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Post by Trevor on Dec 4, 2015 8:47:27 GMT -5
There was a one-off story in DC Special Series #21 where Cain & Abel, the Three Witches, and Destiny compete to tell the best Christmas-themed story, with the Phantom Stranger and Madame Xanadu showing up at the end to break up an argument. That sounds amazing! I think I tracked this down via ebay but it's still in one of the unread boxes. I need to look for that asap! |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 4, 2015 17:46:57 GMT -5
Secrets of Haunted House featured multiple hosts in its first issue, having a story-telling contest, supposedly with the winner getting to host the book permanently. Of course, it was...Destiny! Yeah, that's it! I'm pretty sure I got this and (maybe) the Special Series issue that Foxley mentioned confused in my brain. Secrets of Haunted House sounds exactly like one of the stories I remember, though. Nice! |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Dec 4, 2015 17:54:41 GMT -5
And it looks like - or at least Wikipedia says - that "Secrets of Sinister House" the title that "Secrets of Haunted House" replaced was hosted by Eve with frequent guest appearances from Cain and Abel. I musta just had a bunch of DC horror titles jumbled up in my brain.
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Post by foxley on Dec 4, 2015 18:09:01 GMT -5
There was a one-off story in DC Special Series #21 where Cain & Abel, the Three Witches, and Destiny compete to tell the best Christmas-themed story, with the Phantom Stranger and Madame Xanadu showing up at the end to break up an argument. That sounds amazing! I think I tracked this down via ebay but it's still in one of the unread boxes. I need to look for that asap! This a great issue. It a collection of Christmas-themed stories, including Frank Miller's first Batman work as he provides pencils on the Denny O'Neill written "Wanted: Santa Claus -- Dead or Alive!" |
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Post by realjla on Dec 5, 2015 4:14:54 GMT -5
That sounds amazing! I think I tracked this down via ebay but it's still in one of the unread boxes. I need to look for that asap! This a great issue. It a collection of Christmas-themed stories, including Frank Miller's first Batman work as he provides pencils on the Denny O'Neill written "Wanted: Santa Claus -- Dead or Alive!" The Jonah Hex story in that issue is also really good, one of those 'change of pace' stories with a glimpse into Jonah's past. |
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Post by Trevor on Dec 5, 2015 6:17:24 GMT -5
Mainly just a personal little aside here, but this last page or so has been memory heaven for me. Keystones of my comic book history, and subgenres that I religiously collect, are Christmas issues, dollar comics, the DC horror books, anything with their hosts (especially Cain and Abel), and Plop. Those parts of my collection have been mostly in the buried lower levels of my collection for decades, and they're mostly not at all digitized yet, so I really need to mount an expedition and have a week of DC horror soon.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2015 8:13:56 GMT -5
Guys, did they ever do reprint issues of The New Teen Titans?
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 6, 2015 8:55:35 GMT -5
Which other characters have had their race briefly changed in the same universe? I know Lois Lane spent the day as a black woman in an early 70s DC book and Punisher turned black in 1992. Anyone else?  M.A.C.H One of the Thunderbolts was turned into a black guy by the Fixer in order to hide his identity from the authorities. That lasted for quite some time. |
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 6, 2015 8:56:53 GMT -5
Psylocke permanently changed race from Caucasian to Asian. I really, really hated that. She also basically got an entirely new personality, they might just as well have created a new character. |
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 6, 2015 8:58:48 GMT -5
Guys, did they ever do reprint issues of The New Teen Titans? Yes. Tales of the Teen Titans reprinted issues of New Teen Titans Vol II for the newsstand market. |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2015 10:59:10 GMT -5
Guys, did they ever do reprint issues of The New Teen Titans? Yes. Tales of the Teen Titans reprinted issues of New Teen Titans Vol II for the newsstand maket. Thank you! I thought I was losing my mind! |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2015 10:59:57 GMT -5
There were also the archives of NTT and some other trade collections of the Wolfman/Perez stuff.
-M
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2015 11:22:28 GMT -5
There were also the archives of NTT and some other trade collections of the Wolfman/Perez stuff. -M Yes, I have some. But I found some issues in reduced price bins, and I bought them, but they were reprint, higher quality paper, so I asked the worker if they were reprints, and he did not know, and even looked, and he still could not find out. But the quality and paper screamed reprint to me, but I was not familiar enough with NTT history to know. |
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Post by spoon on Dec 6, 2015 11:29:19 GMT -5
Yes. Tales of the Teen Titans reprinted issues of New Teen Titans Vol II for the newsstand maket. Thank you! I thought I was losing my mind! As mrp mentioned, there have been multiple reprints of many issues. There were 4 different archives volumes. There were multiple omnibi, which apparently got all the way in vol. 2 of NTT. There were TPBs of selected stories like The Judas Contract years ago. Just checking on Amazon, it looks like in the past year there are now smaller TPBs (about 8 issues per TPB) reprinting NTT vol. 1 from the beginning in order. |
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Post by tingramretro on Dec 6, 2015 11:30:27 GMT -5
There were also the archives of NTT and some other trade collections of the Wolfman/Perez stuff. -M Yes, I have some. But I found some issues in reduced price bins, and I bought them, but they were reprint, higher quality paper, so I asked the worker if they were reprints, and he did not know, and even looked, and he still could not find out. But the quality and paper screamed reprint to me, but I was not familiar enough with NTT history to know. Actually, the issues on high quality paper-Baxter paper-were the original stories, produced for the then new direct sales market; they were reprinted a few months later for the newsstand market on regular paper. They did the same thing with the Legion of Super-Heroes (which was reprinted in Tales of the Legion of Super-Heroes). In both cases, the reprint titles continued the numbering of the original books while the new, high quality direct sales series' started from new first issues. |
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