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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 15, 2022 7:25:13 GMT -5
I would be interested in the letters pages. There aren't any in the reprint issues.
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Post by commond on Jan 15, 2022 7:41:45 GMT -5
When is the first new letters page?
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 15, 2022 8:29:54 GMT -5
When is the first new letters page? X-Men #95.
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Post by spoon on Jan 15, 2022 9:26:34 GMT -5
Yeah, it would be like collecting all of Spider-Man and including Marvel Tales (though some issues DO have exclusive back-up stories, which cant be said about the X-Men reprints). Peter Porker Spider-Ham completists gotta get those Marvel Tales back-ups.
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Post by spoon on Jan 15, 2022 9:33:12 GMT -5
Plot twist. In 2023, some nerd discovers a tiny, unnoticed edit that changes a vital detail of the reprinted stories. Hot new writer uses that detail as the basis for a new relaunched X-men. Movies result. Collectors to their horror realise that almost nobody kept the reprints. Non comics speculators star buying remaining reprints for a million dollars a piece. A little bit of thread drift from #67-93: I owned the tiny two-issue Days of Future Past TPB for years until I learned on the interwebs that it removed the last page of #142. I decided I'd buy an issue I had as reprint to get one page. It actually changes the tone of the ending.
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 16, 2022 14:53:13 GMT -5
I got a bunch of those X-Men reprint comics when they were only a few years old, two for a quarter, at the used-book stores where dad got all his old mystery novels.
The main thing I remember about them is all the weird five-page stories that were reprinted in the back. I think that’s the first place I ever saw any of the Ditko stories from Amazing Adult Fantasy.
Like “Mister Universe” and “Why Won’t They Believe Me?” and “The Spirit of Swami River.”
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Post by zaku on Jan 17, 2022 17:20:59 GMT -5
Almost 30 consecutive issues of reprints! It was an unique case or an established practice by the Big Two?
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Post by spoon on Jan 17, 2022 20:22:22 GMT -5
Almost 30 consecutive issues of reprints! It was an unique case or an established practice by the Big Two? Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos switch over to all-reprints its last few years. That's the one similar situation I can think of, although lots of folks here would have a great knowledge of this. It depends on how you define the practice, too. I assume you mean a title launched with new material transformed into a title that just reprint old material for the title for multiple years. Of course, there have been long-running titles launched specifically to be reprint titles, like Marvel Tales.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 17, 2022 22:12:05 GMT -5
Almost 30 consecutive issues of reprints! It was an unique case or an established practice by the Big Two? Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos switch over to all-reprints its last few years. That's the one similar situation I can think of, although lots of folks here would have a great knowledge of this. It depends on how you define the practice, too. I assume you mean a title launched with new material transformed into a title that just reprint old material for the title for multiple years. Of course, there have been long-running titles launched specifically to be reprint titles, like Marvel Tales. Sgt Fury ran reprints periodically, before going all reprint. There would be stretches of 2 or more consecutive reprint issues, before new material. In the 70s, Marvel constantly ran reprint or fill-in issues, because talent couldn't hit deadlines. Western/Gold Key ran reprints in their titles, for long stretches, particularly in their latter days, under the Whitman banner. Charlton did it some, too. DC and Marvel mostly did reprints as back-ups or features in larger comics or reprint comics, like Marvel Tales. In the 80s, when DC started the Baxter format Legion and New Teen Titans, they continued the newsstand titles, as Tales of..., with new material, then just reprints of the Baxter material, of a several month delay. Some of that was to flood the market with product to squeeze out the smaller publishers. With X-Men, I think Roy hoped it might find an audience and restart it with new stories, which they eventually did. X-Men was likely not selling well enough to continue to pay to produce new material; but with the lower cost of reprints, they could run it on lower sales, for longer. Archie and Harvey reprinted like crazy, both in their regular titles and special reprint titles and digests. That flood of Richie Rich, in the 70s, included a lot of reprints of material from the 60s, in things like Richie Rich Millions, which ran a lot of the back-up stories from Richie's time in Little Dot, before getting his own book.
