Whilst flicking through the new Captain Britain Omnibus for the previous post, I came across this arresting image: Oh no! Captain Britain attacking the Queen! This is the cover and splash page to issue #39, July 1977 and 1977 was Read more
On a more fun note than dealing with mouldy books, a few weeks back I got the latest edition of the Captain Britain Omnibus. It’s a very comprehensive tome (which you’d expect with a page count of about 1368!) collecting Read more
This is a follow up to this post where I noted my horror at finding mould patches in some of my books! After doing a bit of online research, I found a couple of useful articles. Most of the information Read more
Just when you think things might be getting back to normal (whatever that means anymore), our old friend covid-19 comes knocking. After a family visit, three family members were struck down. Fortunately symptoms didn’t progress beyond being similar to heavy Read more
I should have been on the look out, I live in an old stone cottage in a damp part of world after all! But it’s struck!
While reading the earliest Golden Age adventures of Superman and Batman, it really struck me the different approaches to their early Golden Age rogues galleries the stories took.
Let’s take (Yes! Let’s!) take a quick overview:
Just when you think DC has given up on publishing more volumes of classic Wonder Woman material, alongs comes this book!
With the latest edition of Jack Kirby’s The Fourth World Omnibus now safely in my clutches, I thought I’d compare it to the recent The Eternals: The Complete Saga Omnibus.
DC does a fairly good job of keeping the Fourth World material available most of the time. However, whenever I looked for a copy I’d find that I’d just missed the latest edition(s). Once they’re out of print their prices on site likes ebay can rocket up very quickly.
Which is to say that for once, I managed not to fall into this trap and this year and I bagged myself a copy of the 2021 edition of Jack Kirby’s Fourth World.
It’s a bit of a beast!
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Over the last couple of years, DC has been putting out two companion lines collecting Post-Crisis Batman comics from the late 1980s and early 1990s. Let’s take a quick look at their contents and how they fit with previous collections.