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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401213626
ISBN: 1401213626
Label: DC Comics
Manufacturer: DC Comics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: June 06, 2007
Publisher: DC Comics
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: June 06, 2007
Sales Rank: 69117
Studio: DC Comics
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Product Description:
Over 500 pages of classic adventures are included in this value-priced volume collecting Silver Age tales of Batman and Robin as they face their most enduring enemies, including Poison Ivy, the Riddler and many others. These are the stories that inspired the Dynamic Duo's 1960s TV series, which featured Batman's astonishing detective skills and impressive array of Bat-gadgets!
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This is sixties Batman, so a lot of it is pretty silly. The Bouncer is maybe not as silly as the Eraser, who would have fit right in in the Tick, with his pencil rubber for a head.
Still, some of these I had seen before in old Planet comics reprints as a kid, including the Mystery Writers story, and the Blockbuster arc, which it was good to see again - and is definitely the best work in there, both writing, and Infantino's art, along with the Alfred/Outsider subplot.
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I started reading Batman and Detective Comics only about a year before the TV show premiered, and I remember how I had to content myself with the comic books since my town only had two TV stations and neither carried the show. Particularly amusing, that, since Woolworth's and TG&Y were crammed full of Batman-related merchandise to sell to a customer base fed only by the hype. Anyway, this volume contains the comic books stories published in that period, and since my town did have plenty of comic book ... Read More
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Showcase Presents Batman Volume 2 contains issues 343-358 of Detective Comics and issues 175-188(excluding 176, 182, 185, and 187, which were "80 Page Giant" reprint issues) of Batman. These issues, spanning from September 1965 to December 1966, continue the "New Look" Batman stories.
To recap, the Batman books were revamped in 1964 to save the books from low sales and possible cancellation. New editor Julius Schwartz jettisoned the extraneous elements of the Batman mythos and brought ... Read More
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