Bookstores and comic shops get their books from different distribution chains, as a result release dates may be off by a week or two (and sometimes the get moved a bit). Oversized books are usually 11.x inches tall (15.x for Absolutes). Amazon usually posts the dimensions of books on their postings. In these tales, Wonder Woman and the Holliday Girls accidentally land on the. Peter, originally published in Sensation Comics 70-91, Comic Cavalcade 23-29 and Wonder Woman 26-36. However, some of the collected editions DC puts out are not oversized. 4 chronicles the Amazing Amazon's adventures, as written by Joye Murchison and others, and illustrated by the inimitable Harry G. I've already asked the guy at the newsstand to reserve me a copy.Please note: Omnibus, Absolute, and DLX editions are usually oversized. This volume is the first of the Silver Age Omnibus books featuring DC's Big Three. DC's superhero comics paved the way for Marvels' new "realistic" stories but they also stretched the limits of creative thrill-making, especially when drawn in the clean lines of Andru and Esposito, two guys who knew their way around a dinosaur or a spaceship. Robert Kanigher is by no means my favorite Silver Age scripter but his work here is uniquely innocent and exciting in a way that eight-year-olds appreciate. These comics are delightedly childish, the best of them read like they were plotted by an imaginative child, with rampant sea monsters on one page and invading aliens on the next, while Wonder Girl hangs out with merboys at an undersea malt shop in between. They were among my earliest reading and I'm delighted that DC is finally going to reprint the Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman comics of my early childhood. They come from a time that might as well be part of some imaginary world where actual kids read comic books untethered to any notions of reality, as far from today's comics as Paradise Island is from the streets of a modern inner city. There's not much to be said about these stories that isn't said perfectly in the excellent introduction by Gail Simone.
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