Fin Fang Foom wrote:


But that aside, I think you're overlooking my point, that DC just does not make a great deal of money on sales of a $15 paperback! (I overestimated the price before, sorry.) This idea that it's suddenly going to seem like a useful proposition to spend the money on 160 pages of new color separations for these books seems far-fetched, to say the least.


How is it so far-fetched when they seem to have no qualms about selling loads of 60s & 70s material (that also need color seps) at a $20 price point (Diana Prince, Phantom Zone, Kandor, DC Goes Ape, etc., etc.)?

If they're consistently putting out a couple of Weisinger era Superman Family trades a year using mostly unarchived material, it would seem feasible they're making enough of a return to make a Silver Age Superman Chronicle a viable possibility to further test the market at some point.

As for Batman, I don't know why they wouldn't give a 70s "Creature of the Night" Chronicle a go - that period of Batman just screams to be collected and would be hugely marketable IMO.





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