I know personally I want Deadman but I can’t decide what other two I want. Is Silver Age Hawkman a decent one?
Edit: I went with Hawkman, Deadman, and The Spectre.
Also will you be picking up the new horror one coming out?
We have so many franchises they haven’t even started.
I’d like to see a Metal Men and Challengers as major releases
We also need editions of adventure heroes
Picked this volume up in September to get an early start on the Halloween season. Nearly finished but I wanted to talk about it.
I know some of the history with these series. The CCA basically gutted the horror genre in the 1950s and by this time (1969-1970) they started to chill out a little. These stories don't go as far as EC comics but they are not that far off, honestly. I love how much they feel like reading those comics. You get your horror hosts telling about 3 stories per issue, 1 page short stories, and these Sergio Aragonés comics scattered about were a nice surprise.
Of the series themselves, I've only known of House of Mystery/Secrets as I am a big Swamp Thing fan (and Sandman to a lesser extent), but the big surprise to me was The Witching Hour. I think I read through all of Sandman without knowing where these characters originated. These issues rule. The 3 witchy hosts tell dueling short stories and try to see who tells the scariest story in a way very reminiscent of how EC would do the same with the crypt keeper, the vault keeper, and the old hag.
The art is the best I've seen from this era. I don't think EC can even hold a candle to this. Bernie Wrightson is obviously immediately a star but some of the others like Alex Toth, Curt Swan, and Dick Dillin have some amazing work too.
I'll definitely pick up the new volume releasing next week but I am curious of how a pre-code volume would turn out. House of Mystery started in 1951 and the CCA didn't start meddling until mid 1950s. They could even add Charlton comic's "This Magazine Is Haunted".
Catwoman had a brief run of back-up solo stories in Batman (vol 1) #s 345, 346, and 348-351. DC didn't collect those stories in Life Lines. I assume that means there will be at least one pre-Crisis volume for Catwoman that will reprint those, along with some assortment of Catwoman focused stories akin to the Joker volume. Any thoughts on how that might look?
I should have known better. Thankfully, my trades aren’t unreadable but they’re definitely in various states of slightly warped and banged up. They’ll be read and enjoyed regardless, but man. Still sucks. I’m sure everyone here knows this already but on the off chance someone’s thinking about it, just don’t take the risk and order off amazon
Curious if anything has already been completely collected through DC Finest. You can even count the stuff that has been announced and not yet released.
With a second instalment in both the Horror and Western collections just around the corner, I thought it would be interesting to see which out of the 4 original anthology volumes are people’s favourites. Between the thrilling action of The Big Five Arrive, the silver age cheese of Gorilla World, the horrors bound within the pages of The Devil’s Doorway and the gun fighting adventures of The Hangman Never Loses, I just wanna see what exactly is the most popular of these collections.
For me it’s Western, for its recurring characters, fun frontier adventures and the interesting transition within the pages from fun little Wild West adventures, to true western grit.
Was just perusing the upcoming titles and between the already released "Nobody Dies Tonight" and the upcoming "Silent Knight" issue 7 of Cass's first ongoing isn't listed. Is this an error in the listings? If not an error, why the omission?