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Title: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit ... Post by: Super Monkey on October 10, 2005, 06:05:31 PM Gathering every DCU tale written by Alan Moore under one cover for the very first time, DC UNIVERSE: THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TP features sixteen stories including the never-before-collected BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE and SUPERMAN: WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MAN OF TOMORROW.
Topped with a new cover by Brian Bolland, DC UNIVERSE: THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TP features art by Bolland, Dave Gibbons, Kevin O ' Neill, Klaus Janson, Jim Baikie, Curt Swan, Rick Veitch, Joe Orlando, John Byrne, Bill Willingham and others, in stories originally published from 1985 - 1988. The book also includes an excerpt from Moore ' s proposal for BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, as well as text pieces by Dave Gibbons and Paul Kupperberg. DC UNIVERSE: THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TP includes: * SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11: " For the Man Who Has Everything " Art and cover: Dave Gibbons * DETECTIVE COMICS #549: " Night Olympics " Part One Art: Klaus Janson * DETECTIVE COMICS #550: " Night Olympics " Part Two Art: Klaus Janson * GREEN LANTERN #188: " Mogo Doesn ' t Socialize " Art: Dave Gibbons * VIGILANTE #17: " Father ' s Day " Part One Cover: Paris Cullins & Rick Magyar Art: Jim Baikie * VIGILANTE #18: " Father ' s Day " Part Two Art and cover: Jim Baikie * THE OMEGA MEN #26: " Brief Lives " Art: Kevin O ' Neill * THE OMEGA MEN #27: " A Man ' s World " Art: Paris Cullins & Rick Magyar * DC COMICS PRESENTS #85: " The Jungle Line " Art: Rick Veitch & Al Williamson Cover: Rick Veitch * TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL #2: " Tygers " Artist: Kevin O ' Neill * SUPERMAN #423: " Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow " Part One Art: Curt Swan & George Pérez Cover: Curt Swan & Murphy Anderson * ACTION COMICS #583: " Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow " Part Two Art: Curt Swan & Kurt Schaffenberger Cover: Curt Swan & Murphy Anderson * SECRET ORIGINS #10: " Footsteps " Art: Joe Orlando Cover: Jim Aparo * TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL #3: " In Blackest Night " Art: Bill Willingham & Terry Austin * BATMAN ANNUAL #11: " Mortal Clay " Art: George Freeman Cover: John Byrne * BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE Art: Brian Bolland DC UNIVERSE: THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TP will be solicited in the November Previews (Volume XV #11) and is scheduled to arrive in stores in January. DC UNIVERSE: THE STORIES OF ALAN MOORE TPB Writer: Alan Moore Artists: Dave Gibbons, Klaus Janson, Jim Baikie, Kevin O ' Neill, Rick Veitch, Curt Swan, George Pérez, Kurt Schaffenberger, Murphy Anderson, Joe Orlando, Jim Aparo, Bill Willingham, Terry Austin, George Freeman, John Byrne and Brian Bolland Collects SUPERMAN ANNUAL #11, DETECTIVE COMICS #549-550, GREEN LANTERN #188, VIGILANTE #17-18, THE OMEGA MEN #26-27, DC COMICS PRESENTS #85, TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL #2-3, SUPERMAN #423, ACTION COMICS #583, SECRET ORIGINS #10, BATMAN ANNUAL #11 and BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE 304 pages, $19.99 US THE GOLDEN