The First List--Silver Age to Crisis On Infinite Earths

Yes. I'm very much delayed here. This may or may not be how the blog goes--who can say?

Instead of my normal Monday update (yes, it's currently very barely Thursday, but shush), where I would go over the comics I read this week, I've gone over my list of comics and written the whole thing out. This is Part One of what I will be officially reading--from the Silver Age to Crisis On Infinite Earths.

The order as listed here is the theoretical order, but may be subject to change. I own a lot of this, but still need to round out my Showcase collection, grab a few trades, etc. Some of this hasn't been released yet, but let's be honest--by the time I get to it on the list, it probably will be. The only items of concern are Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Volume 4 (which will probably be solicited soon, judging by the pacing of the previous three) and Showcase Present: The Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights and Hercules. This Showcase originally had a very clear release date of October 24, but was removed from the schedule for no known reason. Given the apparent involvement of the Great Disaster in Countdown and the upcoming Final Crisis, I have no idea why it was removed--but regardless, I'm just hoping it will be re-solicited soon.

It should be noted that my local comic shop is having a major trade sale--tons of things available for four dollars each. Next Wednesday, I'll be raiding that set again and grabbing available Showcases. So there may be new items on this list--but unless they're available at the sale, I won't be buying them.

Items on upcoming solicitations may be added and read at any time.

Note that the order on this is NOT necessarily chronological. Everything involving Showcases and Archives is arranged as such to preserve my sanity. Excellent things, such as the Fourth World and the Legion Archives, are spread out in a more or less even distribution, so that I have something to look forward to when reading the various Silver Age Showcases. While they may not necessarily be in chronological order, they all happened around the same general time period of Awhile Ago, and since titles didn't have much continuity within themselves, let alone with other books, I don't feel it matters much what I read when. A chronological order is more or less established after the Showcase list is finished, and only becomes confusing when you add in the Legion issues (which are tossed in using publishing order instead of chronological order, given that, in chronological order, they'd be at the very end of my reading...except for the issues that cross over to present time, which would result in some very weird reading).

Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Volume 1
Showcase Presents: Superman Volume 1
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 1
Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Volume 1
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 2
Showcase Presents: Challengers of the Unknown Volume 1
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 3
Showcase Presents: Superman Volume 2
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Volume 2
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 4
Showcase Presents: Supergirl Volume 1
Showcase Presents: SHAZAM! Volume 1
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 5
Showcase Presents: Green Lantern Volume 1
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 6
Showcase Presents: Teen Titans Volume 2
Showcase Presents: Elongated Man Volume 1
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 7
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Volume 3
Showcase Presents: Superman Volume 3
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 8
Showcase Presents: Green Lantern Volume 2
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 9
Showcase Presents: Superman Family Volume 1
Showcase Presents: Justice League of America Volume 1
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 10
Showcase Presents: The Phantom Stranger Volume 1
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus Volume 4
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 11
Showcase Presents: Superman Family Volume 2
Legion of Super-Heroes Archives Volume 12
Showcase Presents: Justice League of America Volume 2
Showcase Presents: The Great Disaster Featuring the Atomic Knights and Hercules Volume 1
Showcase Presents: Justice League of America Volume 3
Justice League of America: Zatanna's Search (To be read when appropriate with Showcase Presents: Justice League of America Volume 3)
Justice Society Volume 1
Justice Society Volume 2
Huntress: Dark Knight Daughter
Superman: 3-D
Legion of Super-Heroes 259-271
Secrets of the Legion of Super-Heroes 1-3
Legion of Super-Heroes 272-289
Legion of Super-Heroes: Great Darkness Saga
The New Teen Titans 18
The New Teen Titans 21-22
The New Teen Titans 26-27
Legion of Super-Heroes 295-300
The New Teen Titans: Terra Incognito
Legion of Super-Heroes 301-306
The New Teen Titans 35
Keebler Company Presents DC Comics' The New Teen Titans (Drug Special)
Showcase Presents: Batman and the Outsiders
Sword of the Atom
The New Teen Titans 38
The New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract
Legion of Super-Heroes 307-313
Tales of the Teen Titans 46-50
Legion of Super-Heroes: An Eye for an Eye
The New Teen Titans: Terror of Trigon
The New Teen Titans 6 (Reprinted as Tales of the Teen Titans 65)
Legion of Super-Heroes 7-8
DC Presents 80
Legion of Super-Heroes 9
Special: The Legion of Substitute Heroes
Legion of Super-Heroes 10
Tales of the Teen Titans 51-55
The New Teen Titans 9-11 (Reprinted as Tales of the Teen Titans 68-70)
Legion of Super-Heroes 11-14
Tales of the Teen Titans 56-58
The New Teen Titans 12 (Reprinted as Tales of the Teen Titans 71)
Crisis On Infinite Earths
The New Teen Titans 13 (Reprinted as Tales of the Teen Titans 72; to be read when appropriate with Crisis On Infinite Earths)
The New Teen Titans 14 (To be read as appropriate with Crisis On Infinite Earths)
Legion of Super-Heroes 15 (To be read as appropriate with Crisis On Infinite Earths)
Legion of Super-Heroes Annual 1
Legion of Super-Heroes 16-18 (To be read as appropriate with Crisis On Infinite Earths)