Innovation Spectacular 'ran' (if that is the right word) for 2 issues and was a rebinding of existing printed books with original covers and staples removed. According to the foreword of issue #2, there are approximately 6 different versions of issue #1, so it seems safe to assume were were probably a similar number of versions of #2.

I don't know for sure; but I don't think we are talking about remainders, as used within the industry. In the publishing world, remainders are unsold copies returned to the publisher or distributor, for credit on future orders. In American comics, newsstand comics were not returned in whole for credit; they did "affidavit returns" or "strip returns," where they stripped off the cover or the masthead and returned those for credit, as an affidavit of unsold copies. Direct Market comics were sold as non-returnable, except in certain circumstances, like the title shipped late or the contents did not match initial order solicitations. In publishing, returned copies are then sold to discount houses, who sell them to booksellers as remaindered copies, with markings to indicate that, at deeply discounted prices. We used to carry those kinds of things in our bargain section, at Barnes & Noble.

These look more like unsold inventory, which was sold to a distributor, at low prices, which were then repackaged; or else, repackaged by the publisher and sold at deep discount. Either way, I don't think we are talking about returned copies, but excess inventory.

Would the I.W. Comics i.e. Super Comics publications count for these? They weren't remaindered so much as unauthorized reprints of other publishers comics with new covers because they had bought the printing plates and simply ran a new print run of the book with a new cover.

I only have 1, the reprint they did of The Mask of Fu Manchu with Wally Wood art. The cover is much less attractive, but the the price I got it for made up for the inferior cover.

Here's the original by Avon with a Wood cover from 1951...



and the IW version with a slightly altered title and cover by Carl Burgos from 1964...



but the interiors are the same.

-M

This collection of the mini-series The Tick Golden Age is literally a collection of the mini-series, with the comics collected, the spines chopped off, and it bound as a TPB. The individual covers are there, intact, ads and all, and are stiffer than regular comics covers, which gives the book a strange feeling when you read it.

Now, it would be REALLY cool if the ads, etc. were "golden age" material, but they're just the modern ads the books were printed with.