A special BATMAN DAY announcement…
Last month, we gave you a little glimpse at what DC has planned to celebrate Batman’s 80th anniversary early next year. Click here to check it out.
Well, DC has decreed today Batman Day, so it’s the perfect time to give you an EXCLUSIVE update on the Detective Comics: Before Batman Omnibus volumes we mentioned: The publisher on Monday will be soliciting these as a single, two-book, slipcased edition:
That’s… impressive.
Here’s the official solicitation copy:
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DETECTIVE COMICS: BEFORE BATMAN (VOLS. 1 AND 2) HC
Written by JERRY SIEGEL, MALCOLM WHEELER-NICHOLSON and others
Art by JOE SHUSTER, FRED GUARDINEER, BOB KANE and others
Design cover
DETECTIVE COMICS exploded in 1939 with the debut of Batman in issue #27—and now, for the first time, DC reprints the first 26 issues of this groundbreaking series, almost none of which have ever been reprinted before, in a two-volume slipcased set! The first volume, collecting issues #1-13, stars crime-fighters like Slam Bradley, Bart Regan, Speed Saunders and more! And Volume Two, collecting issues #14-26, stars characters like the Crimson Avenger, Fu Manchu and more!
Please note that these stories will be scanned directly from original copies of these issues.
ON SALE 03.20.19
$150.00 US | Each 896 PAGES
FC | ISBN: 978-1-4012-9302-4
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That’s some serious comic-book history right there.
Oh, and that’s not all DC will be soliciting Monday. Click here for a look at some of the other hardcovers that will be formally announced. And click here for some of the paperbacks.
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MORE
— 13 Essential BATMAN Stories From DETECTIVE COMICS. Click here.
— DC to Release DETECTIVE COMICS Anniversary Collections. Click here.
September 15, 2018
This is pretty fascinating. ^-^
September 22, 2018
Wow…. but two omnibus in one set ?? Surely a combined single omnibus of 1500 and at a more affordable price ? Still, definitely of comic book historical interest