Random, Pointless Comments About DC Solicitations.

Comments Off | Posted: January 16th, 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized

DC’s got a few really nicely put-together covers for April:

They’re also offering this completely amazing book that I’d consider near-essential for the discerning Batman fan.

THE ORIGINAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COMIC BOOK HEROES VOLUME 1: BATMAN TP

Written by Michael Fleischer
Art by various

Everything you ever wanted to know about DC’s Dark Knight – and so much more – can be found in this amazing volume, brought back into print for the first time in 30 years!
Originally published in 1976, this extensive volume – the first in a series – includes everything you could want to know about Batman, his allies and enemies, weapons in his war on crime and his adventures from the 1930s to the 1970s!
Advance-solicited; on sale May 23; 416 pg, B&W, $19.99 US

I’ve got the original 1976 edition of this, along with the Superman and Wonder Woman volumes and they’re great fun. Fleischer takes a slightly too-serious tone with the characters that makes the first appearance of, say, Egg-Fu into a thing of comedy gold. I presume they’ll do the other two books if this sells well enough, so get crackin’ on the preordering, bucky. (The Superman one was, oddly enough, called The Great Superman Book, but they all follow the same format.)

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