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Secret Origins: Super-Villains Limited Collectors’ Edition Vol. 1#C-39 Facsimile Edition

This one, subtitled Secret Origins: Super-Villains, is a treasure trove of vintage origin stories and key appearances of such villains as Lex Luthor, the Joker, Captain Cold, and Dr. Sivana, among others. For longtime DC fans, this is a welcome trip down memory lane. For those of us who in our youth skewed more toward Marvel, it’s a change to the characters in their best Golden Age and Silver Age incarnations.

RETRO REVIEW: Star Raiders (DC Graphic Novel #1)

In the early days of both licensed comics based on video games and the growing use of original graphic novels, 1983’s Star Raiders (DC Graphic Novel #1) is fairly unique in that it is both animals at once. Following DC’s first Atari Force series and preceding its second one, this European album format (a 64-page 8-1/4” x 11” softcover) is solidly entertaining and rises well above many later attempts to bring story development and strong characters to early video games.

DC and Marvel Present: Superman and Spider-Man (Treasury Edition)

In the aftermath of the recent Marvel Versus DC and DC Versus Marvel: The Amalgam Age omnibus editions, the Batman/Deadpool and Deadpool/Batman crossovers, and the recent facsimile edition of the original Marvel-DC collaboration, Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man, there’s a good deal of interest in the stories that preceded the modern iterations of DC and Marvel getting together.

UNCOLLECTED: Nathaniel Dusk, Private Investigator

Sometimes we look at comic book series or mini-series and we sort of know immediately why it hasn’t been put out in a hardcover or trade paperback collection. At other times, though, we’re left scratching our heads and wondering why it hasn't been done. Of course sometimes there are reasons behind the scenes, things the public never hears about, but sometimes it’s just plain... weird.

Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween

A killer has returned (or is it killers?), odd alliances are made (and smashed and remade), and long-kept secrets are revealed in Batman: The Halloween – The Last Halloween. What started as the final collaboration between writer Jeph Loeb and artist Tim Sale (May 1, 1956 – June 16, 2022) turned into a phenomenal tribute to the late illustrator and a worthy end to their years-long collaboration on the early years of the Dark Knight Detective.

Conan The Barbarian #28

Following the extra-sized, standalone Conan the Barbarian #25, writer Jim Zub and artist Fernando Dagnino launched “The Conquering Crown” as a three-part arc that concludes in #28, a spectacular issue that starts with Gerardo Zaffino’s moody, evocative cover and goes from there.

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