Posted by Dan Greenfield on Dec 1, 2025
HOT PICKS! On Sale This Week!
Scott and Dan pick the comics they’re most looking forward to… — Dan Greenfield, editor, 13th Dimension Batman #4, DC. A new villain — the Minotaur! Looking forward to it! (There’s also a third printing of Batman #1 out this week, with two covers.) Plus, this issue’s Jorge Jimenez Bat-Gadget variant (just one of many covers) is all about the utility belt: — Detective Comics #66 Facsimile Edition, DC. 1942’s first appearance of Two-Face! (Every Golden Age first appearance issue gives me hope that we’ll eventually get the inexplicably-not-offered-yet Detective Comics #168, the Red Hood issue.) This comes with the requisite foil and sketch covers, but also a Mondo variant by Brett Parson: — JSA #14, DC. The second part of Jeff Lemire and Gavin Guidry’s JSA: Year One. The first issue was rock solid, so they’re off to a good start. I have nothing but high hopes for this. — Limited Collectors’ Edition #C-43: Christmas With the Super-Heroes, DC. A treasury Facsimile! The first of four coming between now and February! The only thing surprising about this one — which has a heckuva lineup, including the 1969 classic The Silent Night of the Batman, by Mike Friedrich and Neal Adams — is that this is the second Christmas treasury DC put out in the ’70s. (This one was released in 1975, but there was one in ’74. Maybe it’s a 50th anniversary thing?) Anyway, DC has been slightly recoloring its treasury Facsimile covers. Not all of them, but this issue actually had a darker shade of green. Perhaps it’s to ward off scammers? I wonder. Scott adds: I simply cannot resist a holiday Treasury Edition. — Batman: The Demon Trilogy, DC. A new edition of the hardcover collecting the 1980s-’90s Son of the Demon, Bride of the Demon and Birth of the Demon, which in sum work well as a direct sequel to Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ original Ra’s al Ghul saga of the early ’70s. The trilogy captures the Bondian quality of the Batman-Ra’s conflict and reminds us that the Demon’s Head really should be reserved only for rare stories of a certain scope. (Few villains in comics have suffered more from overuse.) The stories can be a little uneven, and you do wish that Adams had contributed, but the creative teams are first rate, including Mike...
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