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Title: Batman Archives (Volume 1) by Bob Kane ISBN: 0-930289-60-9 Publisher: DC Comics Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Batmans first
Comment: If you like Batman the movie and my review on Batman the movie and you haven't read the first comic book of Batman this is the book for you. It has the first 24 Batman comics. In the first one you will find out how great an action hero Batman really is. In the second one you will find out how good of a detective Batman really is. In the third one you will meet Batman's first arch villain and so on and so on. Then to top it all off in the middle of the book Robin the boy wonder is introduced as Batman's aid and best friend. This book comes in mighty handy for example your parents tell you to stop watching TV and playing games and go and read, well this will come in handy. If your in a long road trip or going on vacation on a long plane ride this book will come in handy. In school you can put this baby in front of your boring textbook and read it instead. Or your electricity is out, you could read this until your city power plant says "I GIVE YOU LIGHT"! so enjoy!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Creation of an Icon
Comment: This is a fascinating volume in that it shows the first couple of years of Batman stories from Detective Comics. It begins with his first appearance as well as containing his origin story in a later issue and the first appearance of Robin the Boy Wonder. Bob Kane's Batman as portrayed in Batman Archives Volume 1 is a very dark creation at first. The violence is quite intense as Batman's foes end up being pierced through, necks broken or falling to their deaths, if not actually shot with the gun Batman sometimes carried at his side. This level of violence was already decreasing when the garishly garded Robin made his appearance and is gone by the end of this Volume. The villains include Dr. Death, Hugo Strange, the Joker and Clayface, along with a vampire and the usual suspects of assorted crime bosses. There is a nice gothic feel to many of the stories and drawings, with the exception of a fantasy story involving giants and tiny people which looks forward to the idiotic mess of stories that will haunt the Batman comics in the 1950's. At any rate, this is a great volume to begin a look at the origin and development of an icon, as well as being entertaining itself.
Rating: 3
Summary: Great for batman-completists
Comment: What we have here is Batman Archives volume 1. A book that collects "Detective Comic"s #27-50 which include the first appereances of Batman (#27), Robin (#38) and Clayface (#40) and features a very early Joker story as well (#45). This is a Batman who is labelled 'pre-crisis' now (see "Crisis on Infinite Earths") and is said to not be exactly the same Batman that's in comics in the present, a Batman who isn't affraid to use any sort of violence (including murder !) to get the job done. What we see is Batman dealing almost exclusively with common criminals in very harsh ways and acting as the avenging detective. Extravagant villains like he later faced (Pinguin, Riddler etc.) aren't really an issue here yet, despite of that single Joker story. There's some remarkably solid storytelling going on here though, especially for the day and age these stories were first published (unlike a lot of other comic-titles in that period of time which mostly were very corny). The art isn't very great and a little confusing at times (there isn't a lot of difference in facial expressions, the two expressions you see almost all the time are "intrigued" and "shocked"), but it's sufficient. In conclussion I can say that it's a very nice collection for Batman completists AND for people who like to see how it al began and how the character evolved over the (more than 60 !) years. But it isn't really neccesary reading for people who are looking for great Batman stories. In that case you're better of getting something like "Batman: Gothic", "Batman: Prey", "The Long Halloween", "Joker: Devil's Advocate" or the obvious "Return of the Dark Knight" by Frank Miller.
People who DO love this trip in nostalgia will also have a good time with "The Dark Knight Archives", "The Greatest Joker Stories ever Told", "The Greatest Batman Stories ever Told" and the more recent "Batman: Strange Apparitions".
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Title: Batman: The Dark Knight Archives Vol . 2 by Bill Finger, Bob Kane ISBN: 1563891832 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 14 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Batman: The Dark Knight Archives, Vol. 4 by Bob Kane ISBN: 1563899833 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Batman: The Dynamic Duo - Archives, Volume 1 by Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Gardner Fox, John Broome ISBN: 1563899329 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Superman Archives : Volume 3 by Jerry Seigel, Joe Shuster, Jerry Siegel ISBN: 156389002X Publisher: General Pub. Date: 14 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: World's Finest Comics Archives Vol. 2 by Edmond Hamilton ISBN: 1563897431 Publisher: General Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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