Counting Comics - Part 10

My count at the moment is - 

DC = 2249

Marvel = 53

Others = 27

There's a heck of a lot of comics in this batch, these were the last regular books I bought back in 2013 and they were never sorted into their proper piles so it's a bit of a mish-mash of titles. Some of them got a bit damaged and curled up. I went to a comic shop I never knew was nearby and bought a couple of longboxes and some comic covers. I also bought a couple of new 'birthday books' see my blog about them HERE

My mate gave me some old comics he owned too and I got an Ebay buy which I take a look at HERE

I did a lucky dip buy on Ebay too HERE

After adding the books from these 3 blogs to my count I get
DC = 2286
Marvel = 59
Others = 53



Flash (2011 - 2013)

0 - 9, 11 - 14, 16, 17
Barry Allen is Flash is this New 52 book, I don't really have many memories of this era of DC comics, I was losing interest thanks to various factors going on at the time, not all comics related. I'll have to give these another read sometime I think. The art as ever is cool still.

Flash Annual (2012)

Captain Atom (2011 - 2012)

0 - 12

This seems to have been the full run of Captain Atom here, it's a shame such a well know character couldn't run to a longer story arc. Mind you this is a new take on the hero with a new origin and slightly different powers. It's not the 1st reimagining he's had though, starting out as scientist Allen Adam in Charlton comics created by writer Joe Gill and artist/co-writer Steve Ditko, and first appearing in Space Adventures #33 (March 1960). When DC acquired the rights he became Airforce pilot Nathaniel Adam, when he had his own book following on from Crisis on Infinite Earths, he also became the villain Monarch for a while and was even reimagined entirely as the character Breach.

Batman Unseen (2010)

3, 4

Batgirl (2000 - 2006)

1 -  73
The Cassandra Cain character was created by writer Kelley Puckett and penciler Damion Scott. She first appeared in Batman #567 (July 1999). Apparently this was the 1st on-going Batgirl book.

Batgirl Annual # 1 (2000)

Batgirl (2008 - 2009)

1 - 6

Batgirl

14, 15, 16

Cassandra Cain is the fourth Batgirl. Born with the assassins David Cain and Lady Shiva as her parents, she was conceived and trained from birth with the intention of creating the perfect bodyguard for Ra's al Ghul. Her father deprived her of speech so she would learn movement and physicality as her first language. Batman adopted her into the Batman Family during No Man's Land, to replace Helena Bertinelli as Batgirl. Cassandra would eventually turn her Batgirl costume over to Stephanie Brown, and become a member of Batman Incorporated as Black Bat. She later takes up the name Orphan.

DC Universe Presents:

Deadman/Challengers of the Unknown (2011 - 2012)

1 - 8
This was a bit confusing, I thought I had 2 titles there Deadman and Challengers but I realise now that both were under the DCU Presents banner. With the New 52 Deadman's story has a few tweaks to it, in this he had led a selfish life and after being killed he is made to atone by possessing people and setting things right in their lives to avoid being sent to Hell.

Nightmaster: Monsters of Rock (2011)

Nightmaster is forced to confront his enemy Lord Meh for the fate of Myrra and his Shadowpact teammates. Unfortunately Nightmaster is followed by an annoying, aging fan from his hippie rock star days. haha this makes me laugh as a big heavy metal fan my 1st ever gig was the Monsters of Rock 1988 with Iron Maiden headlining!!

Reign of Doomsday: Steel #1 (2011)

A plot by Lex Luthor to use some Doomsdays to hunt down the 4 Supers who stood in for Superman when he died; Steel, Superboy, Eradicator and the Cyborg Superman. I'm not sure if I ever got the rest of the story of this arc as it crossed into quite a few books.

I, Vampire (2012)

7, 8

These characters 1st appeared in House of Mystery, this New 52 book ran for 20 issues. I can't remember anything about it I am sure I only got these as they crossed over with a book I was reading.

Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing (2011)

1 - 3
I don't recall this comic at all, apparently Alec Holland is back alive and Constantine wants to find and reunite him with The Green as Swamp Thing.

