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In Superman: The Golden Age Volume One, NYWFC #1 is indeed listed between Action Comics #12-13.
In Volume Two, NYWFC #2 is listed between Action #25-26 and after Superman #5.
Hey, my quess was close! Thanks for verifying that.
No problem! I just went through 10 boxes of trades to put the various Golden and Silver Age collection together so I knew exactly where to look!
I just read the first of my following up with Montoya/The Question books: 52 Aftermath: Crime Bible: Five Lessons of Blood. And on the whole, I wasn't very impressed. (When I read it as it was being published, I thought it might read better all in one chunk, but I never got around to it; it turns out it's *slightly* better that way (a character I probably didn't remember from issue 2 returns in issue 5), but not significantly.
Greg Rucka is a good writer, but can often veer toward self-importance...and boy, does this book veer. The Crime Bible is a silly concept, taken really, really seriously. Renee investigates the Dark Faith (a slightly less silly name), as a monk named Flay wants to teach her the lessons of Deceit, Lust, Greed, and Murder -- and then fight her for leadership of the cult. There's a different artist for each issue (the best of whom are Jesus Saiz and Tom Mandrake), and in the end, Renee defeats Flay and seems to be accepted as leader of the cult, or at least one branch of it. Who knows. The whole thing is so amorphous, it hardly matters. We'll see where she is in her next appearances, in Final Crisis and Final Crisis: Revelations.
Oh, and in one issue we see some of the old Question cast -- in Myra and Izzy's case, I think, for the last time. Vic has left a lighthouse to Renee and Tot jointly, and I think we'll see more of that (and Tot) in her backup series in Detective Comics in a couple years.
Another comic I've been rereading is Rebels, a set of two limited series from Dark Horse set in the Revolutionary War by Brian Wood and (largely) Andrea Mutti, with colors by Jordie Bellaire. (No idea what has me in the mood for stories of revolution these days!) It's a similar anthology-style series to Woods's Northmen at Vertigo, but with American revolutionaries instead of Vikings.
Anyway, even the scenes of warfare in these books seems a little muted and low-key -- an effect largely due to Mutti's steady hand, I suspect. Mutti's work is lovely, and he presents the action with a focus on clarity rather than flashy layouts. I really like the stories I've read so far. There's some ambiguity to them, and plenty of authorial restraint, but there's enough in each issue for the story and the mood to connect. Both series (a 10-issue run, followed by an 8-issue run) lead off with a longer story, then follow it up with largely single-issue tales.
SECRET ORIGINS #50 - "Unfinished Business" by Alan Brennert and Joe Staton: After reading Black Canary: Best of the Best yesterday, I followed it up with this story, structured around similar themes, but set on a different Earth.
SPAWN OF MARS by Wally Wood (full title: Spawn of Mars and Other Stories Illustrated by Wallace Wood):
Just as Atom Bomb was a collection of Wood's war stories and Came the Dawn was a collection of his horror and "SuspenStories," Spawn of Mars is a collection of his science fiction stories. Good stuff, Maynard.
FLASH GORDON and JUNGLE JIM v3 (1939-1941):
This is the best volume yet. Even Jungle Jim has stepped up to Flash Gordon levels. I had previously decided that I would likely never read Jungle Jim again, but now I've modified that decision not to read them both simultaneously ever again; each one interrupts the flow of the other. I somewhat countered that this time by reading one JJ, three FGs, four JJs, four FGs, and I continued in that manner through the entire volume. By June 1941, Flash has overthrown Ming the Merciless, and in July he, Dale and Zarkov return to Earth. He joins WWII even before the United States did, and using the weapons of Mongo, he soon thwarts a surprise attack against the U.S. launched by "The Dictator." Flash becomes an honorary major in the Army air Corps, and on December 28, 1941, is granted the Medal of Honor by FDR and promoted to Colonel Gordon.
SUPERMAN ARCHIVES v8 - "Superman from the Beginning" (Part 13):
This volume comprises issues #30-35 (Sep/Oct 1944 through Jul/Aug 1945), but I will be covering only through #33.
The "Lois Lane, Girl Reporter" back-up series continues in #30-35. One thing I was surprised to discover while reading these Golden Age Superman stories from the beginning is that, early on, more often than not it was Clark Kent who beat Lois Lane to a scoop. In the last couple of years, however, that tide is turning. I would also like to mention that these Golden Age Lois Lane solo stories are much more serious than the Silver Age ones from her own solo title.
Villains: Lex Luthor makes his return in #31, but he's a bit off model AFAIAC (with "crazy eyes"), the Toyman returns in #32, and Mr. Mxyztplk makes his third appearance in #33.
There are two more issues in this volume, but at this point I switch from archives to the omnibus series.
NEXT UP: Superman in World's Finest Archives Vol. 2
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