My thanks - I used the time downloading it all to put it together

Clocks in at around 7.6GB in total but if you get the HD version of one comic it goes up to 9.5GB (its 2GB comic)

Is the CBZ file format the HD ones? I prefer cbz, and second cbr, PDF of course if that is the only option.
I have never been successful with extracting the images, and text from a comic in a PDF. It always comes out half baked.

I've no idea if the different formats have different visual qualities. There is only one comic marked, in PDF, as high definition. All the rest are regular.


Edit - far as I can tell they all have the same quality. The different formats are just that; different formats. Mobi is for the kindle; whilst cbr / cbz are just comicbook formats which need a comic reader, but let you read pane by pane. PDF is the same quality, however it reads page by page rather than pane by pane.

Does it matter in what order I read Batman: Earth One, and Superman: Earth one? I have Batman: Earth One Vol. 1-2, but I am waiting for a sale on the Superman title. I am interested because I hear they are pretty good, and I have not read a Superman comic in years.

Secondary question to the main one. I am reading Batman: Year One, will I miss any context if I read Gordon of Gotham following immediately afterwards?

If I may share my opinion...

If you liked the film, then you should buy Shazam!: Origins, because the film is heavily based on that comic, but it's the most modern version and changes a lot of core things about the character —I'm not saying this as a bad thing, mind you, just as a fact.

On the other hand, I would recommend buying Shazam!: A celebration of 75 years before anything else. It gathers stories from all the different versions of the character (the original Captain Marvel when it was published by Fawcett Comics, and the three or four attempts DC Comics has launched since the 70s) and the good thing is that, if you buy it now, you have nearly a month to read it and decide which is the version you like the most.

Personally, if you want a kid-friendly comic, I would put my money on Jeff Smith's Shazam! The Monster Society of Evil and the comic book series that followed it, Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam.

Then, If you liked the film, like a said before, your comic is Shazam! Origins (but I wouldn't buy the new series, because only the issues one to four are on sale and nowadays DC Comics rarely put anything but Graphic Novels on sale, so next time you will have to pay full price for issues 5 and 6 or buy the graphic novel collecting them).

Last, but not least, if you want a modern approach but closer to the original Captain Marvel, I would buy The Power of Shazam by Jerry Ordway. It's possibly one of the best takes on the character and you have the original graphic novel on sale and all the issues (1-47) of the regular series that followed up, including the annual from 1996. Sadly, there is only one missing comic, the 1 000 000 special issue.

Kingdom Come is a comic with Captain Marvel in it, but it's not a proper Captain Marvel comic. Anyway, it's a must-have for any reader.

The rest of the sale is also interesting, but I would recommended it only for hardcore fans: Shazam! The New Beggining, Convergence: Shazam!, the Trials of Shazam! and Superman / Shazam First Thunder! are good comics even if they didn't make a big impact on the long run. And then you have a lot of single issues from several series which I cannot really recommended and I'd only buy if I'm really interested in those.

The big thing missing from the sale is The Multiversity: Thunderworld Adventures from 2014. A great comic by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart that can be read as a stand-alone issue starring a very funny and classic version of Captain Marvel with a modern approach à la All-Star Superman.

Does it matter in what order I read Batman: Earth One, and Superman: Earth one? I have Batman: Earth One Vol. 1-2, but I am waiting for a sale on the Superman title. I am interested because I hear they are pretty good, and I have not read a Superman comic in years.

Secondary question to the main one. I am reading Batman: Year One, will I miss any context if I read Gordon of Gotham following immediately afterwards?
-Reposted since seems no one saw this.


@Jsmnox

Thanks for expanding upon the Shazam! comics sale. It did help clear up some things that was confusing to me.

Humble Comics Bundle: Creator Spotlight Jeff Lemire:
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/creator-spotlight-jeff-lemire-books?hmb_source=navbar&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=tile_index_4

I finally found the time to take a closer look at the Jeff Lemire Humble Bundle.
So there's quite a number of repeats from earlier Humble Bundles ("Essex County", "Lost Dogs", Vol. 1-2 of "Descender", Vol. 1 of "Royal City", "The Valiant", "Bloodshot Reborn"), but considering it contains some complete (until now unbundled) series ("Descender", "A.D.: After Death") and miniseries/Graphic Novels ("Sherlock Frankenstein", "Plutona", "Underwater Welder") plus big parts of an ongoing series ("Gideon Falls") it's still a good bundle - even better, of course, if you don't own the repeats.

And obviously it would help if they fix the quality problems mentioned by eladz ...

Just to update - they said the would contact the publishers and consult with them on it.

I guess that the more people contact them about it, the more they will actually try to do something about it, so I urge you all to write their support team.

Thanks to this warning, I bought the $1 tier of the bundle and compared the Descender 1 files with the files on Comixology and the difference is indeed quite noticeable. Some numbers:

HB CBZ pictures are 1590 x 2445 JPG at 50% quality
Comixology CBZ pictures are 1988 x 3056 at 92% quality

Another difference: Descender has several double pages like the one at the top of this article. In the files of the Humble Bundle, these are cut into two pages, even in the PDF files.

I did complain to HB too.

What is the status of repeats for HUMBLE BOOK BUNDLE: PULP FICTION BY HARD CASE CRIME?

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/pulp-fiction-books

No repeats regarding the included comics (don't know about the books)!
According to my research all comics are complete miniseries (usually 3 to 5 issues each, only "Dragon Tattoo" has just two issues) or one-shots ("Prague Coup", "Tyler Cross") and one Graphic Novel ("Babylon Berlin").

If I wouldn't prefer reading books in my native language German this would be a great bundle for me but I may still take the middle tier (don't care about "Dragon Tattoo" and "Babylon Berlin" since I know the stories).

Is there any easy way to get these books (not the comics) onto a regular Kindle?

It's a pain to jump through the email hoop, and then they don't appear in a regular format with nice covers, etc.

I suspect it's the only way, but i'd love to hear I'm missing something!

Previous bundles had Mobi files that could be downloaded and copied onto a Kindle.
This bundle? I'd try converting the ePUB files to Mobi with Calibre or something like it and checking any options that could be tweaked.