Yeah...
I guess the question in the modern era becomes: which origin?
There's so damn many reboots, and even without a reboot, multiple re-tellings of the same origin story continuity. Often with clumsy attempts to tweak an already perfect story by less skilled hands.
I recall reading BATMAN 234 (1971) by O'Neil and Adams, and that was a big deal because it was the first time Two-Face had been in a story, and had his origin re-told, by O'Neil/Adams no less.
I was deeply annoyed about 10 years ago with the SPIDERMAN: BLUE, and DAREDEVIL:YELLOW re-tellings of those characters' origins.
But I still think there's a craving to see the ORIGINAL origin stories. I remember what a thrill it was for me to get Jules Feiffer's THE GREAT COMIC BOOK HEROES hardcover, that first collected the origins of all the classic Golden Age characters.
I also enjoyed the SUPERMAN FROM THE 30s TO THE 70s, and BATMAN FROM THE 30s TO THE 70s, that allowed you to see how these characters evolved over 3-plus decades in a variety of creative hands.
I'm actually less thrilled DC is doing new origin stories. I'd rather see an omnibus collection of origin stories from the 70's. Or a volume of 80's origin stories. Although at least many of these series with great origin stories such as Wein/Wrightson SWAMP THING, Kirby's THE DEMON, and KAMANDI, or Marshall Rogers' 1980's retelling of Batman's origin in DETECTIVE 27, are at least being presented in other collected editions.
