The ''DC Comics Classics Library'' was a
line
Line most often refers to:
* Line (geometry), object with zero thickness and curvature that stretches to infinity
* Telephone line, a single-user circuit on a telephone communication system
Line, lines, The Line, or LINE may also refer to:
Arts ...
of hardcover
comic book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are of ...
collections, collecting older
DC Comics
DC Comics, Inc. (doing business as DC) is an American comic book publisher and the flagship unit of DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery.
DC Comics is one of the largest and oldest American comic book companies, with thei ...
storylines in a standardized reprint format along a similar direction as
Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics is an American comic book publishing, publisher and the flagship property of Marvel Entertainment, a divsion of The Walt Disney Company since September 1, 2009. Evolving from Timely Comics in 1939, ''Magazine Management/Atlas Co ...
' ''Marvel Premiere Classic'' hardcover comic book collection line, which started in 2006. Nine volumes were released between 2009 and 2010 (a 10th volume was announced, but never published due to its cancellation),
after which the line was cancelled. No further volumes were published after that (and none have been published to this day).
Collections
Reprints
In 2011,
trade paperback Trade paperback may refer to:
* Trade paperback, a higher-quality softcover version of a book
* Trade paperback (comics)
In comics in the United States, a trade paperback (shortened: TPB or trade) is a collection of stories originally published ...
s were released for both the ''Roots of the Swamp Thing'' volume (with the same cover design as the hardcover version) and the ''Batman: A Death in the Family'' volume (with a new cover design that was different from the hardcover version) with both of them no longer bearing the ''DC Comics Classics Library'' name.
See also
* ''
Marvel Premiere Classic
''Marvel Premiere Classic'' was a line of hardcover comic book collections, collecting Marvel Comics storylines in a standardized reprint format. 107 volumes were released, beginning in 2006. Each edition featured two covers: a standard cover and ...
''
*
List of comic books on CD/DVD
References
DC Comics lines
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