Does anyone know if the entire Steve Englehart/Marshall Rogers run of Batman (including the Sign of the Laughing Fish, the return of Dr. Hugo Strange, Silver St. Clair, and more) have been collected anywhere?
Can you share exactly which issues in which titles this would include?
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There is a hard cover collection, Legends of the Dark Knight.
Reading some of the reviews, I think all of Marshall rogers Batman stories arre included. The amazon listing doesn't have which issues are included.
From Tales of Wonder:
"Marshall Rogers's unforgettable tales of Batman are collected in this new title featuring DETECTIVE COMICS #468, 471-479 and 481, DC SPECIAL SERIES #15, SECRET ORIGINS #6, BATMAN: LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #132-136 and BATMAN: DARK DETECTIVE #1-6!"
Yes, indeed it has! Look here: Legends of the Dark Knight, available on Amazon.com.
These comics were some of the first ones I got when I started buying new comics (after a long period of acquiring them from the dime bins at the neighborhood corner store), and I still have them!
The Amazon.com description isn't very specific as to what's included, saying merely that it has all of Marshall Rogers' Batman work, but that would include Detective Comics #471-#479 (August 1977-Sept./Oct. 1978) and the Batman: Dark Detective miniseries from 2005, all written by Steve Englehart. Englehart actually started on the title two issues earlier, with #469 (May 1977), but those were penciled by Walt Simonson and rather heavily inked by Al Milgrom.
Here's a spread from Steve Englehart's website that shows the covers from the original comics plus covers of collections that include some of the stories: http://www.steveenglehart.com/Comics/Detective%20Comics%20469-476.html
Here's a page on the Art & Artifice site showing some of the interior pages from Rogers' 1977-78 stint and the 2005 series: Marshall Rogers. The blogger notes how good Rogers was at showing architecture, to give the reader a sense of place.
I recall complaints that the 2005 series didn't fit today's continuity, but others pointed out that what Steve Englehart did was ignore today's continuity; he was continuing from the series he wrote in 1978! Works for me!
Secret Origins #6 is a well-researched tale of the beginning of the Earth-Two Batman.
There's also the Strange Apparitions tpb. It reprints Detective 469-476, 478 and 479. Englehart writes all but the last two, which is by Len Wein and is the first Clayface III story. As noted above, art on 'Tec 469 and 470 is Simonson with heavy Milgrom inks, otherwise it's all Rogers.
John Dunbar said:
This is the collection I have. It was remaindered in a big comic shop in London, so I got it for 4.99 or so. The poor taste of the general comics reading public has allowed me to pick up a lot of good collections on the cheap like this!
Of course, I was as ignorant as the rest of them, given that I wouldn't have bought it at full price myself at the time. Even the first time I read it, I couldn't quite see what the big deal was, but on a recent reading, it's standing as one of the best runs ever of Batman was quite evident.
How do books change like that while sitting on a shelf?
Here's a recent discussion about Englehart's Batman, full of Spoilage.
Was there ever a trade of Steve Englehart's Avengers/Defenders conflict/crossover from the 1970s that ran between both titles when he was writing them?
If so, what is it's official title so I can look for it.
Thanks in advance.
YES. It's got a bold yellow painted cover, too...
http://www.comics.org/issue/275310/cover/4/
It also appeared, in its entirety, in both the appropriate ESSENTIAL AVENGERS and ESSENTIAL DEFENDERS books. Which means I've got 3 completely versions of it. Sheesh.
Frankly, I had expected that the Avengers Marvel Masterworks might have tried to package up to the start of that adventure, or include the entire "War" within one volume. In otherwords, perhaps the next volume #12, might encompus a few of the Avengers issues, and then the total alternation of the six issues within the same volume. I would guess that the final issue in the volume would be the final installment in the Avengers/Defenders "War".
Henry R. Kujawa said:
I'm pretty sure that there's a new printing of the collection being issued within a month or two. I was looking at the Previews magazine today, and I think I saw a black cover with the two teams clashing from opposite sides. Don't know the price.
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