Flashpoint (2011)

4, 5
I think the rest of these must be in my Flash pile, which I am sure will be in the next Counting Comics video, I will go into some detail about it then.

Green Latern: New Guardians (2011 - 2013)

0 - 16

The team consists of representatives of each of the Corps that tap into a particular portion of the emotional spectrum. Its original members were Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern Corps), Arkillo (Sinestro Corps), Bleez (Red Lantern Corps), Glomulus (Orange Lantern Corps), Munk (Indigo Tribe), Saint Walker(Blue Lantern Corps) and Fatality (Star Sapphires). The group disbands in issue #0 (September 2012), and reforms in issue #13 with Kyle Rayner, Arkillo and new members Carol Ferris and Atrocitus. Larfleeze joins in issue #15.

War of the Green Lanterns: Aftermath (2011)

1 - 2

Green Lantern (2011)

67

Green Lantern Emerald Warriors (2011)

7, 12

There's a few books here that should have been put away properly a long time ago instead of sitting on a shelf for 5 years!!

Green Lantern Corps (2011 - 2013)

old - 61 - 63

new 52 - 0 - 16

Annual #1

Green Lantern (2011 - 2013)

0 - 16

Annual #1 (2012)
This comes after Flashpoint and a war of Green Lanterns I think and Hal Jordan is kicked out of the Corps and replaced by Sinestro!! What??!! Really!! Guardians of Oa, you really are rather silly little blue twits aren't you??!!

Red Lanterns (2011 - 2013)

0 - 16 (2x#12)
I love Dex-Starr the Rage Lanterns cat, but I wouldn't want to get on it's bad side!!

Teen Titans (2011)

91

Titans (2010)

27

Teen Titans  (2013)

15, 16

I don't know where all my Titans books are, they must've gone into a long box somewhere, but I'll get to them soon enough and put these lone books with their families!

Secret Six (2011)

29, 32 - 36

Jusice Society of America (2011)

53, 54

Justice League of America (2011)

59, 60

These are another bunch of books that should have been put in with the rest of their run years ago, but I finally got around to it now,

Justice League (2011 - 2013)

0 - 14

Justice League Dark (2011 - 2013)

0 - 1, 3 - 16

Annual # 1 (2012)

Justice League Dark originally featured John Constantine, Madame Xanadu, Deadman, Shade, the Changing Man, and Zatanna. The team consists of the more supernatural members of the DC Universe, handling situations deemed outside the scope of the traditional Justice League.

JLA + The 99 (2010 - 2011)

1 - 6

Teshkeel Media Group, is a company that has been publishing select Arabic translations of DC Comics since 2006. The 99 is a superteam, created by Naif Al-Mutawa and published by Teshkeel Comics, featuring a team of superheroes with special abilities based on the 99 attributes of Allah in Islam. The 2 teams join up to help out when a series of earthquakes rock the City of Tomorrow in the Arabian peninsula.

Before Watchmen (2012 - 2013)

Ozymandias 1 - 6

Silk Spectre 1 - 4

Rorschach 1 - 4

Moloch 1- 2

Dollar Bill  1

Nite Owl 1 - 4

Minutemen 1 - 6

Dr. Manhatten 1 - 4

Comedian 1 - 6
This set totals to 37 books with a set of mini-series all based as prequels to the 1986 12-issue Watchmen series. There was some controversary with people thinking that the Watchmen series was sacrosanct and shouldn't ever be messed with, I suspect more people were excited to see these characters in brand new stories. I was kind of excited but I'm not too sure they lived up to the hype but that just might've been my over expectation of them.

Earth 2 (2012 - 2013)

0 - 9

This series takes place in a parallel Earth known as Earth 2, where super-heroes are known as Wonders of the World. Additionally, the people of Earth 2 have re-imagined back-stories, powers, and characteristics to that of their Prime Earth counterparts.

