We all have trade paperback (TPB) collections we'd like to see. Here's one of mine:

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At seventeen issues, this would be one of those massive TPB's, and frankly, the only reason I thought of it was as a way to get Batman: Year 3 into a collection. DC will never put Year 3 into a collection by itself (especially now that they've done Robin: Year One) so I was just playing with ideas here. I probably wouldn't have thought of Year 100, were it not for the responses to my forum post, Does anyone remember "Batman: Year 3?", so thanks all, for that.

I would have made it just Batman: Year One to Three, but "1 to 100" sounded better. It could be done that way though, leaving Year 100 out of the collection. In a way, that would be better, because 1-3 were produced very close together, and100 came years later. I just think it'd be cool to have the bigger book. The smaller book would be easier to handle though, and less likely to separate from the cover.

Hindrances to this might be that Year One, Year Two (akaYear Two: Fear the Reaper) and Year 100 have all been collected in trade already:

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DC may not want to collect a new volume, especially since Year One and Year Two sell pretty well on their own. Still, a compendium type volume with all four "Year" stories might be of interest to newer readers - many of whom may have only read Batman: Year 100.

For the cover, no one single issue cover is a good representation of all of the stories contained in the TPB, so this is one of the rare cases where I'd say an original cover is needed.

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#21: Batman: The Caped Crusader, Volume 2: The Origin of Robin.

Moved to the Batman: The Caped Crusader forum.

Thanks again!

I have not seen anything like this published all these stories (except Year Three) have been published solo.

Year 100 is one of the best Batman stories I've ever read. The whole thing has a bank heist on crack intensity to it that is just made that much cooler with Popes unique style. I Strongly recommend it!

I would if I could :)

@thechessclub said:

"Year 100 is one of the best Batman stories I've ever read. The whole thing has a bank heist on crack intensity to it that is just made that much cooler with Popes unique style. I Strongly recommend it! "

 
Thanks.  I have yet to read Year 100, but it's on my list.  Unfortunately, my list includes many boxes of unread comics, due to several moves. :} 

@Stripes said:

"I would if I could :) "

I would too, but really, I just want a TPB of Year 3. ;}