Showcase Presents: DC Comics Presents Superman Team-Ups Vol. 1 [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: Showcase Presents | Publication Date: November 24, 2009

Superman meets DC's greatest heroes including The Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and many more in this title collecting DC COMICS PRESENTS #1-26.

Product Details

• Paperback: 512 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (November 24, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401225357
• ISBN-13: 978-1401225353
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 1.1 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #919,360 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Superman team-up stories, January 23, 2010

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Brian Reaves (Anniston, AL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Showcase Presents: DC Comics Presents Superman Team-Ups Vol. 1 (Paperback)

Just like the "Showcase Present Batman Brave and the Bold Team Ups", this book collects the other great DC team-up book of that era. Superman finds himself allied with A-list heroes like the Flash, Green Lantern, and Wonder Woman, along with a few lesser-knowns like Adam Strange, Red Tornado, and even Swamp Thing. Of course, those DC team-up staples The Metal Men make their obligatory appearance here (though thankfully not once every four issues like they do in the BATB team up books).

Jose Garcia Lopez's artwork is incredible and it's a shame more of the stories weren't drawn by him. Most of these are self-contained stories, though a few run two issues. The first two issues are stand-outs as far as storyline is concerned, while the Aquaman and Green Lantern team-ups seem a little weak. The Swamp Thing team-up is probably the weakest artistically, but even that's not too bad. This is 80's storytelling at its best.

Hopefully this will get another volume, as the title was still going strong for a little while longer before deteriorating into the standard DC fare that was easily avoided in the late 80's/early 90's. The nice thing about a book like this is even if you aren't a real fan of Superman, you're going to find a hero or two in there that you love reading about.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Cool format Love the Black and White., March 13, 2010

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Freddy (Orwell NY) - See all my reviews

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I have to be honest, i have an addiction and the only cure is Showcase and Essentials Books!

This Volume of Superman team-ups is fun, some stories suffer from bad writing but still fun.

And i have to tell you all how much i love these black and white collections. I actually prefer them the color collections. The black and whites take a little more reading a little more brain power to work out the story. Plus its the pure creative team, its up to the pencils (And inks) and the writer to tell you a good story. I love the format and i would actually buy all my comics in this format i would love it of Both DC and Marvel just collected every issue of a character on going tittles in this format.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun, fun, fun!, January 10, 2010

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Jeffrey B. Glover "Jeffrey Glover" - See all my reviews
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I haven't read some of these stories since they were in print 30 years ago. The stories with art by Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez are some of the best drawn Superman stories ever.