Batman and Deadman coming back at you…
The Green Lantern/Green Arrow Hard-Traveling Heroes Omnibus — featuring Denny O’Neil and Neal Adams’ classic early-’70s run, plus O’Neil’s work with Mike Grell — is due in November after a months-long delay. Cool.
But if you’re an Adams fan — and who isn’t — there’s even more to look forward to: DC in 2025 plans to re-release two classics: the Batman by Neal Adams Omnibus and the Deadman Omnibus.
Dig the descriptions from online listings:
BATMAN BY NEAL ADAMS OMNIBUS (New Edition)
Stories by Denny O’Neil, Bob Haney, Adams and more
Neal Adams is considered one of the greatest Batman artists of all-time, and one of comics’ most influential illustrators.
Neal Adams’ run on Batman is collected in one massive volume, with stories from the pages of BATMAN, THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD, DETECTIVE COMICS, WORLD’S FINEST, BATMAN: ODYSSEY, BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE, and innumerable covers!
Collects material from Batman #200, 203 and 210; The Brave and The Bold #75-76 and 79-85; Detective Comics #370, 372, 385, 389, 391, and 392; and World’s Finest Comics #174-176, 178-180, 182-183, 185, 186; Batman #217, 220-222, 224-227, 229-231, The Brave and The Bold #86, 88-90, 93, 95, Detective Comics #394-403, 405-311, World’s Finest Comics #199, 200, 202; Batman #232, 234-241, 243-246, 251, 255; Batman Annual #14; Batman Black & White #4; Brave and the Bold #99, Detective Comics #412-422, 439, 600; Heroes Against Hunger; Limited Collectors Edition C-25, C-51, C-59; Robin #1; Saga of Ra’s Al Ghul #4; World’s Finest #211, 244-246, 258; Batman: Odyssey Vol. 1 issues #1-6 and Vol. 2 issues #1-7.
Hardcover/1,072 Pages
On Sale Feb. 25, 2025/$125 US
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DEADMAN OMNIBUS (New Edition)
Stories by Arnold Drake, Adams, Gerry Conway and more. With art by Adams and Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez and more.
August 3, 2024
The Spectre: The Wrath of the Spectre Omnibus is also scheduled to be reprinted. There’s some beautiful Neal Adams art in there too.
October 16, 2024
It looks like a higher page count than the original material. Does this printing have more material in it?
August 3, 2024
What is a bummer is that José Villarrubia posted on Facebook that he approached DC and offered to restore these back to original colors and art as Absolute editions (the way he did with Absolute Swamp Thing) but it looks like DC opted to go with this instead…. 🙁
August 4, 2024
Too fat for absolute though. I would be more happy if they just restore original colour except Odyssey which I would opt out.
August 9, 2024
The Batman Adams omnibus missed one: Brave & Bold #102, where Adams did the final 9 pages of a 22-page story begun by Jim Aparo, who was sidelined for medical issues.
October 16, 2024
It is a crime that this has never been reprinted in a Neal Adams anthology.