini series listed...
Are they the same height and length as Epics? How is the paper quality compared to Epics?
@@Lexy-O They are very similar. The major difference is the page count.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I’m seeing them discounted at $18 for the week of release and $24 subsequently. Hopefully that price model continues. Great video!
great intro, thank you
"Year One" has been my favourite Batman story since I read the trade paperback in 1989.
"Year Two", not so much.
I hope dc does a finest of warlord. A omnibus is supposed to drop next year but I hate reading textbooks.
@@seeker2182 yeah, I hope for that as well. And SGT Rock!
As far as the larger reprint volumes go, you’re right that Marvel has an edge. However, the recent single issue facsimiles that DC has put out are vastly superior to the Marvel ones. DC prints them on newsprint with the original colors and they’re fantastic.
@@JeffKozlowski-de1bo yeah, that’s true.
I'm definitely in for the DC Finest Legion of Super-Heroes and most especially that Jack Cole Plastic Man collection! Jack Cole! Wow!
these look great cant wait for hawkman
@@kurumais yes, Hawkman!
Hello my friend!! Hello!!
@@glockensig Hello!
Loved that opening
DC have a problem with making smaller long collections which is the crisis. Marvel with there epics can make one long continuous line and number them well. DC is more complicated
I think they might have fixed the problem with these books. We shall see.
Hopefully we'll get the Golden age Flash ( my favorite character) or Alan Scott volumes in the future.
@@mikewilson3581 I would love that. I’m a huge Flash fan and I’ve never read the golden age stories.
I picked up Batman last week and ordered Wonder Woman today. In Stock Trades has been selling these at a 55% discount on the week of release. If that continues, I fear I'm going to be picking a bunch of these up, book buying ban be damned! 😅
That was a great election! 🇺🇸 thanks for the new video Michael!
MAKE GOTHAM GREAT AGAIN 2024!
Lol at people getting upset at the intro. Honestly i thought it was quite funny, and to be fair it was pretty politically neutral. It could be taken as making fun of people on the left or the right. I say this as a Canadian, but one who would've voted trump if i was an American citizen. Part of the tragedy of modern society is people get too easily offended by jokes if they perceive to be a potential target of it.
@@Vinlander95 you say a few harsh things about Batman and people lose their minds! 😅
The simplest definition circa the 1920's of 'fascist' was; 'one opposed to bolshevism'.
In some of those pre-WWII dictionaries there's some extra guff attributing 'fascism' to Mussolini, but that's a bit of a red herring as here in England we had Arnold Leeses founding of the IFL almost simultaneously, and shortly followed by Moseleys BUF.
In the run up to and during WWII some 6500 British from all walks of life including sitting MP's, aristocracy and high ranking army officers were detained or imprisoned.
No -- fascists were opposed to liberalism and conservatism as well as communism.
It might interest followers of this channel (if they are not already aware of these facts) that Edgar Rice Burroughs hated both communism and fascism, and criticised them in his Amtor books. _Carson of Venus_ has some excellent satire of Hitler and Mussolini. And Lovecraft's initial admiration for Hitler turned into disgust and anger when HPL's neighbour, Harry K. Brobst, returned from a visit to Germany with stories of Jews being beaten. Tolkien's hatred and mocking of the Nazis is probably more well-known.
@@TheNineteenthCentury This is an interesting subject to me. By any chance, can you recommend some good source material. Thanks.
@@buckocean7616
I will do my best. The historian of fascism Stanley G. Payne lists the three "fascist negations" -- anti-liberalism, anti-communism and anti-conservatism -- as a necessary part of any form of fascism. "What fascist movements had in common," wrote Payne in _A History of Fascism, 1914 -- 1945_ (1995), "was the aim of a new functional relationship for the social and economic systems, eliminating the autonomy (or, in some proposals, the existence) of large-scale capitalism." I believe the fact that the fascists hated capitalism, and wanted to remove it, is completely unknown to most people.
To address the writers, Burroughs hated communism (as any decent human being would), with communists or stand-ins for them being the villains of _The Moon Maid,_ _Tarzan the Invincible,_ _Tarzan Triumphant,_ _Pirates of Venus,_ and perhaps a few others. The villains of _Carson of Venus,_ the third book in the Amtor series, are the Zani, a stand-in for the Nazis and fascists. Burroughs directs his great sense of humour at them in this satirical part of the book. Mephis, the Hitler stand-in, is a megalomaniacal individual, short in stature, who has become a murderer and a tyrant. He forces his citizens to attend a one hundred-episode play about his life, among other things. There is also a Mussolini stand-in called Muso. I'm afraid I don't know of any book specifically discussing Burroughs' political views, but I believe (I could be wrong here) that the things I have mentioned are brought up in Richard A. Lupoff's _Master of Adventure: The Worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs._ I would like to have been more helpful, but perhaps reading the books themselves is the best option here.
With regard to Lovecraft, his initial support for Hitler was based on HPL's belief that he would preserve German culture. Wikipedia says HPL "thought that Hitler's racial policies should be based on culture rather than descent." However, as mentioned above, Lovecraft and his aunt were angered by what Harry K. Brobst described having witnessed in Germany. (By the way, I think Brobst, who died in 2010, was the last person left alive who knew Lovecraft personally.) This is mentioned in S.T. Joshi's _A Dreamer and a Visionary: H.P. Lovecraft in His Time._
Finally, to come to Tolkien, in 1938 German publishers approached Tolkien about translating _The Hobbit_ (1937), and asked (due, of course, to the Nazi racial policies) if he was of pure "arisch" (Aryan) descent. Tolkien asked Stanley Unwin, his English publisher, if he should "suffer this impertinence because of the possession of a German name, or do their lunatic laws require a certificate of _'arisch'_ origin from all persons of all countries?" A drafted reply reads --
"I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by _arisch._ I am not of _Aryan_ extraction: that is Indo-Iranian ... But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of _Jewish_ origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have _no_ ancestors of that gifted people."
