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Batman or Detective Comics

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Dale Roberts

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You want to collect a fantastic beautiful run of books, set this as a goal. Collect every Neal Adams cover in high grade. You will have the most beautiful run of books ever, and a great collection of Batmans, Supermans, Superboys, Detectives, Green Lanterns, and more....

 

This is something I will sit down and organize someday, and even though I have most or all of them in my collection, I will probably put another set of those together.

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I am getting close to finishing my X-men and I am looking to focus on something different. I have always liked Batman, but I can't decide between the Batman or Detective title. Any opinions?

 

Both and Neither have already been exhausted as answers. Thank you.

 

:o Say it aint so! Finally giving up I see. :devil::kidaround: Seriously, why are you interested in changing directions? If you want a challenge, why no go after a HG run of ASM? Why DC? Just curious. hm

Over the years, I have had two X-men runs, working on the third, one full run of Avengers and almost full runs of FF and Spider-Man. I just want something different and I have always liked Batman.I am ready for new characters and new stories.
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If I were going to collect either Batman or Detective, I would probably look at several factors. Number of keys, and what are they? How far back in the run will you collect. I have to assume that you are not going all the way back to 1st GA issues.

 

Batman #100 - 400 would be a nice run.

Detective #225 - 500 would be a nice run.

 

Of the 2, I would go with Batman. 1st Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, 1st SA Riddler, Ras, Two-face, plus lots of cool Adams stuff. Detective has #400, the Adams books and that is about it, unless you are into Martian Manhunter or Clay Face.

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You want to collect a fantastic beautiful run of books, set this as a goal. Collect every Neal Adams cover in high grade. You will have the most beautiful run of books ever, and a great collection of Batmans, Supermans, Superboys, Detectives, Green Lanterns, and more....

 

This is something I will sit down and organize someday, and even though I have most or all of them in my collection, I will probably put another set of those together.

That is a great goal Dale. Just those Tomahawks will be nigh impossible to find in HG. Or is it just afew of them that are uber tought?
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I am getting close to finishing my X-men and I am looking to focus on something different. I have always liked Batman, but I can't decide between the Batman or Detective title. Any opinions?

 

Both and Neither have already been exhausted as answers. Thank you.

 

:o Say it aint so! Finally giving up I see. :devil::kidaround: Seriously, why are you interested in changing directions? If you want a challenge, why no go after a HG run of ASM? Why DC? Just curious. hm

I cant speak for Doc, but for me, the reason i switched to DC was several:

1-I love the covers. Maybe because I havent seen them as much and therefore there is some sense of wonderment when I see a cool cover, usually for the first time

2-DCs in HG are much harder to find than there Marvel counterparts. So its more of a hunt to find the books. To me, the hunt is as much fun as actually buying one.

Pretty close to nail on the head territory, Arex.
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I am getting close to finishing my X-men and I am looking to focus on something different. I have always liked Batman, but I can't decide between the Batman or Detective title. Any opinions?

 

Both and Neither have already been exhausted as answers. Thank you.

 

:o Say it aint so! Finally giving up I see. :devil::kidaround: Seriously, why are you interested in changing directions? If you want a challenge, why no go after a HG run of ASM? Why DC? Just curious. hm

I cant speak for Doc, but for me, the reason i switched to DC was several:

1-I love the covers. Maybe because I havent seen them as much and therefore there is some sense of wonderment when I see a cool cover, usually for the first time

2-DCs in HG are much harder to find than there Marvel counterparts. So its more of a hunt to find the books. To me, the hunt is as much fun as actually buying one.

Pretty close to nail on the head territory, Arex.

Damn, im on a roll tonight :acclaim:

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If I were going to collect either Batman or Detective, I would probably look at several factors. Number of keys, and what are they? How far back in the run will you collect. I have to assume that you are not going all the way back to 1st GA issues.

 

Batman #100 - 400 would be a nice run.

Detective #225 - 500 would be a nice run.

 

Of the 2, I would go with Batman. 1st Poison Ivy, Scarecrow, 1st SA Riddler, Ras, Two-face, plus lots of cool Adams stuff. Detective has #400, the Adams books and that is about it, unless you are into Martian Manhunter or Clay Face.

I would say go all the way back to Tec 27, start there, and finish it at 225 ;)

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So I'm assuming you're not talking about a complete run.

 

My preference is to cherry-pick the best from each of the titles. Even during the 1970s/early 1980s, you would have a lot of dreck sandwiched in between the classic Adams or Rogers issues.

 

Overall, I'd pick Detective Comics over Batman.

 

- In the 1960s, Carmine Infantino drew every other Detective issue (generally the odd-numbered ones in the mid-300's). Batman stories were all by Sheldon Moldoff ghosting for Bob Kane (he also did the non-Infantino Detectives).

 

- You also had a couple of Gil Kane Batman stories in Detective, and he did a handful of Batgirl and/or Robin backups in the book as well.

 

- The Adams issues started in Detective in 1970 before jumping over to Batman a year or so later.

 

- There were the great Archie Goodwin edited issues of Detective 437-443. Bat-art by Aparo, Chaykin, Toth, and Simonson. :cloud9: And the classic Goodwin/Simonson Manhunter backup. Great selection of reprints on the 100 Page issues as well.

 

- As mentioned, you get the all-time classic Englehart/Rogers run on #471-476. (thumbs u

 

- Don Newton does almost all of the art from #480 up to the early #500's. We took him for granted at the time, but he was an excellent artist who died way too young.

 

By the #510's Detective and Batman crossed over so much the two series merged in to one, so no real way to discriminate between the two.

 

After Jason Todd was introduced I dropped all the Bat-books for many years, so no help there. :sorry:

 

Though there were some classic issues of the Batman title during those years, there were also way too many lame Frank Robbins scripts, corny David V. Reed gimmicks, and sub-par John Calnan art.

 

Tec it is.

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Personally, I would rather have a really nice Amazing Fantasy #15 than a Detective #27 that I could buy for the same money. I know, I know. Detective #27 is one of the 2 most important books in the history of the hobby, Batman has been around forever, blah, blah, blah......

 

Spider-man is the single greatest character ever created in comics.

 

Now if it were an Action #1, I might have to think a little harder.

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No problem. You want another idea of a very cool run to collect would be to put all of the Legion of Super-Heroes appearances together. I have a customer who is working on this and it has been quite challenging. I personally really like the characters and you won't believe how many books they appeared in.

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Personally, I would rather have a really nice Amazing Fantasy #15 than a Detective #27 that I could buy for the same money. I know, I know. Detective #27 is one of the 2 most important books in the history of the hobby, Batman has been around forever, blah, blah, blah......

 

Spider-man is the single greatest character ever created in comics.

 

Now if it were an Action #1, I might have to think a little harder.

You can keep supes and batman.Spider-man is my favorite book with my favorite artist.Had a shot at all the GA keys back in the day but out of my league now.

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:o uh I would buy the Early golden stuff first then work my way up to the bronze keys (mainly Adams) :wishluck:lol we dont need any more Neal Adams collectors competing for the same books. Bad for prices (tsk) anyways like most people I dont know how you collect one without the other but if I had to pick I'd go with tecs but in your case I'd go with the Batmans. I'll let you know when I'm done with the tecs ;)
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