Batman Detective Comics (2011 - 2013)

old run

879 - 881

New 52

0 - 16 (2x#15)

Annual

Batman (2011 - 2013)

0 - 2, 4 - 14, 16, 17

Annual

Brightest Day (2010 - 2011)

0 - 24

The Atom Special (2010)

Green Arrow #7

Untold Tales of Blackest Night # 1 (2010)

The series follows the thirteen heroes and villains who were resurrected at the end of the Blackest Night readjusting to returning to life. This includes Aquaman, Captain Boomerang, Deadman, Firestorm, Hawk, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Jade, Martian Manhunter, Max Lord, Osiris and Professor Zoom.

Justice League International (2011 - 2012)

1 - 12

Annual (2012)

I think this is the whole run of this book.

Hellblazer 

276, 281 - 299

Annual 2011

I went through some of these books in an earlier video/blog and here is the ending of this series although I don't have 300!! Grrrrr!!! I can only imagine my comic shop messed up my books, I have a few doubles from this era too thanks to them. 😕

Blue Beetle (2011 - 2013)

0 - 2, 4 - 16

This is volume 9 of Blue Beetle!! There've certainly been quite a few runs of Beetle books, he's probably had more that some of the more well know heroes. This is the 3rd BB Jaime Reyes, I'm not sure if Ted Kord is around in the New 52 I think he might've been another Blue Beetle in a Charlton Comics universe. I'd like to have seen a set of books starring those guys, BB, The Question, Captain Atom, Judo Master, Nightshade, Peace Maker and Peter Cannon: Thunderbolt.

The Savage Hawkman (2011 - 2013)

0 - 14
Carter Hall is Hawkman here.

Red Hood and the Outlaws # 1

Stormwatch

3, 7

DC Comics The New 52 # 1

The New 52 # 1

The New 52 

DC Universe Presents # 0

Suicide Squad # 14

Batman and Robin (2011 - 2013)

0 - 1, 3 - 16
From 18 onwards the book had Batman teaming up with other members of the Bat-family after Robin, his son Damien Wayne is killed in Batman, Inc #8 battling the Heretic.

Knight & Squire (2010 - 2011)

1 - 6
This is a great look at the United Kingdom in the DC Universe. Hey it's a book based in my city, London!! Yay!! There are some cool, slightly hokey characters involed but it's a bit of fun, there is a team of evil cricketers called the 1st Eleven 😄 Shame this isn't an ongoing series!!

Demon Knights (2011 - 2013)

0 - 14 (2x#13)

Hey this has got Etrigan the Demon in it, damn right I had to buy it.

Set in ancient times this group of fantastic adventurers led by Madam Xanadu and Jason Blood (Etrigan's host), is the beginning of the modern day team Stormwatch. The team also had Vandal Savage, Shining Knight, The Horsewoman, Al Jabr and Exoristos.

Batman Hidden Treasures

Batman/Catwoman: Follow the Money

Batman Incorporated #1

Hawk & Dove (2011)
1, 2

This book only ran for 8 issues, which is really bad, but I have no idea why I only have the 2 issues? I didn't cancel it as I loved those characters, so I have no idea what went on there!

Batman/Superman

86, 87

Futurama Comics #31

Joker's Asylum: Two-Face #1

I am sure I got the whole set of these, so why I only have one here is a mystery and why it was dirty in a sleeve with a Futurama comic that I never collected is an even bigger mystery!

Catwoman #14

Batwoman

0, 7

Batman Orphans

1, 2

Batman Gotham Knights (2000 - 2006)

1 - 74

The original intent of this book was to feature the exploits of Batman and his extended family, such as Alfred Pennyworth, Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin, Oracle, and Catwoman, among others. The latter section of the run, however, came to focus much more upon his enemies.

The series also featured the popular "Batman: Black and White" back-up strip, which allowed various artists with widely varying styles to do their take on the Dark Knight in a black and white format. These back-up strips are also collected in trade paperbackform.

So my calculator makes that 573 DC comics, though to be honest I came up with 3 different answers thanks to all the doubles and 0 numbers! I gave up and just decided that number is close enough!

So that leaves me with a total so far of

DC = 2859

Marvel = 59

Others = 53

Come back next week when I'll be fudging figures and talking about more of my comics!!

