Trade paperback comics offer one of the most sensible and convenient ways for libraries to collect Graphic Novel material. Such titles typically represent the best stories and art available in today's market, covering original graphic novels as well as reprint collections of previously published Graphic Novels. For more about Graphic Novel publishing formats, click here.

Super-Heroes
Both DC and Marvel publish ongoing hardcover reprint series for their flagship super-hero titles, called DC Archives and Marvel Masterworks, respectively. In addition to these, hundreds of trade paperback collections reprint memorable or award-winning story arcs. The following titles represent some of the very best.

Amazing Spider-Man: The Death of Jean DeWolff
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman: The Long Halloween
Captain America: Operation Rebirth
Crisis on Infinite Earths
Daredevil: Born Again
Daredevil: Fall From Grace
Fearful Symmetry: Kraven's Last Hunt (Spider-Man)
Flash: Terminal Velocity
The Golden Age
Greatest Superman Stories Ever Told
Marvels
Superman: A Man For All Seasons
The Watchmen
Weapon X (Wolverine)
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
X-Men Visionaries: The Neal Adams Collection

Non-Super-Hero Reprints
Many of the Graphic Novel series recommended at this Web site can also be purchased in collected form as trade paperbacks, including those from independent comics publishers. The following list recommends some of the best non-super-hero reprint series.

Akiko
Bone
Cerebus
Concrete
Elfquest
Galaxion
Love and Rockets
Poe
Poison Elves
Sandman
Star Wars
Strangers in Paradise
Thieves and Kings
The Tick

Fantasy/Sci-Fi
Castle Waiting by Linda Medley
Clan Apis by Jay Hosler
Give Me Liberty: An American Dream by Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons
Michael Moorcock's Elric Stormbringer by P. Craig Russell
Pakkins' Land: Paul's Adventure by Gary and Rhoda Shipman
Robert E. Howard's Worms of the Earth by Roy Thomas and Tim Conrad
Scary Godmother by Jill Thompson
Starship Troopers adapted by Warren Ellis and Paoloo Parente
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore

Action/Adventure
Cavewoman by Budd Root
City of Light by Brian Floca and Avi
Tarzan of the Apes adapted by Russ Manning

Humor
Archie Americana Series
Fun With Milk and Cheese by Evan Dorkin
Patrick the Wolf Boy by Arthur Baltazar and Franco Aureliani
Roswell Walks Among Us by Bill Morrison
Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker

Realistic Fiction
All the Wrong Places by Tom Galambos
A Contract with God by Will Eisner
Eagle: The Making of An Asian-American President by Kaiji Kawaguchi
A Jew in Communist Prague by Vittorio Giardino
Kings in Disguise by James Vance and Dan Burr
A Life Force by Will Eisner
The Moon Looked Down and Laughed by Malachy Coney and Paul J. Holden
Stuck Rubber Baby by Howard Cruse
Tale of One Bad Rat by Bryan Talbot
Teenage Tokyo by Takashi Oguro and Jo Duffy

Classic Literature
Give It Up and Other Short Stories by Kafka adapted by Peter Kuper
The Jungle Book adapted by P. Craig Russell
The Last Knight: An Introduction to Don Quixote adapted by Will Eisner
The Wind In the Willows adapted by Michel Plessix

Nonfiction/Autobiographical
The Big Book of Conspiracies
The Big Book of Weirdos by Jim Ottaviani
Dignifying Science by Jim Ottaviani
Fax from Sarajevo by Joe Kubert
From Hungary by Tom Galambos
Last Day in Vietnam by Will Eisner
Lost Cause: John Wesley Hardin, the Taylor-Sutton Feud, and Reconstruction Texas by Jack Jackson
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Our Cancer Year by Joyce Brabner, Harvey Pekar, and Frank Stack
Palestine : In the Gaza Strip by Joe Sacco
Pedro and Me; Friendship, Loss and What I Learned by Judd Winick
Safe Area Gorazde by Joe Sacco
Streetwise: Autobiographical Stories by C
Two Fisted Science by Jim Ottaviani