This can all be found in _The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien._ It is also discussed in this video --
ruclips.net/video/aTI-jsdnuzI/видео.htmlsi=OX_KmPnI3SwUeSEv
I should apologise for giving such a lengthy reply, and also for not giving enough concrete recommendations. Everything stated here is derived from the Internet.
@@TheNineteenthCentury WOW! That's an incredible amount of information. I greatly appreciate your taking the time. You've certainly gone out of your way to point me in the right directions. I greatly appreciate your kindness and seriousness of purpose. I've got some homework to do. All best wishes to you.
@@buckocean7616
You are most welcome, my friend. Best wishes to you too.
I think the next collection covers early 1970s kryptonite no more period.😊
I did not really care for either Collins' or Barr's Batman stories, but Year One may be the best Batman story of all time. (I did like Barr's Batman and the Outsiders though.) After them followed Jim Starlin, Alan Grant, and Chuck Dixon who's runs I like better.
I am glad they are doing lesser known characters like Plastic Man and Metamorpho. Jack Cole's Plastic Man was one of the better Golden Age titles second only to Will Eisner's The Spirit. Metamorpho was an underrated gem of the Silver Age. It was to a certain degree a parody of what Stan Lee was doing at Marvel. (A loving parody though. It's writer Bob Haney realized early on that Marvel would become a real rival of DC.)
I hope they do some of the DC's War comics which don't get reprinted much.
@@freelivefree7221 I really need a SGT Rock volume.
"Marvel have done very well, DC sucked" - so it's like a mirror of their movie outputs.
The Batman, The Joker, the first Wonder Woman, the first Shazaam were all good and better than a lot of the middling Marvel movies like Dark World and Iron Man 2 and definitely better than anything Marvel has put out since Endgame
Joker and Shazam weren't even as good as Man-Thing.😛
@glenmcculla6843 We will agree to disagree on that one buddy
Roger needs a tad drop of water 😮
Hey!..don't you criticize Batman! He won fair and square.
I can't say I am a fan of American comics, I find it hard to get into them but also they have to much narration. That said they do look like nice collections.
Epic more successful than Masterworks or Essentials? No way.
Definitely.
I understood the joke way too late :)
BATMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why!? Why!? 4 more...issues....?
Better than All Inn
@@marcosantiago9985 definitely
I've been looking forward to these. As usual, DC steals Marvel's good ideas about 10 years later. I'll get the Superman volume because I like classic Superman. I think I can probably give the Batman book a pass since I already have Year One and I don't care for post-Crisis DC.
D.c. finest is fun just to own and read......
Best intro ever 🤣🤣🤣
I was excited until I saw the “team up” volume. IT IS AWFUL. Instead of Brave and Bold and DC Comics presents getting their own series, this volume is half BATB and half DCCP…. That’s bad enough but the comics aren’t even from the same YEARS. It makes absolutely no sense at all.
I dont see Sgt Rock on their list 😭 But at least Aquaman isn't either 🤭 I'm blaming Vin from Revenant Reads for, you know who, winning. He read American Pyscho. Patrick Bateman (the main character) worshipped Donald. It's all Vin's fault.
@@DDB168 Damn that Vin! And, yes, there is an Aquaman volume on the way.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 He doesn't deserve a volume. The world's only super hero with a helpdesk. Tsk tsk tsk.
How dare you speak about Batman behind his back! Tell it to his face, I dare you!
(Although, you are right.)
Where was Batman when we needed him during election night??? 😭
Batman was around on election night. He was keeping an eye on the sneaky DEMs so they couldn't add millions of fraudulent votes like last time. Thanks Batman.
Voting for President Trump.
@@j75099As if. 🚪
Voting for the candidate whose political platform is not okay with what's happening in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and so on.
@@j75099 right, cause that's what heroes do.. vote for the guy who on 9// when over 2 thousand people perished, call the Larry King show and claim you now have the tallest building in NY (he's so f__cking stupid he was still wrong) Yeah that's the guy heroes side with..
“Never discuss politics or religion in polite company.” And BookTube is a polite company.
@@rashhunnes4222 l will talk about whatever I want to on my channel. You don’t have to watch it.
I think we are watching different BookTube creators. :)
We must be watching different booktubers because some of the more popular ones I've seen are pretty openly political when it comes to certain topics. I'm a big fan of Daniel Greene's channel, but the guy is very openly leftwing/woke and I believe he is a socialist(possibly a commie, but not sure if he is that extreme). I'm someone who would be a trump supporter if I was American (I'm Canadian)so my political viewpoint couldn't be further from Daniel's, yet I still thoroughly enjoy his book content. I can separate people's political opinions from their non-political content. Sometimes Daniel does includes a bit of moralistic "holier than thou" rants against right-wing people or beliefs in some of his vids, but I just roll my eyes and keep watching. I ain't gonna hate on the dude cause we have opposing viewpoints in stuff. He seems like a nice fella and he makes good book content, so I'll continue to support his channel with likes and views.
Well, you're gone. No politics.
@@stormshadowctf don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
@@stormshadowctf I'm glad President Trump won but the opening was funny.
@@j75099 I guess some people get really upset when you criticize Batman.
@stormshadowctf
You found Vaughan‘s opening joke offensive and you have deadpool as your youtube profile pic… seriously?