Showcase Presents: Batman - Volume 1

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Customer reviews

review by: date: 2007-08-12 rating:
Buy this book and do yourself a big favour.
I can not recommend this book highly enough. For once 5 stars do not do it justice. This is a brilliant collection of stories from the titles Batman and Detective Comics of the 1960s. To basics. Although printed on cheap paper and in black and white this means that the books can be stacked high and sold cheap. Does this detract the reader? NO. Simply because the |American comics tended to have an artist who drew the strips then an `Inker' would colour them in, rather like those paint by numbers books. So what you still get is the great art and brilliant storylines but loose the ink and colour. Now my point is that no one ever bought these for the colouring in did they? So 2 out of 3 aren't bad. Now to the stories. They are simply magnificent and a joy for the returning reader such as I to the new reader. There is no way anyone could remember all these stories (??) so the readers are in for a brilliant run through of a well planned and magnificently detail set of stories and nostalgia. The great thing about this book is that volume two is out as well. Sheer enjoyment and for less than the cost of a tenner. A bargain.


review by: date: 2006-10-18 rating:
The Dark Knight's lighter times....
Without a doubt, this has to be one of the finest collection of Batman stories currently available and at a great value price as well. Starting with the 1960s stories which originally appeared in Detective Comics and Batman Comics, those old enough to recall the Adam West Batman tv series in the 1960s, will be delighted to see where some of the story ideas came from. The Joker, Penguin and the Outsider all appear in this volume, along with Aunt Harriet, Dick Grayson's aunt, a character that wasn't just made up for the tv series! Presented in black and white throughout, the volume of stories work well and is strongly recommended whether you're a Batman fan or not.

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