The Dark Knight and the Albino Antihero

It was my birthday recently and I've started on a bit of a comic collecting bug again and here's a couple of little sets I picked up recently.

1st up here's a little run, the 1st 13 issues of Legends of the Dark Knight Vol. 2 from 2012 - 13 and I've just discovered when looking that this was the whole run! I just went through Vol. 1 of this title on a recent Counting Comics blog/video which ran for over 200 issues so I am surprised this run fell about 200 short of that run.

Also, in what I think is a great story, my mate Elric gave me his run of Elric comics!! I've read a few of the Michael Moorcock books featuring the character and I even read a story of him in an issue of Marvel's mature anthology book 'Epic' back in the late 80's I think. I may have misspoke in the video where I discussed Moorcock's link to the Space Rock band Hawkwind, it has something to do with the art I am sure but I can't remember what the link was exactly!

Elric first appeared in print in Moorcock's novella "The Dreaming City" (Science Fantasy No. 47, June 1961). Moorcock's doomed albino antihero is one of the better known in fantasy literature, having crossed over into a wide variety of media, such as role-playing games, comics, music, and film. The stories have been continuously in print since the 1970s.

Aha! According to Wikipedia -

The Chronicle of the Black Sword is a 1985 album by UK space rock band Hawkwind. Moorcock and Hawkwind had, at this stage, collaborated a number of times. An expanded live album, Live Chronicles, was released in 1986. This included several spoken-word interludes by author Moorcock in his capacity as on-stage narrator. The live show also included a mime artist portraying Elric himself. A video concert film entitled The Chronicle of the Black Sword appeared on VHS and later on DVD.

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My Birthday Books - 2

I managed to pick up some more of my 'birthday books', these are comics that came out the same month that I did September 1969.
Check out my 1st blog on this HERE

I went to a local comic shop that I had no idea was even there!! When I posted up a previous videos a guy from the band Void asked if I shopped there and I never knew it existed despite the fact it's been there 20 years or something!!

I recognised the owner as he had a stall at Walthamstow market and I'd seen him there once or twice. I recall he recommended the Astro City books to me years ago and you can see I like them as I mentioned them in a YouTube channel competition HERE

Here's the video of my latest 'Birthday book' plus some 50p bargain books that I also picked up.

Adventure Comics #384

Story - Cary Bates

Art - Win Mortimer, Jack Abel

Cover - Curt Swan, Murphy Anderson

Grade - VG+

This was a cool daft read with Supergirl using the Fortress of Solitude computer as a dating tool to pick the ideal partner for her. It finds Volar of the planet Torma so she flies off to meet him. The planet is very misogynistic with women viewed as far inferior to men, the people boo her for helping them! No spoilers but the relationship does not pan out. 😁

Justice League of America #74

Story - Dennis O'Neil

Art - Dick Dillin, Sid Greene

Cover - Neal Adams

Grade - VG

With Earth 2 close to destruction and the Justice Society of America - Superman (Kal-L), Dr. Fate, Green Lantern (Alan Scott), Wonder Woman (Diana Trevor), Dr. Mid-Nite, Black Canary (Dinah Drake Lance)- close to death the Justice League of America of Earth 1 made up of The Atom (Ray Palmer), Batman, Flash (Barry Allen), Green Arrow, Green Lantern (Hal Jordan), Hawkman and Superman rush to the rescue. When they arrive the villain Aquarius uses his powers to force the JSA to attack their Earth 1 JLA allies.

Daredevil #56

 Story - Roy Thomas

Art - Gene Colan, Syd Shores

Cover - Gene Colan

Grade - FN-

This is my 1st Marvel one of my 'birthday books' I was going to get the DC books 1st but the comic shop had this one in so I snapped it up. I have to say I did enjoy this book, it seemed more sophisticated than the DC ones with a more serious tone. It wasn't without faults but it was pretty cool. A nice mention of H. P. Lovecraft that always works for me and a ghostly villain called Death's Head.

