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India Ink Member |
posted March 10, 2003 12:47 AM
 
I think the third volume will be most impressive. The old school costumed villains in vol. 2 don't impress me (as I've said), although if that's your thing then I guess this volume will deliver. Highlights from vol. 2 are the 2nd Mystery Analysts story, the first Getaway Genius story ("Genius of the Getaway Gimmicks"), "A Bad Day for Batman" (I like Greene on Moldoff here), "Trail of the Talking Masks" (mainly for the surreal Infantino/Giella art), and "The Living Beast Bomb" (you can't beat a good Infantino ape story). "Batman's Bewitched Nightmare" isn't an epic tale, but it does figure into Zatanna's search for her father (eventually). And if they do actually reprint the Elongated Man story from 'Tec 339 that will be a really great piece of luck. IP: Logged |
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KryptoSuperDog Member |
posted March 13, 2003 04:11 AM
I have yet to read this Archive, so two questions: 1.) Was there really any value in putting both Batman series in this one volume, when in the past Detective and Batman were archived separately? 2.) How many volumes is DD expected to go? Would it finish out the sixties? IP: Logged |
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NecessaryImpurity Member |
posted March 13, 2003 01:11 PM
Yes, it makes sense to include both Batman and 'Tec in one volume. It never made sense to segregate them in the first place. How else are you to account for the Alfred-for-Harriet swap in one title if you didn't have the other? As for how long the series will run: who knows? Logically, it should end when Dick goes to Hudson U., as the Dynamic Duo will no longer exist. That's late (Nov or Dec) 1969. With that story, a new Archive line should start. But they can always go a little earlier if page counts require it. IP: Logged |
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CMCINTYRE3600 Member |
posted March 13, 2003 02:23 PM
quote: I actually prefer the GA Superman/Batman method of archving them by title rather than by character. I like having a seperation between Superman and Action. For one thing it's nice to have two lines that might be at different points chronologically. I like it better than the GA GL/ WW set up. But I haven't read DD, so who knows. That may work better during the Silver Age. IP: Logged |
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NickDanger Member |
posted March 13, 2003 08:06 PM
quote: I just finished the book the other night and was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. The Moldoff material while not as exciting, definitely holds it own against the Infantino stuff. As much as I like the Golden Age material, this has been my favorite Bat-Archive so far. I’m hoping that DC puts another one in the works soon so we can get to that wonderful proposed volume three a little faster! ------------------ IP: Logged |
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India Ink Member |
posted March 13, 2003 08:23 PM
So what is the map for the THIRD volume, Mr. Peabody--I have some guesses, but I haven't gone to the work of figuring out how many pages from Batman and Detective will fit in the third volume. And is "map" the right terminology when referring to a single volume--or should that be "quadrant." If map is the whole thing--all the possible volumes--than one volume would be a quadrant on the map??? Oh, I'll never get the hang of nerd-speak!!! IP: Logged |
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India Ink Member |
posted March 13, 2003 08:49 PM
A question on another thread about a possible Robin archive reminded me of a "problem" that will arise when and if the DD archives come to their logical end. The story that has Robin leaving Batman, which appears in Batman 217, continues over into the lead Batman story in Detective. And then there's continuity between that lead story and the Robin back-up, and that back-up continues into the next issue of Detective. So to follow all the continuity (and I may not be remembering all of it myself), you'd want to have all those stories in one volume. So either all these stories should appear in the last DD archive, or they should appear in the first archive of whatever title the next one is going to be called. IP: Logged |
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DStepp Member |
posted March 13, 2003 09:14 PM
Osgood, can you please e-mail me privately? Thanks! IP: Logged |
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Osgood Peabody Member |
posted March 14, 2003 09:01 PM
I believe the DD series could potentially go 10 volumes up to Robin's departure, although it's likely they'll jump again to a '70s Batman series before then. Here's the unabridged volume 3 forecast for India Ink: Volume 3 Batman 172-175, Detective 340-345 (205 pages of content) Batman No. 172 Detective Comics No. 340 Detective Comics No. 341 Batman No. 173 Detective Comics No. 342 Batman No. 174 Detective Comics No. 343 Detective Comics No. 344 Detective Comics No. 345
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NecessaryImpurity Member |
posted March 14, 2003 09:08 PM
I'd save the Robin story for Robin Archives. IP: Logged |
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India Ink Member |
posted March 14, 2003 09:18 PM
Even though Blockbuster wasn't my favourite villain his debut in volume 3 will make this a worthwhile archive. Johnny Witts--an even better villain, although he never got the Infantino treatment--will also make his first appearance in this volume. Should be an all around good collection of stories. IP: Logged |
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Osgood Peabody Member |
posted March 14, 2003 10:01 PM
quote: Tough call on this one. During the '60s Robin didn't have a regular gig. He appeared sporadically in solo stories in the back of Batman. So far, the convention has held that back-up tales in a character's own comic are fair game (witness the Kid Flash tales being in the Flash archives). And chances are DD will get there long before Robin plows through the Star-Spangled material. IP: Logged |
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India Ink Member |
posted March 14, 2003 10:10 PM
If DD gets up to vol. 3 first then I think the Robin back-up will appear in that. If a potential Robin archive collects all the Star-Spangled material before DD v. 3 comes out, then it's possible that they could continue on to reprint the Robin back-ups. But I agree with Osgood that the chances are better for DD reprinting these stories. It's also possible that both archives would reprint some of the same material. And it's more likely that the later sixties and seventies Robin solo stories would all get collected in their own archive series. IP: Logged |
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