KC’s Bookshelf: JLA: Year One


by KC Carlson

One of my very favorite DC maxiseries (as they used to be called) is back in print in December. JLA: Year One is being re-presented with a new cover (actually, it’s a composite of a couple of the original covers) by artist Barry Kitson – although I kinda like the old one too, and I hope they find a way to incorporate it into the new printing somehow.

JLA: Year One, written by Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn and pencilled by Kitson, is one of DC’s classic continuity implant stories. And yet, it is also so much more.

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KC’s Bookshelf: DC Comics Classic Library: The Batman Annuals Volume One


by KC Carlson

Collecting Batman Annuals #1-3 (1961-1962). DC Senior VP and Creative Director Richard Bruning calls the early DC Annuals, in his informative Afterword, “the first DC collected editions.” So this is actually a collection of collected editions. Dude, you just totally blew my mind!

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