This is a good collection of Batman stories, covering most eras of the character, save for possibly the camp era of the television show. Also there arThis is a good collection of Batman stories, covering most eras of the character, save for possibly the camp era of the television show. Also there are no stories from when Julie Schwartz took over the editing of the books and decided to move the Batman back to his detective roots, so gone were all the science fiction type stories that had been popping up in the books. The only late sixites story that appears is the one that introduced The Blockbuster. There is also not a lot of material from the earliest days of the strip. Part of the reason for that is that many of the stories from that period that should have been included had been reprinted elsewhere recently and DC was thus loath to include them here. Also in the case of such stories as Batman's origin that was retold in some of the stories in this volume. One other factor was that DC at the time did not have the capability of reproducing much of that material. Thus they were limited to material already prepared for reprinting, and of course most of that had actually been reprinted. They did use a few of those stories for this volume, the two written by Garnder Fox and had Batman going up against a vampire, and one featuring the teaming of The Joker and The Penquin. Though there is one of the Batman/Superman team-ups from World's Finest Comics there are none of Batman's team-ups with other heroes from The Brave and the Bold. As for Batman's Rogues Gallery quite a few of them make an appearance. We get most of the major villains save for The Riddler and Ras Al Ghul. We even get an appearance by Prefessor Hugo Strange. This may have been his last one until he was revived in, I believe, the 1980s. So is this a collection of Batman's Greatest Stories, as the title of the collection would have it? To be honest I am not sure. I will say that if it is not the greatest it is probably as close as you are going to get given the limitaions the editors were working with. I do recommend this volume both to the Batman fan and to fans of comic books in general. If this volume isn't still in print then contact DC and tell them to get off their you know what and get it reissued. Happy Reading...more
This is a collection of origin stories and/or first appearances of members of the Legion of Super-Heroes and some of their foes. Only three of them weThis is a collection of origin stories and/or first appearances of members of the Legion of Super-Heroes and some of their foes. Only three of them were stories I had read before. These were the origin of Timber Wolf, or Lone Wolf as he called himself in this story, which is lone sixties story in this collection. The other two were the origins of Wildfire and Lightning Lad and Lightning/Light Lass. The latter story is also the origin of the villain Lightning Lord. The other Legionnaire whose origin is reprinted is Dawnstar, while, besides Lightning Lord, Grimbor and Charma as well as The Infinite Man's are included. All in all this is a decent collection. The fact that most of the material is from the seventies isn't surpising when one remembers that over in Adventure Comics DC had been reprinting the stories featuring the Legion of Super-Heroes in publication order. That meant that many of the sixties stories that might have been included had already recently been reprinted. So if yu are a LSH fan than this is a volume you may wish to acquire. Happy reading. ...more
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