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Originally Posted by Andanzas
Any recommendations from this lot?
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From DC's Joker sale, I give a firm recommend the "Emperor Joker" storyline, which is imaginative, entertaining, and very funny indeed (they adapted it for one of the episodes of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon) and can be read standalone with practically no knowledge of the continuity at the time of printing.
IIRC, the TPB version doesn't contain any bonus material in the back, so you probably won't be missing any extras by getting the single issues. Anyway, read a few of the sample pages to see if you like the humour and art style first, since apparently the main artist's cartoony stylized take might be considered to be an acquired taste for some readers, and it's a decidedly irreverent story which pokes a lot of fun at both the Superman and Batman mythoses.
And though you didn't ask for recs from the IDW sale, I will note that I give a very high unsolicited recommendation for Eric Shanower's
Little Adventures in Oz, which reprints his old graphic novels from the 80s or 90s. These are very well-done, gorgeously-illustrated original stories based on L. Frank Baum's world of Oz, done with a loving touch (Shanower is a major fan whom you may already know from his excellent and also recommended
Age of Bronze series based on the Trojan War, and also did some newer Oz stories for Marvel's classics line, with a more child-like exaggerated cartoony style), in a beautiful old-school "realistic" style with solidly enjoyable art and storytelling, truly suitable for all ages.
(I may perhaps be biased because I hunted down the original small press GNs across all the older local comic shops in the area before the deluxe hardcover collection reprint with oodles of behind-the-scenes bonuses finally came out, but whatever you pay for them, I'm pretty sure it would be well worth it.)