posted January 06, 2003 04:44 AM            

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Originally posted by Bgztl:
I believe the Psycho-Pirate story WAS reprinted because I recall it. That could just be a flashback lurking in the caverns of my mind.

I FEEL like I've read it.

The Solomon Grundy fight is familiar but my mind is playing tricks on me regularly. Perhaps in one of the 100-page Brave & the Bold Super Specs?? Maybe the Batman & Atom one or thereabouts?

I can almost see the cover -- with the Atom very small in one large panel dominated by someone's [Batman's??] head. Maybe Viking Prince too?

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Bgztl, the Psycho-Pirate story has never been reprinted as far as I am aware, which is why I shelled out $50 for Showcase #56 last year.
However, two panels from it were reprinted in Roy Thomas's All-Star Companion, which is what you may have been thinking of.

You were absolutely right about the details of The Brave and the Bold with the Solomon Grundy story - it was B & B #115.

posted January 06, 2003 05:25 AM            

I was thinking...that all star 9 with 5
comics, 10 with 7 and 11 with 7 would
complete the series and none would be more
than 223 pages....i wonder if the idea of
completing something would push DC to
release the final 3 within a 1-2 year period?

anyway..just curious!

be well

posted January 06, 2003 11:46 AM               

Is there any chance that JIMMY OLSEN 133-139,141-148 will be reprinted in the same format as the Jack Kirby New Gods TPB's. It would be nice to have them all in the same format.

If not in the B&W format, any chance in any format?

Best Regards,

posted January 06, 2003 01:27 PM               

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Originally posted by Teisto:
Bob answered this a few pages back. Another CATWOMAN trade is already on the 2003 schedule.

Yay!

Teisto

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Ok, cool, I scanned backwards and its on page tweleve. Thanks and sorry to get repetetive. While I'm posting let me again put in another request for Sandman Mysterey Theatre and Ostrander's Spectre.

-Bob

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Now at midnight all the agents/And the superhuman crew/Come out and round up everyone/That knows more than they do/Then they bring them to the factory/Where the heart-attack machine/Is strapped across their shoulders/And then the kerosene/Is brought down from the castles/By insurance men who go/Check to see that nobody is escaping/To Desolation Row"
-Bob Dylan

posted January 06, 2003 02:18 PM               

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Originally posted by Lee Semmens:
You were absolutely right about the details of The Brave and the Bold with the Solomon Grundy story - it was B & B #115.

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Woo Hoo.

Old fanboys like me NEVER die, they just get more and more confused.

Thanks for the correct information on title and volume.

I ought to go looking for that old book the next time I get a little cash.

posted January 06, 2003 02:20 PM               

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Originally posted by The Vigilante:
The Dr. Fate/Hourman Grundy story was reprinted in The Brave and the Bold #115. I don't believe the second story with the Psycho Pirate has been reprinted anywhere (it's not in the Greatest Team-Up Stories Ever Told volume), unless it was in one of the recent 80-Page Giants or 100-Page Super Specs.

--Rich

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oops, sorry Vig.

Thanks to you too.

posted January 06, 2003 04:20 PM               

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Originally posted by Green_Hornet:
While I'm posting let me again put in another request for Sandman Mysterey Theatre and Ostrander's Spectre.

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I was thinking that Sandman Mystery Theater might be an interesting series to try out as a regular series of tpbs, maybe at the smaller Crossgen size to keep prices down.

(I still think the high price killed the first volume -- published years ago, it was $14.95 when paperbacks of comperable size (not to mention the original issues) were around $10.)

Anyway, the material is there. Imagine this -- a complete pocket-sized Wes Dodds adventure every month, shipping to comic shops and bookstores. SMT has the advantage of having most (if not all) story arcs be 4-issues long, which would give the series a uniformity that most tpbs don't have.

The Question might make a good (if shorter) companion series to this, but after the first 12, I'm not sure if the arc-size would work as well. Then again, cliffhangers haven't hurt Lone Wolf and Cub!

Rob

posted January 06, 2003 08:27 PM               

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Originally posted by Rob Staeger:

I was thinking that Sandman Mystery Theater might be an interesting series to try out as a regular series of tpbs, maybe at the smaller Crossgen size to keep prices down.