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Post by spoon on Jan 17, 2022 22:40:47 GMT -5
Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos switch over to all-reprints its last few years. That's the one similar situation I can think of, although lots of folks here would have a great knowledge of this. It depends on how you define the practice, too. I assume you mean a title launched with new material transformed into a title that just reprint old material for the title for multiple years. Of course, there have been long-running titles launched specifically to be reprint titles, like Marvel Tales. Sgt Fury ran reprints periodically, before going all reprint. There would be stretches of 2 or more consecutive reprint issues, before new material. In the 70s, Marvel constantly ran reprint or fill-in issues, because talent couldn't hit deadlines. Western/Gold Key ran reprints in their titles, for long stretches, particularly in their latter days, under the Whitman banner. Charlton did it some, too. DC and Marvel mostly did reprints as back-ups or features in larger comics or reprint comics, like Marvel Tales. In the 80s, when DC started the Baxter format Legion and New Teen Titans, they continued the newsstand titles, as Tales of..., with new material, then just reprints of the Baxter material, of a several month delay. Outsiders did that as well, but the original turned reprint title was called Adventures of the Outsiders rather than "Tales of", and it didn't get far as Legion or Titans into reprints of the Baxter series before getting canceled. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I've read interview about how the notion of reviving X-Men was floating around for a while during the reprint era. And while they were in reprint, Marvel also kept the X-Men in the readers' consciousness through enough guest appearances that they filled two Masterworks volume, or alternatively one Epic Collection.
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Post by james on Jan 18, 2022 3:35:00 GMT -5
Looking back were there any other titles Marvel DC that could have benefitted from this before such a major reboot?
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Post by Cei-U! on Jan 18, 2022 5:44:53 GMT -5
DC followed a similar strategy with several canceled titles in 1973 with all-reprint revivals of Challengers of the Unknown (#78-80), Doom Patrol (#121-124), Metal Men (#42-44), and the short-lived first Legion of Super-Heroes solo book (#1-4). While all four series would return with new material, three years would pass between the last reprint issue and the first new issue, so it's hard to say if the experiment was a success.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2022 18:26:13 GMT -5
I would not collect a long run of reprint issues like in this case. It's why I never picked up the aforementioned Tales of the Legion reprint issues of the Baxter series. My run goes from Superboy 197 to Tales of the Legion 325 which was the last original story issue, and I'm happy with that.
But I have little OCD, I rarely complete full runs of anything. I can't bring myself to buy an issue of something I really don't want but would need to fill an open spot when I could put that money towards something else I might like better.
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Post by Marv-El on Jan 20, 2022 15:56:42 GMT -5
Well, first off, I don't have any type of OCD which would compel me to finish a run that included reprints such as the silver age X-Men. However, I would debate buying such a reprint issue if the original issue is not affordable for whatever reason.
Marvel Tales is a perfect example of this. (Does anyone have a complete run of Marvel Tales if you're not a seller/operate a brick-and-mortar store?) I have sporadic issues throughout it's run because if I want to read a particular ASM issue, if I can't acquire an original copy then I would check to see if it's Marvel Tales reprint is more affordable.
Because in the end, I'm more interested in reading the story versus perhaps owning an original copy of said story.
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Post by Marv-El on Jan 20, 2022 16:00:08 GMT -5
Plot twist. In 2023, some nerd discovers a tiny, unnoticed edit that changes a vital detail of the reprinted stories. Hot new writer uses that detail as the basis for a new relaunched X-men. Movies result. Collectors to their horror realise that almost nobody kept the reprints. Non comics speculators star buying remaining reprints for a million dollars a piece. A little bit of thread drift from #67-93: I owned the tiny two-issue Days of Future Past TPB for years until I learned on the interwebs that it removed the last page of #142. I decided I'd buy an issue I had as reprint to get one page. It actually changes the tone of the ending. I own that TPB as well, had it for years. I just checked that versus the new Epic Collection that reprints #142. Damn, you're right! I never knew that till now. Wow, and you're also right, the extra page does alter the tone of the ending. I wonder why they felt the need to excise that from the slim TPB?
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