Category: DC Comics

Thanks to the posters over at the Official DC Comics Archives Message Board, here is a list of upcoming 2009 trades and hardcovers. All of these books have been added to the New Releases Schedule and as more information come out from DC on the exact contents of the books, I will post them.

Absolute Superman For Tomorrow; $99.99
Batman: R.I.P. Deluxe HC; $24.99
Saga of Swamp Thing Book One Deluxe HC; $24.99
The Complete Death Deluxe HC; $34.99
Jack Kirby’s The Losers HC; $39.99
Starman Omnibus Volume 2
The Flash Archives Volume 5
Showcase Presents: Ambush Bug
Showcase Presents: Aquaman Volume 3
Showcase Presents: Doom Patrol Volume 1
Showcase Presents: House Of Mystery Volume 3
Showcase Presents: Justice League Volume 4
Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Heroes Volume 3
Showcase Presents: Superman Family Volume 3
Batman Chronicles Volume 7
Superman Chronicles Volume 6
Green Lantern Chronicles Volume 1
Wonder Woman Chronicles Volume 1
All Star Superman Vol. 2 HC
Collects All Star Superman #7-12; $19.99
Batman & Outsiders : The Snare TPB
Batman The Return Of Hush HC
Batman The Strange Deaths Of Batman TPB
Birds Of Prey Club Kids TPB
Black Lightning Year One TPB
The Brave & The Bold Volume 3 HC
Catwoman The Long Road Home TPB
Checkmate Chimera
DC/Wildstorm Dream War TPB
Eclipso Music Of The Spheres TPB
Flash Emergency Stop TPB
Green Arrow Black Canary Family Business HC
Green Lantern Sinestro War Volume 1 TPB
Huntress Year One TPB
Jonah Hex Bullets Don’t Lie TPB
Justice League International Volume 4 HC
JLA Volume 4 Sanctuary HC
Justice League Unlimited TPB
JSA Kingdom Come Part 3 HC
Justice Volume 3 TPB
Manhunter Forgotten TPB
Nightwing Gemini Rising TPB
Question Return To Oz TPB
Robin Final Fight TPB
Simon Dark Ashes TPB
Spirit Book 3 TPB
Super Friends For Justice TPB
Supergirl Way Of The World TPB
Superman Atlas HC
Superman Brainiac HC
Superman Kryptonite Nevermore HC
Superman Shadows Linger TPB
Tales Of The Green Lantern Corps Volume 1 TPB
Teen Titans Spotlight Cyborg TPB
Tiny Titans Vigilante Big City Lights, Prairie Justice TPB
Wonder Woman Ends Of The Earth HC

Collected Comics Library Podcast #168

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The CCL continues its interviews with a conversation with Eric Bieze, Administrator of the Marvel Essentials and DC Showcases Yahoo! Group. Eric and I talk everything Black and White; what we like and don’t like, what’s coming out and what we would like to see.

Also on the show I go over collected edition news from the New York Comic-Con, and a cool upcoming DC Comics Superhero DVD from Filmation. Lastly, I go over the New Releases of the Week list.

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Chris

Links of Note:
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Here is the Press Release

DC Comics is producing a new hardcover edition of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen graphic novel. The 436-page hardcover edition will have a cover price of $39.99 and will be released in October, the same month that Titan Books will be publishing Watching the Watchmen, Dave Gibbons’ account of the creation of what is likely at this point, the most popular graphic novel of all time. The new hardcover edition will provide a deluxe presentation of the graphic novel classic at a lower price point than the $75, 464-page Absolute Edition.

Watchmen graphic novel have been building steadily since the film was announced. Watchmen was the bestselling non-manga graphic novel in American bookstores during the month of March  and sales should continue to grow as the premiere of the Watchmen movie gets closer.

Thanks to ICv2.com

…and the cool news just keeps on coming: It’s being reported from the ComicsPro meeting in Las Vegas that the original CC Beck Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil will be reprinted in 2009. As you may know, these classic stories have been collected before in a very expensive and limited quantity omnibus some years ago (1989; $135.00; America Nostalgia Library). This comes as both relief and shock. As I said when I featured Jeff Smith’s MSoE a few weeks ago, it’s about time that DC dust off the originals and get to work on reprinting some classic Golden Age works. Whether it be for an Omnibus, Showcase or a Absolute Edition, I don’t really care, I’ have been clamoring for a new edition ever since I got wind of the Shazam! Archives. Thanks to Koete for the info.

As reported a few days ago….

In SHOWCASE PRESENTS: SUPERMAN FAMILY VOL. 2 TP (NOV070244), several pages from SUPERMAN’S GIRL FRIEND LOIS LANE #2 were accidentally swapped.

DC Comics will provide retailers with new, corrected copies of this title in quantities equal to their orders to date on the current printing. Retailers will not be billed for these new copies. DC asks retailers to please dispose of any copies of SHOWCASE PRESENTS: SUPERMAN FAMILY VOL 2 TP they currently have on their shelves, and to accept returned copies from their customers in exchange for corrected copies.

The SHOWCASE PRESENTS: SUPERMAN FAMILY VOL 2 TP new printing is scheduled to arrive in stores on April 2. To differentiate it from the original printing, the logo on this cover will be red and white instead of red and yellow, and will arrive in stores under the item code JAN088359.

Or get the First Edition now while the Misprint is HOT!!!

Here is a rundown of Collected Edition news from Wonder-Con this past weekend. If you know of anymore, please e-mail them to me.