AGE FLASH ARCHIVES VOL. 2 HC Writer: Gardner Fox Artists: E.E. Hibbard, Hal Sharp and Sheldon Moldoff Collects stories from FLASH COMICS #18-24 and ALL-FLASH #1 and 2 224 pages, $49.99 SHOWCASE PRESENTS: GREEN ARROW VOL. 1 TPB Writers: Jack Miller, France Herron, Gardner Fox, Bob Haney, Dave Wood, Dick Wood, Robert Bernstein, and John Broome Artists: Jack Kirby, George Papp, Mike Sekowsky, Neal Adams, Lee Elias, Bernard Sachs, George Roussos and Jerry Ordway Collects stories from ADVENTURE COMICS #250-269, WORLD ' S FINEST COMICS #95-134, 136, 138 and 140, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #4 and THE BRAVE & THE BOLD #50, 71 and 85 528 pages, $16.99 US, black & white SUPERMAN CHRONICLES VOL. 1 TPB Writers: Jerry Siegel Artist: Joe Shuster Collects stories from ACTION COMICS #1-13, NEW YORK WORLD ' S FAIR COMICS #1 and SUPERMAN #1 208 pages, $14.99 US JLA: THE GREATEST STORIES EVER TOLD TPB Writers: Gardner Fox, Dennis O ' Neil, Gerry Conway, Martin Pasko, Keith Giffen, J.M. DeMatteis, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar and Joe Kelly Artists: Mike Sekowsky, Bernard Sachs, Dick Dillin, Joe Giella, Kevin Maguire, Terry Austin, Alex Ross, Howard Porter, John Dell, Doug Mahnke, Tom Nguyen and George Pérez Collects JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #19, 77, 122 and 166-168, JUSTICE LEAGUE #1, JLA SECRET FILES #1 and JLA #61 192 pages, $19.99 US SHOWCASE PRESENTS: HOUSE OF MYSTERY VOL. 1 TPB Writers: Joe Orlando, Sergio Aragones, Howie Post, E. Nelson Bridwell, Otto Binder, Robert Kanigher, Jack Oleck, Marv Wolfman, Len Wein, John Albano and Jack Miller Artists: Joe Orlando, George Roussos, Lee Elias, Doug Wildey, Bernard Baily, Carmine Infantino, Mort Meskin, Neal Adams, Sid Greene, Jack Sparling, Sergio Aragones, Howie Post, Bill Draut, Jim Mooney, Win Mortimer, Jerry Grandanetti, Gil Kane, Wallace Wood, Bernie Wrightson, Alex Toth, Wayne Howard, Al Williamson, John Celardo, Mike Peppe, Tony deZuniga, Leonard Starr, Tom Sutton, Ric Estrada, Ralph Reese, Frank Giacoia, Jim Aparo, Gray Morrow, Don Heck, Russ Heath, Jack Kirby, John Costanza and Nester Redondo Collects HOUSE OF MYSTERY #174-194 552 pages, $16.99, black & white SUPERMAN: MAN OF TOMORROW ARCHIVES VOL. 2 HC Writers: Bill Finger, Jerry Coleman, Otto Binder, Robert Bernstein and Alvin Schwartz Artists: Curt Swan, Stan Kaye, Wayne Boring, Al Plastino, Kurt Schaffenberger and John Sikela Collecting stories from ACTION COMICS #248-254 and SUPERMAN #127-131 240 pages, $49.99 US THE WILL EISNER COMPANION Writers: N.C. Christopher Couch and Stephen Weiner Artist: Will Eisner 176 pages, $12.99, black & white Start saving NOW! :shock: :D Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: Super Monkey on October 10, 2005, 09:22:11 PM Here is the great cover, brand new artwork by Brian Bolland, for the Alan Moore collection:
http://dccomics.com/news/images/alanmoore_dcu_400x600.jpg Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: Brainiac44 on October 11, 2005, 06:07:31 AM Very nice image if I ever saw one - makes me think of the greatest imaginary stories cover. They had a lot of the characters in their weird looks (not all of them looked weird but Superred-superblue...) together...
Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: Gary on October 11, 2005, 09:52:51 AM Just to nitpick, that's not every DCU story by Moore, because it leaves out his work on Swamp Thing.
Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: Great Rao on October 11, 2005, 11:07:15 AM Quote from: "Gary" Just to nitpick, that's not every DCU story by Moore, because it leaves out his work on Swamp Thing. Ah, but Alan Moore's Swamp Thing has been ret-conned from DCU to Vertigo-U, which I believe is actually a separate continuity that happens to somehow sort-of include bits of the DCU sometimes. :s: Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: Super Monkey on October 11, 2005, 12:25:34 PM Quote from: "Great Rao" Quote from: "Gary" Just to nitpick, that's not every DCU story by Moore, because it leaves out his work on Swamp Thing. Ah, but Alan Moore's Swamp Thing has been ret-conned from DCU to Vertigo-U, which I believe is actually a separate continuity that happens to somehow sort-of include bits of the DCU sometimes. :s: That is correct, Swamp Thing is not part of the DCU. But, the crossover with Superman is included for you Swamp-fans. Earth-V ;) if you will The Great Rao from Sandman is not the same one as the DCU, if there even is one. Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: TELLE on October 12, 2005, 04:47:04 AM I was going to mention Swampy as well, but thought that some sort of retcon was in effect. Moore's Swamp Thing was really the impetus for the creation of Veritgo, as I recall. But still, there are classic Batman, Spectre, Demon, Phantom Stranger, Hawkman, Green Lantern and Adam Strange stories --not to mention Zatarra, Dr. Occult, the guy from Night Force, Jason Woodrue, the JLA satellite, etc --stories galore in Swamp Thing (and not just cameos, but full-blown, multi-issue stories). Not DCU? C'mon!
Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: nightwing on October 13, 2005, 12:58:41 PM Good news on the Moore collection. I always liked the short stories from the GL Corps annuals especially.
But the big revelation here is that we will be getting Volume 2 of the Man of Tomorrow Archives. A lot of folks were wondering if that would happen, given that the entire contents of this book are already available in the Showcase Presents volume that just came out. Good news for Archives fans who were assuming that the Showcase books would shut out some of their favorite comics from Archive treatment. Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: Super Monkey on October 13, 2005, 01:35:30 PM The question is will you double dip and buy it now that you have the stories in the $10 showcase version?
Also notice the SUPERMAN CHRONICLES VOL. 1 TPB which is the same as the Batman version. It seems pointless to release that, with the reduced archive for $20 that they released. DC just loves milking their comics by reprinting them time and time again in different editions and collections. Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: nightwing on October 13, 2005, 06:15:09 PM Hey, it's not just DC...Marvel practically invented reprints. Heck, when I was growing up in the 70s it seemed like half the Marvel books on the stands were reprints of stuff from the 60s. Every few months or so, even the "new" monthlies would fall behind schedule and you'd find yourself with a reprint wrapped in a new cover. I always had the impression that Marvel was the kind of outfit that had a lot of ambition and very little ability to back it up.
Anyway, the Superman Chronicles will be mostly content from the Action Archives, and that (newly) cheap one is all "Superman," so there's not a lot of duplication (This suits me fine, by the way, since I never bought the Action Archives and this will be a nice alternative). I don't know what I'll do about the MOT Archive. I'm a huge SA Superman fan, but it's hard to justify the expense after Showcase. It'll all depend on my finances come next year. Maybe I'll get it and give the Showcase to my kids when they're old enough. Frankly, there's just something about the Showcase format that appeals to me on a fundamental level. I grew up on Super-Spectaculars (100 pages for 50 cents!) so to my mind the bigger and cheaper, the better. Having museum-quality archives is nice I suppose, but ultimately comics were made to be read and read fast, wherever you happen to be. I never folded mine or stuck 'em in my pocket, but it was nice that you could, and not feel too guilty. Sort of like baseball cards...when I was a kid if you got duplicates you didn't seal 'em in lucite and try to find a buyer who needed them...you clothes-pinned 'em to your bicycle wheel and let them make a "motor" sound when the spokes hit them. I may be only fan around who thinks the move away from pulp paper was a dark day for comics. :? Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: Brainiac44 on November 03, 2005, 07:30:59 AM Any link to the image of Man of Steel Archives 2?
Thanks! Title: Re: NEW Superman TPBs for Jan/Feb 2006 You might want to sit Post by: Klar Ken T5477 on November 03, 2005, 08:42:09 AM Nightwing - Im with you ~ PULP RULES~
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