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YouTube comic competition videos - 1

The comic community on YouTube seem to have a few channel competitions so I thought I'd enter a few to try and make some friends and try and get some new people to check out my videos.

Metarog 
For his competition Metarog wanted to see entrants idea of a dream book/story and to specify who will write, and do interior and cover art


CWoodard19
For this competition I had to say favourite writer, favourite story and an underrated story.


Daz the Key Chaser
For this competition I had to say my most valuable DC book, most valuable Marvel book, most valuable indy book and my best buy of 2018

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Lucky Dip Trio - Was I lucky?

So I was alternately browsing EBay whilst watching videos of people's awesome comic collections on YouTube and I was getting all antsy for new comics. I saw a sale which was effectively a lucky dip, for £13.99 I think you'd get sent 3 books mainly $1 value books but with some nice silver age ones thrown into the mix so there would be a chance of getting something good. So I thought I'd take a gamble and buy one. Here's what I got, I'm not sure how good or bad a deal I got. What do you think?

Blackhawk #146 (March 1st, 1960)

"Menace of the Scorpion"

Dick Dillin - Cover, Penciler

Sheldon Moldoff - Inker

Jack Schiff - Editor

I've never owned any books that were older than I am. In fact I'd only just hit on the idea of buying/collecting my 'Birthday Books', comics that are cover dated for September 1969, that 1st saw the light of day at the same time as I did, so to speak. So this book from 1960 is a very pleasant surprise for me and I am pretty happy with this lot already. The quality is not fantastic, I don't know grades really but I am fairly happy. Looking at Mycomicshop.com a 2.5 of this book is going for $9 so that's not bad at all I think. I am wondering if the code at the top looks like it could be $18 maybe?

Giant-Size Spider-Man and Doc Savage #3 (Jan 1975)

Gerry Conway - Writer

Gil Kane - Cover, Penciler

Mike Esposito - Inker

Lester Dent - Other (??)

Ross Andru - Artist, Penciler

I am starting to learn about 'key' books, important, normally 1st appearances of characters, if this book had been #4 it would have been quite valuble as Punisher's 3rd appearance apparently! This one looks in pretty good exterior condition but looking inside I think the staples are rather suspect, I think this comic may have been stapled and then reglued to the cover! Have a look at the video and see what you think!! Maybe the 'bro' written on the plastic sleeve stands for broken! It's a shame but the book story looks pretty cool, with a bit of a time-warping tale from the 70's to the 30's, I can't wait to have a read of it. I have contacted the seller to enquire as books were all meant to be at least GD condition and I'm not sure that this counts. This book's never had a reprint as Marvel no longer have the rights to the Doc Savage franchise!

Heroes Reborn: Rebel #1 (January 2000)

Joe Kelly - Writer

Matt Haley - Penciler/Cover

Mark Bernardo - Penciler

Mark Bagley - Penciler

Scott Koblish - Penciler

I know nothing about this character at all, this book is from a period long after I stopped collecting Marvel. I read online that this had the death of Crossbones in it but it's some alternate world version, apparently Franklin Reed created a whole new dimension world to save the Fantastic Four at one point. This seems to be signed by Joe Kelly, a writer who's name didn't register with me but he's worked for Marvel & DC with succesful runs on Deadpool, Daredevil, X-men, Superman & JLA. He's also part of a team that created the Ben 10 cartoon character! That's pretty cool, I am happy with that, I don't know if it's a genuine signature, (is faking them much of a thing even?), but I'm going to trust that it is and that makes this my 1st ever signed book so I am happy with that 😁. 

So overall I am quite happy with this lot, a nice old comic, a poorly fixed but cool looking comic and my 1st signed book! I doubt they'll be worth anything but I think I maybe got my money's worth. It was a bit of fun anyway.

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Geek Tee Friday - Batman/Cthulhu

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Here is a crossover shirt featuring two of my favourite things, Batman, the dark knight of justice, the vigilante guardian of Gotham City in the DC Comics Universe and Cthulhu, dread Cthulhu, he who darkens the sun, the ancient, the anti-god, lord of the unholy ones!!! I was quoting some song lyrics there about Cthulhu by Ripping Corpse but they do sum him (it) up quite nicely.

