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Archives:
Volume One |
by Will Eisner, Dick French, William Woolfolk,
& Reed Crandall |
Hardcover: 240 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563897008 |
$49.95
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hardbound volume, one of the latest in DC's impressive ARCHIVES series,
reprints the origin and first appearances of Blackhawk from MILITARY COMICS,
beginning in August of 1941. The Blackhawk series was originally
written by Will Eisner, the creator of the Spirit. |
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EISNER collection.
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| BLACK
ORCHID |
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The
Collected Edition |
| by Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean |
Paperback: 160 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 0930289552 |
$19.95
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| BLACK ORCHID
is one of Neil Gaiman's early forays into comics for DC Comics.
It his revamp of a little-known superheroine who is a hybrid of human and
orchid, with the ability to control minds with the use of scent. As befitting
to a story that utilizes a lot of flora and fauna as metaphors, the fully-painted
artwork is lush and colorful...you almost want to reach out and touch the
leaves of a tree or smell the flowers. Look for cameos from well-known
DC
characters such as Lex Luthor, Batman, Poison Ivy,
the Mad Hatter, and others. |
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Also-- Check out our entire Neil
Gaiman and Vertigo
listings!
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The
Flash & Green Lantern |
by Mark Waid, Tom Peyer, Tom Grindberg,
& Barry Kitson |
Paperback: 144 pages
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563897083 |
$12.95
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| This is collected
Flash/Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold mini-series features "new"
adventures of a young Hal Jordan and Barry Allen. We also get some special
guest appearances by the Golden Age Flash, Jay Garrick, and Golden Age
Green Lantern, Alan Scott. Kid Flash, Green Arrow, and classic support
characters like Iris West, Carol Ferris and Tom "Pieface" Kalmaku also
star in this series. The stories are simple yet entertaining. Nothing too
complex that might further destroy any of DC's current continuity. |
The art is good
and clean. Nothing to complain about there. The writer focuses on the brash,
fearless side of Hal's character, along with Barry's cleancut image.
Overall, the book embodies values missing in many of today's comics.
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See also our FLASH and
GREEN
LANTERN listings.
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| CATWOMAN |
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The
CATFILE |
Written by Chuck Dixon
Art by Jim Balent and Bob Smith
Cover by Balent |
Paperback
DC Comics
ISBN: 1563892626 |
$9.95
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| This affordable
collection reprints CATWOMAN #15-19.
Pressed into service by a
covert government organization, Catwoman must cool a potential war zone
in Eastern Europe. |
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See also: Our huge BATMAN
collection.
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