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AJ Jorge August 17th, 2005

I completed my Superman/Batman collection last night. Well, not fully completed as there are 4 more issues to come. I missed issues 1-6 when they came out last 2003. I started with #7 and I’m on #21 now out of 25 issues. When I bought #7, there are still #4-#6 around but it will be impossible to buy #1-#3 for sure without shelling out extra money. So I just waited for the compilation of #1-#6.

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Tradepaper back – collecting issues #1-#6

I now have 3 comic book compilation – (1)Superman For All Seasons, (2)Kingdom Come and (3)Superman/Batman: Public Enemies. I’m thinking of selling my single comics and just buy the compilations. But then again, Peter T. told me that prices of compilations do not increase unlike the singles which are a good investment. A newly released single comics is usually priced at 150-180 pesos at the comics stores. After a week or so, collectors and hoarders are selling them twice sometimes thrice as much as the original price. Much like the Superman/Batman #1 – which for sure is a collector’s copy now – is probably priced at about 1,000 to 1.5k depending on the quality of the comics. So maybe I’ll just hold onto my single comics now.

Going back to Superman/Batman: Public Enemies book, it’s one of the best Superman/Batman story written. In the current timeline of the DC universe, Lex Luthor is the president of the USA and Pete Ross is his vice-president. (How Lex became the president is another comic book read altogether.) As it is, Lex gained the trust and support of the public and ultimately used that edge and proclaimed Superman as a threat to humanity. He organized a ‘meta-human’ army to arrest Superman at all costs. He even put a bounty on Superman which brought all kinds of villains who tried to arrest Superman.

It was all worth it. I’m still giddy that I now own a copy of the compilation. ?

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