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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Collection,
This review is from: Batman: Featuring Two-Face and the Riddler (Paperback)
This collection of classic Batman stories focusing on the Riddler and Two Face is a nice addition to any Bat collector's library. It features the 1st appearances of the 2 villians. Also 2 1960 Riddler adventures. My only critisism is the other Two Face stories are too current both published in the '90's. Solid book and well worth the money.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
a good read.,
By Phil Norsworthy (Topeka, Ks United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Batman: Featuring Two-Face and the Riddler (Paperback)
this book features two-face's first apperence, 3 riddler stories, a "secret origin" story featuring the penguins origin, the riddler's veiw, and another two-face story, also the great origin of two-face! great book! also a index of thier apperences up to 1995. riddler's refernce to the 60s tv show villans is classic.the reason it gets only four stars is because it should have been alot bigger. heros: batman, james gordan, robin. villans: two-face, riddler, catwoman {mentioned,} Scarecrow {mentioned,} joker, penguin, mad hatter {mentioned.}
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A good compilation, but these two really need their own books,
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This review is from: Batman: Featuring Two-Face and the Riddler (Paperback)
Another "best of" book for Batman's villains featured in a movie, this one was released to coincide with Batman Forever. Just like other trades like The Greatest Joker Stories and Scarecrow Tales, we get the first appearance of both of these villains as well as a few more recent tellings. And just like with those other books, the more recent the story is, the better.
Including the first stories these villains appeared in is definitely necessary to see where they came from, but suffer in comparison to the more recent retellings of their origins which have depth and maturity. It's nice to see that nothing much else changed though and the basic premise of these characters remained intact with their backstories (interesting fact, Two-Face's original name was Harvey Kent, probably changed later not to be confused with Clark). But other than that, the cheesiness of those early stories and the one liners always puts me off. Seeing Batman pitching in the Police vs. Fire dept. baseball game in broad daylight just does not work for me. The book starts getting good with Original Sins, which focuses a lot on The Penguin's back story oddly enough. Lots of good artists and writers contributed to that. The last story, The Eye of the Beholder, is by far the best which was featured in the Batman Annual in 1990. A re-telling of how Harvey became Two-Face. It's no Long Halloween, but it's the next best thing and goes to show that Two-Face is still one of Batman's most interesting and tragic villains ever. I would have liked to see more recent stuff with Riddler. In fact my biggest let down with this book is that they combined these two villains instead of giving them their own best of. The Scarecrow Tales gives us 8 stories and with this book they only get 3 stories each not including Original Sins. Not a bad collection for historical value, but way too short. These villains needed more pages. Here's a look at what's collected in this book. The Crimes of Two-Face ** The Man Who Led a Double Life ** The Riddler ** The Riddle-less Robberies of The Riddler ** The Riddler's Prison Puzzle Problem * Original Sins **** The Eye of the Beholder *****
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