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Damian Wayne, Son of Batman

Damian Wayne (S.O.B.) is the fifth "official" Robin (but the eighth by my count). Captain Comics posted something the other day that confounded me:

I actually like the Damian Wayne Robin. All of the problems with adding Jason Todd, Tim Drake and Steph

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Comics shipping Nov. 12, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS

NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS

1776 #1 (OF 5), $4.99: I found Neil Gaiman's 1602 perversely compelling, in that it seemed to have no reason to exist and did strange things with modern characters. I found Jack Kirby's Captain America Bicentenn

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Comics shipping Nov. 5, 2025

TOP 10 PUBLISHERS 

MARVEL COMICS

ALIEN VS. CAPTAIN AMERICA #1 (Of 4), $5.99: I don't read all the alien and predator crossovers, but I might get this one in trade. Because A) I'm a big Captain America fan, and B) I'm an even bigger Captain America fa

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"Robin #3b" (Post-Crisis Jason Todd)

Batman himself was largely untouched by the Crisis on Infinite Earths, but the same thing cannot be said for those around him, notably Jason Todd, Selina Kyle and Leslie Thompkins. Batman didn't even get an officially labeled "Crisis" crossover issue

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Comics shipping Oct. 29, 2025

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HALLOWEEN TRICK-OR-READ 2025 EDITION

GODZILLA VS. FANTASTIC FOUR #1 

HALLOWED HAUNTINGS A SEASONAL SAMPLER FROM TOP SHELF 

NOCTURNALS: THE SINISTER PATH #1 (OF 4)

SPIDEY AND HIS AMAZING FRIENDS #1 

VENOM LETHAL PROTECTOR #1

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Outlaw Showdown

This is a one-shot, but I've started a thread for each of Oni Press's other "EC" comics, so...

• "Cool, Cool Water" - A quartet of train thieves murders a Paiute family and are pursued by an African American lawman based on Bass Reeves.
• "Fire in the Hole

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Bob Brown & Joe Giella

My very first "Batman" comic (and my fourth overall) was Detective Comics #381. My second Batman comic (and my eighth overall) was #388. Both of these were drawn by the art team of Bob Brown and Joe Giella. #381 was written by Frank Robbins, and #388

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Comics for Oct. 22, 2025

For a complete listing of this week's comics, go to GOCOLLECT.COM.

TOP PUBLISHERS

NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS

FANTASTIC FOUR #4, $3.99: This is a new storyline, as "One World Under Doom" is in the rear view for this title. I'm tempted to continue, as I enjo

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Once a Hero, Now a Villain (For a Time) SPOILERS!!!

I've just recently reread Masks, a 2012 Dynamite sight-issue series where the Shadow, the Green Hornet & Kato, the Spider-Master of Men, the Green Lama, Miss Fury, the Black Terror, the Black Bat and a "new" Zorro must team up to stop an authoritaria

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Volume numbers

Hello, heroes!

I have a question about cataloguing comics and would like your opinions.

When one publisher uses the same series name more than once, volume numbers are easy. What about when multiple publishers use a series title over time? There are ot

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Indigenous Peoples' Comics

Alphabetically, first up is...

AZTEC ACE:

I didn't buy this Eclipse series when it first came  out in 1984. Several years ago, however, I saw the entire series except for issue #1 for sale at Half Price Books. (That's pretty common at HPB. Either selle

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Comics for Oct. 15, 2025

Captain's Log: I'm rethinking this weekly post, since there's an actual need for listing small publishers. I haven't been doing that since Diamond's Previews list folded, but now I guess I ought to. I thought about it too long this week, and don't ha

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The Batman Newspaper Strip (1989-1991)

I'll never forget the first Batman comic strip by Marshall Rogers.

Marshall Rogers' version is "movie adjacent." Batman is new to Gotham City. He has recently defeated the Joker, but the Joker survived. Rogers introduces a new threat: the Catwoman. He

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Crockett Johnson's Barnaby

I started reading comic strips (or having them read to me) at roughly the same time I started reading comic books. But in my youngest years, I was more familiar with comic strips (with the "Sunday funnies" coming into our house at the rate of once a

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Spider-Man: Torn

I hadn't planned on buying this series, but I was attracted by morbid curiousity. Besides, this was a light week, so might as well launch a discussion and see if it attracts any attention. this series has been described as "an unexplored chapter [of

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Menomonee Falls Gazette / Golden Funnies

I have been aware of the Menomonee Falls Gazette for quite some time, but I had never seen a copy until recently. For most of my life I have had an idea for a "comic strip newspaper." Little did I know such a thing already existed. The Menomonee Fall

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Riddle Me This

There were but two Riddler stories published during the Golden Age,* the first being...

DETECTIVE COMICS #140 - "The Riddler"

The Riddler has a fairly nondescipt origin story: basically he was a kid who cheated at puzzles. When he grew up, he got himse

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Comics for Oct. 8, 2025

WIth Jeff of Earth-J's warning that small-press publishers are going to be harder to follow I'll try to include more small-press here each week. That doesn't help with ordering, but it might help Legionnaires avoid missing books they might miss. If t

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Tragedy!

So, next weekend I was going to be setting up at my first show in about 6 years. I went to my storage unit, and there was a different lock on it...

My unit was broken into, and they replaced the lock, so the management of the place never noticed. I h

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Batman vs. The Penguin

The Penguin first appeared in two consecutive issues of Detective Comics.

DETECTIVE COMICS #58 - "The Penguin"

Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson are visiting an art exhibition when they take note of an odd little man who resembles a penguin. Suddenly, on

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