There are two that I'm aware of (and if there are others, I haven't read about or noticed them):
- Golden Age Batman volume 1 has a page out of order in the first Scarecrow story
- Golden Age Green Arrow has a banner that's missing Speedy's name on a splash page (there's the Green Arrow logo, then Speedy's smiling face, and it should say "and Speedy!" beneath his portrait, but it got left out).
Pretty minor stuff, all things considered. I can live with it. Some of the restoration of the Batman and Superman art was clearly done decades ago, and it shows. Between that and the quality of the source material, there's a lot of variance in the quality of the linework. I wouldn't call those printing errors though.
GA Batman volume 1 used the uncensored version of Detective Comics 27, and the quality of that restoration is noticeably higher than the Archives restoration.
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
Apparently they don't affect the story. Full details here:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/marv...om-t31654.html
Thank you Sandbagger, I tried to use google to find a likely marvelmasterworksfansite page on it, but was unsuccessful.
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
I actually went and fixed enough the Golden Age Batman volume 1 Scarecrow story error. I covered up one erroneous page and pasted in a page from Batman Chronicles.
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Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
^^^
Would you be willing to post a pic of the fix? Does the glue not warp the page? Wondering what the fix looks like and if worth trying as well.
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Things I love: Batman, Superman, AEW, old films, Lovecraft
Grant Morrison: “Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly, or how Batman can possibly run a multibillion-dollar business empire during the day and fight crime at night, when the answer is obvious even to the smallest child: because it's not real.”
I haven't finished it yet, but this is a pretty good book, all things considered. I thought the stories from the first year were the strongest, with the book settling down after that into a lot of different "crooks looking for a crime angle" that typifies Golden Age storytelling. The restoration of the art is pretty strong, and it's a long time before any trick arrows show up. It's generally just (impossibly) skilled archery from Oliver and Roy. I'm about halfway through the book, and there aren't that many recurring villains so far, surprisingly, other than Professor Million, reluctant criminal.
It occurred to me as I hit page 220 or so that if this was an Archive, it would be over. I think the omnibus is definitely a far superior way to collect the material, if for no other reason than that it makes it a lot more likely that entire runs that span decades could actually be collected. This one book covers November 1941 to mid 1947. That's a good span of stories.