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Last edited by JoeGuy; 10-22-2019 at 03:16 PM.
I hope we don't have to wait until 2020 to complete the Morrison Batman omnis
Anyone have recommendations for gold or silver age omnibus volumes for someone who hasn’t read much from those eras. I do have the Doom Patrol silver age omnibus but struggled through it and gave up 1/3 of the way through. But the idea of cheesy or fun Batman/Superman/JLA stories does intrigue me.
You should download some issues before buying anything else or check out the trades. A lot of the golden/silver age stuff is in trade format. For silver age , I have read chunks of Flash, Doom Patrol (which I found pretty decent), Green Lantern and Adam strange. I have only read a handful of Batman/Supeman silver age so cant comment too much except that they were sort of silly. The Flash is the best of the bunch although I must add that anything to do with Wally West in the silver age is not as interesting as he usually deals with lesser crimes. Green Lantern while having high points would be at my bottom.
I got volume 1 of Silver Age Green Lantern omnibus and volume 3 of Silver Age Flash omnibus and both are difficult to take seriously.
I doubt I will ever finish either or that I will buy any more volumes.
For me (and in all honesty) there are to many other books from the past forty years I would rather be reading and so can only
give these and other Silver Age stories a few minutes every now and than.
I can read a modern story even if my mind is not in it, but with Silver Age, and some Bronze, I need to be focused or else the many
words and editorial descriptions become a blur.
Silver Age Justice League of America is cringe worthy while Bronze Age Justice League Of America is actually fun.
I'd recommend Bob Haney's The Brave and the Bold, which is being collected in two Bronze Age omnibus collections (one out now, one out soon).
Haney's stories are completely insane; he didn't care about continuity and wrote all the Batman team-up stories with no regard for the way any other character was being written anywhere else; and he did the weirdest stories, like Batman selling his soul to Hitler and a bad guy threatening to kill the artist of the story unless he makes Batman lose. But the stories are fun because they're so crazy, and they have a lot of good art from Neal Adams and then, for most of the run, with Jim Aparo doing probably his best work.
So it's Silver Age style insanity with more sophisticated Bronze Age art.
So I am sure this has been talk about to death so sorry to flog the dead horse.
What do you guys think would be collected in a Morrison JLA omnibus or two if we get them and what should be the mapping ?
I like Brave and the Bold a lot. I have the first volume and the second on pre-order. Great stuff. It takes a few issues to pick up as the first few feel more like straight up silver age which for Batman is not a good thing for me. It does smooth over into bronze age material. The only downside is that it just makes me want a proper bronze age Batman omnibus all the more.
Morrison's Batman omni is out of stock again.
What's the deal with this thing? I've never seen a book go out of stock so soon, and so frequently - even similarly popular titles.