Is anyone doing anything like this now, with all these indepndent pubishers? I see there are a lot of independent SF ongoing series, which is great to see, but I'm not aware of any anthology books, off the top of my head. And of course no onedoes magazine-sized series any more, which is too bad.

Don't forget all the black and white greatness found within the pages of the Deadly Hands of Kung Fu! Haiiiiiyaaaaaaa!

The Darwyn Cooke issue of Solo may well have become my favorite single issue of any comic.  

On another note - I know it's a little off the beaten path, but Wally Wood student Wayne Howard's Midnight Tales for Charlton is my favorite horror anthology. He was one of Wally Wood's students who never quite fit in with Marvel and DC.

In the Golden Age and even in the early Silver Age, many generically titled books were anthologies, and for me that's one of the joys of discovering or rediscovering them. I'm guessing that way back in the day, throwing every kind of genre into a book was a way of trying to be the favorite title of lots of readers.

Check out Star-Spangled 74 from 1947: Robin, Tomahawk, Penniless Palmer, Star-Spangled Kid, and Robotman!  WF 100 had the lead feature plus stories starring Green Arrow and Aquaman, too. And that Sensation: WW, Lady Dager, Wildcat, and the immortal Willy Nilly!

            

Then, as a particular character caught on and became the cover feature, the anthology format was still often preferable even in a book named after a lead character because you didn't have to come up with five or six stories about that character, thus negating the risk of overexposure and/or monotony. (Proof of the latter is the frequent complaint that reading any collection of one character straight through, no matter how compelling the character may be (DC Showcase, anyone?) becomes tedious. Better to leave a reader wanting more.

I loved a "Great 3-Part Novel" as much as any Silver Age kid, but there was also nothing like a comic with three different 8-page stories, like Superboy 111, with a Superboy story, a Lana Lang story, and a Krypto story. Talk about getting your money's worth! 

One key to a great anthology, though, seems to be page-count and number of stories. That's why there's so much love for Annuals. (Look at that Marvel Super-Heroes comic: Phantom Eagle, Black Knight, Cap, Subby, and the Patriot. There's a Torch story, too, but they couldn't fit him in the corner box! Hours of sheer fun!