Scott and Dan pick the comics they’re most looking forward to…
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Dan Greenfield, editor, 13th Dimension
Detective Comics #1105, DC. Good, solid storytelling, with good, solid art. What’s not to like? In the last issue, Nightwing uttered the soon-to-be-immortal line, “Honestly? This may be my finest duct tape-related work ever.”
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Superman in the Seventies, DC. New edition of the trade paperback collecting some of the Man of Steel’s best-known Bronze Age stories. A nice compilation, for sure, plus I dig the Warhol-ized Neal Adams cover.
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Fantastic Four #52 Facsimile Edition, Marvel. A new printing celebrating Black Panther’s 60th anniversary year.
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Scott Tipton, contributor-at-large, 13th Dimension
DC Finest: Batman — The Case of the Chemical Syndicate, DC. All the earliest tales of the Caped Crusader can be found here, including the debut appearances of Robin, Catwoman, Joker and Hugo Strange!
Dan adds: I’m not an omnibus guy and this is an upgrade from the old Chronicles and Archives series, so I’m in for sure. It includes everything from Batman: The Golden Age Vol. 1, except for New York World’s Fair Comics #2, but it’s 200 pages longer.
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1776 #3, Marvel. Loving the covers by Pete Woods.
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Iron Man #1, Marvel. Looks like a good jumping-on point for any Iron Man fans.
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Avengers Epic Collection: Under Siege, Marvel. My favorite Avengers story arc, now back in print!
January 27, 2026
Do you know why the World’s Fair story was not included in the new Batman collection? By leaving it out, DC missed a perfect opportunity to be able to promote the book as the complete collection of Batman stories from his first two years in one volume.
The book is 616 pages, so if page count was an issue, they could have ended the Detective Comics run at #51 instead of #52 to make room for the story from NYWF #2. You’d have every Batman story from 1939 and 1940 and you’d still have the first two years of Batman’s run in Detective Comics (#51 is cover-dated May 1941).
January 27, 2026
Finally, Avengers Epic Collection: Under Siege is back in print, which is great as it picks up right where Avengers Masterworks 25 dropped off. Now Marvel needs to reprint more of the following Epics which are going for ridiculous prices!
January 28, 2026
Agreed. Especially Thor volumes 5 and 18… Fantastic Four volumes 2, 4, and 5… and West Coast Avengers volume 3. Prices are just crazy on some of these (Thor 5 is absolutely mental).
January 28, 2026
>>Prices are just crazy on some of these
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Absolutely! I realize just because someone list it at that price it doesn’t mean anyone is paying it. But, that’s a poor business model….unless ultimately, it means someone “IS” paying that much. Crazy.
I realize there is a cost (a break even point before profit begins). Why don’t publishers just open things for sale but hold the sale until enough orders are taken? I’d be willing to sit in a que for a bit while numbers are built up. Shoot…you do that and the customer would take it upon themselves to help promote something if they knew the printing date was only being held off by “x” orders. This is exactly what happens on something through BackerKit or KickStarter. It’s a win-win. And it would then force (strongly pressure) eBay sellers to price things to sell.
January 27, 2026
FF facsimile!