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Post by badwolf on Aug 25, 2017 9:12:57 GMT -5
I didn't collect it regularly (wish I had) but I had various issues. I agree that the Phantom Stranger and Batman villains issues were great, and there was also one that featured the four Clayfaces that I enjoyed (it was a tie-in with an arc that was running in Detective.)  |
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Post by MDG on Aug 25, 2017 10:01:25 GMT -5
I liked most of the 80s series, mainly because it was one of those things where you were never sure what artist might show up.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 25, 2017 10:39:03 GMT -5
I bought every issue. I was a huge Earth-2/Golden Age hero fan at the time, so no way I was going to pass it up. It was hit and miss in a lot of ways, but overall a really fun book.
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Post by brutalis on Aug 25, 2017 11:18:12 GMT -5
Have pretty much all of the 80's run and enjoyed it for the variety found within. Nice mixes of classic and new origins and same in artists. Kind of a nice buffet as now I go through and pick out whatever I may be hungry for now in reading so I skip and jump around quite a bit through it all. There were some issues not so great IMO and really dug it when an issue would combine genre focusing on specific hero's or villains.
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Post by dbutler69 on Aug 25, 2017 11:24:44 GMT -5
I have 16 or 17 issues of the 80's series, including the Special, and an Annual, and I enjoyed them all. Great series.
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Post by tarkintino on Aug 25, 2017 16:13:35 GMT -5
Just wondering if anyone has ever read DC's Secret Origins series from way back in the 1980s. What issues are your favorites from issue 1 to 50? I thought it was the right series at the right time in DC's then-swelling history to introduce new readers to short, but detailed introductions to characters both well known, and some off of the 80s radar. Even for me--a longtime reader--it was a nice series to collect, much like the great Who's Who. |
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Post by batusi on Aug 25, 2017 17:01:26 GMT -5
I liked the older Secret Origins comics the best. I have a trade paperback that has the older classic stories.. In fact it is still available at instocktrades.
From the 80's series I did like the golden age Batman origin story with Marshall Rogers art. I only bought a few of these back in the day, only other one I can remember was a Nightwing one.
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Post by urrutiap on Aug 25, 2017 17:08:18 GMT -5
That issue origin of Golden Age Batman in the 1986 Secret Origins series, doesnt Batman take on an old school gangster?
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Post by batusi on Aug 25, 2017 21:36:05 GMT -5
Description for the above book I mentioned... Collecting the legendary SECRET ORIGINS annuals from the 1960s, this is an amazing look back at how DC'S heroes gained their powers and abilities. Featuring the work of Jack Kirby, Gardner Fox, Gil Kane, Carmine Infantino, Curt Swan and more! Collects SECRET ORIGINS #1, MORE SECRET ORIGINS #1, EVEN MORE SECRET ORIGINS #1 and WEIRD SECRET ORIGINS #1. Here is the cover...  |
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Post by Confessor on Aug 26, 2017 22:11:55 GMT -5
That issue origin of Golden Age Batman in the 1986 Secret Origins series, doesnt Batman take on an old school gangster? I don't recall exactly, but that sounds right. That issue of Secret Origins with the Golden Age Batman in it (issue #4, perhaps??) was one of my favourite comics when I was 15 or so. Haven't read it for a long old while though. |
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 26, 2017 23:34:54 GMT -5
That issue origin of Golden Age Batman in the 1986 Secret Origins series, doesnt Batman take on an old school gangster? Because Detective Comics 265 established that Batman's first case involved a criminal named Kyle, Roy Thomas felt compelled to include it here. I wish he hadn't since it was a pretty bland tale to begin with and a Silver Age Batman story from 1959 doesn't really blend well with a Golden Age one from 1939. However, I believe DC's stance was that any Batman issue before the yellow oval was added was automatically assigned the Earth 2 designation.  |
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Post by Confessor on Aug 27, 2017 4:16:21 GMT -5
That issue origin of Golden Age Batman in the 1986 Secret Origins series, doesnt Batman take on an old school gangster? Because Detective Comics 265 established that Batman's first case involved a criminal named Kyle, Roy Thomas felt compelled to include it here. I wish he hadn't since it was a pretty bland tale to begin with and a Silver Age Batman story from 1959 doesn't really blend well with a Golden Age one from 1939. However, I believe DC's stance was that any Batman issue before the yellow oval was added was automatically assigned the Earth 2 designation. One thing I really remember from that Golden Age Batman Secret Origin issue is that, in the opening splash page, it says something like, "In the beginning, a criminal killed his parents...in the end, a criminal killed him." I always wondered about that; back in the late 80s I just assumed it was a reference to The Dark Knight Returns, but nowadays I'm not so sure that's right. Who was the criminal who killed the Golden Age Batman and when did this happen? |
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 27, 2017 8:31:47 GMT -5
Because Detective Comics 265 established that Batman's first case involved a criminal named Kyle, Roy Thomas felt compelled to include it here. I wish he hadn't since it was a pretty bland tale to begin with and a Silver Age Batman story from 1959 doesn't really blend well with a Golden Age one from 1939. However, I believe DC's stance was that any Batman issue before the yellow oval was added was automatically assigned the Earth 2 designation. One thing I really remember from that Golden Age Batman Secret Origin issue is that, in the opening splash page, it says something like, "In the beginning, a criminal killed his parents...in the end, a criminal killed him." I always wondered about that; back in the late 80s I just assumed it was a reference to The Dark Knight Returns, but nowadays I'm not so sure that's right. Who was the criminal who killed the Golden Age Batman and when did this happen? The Golden Age/Earth-Two Batman died at the hands of Bill Jensen, an embezzler granted magical powers by the sorcerer Fredric Vaux, in the JSA story in Adventure Comics #462. Cei-U! I summon the ignominious end! |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Aug 27, 2017 11:33:31 GMT -5
One thing I really remember from that Golden Age Batman Secret Origin issue is that, in the opening splash page, it says something like, "In the beginning, a criminal killed his parents...in the end, a criminal killed him." I always wondered about that; back in the late 80s I just assumed it was a reference to The Dark Knight Returns, but nowadays I'm not so sure that's right. Who was the criminal who killed the Golden Age Batman and when did this happen? The Golden Age/Earth-Two Batman died at the hands of Bill Jensen, an embezzler granted magical powers by the sorcerer Fredric Vaux, in the JSA story in Adventure Comics #462. Cei-U! I summon the ignominious end! Almost certainly the most disappointing story of that period of the JSA. |
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Post by Confessor on Aug 28, 2017 2:10:55 GMT -5
One thing I really remember from that Golden Age Batman Secret Origin issue is that, in the opening splash page, it says something like, "In the beginning, a criminal killed his parents...in the end, a criminal killed him." I always wondered about that; back in the late 80s I just assumed it was a reference to The Dark Knight Returns, but nowadays I'm not so sure that's right. Who was the criminal who killed the Golden Age Batman and when did this happen? The Golden Age/Earth-Two Batman died at the hands of Bill Jensen, an embezzler granted magical powers by the sorcerer Fredric Vaux, in the JSA story in Adventure Comics #462. Cei-U! I summon the ignominious end! Fascinating. I had absolutely no idea that this happened. |
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