Superman/Batman: Greatest Stories Ever Told - Softcover

Edmond Hamilton; Jeph Loeb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845764374 ISBN 13: 9781845764371

Publisher: Titan Books Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Written by Edmond Hamilton, Jeph Loeb and others Art by Curt Swan, Ed McGuinness and others Cover by Alex Ross Collecting the best team-ups between the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight, from the pages of SUPERMAN #76, WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #142, 159, 176, 207, MAN OF STEEL #3, BATMAN & SUPERMAN: WORLD'S FINEST #7, SUPERMAN/BATMAN SECRET FILES 2003 and SUPERMAN/BATMAN ANNUAL #! Advance-solicited; on sale March 14 * 192 pg, FC, $19.99 US

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Grade 6 Up—This is one of the publisher's many recent anthologies that attempts to bridge the time line from the cheerful Golden Age versions of their characters to their contemporary incarnations. The difficulty with this, as the introduction straightforwardly acknowledges, is that DC's superhero characters have all been reset and recontextualized for a contemporary audience. So while this book begins with the first official meeting of Batman and Superman, another story of their first encounter, this one post-reboot, appears halfway through the volume. This is a jarring shift in both established history and tone, as the previous half of the volume consists of tales of chummy collaboration between the two heroes. The post-reboot stories begin as solemn and pensive, but the volume closes with a welcome madcap adventure, a deliberately antic retelling of the story that opens the volume. The book is hard to classify in terms of its intended audience. On the one hand, it contains valuable historical comics that would otherwise be unavailable to today's readers, but on the other, the substance and tone of the earlier stories are so radically different from modern comics that they emphasize their datedness. However, the final story in the volume works so much better when one can also see its historical context. There's an interesting jumble of talent here, but perhaps the scope covered prevents these stories from feeling as great as the publisher claims they are.—Benjamin Russell, Belmont High School, NH
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About this edition

• Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1845764374
• ISBN 13: 9781845764371
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Curt Swan, Ed McGuinness