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Post by foxley on Jul 7, 2015 2:48:21 GMT -5
The other DC reprint series I can immediately think of were Tales of the Teen Titans and Tales of the Legion of Superheroes, which reprinted the Baxter series of The New Teen Titans and The Legion of Superheroes in newsstand format.
However, for the first year they printed new stories while they built up a year's worth of stories to reprint.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 3:20:09 GMT -5
The other DC reprint series I can immediately think of were Tales of the Teen Titans and Tales of the Legion of Superheroes, which reprinted the Baxter series of The New Teen Titans and The Legion of Superheroes in newsstand format. However, for the first year they printed new stories while they built up a year's worth of stories to reprint. Adventures of the Outsiders did the same thing. -M |
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Post by Confessor on Jul 7, 2015 6:47:04 GMT -5
For what it's worth, I'm a big fan of Marvel Tales and always was as a kid. I first started buying it in the early-to-mid-80s, when they were reprinting the Ditko/Lee issues of Amazing Spider-Man...although, as I've mentioned before in this forum, I had no idea that I was reading 20+ year old stories at the time.
These days, as far as my collection goes, an awful lot of my copies of the first 250 or so issues of Amazing Spider-Man are actually Marvel Tales reprints, rather than the originals. I'm a thrifty collector who likes his Spider-Man comics as individual floppies, rather than as TPB reprints, so buying up tons of old issues of Marvel Tales was a no brainer for me. In fact, I'm not that far off of having a complete run of Marvel Tales, actually.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 7, 2015 6:51:09 GMT -5
I have the entire Marvel Collectors item Classic/ Marvels Greatest Comics run from 1-96 which are FF reprints. I treasure these books as it was my intro to their adventures.
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Post by MDG on Jul 7, 2015 8:07:14 GMT -5
The most recent BACK ISSUE is all about DC Reprint books, and has a fairly complete checklist of their '70s reprint titles. I'm looking forward to the future when we can read an article about Back Issue's look back at DC reprints. 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.... There were a couple of western reprint books around the same time--Johnny Thunder and Trigger Twins. I don't think either went more than a couple of issues. Nice art, though. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 7, 2015 11:29:19 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. Also, Best of DC #18 had a new New Teen Titans story.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 7, 2015 11:32:01 GMT -5
DC had 1972's Wanted: The World's Most Dangerous Villains and 1973's Secret Origins were reprint titles. Over the past year or so I've been piecing together the Wanted series. If I remember correctly, I believe I'm short one issue at this point. |
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Post by pinkfloydsound17 on Jul 7, 2015 14:04:17 GMT -5
Is it weird that I refuse to collect reprints? Marvel Tales and other issues I just pass on completely. If I cannot have the original, I don't really want it. The only books that I consider are the larger treasuries and reprints of books that I doubt I will ever own (like ASM #1 or AF #15).
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 7, 2015 14:16:15 GMT -5
Is it weird that I refuse to collect reprints? Marvel Tales and other issues I just pass on completely. If I cannot have the original, I don't really want it. The only books that I consider are the larger treasuries and reprints of books that I doubt I will ever own (like ASM #1 or AF #15). You like what you like. I'm at a point where I'd much rather have a trade than the original of pretty much any book. |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 7, 2015 14:19:07 GMT -5
Is it weird that I refuse to collect reprints? Marvel Tales and other issues I just pass on completely. If I cannot have the original, I don't really want it. The only books that I consider are the larger treasuries and reprints of books that I doubt I will ever own (like ASM #1 or AF #15). I wouldn't say so, it's just your preference. I don't really have interest in collecting reprint series either unless they're odd anthology types like the aforementioned Wanted, or Secret Origins from the same time period, or the 100 Page Super-Spectaculars that I'm slowing acquiring. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2015 15:26:49 GMT -5
Is it weird that I refuse to collect reprints? Marvel Tales and other issues I just pass on completely. If I cannot have the original, I don't really want it. The only books that I consider are the larger treasuries and reprints of books that I doubt I will ever own (like ASM #1 or AF #15). I don't buy reprints to collect them, I buy them to read them. Collectibility really doesn't guide my purchases anymore except for rare instances (like wanting the Dec 1932 issue of Weird Tales for the first published Conan story even though I have it in so many other formats). -M |
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