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To rank the quality of each series from lowest to greatest would go as follows.
Showcase Presents: Batman - super cheap paper, printed only in black and white.
Batman Chronicles - much better quality paper, printed in color, a lot less pages than Showcase presents
Batman Archives - Most expensive, high quality glossy paper, printed in color, more pages than Batman Chronicles but less than Showcase Presents.
If you are about high quality than get the archives. If you just want to read it in color then go with Chronicles. If you just want to read the story and the quality doesn't matter then get Showcase presents (I got showcase Presents for Green arrow vol 1 for $5 at my local shop and I didn't regret it)
There's a lot of absolutely insane, wonderful Silver Age comics out there. Writers like Bob Haney, Otto Binder, Bob Kanigher, and Cary Bates did great work back then. Check out DC's Showcase collections for some of the best stuff.
The thing about Silver Age comics is that they are basically Saturday morning cartoons. Stuff gets crazy, but then it's all back to the status quo by the end of the story.
If you want the very first introductions of the characters, DC puts out Showcase volumes, which contain a ton of issues from the very early adventures. They are black and white and on newsprint, but it's a good way to read old comics. If you want to take the next step and pay a little extra, you can get the DC Archive Editions.
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