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Post by SJNeal on Jul 6, 2021 20:34:20 GMT -5
My reprint wish list consists primarily of the next volumes of DC's extensive library of abandoned books. I'd love to see them pick up where they left off with -
PAD's Aquaman
PAD's Supergirl
Ostrander's The Spectre
Abnett & Lanning's The Legion
Post-Zero Hour Legion of Super-Heroes
Balent's Catwoman
Dixon's Robin
Dixon's Birds of Prey
Kesel & Grummett's Superboy
O'Neil & Kitson's Azrael
Wolfman's Deathstroke
Nocenti's Kid Eternity
Milligan's Shade, The Changing Man
Seagle's Sandman Mystery Theatre
Sadly, this list is in no way complete...
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Post by Graphic Autist on Jul 6, 2021 20:55:46 GMT -5
I wish I could get Emerald Dawn I & II in a TPB volume.
I know the author was a bad man, but those were good stories.
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Post by profh0011 on Jul 6, 2021 21:17:40 GMT -5
THE RAVEN, ANNABEL LEE & THE BELLScover by JOHN REA NEILL (The Reilly & Britton Co. / Chicago, IL / 1910) The cheapest copy of this for sale right now is around $500.00. I can't believe nobody has reprinted this book in 111 years, considering how famous Neill is for all those " OZ" books he did.
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Post by SJNeal on Jul 6, 2021 21:29:46 GMT -5
I wish I could get Emerald Dawn I & II in a TPB volume. I know the author was a bad man, but those were good stories. You can. While currently out of print, decent priced copies aren't impossible to find. I'd look for used copies of the 2003 editions, as they seem to be a little more available. The most recent edition was 2017's Green Lantern: Hal Jordan Vol. 1, which collects both minis under one cover. It was released right before the Gerard Jones scandal made the news, and promptly disappeared. The solicited-then-canceled Vol. 2 would have picked up with Jone's GL (1990) #1, and will probably never see print at this point.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Jul 7, 2021 3:54:08 GMT -5
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Sadly, this list is in no way complete... Yep. Ostrander's Martian Manhunter also comes to mind.
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Post by Batflunkie on Jul 7, 2021 9:56:20 GMT -5
I wish I could get Emerald Dawn I & II in a TPB volume. I know the author was a bad man, but those were good stories. You can. While currently out of print, decent priced copies aren't impossible to find. I'd look for used copies of the 2003 editions, as they seem to be a little more available. The most recent edition was 2017's Green Lantern: Hal Jordan Vol. 1, which collects both minis under one cover. It was released right before the Gerard Jones scandal made the news, and promptly disappeared. The solicited-then-canceled Vol. 2 would have picked up with Jone's GL (1990) #1, and will probably never see print at this point. Which is unfortunate. I haven't read much of Jones' run, but what I have, I've enjoyed. Particularly Green Lantern Corps Quarterly #2
This is by no means excusing his behavior though
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Post by mikelmidnight on Jul 7, 2021 11:39:33 GMT -5
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.
I posted in the Euro thread … I missed the third volume of NBM's No Pasaran, and now if you find it online it runs for $1K. Wtf? I just want to know how the story ends!
There's lots of his work that has never been translated … I saw a 20pp story about art forgers once (don't have a copy unfortunately) … and there's other stuff I know nothing about.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 7, 2021 13:38:08 GMT -5
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.
I posted in the Euro thread … I missed the third volume of NBM's No Pasaran, and now if you find it online it runs for $1K. Wtf? I just want to know how the story ends!
There's lots of his work that has never been translated … I saw a 20pp story about art forgers once (don't have a copy unfortunately) … and there's other stuff I know nothing about.
At one point, I had it, in Spanish. My high school Spanish was usually good enough to get the gist of things, coupled with the art. It's been long enough now, I don't recall clearly, how it ended. Schuiten's Invisible Frontier was like that, Vol I went out of print relatively quickly, but Vol 2 was readily available and 1 was going for outrageous prices. It also took me forever to get the last volume of A Jew in Communist Prague.
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Post by profh0011 on Jul 7, 2021 14:55:12 GMT -5
I first ran across Gerard Jones when he was doing the absolutely-hilarious "THE TROUBLE WITH GIRLS" series.
Later, having suffered thru the ACTION COMICS WEEKLY run of Green Lantern (Denny O'Neil, James Owsley and, for a bit in the middle, Peter David, UTTERLY MASSACRING the series), I was somehow curious to see how they would DIG the book out of the bottomless hole O'Neil had dumped it into.
Returning editor Andy Helfer (who'd overseen GREEN LANTERN CORPS with Steve Englehart) recruited Gerard Jones, who really wanted to put all that misery behind him, and introduce a BRAND-NEW Green Lantern instead, the way Roger Stern & Tom Lyle had done with STARMAN. (Remember that book, which was so much fun before editorial interference SUNK it?) Helfer convinced Jones to bring "closure" to Hal Jordan's career.
This involved a long-term plan that would take about 6 YEARS to accomplish. That's a lot of commitment. In about half a year, it was obvious they were both very sincere about it, and how they were going about it.
Things went a bit astray when they started a spin-off series with John Stewart set on that other planet that the insane Guardian had kidnapped various races to populate. I couldn't see the point-- AT ALL-- of the series, or, doing a spin-off of a book that they were, RIGHT THEN, working desperately to RESSURECT and virtually bring back from the grave.
Gerard Jones may be the only professional comics writer I know of who ever wrote me a PERSONAL LETTER, asking me to give the series another chance. Can you imagine? I was so touched... I DID. And saw things IMPROVE drastically.
