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DC Finest Batman: The Killing Joke and Other Stories
The Killing Joke and Other Stories follows straight on from the previous volume in the DC Finest Batman line. Here’s a quick look at it!
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Breaking Down Clamp Champ!
A look at Masters of the Universe Origins Clamp Champ
As quickly detailed in this post, thanks to my wife (thanks wife!) I’m now collecting Masters of the Universe Masterverse action figures. Before I wound up in the Masterverse camp, between us we got a couple of Origins figures to try out – the Sorceress and Clamp Champ.
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DC Finest: Batman Year One & Two in Hand Look
After all of my banging on about the new DC Finest line of books, I was actually quite slow in getting one of the first ones!
As the title suggests, I went for the first volume of Batman that has been released – Year One & Two. So let’s take a quick look at it:
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The Best Christmas Present? A Couple of Masterworks!
I’m very behind with Marvel Masterworks for reasons which will become clear. Especially if I manage to pull my finger out and do the next series of posts I’m planning!
However! I did get a couple for Christmas: Spider-Woman Vol. 4 and Marvel Two-in-One Vol. 7.
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Comparing DC Finest to What’s on the Shelf!
The news of DC’s new line of chunky paperback collected editions – DC Finest – has certainly got me excited. There has definitely been a bit of a dry spell for classic material from DC, particularly in paperback format. So the new line is really welcome news.
However, I’m sure I’m not the only one who is comparing the released details of the new books against what I’ve already got on my shelves.
I’m going to take a look at Batman and Superman below as there have been recent volumes from DC covering similar time periods.
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Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Updates 2023
It’s been (ulp!) over a year ago since I last posted anything about the twin lines of The Caped Crusader and The Dark Knight Detective books! There’s not been much movement in the months since, but there is some news. It looks like the sister line, the Caped Crusader is Read more
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Moon Knight #1 Facsimile Edition
Not long after posting about the Moon Knight Omnibuses last year, I tripped over this fun thing which I just had to have – a facsimile edition of Moon Knight #1! I am probably the last person to have realised that there’s a whole series of these published by Marvel Read more
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Batman: Caped Crusader & Dark Detective Updates
DC has continued with both of these lines of chunky paperbacks, collecting Post-Crisis, late 1980s and early 1990s Batman and Detective Comics. I’ve updated the main post on this here – Holy Collecting Crisis! – but some of the highlights are: Caped Crusader Volume 6 has now been published. Issue Read more
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Moon Knight Omnibuses: What Price Nostalgia?
Vaguely tying in with the recent Moon Knight series on Disney+, this year Marvel published a second omnibus volume collecting the classic 1980s comics, including those written by Doug Moench with art by Bill Sienkiewicz. Naturally, I bought the second volume to go with the first but it got it Read more