- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics (April 6 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401226256
- ISBN-13: 978-1401226251
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 1.8 x 26.6 cm
- Shipping Weight: 762 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #474,644 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This new ROBIN ARCHIVES collects stories from the late 1940s in which the Boy Wonder faces the Sinister Knight, declares war on Batman, travels to Rancho Fear, battles crime in Hollywood, and meets the fearsome man with the Midas touch.
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2.2 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews)
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
dc has gone insane., April 19 2010
By Michael P. Dobey - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Robin Archives Vol. 2 (Hardcover)
I had to return this one to where I bought it. The classic comics were just scans , now that's ok in a case like the 'art of ditko' where they do not the money or such to remaster the work. But this is from a major company which up till the sucko 'starman vol 2" and then the even worse 'simon and kirby sandman" had done a spot on job of releasing wonderful volumes of brand new looking comics. Now they are run by madmen whose excuse is that it's not really the original art if someone has to trace over it and put the same color on it. These were not painted comics and it is a bad argument to just scan comics and say well that's how the original looked. NO , it wasn't yellowing and faded away. Reconstruct them or stop releasing them or just charge us ten bucks for them. Then we can't complain.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
4 Stars for story and art, April 14 2010
By S. M Thiel "Old-Time Radio Fan" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Robin Archives Vol. 2 (Hardcover)
The stories and art are nicely done for this batch of Robin tales from STAR-SPANGLED COMICS.But I had to give this product ONE star.
Once again DC has dropped the ball and SCANNED the comics to produce this Archive.
Plus the cover is different then the one AMAZON is showing on their product page
The cover and the inside looks CHEAP. <SAD>
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Substandard reproductiom mars this collection, April 25 2010
By Jim Davis - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Robin Archives Vol. 2 (Hardcover)
This was my first taste of scanned archives. Traditionally archives have had their artwork restored if film of the original was not available as is generally the case with DC comics before the early 1950s. This involved an actual person starting with a high resolution scan of a page, loading it into Photoshop or another similar program, dropping out the color, cleaning up the line work, and then recoloring the page using the scan as a guide. As can be imagined this is a lengthy and expensive process. Recently DC has decided to print the scan itself, bypassing the restoration process.The results are decidedly inferior to the restoration method. It's hard to describe in words the visual impression one gets. As an analogy I can suggest it's sort of like watching TV in standard definition after becoming accustomed to high definition. It's not that standard definition is *horrible*, indeed a few years ago one might have been entirely satisfied with it, it just can't be compared to high definition.
And so it was with this collection. It's perfectly readable on its own terms; it just suffers in comparison to previous volumes. After a few stories in the reproduction ceased to be distracting. Still, it is a step backwards. For collections such as these I judge three stars for reproduction and a star apiece for art and writing. Here, I can only give one out of three stars for reproduction.
For the story and art I give full marks. The stories have lost none of their charm in the intervening 60 years. Jim Mooney's art is perfectly suited for the material.
I will be buying the next Robin Archives volume if there is one. I only hope the experiment with scanned reproduction is at an end by that time and that scanned reproduction doesn't spread to the various Batman archive series that I buy.
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