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Post by richardwrite on Jul 6, 2015 9:18:58 GMT -5
I've started trying to read some classic comics on the download services like Comixology and Marvel Unlimited. Sometimes I run into a situation where I need to know if a title is a new story or reprint before I spring for the download. So I was wondering if we can compile a list of series that spent a significant part of their existence primarily reprinting previously published issues.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 6, 2015 9:21:06 GMT -5
I've started trying to read some classic comics on the download services like Comixology and Marvel Unlimited. Sometimes I run into a situation where I need to know if a title is a new story or reprint before I spring for the download. I would think consulting the Grand Comic Database would solve that problem for you. |
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Post by wildfire2099 on Jul 6, 2015 10:01:33 GMT -5
That's good if you know you want to read a particular old comic, and you want to see where it was re-printed, but I'm not sure that's what he's looking for. I suppose you could start with that and start making a list, but that's pretty work-intensive.
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Alot of the series that start with 'Marvel' were reprints (Marvel Tales, Marvel Super Stories, etc). There's Classic X-Men, and of course the period in the early 70s where the regular X-Men title was reprints. I think there was a Classic Spiderman at one point, too.
I think for DC they were much more likely to have oversized regular issues with reprints in the back, like the 100 page giants, dollar comics, etc. Lists exist for that sorta thing.
I know I recently got some late Charlton titles (Billy the Kid, for Instance) and it seems most of their late 70s-early 80s output was 60s reprints.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 6, 2015 10:47:23 GMT -5
Here's a partial list of Marvel's Silver and Bronze Age reprint titles:
Adventures on the Planet of the Apes
Amazing Adventures (1979 series)
Beware
Chamber of Chills
Crazy (1973 series)
Crypt of Shadows
Dead of Night (up through #10)
Fantasy Masterpieces (1966 and 1979 series)
Giant-Size Captain America, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Doc Savage, Doctor Strange, Hulk, Iron Man, Power Man, Thor
Fear (up through #9)
Human Torch (1974 series)
Jungle Action (1972 series up through #5)
Kid Colt (from #140 up)
Marvel Collectors Item Classics
Marvel Double Feature
Marvel's Greatest Comics
Marvel Spectacular
Marvel Super-Heroes (from #21 up)
Marvel Tales
Marvel Triple Action
Mighty Marvel Western
Monsters On the Prowl (all but #16)
Nick Fury, Agent of SHIELD (#16-18)
Nick Fury and His Agents of SHIELD (1973 series)
Night Rider
Outlaw Kid (up through #9 and from #17 up)
Rawhide Kid (from #104 up)
Ringo Kid (1970 series
Special Marvel Edition (up through #14)
Tales to Astonish (1979 series)
Tomb of Darkness
Two-Gun Kid (from #61 up)
Vault of Evil
Western Gunfighters (1970 series from #8 up)
Where Creatures Roam
Where Monsters Dwell
X-Men (#67-92)
Cei-U!
Hope that helps!
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Post by richardwrite on Jul 6, 2015 11:43:46 GMT -5
Wow....that's quite the list! Thanks, it's definitely a great reference tool for me. (I do recall as a kid wondering why MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION was called that, when I believe it basically was an Avengers reprint title that almost always had more than 3 people).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 11:47:55 GMT -5
A lot of Marvel's Sgt. Fury series in the 70s & 80s was also reprints, but not sure what issue it started with. Strange Tales became a Dr. Strange reprint series in the 70s as well after Starlin's Warlock had moved to its own title ( I want to say starting with 183 off the top of my head but I could be off by an issue either way). Then there were all the reprints printed when the Dreaded Deadline Doom struck.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 11:48:46 GMT -5
Wow....that's quite the list! Thanks, it's definitely a great reference tool for me. (I do recall as a kid wondering why MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION was called that, when I believe it basically was an Avengers reprint title that almost always had more than 3 people). The first few issues reprinted 3 features but then became soley an Avengers reprint. It had FF, Avengers and one other feature initially. -M |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 11:51:11 GMT -5
Wow....that's quite the list! Thanks, it's definitely a great reference tool for me. (I do recall as a kid wondering why MARVEL TRIPLE ACTION was called that, when I believe it basically was an Avengers reprint title that almost always had more than 3 people). The first few issues reprinted 3 features but then became soley an Avengers reprint. It had FF, Avengers and one other feature initially. -M Actually, I'm wrong, I remembered it having FF reprints in #1 but when I looked up the cover I saw this....  So Doom, Surfer and the Thing were the triple feature spotlighted. -M |
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Post by Farrar on Jul 6, 2015 12:53:27 GMT -5
Actually, I'm wrong, I remembered it having FF reprints in #1 but when I looked up the cover I saw this.... So Doom, Surfer and the Thing were the triple feature spotlighted. -M You were correct in the first place  , it featured Fantastic Four reprints : Fantastic Four 55 (Thing vs. Silver Surfer) and FF 57 (Dr. Doom vs. FF... plus the Surfer appeared). |
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Post by richardwrite on Jul 6, 2015 12:54:00 GMT -5
Hmm, the Doom feature intrigues me. I might have to see if Marvel Unlimited has it when I'm done with work.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 6, 2015 16:39:29 GMT -5
The most recent BACK ISSUE is all about DC Reprint books, and has a fairly complete checklist of their '70s reprint titles.
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Post by foxley on Jul 6, 2015 16:50:04 GMT -5
DC had 1972's Wanted: The World's Most Dangerous Villains and 1973's Secret Origins were reprint titles.
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Jul 6, 2015 19:36:36 GMT -5
DC had 1972's Wanted: The World's Most Dangerous Villains and 1973's Secret Origins werere reprint titles. DC is tricky. Their weren't that many pure reprint titles - Aside from the ones you mentioned I can only think of the Simon and Kirby ones - Boy Commandos, Black Magic. I think all the 80 page giants were reprints, correct? Other titles were sometimes reprints and sometimes new material - Super-Team Family, for instance, alternated between all reprint issues, partially reprint/partially new material issues and all New Material issues for the course of it's run. It can even be debated what technically counts as a reprint. At least one Golden Age Flash stories from - I believe - Four Star Spectacular was redrawn with new art. DC didn't want to give their main characters reprint titles, because they felt they'd canabalise sales from the main series - So there was no Marvel Tales Version of Superman. This also meant that their Legion of Superheroes reprint title lasted all of four issues before the Legion received title billing in Superboy... So Legion (vol. 1) was promptly cancelled. So you're just going to have to google individually. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2015 22:40:04 GMT -5
Well there was all the DC Digests, they were reprint titles, things like DC Super-stars and DC Special Series and DC Special were frequently reprints, especially when they did Superstars of Space and creator focused issues like the Kubert and Infantino issues that had a new framing sequence but lots of old stories, the Four Star Spectacular Series was a reprint series, they did a lot of Baxter reprint series in the early- mid 80s (Deadman, Roots of the Swamp Thing, New Gods, Green Lantern/Green Arrow, the Saga of Rhas al Ghul, etc.). Adventure Comics ended as a reprint series (but I believe it had gone digest sized when it did). SO yes, reprint series were not as prevalent as they were with Marvel, however, DC was much more likely to have books that had one new lead feature and round out the book with reprint material to get a higher page count and higher cover price (which Marvel did as well, but less often and less successfully).
-M
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Post by JKCarrier on Jul 7, 2015 0:01:11 GMT -5
Adventure Comics ended as a reprint series (but I believe it had gone digest sized when it did). The DC digests were almost all reprint, with a few exceptions that I know of: Adventure Comics #491-492 had new Captain Marvel stories, and #493-497 had new Challengers of the Unknown stories. DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #5 had a new Zatanna story. DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #23 had a new Green Arrow framing sequence interspersed between the reprints. DC Special Series #19 had a new Wonder Woman story. The Best of DC #22 had a Sandman story that was previously seen only in Cancelled Comics Cavalcade. |
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, it featured Fantastic Four reprints : Fantastic Four 55 (Thing vs. Silver Surfer) and FF 57 (Dr. Doom vs. FF... plus the Surfer appeared).
