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DC’s Earth-2 – The Roy Thomas Era

DC’s Earth-2 – The Roy Thomas Era

The three Earth-Two titles created by Roy Thomas including All-Star Squadron, Infinity, Inc., and Young All-Stars.

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DC One Million

DC One Million

One of Grant Morrison’s masterstrokes, and one of the most fun crossovers DC’s ever done. Grant had a hand in pretty much every issue that tied into the main story, even if he wasn’t the main writer. The trade paperback that DC released a while ago is seriously the worst, and only barely gets the gist of the story across. This is DC One Million, done right.

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Chase

Chase

A short but gorgeous series (mostly penciled by the unstoppable J. H. Williams III), Chase was one of DC’s late 90′s gems, and is well worth investigating.

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Batgirl (2009)

Batgirl (2009)

Two years of some of the best comics DC ever put out. While no one knows what the DCNu has in store for Stephanie Brown, this single volume collects her all-too-brief tenure as Batgirl. Here we go!

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Generation X

Generation X

Generation X: A (mostly) great series, with Chris Bachalo doing some of the best art of his career. I’ve always had a soft spot for GenX, since it was just starting up when I really got into comics, and that chromium wrap-around cover to #1 was the coolest thing ever. This is the whole run in 5 pretty equal-sized volumes, broken up by creative team.

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Complete X-Men vol 80

Complete X-Men vol 80

In a world where the X-Men never existed, and mutantkind has been hunted to extinction, the few remaining mutants have banded together to make their last stand. They spend each day in their stronghold, Fortress X, beating back the anti-mutant forces that would see them wiped out. But when a conspiracy is discovered within Fortress X itself, could it be that mutantkind’s last bastion will crumble from the inside out? And when the dust settles, no one will be left unscathed.

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Wolverine Goes to Hell

Wolverine Goes to Hell

They’re going to kill each other–if the apocalypse doesn’t do them in first! Spider-Man and Wolverine–fellow Avengers, but not each other’s biggest fans–are lost in time…and running out of time. Millions of years in the past, they’re about to be blasted by the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. Plus, n his long a bloody life, Wolverine has lost control before. But the situation has never been more dire. Hell itself has inhabited Logan’s body, laughing with delight at every innocent life it takes–and he is powerless to stop it. Running out of options, Cyclops is faced with an impossible choice.

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Complete X-Men vol 79

Complete X-Men vol 79

A vampire bomb is set off in San Francisco’s Union Square where dozens are covered in blood. Soon everyone touched by the blood falls victim to a strange manufactured virus, including the X-Men’s own Jubilee! Xarus, son of Dracula, plots to create a new breed of vampires by using the X-Men?! However the X-Men fail to yield causing Xarus to bring an army of bloodsuckers to conquer Utopia!

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Batman: The Morrison Era Vol 5

Batman: The Morrison Era Vol 5

With the original Batman—Bruce Wayne—dead, the new Batman struggles to take over the role and find a balance with the impatient 10-year-old-semi-homicidal new Robin, who is actually Wayne’s own son. The two crime-fighters contend with loads of new villains including the Circus of Crime, the Flamingo, Professor Pig…

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Batman: The Morrison Era Vol 4

Batman: The Morrison Era Vol 4

Since Batman’s fall, things are so dangerous on the streets of Gotham that even the crooks feel unsafe. Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are tired of playing by other people’s rules regardless of which side of the law they’re on. And how will the police feel about thie new Batman — and can he control the crime in Gotham the way the old Batman did? Commissioner Gordon’s about to find out as he teams with the new Batman to combat the fiery threat that Firefly has spread across Gotham City.

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