A few of the blogs that I read daily have lately been posting Batman information so I wanted to highlight Batman Legends. This is a UK magazine published by Titan Magazines. It's bi-monthly and is made up of reprint material from the American originals.
When I was a kid it always used to annoy me that the American super hero comics seemed that much better than the UK versions but these days I think, that although made up of reprint material and thus never gaining the collector value of the original, the UK have the edge. The comics are bound in a nice limp back covers, like trade paperbacks and they are much more durable than the American originals. Titan also publish Superman Legends but I can't say I'm a regular reader of that title since I've never really been one for The Man of Steel.
Panini Books publish, in identical formats, the Marvel range over here in the UK and some of these titles are essential reading.
These titles are monthly and the
company are currently running the Civil War storyline across their range of titles. I don't buy all of these but I do like Marvel Legends and Mighty World of Marvel. Avengers Unconquered is also very good. The company also publish A Fantastic Four title as well as Spiderman and the X men.They're certainly a vast improvement over the UK editions we had as a kid - then the Marvel/DC adaptions were often printed in black and white as most UK comics were at that time.
Batman Legends is my favourite title in terms of story as I like the noir feel of the modern Batman. But the Marvel comics have the edge of the DC ones because each title has a lively letters page. Neither Batman or Superman have much of a letter page and, as with the American titles, I always enjoy the readers letters. Maybe that's the aging fanboy inside me.
