Well @Behemoth (using my best old man voice) you young whipper snapper, Treasury Editions were huge prestige comics that contained either reprints of classic stories or all brand new stories. They were the graphic novels in the age of bear skins and stone knives.
Look at the beauty of it! A giant $2.00 book in the days of the $0.25-0.35 comic. Art larger than life! Look at the detail of the Neal Adams art. Every tiny line in exquisite detail! What is the value? Priceless!
These were the days of the spinner rack. No comic book stores. If you missed an issue there was no place to buy a back issue. To see Batman larger than life kneeling above Robin wailing in anguish! What is this miracle. You with your DCU and ComiXology with instant access, bah! Graphic novels everywhere! You don’t realize the land of plenty you live in. This was heaven!
A beautiful wraparound cover by Neal Adams announcing someone called Ra’s Al Ghul. I may be a heretic, but I view Ra’s as Batman’s true #1 enemy, outclassing the Joker. Ra’s is intelligent, ruthless, and has the means and organization to truly challenge Batman. Joker at this time is more of a clown with a acid squirting flower in his lapel. Ra’s presents a real challenge and he’s freaking hundreds of years old! And he has a really hot daughter who has a thing for Batman. And Ubu the giant with a soap bubble for a chin! How could not love this?
@TurokSonOfStone1950 I believe you are correct about the Wizard of Oz being the first joint or “crossover” DC / Marvel production. I don’t have the replica issues, but I do have the Supes & WW with beautiful Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez. Coming soon to this thread.
Ah, bah-(ambush)-humbug.
I hereby demand that it is done. That was my favorite imaginary story. And my least, because the whole computer program p**** me off.
I only have these two now that I can find from DC. I had some JSA one but unfortunately I used it to cover a partial hole in a drawer and I’m afraid it’s gone now…
Sam Glanzman wrote and drew these stories of his experience on the USS Stevens, first for DC Comics in several of their war comics of the seventies (which are not here in the library except for one exception I am about to show you all), then in the 80s, he published these two new versions of his experiences in the Navy in World War II with Marvel.
@Behemoth Yes, they died out in the mid-80s. But, there are collections that are also out of print, but I’ve picked them up on eBay. Crossovers 1 is from 1991 and Crossovers 2 was 1998. Were you even born then?
I doubt they will ever be reprinted or make it to digital because DC/Marvel. I worry about some of my digital crossovers like Legion/Star Trek or Batman/Shadow what happens when Dynamite loses the license for the Shadow do the digital versions get rescinded. Remember, they can’t take back paper, and it lasts a long time. My original from 1981 is 39 years old. Older than you whipper snapper.
