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Post by jason on Jul 5, 2021 23:13:10 GMT -5
Also, have any of the comics involving Looney Tunes characters been reprinted? You'd think that it would be a natural fit for a collection, though the fact that certain characters had significant changes (just look at the Gold Key Road Runner title) might be off-putting.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2021 23:32:06 GMT -5
Also, have any of the comics involving Looney Tunes characters been reprinted? You'd think that it would be a natural fit for a collection, though the fact that certain characters had significant changes (just look at the Gold Key Road Runner title) might be off-putting. DC did a few volumes of Best of reprints from the material they produced. I know I picked up a couple a few years ago when Ollie's got the massive shipment of DC overstock trades when they moved to Burbank and liquidated the NY warehouses. -M
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Post by brutalis on Jul 6, 2021 0:40:09 GMT -5
DC is missing out on the "kids" end as they should be putting out ALL the Warner Bro's Toon stuff along with Scooby Doo in color trades or digests (ala Archie 500 & 1000 Page) for sa mass audience. We adults are nostalgia crazy so Doo, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Looney Tunes should be out there for EVERY issue TPB's not just a few "best of" editions.
There is decades of Issues built up just waiting for reprinting.
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Post by Mister Spaceman on Jul 6, 2021 7:32:51 GMT -5
DC is missing out on the "kids" end as they should be putting out ALL the Warner Bro's Toon stuff along with Scooby Doo in color trades or digests (ala Archie 500 & 1000 Page) for sa mass audience. We adults are nostalgia crazy so Doo, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Looney Tunes should be out there for EVERY issue TPB's not just a few "best of" editions. There is decades of Issues built up just waiting for reprinting. I wonder what market research shows about children and print vs. digital. I'd like to think that kids still enjoy actual books in their hands but it's a sight I rarely see anymore. I do like that publishers have been doing those $1 reprints aimed at kids, though I have no idea how long they've been doing that or how well they sell.
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Post by MDG on Jul 6, 2021 7:49:57 GMT -5
Also, have any of the comics involving Looney Tunes characters been reprinted? You'd think that it would be a natural fit for a collection, though the fact that certain characters had significant changes (just look at the Gold Key Road Runner title) might be off-putting. If you're not picky about condition, I often see cartoon-based Gold Keys for sale at flea markets at 1, 2, or 3/$1.
I don;t think there's much of a market for systematic reprinting.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2021 8:34:31 GMT -5
Doug Moench's '80s Batman run. I know some issues were collected in one or two artist-centered TPB, but that's just a small fraction of the run. The '70s appearances of Black Orchid. Truman's King Conan stories. Metal Men #45-56 (when the series was briefly revived in the 1970s) The Simonson issues, at least, were reprinted in The Art Of Walt Simonson paperback.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 6, 2021 8:43:57 GMT -5
The Simonson issues, at least, were reprinted in The Art Of Walt Simonson paperback. Yeah, I know, I have that book. I'd love the whole revived run in a single book, though.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 6, 2021 10:46:17 GMT -5
DC is missing out on the "kids" end as they should be putting out ALL the Warner Bro's Toon stuff along with Scooby Doo in color trades or digests (ala Archie 500 & 1000 Page) for sa mass audience. We adults are nostalgia crazy so Doo, Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain and Looney Tunes should be out there for EVERY issue TPB's not just a few "best of" editions. There is decades of Issues built up just waiting for reprinting. I wonder what market research shows about children and print vs. digital. I'd like to think that kids still enjoy actual books in their hands but it's a sight I rarely see anymore. I do like that publishers have been doing those $1 reprints aimed at kids, though I have no idea how long they've been doing that or how well they sell.It always seemed pretty healthy to me, at Barnes & Noble, including comics. Thing is, the comics they were reading were Big Nate, Pokemon and Skyrim, Smile, Diray of a Wimpy Kid, Geronimo Stilton and a few others. i think kids would eat up the Evanier/Spiegle Scooby Doos and the classic Looney Tunes material, not to mention Barks. Thing is, the Barks reprints are being aimed at adults, when kids would probably eat up the stuff, given a chance. We had the Archie and Barks reprints in our humor section, with the cartoons, while Tintin was carried in the Young Readers section and DC and Marvel and indies in Graphic Novels. Kids loved the Scholastic bone collections; don't see why they wouldn't enjoy the stuff that inspired Jeff Smith.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 6, 2021 11:15:48 GMT -5
A few things I'd like to see that haven't been mentioned yet:
* George Carlson's "Jingle Jangle Tales" and "The Pie-Faced Prince of Pretzelberg" * Basil Wolverton's "Powerhouse Pepper" * The Evanier-Spiegle Blackhawk run from the '80s * Walt Kelly's "Our Gang" stories * Andre LeBlanc's charming "Intellectual Amos" * Gerorge Marcoux's "Supersnipe"
More later as they come to me.
