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New Batman: Bruce Wayne Murderers For Old…

bruceRecently, DC Comics published a new trade paperback collection of the Batman comic Bruce Wayne: Murderer? by Ed Brubaker, Greg Rucka, Chuck Dixon, Devin Grayson, Kelly Puckett, Rick Burchett, Rick Leonardi, Steve Lieber, Trevor McCarthy, Scott McDaniel, Roger Robinson, Damion Scott and Pete Woods.

Quite the crossover.

But it seems they managed to miss out a couple of chapters of the story, from Detective Comics #768 and Gotham Knights #29.

And those that did run were out of order.

Oops.

As an Amazon reader writes,

The new Murderer TPB unfortunately is another case of the solicits being wrong. It includes Detective Comics 769-770 but skips Detective Comics 768, the first of Greg Rucka's three part "Purity" storyline. The solicitations listed Detective Comics 766-767 as being in the new Murderer tpb (and they are), and 768-775 as being in the upcoming new Fugitive collection. They clearly decided to include more issues, but 768, for whatever bizarre reason, went AWOL and is not included in the new trade (though it was in the old trades). Even the Table of Contents is wrong, mislabelling 769 as "Purity Part 1" instead of part 2.

It's almost as if there's someone in DC's Collected Editions whose job it is to make sure any potentially "complete" collections leave at least one issue out. It's really unendingly frustrating. Why go through the trouble to reprint an already collected story and do it right if you're, you know, still going to leave stuff out? (Kind of like not even having a summary page, let alone the actual issues, from the Knightquest: The Search storyline in the recollected Knightfall TPBs, so there's no explanation for how Bruce Wayne heals from his Bane-induced injuries.)

And another…

This new collection is indeed missing an issue and contains a faulty table of contents. DC will supposedly be recalling it. Thanks for once again screwing fans who preorder, DC. The problems with DC collected editions are really getting old…just a complete lack of oversight and total disrespect for fans who give their hard-earned cash.

Not to worry though, DC Comics will be shipping full replacement copies to all shops who ordered them, arriving on May 14th.

So, if you have a copy of the shorter, out of order version, get in touch with your retailer, ordering service or the like. You have a replacement on its way.

Nice one, DC. If there was a survey I could fill in, I would give this one a tick.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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