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    The Unofficial DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline Vol. 1
    The Unofficial DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline Vol. 1
    The Unofficial DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline Vol. 1
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    The Unofficial DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline Vol. 1

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    The Unofficial DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline is a guide for DC Comics fans wanting to read DC's library of collected editions in order. The Timeline organizes over 800 collections in reading order, with copious notes to help explain how the books fit together. The Timeline is the perfect resource for new fans of the DC Universe or anyone who wants to catch up on DC Universe storylines. The Timeline is organized by DC Comics crossovers, offering a quick glance at the most significant events in the DC Universe as well as collections that readers might have missed.

    The book includes an introduction by the author and an additional "Recommended Reading" section.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCollected Editions
    Release dateJan 23, 2012
    ISBN9781465845740
    The Unofficial DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline Vol. 1
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    Since 2005, Collected Editions has been the "wait for trade headquarters," one of the best-regarded blogs for discussions of reading comic books in collected trade paperback and hardcover format. Collected Editions features news, reviews, commentary, and the occasional scoop -- and now ebooks to help expand our readers understand the comic book industry and the various story universes. One popular feature of the Collected Editions site is the DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline, which seeks to organize all of DC's collected comics in their proper reading order; an expanded edition of the timeline was Collected Editions' first ebook.

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      The Unofficial DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline Vol. 1 - Collected Editions

      The Unofficial DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline - Vol. 1

      By Collected Editions

      Copyright 2011 Collected Editions (revised 2012)

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Legends

      Millennium

      Invasion

      The 1990s

      Zero Hour

      Underworld Unleashed

      Final Night

      DC One Million

      Our Worlds at War/Joker's Last Laugh

      The 2000s

      Identity Crisis

      Infinite Crisis

      52/One Year Later

      Countdown to Final Crisis

      Final Crisis

      Blackest Night

      Brightest Day/Flashpoint

      Pre-Crisis (Recommended Reading)

      Connect with Collected Editions Online

      Introduction

      In August 2005, as part of the Collected Editions blog, I began compiling the DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline.

      DC Comics had finished publishing their Identity Crisis miniseries at the end of 2004 and they were about to release the hardcover collection. This was the beginning of a time of resurgence, of sorts, for DC Comics. Whereas the company had once published event crossovers (event miniseries plus tie-ins with various ongoing series) almost every year, their last few had been lukewarmly-received, including 2001’s Joker’s Last Laugh. Identity Crisis had not been intended as a crossover miniseries, but it proved so popular (or controversial, depending on your point of view) that a number of titles reflected its events before it ended.

      Almost immediately, DC began to tie all of their ongoing titles into its next crossover event, Infinite Crisis. This period saw DC publish four Countdown to Infinite Crisis lead-in miniseries, and at one point nearly every DC Comics title tied in to one of these miniseries, sometimes even connecting to more than one miniseries at once. This was a time of perhaps unprecedented continuity between the various DC Comics titles, and it proved successful enough to provide a model for DC’s crossover events going forward.

      Previously, DC Comics’s trade collections (collections of single issues representing a storyline or event, in hardcover or paperback but colloquially called trade paperbacks) had been mostly self-contained. Though the connections seem more obvious now, collections like that of DC’s event Zero Hour or Superman: The Wedding and Beyond usually contained only the story’s most relevant issues; these books were more like souvenirs to mark events gone past, or ways curiosity-seekers could catch up those times that DC Comics made the evening news, than books to be read in a larger context.

      Somewhere around DC’s 2002 Batman story Hush, however (and not later than 2003’s Teen Titans relaunch), the entire comics industry saw a change in the growing popularity and prevalence of trade paperbacks. Trades became more common and even expected—at DC, Hush began a period of rotating creative teams on the Batman titles writing related stories, with each storyline collected in a trade; starting with Teen Titans: A Kid’s Game, DC collected almost all one hundred issues of Teen Titans in successive volumes, a collection frenzy rarely seen before. Readers began to wait for the trade, forgoing monthly issues for the trade paperbacks that would follow soon after; DC now releases one or two trade paperbacks every week, sometimes announcing collections even before all the issues collected in the book have been released individually.

      In the period between Identity Crisis and Infinite Crisis, I saw trade paperbacks take on a new personality. The Justice Society of America collection JSA: Lost actually billed itself as an Identity Crisis tie-in, something I’d never seen a trade do before—DC was actually encouraging readers to follow continuity between collections in the same way they might do between single issues.

      Meanwhile, a number of DC Comics writers who handled multiple titles began creating their own tight continuity between their books. Notably, now-Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns began Identity Crisis-era storylines for the characters Impulse and Jessie Quick in the Flash title that would culminate in Teen Titans and JSA respectively; Johns featured the character Hal Jordan in Flash and JSA before returning Jordan to life and to his status as Green Lantern in the Green Lantern: Rebirth miniseries—and all of it could be followed with relative ease through trade paperback collections.

      It was interesting enough to me, and I enjoyed enough tracing and re-tracing the story paths, that it was time to get it down on digital paper rather than try to remember the growing continuity swirls. I had begun the Collected Editions blog as a venue for trade paperback fans to discuss our favorite books; if this continuity timeline and trade reading order interested me, I imagined it would interest the Collected Editions readers as well. The timeline began with about 150 books, and it’s grown to include over 800. The DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline remains one of the most viewed posts at Collected Editions.

      This ebook edition of the DC Comics Trade Paperback Timeline organizes most every mainstream collection published by DC Comics from the beginning of the modern era (1986’s Crisis on Infinite Earths, but even some earlier collections) through the recent Flashpoint event that lead into DC’s New 52 relaunch and continuity, presenting the complete reading order for over the last twenty-five years of DC Comics. The timeline will continue to expand on the Collected Editions website to include the New 52 collections as they’re released later this year.

      This ebook is dedicated to everyone who’s read and supported Collected Editions, the guest-posters, and especially everyone who’s taken the time to leave a comment or share their thoughts over the years. Every comment has been read, and every one has been appreciated. Thank you, and enjoy.

      This is a fan-written, non-fiction, informational reading guide—the books and characters referred to herein are the properties of their respective owners.

      Legends

      * Batman: Year One

      * Catwoman: Her Sister’s Keeper

      * Superman: The Man of Steel Volume 1

      Technically DC Comics published Batman: Year One after the Legends crossover, but story-wise it takes place before Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 1. Catwoman: Her Sister’s Keeper takes place during the events of Batman: Year One; this origin of Catwoman has at times been superseded but may largely be back in continuity as of the Ed Brubaker Catwoman series. There’s

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