Cthulhu is I suppose the chief diety of the pantheon of Great Old Ones, an ancient race of powerful alien dieties who ruled the Earth when it was still young before entering into death-like slumber. Deranged human & inhuman Cultists pray to Cthulhu, awaiting the time when "the stars are right" and he will arise again from his sunken underwater city R'lyeh. When cultists gather the chant "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" ("In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming") is invoked.

Cthulhu is described as looking like a mix of an octopus and a dragon and was created by American author H. P. Lovecraft, 1st appearing in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.

Batman 1st appeared 11 years later, 1939 in Detective Comics #27. Created by artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger. When young Bruce Wayne witnesses the murder of his parents he vows to fight crime and protect the innocent. He dedicates his life to training himself to the pinnacle of physical and intellectual ability and takes on the mantle of the bat, as "criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible..."

The main connection I can think of between the works of Lovecraft and that of Batman is Arkham Asylum. In Lovecraft's literature Arkham is a town in Massachusetts where many of his stories are set. His story characters often end up in the town sanitarium as looking into the cosmic terrors of the Cthulhu mythos can be too much for the fragile human mind, realisation of our place within the cosmic pecking order can snap the psyches of men. Arkham was 1st mentioned in Lovecraft's short story "The Picture in the House" (1920) with the sanitarium appearing 1st in "The Thing on the Doorstep" (1933). In Batman Arkham Asylum is also a well known place, many of Batman's unhinged foes end up there. Arkham Asylum first appeared in Batman #258 (Oct. 1974), written by Dennis O'Neil with art by Irv Novick.

Batman has also had some more direct contact with the Cthulhu Mythos with "The Doom that Came to Gotham" a 3 part Elseworlds tale set in the 1920's that has Bruce Wayne and companions encounter with things that should not be. Written and drawn by Mike Mignola of Hellboy fame the books were released from late 2000 - early 2001.
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My birthday goodies

Another year older but at least I got some goodies to soften the blow!! 😃

New threads!!

Twilight Zone T-shirt

and Batman lounge pants!!

I've been doing some Twilight Zone themed shows with my heavy metal High Speed Hangover Podcast so this T-shirt was a must have for my geeky collection.

I also made sure to stay up to date with my superhero film collection, I got these two films and Infinity War is in the post too! I think I saw all of these at the cinema but it's nice to add them to my library.

Then for comics I got the next 3 books of the collected Saga series by Brian K Vaughn and Fiona Staples, I got the 1st two for Christmas and really enjoyed them so I am looking forward to reading these. Check out my review of the 1st two volumes HERE.

Then for classic comics I got this great book of Hawk & Dove, I think this is the initial run of Hank & Don Hall the brothers who became Hawk & Dove that ran from September 1968 to June/July 1969. The characters were created by legend Steve Ditko and Steve Skeates and debuted in Showcase #75 in June 1968. I've just checked the book notes and it features all these books, the debut, the 6-parter mini-series and an appearance in Teen Titans #21. I've gotta say I was stoked to get this book, I read the 80's series, if memory serves me correctly there was a mini in '88 with art by Rob Liefeld (this was the name I couldn't remember from the video) and an on-going book from '89 by Karl & Barbara Kesel. Dove had died during Crisis on Infinite Earths and was replaced by Dawn Granger.

I also bought myself a few presents, I've hit on the plan to buy comics that are cover dated for the month/year that I was born, so all from September 1969. Here's the video I did of these books and check out the full blog too for more info.

I also got some non-geeky music, a couple of CDs one from my mate Vik Bub of his band Gore Shriek and the other of Corpus Mortale who I saw at a Death Metal all-dayer years ago where I was dressed up as Santa giving away presents to the punters!!

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Counting Comics - Part 9

So I started today's count with

DC = 1972

Marvel = 53

Others = 27

I bought myself some birthday books too, which I did a blog about HERE, go check it out, some nice books. 

