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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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.
It’s the early/mid 1960s, Marvel Comics are starting to make serious headway with their line of superheroes. They have arguments, squabbles and other personal troubles which go way beyond the bland ‘competent man’ mould of DC’s line of superheroes.