Things went along quite well, until Andy Helfer, tragically, decided to move on, from the long-term storyline HE had helped set up. For maybe a year, his assistant, Kevin Dooley, continued on with it, but then... SOMETHING happened. I think that promotion to full editor went to his head. All of a sudden, there were 4 (or was it 5?) GREEN LANTERN books going at once, plus, Hal was guest-starring in JUSTICE LEAGUE EUROPE and several other books, all at the same time.
My understanding is, sales TANKED, and Dooley blamed THE READERS-- and-- HIS WRITERS-- for "being unable to make the lead character interesting".
And then my best friend told me about "EMERALD TWILIGHT". This was originally the title of the story Jones had been working 4 YEARS to set up-- when Hal would find out the Guardians had not been on the up-and-up with him, where there were TWO factions of Guardians involved in a civil war with each other, where Hal would QUIT the Corp (again) and where a NEW GL would debut. By the end, Hal would have a NEW heroic identity, the new GL would be in place, and the "bad" guardians would be taken care of.
But Dooley didn't want to do this. FOUR YEARS in-- and he suddenly decided, NO, he wants to do a story where HAL TURNS EVIL-- and STAYS that way-- PERMANENTLY.
In a replay of what happened to Roger Stern when AVENGERS editor Mark Gruenwald suddenly ordered a new story that Stern said he could not figure any way to write without violating the personalities of EVERY character involved-- and so, got FIRED-- Dooley FIRED Jones, and brought in Ron Marz, who was happy to do whatever he was TOLD and take the paychecks.
I never read those stories.
In fact, within another 6 or so months, I made a decision to STOP buying ANY books with Kevin Dolley's name on them. It felt like an insult when he wrote the intro to the 2nd Silver Age Green Lantern Archive, claiming to be "Green Lantern's Number One Fan". B***S*** !!!!!!
I don't know what happened to Jones after that, and don't really care. But this is just one more story that, to me, makes me VERY GLAD that I never worked for either Marvel or DC.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jul 7, 2021 15:10:59 GMT -5
Jones was working outside of comics, before his arrest; that much I know. He did produce an interesting comic history book, Men of Tomorrow, that got into some of the seedier elements of early comics (ironically, given what came out later), relating to mob interests in the pulps and early comic publishers. He also wrote some documentaries, including the Superman one, Look Up in the Sky.
Loved his work, as a writer; but, his crimes were reprehensible.
I would like to see some of his work reprinted, with the proviso that the majority of the royalties be donated to victims of his crimes and organizations related to that. It would be a small restitution; but, would be a way to both share the work and provide a positive outlet for the proceeds.
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Post by SJNeal on Jul 7, 2021 18:52:00 GMT -5
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Sadly, this list is in no way complete... Yep. Ostrander's Martian Manhunter also comes to mind. Ah, how'd I miss that one! Both volumes are on my abandoned shelf right next to his two Spectre books.
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Post by SJNeal on Jul 7, 2021 19:05:34 GMT -5
Jones was working outside of comics, before his arrest; that much I know. He did produce an interesting comic history book, Men of Tomorrow, that got into some of the seedier elements of early comics (ironically, given what came out later), relating to mob interests in the pulps and early comic publishers. He also wrote some documentaries, including the Superman one, Look Up in the Sky. Loved his work, as a writer; but, his crimes were reprehensible. I would like to see some of his work reprinted, with the proviso that the majority of the royalties be donated to victims of his crimes and organizations related to that. It would be a small restitution; but, would be a way to both share the work and provide a positive outlet for the proceeds. Agreed on all counts. DC dragged their feet for years on reprinting any of his work comprehensively - and he was quite prolific throughout the 80's and 90's! As luck would have it, there were multiple volumes across several properties solicited with his name on them that were quickly canceled (rightfully so) when news of his arrest broke. It's possible once his time is served they'll revisit actually printing some of those books, but it still leaves us readers stuck in the old quandary of separating the art from the artist.
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Post by Calidore on Jul 7, 2021 19:41:56 GMT -5
One I'd like in a single book is Renegade Press' Cases of Sherlock Holmes. It's a 20-issue series done in the style of Berni Wrightson's Frankenstein, with Arthur Conan Doyle's text in boxes over full-page line art by Dan Day. A few samples:
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Post by profh0011 on Jul 7, 2021 19:54:21 GMT -5
A nice companion piece to the Gene Day run of MASTER OF KUNG FU. In my POE blog project, Dan Day's HOLMES would be what I describe as "illustrated stories". There are many "stories with illustrations", but that's a different thing. As my blog project mostly focuses on COMICS, "illustrated stories" are those that have illustrations on EVERY page, especially where the art takes up 50% OR MORE of each page. So the CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES series would definitely qualify.
I think I have all of those. Looking at the pages above, I have only ONE problem with them. That is, large blocks of text in a SANS-SERIF font. SANS-SERIF (without the little lines at the tops and bottoms of letters) are good for "display" text, titles, logos, etc. But SERIF fonts (those with the little lines at top & bottom) READ MUCH EASIER to the eye in large paragraphs. So, "Times Roman" would be better than "Arial".
However, in either case, but especially if you're going to use SANS-SERIF / ARIAL, etc., you should do it with upper and lower-case, NOT ALL CAPS. (I use CAPS for emphasis. If I typed every word in CAPS, it would be more difficult to read... as those CASES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES are.
In a potential reprint, this would be immensely simple to fix.
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Post by berkley on Jul 7, 2021 22:43:40 GMT -5
One guy who comes to mind is Guy Peellaert. Like I imagine a few people my age, I knew him from his album cover paintings for the Stones (It's Only Rock an Roll) and Bowie (Diamond Dogs), but the samples I've seen of his 60s B-D, especially Jodelle and Pravda, look like beautiful psychedelic period pieces. I'd like to get his art book, Rock Dreams, as well - I remember reading about it in music magazines in the 70s.
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