shaxper
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Post by shaxper on Sept 28, 2014 21:00:27 GMT -5
Hmmm, I always remembered the black & whites as getting off the ground in '72, after the early '71 Savage Tales false start. Just looked at my Tomb Of Dracula Omnibus and issue 1 was dated early 1973, with the last issue (#13) being in mid-75. The other three horror titles started a few months later and ended a month or two earlier, each lasting 11 issues. Yep. Some began earlier, but the big surge occurred in '74. Yes. Good call. Expansion into new formats, as well as new genres. Did the treasury editions start in '74 as well? |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 28, 2014 21:01:11 GMT -5
1975's big event would be Giant Size Xmen which started the revitalization of superheroes again, specifically superhero teams like DC's Teen Titans
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Post by ghastly55 on Sept 28, 2014 21:03:14 GMT -5
Don't know. Never bought a single Treasury Edition. Why would I pay $1.50 for a collection of stories I already owned???
(says the guy with 112 hardcover Masterworks on his bookshelf...)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2014 17:18:09 GMT -5
Don't know. Never bought a single Treasury Edition. Why would I pay $1.50 for a collection of stories I already owned??? (says the guy with 112 hardcover Masterworks on his bookshelf...) But not all Treasury Editions were reprints. The Marvel/DC crossovers come to mind. So does Superman vs Wonder Woman. I'm sure there were others. |
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Post by Phil Maurice on Sept 30, 2014 18:06:44 GMT -5
But not all Treasury Editions were reprints. The Marvel/DC crossovers come to mind. So does Superman vs Wonder Woman. I'm sure there were others. Plenty of others, including this favorite:
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Sept 30, 2014 18:09:45 GMT -5
Plus Superman vs Muhammed Ali
And a few tabloids with reprints you never saw before-The Dick Tracy and Russ Manning Tarzan tabloids come to mind
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 30, 2014 19:34:56 GMT -5
Plus Superman vs Muhammed Ali And a few tabloids with reprints you never saw before-The Dick Tracy and Russ Manning Tarzan tabloids come to mind All fondly remembered... |
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Post by ghastly55 on Sept 30, 2014 21:30:35 GMT -5
Don't know. Never bought a single Treasury Edition. Why would I pay $1.50 for a collection of stories I already owned??? (says the guy with 112 hardcover Masterworks on his bookshelf...) But not all Treasury Editions were reprints. The Marvel/DC crossovers come to mind. So does Superman vs Wonder Woman. I'm sure there were others. Right, thanks for correcting me. I DUD get that Superman vs. Spider-Man book when it came out in '76, as well as the earlier Wizard Of Oz adaptation that was promoted as the very first collaborative effort between Marvel and DC. I wasn't impressed by either book and haven't owned them since 1978, which was why I'd forgotten about them. As far as the Cap Bicentennial Battles, I think I assumed it was a reprint at the time so I skipped it. The treasury edition format never did anything for me. They were difficult to store without bending them, and I couldn't read them in the office by putting then inside a book on actuarial theory like I could real comics. ;-) |
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Post by berkley on Sept 30, 2014 22:09:56 GMT -5
I like the Treasury Editions - great for looking at the artwork! Also the first time I saw some of the earlier Conan stories, like The Song of Red Sonja and a Buscema/Alcala story from an early issue of SSoC was in Treasury Edition reprints. Even now they're sometimes a cheap alternative to buying the back-issue of the original comic in certain cases.
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Post by Rob Allen on Oct 1, 2014 11:46:38 GMT -5
That Wizard of Oz Treasury wasn't really much of a collaboration. It was produced entirely by Marvel, but before they went to press they discovered that DC owned the rights to adapt the movie. They would have been in the clear if they'd adapted Baum's book without reference to the movie, but they figured that would just confuse their target audience. So Roy or whoever it was went to Carmine or Jenette or whoever it was and proposed that they publish it with both logos. I don't know what the financial split was. The sequel, The Marvelous Land of Oz, was published by Marvel alone as it came from Baum and not Hollywood.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 1, 2014 13:24:44 GMT -5
Does anyone here have the Overstreet Price Guides from the late 80's to the late 90's? It would be in one of those guides where the term Bronze Age is first used. I have a few from the mid 90's or so maybe late 90's, I'd have to look when I get home. I bought them when I started collecting in the 90's, as the consensus was then, that Wizard was inaccurate. The only thing I can remember relating to this thread I just read, in Overstreet, that they listed all of the Golden Age comics (I can't remember dates used to signify what is golden age) from the rest of the comics they listed in their guide. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2014 14:15:36 GMT -5
Plus Superman vs Muhammed Ali And a few tabloids with reprints you never saw before-The Dick Tracy and Russ Manning Tarzan tabloids come to mind That's was a cool book to have and I wished I had my copy of it. My Dad tossed that book out too ... |
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Post by Reptisaurus! on Oct 1, 2014 18:24:36 GMT -5
Loved the treasuries, even the reprints. You haven't really seen Galactus 'till you've seen Galactus a foot and a half tall. Even though a lot of these stories have been reprinted since, I still see the treasuries as the coolest format so far.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 1, 2014 18:39:05 GMT -5
Loved the treasuries, even the reprints. You haven't really seen Galactus 'till you've seen Galactus a foot and a half tall. Even though a lot of these stories have been reprinted since, I still see the treasuries as the coolest format so far. The very first place I saw The Galactus Trilogy was in a Marvel Treasury Edition, #2 I think it was. It makes quite an impression, even though a few pages from FF #48 to #50 have been edited out.
The one I miss is the one that reprinted Spider-Man #6, #35 and the first Spider-Man annual. I read the HECK out of that in the winter of 1975-1976. And The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 is still my favorite comic book ever, after all these years.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2014 0:26:53 GMT -5
On our old home, there is an ask Kurt Busiek thread, one of the few I look at there because Kurt was on a mailing list I was on in the 90s and I really respect his POV on comics (our own Scott Harris was a veteran of that list too). One of the posters asked Kurt about the topic of this thread, so I thought I would share his answer here... here's the thread-M |
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