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sdev71 New Member |
Does anyone have info on Robin's solo series. How long did it run? Were they really solo adventures or was Batman in them as well? Has it ever been considered for an archive edition? IP: Logged |
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John Moores 3 Member |
The answers: From #65 to #130, IIRC. IP: Logged |
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John Moores 3 Member |
quote: I forgot Crazy Quilt. Duh! IP: Logged |
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GSchienke Member |
I'd like these, too. What's not to like from adventures againsty Crazy Quilt to Jim Mooney art? If Johnny Storm's adventures from Strange Tales rate an Essentials volumes, Robin's should rate a color TPB if not an Archive. Greg IP: Logged |
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DaBubba Member |
This is one of my Top 5 archives, with SA Superboy, GA Sandman, and Scribbly & the Red Tornado. Okay, Top 4, but you get my drift. I think I've only seen one of these stories reprinted before. There was one Robin solo story in the Batman From the 30's to the 70's hardcover, and I think that's it. I would love this, DC!!! IP: Logged |
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kid colt Member |
I just picked up World's Finest #190, and it has a reprint of the Robin story from Star Spangled #125. IP: Logged |
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Not My Real Name Member |
The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told has "Operation: Escape," a Robin story from Star Spangled Comics #124, that I remember reading as a reprint in the early 70s. ------------------ IP: Logged |
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Corrosive Kid Member |
Some old issues of Brave and the Bold have Robin reprint backups in them. IP: Logged |
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OldGuy Member |
quote: I believe that for about a year or so in the middle of the run, Batman appeared almost every issue and had a much larger role than in earlier or later stories. IP: Logged |
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sdev71 New Member |
Just want to say thanks for all the info. IP: Logged |
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Two Face 22 Member |
Just to let people know, I posted a few SSC story titles on the Robin forum. I'd provide a link but my browser won't let me, like it won't let me copy and paste the info here. Due to the relative inactivity of that board, and the fact that I've only just posted the info there (before seeing this thread), it should be on the front page of the board for a few days. Please check it out if you want! And can anyone help me fill in the blanks? PS Put me down for an Archives too!! IP: Logged |
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Two Face 22 Member |
Alternatively, could anyone do me a favour and either copy and paste the info here, or provide a link. (My browser won't tell me the address of pages I'm currenty on, so I've no way of knowing what the address of that particular page is) Many thanks!! PS The thread is titled similar, if not the same as, this one. IP: Logged |
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Unknown Question Member |
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Two Face 22 Member |
Many thanks! So can anyone help with the missing story titles? i.e. #65 - #85 #97 #99 - #109 #113 #116 #118 #119 #121 #122 #129 All the best IP: Logged |
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John Moores 3 Member |
I have some: #67: "The Castle of Doom!" #70, #74 and #79 are all Clock stories. IP: Logged |
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John Moores 3 Member |
Unknown Question, that British Batman Annual was the 1980 one- the first one I ever got. The Batmobile turns into an oil truck..brilliant! The Crazy Quilt story and Dick Grayson: Detective were both reprinted in '75, in the DETECTIVE 100 Page Giants. I'm afraid I'm gonna have to dis Fleisher for not including the Robin, Alfred, Lois and Jimmy stories from his encyclopaediae - I mean, what was the point of indexing every story in three magazines if you're gonna omit stories which are just as valid? IP: Logged |
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Steven Utley Member |
Batman being DC's 800-pound gorilla, I think we'll eventually get THE ROBIN ARCHIVES. Incidentally, The Boy Wonder also took on DC's first non-JSA "crossover" villain, Crazy Quilt, whose career had begun in (and slightly outlasted) BOY COMMANDOS. IP: Logged |
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Two Face 22 Member |
Thanks for all the info guys - that's great!! Regarding the Fleisher guides and SSC Robin stories, it does seem very strange. My three thoughts on why he might not have included them are as follows: 1) It's possibe that he thought he may have at some time had to do an udate of the volume. This would have involved listing not only the 40's and 50's stories but also the later 60's and 70's solo stories. This would have led to listing other 'Bat' back-ups such as Batgirl etc. Not only may this have been confusing, he may have also felt that these would have fit in another volume with other heroes who had short stories. IIRC the project was meant to carry on for longer than three volumes. 2) Another possibility may have been the format of the book restricted him to include these stories. The book centres around Batman, and as he mentions in his introduction, if you are to read the Batman entry and look up every cross-reference in the book, you'll eventually read every entry. This means that, in the Robin solo stories, there would be no direct connection to Batman and therefore these entries wouldn't be in the same format as the rest of the book. This, I think is quite a logical theory for exclusion. However, I don't think it would have harmed to have tied stories to either Batman or Robin. 3) Possibly the most likely reason they weren't included was that DC may have not got all the stories in there archive at that time. SSC was probably never held in as high an esteem as Detective, Batman and WF. When DC was buying collections (as I think they have done over the years), SSC was probably not that high on their list of 'must have' comics. I think Fleisher borrowed issues from collectors too, and it's possible that these collectors may not have had these, for want of a better phrase, 'less sought after' comics. Consequently, if Fleisher had identified that they may have gaps due to the inavailability of issues, he probably felt justified to leave these issues out . Well those are my theories. Sorry to drone on - this particular bugbear has bothered me for a while as I have wanted to know more about these stories for years. In my hunger to understand why they were omitted, I have given this (far too much) thought! ![]() Perhaps we should to try to compile brief synopses of these issues to compensate for Mr Fleisher's omissions. Anyone think that's a good idea? (As a side note, I feel a little bit bad complaining about the omission, considering the excellent work Fleisher did do on this volume). Still looking for the Superman and Wonder Woman volumes at a reasonable price. IP: Logged |
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kdu Member |
We would never get a story called "The Boy Who Wanted Robin For Christmas" these days .I'd like a Robin Archives also. IP: Logged |
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James Friel Member |
My impression of DC's holdings in Golden Age comics is not that they've built it up over the years, but rather that what was once a full set of (possibly multiple) file copies has been depleted by, ah, shrinkage. I've never heard of them buying anything. IP: Logged |
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Two Face 22 Member |
I may have misheard, James and they haven't bought collections. I remember hearing that, because during the Golden Age no one expected comics to be worth anything in future years, copies weren't always saved for posterity. I'd always thought that, during that period, it may have been that DC didn't bother saving but instead made sure most copies were on the on the shelves ready for sale. I'd also always imagined that any remaining 'saved' copies of certain comics may have been lost due to office moves, reorganisation etc. I suppose though that if remaining copies of some copies were lost to 'shrinkage', presumably DC may want to buy replacements from collectors, especially in this day and age with the current archive program. IP: Logged |
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Drumore01 Member |
I'm pretty sure there wasnt a SSC story in Batman 30s-70s. CRAZY QUILT STRIKES BACK (SSC #123) was reprinted in Batman #255. If all stories were 8 pages, these could be done in 2 Super-Sized Volumes of 272 pages each. IP: Logged |
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Steven Utley Member |
Bob Wayne told me years ago that DC's collection of file copies of comic books had been "looted." IP: Logged |
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Craig Delich Member |
quote: Way back when DC started doing the Detective Comics Archives, a person from DC contacted me about low-grade copies of some Detetctive issues that I may have for sale, or if I knew someone who did have particular issues. So, YES, they did buy some! IP: Logged |
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Craig Delich Member |
quote: Batman, in issues in the 80's and 90's of Star-Spangled, played a major role in the stories. IP: Logged |
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