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Two Face: A Celebration of 75 Years (Two-Face: A Celebration of 75 Years) Kindle & comiXology
Featuring stories from industry legends Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Neal Adams, Dennis O’Neil, Greg Rucka, Bruce Timm and more, TWO-FACE: A CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS brings you more than a dozen stories of one of Batman’s most enduring foes!
Collects DETECTIVE COMICS #66, #68, #80, #739; BATMAN #50, #81, #234, #410-411, #572; BATMAN ANNUAL #14; THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD #106; JOKER #1; SECRET ORIGINS #1; BATMAN: BLACK AND WHITE #1; GOTHAM CENTRAL #10; JOKER’S ASYLUM: TWO-FACE #1; and BATMAN AND ROBIN #23.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDC
- Publication dateNovember 7, 2017
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- ASIN : B076DS4D7H
- Publisher : DC; Illustrated edition (November 7, 2017)
- Publication date : November 7, 2017
- Language : English
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This volume reprints stories from Detective 66, 68, 80 from the 1940s, which actually hold up well in terms of interesting characterization of the villain. Batman and Robin are handled in typical fashion of the day and may fare a bit less favorably. .
The story from Detective 187 and Batman 81 were first printed in the 1950s, and feature the art and story-telling of the time period.
Batman 234 and Brave and Bold 106 are a pair of excellent 1970s stories bringing the larger evil to the character and the dark knight to the Batman. Neal Adams on the first story and Jim Aparo on the second give us the two of the most popular Batman story artists of the years in their prime, telling great stories. The story from Joker #1 offers us a conflict with Two-Face from what I think is the first comic titled for a super-villain. This issue gives us two of the best.
Batman 410 and 411 gives us a 1980's offering that ties Two-Face to the past history of Jason Todd Robin that creates a long-term tie between the two characters that is explored years after. It's an origin story for the conflict between the two. The retelling of the origin story from Secret Origins special gives more backdrop to the character in a short amount of space.
The 1990s are represented by three stories including a double novel-length reprint from Batman Annual 14 focused on pre-Two Face District Attorney Harvey Dent's career. Two of a Kind from Batman Black and White 1 is given duotone treatment here and feels delightfully noir. The 2 part story originally appearing om Batman 572 and Detective 739 story comes from the No Man's Land era and features art that make the story in my opinion weak. It;s a manga-type style I hate and pages of long conversations with a single illustration. It;s a bottom in storytelling and despite being focused on Two-face as a villain, would have best been omitted.
Contrast that to the 2000's story from Gotham Central 10 and the gritty noir and rough artwork used. Visuakky interesting and a nasty criminal Two-Face that delivers greatly on character and dialog. Joker Asylum Two-Face is just an adequate story and the final story, from the New 52 Era and Batman & Robin 23.1 doesn;t really break any new ground. The story isn't any better than the overall New 52 effort. Ugh.
Mnay of the stories also appear in the collection Batman Arkham: Two Face and that volume has additional stories not appearing in the 75th anniversary collection as well. Missing from both collections is the fun retro graphic novel Two Face Strikes Twice. A shame not to have these in a collection.
Overall, the hardcover is well worth having and collects most of the best Two-Face stories that have been published
And of course there's Neal Adams's stunning cover art, also used for this anthology.
NB: "Eye of the Beholder" also is found in "Batman: Featuring Two-Face and the Riddler," an anthology released to coincide with 1995's "Batman Forever." That one has four stories apiece for Two-Face and Riddler and one Penguin story that was a part of 1989's "Secret Origins #1," included there in its entirety. So if you want a small but solid anthology of three great rogues, there's that option.
Anyhow. This contains plenty of Two-Face stories that perennially make top ten lists for his character and one gets a good sense of the many ways his character can be approached. The content is not all rehashed from the other anthologies, so even if you own one or another, this covers new ground. (I own them all. I'm a completist.) Like I said, Two-Face has been luckier than average in getting memorable stories. It's a pity that so few Batman fans bother with his canon outside of Jeph Loeb's work.