(I still think the high price killed the first volume -- published years ago, it was $14.95 when paperbacks of comperable size (not to mention the original issues) were around $10.)

Anyway, the material is there. Imagine this -- a complete pocket-sized Wes Dodds adventure every month, shipping to comic shops and bookstores. SMT has the advantage of having most (if not all) story arcs be 4-issues long, which would give the series a uniformity that most tpbs don't have.

Rob

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I think this is agreat idea! now that Lone Wolf & Cub is over I could spend $10/month for a years worth of GA Sandman.

Joe

posted January 07, 2003 03:15 AM            

thanks for the work you put in with dc trades and your time in answering our questions

posted January 07, 2003 03:19 AM               

Perhaps the Archives should be titled EARTH 2 -- ALL STAR, and EARTH 2 -- ADVENTURE.

posted January 07, 2003 11:46 AM               

Personally, I applaud Marvel's efforts to get their Masterworks back into print so they can move on to new material. Getting 25-30 volumes back into print over a few months, I suspect will tax editorial, the bullpen, the Hong Kong printers and the retailers. It's not something I would do but maybe that's why I'm not there.

The first Absolute Authority did very well but I've heard nothing about a second volume as of today.

I've been hinting around that some feedback on the team-ups would be nice. For example, should the Flash-Atom and Flash-Doom Patrol team-ups be tossed into Flash Archives? If so, do they then get reused in Atom and DP Archives? Do we just do a team-up Archive? And if we do that, do we skip Starman-Black Canary because that's already in BC Archives?

Yep, Russ Heath is a wonderful artist and his owrk on SEA DEVILS was pretty cool. The covers, though, made an impression on me and maybe it's because I didn't read them as a kid that it didn't linger in my mind. Anyway, SEA DEVILS remains low on the Silver Age list of stuff we're considering.

Our Archive paper for stories remains 80#. Yes, the endpaper stock might have changed with time, printer, paper manufacturer but that's about it. If there's a smudging issue, this is the first I'm hearing of it. Our offices copies of WW Vol. 3 are fine.

Shazam! will continue although Vol. 4 is not on a schedule as of today.

Power Girl, should we start collecting the '70s JSA material, will be dealt with. How? Until we determine a publishing plan I can't say. And thanks for remembering the '80s mini I edited. We tried a few things there that may or may not have worked. still like the covers and the logo.

Unknown Solider and Tomahawk have come up and no doubt will coninute to come up. As I've stated earlier, Seven Soldiers of Victory have come up but most likely as a successor to All Star. And we expect more DOOM PATROL, either Vol. 2 in Archive or more of Grant Morrison's run in trade.

Obsidian Age is obviously the next JLA storyline to be collected after this month's GOLDEN PERFECT collection. I think you'll be pleased with our approach.

Yes, the ABC hardcovers will all eventually have softcover editions.

No plans to collect the Rick Veitch Swamp Thing stories exist as of now, but that doesn't mean we've ruled them out.

Yes, GL #40 was considered for a Millennium Edition but it just didn't make the cut. And we're creeping up on it in the GL Archives so it's just a matter of time.

The Showcase stories with Dr. Fate and Hourman deserve to be reprinted either in someone's Archive or some other collection. To me, I always thought Murphy Anderson drew the helmet best.

Crisis on Multiple Earths Vol. 2? Well, Vol. One is going back for a second printing this month so there's certainly demand. Is there interest even though the first half of the book will already be available through Archives (including this spring's JLA Vol. 8)?

I can't speak to the timing of All Star volumes in the past but at various time we did accelerate some of the lines based on sales velocity. In the same way, we have also slowed down collections. We seem to have settled into an annual rhythm here.

Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby is on the drawing boards. Announcement with details soon.

Batman Archives Vol. 1 will be back in print before you know it.

Back to you.

posted January 07, 2003 12:28 PM               

As for the team-ups. I would say reprint them in ALL the respective charecters Archives. I don't buy the Falsh Archives but I will get more Doom Patrol volumes. I think most Archive buyers only buy what they like, not everything. So some people would miss out on one their favorite charecters appearances.