So that's another 5 to add to my count

And now onto today's count

Trinity

1 - 52

Trinity was a weekly year-long event, similar to 52 (Volume 1) and Countdown (Volume 1), which ran from June 2008 - July 2009. Written by Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza, with art by Mark Bagley, Scott McDaniel, Tom Derenick, and Mike Norton. Like 52, but unlike Countdown, it is an entirely self-contained story. Unlike either of its predecessors, which focused on the lesser developed characters of the DC universe this revolves around the relationship between the DCU Trinity, the Big Three, Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Its publication also coincides with that of Final Crisis.

Each issue of Trinity has two stories; the main one, focusing on the Trinity themselves, and the backup, focusing on other characters involved in the overall storyline. The main story is written by Busiek, with art by Bagley, (this was his 1st book with DC after a long Marvel run), while the backup has Busiek and Nicieza co-plotting, Nicieza scripting, and a number of art teams.

In 2016, as part of the DC Rebirth, DC Comics launched a second Trinity comic book series featuring Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knights

0 - 144, 146 - 214

Annuals

1,2, 4 - 7

As mentioned in the video this is an anthology book with different creative teams working on stories, varying in length from 1 to 5 parts. The series takes inspiration from Batman: Year One and the stories are generally set in the early years of the character's career. It also does not follow any sort of chronological order as the stories could be set at any point in Batman's past. Generally, the stories are not specific about the time period they take place in and do not reference anything in the larger DC Universe history. It also, for the most part, eschewed appearances by other DC universe characters save for Batman, Alfred Pennyworth, Commissioner Gordon, and Batman's rogues gallery. Ostensibly, the stories are part of Batman's Post-Crisis continuity but are written in a way that avoids pigeonholing them into anything specific. Hardly any of the stories are referenced in other comics with perhaps the only exception is Venom which formed as the basis for the creation of the villain, Bane.

(I pretty much just copied and pasted that straight from dc.wikia.com, cos I was feeling lazy)

Anyway after today's count I have -

DC = 2249

Marvel = 53

Others = 27

I also need to report that I found another stack of long boxes that I'd forgotten about!! I can't recall if it was 5 or 6 boxes but it rather pleased me anyway!

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My Birthday Books - 1

So if you watched the video you'll know that for my birthday I hit upon the notion of starting to collect comic books that came out in September 1969 the month that I was born!! The idea being that these books were first clutched in their original owners grubby mitts at the same time that my mum and dad were picking me up for the 1st time and thinking, "Oh damn, what have we done??!"

So here's the books that I picked up as a birthday present to myself

Flash #191 

  

Story - John Broome

Art - Ross Andru & Mike Esposit

Cover - Joe Kubert

Graded FN+ 6.5

I ordered this off Ebay from SilverAcre Comics and it arrived on time and in good condition as far as I can see. Hal Jordan is visiting Barry & Iris for dinner and they've invited Olivia Reynolds along who Hal already knows as a rival toys salesperson. She debuted in this month's Green Lantern book #71 (See below) She later has a relationship with Hal, becomes a supervillain for a short time and goes on to have a romance with Icemaiden.

Batman #215

Story - Frank Robbins

Art - Irv Novick & Dick Giordano

Graded GD+ 2.5 (not anymore!)

The next lot of books in my blog all came from Mycomicshop.com

Oh my god, I am a clumsy idiot, I just damaged the book's cover putting it away after reading it. The very sticky sellotape stuck to the poor old cover and scuffed it in two places. These old covers are not as robust as the more modern comics it seems. I must be more careful in future, curse my stupidity!! 

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In this story Bruce Wayne has been nobbled along with the other members of the Civic Conscience Council with some manner of mind control!! Can Batman identify the villain and can Robin & Alfred stop him from destroying his ancestral home? This was a cool enough story but he practically gives away his secret identity but nothing is made of it??

