/co/ - Comics & Cartoons

I second the Swan/Schaffenberger “Superman Family” era.

Gil Kane’s early Green Lantern comics are a lot of fun.

I wish DC would put out Archie-style digests of this stuff. I can buy thousand-page compilations of old Archies at the grocery store for like ten bucks, why not this stuff???

>>1012566

Any good omnibuses or TPBs that collect O'Neil's Batman?

>>1012596

We used to have collections like that in Australia, from Federal Press. They would collect Marvel and DC comics in black and white anthologies, magazine or little pocket sized.

I really learned to appreciate B&W art from reading all the old Lee/Kirby and then-current Mantlo/Byrne Fantastic Four that way. Confused the fuck out of me seeing the Beast as a guy with big feet in X-Men and a furry guy with Wolverine hair in the Avengers at the same time, though.

I'd add the original Doom Patrol, and Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson on Swamp Thing, Kirby's Mr Miracle, the Forever People, Levitz/Giffen Legion of Super Heroes, Kirby on Jimmy Olsen, Marshall Rogers and Denny O'Neil on Batman, Walt Simonson's Manhunter, Kamandi the Last Boy, and Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow.

>>1012596

>I wish DC would put out Archie-style digests of this stuff. I can buy thousand-page compilations of old Archies at the grocery store for like ten bucks, why not this stuff???

Same reason they eventually shuttered the Showcase B&W line: selling that much material cheaply is still expensive, they'd be eating the costs for every book.