Batgirl the Bronze Age Omnibus 1

Classic DC Comic adventures, a must for Batman - Batgirl fans.

Frank Robbins' scripts and Gil Kane's and Vince Coletta's art are excellent! So is Don Heck's! Barbara is a beauty, and I feel like making love to her.

Love combining so many issues in one volume

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his book contains a lot of the same material as the Black and White Showcase Presents Batgirl volume from the mid-2000s. The big differences that Batgirl's Guest Starring appearance in Brave and the Bold, Justice League of America, World's Finest, and Superman Family have been ditched in favor of more of her adventures in Batman Family.The book begins with a very enthusiastic introduction by Gail Simone and her passion bleeds off the page and just builds the excitement.The book can be divided into three sections:Batgirl (early appearances in Batman/Detective Comics): We get five stories we show co-stars with Batman and Robin. These are mostly pretty good. They show her as skillful and capable. The big exception to this is "Batgirl's Costume Cut-Ups" which is a humor story whose "joke" is that Batgirl is a female obsessed with her appearance and that gets in the way of fight crime. I don't generally go off on 50 year old stories for being 50 years old, but this one was dumb when it came out. But again, that's my only complaint.Batgirl solo feature: Batgirl had her own solo feature in Detective Comics. Her stories were close to a full length comic, only told in two parts over multiple issues. These are really good basic crime and detective stories. Some are pitched towards more "female" problems like a killer who targets women dating service or women being killed after buying wigs, but they're never patronizing. They're well-told. These stories do benefit from being in color and the good paper used because some of the colors used really are something to be hold. The artwork is consistently superb and the plot lines are well-thought out and she does really well in these grounded stories.Batgirl in Batman Family: At the end of the Batgirl solo stories, Barbara Gordon was elected Congress and apparently retired, but with the Batman Family, she was brought for periodic appearances. This book reprints the classic, "The Invader from Hell" where she and Robin team up to battle a Satanically powered Benedict Arnold. The Batman Family stories features a good number of team-ups with Robin (as the new Dynamite Duo) but also some solo stories and there's a team up with the original Batwoman and it's nice of her to be acknowledged. These go into some more superheroics and are a bit sillier at times than her solo series. Still, these are fun to read, particularly those I'd never seen before.Overall, these are just lovely and I can't wait to read the next Omnibus.

Love this book. Ia m a huge Batgirl fan and getting it in a graphic novel was pretty great!

I love Batgirl. Ergo, i bought the book. And I'm glad

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Bellissimo e molto ben curato come ogni altro omnibus della casa editrice.

The item was damaged, a bump in the spine

I did read some Batman the brave and the bold stories from the same era and I must say that I enjoyed this perticuliar omnibus much more than the other. Better writing, it's that simple. I look forward the second one.

First rate collection and superb reproduction. I really love the DC omnibus books for their crisp artwork and as I was not a fan of these when they were originally published, they are now a pleasure to read and re-read (I can't do the same with the Marvels as their 60s and 70s issues are ingrained in my head though their omnibus editions are pretty good as well). The Batgirl is a little slimmer volume than others and makes it a lot easier to read and not get crushed (Green Lantern omnibus comes to mind). The Gil Kane art is superb (as it always was) and the Don Heck is also masterful (I was never fan when I was younger but I appreciate his work a lot more now). Wonder when the Robin omnibus will be available ?