Atom and Hawkman #44

Cover - Joe Kubert

Graded VG- 3.5

Hawkman

Story - Robert Kanigher

Art - Murphy Anderson

Well, that surprised me I thought the guys were teaming up in the book as partners but this is 2 separate self-contained stories instead. I am not sure if they ever did buddy up as partners in this book's run or if every issue went like this. In Hawkman's half of the book he and his wife Hawkgirl, (she doesn't deserve a title credit?), tangle with the Gentleman Ghost in a cool story. They spend most of the story bickering like old married couples sometimes do, which is pretty funny and is definitely a tale you wouldn't see in the comics today 😂

Atom

Story - Denny O'Neil

Art - Dick Dillin & Sid Greene

Ray Palmer stops a German college professor from being harassed as a Nazi by students. Atom helps the man to clear his name after he destroys his lab because he'd seen a monster. Ray travels into microscopic realms to battle the creature which has plans to invade our world using Ray's own size-changing energies.

Green Lantern - #71

Cover - Gil Kane

Graded - VG/FN 5.0

The City That Died

Story - John Broome

Art - Gil Kane & Joe Giella

Hal meets Olivia Reynolds a rival toy salesperson who uses her feminine assets to beat him to a sale. It's funny and so un-PC, this kind of antiquated story/idea is what makes old comics so much fun, to see how things have changed over the decades, it's cool. Some radiation from deep underground is sapping energy from the city, 1st from cars and machines and then from people themselves. Hal has to use all his willpower to identify and eliminate the problem.

A Green Lantern Brothers Story

Story - John Broome

Art - Dick Dillin & Murphy Anderson

This was quite a fun story, the Jordan family are having a party when the troublesome hippy black sheep of the family "Hip" turns up intent on stealing whatever he can get. Hal's sister in law Sue is convinced that her husband (Hal's Brother) James is Green Lantern and orders him to don the costume and confront Hip. Hal has to end up saving him and does so managing to maintain his secret identity whilst Sue is left even more convinced that her husband is Green Lantern.

Detective Comics # 391

Graded - GD/VG 3.0

Batman "The Gal Most Likely to be..Batman's Widow"

Story - Frank Robbins

Art - Bob Brown & Joe Giella

This book stars Batman & Robin but not in a story together. This must be from the time period that Robin (Dick Grayson) leaves to go to college. In the lead story Ginny Jenkins has unwittingly become the front for a mob extortion scam on restaurants. Her ex-beau Tim Clark works at a gym and learns of the mob's scheme he tries to warn her but she doesn't believe him so he dresses as Batman to try and rescue her. Luckily the real Batman is on hand to save both of them.

Robin "Strike!"

Story - Mike Friedrich

Art - Gil Kane & Murphy Anderson

A teacher's strike threatens Gotham High and gangsters nobble the negotiator. Robin tracks them to their hideout and dishes out some fisticuff justice.

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So that's my 1st purchase of some birthday books, comics that were born at the same time that I was. I might start a podcast about these too actually, might be a bit of fun, watch this space and I'll see what happens. I definitely intend to carry on buying these 'birthday books' for myself. I'm not sure if I'll be able to afford them all but right now I suppose the main goal, what I think is called a grail book, is to get Captain America #117 to own the 1st appearance of the Falcon a superhero who kind of shares his birthday with me. Has anyone got one they want to sell?

 Samuel Thomas Wilson, known as the Falcon, was the first African-American superhero in mainstream comic books, and also the first black superhero not to have the word "black" as part of his superhero name. He has a pet Falcon Redwing that he has a natural affinity with and was created by Stan Lee and artist Gene Colan.

Stop the presses!!!

I was just researching some more 'birthday books' and found another comic book character born in the same month/year as me! Vampirella over at Warren comics! 

For those not aware Vampirella is a comic book vampire superheroine created by Forrest J Ackerman and comic book artist Trina Robbins in Warren Publishing's black-and-white horror comics magazine Vampirella #1 (September 1969). She started off as kind of a Tales of the Crypt "Cryptkeeper" type of character introducing horror stories before writer-editor Archie Goodwin developed the character into a horror-drama leading character.

Her 1st appearance is even more expensive than Falcon's!! Looks like I have some saving to do! I actually own some Vampirella proper books, not comics, that I bought ages ago, it was the 1st time I knew of the character, I might have to give them another read soon.

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