DC COMICS CLASSICS LIBRARY: SHAZAM! - THE MONSTER SOCIETY OF EVIL HC is something I'm still debating about since I have the previous collection, The Monster Society of Evil - Deluxe Limited Collector's Edition (1989), that was limited to 3,000 copies and published by American Nostalgia Library, an imprint of Hawk Books Limited. This was an oversize hardcover that came in a slipcase. To me, the binding from the Hawk Books compilation was poor, as I always thought that the pages might fall apart while I was reading it, to me this book's binding was poor...and hence I might want to upgrade to the new DC release. I just got my copy of Monster Society of Evil - Deluxe Limited Collector's Edition from Bud Plant in late 2002, spending over $400 in Canadian after US conversion and shipping (forgot how much Bud asked me for the book, maybe over $200 US?). Nevertheless, I'm still deciding if I should upgrade to the DC version...