Absolute Batman Year One

A terrific Storyline!!

A great story and great artwork an. Must have for Batman fans! As a huge Batman fan!! The Absolute Year 1 and Haunted Knight was a much have in any Batman comic/Novel collection. A great story and great artwork and beyond the expectations.. THANKYOU SO MUCH for the packages and the brand new copies. What more I can say about it. Can’t be a Batman fan if you didn’t read or don’t owned having year 1.

Got this for grandson he loved it.

No sabía muy bien qué contenía pero vienen dos libros, una redición de los cómics compilada e impresa en un gran papel y el otro son los cómics de acuerdo a cada publicación como se hizo en su momento. Gran gran regalo.

fast and well packaged. cant wait to read it

The book showed up 4 days earlier than expected and was packaged amazing! Not a single scratch or dent on the slipcase… very impressed!

This is an odd creature. Year One, by itself, is not enough to justify the Absolute treatment. So they give you two versions in two volumes. First is the recolored version that is probably most familiar to readers, since it's the version that's been in every collected edition to date. It's printed on nice matte paper and it looks great. The cover art is the original hardcover art, and you get a lot of related art in the back, along with the Who's Who on Commissioner Gordon and the original ads for the story. The second volume is a scan of the original comic, printed on the original media (glossy pages for the covers, newsprint for the interiors). It has the original coloring, and this is different enough from the recolor to be interesting. An example: In the original, Bruce Wayne's face is covered in mud when he gives James back to Lieutenant Gordon. In the recolor, his face is clean. This affects how the reader interprets Gordon's assertion that he's blind without his glasses. It's a lot more believable in the original version, and I like the ambiguity. In the recolor, it's more of an obvious white lie. You also get the letter columns with contemporary responses to Year One as it was published, the roughs, and the script. The roughs and script pages are printed at 1/4 size, and at least one script page is the wrong one--I tweeted DC to ask if this has been corrected in later printings, but they have not responded. You don't get the original ads, but some of them have bled onto the scans so you can kind of make them out. Physically, the books have most of the usual Absolute features--hardcover, Smyth sewn, slipcover. The paper is not the glossy stuff I'm used to, but I'm okay with that. The first volume is bound in the original hardcover cover art, and the second volume has reproductions of the covers of the first and fourth issues. (All four covers are reproduced inside.) The slipcase has the Warner Books TPB art on one side, and the words "Year One" on the other. I guess it's appropriately minimalistic, but I think they could've found appropriate artwork for the other side of the slipcover. I would've gone with the splash page from issue four. Is it worth $80+? [Edit: The price dropped $30 in the price since I watched it. It's much easier to recommend now.] Unless you are a big fan of Year One, probably not. You're paying for the larger format, the original coloring, the newsprint, and the script. You can get a nice hardcover for $20, and the original comics for around $40, and you'll have most of the Absolute material in a smaller form factor. I think this is the only place you can find the script, but I found a pretty blatant error on the first page so I don't have faith they handled it very well. The strange thing is, I don't feel bad about this purchase. I find myself taking both versions out of the slipcover and flipping through them from time to time. If they fixed the script and reduced the price a bit, this would be a five star product.

Got this as a gift for my fiancé and he was very happy! It arrived in beautiful condition and is a great start to his batman collection!

Gli absolute Americani stampati da DC sono di una bellezza illegale, cofanetto, sovracoperta, grande formato e qualità di stampa e carta da far impallidire Planeta, Lion prima, e Panini oggi. Niente da dire, costicchiano, ma tenendoli in mano vedi dove finiscono i tuoi soldi. Nel caso di Year One da segnalare come i volumi all'interno del cofanetto siano 2, contenenti questo capolavoro sia nella colorazione classica che nella nuova ;)

Absolute Batman Year One : vous ne pouvez pas ne pas l'avoir dans votre collection en tant que fan qui se respecte :) Petite surprise, cet absolute se décompose en 2 volumes chacun ayant un style différent mais reprenant la même histoire. Le Tome 1 est imprimé sur papier glacé, avec des couleurs ravivées et un rendu définitivement moderne. Le Tome 2 fait très "old school" avec un papier faisant penser aux vieux comics de l'epoque et reprenant les dessins d'antan. Ainsi, vous retrouvez au sein de ce coffret 2 versions de Year One : l'une actualisée au goût du jour avec les standards modernes et l'autre tout droit issue des années 80. Un vrai plaisir de voir la différence entre les deux versions, chacune ayant un charme indéniable. Seul bémol : le prix. 70€ reste une coquette somme, à titre de comparaison, certains absolute plus volumineux se payent plus de 20€ moins cher. Mais ces Absolute vont se raréfier (tel l'Absolute Dark Victory, quasi introuvable neuf) et prendront de la valeur donc mieux vaut ne pas trop hésiter.

Im so happy this absolute batman delivered but hard to fit my junk mail

Excelente

It arrived early and in mint condition. I can see why the price dropped on this book, as it's a reprint of a story that ran in 4 regular sized comic books (22 pages each - for 88 pages total) which isn't a huge Absolute edition. That being said, this is an awesome story that I've read many times. It's neat to read this then read the Dark Knight Returns, which bookends the Batman mythos. Although it's a short story this printing is superb. Reprinting the actual comics in a second separate book (both are included inside the same slipcase) seemed unnecessary, but DC had to justify the price tag I suppose. All in all, a great story in a great format. I'm glad this is finally part of my collection.