(W) BILL FINGER (A) Bob Kane (CA) Evan Shaner
This fifth volume of BATMAN: THE GOLDEN AGE collects more of the Dark Knight Detective's adventures from the late 1940s, including battles with evildoers including The Joker, the Penguin and Catwoman, plus a tale in which the Caped Crusaders join Robin Hood's band of merry men. Collects DETECTIVE COMICS #75-81, BATMAN #16-20 and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #10-11.
DC COMICS BEFORE SUPERMAN MAJ WHEELER NICHOLSON PULP COMICS
Before Batman and Superman were even a glimmer in BILL FINGER and Jerry Siegel's eyes, Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson created National Allied Publications, which would then go on to become DC Comics; one of the largest comic publishers in the world. This groundbreaking book explores the history of DC Comics before it became the behemoth we know today; the pulp stories that formed the basis for all the different kinds of comics that exist today. Titles included in this historical reprint include Barry O'Neill and Fang Gow (script: Wheeler-Nicholson; art: Leo O'Mealia), Blood Pearls (script: Wheeler-Nicholson; art: Munson Paddock), Foe of the Borgias (script and art: Sven Elven), The Golden Dragon (script and art- Tom Hickey), and more! All the comics included in this tome have been painstakingly reproduced and repaired to show how they would have looked back in the 1930s; and also included are all the pulps that the comics were based on! With an essay from Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson on the formation of National Allied Publications, an introduction by Jim Steranko, and an afterward by comics historian Tom Andrae.
SUPERMAN SILVER AGE NEWSPAPER DAILIES HC #2
1961-1963
(W) Jerry Siegel (A) Wayne Boring (CA) Peter Poplaski
Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye provide the artwork, and once again, Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel scripts adaptations of stories that first appeared in comic books. Siegel and Boring offer alternate versions of now classic stories originally written by Siegel himself, BILL FINGER, Edmond Hamilton, and Leo Dorfman-and drawn in comic books by Curt Swan, Al Plastino, Kurt Schaffenberger, and Boring himself.