The best part of The Batman Annuals: Volume One (DC) may be Michael Uslan’s introduction, where the Dark Knight producer waxes nostalgic about picking up these comics when they were originally published in the early ’60s, and how a bargain-priced “80-Page Giant” could provide many hours of entertainment to a kid back then. Too bad DC didn’t re-package these annuals in a way better suited to their contents. A straight-up issue-by-issue reprint—at a price actual children might be able to afford—would’ve been the ideal way to enjoy this motley assortment of Golden and Silver Age Batman stories. Once they’re slapped between hardcovers and imprinted as part of the “DC Comics Classics Library,” The Batman Annuals become just another overpriced collection of mildly diverting pop ephemera… B-