Batman: The Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 2

This hardback is the second volume in DC's Batman Omnibus series collecting the Batman titles chronologically. It takes us from Nov 1941 through Spring 1943, including the first appearance of the Penguin (Detective #58), Two-Face, (Detective #66), and Tweedle Dee & Dweedle Dum (Detective #74).I received the first one as a gift, and enjoyed reading about the origins of this character. Considering the book collects about 32 stories, it is a great deal. (I'd never be able to afford many of the originals!)

I'm going to give this four stars instead of five, because some of the art restoration isn't as good as it could be. I suspect it's the same restoration produced for the DC Archives from decades ago. On a few of the stories in this volume the line work is so thick and muddy that it obscures details, especially in smaller images.Don't let that put you off from buying and enjoying the book though. These are fun old Batman stories, and as always with the DC omnibus editions, it's great to have so many collected in a single volume on high quality paper. Also my copy at least was missing the last pages. My copy stops on page 767 right before the end of the story from WORLD"S FINEST #9.and it's pasted to the back cover. In most of the books there are a few pages about the writers and artist a black back sheet and the a black sheet pasted over the the back cover. I'm not to worried as I have the "BATMAN: WORLD"S FINEST" Archives, so I have that story in one form and it's just to much trouble to return. It does show that not all the books are perfect and as I'm getting both the BATMAN & SUPERMAN books I hope this is the only defective one.

I think these early Batman tales are about the best of the “Golden Age” lot due to a compelling visual style (the noir elements of a dark urban setting), a set of talented artists, and perhaps most of all the writing prowess of Bill Finger, who also engineered many of the elements which still inform the character. And these Omnibus editions are deliciously massive. It is nice to have the stories from Batman, Detective and World’s Best/Finest side by side. I look forward to purchasing later editions, especially for the appearance of Dick Sprang, who struck me as a unique talent even when I was a child, and drew some of the best tales of that time. Love these books!

I'm going to give this four stars instead of five, because some of the art restoration isn't as good as it could be. I suspect it's the same restoration produced for the DC Archives from decades ago. On a few of the stories in this volume the linework is so thick and muddy that it obscures details, especially in smaller images.Don't let that put you off from buying and enjoying the book though. These are fun old Batman stories, and as always with the DC omnibus editions, it's great to have so many collected in a single volume on high quality paper.

This is the third time DC has done a Golden Age Batman collection and it appears this time they’re actually attempting to complete it. First we had the hard bound Archive collection followed by the cheaper paperback Chronicles and now the Batman Omnibus. At nearly 800 pages these book have the approximate volume of comics of four Archives or four Chronicles. Volume 3 is scheduled to be released in March of next year and will at that point exceed both the Archives and Chronicles in total volume of material. Hopefully that means we will actually be able to get a complete Golden Age collection. I know that DC has put out Omnibuses that exceed 1100 pages but this is absolutely as large as I would want these books to be.As with the Chronicles, the Omnibus series presents ALL the Batman stories in chronological order rather than separating them by comic series as the Archives did. We get Detective Comics, Batman Comics AND World’s Finest. That is a whole lot of material and it will take most people weeks to get through it all. The quality of paper is on par with the Archives and the book dimension of 9 by 6.5 is slightly larger than the 8 by 6 you get with the Archives and Chronicles. All in all I this is the most complete, highest quality and in my opinion most attractive Golden Age collection yet.Volume 2 spans November 1941 to April 1943 right in the midst of World War II. Unlike the Superman comics of this era there isn't a whole lot of mention of the war and Batman focuses on fantastic criminals. We get the very first appearance of The Penguin and a TON of Joker stories. The Joker acts more like The Riddler (who was still years away from his first appearance) in that he keeps leaving clues to his crimes for no apparent reason. He also acts very dumb during this era. TWICE Batman fools him by putting fake articles in a newspaper about a famous gem being shown and in one story the article claims the gem is owned by a Mr. Namtab. This is also the era where Batman and Robin issue endless silly puns while engaged in combat. I will say the Batman stories of this era are significantly better than the Superman stories. I read both the Superman and Batman Chronicles and now rereading the stories I have almost no memory of having read the Superman stories while the Batman stories stayed with me. Batman just has much more interesting and creative tales even if they are often goofy.This is the fourth Golden Age Omnibus I own including the first two Superman volumes and my only complaint is that the two Superman Omnibus seem a little loose in the spine. I don’t pretend to be an expert on book binding and maybe this is to be expected from a book this size. I certainly haven’t had any issues with pages falling. The material here is all Golden Age, love it or hate it. The stories are often very silly and corny but there is some creativity and it is fascinating from an historical standpoint. I intend to stick with the series till the end and hope we get some Silver Age Omnibus.

This volume of Batman comics from the Golden age is a chronicle of transitions. In these stories, Batman goes from being a wanted vigilante to a respected partner with law enforcement. He also goes from fighting crime in a peacetime background to fighting crime with a war raging overseas, one that America was involved in, and the covers of Batman comics reflect that. The book itself is printed on fine quality paper and the printing is very good.

Came in perfect condition! Colorful pages and so much content. The comic book is heavy! It’s like 2 inches thick haha I’m so excited to get through it!

EL empaque no fue lo suficientemente robusto y parte de la tapa del libro se dañó levemente. Nada terrible, pero recomiendo mejorar la calidad del empaque.

great product recommend seller

UN BEL VOLUMONE CHE CONTIENE MOLTE DELLE PIU' BELLE STORIE DEL EPOCA D'ORO DI BATMAN CONTRO I SUOI ARCINEMICI JOKER PINGUINO DUE FACCE …….. PUTROPPO QUESTI VOLUMI PER ORA SI TROVANO SOPRATTUTTO IN LINGUA ORIGINALE. . I PREZZI DI QUESTI VOLUMI POSSONO SEMBRARE NON PROPRIO ECONOMICI, MA RACCOLGONO MOLTE STORIE IN UN UNICO VOLUME DI CIRCA 800 PAGINE TUTTE A COLORI SU CARTA SEMILUCIDA E DI UNA BUONA GRAMMATURA, PRODOTTI DI OTTIMA QUALITA'. CONSIGLIATO

Quem gosta do morcego tem que ter essas edições porque são títulos que nunca serão impressos no Brasil e novamente em outro lugar, anos 40. quem puder pegue o seu eu recomendo e dou os parabéns para Amazon pelas ofertas.

affordable way to read golden age comics especially of classic characters

Same era as first omnibus, so same problems and qualities.