I also have a question about digest sized material. If there is a problem reprinting this stuff at full size then just reprint it at the published size. Dark Horse has done this in their Xena and Buffy trades when they reprinted their TV guide stories.
I'm saying this because if you are planning a second New Teen Titans volume that digest story (Reunion) really should be reprinted in it.

posted January 07, 2003 12:29 PM               

I also think his observations on how to address the teamups is right on, but perhaps this deserves a thread of its own, similar to the Legion/KK question. Anyone with a more familiar conception of these comics than me want to phrase the question at hand in another thread?

posted January 07, 2003 12:32 PM               

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Originally posted by dylanfan:
Ummmm......this spring's JLA Vol. 8? Is this news to just me? Or did Bob just nod and wink us?

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posted January 07, 2003 02:07 PM            

In general, if Superman or Batman are involved, I would include it in the "guest star"'s archive, but not in Superman or Batman's. It the team-up features two heroes of equal stature and their names don't include "Super" or "Bat", I would print it in both archives, unless one character dominates over the other in a notable way.

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"My name is Mark....Question Mark..."

posted January 07, 2003 02:18 PM               

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Originally posted by Bob Greenberger:
Jimmy Olsen by Jack Kirby is on the drawing boards. Announcement with details soon.

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Wow. I asked about this with only the faintest hope. Good news, indeed. Thank you for the info.

posted January 07, 2003 03:16 PM            

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Originally posted by Bob Greenberger:
And we expect more DOOM PATROL, either Vol. 2 in Archive or more of Grant Morrison's run in trade.

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posted January 07, 2003 03:36 PM               

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Originally posted by ?:
I doubt that a hard and fast rule for team-ups would work well. Each situation is different. It all depends on how important the team-up is to the character's history. This would obviously mean that team-ups would more likely be included for second-tier characters. Batman's team-ups with Green Arrow (just to pick a hypothetical example out of the hat) are memorable, but not of historical importance to the Batman character. But to Green Arrow mythos, they are essentially important. There's no need to print a GA team-up in a seventies Batman Archive, then, but there's no way to do a legitimate seventies Green Arrow Archive without them.

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About GA: I wouldn't go as far to say it wouldn't be 'legitimate', since there are several sources for GA material once you get into the '70's... Flash, World's Finest, and Action backup strips just to start... the bigger problem is where and how to market it as an entity given the presence of GL and BC in his stories, and the overlap with a future GL (or GL/GA) archive (once they get that far). Beyond his B&B #85 teamup, I can't recall any significant Batman or Superman teamups that were 'memorable' or 'advanced' the character substantially.

Acknowleging that you just pulled GA outta the air, a better example may have been characters such as Creeper, Demon, Firestorm, Hawk and Dove, Richard Dragon, Black Lightning and Kamandi, whose seperate archive line may benefit from 1) another 17-22 pages to pad an otherwise underized/'offbalance' Archive page count (as some of the mappings here have shown), or 2) to the flow of a characters growth from a rare crossover with the rest of the DCU. (if that's what you meant later in terms of 'dominating over the other in the teamup').

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Originally posted by ?:
In general, if Superman or Batman are involved, I would include it in the "guest star"'s archive, but not in Superman or Batman's. It the team-up features two heroes of equal stature and their names don't include "Super" or "Bat", I would print it in both archives, unless one character dominates over the other in a notable way.

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Agreed about not having them in a Bat/Super-centric archive, and this is where the 'on a case by case basis' problem falls...frequent costars like GA, BC, Wildcat, Hawkman, Aquaman, Sgt Rock... Not many of these teamups contributed a great deal to the history of the costars involved. In the case of Sgt Rock (once that archive line catches up), it may not contribute to the 'flow' of the book to have a Bats/Rock teamup put in between two Our Army At War features.

Later volumes of a Metal Men Archive may actually benefit from the B&B/DCCP issues, as it fills a gap following the cancellation of their series up to present. On the flip side, the WW teamup from B&B #140, Mar/Apr 1978 wouldn't fit in sequence with it's contemporary Mar-Apr '78 issues in a future WW Archive, since the tales in her solo title during early '78 were that of the Golden Age WW. That also mirrors the concerns of the Rock teamups... some take place in the 1940's, others in the 1970's.