BALITMORE OMNIBUS VOL 1 TPB

$29.99, 568 pages, Dark Horse

For thirty bucks, you get four complete trades (about twenty issues) of the adventures of Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden’s Lord Henry Baltimore, a wounded World War I solider who scours the globe to hunt and destroy monstrous vampires. Also included, Dark Horse’s always vital backup sketch material and story notes from Mignola and artist Ben Steinbeck, worth the price of admission alone.

Collects: Baltimore: The Plague Ships, Baltimore: The Curse Bells, Baltimore: The Passing Stranger, and Baltimore: Chapel of Bones.

BATMAN ADVENTURES OMNIBUS HC

$150, 1,200 pages, DC

The best Batman comics of the ’90s are also the best Batman comics of today. Based on everyone’s favorite TV show, this collection reprints the classic series in DC’s oversized omnibus format. The art, and especially the clever one-and-done comic yarns, feel as fresh as they did thirty years ago and make the case once again to let continuity go and just tell good stories.

Collects: The Batman Adventures #1-36, Annual #1-2, Batman Adventures: Holiday Special, material from Batman Black & White #1, Batman Adventures: Mad Love, and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm.