The Comic Cavalcade: Archives Volume 1

One of the longest comics I ever read and my first foray into the Golden Age of comic books, The Comic Cavalcade: Archives Volume 1 is a collection of the first three issues of the Comic Cavalcade series by DC Comics, with some as long as 96 pages long. Originally debuting in the 1940s, each of the first three issues told stories revolving around The Flash, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern as well as other lesser known superheroes, adventure stories, comedy skits, and written shorts. While it was fun to read these older stories, there are some problems they have that are obvious for today's readers. While it makes sense that there are numerous times when they make Hitler to look like an absolute fool due to World War 2, the over the top German accents they gave to some characters made it hard to read. The odd resolutions and over the top ways some stories played out showed how young comics were at the time and how they weren't always taken serious unlike today. Wonder Woman always being bound by her hands and having to be rescued, a pirate hero and his son donning their costumes just to get clothes for their family, lots of paragraphs for each frame, and a police detective being hired by Hollywood all because he was good at his job. For it's time it's very racial insensitive in that it portrays any Japanese, African American, and other minorities as over the top stereotypes. It still has some really great artwork made by the best that DC Comics had to offer for their times. Over all: 68%
1. Deadpool Killustrated
2. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #6
3. Civil War: Choosing Sides Vol. 1 #1
4. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #4
5. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3
6. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2
7. An Innocent Guy
8. Batman: The Killing Joke
9. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
10. Batman: The Long Halloween
11. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers 2016 Annual #1
12. Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe
13. Crisis on Infinite Earths
14. Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5
15. Star Trek/Planet of the Apes: The Primate Directive
16. Star Trek: The Next Generation/Doctor Who: Assimilation2
17. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1
18. The Dark Knight Returns
19. Cartoon Network Super Secret Crisis War
20. Marvel Masterworks: The Avengers Vol. 1
21. The Comic Cavalcade: Archives Volume 1
22. Civil War
23. The New Mutants #98