BATMAN WEEK: The closest to the original…
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Welcome to BATMAN WEEK 2024 — celebrating the 85th anniversary of the release of Detective Comics #27, on March 30, 1939. Over seven days, you can look forward to all sorts of groovy and offbeat columns, features and cartoons that pay tribute to the greatest comics character in the history of mankind. Click here for the rest of the BATMAN WEEK features. You’ll be glad you did! — Dan
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One of the biggest selling points of the Folio Society’s DC Comics: The Golden Age is the inclusion of the best Action Comics #1 Facsimile Edition you’re ever going to find. Scanned directly from the DC library files, it looks and feels like a mint condition copy of the original (if a little smaller in size).
Well, the same holds true for the Batman #1 Facsimile Edition that’s included in the British publisher’s DC: Batman 85th anniversary collection.
This particular issue has been reprinted in full before, in different formats, but the version here is nearly note perfect. The only drawback is that the dimensions are roughly the size of a modern comic, as opposed to a Golden Ager.
Still, dig this:
Of course, you cannot buy this separately from DC: Batman, which is only available through the Folio Society and runs $100. (Click here to order)
But to me, it’s almost worth the price of admission alone.
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March 27, 2024
The thing with these collections, for me on a personal level, is not the price.
I can swing the occasional $100-200, but I’ve run out of space for these sizable collections that are hella bulky.
Same with action figures where cool new product for adult collectors drops all the time, I’ve plateaued in wall space and shelves for new displays in a 1200-square-foot condo for a family of three. 😀
March 29, 2024
What is stopping publishers from using these types of scans for their facsimile editions? I personally cannot look at recolors and cannot understand why comics fans tolerate the practice. Do this to a beloved movie and cinephiles will be in uproar!
March 29, 2024
My experience has been that Facsimile Editions use the original colors but that the production values are cleaned up. They’re also printed on stronger, white stock and that makes a difference too. If you compare the two Batman-Ra’s treasuries, the original is yellowed and there’s ink bleed. The new one is on better stock so the colors pop more. But it’s the same colors. Kinda like the difference between vinyl and digital. There’s a feel to the one but clarity to the other.