Get the trade paperback comics.
They're the individual comics that are collected into one volume.
It's also cheaper to get trade paperbacks.
Good starting off points for a Batman collection would be:
Batman: Year One
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Killing Joke
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What would a good starter comic be for someone who wants to start collecting Batman comics?Trade Paperbacks, which some people call "graphic novels" are your best option if he is just starting. These collect full story-arcs from the original comics in a full book format. Usually between 3 and 12 individual comic issues make up one trade paperback. They are also almost always cheaper than tracking down and buying the individual issues. Some of the best Batman trade paperbacks to start with are:
Batman: Year One by Frank Miller
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli
Joker by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo
Batman: War on Crime by Paul Dini and Alex Ross
Batman: Black and White volume 1 - short stories by many great comics writers and artists
Batman and Robin volume 1 by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely
Kingdom Come by Mark Waid and Alex Ross - more of a Superman story, but Batman fans will love it too.
If your boyfriend is set on individual issues, you can buy up collections for cheap on eBay. There is a glut of Batman comics from 1988 - 1995 available, and you can usually get those for less than 10 cents each if you buy $30 or more worth. It depends on the individual series, of which there are many for Batman, but most titles from that period can be had for dirt cheap
Buy him a graphic novel. If he got Batman RIP, it's epic enough to pique his interest in everything that lead up to that moment. But pass this note to him for when he begins his own collection. It will save him a lot of hassle %26amp; money.
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Since absolutely everything that happened to Batman before the 80s was retconned, I'd start with issues of Batman/Detective Comics that took place after Absolute Crisis on Infinite Earths. Of course, a lot of THAT was retconned in the 90s with Zero Hour.
If you're planning to buy issues %26amp; not compilations compiled into graphic novels, I recommend going this way:
*Batman #511-current.
*Detective Comics 678-current.
*About 10,000 side-series, spin-offs, alternate universe stories, %26amp; guest appearances.
I used Batman's comic history at COMIC VINE to catch up with my collection, so I knew what I needed, when it came out, %26amp; what all comics he was in.
The current origin-retelling is a series called Batman Confidential.
The Killing Joke tells about an outdated origin of the Joker, but it's essential for Barbara Gordon. If Barbara's origin is ever retold in Confidential, Killing Joke won't even be canon anymore.
The Dark Knight Returns is Elseworlds, parallel universe. It's a good story, but I recommend skipping it's trippy sequal.What would a good starter comic be for someone who wants to start collecting Batman comics?
well if your just starting you got a long road ahead it will be hard and costly to colect some of batmans finer comics but lucky for your the economy is down and the comic world is at a low point so you can purchase many comics at ebay for cheap. since batman is a long series it wouldnt matter where you start
Well if you are serious about making money off collecting comics you will have to be dishing out Major money as comics are no longer very collectible and the ones that are are expensive, if you are doing it as a hobey then i would go for one of the more popular batman stories like "Batman: Hush"
i have a collection of 1400 batman and connected character comics to sell, various first editions and four part stories, maybe to many for you, could send you a list if required?
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