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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2016 22:16:19 GMT -5
In the 60's & 70's both DC & Marvel printed different sized books like the 100 page Spectaculars or 64 page Giant Sized issues. They usually consisted of a new story with reprints making up the rest.
I really liked this format. In fact the new Archie titles are doing this. It was a great & inexpensive way to read the older stuff while enjoying a new story.
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Post by Action Ace on Jul 13, 2016 22:37:59 GMT -5
I got a few in the first couple of years I bought comics in the mid 1970s, but the format was on its way out. I wish I had been around for the 100 Page Giants earlier in the decade.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2016 22:42:08 GMT -5
I read Marvel Triple Action (featuring Avengers reprints) almost as often as I read the regular Avengers book as a kid, and I had far more issues of Marvel Tales than I did of Amazing Spider-Man, so I read a lot of reprint books, but my folks would rarely spring the extra cash for the bigger size books that were mostly reprints (I think I only owned 6-7 annuals through the entire 70s and they were all from the period when Marvel was doing all new material in them) so I rarely ever read them as a kid. I think I had 1 issue of DC Special that was a larger size reprint book but only because it had both Robin Hood and the Three Musketeers on the cover and I was a fan of the characters in film and kids books so they sprung for it. I suppose I would have liked them had I had access to them at the time, but most of the reprints I read were regular sized reprint titles or Dreaded Deadline Doom fill ins.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2016 22:48:48 GMT -5
I still have over 50-75 DC Comics 100 Page Super Spectacular they were fantastic and great for reading when you on the open road traveling. I love this format and I wished they were around these days and I missed them dearly.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 13, 2016 23:10:41 GMT -5
I loved DC's 80-Page Giants, 100-Page Super-Spectaculars, Secret Origins, Wanted, and other reprint titles as a young'n (still do, truth be told), and I practically mainlined Marvel Tales, Marvel Collectors' Item Classics, and Fantasy Masterpieces back in the day. By 1969 or thereabouts, my collection of Marvel originals had grown to the point where the reprint titles were redundant so I stopped buying them. I still have the two Marvel Tales Annuals, the '66 Marvel Super Heroes one-shot, and a run of fantasy Masterpices I hope to complete one of these days.
Cei-U!
I summon the encore editions!
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Post by hondobrode on Jul 13, 2016 23:49:51 GMT -5
DC recently was offering reprinted collections in a similar format for $ 7.99 with some nice collected stories all tied to a theme using the DC Comics Presents title, like this :  DC Comics Presnets : Batman : Harley Quinn # 1 96 pages reprinting BATMAN: HARLEY QUINN #1, JOKER’S ASYLUM II: HARLEY QUINN #1, and stories from BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHTS #14, COUNTOWN #10, BATMAN GOTHAM KNIGHTS #30 and BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE #1. Not quite like the old days, but still a very good deal |
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Post by tingramretro on Jul 14, 2016 1:23:02 GMT -5
Two of the the titles I really loved in the 70s were Marvel Triple Action and Marvel Super Action, both reprinting early issues of Avengers.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 14, 2016 5:42:41 GMT -5
I still have over 50-75 DC Comics 100 Page Super Spectacular they were fantastic and great for reading when you on the open road traveling. I love this format and I wished they were around these days and I missed them dearly. Don't read comics and drive.  |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 14, 2016 5:46:08 GMT -5
Most of my Fantastic Four collection is from the Marvel Collectors Items classics and Marvel Greatest Comics. It pretty much covers The run from 1-116. The rest I have in the original format. I cherish those books. I also have some Marvel Tales reprinting Spider-man. The 100 page books from the 70's was my introduction to the Golden age heroes. Man, I liked Kid Eternity from one of those books.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 14, 2016 7:21:12 GMT -5
Two forms of reprints I loved in the '70s were the Blue Ribbon digests from DC and the paperback-sized Pocket Books reprinting early Marvel comics. I mean, Spider-Man #1-6 anf FF #1-6 in colour for less than two bucks? I'm in. Less relevant to the US market but a boon to French-speaking comics fans were digest-sized Artima titles like Eclipso, Étranges Aventures, L'Inattendu, Demon, Kamandi, Brûlant et al. Each monthly book would be around 180 pages of reprints from American comics, usually presenting a storyline in its entirety or in as few parts as possible. That's where I read the entire Magus saga by Starlin, in only two issues of Étranges aventures. Those books went straight for the gold. You'd get Barry Smith's Conan, Gerber and Ploog's Man-Thing, Steranko's Nick Fury, Gulacy's Shang-Chi, Starlin's Warlock, Colan's Dracula, Kubert's Sgt. Rock, basically back to back... (as well as Kirby's Kamandi with Omac as a back-up feature, plus the Demon in his own mag... Bliss!!!) Those books cost one dollar. I really miss them. |
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Post by Warmonger on Jul 14, 2016 7:49:39 GMT -5
I loved them
I probably have around 90% of the 'Marvel Tales' run.
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Post by dbutler69 on Jul 14, 2016 8:15:04 GMT -5
I loved those 100 page giants! Sure, only one story was new, but the reprints were new to me, too, and they introduced me to the Golden and Silver Ages.
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Post by brutalis on Jul 14, 2016 9:07:25 GMT -5
growing up it was easier to find Marvel Triple Action and Marvel Tales than current Avengers or Spider-man so i had more of the reprints. LOOOVED any of the Marvel Monster reprints and Western reprints. From DC it was all about the Digests collecting stories where you could find mash-ups of older and newer. Sadly could only afford the occasional giant size or Tabloid size. But for tabloids i still have my Superman vs Ali, Kirby 2001, Spider-man vs Superman, Batman vs Hulk and Kirby Bicentennial Battles. These days i order any of the Archie 100 page reprints from Amazon.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2016 11:07:57 GMT -5
I still have over 50-75 DC Comics 100 Page Super Spectacular they were fantastic and great for reading when you on the open road traveling. I love this format and I wished they were around these days and I missed them dearly. Don't read comics and drive. I wasn't thinking clearly and I should have dropped the "open road" and said something like this - they are great for traveling when you want to take a moment to read. |
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Post by Farrar on Jul 14, 2016 13:49:07 GMT -5
I wasn't a regular comic book reader for very long, maybe 4-5 years...and I'm pretty sure the only comics I owned back then that--to use md62's words in his OP--"consisted of a new story with reprints making up the rest" were these two comics, below. Most of the other giant-sized comics I had back then either contained new material (such as FF Annual #6 and Avengers Annual #2) or were all-reprint (DC 80-and 64-Page Giants, Marvel Collectors' Item Classics, later FF and Avengers Annuals).   |
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