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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 13, 2016 23:59:49 GMT -5
When I was younger, I read many stories in their reprint form. Books like Marvels Greatest comics and Marvel Triple Action allowed me to read comics that I missed. One of the nice perks was that in some of the cases they featured brand new covers instead of a copy of the original issues cover. This thread was created to enjoy some of the new covers placed on familiar stories. This cover was for FF # 49 
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2016 0:07:25 GMT -5
A nice Jim Starlin cover for Avengers #13 
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 14, 2016 0:12:38 GMT -5
I'll be surprised to see any that were decidedly better than the original cover. So far...nope. That Marvel Triple Action cover is just about all logos and blurbs
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2016 0:18:16 GMT -5
Those new covers were probably an attempt to fool kids into buying a book that they already had.
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2016 0:37:43 GMT -5
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2016 0:42:42 GMT -5
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Post by coinilius on Aug 14, 2016 6:08:01 GMT -5
Three cows shot me down... Bang bang, that awful sound... Bang bang, three cows shot me down... (Moo)
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Post by Confessor on Aug 14, 2016 7:52:27 GMT -5
I actually have a not-that-far-from-complete run of Marvel Tales because I'm a cheapskate and they provide an inexpensive way to get Silver Age Spider-Man tales as single issue "floppies", printed on newsprint, which is how I like to read them, as opposed to buying modern trade collections. I agree with Icctrombone that, actually, sometimes the new covers that Marvel put on these reprints were better than the originals. Not often, admittedly, but that was definitely the case on occasion. I'm off out to my Mum's just now, but perhaps I'll post some examples of what I mean a bit later on. Sometimes Marvel Tales utilized the original covers, but doctored them slightly, such flipping them like a mirror image or recolouring them, which was kind of interesting -- especially in the '80s when you'd get old Silver Age covers coloured in the more day-glo palette of the times. Something else that the '70s and '80s Marvel Tales reprints had over the original comics was that often the printing process and/or printing technology had improved so that, actually, the interior art looked better in the reprint than it did in the original. A friend of mine has some original issues of Amazing Spider-Man from the Lee/Romita era and we compared my copies of those same stories from the early '70s in Marvel Tales and, yeah, the improvement in printing quality is very noticeable. |
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Post by Icctrombone on Aug 14, 2016 8:09:09 GMT -5
Confessor, me too. I have almost the entire FF from 1-116 in various reprint mags from the 60-70's ( Marvel greatest, collectors, triple action). I don't have the urgency to get the originals because of that.
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Post by shaxper on Aug 14, 2016 8:28:44 GMT -5
I'll be surprised to see any that were decidedly better than the original cover.  |
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Post by chadwilliam on Aug 14, 2016 10:38:07 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Aug 14, 2016 11:59:42 GMT -5
I actually have a not-that-far-from-complete run of Marvel Tales because I'm a cheapskate and they provide an inexpensive way to get Silver Age Spider-Man tales as single issue "floppies", printed on newsprint, which is how I like to read them, as opposed to buying modern trade collections. I agree with Icctrombone that, actually, sometimes the new covers that Marvel put on these reprints were better than the originals. Not often, admittedly, but that was definitely the case on occasion. I'm off out to my Mum's just now, but perhaps I'll post some examples of what I mean a bit later on. Sometimes Marvel Tales utilized the original covers, but doctored them slightly, such flipping them like a mirror image or recolouring them, which was kind of interesting -- especially in the '80s when you'd get old Silver Age covers coloured in the more day-glo palette of the times. Something else that the '70s and '80s Marvel Tales reprints had over the original comics was that often the printing process and/or printing technology had improved so that, actually, the interior art looked better in the reprint than it did in the original. A friend of mine has some original issues of Amazing Spider-Man from the Lee/Romita era and we compared my copies of those same stories from the early '70s in Marvel Tales and, yeah, the improvement in printing quality is very noticeable. If you don't mind having edited reprints of the original stories, missing some pages with many of those reprints, than yes it was a cheap way to get those stories |
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Post by coinilius on Aug 14, 2016 17:36:26 GMT -5
I was a big reader of Classic X-Men when I started out - it was a great way to read the X-Men's history along with what was currently happening. Some of the new covers they had weren't too bad.
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Post by Confessor on Aug 14, 2016 18:04:19 GMT -5
I actually have a not-that-far-from-complete run of Marvel Tales because I'm a cheapskate and they provide an inexpensive way to get Silver Age Spider-Man tales as single issue "floppies", printed on newsprint, which is how I like to read them, as opposed to buying modern trade collections. I agree with Icctrombone that, actually, sometimes the new covers that Marvel put on these reprints were better than the originals. Not often, admittedly, but that was definitely the case on occasion. I'm off out to my Mum's just now, but perhaps I'll post some examples of what I mean a bit later on. Sometimes Marvel Tales utilized the original covers, but doctored them slightly, such flipping them like a mirror image or recolouring them, which was kind of interesting -- especially in the '80s when you'd get old Silver Age covers coloured in the more day-glo palette of the times. Something else that the '70s and '80s Marvel Tales reprints had over the original comics was that often the printing process and/or printing technology had improved so that, actually, the interior art looked better in the reprint than it did in the original. A friend of mine has some original issues of Amazing Spider-Man from the Lee/Romita era and we compared my copies of those same stories from the early '70s in Marvel Tales and, yeah, the improvement in printing quality is very noticeable. If you don't mind having edited reprints of the original stories, missing some pages with many of those reprints, than yes it was a cheap way to get those stories I don't believe any of the Amazing Spider-Man stories that were reprinted in Marvel Tales were missing any pages and it was only for a year or so in 1984 or something that the editorial office saw fit to start replacing 60's pop culture references with '80s ones in some of the dialogue. Fan outcry in the letters pages about that was so great that they soon stopped it. So, the odd instance of Ditko's Aunt May saying she likes watching Dallas and Dynasty on the TV aside -- and only in the issues that were circa 1984 -- buying up old issues of Marvel Tales is a great way to get Silver Age Amazing Spider-Man as individual comics without breaking the bank. ...and, as I say, often those reprints were printed in much higher quality than the originals. *I couldn't comment on Marvel Triple-Action or Marvel's Greatest Comics etc, because I don't own any of those issues. * = I should also note that from about 1983 onwards, the reprints were recoloured, although usually quite well. But any issue of Marvel Tales from 1964 to 1982 had the same colouring as the originals. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2016 18:58:37 GMT -5
Confessor, me too. I have almost the entire FF from 1-116 in various reprint mags from the 60-70's ( Marvel greatest, collectors, triple action). I don't have the urgency to get the originals because of that. I'm jealous of you, man this is fantastic!  |
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