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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.

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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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The Crimes of Two Face

DETECTIVE COMICS #66 - "The Crimes of Two-Face!"

[In Two-Face's earliest appearances he was known as Harvey Kent, but that was later changed, apparently to avoid confusion with a well-known denizen of Metropolis. Also, his girlfriend Gilda repeatedly

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Comics for October 1, 2025

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NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #13 ($4.99) is by Joe Kelly and Pepe Larazz. If I'm reading the PR correctly, the twice-monthly Amazing Spider-Man will split its focus, with one issue per month focusing on Home Spidey, and the

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Catwoman: Nine Lives of a Feline Fatale

As I did with "The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told" discussion, I borrowed the title from a tpb collection but I plan to go beyond the actual contents of the collection itself. Catwoman has the unique distinction of appearing in the first three cons

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What I Would Have Done Instead of "Crisis on Infinite Earths"

I’ve never been happy about what the Crisis on Infinite Earths did to DC continuity, believing that it did away with many characters and concepts that still had a lot of untapped potential. I’ll admit to being especially unhappy about the removal of

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The Twilight Zone (IDW)

Didn't know what to expect from this new series. Different publishers have tried to bring back The Twilight Zone as a comic book series from time to time, but the results have never been all that impressive (to me), even with names such as Harlan Ell

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Comics for September 24, 2025

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NO. 1: MARVEL COMICS

BATTLEWORLD #1 (OF 5, $4.99) is by Christos Gage (Superior Spider-Man) and Marcus To (X-Force). It's the same as, or similar to, the Battleworld in Jonathan Hickman's Secret Wars. Or maybe Jim Shooter's. But the ch

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