The Black Canary: Bird of Prey collected edition (tpb)

[MajorHoy]

Has anybody picked this up since it was released back in March?

The Black Canary: Bird of Prey
By: Various
Illustrated by: Various

This bird won’t be caged!

Rediscover the origin of DC’s original crime-fighting bird of prey in this collection of classic Golden and Silver Age tales!

Introduced in 1947 as a supporting character in the Johnny Thunder backup stories in Flash Comics, Black Canary became an instant hit with readers. After stealing Johnny Thunder’s thunder (so to speak), she earned her own starring feature that established her identity as Dinah Drake, a meek florist by day who dished out vigilante justice by night under the guise of the Black Canary.

Black Canary often found herself tangled in the cases of Larry Lance, a down-on-his-luck private eye who operated his detective agency out of Dinah’s flower shop. Whenever Larry found himself in way over his head, it was up to Black Canary’s fighting skills and knack for crime solving to save the day, which broke convention from the typical damsel-in-distress
archetype of the era.

The Black Canary: Bird of Prey collects all of Dinah Drake’s early comic book appearances from Flash Comics plus other adventures written and illustrated by comic book legends such as Robert Kanigher, Gardner Fox Carmine Infantino, and Murphy Anderson. This edition features stories from Flash Comics #86-88, 90-104; Comic Cavalcade #25; DC Special #3; Adventure Comics #399, 418-419; and The Brave and the Bold #61-62.

Paperback | $29.99 (US)
Published by DC Comics
Mar 09, 2021 | 224 Pages | 6-5/8 x 10-3/16 | ISBN 9781779509086

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/b...ey-by-various/

It looks like it covers the same material that had been in THE BLACK CANARY ARCHIVES VOL. 1, the hardcover that was released back in 2003 (with original cover price of $49.95 US) nearly twenty years ago.



NOTE: Should not be confused with the Birds of Prey: Black Canary tpb collection released back in 2020. That book collected the Black Canary series published from 2015-2016.

[SJNeal]

I thought about it, but $30 for a 224 page book seemed kind of steep considering I'd read this material once for posterity and then relegate it to the old storage unit.

Although knowing DC, it's probably already out of print and I could flip it on eBay for 3x cover price...

[MajorHoy]

I thought about it, but $30 for a 224 page book seemed kind of steep considering I'd read this material once for posterity and then relegate it to the old storage unit.

Although knowing DC, it's probably already out of print and I could flip it on eBay for 3x cover price...

Well, $30 would buy you about seven-and-a-half $3.99 comic books.

I know I've bought more than seven-and-a-half single issues I could care less about (unfortunately), and I expect I'll get more enjoyment out of this.

[SJNeal]

Ok fine, I'll buy a copy if you do. Deal?

[MajorHoy]

Ok fine, I'll buy a copy if you do. Deal?

= pssst! = I already ordered my copy from barnesandnoble.com yesterday; it's suppose to arrive here about Monday.

[Robanker]

I picked it up, though I've already ready most those stories. I'm not allowing myself to reread it until I'm caught up on my monthlies.

[SJNeal]

= pssst! = I already ordered my copy from barnesandnoble.com yesterday; it's suppose to arrive here about Monday.

Sweet! I'll add it to my next instocktrades.com order.