Cei-U! I summon the wish list!
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 6, 2021 11:19:02 GMT -5
A few things I'd like to see that haven't been mentioned yet: * Walt Kelly's "Our Gang" stories Fantagraphics did four volumes of Kelly's "Our Gang" stories about 15 years ago. They're out of print but still fairly affordable on Amazon Marketplace.
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jul 6, 2021 12:24:43 GMT -5
Lee Marrs' Stark's Quest, from Star*Reach.
The first James Robinson Shade miniseries (along with the short pieces which appeared in some anthologies)
Chaykin's Dominic Fortune stories from the color Hulk magazine (Marvel finally produced a Dominic Fortune collection and it included a lot of boring non-Chaykin material for no discernable reason)
A compendium of Marvel's 60s feminist titles (Night Nurse, Cat, and Shanna), including the final unpublished Cat story.
Translations of the vast amount of Vittorio Giardino material which has never appeared in English.
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Post by kirby101 on Jul 6, 2021 12:37:18 GMT -5
My problem is being and old geezer and having owned almost every Marvel Comic from 5 decades and almost 4 decades of DC, there isn't much that I need a reprint of.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 6, 2021 12:57:00 GMT -5
Lee Marrs' Stark's Quest, from Star*Reach.
The first James Robinson Shade miniseries (along with the short pieces which appeared in some anthologies)
Chaykin's Dominic Fortune stories from the color Hulk magazine (Marvel finally produced a Dominic Fortune collection and it included a lot of boring non-Chaykin material for no discernable reason)
A compendium of Marvel's 60s feminist titles (Night Nurse, Cat, and Shanna), including the final unpublished Cat story.
Translations of the vast amount of Vittorio Giardino material which has never appeared in English.
Giardino would be sweet. I have read everything that Catalan, NBM and Heavy Metal translated, but have never read the Sam Pezzo stories. Plus, that stuff is long out of print, in English. Love to see a collection like the Milo Manara one that Dark Horse did (think it was Dark Horse) or the Crepax one that Fantagraphics has been doing. All of the Max Friedman stories, Sam Pezzo, A Jew in Communist Prague, Little Ego, Deadly Dalliances, etc. Same with Francois Boucq. Along those lines, I'd like to see a collected edition of Mathias Schultheiss' Propellerman, that Dark Horse published, back in the 90s.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 6, 2021 14:55:56 GMT -5
Okay, just remembered two things that I would really like - which were in fact announced and solicited and then yanked: - The entirety of Marvel's Tarzan, i.e., the 29 issues plus the 3 annuals - Dynamite announced just this book about 3 years ago and listed it on Amazon. I had it on preorder for years, and then it was cancelled. Still smarting from that one.
- The 10-issues Justice Society series from 1992 by Len Strazewski and Mike Parobeck. The earlier 8-issue series from 1991 has recently been collected and reprinted, but so for not this one. And initially, a big book that collected both series was solicited - as with the Tarzan book, I had that on preorder and it also got unceremoniously dumped.
And in a similar vein, I wouldn't mind reprints of several short-lived DC series from the 1990s that featured Earth 2-ish characters, i.e., the Ray, Black Condor, Hourman and Chronos. I've never read those, but I've heard good things about some of them.
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Post by Bronze age andy on Jul 6, 2021 17:01:55 GMT -5
Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt (Charlton and the 90's DC series)
Genis Vell's 1st series. They only put the first 6 in trade and some of the best stories were from 7 -20
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