DC Archive Editions, edited by Dale Crain for DC Comics, collect early, sometimes rare, comic books published by DC and other publishers into a permanent hardcover series. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company With more than 100 titles, this series began in 1989 with Superman Archives, Volume One. Superman is a fictional Comic book Superhero widely considered to be one of the most recognized of such characters and an American Cultural icon Most of the restoration work to make the pages suitable for quality printing has been done by Rick Keene who has restored more than 2500 pages. Keene explained his process on TechTV's The Screen Savers. TechTV ( May 11, 1998 &ndash May 28, 2004) was a 24-hour cable and satellite channel based in San [1]
The books span DC's Golden, Silver and Bronze Age as well as titles not originally published by DC such as Will Eisner's The Spirit, Wally Wood's T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, and the Fawcett and Charlton lines of super heroes as well as Mad magazine and Elfquest. William Erwin Eisner ( March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American Comics Writer, Artist and Wallace Allan Wood ( June 17, 1927, Menahga Minnesota – November 2, 1981, Los Angeles California) was an American THUNDER Agents is a team of Comic book Superheroes originally published by Tower Comics in the 1960s Fawcett Comics, a subsidiary of Fawcett Publications, was one of several successful Comics publishers during the Golden Age of Comic Books in the 1940s Charlton Comics was an American Comic book publishing company that existed from 1946 to 1986 having begun under a different name in 1944 Elfquest (or ElfQuest) is a cult hit Comic book property created by Wendy and Richard Pini in The DC Archives provide a dual service in that they not only preserve DC's history but provide readers with stories that normally would not be available to them at an affordable cost. When the line first started, the cover price for an Archive was $39. 95 US, but since the majority of the 1990s up to the present, the standard cover price for a DC Archive is $49. 99 US (although some books in the line have cost much more, depending on how much content is collected, thus a larger page count & higher cover price).
Other titles in the series include Superman Archives, Batman Archives, Batman: The Dark Knight Archives , Black Canary Archives, Plastic Man Archives, Shazam! Archives, World's Finest Archives, The Doom Patrol Archives, Green Lantern Archives, The Flash Archives, Justice League of America Archives, Superman: The Man of Tomorrow Archives, Wonder Woman Archives, Teen Titans Archives, and many more. Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a fictional Comic book Superhero co-created Black Canary is a Fictional character, a DC Comics superheroine. Plastic Man ( Patrick "Eel" O'Brian) is a fictional Comic-book Superhero originally published by Quality Comics and later Captain Marvel is a fictional Comic book Superhero, originally published by Fawcett Comics and later by DC Comics. The Doom Patrol is a Fictional Superhero team appearing in publications from DC Comics. The Justice League sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short is a Fictional DC Comics superhero team. For an overview of the Teen Titans team (including more details on the comics listed below see Teen Titans Various Superhero groups by the name Teen Titans
In recent years, newer printings of previously published DC Archives volumes have been released at the special introductory cover price of $19. 95 U. S. These were: Batman Archives Volume 1 (second printing), Batman: The Dark Knight Archives Volume 1 (third printing), and Superman Archives Volume 1 (fifth printing).
It was believed the Archive Editions from DC would soon be ending. [2] However, in an issue of the publication Comic Shop News (issue # 1080, February 27, 2008), an update was given regarding the DC Archive Editions during an announcement regarding DC's collected editions schedule: "In spite of earlier reports of their demise, DC Archives will continue in 2008 and 2009, although in reduced numbers, focusing on continuing already-established Archives series. Comic Shop News (as called CSN) is a free weekly Newspaper distributed throughout Comic book stores Events 1560 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common "
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Awards & Recognition
The first volume of the "Plastic Man Archives" won the Comics Buyer's Guide Fan Award for Favorite Reprint Graphic Album for 2001. Comics Buyer's Guide ( (CBG is the second longest-running Periodical reporting on the Comic book industry
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