I lost track of the monthly continuity of the big superhero universes a long time ago, but now I can't even keep track of how many groovy short story collections there are, or even how many black and white Batman comics exist.
There is a flood of black and white anthologies at the moment, often with an added colour (usually red), but DC have been publishing B+W Batman tales in special anthology mini series and back-ups since the 1990s, and every now and then I find a new collection of them that I genuinely had no idea existed, even though it's full of great writers and fantastic artists like JH Williams III, Greg Smallwood, Emma Rios, Kelley Jones, Nick Derrington, Sophie Campbell and many, many more.
I got a 2020 one from the library the other day, and it was full of stories I'd never seen before. Most of the writing was just a bit obvious, but there is also a beautiful array of these modern artists, letting their freak fly. I should ignore all the colour comics more often.

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