Bookshelf #16

This week's bookshelf is the last of my bookshelves on the first floor to be filled with DC Comics collections, all of which I would have acquired between 2012 and 2024 here. We've already looked at shelves containing DC manga and kids comics, Batman comics, Superman comics and those of some of the bigger DC heroes.

This one features a few books collecting solo series of more minor characters (The first chunk of Paul Levitz and Sonny Liew's 2015-2017 Doctor Fate series, the short-lived 1995 Black Lightning series launched by Ohio's own Jenny Blake and Eddie Newell, Garth Ennis and John McCrea's 1993-1995 run on The Demon, etc.), some team books (mostly Justice League books, but there are a few Justice Society and Suicide Squad collections and, rather randomly, the New 52 incarnation of Gail Simone's Secret Six and 2014's Teen Titans: Earth One Vol. 1), some collections of crossover event series (Zero Hour, Underworld Unleashed, Final Night, Forever Evil) and a whole bunch of miscellaneous comics (the first two volumes of the based-on-a-dumb-video game Injustice, Hanna-Barbera-related comics like Scooby-Doo Team-Up, Future Quest, Walter Simonson's 2012 original graphic novel The Judas Coin and a good number of those seasonal anthologies with spines that DC was publishing at the time etc.).

If you're surprised to see any of these books here, some of which are collections of series I read in singles and did not care for (Geoff Johns' New 52 Justice League, Injustice, The New 52: Futures End), I should note that those and a few of the others here came from DC directly, during a relatively short period in which they would send me review copies.  

Looking at the shelf now, I find myself wishing that DC would have collected Alan Grant's run on The Demon that preceded that of Ennis and McCrea, that they would have continued collecting Justice League Task Force after that first volume (the series doesn't get really good until it jettisons the rotating writers with rotating casts and Christopher Priest takes over, making it simply one more Justice League ongoing) and, as I've said many times before, that DC would collect their annual events like Armageddon 2001, Eclipso: The Darkness Within, Bloodlines, Pulp Heroes and so on into DC Finest collections like they did with Crisis on Infinite Earths and Zero Hour (even if it would take a few volumes to collect all of the bigger events).