The right audience will enjoy this

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	• Batman Chronicles, Vol. 3 Bob Kane, Bill Finger DC Comics, 2007 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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The right audience will enjoy this

Calling this "good" would be an enormous stretch. Bill Finger's writing is pedestrian and formulaic, and Bob Kane's art is blocky and awkward. Most of the plots make little to no sense and the "detective" elements are pretty weak.

Still, there's something kind of charming about all of this. Several of the stories - including my favorite, "Book of Enchantment" - are just plain ludicrous. The idea of Batman and Robin using a machine to enter a book of fairy tales, where they fight giants and a dragon, is not even plausibly related to the Gothic detective elements that generally make up these early Batman stories, but it's sheer manic fun anyway. Through the course of this volume, Batman fights the Joker twice, Clayface once, two separate witches, and a bunch of pirates. Again, none of it makes any sense, but the Golden Age-y exuberance - right down to the bad puns and sound-effect words - is infectious.

I'm also quite fond of the casual violence. Finger and Kane seem to have no trouble with the idea that Batman leaves behind a wake of mad destruction on the path of justice. More often than not, that means the criminals shooting each other in the madness of battle, but Batman doesn't seem to have any major objections to tossing people off of buildings or cliffs either. And the best part is that it isn't even written in a more modern "gritty" sense; Batman is pretty good-natured in the act of sending his enemies to their deaths.

For most people, this is probably pretty tedious and forgettable stuff. For the Batman or Golden Age fan, though, there's a lot of fun to be had here.

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A must have collection

The third installment of the Batman Chronicles series. The series that prsent, in chronological order, every single Batman story ever published.

The thrid volume of the series includes the following stories:

(1) Professor Strange's fear dust (Detective Comics #46, 1940)
(2) Money can't buy happiness (Detective Comics #47, 1941)
(3) The case of the Joker's crime circus (Batman #4, 1941)
(4) Blackbeard's crew and the yacht society (Batman #4, 1941)
(5) Public enemy #1 (Batman #4, 1941)
(5) Victory of the dynamic duo (Batman #4, 1941)
(6) The secert cavern (Detective Comics #48, 1941)
(7) Clayface walks again (Detective Comics #49, 1941)
(8) The case of the tree deviles (Detective Comics #50, 1941)
(9) The riddle of the missing card (Batman #5, 1941)
(10) Book of enchantment (Batman #5, 1941)
(11) The case of the honest crook (Batman #5, 1941)
(12) Crime does not pay (Batman #5, 1941)
(13) The witch and the manuscriot of doom (World's Best Comics #1, 1941)

The Batman Chronicles series is a must have collection. If anyone interested in the expensive ARCHIVES EDITIONS (THE DARK KNIGHT ARCHIVES) or (THE BATMAN ARCHIVES), now you have the chronicles series that reprints all those stories in the archive editions and make them available in affordable paper back volumes.

The 6th volume coming soon, and the 7th will be available in March 2009, I can't wait to get them.

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The first two volumes of BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE explored the many sides of the Dark Knight in stories written and illustrated by some of comics' greatest talents.

Now, DC Comics presents a new collection of BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE tales, featuring visions of Batman in stories by Brian Azzarello (100 BULLETS), Darwyn Cooke (DC: THE NEW FRONTIER), Judd Winick (OUTSIDERS, GREEN ARROW), Jill Thompson (THE SANDMAN), Michael Kaluta (FABLES: 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL) and many others.

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