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Here's one I picked up fairly recently. It came out in 2011 (so it's not a new release) and I already own most of the individual issues of which this book is comprised, but it's always good to have a run of comics in one handy collected edition. It features the early BATMAN tales drawn by legendary artist GENE COLAN after he jumped ship from MARVEL to rival comicbook-makers DC back in the early '80s.
I haven't read any of these tales since they were first published, but so far, I've enjoyed what I've re-read. Gene was a superb artist, but unfortunately his eyesight was very poor, and sometimes at this stage in his career, his figure-work was a little off in places. (Take a look at Batman's left leg in the pic below - it just doesn't look quite right.) However, instances of this kind aren't too many in the enclosed tales, and there are great visuals on offer between the covers of this hardback tome.
It shouldn't be difficult to track down a copy, so if you have a bit of spare cash, begin the process right away. Now you'll have to excuse me - I want to get straight back to reading my own valiant volume of these 14 dazzling and dynamic Dark Knight Detective doozies. Sometimes life is just so good!
And hey - who else prefers that DC emblem on the cover to the current one? It surely can't be just me?