Like most of the country, it’s absolutely freezing outside and there is absolutely nothing to watch on TV. So that’s why I’m Blogging on a Sunday night. After I post this I plan on working on the Website and read a bit more of my Essential Luke Cage Volume 1. Dig It! On with tonight’s links:

• Are you picking up The Complete Peanuts from Fantagraphics? Then you may recognize the artwork from this weeks New Yorker Magazine. It’s done by the artist Seth, who does the cover designs for Peanuts.
• The Marvel Masterworks Website is reporting that Uncanny X-Men Masterworks Volume 6 is scheduled to be released February 20. I noticed that Marvel Masterworks: Ant-Man/Giant-Man Vol. 2 HC (Variant Vol. 91) is due out that day, too. No word on if that book will get pushed back, but I’m guess it will. to my recollection, I’ve never seen two Masterworks come out in the same day.  Also, Marvel Masterworks: Thor Volume 7 (Variant Volume 96) is due out in May. That book will collect Thor #153-162, 224 pages and have an introduction by comic book historian, Arlen Schumer (The Silver Age of Comic Book Art).
• The Complete Sam & Max collection Surfin’ the Highway, by Steve Purcell and Telltale, is back in print. In addition to all of the content of the 1995 original, the new edition contains 25 pages of content developed over the last two decades, bringing the page count to 197 with 45 pages in full color. The collection is available in two versions: a paperback edition, and a limited edition hardcover. Both versions are available now for pre-order purchase. The paperback will start shipping on February 25, and the hardcover is scheduled for a Spring 2008 release.
• Alan Gardner, Daily Cartoonist, reports on some upcoming daily strip collections coming out including Garfield, Zits!, For Better or For Worse and one of my current favorites, Pearls Before Swine
• More Digital Goodness: Gordon McAlpin, Comixtalk, gives some publicity to the free, yes free, first issue of the Multiplex eBook collection. It’s 36 pages long, and it collects Multiplex #1-24 plus a couple of guest strips by McAlpin, himself. Nice way to plug your book, eh? Remember free is good so go check it out.
• Review: Collected Editions Blog, on Green Lantern Corps: The Dark Side TPB. I have to be honest, I have not picked up Sinestro Corp yet. I’m waiting for the Hardcovers to come out. I think I may be this book up (and Recharge, too) to get me ready for the War.

Collected Comics Library Podcast #157

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If you’re like me, you never heard of Darwyn Cooke before DC: The New Frontier came out in 2003. Since then, however, Cooke has been on a tear, working on a wide range of projects including Batman, The Spirit, Catwoman, X-Force, Spider-Man and even Painkiller Jane. Today on the show I tell you a bit about his pre-New Frontier days and where you can find his work in collected edition form.

Also, I talk a bit on Marvel, Image, Detroit Podcasters Network and answer an e-mail about Shang-Chi Master of Kung Fu. We have a new Question of the Month in time for Valentines Day and as always I go over the New Releases of the Week.

Chris
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I’m off to the all important monthly Detroit Podcasters Network meet-up tonight. Where we’ll ponder the question,”What beers do you have on tap”? In all seriousness, the gatherings are a lot of fun and very much laid back. If you are anywhere near Detroit on the final Tuesday of any month come on by and hang out. Just check our official website to see where we’ll be. Good times and better company. On with today’s links:

• The guys at the Collected Editions blog get serious. DC Hardcovers are the topic at hand and they are fed up. And be sure to bookmark their site, new reviews are being posted all the time.
• Go Read: John Mayo, Comic Book Resources and Comic Book Page Podcast, on Sales Estimates For December, 2007 Books
• If you think that DC and Marvel are the only ones making giant collected editions get ready for the Manga version. Kevin Melrose, Blog@Newsarama, delves into the upcoming segment.
• Go Vote: Tom Brevoort and The Golden Loebs! Sounds like a Holiday Inn band. Don’t forget to tip your waitress.
• Sometimes things just go right and it makes you smile. Bob Greenberger reports that the new Chuck Dixon and Rick Burchett web comic Heroes Happen Here has launched. I’m not into web comics at all, but I’ll be reading this one everyday.
• Review: Michael May, Blog@Newsarama, on Astronaut Dad, Volume 1. I really have to pick up this book.

As I sit down to Blog today, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are in the fairway, and Rory Sabatini is whining because the group behind him hit into him. Some things never change.
Glad to see the PGA in full swing (pun intended). On with today’s links:

• Since I have made comic books a full bore hobby of mine, I have met some really wonderful people. One of whom is Bob Greenberger. Now, I never met Bob face to face, nor have I even talked with him on the phone. We’ve only e-mailed each other. Whether it was comics, baseball Star Trek or whatever, Bob has always been a wonder person and he has supported the CCL throughout the years. All that said, I want you to go read his Blog and then stop and access what is the most important thing in your life right now. Comic Books won’t be at the top of your list.
• Going to Las Vegas this weekend? Go to the Library District ComicsFest. Tell Greg Rucka I said hello!
• Kenny Penman, Forbidden Planet International, posts his favorites of 2007. The UK edition of From Hell will soon be in my home. I can’t wait, I’ve never read it.
• Tom Brevoort, Executive Editor for Marvel Comics, wants you to be positive. Just knowing that Tom has to spend his own money on oversized hardcovers gives me a chuckle.
• Tom Bondurant, Blog@Newsarama, ponders the DC Comics Solicitations for April 2008. Hard to disagree with his comparison of Tales of the Sinestro Corps and World’s Finest Deluxe Edition
• My thanks to the Collected Editions Blog and ComicList.com. I had no idea that the Green Arrow/Black Canary: The Wedding HC had been cancelled. It should get resolicited.