Comics From My Youth: The Dark Knight Returns

I've been compiling a visual catalog of important comics I read in my youth for fun, and putting them up on my Super-Duper Facebook lately (click the link at the top right of this blog to Be My Good Friend). Naturally, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (DC, 1986) needed to be in there- it was the first graphic novel I ever read, and in the midst of "Bat-Mania" at the end of the 80's, it set my imagination on fire. As you can see by the picture above, it received A LOT of attention. From what I understand, this is a reprint from, with a variant cover design by Chip Kidd.

The artwork was somewhat avante-garde compared what I was used to, almost loosely sketched in some parts, and the storytelling validated my belief that comics were a form of high art. I'm not going to attempt a thesis on the publication here- there are other blogs for that. After fellow toy blogger Jason recently began posting some comics from childhood, I thought I'd share some of the comics from my younger days. I've done a little of this, but wanted to show some more in 2011. It's so strange to find myself reading comics & collecting action figures at the age of thirty-eight... if you told me I'd be doing this five months ago, I would have laughed in your face. Yet here I am, quite deeply in love with all over again...

If you haven't read this book for whatever reason, please do yourself a favor. I was talking with Hubba Bubba the other night about the fact that nearly every action figure collector we know has a thing for Batman- he's the favorite. I mean, am I right or am I right?

*Read a review on this book at ComicsBulletin.Com!

*New Readers...Start Here blog! Very interesting to me as I had been away from comics all my adult life until recently and have missed a lot.
*Hilarious blog, Comics Make No Sense ...really funny!