Batman: the Golden Age Omnibus Vol. 1 2023 Edition Overview | The History of Batman Begins Here! 

70s+ era would be great!

@fishin4bass2002 Yes, the 80s was the best DC era, and DC make a horrible job with reprints of this era!

They do have Batman The Brave and The Bold, Batgirl, Robin, and Joker omni's out at least. But I totally agree we need more bronze age stuff.

Yep. But my viewers wanted an overview of the new printing. :)

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One way to make sure they both get credit for a change I guess

I think DC is planning on reprinting GA WW 1.

@@ebilliot510yes, it is getting reprinted on November.

I'd say the first 11 years were very good and underrated

Unfortuantly they still haven't completely collected Robin's stuff from Star Spangled Comics during the Golden Age, thats the only Gold Age stuff I know of thats missing.

Same here. It’s a good thing comics have evolved.

"evolved" into decompressed soapy melodramas. These old stories are great. Batman actually has a sense of humor, his relationship with Robin is great, (a surrogate father-son relationship) and there are some genuinely great character stories. However, these stories usually happen with regular, one-off people. Some of the best stories feature some Joe Schmoe who has a problem and Batman & Robin help them just because they're good people. I find the modern Batman to be cringey & try-hard. He has become overpowered to a ridiculous degree & feels psychopathic. After reading Golden Age stories I'm convinced that Robin is a necessary character because he humanizes Batman. You'll notice that without Robin, Batman becomes more & more unstable. I can say a lot more but I'll just leave it at that lol.

@@kasperk.651 they're designed/meant to be monthly anthologies not a binge read breeze that people love and have been accustomed to for years now. So anything with an actual substantial amount of writing that gives more to the story and characters via thought balloons and third person narration boxes (which they never should've taken away precisely because they added so much to the story and characters and are storytelling techniques unique to comics) people get turned off and call it "wordy" so it's not palatable enough for them i.e. lazy readers. I can go more on that, but I'll stop there lol . People don't understand as well as forget and overlook that. Not to mention Bill Finger is a great writer and one of the best Golden age writers who wrote compelling, wholesome, entertaining, and sometimes emotional stories. I just really hate this mentality of "too old, therefore bad or not good enough" bs. People are just too uncultured and apathetic, either past what they grew up with or things that are older than them. This is honestly one of those things where it's more for a niche, cultured audience. Not for the mainstream, and that's a good thing, not everything has to be mainstream or popular to be considered "valid." In fact, that shouldn't be the case. Anyways, that my little soapbox on that, lol. I will say tho that how people can really overstate the "edginess" and grit of Batman currently or in recent decades, because he def has had nuance, vulnerabilities, limitations, and asked for help as well as good rapport with the Robins and batfamily in general but yeah there are certain times where he can get too flanderized or misinterpreted in the books or media and no one has ever fully and properly fleshed out his moral code and explained it perfectly than Doug Moench in his Batman run (#540-541) with the Spectre. Under the red hood only gives a partial half assed reasoning that people continually cling to lol and/or twist. But for sure, Batman is one of those characters that can easily be misunderstood and misconstrued, especially at face value.

I grew up with Batman comics by Denny O'Neil and Neal Adams. When I read reprints of the golden age comics at that time I was shocked how different they were.@@kasperk.651

@@anthonygarcia8749 All facts lol. Yeah I think you made a great point about the "wordiness" of old comics. I don't understand why people complain about this. They were written more for children and semi-literate audiences so it was a great way of introducing reading to those audiences. But also like you said it's weird that they're absent in more modern stories. (And on that note, why are so many words bolded in modern speech bubbles???) It is unique to the medium of comics because you can effortlessly change the perspective. One panel can have multiple character's thoughts. Doing this in a novel is difficult and jarring.

That’s crazy. Robin had to pull double duty for a while.

Volume One of Silver Age is out, in addition to 2 Volumes of Batman/Superman World's Finest. If they are doing a second run of Gold Age I'm sure they will keep up with Silver.

Already filmed and putting it on Patreon today. Thinking of a release day. Perhaps Monday.

People asked if I could do an overview. As you could tell in the overview; I set my personal feelings to the side.

I recently spent a lot of money on volume 6 through 9 to complete my golden age omnibus collection. If only I new reprints were going to be an option. 😢

They first half or so of the first Golden Age ombi is facinating to read just to see where all the characters come from and how much has changed, and how quickly some of it changed. No Alfred, no Batcave... stright up murdering people. and much more.

I appreciate that!

Today. Now!!

Sucks for you

Not sure how much there is to improve, I know I saw one comment somewhere saying they didn't even bother drawing in all the lines but then someone showed the orginal comic and yet thats just how they were drawn.

@@RogueDragon05 Well they've been using the same files that they restored back in the 90's for the original DC Archives - it would be nice if they did some better reproduction (look at the original Marvel Masterworks compared to the current omnibuses/Masterworks and they have massively improved the restoration but DC are content with still using the old Archives file)